charlieo88 - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Don't be a tightwad (Score 1) 508

by charlieo88 on Saturday March 31, 2012 @11:47AM (#39534413) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: A Cheap, DIY Home Security and Surveillance System?

And for your vehicle, The Trunk Monkey

Comment Re:BSA is a total fuck up, period (Score 4, Insightful) 235

by charlieo88 on Friday March 16, 2012 @10:35AM (#39377219) Attached to: Crying Foul At the BSA's "Nauseating" Anti-Piracy Tactics

BSA's way of handling their customers, even potential customers, is totally ridiculous

Customer? Where did you get the idea you are their customer? Autodesk, and Adobe, and Microsoft... THOSE are their customers. You? You are the product they sell.

Comment Form a community wireless... (Score 1) 173

by charlieo88 on Friday February 10, 2012 @07:43PM (#39001501) Attached to: FCC Maps the 3G Wasteland Of the Western US

Form a community wireless initiative and the telcos will be in there to squash any such thing before you can say, "Can you hear me now?"

Comment from Project Management perspective... (Score 2) 228

by charlieo88 on Friday February 10, 2012 @06:41PM (#39000757) Attached to: What Does a Software Tester's Job Constitute?

What Does a Software Tester's Job Constitute? Well, from the perspective of Project Management for my off shore outsourced projects... NOT A DAMN THING!

Comment $500 million settlement? (Score 2) 287

by charlieo88 on Thursday January 26, 2012 @01:23PM (#38830487) Attached to: Top Google Executives Approved Illegal Drug Ads

For Google, it's not that much, but $500 million for most of us would be.... wait for it... a bitter pill to swallow.

Comment Re:I get the feeling.. (Score 1) 252

by charlieo88 on Wednesday November 09, 2011 @01:15PM (#38001042) Attached to: Gadget Allows You to Keep Bees In Your Apartment

1 - The bees won't survive on apartments. They won't have anything to eat, so all the other problems won't happen.

Newsflash: Not all apartments are in urban centers

Comment Re:Excellent news for Unesco (Score 1) 735

by charlieo88 on Tuesday November 01, 2011 @10:06PM (#37915336) Attached to: US Defunds UNESCO After Palestine Vote

US waste of money in the financial system created the crisis which now pushes the European to borrow money from the PRC, how long do you think it will take till you have to pay the interests ?

Wait, what? You mean that the US snuck in and forced all those european banks to forget to properly evaluate risk?

Comment Astrology (Score 2) 412

by charlieo88 on Monday October 24, 2011 @02:30PM (#37821366) Attached to: Ask The Bad Astronomer

How can I make astrology buffs see the error of their ways? Barring that, what is the best way short of setting them on fire, to prevent them from entering an astronomy conversation?

Comment Re:Don't you have anything better to do? (Score 1) 393

by charlieo88 on Saturday September 24, 2011 @07:19PM (#37505014) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Calculators With 1-2-3 Number Pads?

Are you one-handed?
The easy solution to your problem is to use one hand for phone and the other for calculators. I'd recommend using your right for calculators, as the number pad on your keyboard is already right oriented.

Comment The secret to the 15 hour work week in olden times (Score 1) 323

by charlieo88 on Tuesday September 20, 2011 @09:47PM (#37463364) Attached to: A Fifth of Telecommuters Work Less Than An Hour Per Day

15 to 20 hours a week?

How did the Egyptians build the pyramids?

Lister: They had whips, Rimmer... Massive, massive whips

Comment Re:Battery Comparison (Score 1) 103

by charlieo88 on Friday July 29, 2011 @10:52PM (#36930158) Attached to: MIT Unveils Sun-Free Photovoltaics

Does it consume enough oxygen that an enclosed, non-space environment is a problem, such as an office building or airplane?

Comment Cheney slam in 3, 2, 1... (Score 1) 198

by charlieo88 on Monday July 18, 2011 @02:04PM (#36801880) Attached to: Outgoing Federal CIO Warns of 'IT Cartel' In DC

Sure, we do that, but in the US we used to only open the envelope from Haliburton.

Comment MBA by Gore Vidal (Score 1) 374

by charlieo88 on Sunday June 26, 2011 @05:50PM (#36578692) Attached to: If You're Working For Stock, Read the Fine Print

"It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail." - Gore Vidal

Comment Detailed map? (Score 5, Funny) 136

by charlieo88 on Sunday June 19, 2011 @09:21PM (#36494804) Attached to: Building a Gary Gygax Memorial

Will the map be on plain square graph paper or since it's outdoors, will it be on hexagonal graph paper?

Comment Re:What we have is a new measure of automation (Score 1) 121

by charlieo88 on Sunday June 19, 2011 @01:22AM (#36489350) Attached to: Kilobots — Cheap Swarm Robots Out of Harvard

When you open the box and count out only 1,000 ONLY THEN do see the little asterisk where the manufacture says 1,000 kilobots to the megabot because for marketing purposes they use SI prefixes.

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