Limburgher - Slashdot User

Comment Yes. (Score 1) 598

by Limburgher on Tuesday November 08, 2016 @01:07PM (#53238569) Attached to: Slashdot Asks: Is It Time To Dump Time Zones In Favor of Coordinated Universal Time?

Move to UTC and drop DST at the same time.

Submission + - Pipeline Explosion in Alabama

Submitted by Limburgher on Monday October 31, 2016 @06:36PM

Limburgher writes: The Weather Channel https://weather.com/news/news/... reports that a major natural gas pipeline has exploded in Shelby county. Early reports indicate 7 people injured, so far. This explosion is only miles from a separate gasoline leak, also from Columbia Pipeline. At least 10 acres have burned so far in the dought-ridden area. Updates from Columbia: https://helena.colonialrespons...

Comment Re:Crypto? (Score 2, Insightful) 521

by Limburgher on Thursday February 18, 2016 @12:22PM (#51535015) Attached to: Paris Attacks Would Not Have Happened Without Crypto

The Paris attacks wouldn't have happened without crypto? That's a funny way to spell "Religious Extremism."

TFTFY

Comment So politics trumps science? (Score 1) 398

by Limburgher on Tuesday November 26, 2013 @12:43PM (#45527421) Attached to: Science Museum Declines To Show Climate Change Film

Color me shocked.

Comment Re:News for nerds? (Score 1) 381

by Limburgher on Wednesday August 14, 2013 @04:24PM (#44568037) Attached to: Egyptian Security Forces Storm Pro-Morsi Camps Leaving Nearly 100 Dead

Agreed. And Slashdot's 9/11 article was excellent. The comments provided, in aggregate, excellent, up-to-date, and accurate information, and additionally Slashdot was one of the few sites that stayed up all day that day.

Comment Crud (Score 1) 249

by Limburgher on Wednesday July 10, 2013 @03:57PM (#44242887) Attached to: City-Sized Ice Shelf Breaks Free Of Antarctica

Posting to undo a bad mod.

Comment Re:Dark days, months and year ahead (Score 1) 327

by Limburgher on Friday June 14, 2013 @01:44PM (#44009103) Attached to: NSA Surveillance May Have Dealt Major Blow To Global Internet Freedom Efforts

"They hoover down all the internet data, " Pun intended?

Comment Re:seems appropriate (Score 1) 49

by Limburgher on Wednesday May 08, 2013 @01:59PM (#43666967) Attached to: BMC Going Private In $6.9 Billion Deal

You said it. I can't wait to put that nightmare behind me.

Comment Scientology (Score 1) 386

by Limburgher on Thursday January 31, 2013 @02:49PM (#42753387) Attached to: Interviews: Ask James Randi About Investigating the Truth

Have you ever had a practicing or former Scientologist attempt to prove the efficacy of auditing, or any other practice from Scientology? If so, how did it go? :) If not, how might you go about testing and debunking it?

Comment IL - Voted when polls opened (Score 1) 821

by Limburgher on Tuesday November 06, 2012 @03:19PM (#41897415) Attached to: U.S. Election Day In Progress: What's Been Your Experience?

My wife and I were less than 10th in line, voted paper ballot, no issues. Polling place got moved for the 2nd time in the past 5 years, a bit of confusion for some people there.

Comment Ironic. . . (Score 3, Insightful) 340

by Limburgher on Thursday August 09, 2012 @08:36PM (#40940341) Attached to: Blizzard Says Battle.Net Has Been Hacked

I seem to recall reading in the Security Question comments how Battle.net's system was excellent. That portion of it may have been, and they seem to be responding well to this, but the timing is interesting.

Comment To clarify. . . (Score 1) 404

by Limburgher on Friday February 10, 2012 @11:45AM (#38995459) Attached to: When it comes to 3D TV:

Can't afford and do not want.

Comment w00t! (Score 1) 146

by Limburgher on Tuesday February 07, 2012 @04:06PM (#38958701) Attached to: Red Hat Appoints Robyn Bergeron First Female Fedora Project Leader

Congratulations!!!!

Comment Re:My wife is happy (Score 1) 48

by Limburgher on Tuesday January 03, 2012 @03:47PM (#38575742) Attached to: Brief But Intense Meteor Shower On January 4th

Nice, congratulations!

Comment Re:Supernovas (Score 1) 442

by Limburgher on Friday November 18, 2011 @05:16PM (#38103248) Attached to: OPERA Group Repeats Faster-Than-Light Neutrino Results

And if they somehow had negative mass? Would that not account for the (purportedly) observed results?

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