notmyusualnickname - Slashdot User

Comment Re:It's only an abuse if you have something to hid (Score 1) 318

by notmyusualnickname on Friday August 05, 2011 @03:39PM (#36999886) Attached to: Are 'Real Names' Policies an Abuse of Power?

*wince*

Or it would be, if I'd logged in on this box...

Comment Re:A quick google search (Score 1) 845

by notmyusualnickname on Saturday January 22, 2011 @06:40AM (#34963972) Attached to: The Case of Apple's Mystery Screw

Can I just add, for 'Robertson', read 'square'.

Comment Re:Status Bar??? (Score 1) 537

by notmyusualnickname on Saturday January 15, 2011 @05:35AM (#34888098) Attached to: Firefox 4 Beta 9 Out, Now With IndexedDB and Tabs On Titlebar

I do much the same, only I squeeze (most of) the navigation bar in there. (back/fwd, url bar, search) Nice and slim.

Comment Re:Nuclear Verne Cannon? (Score 1) 275

by notmyusualnickname on Wednesday January 12, 2011 @07:26PM (#34855638) Attached to: NASA Pitches Heavy Lift Vehicle To Congress

Apparently, not as much as you (or I) would assume - http://nextbigfuture.com/2010/12/sea-based-launch-option-for-nuclear.html

Comment Re:How is that a solution? (Score 1) 148

by notmyusualnickname on Friday December 17, 2010 @05:16AM (#34585140) Attached to: Hackers Dual-Boot Chrome OS With Ubuntu Linux on CR-48

Chrome OS allows for very cheap laptops. The cr-48 uses an Atom CPU, but the real beauty will be when ARM ChromeOS machines are sold, booting off a little 8GB flash drive. We're talking about ubiquitous < $200 laptops.

So... Netbook: The Return of the Eee701?

Comment Re:Really an assisted skydive, but cool anyway (Score 1) 73

by notmyusualnickname on Saturday November 06, 2010 @12:33PM (#34147648) Attached to: Rocketman Takes Off In Custom-Made Wingsuit

Rollerblades. Or one of those skeleton luge suits with the wheels...

Comment Re:Paging Dr. Superbrain (Score 1) 289

by notmyusualnickname on Thursday July 08, 2010 @03:47PM (#32843820) Attached to: The Proton Just Got Smaller

Here you go.

And yes, I did start at the beginning.

Comment Re:Yawn (Score 1) 211

by notmyusualnickname on Wednesday March 03, 2010 @06:41AM (#31342948) Attached to: Tethering Is Exhilarating (With the Nexus One)

...and you must have missed the part where it's free for a trial period and then after that it's free forever for http, they only lock down https in the free version.

I did. Mea culpa, and all that.

Comment Re:Yawn (Score 1) 211

by notmyusualnickname on Wednesday March 03, 2010 @05:30AM (#31342476) Attached to: Tethering Is Exhilarating (With the Nexus One)

Free? You must have missed the part where they're selling it for $9.95...

Comment Re:Hmm.. (Score 1) 664

by notmyusualnickname on Thursday November 19, 2009 @06:10PM (#30164678) Attached to: Google Releases Source To Chromium OS

Sort of a cross between a netbook and a smartphone, I think.

Comment Re:damn (Score 1) 227

by notmyusualnickname on Thursday October 22, 2009 @06:33PM (#29841019) Attached to: NCSU's Fingernail-Size Chip Can Hold 1TB

I've thought about some sort of biologically inert sheathing that would allow for out-patient (or in-store) type cut-and-replace upgrades, otherwise digging audiovisual chips out would get unnecessarily messy as the speed of improvements increased. (Either that or early adopters would be stuck with inferior systems for a while, and that would never do...)

Comment Re:Always been on 95th percentile (Score 2, Funny) 135

by notmyusualnickname on Friday September 04, 2009 @04:52AM (#29308797) Attached to: Hosting Data-Transfer Quotas Are Fading Out

Well, he has a French sounding name, an email address from altiva.fr, his sig has a URL in French with the French TLD...

Comment Re:help me out ... (Score 1) 194

by notmyusualnickname on Thursday September 03, 2009 @04:59PM (#29304607) Attached to: Ubuntu 9.04 On Kindle 2

is there a new rating system i don't know about? what are the other options besides "very high geek-hacker level"?

I think it's based on something like the rate of neologisms/minute and the viewer's ability to parse them out based upon context.

Comment Re:640 (Score 1) 297

by notmyusualnickname on Wednesday September 02, 2009 @04:22AM (#29282597) Attached to: Space Shuttle To Be Replaced By SpaceX For ISS Resupply

Metric for ESA and Long Ton for NASA, how else are they going to continue the (albeit nascent) tradition of unit-mismatch induced failures?

Comment Re:Cool (Score 1) 322

by notmyusualnickname on Friday August 28, 2009 @04:01AM (#29227993) Attached to: WPA Encryption Cracked In 60 Seconds

Ours is 'Honeypot'.

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