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Comment Re:Everyone donate 10 dollars again to fix this. (Score 1) 158

by vswee on Monday August 19, 2013 @10:27AM (#44607191) Attached to: How the UN Might Have Inadvertently Started a Cholera Epidemic In Haiti

Here, just take my whole wallet kind sir.

Comment Re:Won't pay? (Score 1, Offtopic) 266

by vswee on Monday August 19, 2013 @10:21AM (#44607101) Attached to: Security Researcher Makes His Point By Hacking Into Zuckerberg's Facebook Page

Agreed. Also, hackers are not really the people you'd want to shortchange. They're a vengeful bunch I've heard.

Comment Re:I'm more unique then I should be (Score 1) 213

by vswee on Tuesday July 16, 2013 @06:48PM (#44303613) Attached to: If I search online for my full name...

I've got what seems to be (according to internet search results) very rare. 1800 google results with the majority being quite accurate. Not sure how I feel about that.

Comment Re:Privacy screens? (Score 1) 194

by vswee on Sunday July 14, 2013 @12:25AM (#44273985) Attached to: I use a screen protector ...

Yeah yeah, "working on".

Not convinced.

Comment Re:Not surprising . . . (Score 1) 330

by vswee on Saturday July 06, 2013 @01:48PM (#44203977) Attached to: U.S. Independence Day is a ...

...and we are.

Comment Re:Not surprising . . . (Score 1) 330

by vswee on Saturday July 06, 2013 @01:47PM (#44203971) Attached to: U.S. Independence Day is a ...

PC crowd needs to realize...

Are you saying that the Mac crowd is somehow linguistically superior?

We are.

Comment He's a hero... (Score 2) 601

by vswee on Tuesday June 25, 2013 @10:00AM (#44100101) Attached to: Edward Snowden is ...

cause all we had before was speculation. Now we know what the governments have been up to and hopefully there can be push toward more acceptable reform. Too naive? Oh well. Doomsday it is then. Cheers.

Comment Re:Been using one since 2003 (Score 1) 359

by vswee on Tuesday June 18, 2013 @06:14PM (#44044063) Attached to: My view of touchscreen laptops:

I find the combination of touchscreen and pointer stick to be unbeatable. (Hate, hate, hate, hate, hate, hate touchpads with the burning fires of a thousand exploding suns.)

Have you met; Magic Trackpad?

I bet not!

Comment too vague (Score 1) 267

by vswee on Wednesday June 12, 2013 @09:37PM (#43991697) Attached to: Are You a Geek or a Nerd?

It's never just geeks or nerds

Comment Re:One is fine the other is creepy (Score 4, Interesting) 321

by vswee on Saturday May 18, 2013 @09:06AM (#43761319) Attached to: Head-mounted displays / sensors like Google Glass are:

I'm not too keen on being recorded. It'd be cool if we all had the display bit though.

Another reason to stay indoors now - might be filmed by a user and analysed by Google. Frightening.

Comment Re:Alcohol is useless (Score 1) 112

by vswee on Thursday May 16, 2013 @02:54PM (#43743705) Attached to: Linux is an Obvious Choice for Automating the Beer-Brewing Process (Video)

You're right. It's not necessary. But some people may find it enjoyable. Almost nothing is necessary. Some of them are downright dangerous.

Suffering some existential depression there?

Comment 1-10 is a huge gap (Score 1) 217

by vswee on Wednesday May 15, 2013 @10:35PM (#43737573) Attached to: I typically receive X pieces of misdelivered (postal) mail ...

I'm looking at 1 per year. If it ever got as bad as 10, I'd have to get the neighbourhood committee to kick my offending neighbours out of their flat. That is unacceptable.

Comment Re:On the validity of screenshots (Score 1) 267

by vswee on Saturday April 27, 2013 @02:26PM (#43568689) Attached to: The Text-Your-Parents-Your-Drug-Deal Experiment

stop ruining it!

Comment on, I needed that! (Score 1) 267

by vswee on Saturday April 27, 2013 @02:25PM (#43568681) Attached to: The Text-Your-Parents-Your-Drug-Deal Experiment

such a good laugh. we need more funny on the internet

Comment from the caribbean (Score 1) 558

by vswee on Tuesday April 23, 2013 @08:31PM (#43531661) Attached to: Average latency to Slashdot.org?

average 121ms. looks consistent.

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