Artea - Slashdot User

Comment Re:world's weirdest FSA makes DAH (Score 1) 128

by Artea on Wednesday April 17, 2013 @02:29AM (#43469825) Attached to: Weirdest DLC Sponsorship Ever: <em>SimCity</em>, Brought To You By Crest

What the fuck is WTF

Comment Torrenting (Score 1) 136

by Artea on Wednesday April 17, 2013 @12:14AM (#43469277) Attached to: Australian Bureau of Statistics Doesn't Like Direct Downloads of Census Data

I saw the title text and thought the census data was being provided through bittorrent. A few games including the popular World of Warcraft distribute their updates through the protocol, seeing it adopted in other areas to reduce the bandwidth costs seems like a good idea.

Comment 112% (Score 5, Funny) 163

by Artea on Monday April 08, 2013 @01:03AM (#43388331) Attached to: My primary, active (vs. backup) local disk space is ...

I have to swap out 3.5" floppy disks on the fly to launch my OS.

Comment Re:All I could tell from the link (Score 1) 288

by Artea on Monday April 08, 2013 @12:05AM (#43388015) Attached to: Researcher Evan Booth: How To Weaponize Tax-Free Airport Goods

+1 Insightful

Comment Re:Who wants to make their lives interesting? (Score 1) 283

by Artea on Wednesday March 27, 2013 @04:30AM (#43289151) Attached to: Real-Time Gmail Spying a 'Top Priority' For FBI This Year

Wait.. You're a dinosaur? Shouldn't you be extinct?

Comment Re:About as scientific as Wakefield study (Score 1) 1121

by Artea on Wednesday March 27, 2013 @04:01AM (#43289031) Attached to: USPS Discriminates Against 'Atheist' Merchandise

*All Packages left Berlin Via Deutsch Post at the same time on 21.11.12 and were transported to the USA, where they were handed over to the care of USPS for final delivery

FTFA (which all the text is on a bloody image, I had to type that shit. You can thank me below.)

Comment Re:What! No porn, cats, or warez? (Score 1) 29

by Artea on Friday March 22, 2013 @03:15AM (#43243929) Attached to: Kids Build Pill Dispenser To Win Raspberry Pi Award

But is it about being environmentally friendly, or saving a few bucks on the power bill? Kids are all for saving the world and helping others, full of optimism! br?But as they grow older, perhaps the ultimate goes is that it's all about the money. Perhaps I'm just cynical?

Comment Re:Hurrah (Score 1) 1145

by Artea on Friday March 22, 2013 @02:27AM (#43243797) Attached to: SendGrid Fires Employee After Firestorm Over Inappropriate Jokes

This is a case of Poe's Law I believe.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe's_law

Comment I Thought all televisions were three dimensional (Score 0) 143

by Artea on Wednesday March 20, 2013 @11:46PM (#43231167) Attached to: New Advance In 3D TV Technology

Have flat panel screens become so thin that they lost a dimension? Can I paint a TV on my wall and plug it in?

Comment Re:Next: Lazy coder (Score 1) 190

by Artea on Wednesday March 20, 2013 @12:24AM (#43220789) Attached to: LazyHusband Smart Phone App Compliments Your Wife for You (Video)

"It most probably definitely should be OK... I think." - Actual answer I have given to clients.

Comment Re:lies, all lies (Score 1) 387

by Artea on Tuesday March 19, 2013 @04:05AM (#43211487) Attached to: Roadkill Forcing Cliff Swallows To Evolve

They must be pressing B to stop evolution.

Comment Re:Voice-only texting interfaces and Bad UIs (Score 5, Funny) 417

by Artea on Sunday March 17, 2013 @09:05PM (#43200033) Attached to: If I could (or had to) ban texting in one place ...

Keep saying yes and she'll eventually stop asking*

*YMMV

Comment Easy resale! (Score 5, Funny) 210

by Artea on Wednesday March 13, 2013 @12:24AM (#43156275) Attached to: High Tech Vending Machines Transform IT Support At Facebook

The price tag idea is fantastic, I can steal Frank's badge, and grab myself 10 of everything. List it on ebay at the tagged price and make a nice bonus every week.

Comment Re:hah! (Score 5, Insightful) 238

by Artea on Wednesday February 27, 2013 @01:13AM (#43021761) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Should We Have the Option of Treating Google Like a Utility?

By "lose" I mean "share information with a trusted partner" clause in their privacy contract that lets them get away with selling it anyway.

Comment hah! (Score 5, Insightful) 238

by Artea on Wednesday February 27, 2013 @01:12AM (#43021753) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Should We Have the Option of Treating Google Like a Utility?

They'd happily take your money, and promptly "lose" your information a few times a year for more.

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