dotgain - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Cost vs injury (Score 1) 499

by dotgain on Wednesday November 28, 2012 @02:59AM (#42114159) Attached to: Red Light Cameras Raise Crash Risk, Cost

I've seen countdown timers on [...] some pedestrian crossings in [...] NZ, they are quite effective. No they're not. NZ pedestrians do not give a fuck, and are as good as cattle on the road.

Comment Re:It said using channel 2 would REDUCE interferen (Score 3, Informative) 615

by dotgain on Monday October 22, 2012 @12:51AM (#41725939) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Why Does Wireless Gear Degrade Over Time?

It's an exploit of a loophole in /. moderation. Funny mods provide no 'karma'. The basic idea is mod the post up funny, and back down overrated. This can repeat without end with enough moderators, and the poster goes to full negative karma for just one post.

Comment Re:Underhanded was always more interesting (Score 1) 24

by dotgain on Saturday October 20, 2012 @04:11AM (#41713219) Attached to: 21st IOCCC Source Code Released

It seems the results of the 2009 contest weren't even announced, which is a pity.

Comment Re:Classy (Score 1) 402

by dotgain on Monday July 23, 2012 @06:12PM (#40742677) Attached to: Jack Daniels Shows How To Write a Cease and Desist Letter

After that post, I really don't think you've got any justification to be talking about what "any fool can see" in your .sig. You really have no comprehension of what this even about.

Comment Re:The enemy among us. (Score 1) 469

by dotgain on Monday July 16, 2012 @06:51PM (#40667433) Attached to: US "the Enemy" Says Dotcom Judge

He also used to be a little boy who threw a pebble through my lounge window. Rascal!

Comment Re:Pluto never was a planet (Score 1) 275

by dotgain on Sunday July 15, 2012 @08:07PM (#40659181) Attached to: Is Pluto a Binary Planet?

I think what's probably more important to your son is not the semantics of what we do and do not classify as a planet, but what is actually out there.

Comment Re:Terminology? (Score 1) 284

by dotgain on Sunday July 01, 2012 @07:49PM (#40513143) Attached to: The Leap Second Is Here! Are Your Systems Ready?

It shouldn't in my opinion: if the 'leap' cascades to 'minute', why shouldn't it to hour, day, and so on. Every year with a leap second would be considered a 'leap year'. Bzzt.

Comment Re:FUD? (Score 2) 230

by dotgain on Sunday July 01, 2012 @06:17PM (#40512643) Attached to: Leap Second Bug Causes Crashes

Have you read the source for /bin/sh ?

Comment Re:Missing keyboard (Score 1) 380

by dotgain on Wednesday June 13, 2012 @09:02PM (#40317419) Attached to: Employees Admit They'd Walk Out With Stolen Data If Fired

That's what we do at my place too. Even with laptops.

Comment Re:Christ... (Score 1) 914

by dotgain on Wednesday June 13, 2012 @06:28PM (#40315639) Attached to: Analyzing the New MacBook Pro

The supplied disk utility supports wiping disks clean with your choice of one, seven or 35 passes. I'd be entirely confident disposing of my laptop after a single zero pass. Hopefully you would at least be satisfied with seven passes of random data.

If you're the kind of person that won't be satisfied until the disk is removed and destroyed ... power to you.

Comment Yes (Score 1) 260

by dotgain on Tuesday January 31, 2012 @06:34AM (#38875331) Attached to: Megaupload User Data Could Be Destroyed Soon

N/T

Comment Re:U.S. law is the new international law (Score 2) 1005

by dotgain on Thursday January 19, 2012 @08:46PM (#38756306) Attached to: Megaupload.com Shut Down, Founder Charged With Piracy

While you can't be extradited from NZ to US for copyright infringement, you can for "sodomy"

Comment Re:FreeBSD, Windows, and Android are working on IP (Score 1) 209

by dotgain on Saturday January 14, 2012 @06:48PM (#38701296) Attached to: IPv6-Only Is Becoming Viable

Ultimately, all that really 'takes care of' is the contents of some text file called /etc/sysconfig/network

Comment Re:Easy! (Score 1) 430

by dotgain on Friday September 02, 2011 @04:39PM (#37290954) Attached to: How Do You Explain Software Development To 2nd Graders?

Bonus points for getting trolled by a .sig line.

Comment Re:Digital journal? What's the problem? (Score 1) 184

by dotgain on Saturday August 20, 2011 @05:42AM (#37151744) Attached to: Linux Journal Goes — Surprise! — Digital

Whoosh is for jokes that aren't noticed by respondents. It's not a way to tell people you're merely trolling and acting more ignorant that you are in reality.

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