Slashdot Mirror


User: sideshow

sideshow's activity in the archive.

Stories
0
Comments
362
First seen
Last seen
Profile
(view on slashdot.org)

Comments · 362

  1. I'd only be impressed if Henry Rollins asked a Q. on What Interests High-School Students? · · Score: 1

    Then we would know that Slashdot had finaly made it.

  2. Re:Unnecessary data! on Feds Propose National Database of College Students · · Score: 1

    IBM isn't the USA.

  3. Re:The goals are several. Read between the lines. on Feds Propose National Database of College Students · · Score: 2, Interesting

    According to the Selective Service website the amount of kids "smart" enough to not register is about 6%.

    And if that college is university is state run that number drops to 0%. Registering is mandatory if student is going to a school that's public.

  4. Too late!, we already have the SSS on Feds Propose National Database of College Students · · Score: 1

    Sorry, most (if not all) of those evil glossy pamphlets come from the Selective Service database, which all males are required to register with when they turn 18.

  5. Well, not per se on CIA Researching Automated IRC Spying · · Score: 1

    Serial killers don't get caught because they (usually) kill random people they don't have a connection too.

    Something like 90% of murder investagations involve people that are connected somehow. The cops find all the people who are connected to the victim and start from there.

    If you drove to a new city and randomly killed someone and no one witnessed it, you probably never be caught. If you ice your girlfriend then the cops are going to be looking real hard into you in the first 10 seconds of their investigation because you two have a connection.

  6. Prayer works, just not the way these guys think. on 15-Year-Old Girl Survives Rabies Infection · · Score: 1

    Whether or not God exists is irrelivant.

    My mother had serious medical problems last year that would have killed 999 out of a thousand people.

    She told everyone that would listen that God had given her the gift of a new life and she never ever ever blamed God for putting her in a position that would require a miracle for her to survive.

    Everytime a doctor gave her a timeline on recovery my mother marked her calender, in ink, because she new God would heal her.

    At every step of the way she had a positive attitude and her doctors agree that is what the difference.

    Prayer doesn't work better then medical science however, but with a serious illness many times nothing more can be done medically, it's up to fate. And a positive attitude (prayer helps with this) helps turn fate your way.

  7. Everyone else calls it a lazy person's cliche on Berkeley Researchers Analyze Florida Voting Patterns · · Score: 1

    The Dude: God damn you Walter! You fuckin' asshole! Everything's a fuckin' travesty with you, man! And what was all that shit about Vietnam? What the FUCK, has anything got to do with Vietnam? What the fuck are you talking about?

  8. Re:Paper trail vs. paper trailess counties on Berkeley Researchers Analyze Florida Voting Patterns · · Score: 1
    Has anyone got an explanation for this?

    Yeah, more people decided to vote for Bush this time.

  9. Try resetting your cookies. on Google Keyhole, Google Scholar · · Score: 1

    Back when Google was testing their new homepage I was the only one at my company who could see it, everyone else got the old homepage. I had everyone reset their cookies and after that about half of them got the new page.

  10. So, we should have exectued 100 million people? on Richard Clarke on Cyberterrorism and Iraq · · Score: 1

    Not sure how all of them surrending would have made a difference. They would have still gone home and joined together to fill the power vacuum.

  11. Wait, you lost me. on Outsourcing To Rural America · · Score: 3, Funny

    Sorry I was busy surfing the chest high waves over at Zuma and enjoying the 70 degree mid November beach weather.

    Wait, why was East Buttfuck, Wyoming better then Southern California again?

  12. CoH has fought this since the begining. on Marvel Sues City of Heroes Makers · · Score: 1

    I don't play CoH anymore, but I did play the first 3 months the game was released.

    The coolest part of the game is the freedom people have to create their characters. CoH has tried to stop people from imitating real comic book characters but people keep coming up with ingenious ways to get around it.

    You can't make a character with claws like Wolverine but making a guy wearing yellow and black with a mask and regenerative abilities is possible. Is that same as Wolverine? Probably not. It's all a judgement call. Does DC own the rights to "Guy with blue and red tights who flys around?"

    Another problem that CoH is almost powerless to fight is the what names people choose. Matching "Wolverine" is easy but how about: WeaponX, Wolvie, Woolvrine, Wepon Ex, etc?

  13. How to use automatic weapons? on Video Games Changing the Workplace · · Score: 2, Funny

    I didn't read the fucking article, but I not sure how the two mix.

    Richard Chesler : [Reading a piece of paper] "The first rule of Fight Club is you don't talk about Fight Club?"
    Narrator : [Voice-over] I'm half asleep again; I must've left the original in the copy machine.
    Richard Chesler : "The second rule of Fight Club" - is this yours?
    Narrator : Huh?
    Richard Chesler : Pretend you're me, make a managerial decision: you find this, what would you do?
    Narrator : [pauses] Well, I gotta tell you: I'd be very, very careful who you talk to about that, because the person who wrote that... is dangerous.
    [Gets up from the chair]
    Narrator : [Talking slowly] And this button-down, Oxford-cloth psycho might just snap, and then stalk from office to office with an Armalite AR-10 carbine gas-powered semi-automatic weapon, pumping round after round into colleagues and co-workers. This might be someone you've known for years. Someone very, very close to you.
    Narrator : [Voice-over] Tyler's words coming out of my mouth.
    [Snatches the piece of paper from boss' hands]
    Narrator : [Voice-over] And I used to be such a nice guy.
    Narrator : Or maybe you shouldn't bring me every little piece of trash you happen to pick up.
    [Phone rings]
    Narrator : [Into phone] Compliance and Liability... ?
    Marla Singer : My tit's gonna rot off.
    Narrator : [to boss] Would you excuse me? I need to take this.

  14. Re:Bev Harris reports suppression by network bosse on 2004 Election Weirdness Continues · · Score: 1

    That's great and all, but Ohio wasn't using Diebold machines.

  15. Funny thing is that the losing side hates guns! on 2004 Election Weirdness Continues · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The Democrats and the gun control nuts overlap in a large way.

    Oh the irony.

  16. Mabye the polling is flawed. on 2004 Election Weirdness Continues · · Score: 1

    Exit polls only work if the sample is random. Maybe the pollsters were old men who only talked to girls in their early 20's. Maybe all the Bush voters told the pollsters to go fuck themselves. Who knows.

  17. Re:He must have found out the fix was in on Kerry Concedes Election To Bush · · Score: 1

    Good thing Ohio wasn't using Diebold machines.

    http://www.polstate.com/archives/005794.html#005 79 4

  18. I got my sources too. on Kerry Concedes Election To Bush · · Score: 2, Insightful

    And they are telling me that believing the bullshit that Timmy down the hall in your dorm tells you is a bad idea.

  19. Re:So was Walden O'Dell (diebold CEO) correct? on Kerry Concedes Election To Bush · · Score: 1

    Since Ohio wasn't using many (if any) Diebold machines but in fact was using "old skool" voting methods I guess the answer to your question is: Only if you are wearing a tinfoil hat.

  20. That is the worst segway I have every read. on Painting Political Graffiti With Light · · Score: 1
    They are not just painting political graffiti with light. They are against Bush.

    Man, I can't wait until the election is over.

  21. A bunch of nerds playing hooky at work? on The Eye: Evolution versus Creationism · · Score: 1
    Somewhere Osama is smiling because this is certainly the outcome he wants for the world.



    Yeah, he is certainly destorying the free world.

    I think about how happy some old man living in cave must be destroying the world sometimes while I drive my new car along the beach.

  22. Well, you're right to a point. on 100,000 Civilians Dead in Iraq · · Score: 1
    Those fighting the coalition in Iraq right now are not oppressed Iraqis trying to liberate themselves by foreign oppression, they are evil men whose goal is destroy freedom around the world.

    The whole "they hate freedom" argument is kind of lame.

    I'd say their lust for greed, power and control is what drives them rather then something abstract such as hating all the free people of the world.

  23. FUD, it wasn't Bush yo. on Bush Website Blocked Outside N. America · · Score: 2, Informative

    The rurmor was started by Declan McCullagh of Wired Magazine.

    http://www.sethf.com/gore/

  24. No Evidence? Try boatloads of evidence. on Thinking About the SnitchCam · · Score: 1

    The ATF rounded up all kinds of evidence. Check out the warrant.

    Buying up a whole bunch of weapons isn't illegal in itself but the ATF felt it was worth a look. They also had reason to belive some of these weapons were being converted to fully automatic which is a serious no-no. The ATF had good reasons they just fucked up the execution of their plan.

    Also, in case you don't remember many of those who died were murdered by Koresh and his crew. They were shot long before the fire got to them.

  25. Re:Gotta disagree here on Neal Stephenson Responds With Wit and Humor · · Score: 1

    Guess that's better then: /*I dare you to untangle the enigma that is my code!
    BOW BEFORE YOUR CODING MASTER!
    BUAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
    */

    I see this shit all time by way of my company's former webmaster.