actionbastard - Slashdot User

Comment Re:They can steal it back... (Score 1) 190

by actionbastard on Friday July 23, 2010 @11:08AM (#33003262) Attached to: Darth Vader Robs Long Island Bank

... his pin number is 1 2 3 4 5.

No, it's the price of a cheese pizza and a large soda at Panucci's Pizza; 1077.

Comment Why computers? (Score 0, Offtopic) 294

by actionbastard on Friday July 23, 2010 @10:53AM (#33003082) Attached to: India's $35 Tablet Computer

When the average annual salary in India is approximately $500US? They would do far better applying their talents to eliminating hunger and poverty amongst their people than applying them to cheap computers.

Comment Re:1 vote / 100% (Score 1) 375

by actionbastard on Tuesday July 20, 2010 @10:04PM (#32973488) Attached to: The Oldest Timestamp On a File I Created and Still Have Is...

The oldest file I have is computer program that I wrote in BASIC in 1973 on a PDP 8. It's on paper tape.

Comment Re:Who paid for the report? (Score 2, Informative) 284

by actionbastard on Sunday June 27, 2010 @12:49PM (#32709532) Attached to: MIT Says Natural Gas Best To Lower Carbon Emissions

These people:

"A major sponsor of the report is the American Clean Skies Foundation, a Washington think tank created and funded by the natural gas industry."

Comment Re:I got no problem with this. (Score 4, Informative) 169

by actionbastard on Wednesday June 23, 2010 @09:22PM (#32672946) Attached to: NY Governor Wants To Expand DNA Database

Criminals gave up their rights when they committed a crime.

Obviously you are not familiar with the Constitution of the United States or the Bill of Rights.

Comment Missing the basic premise (Score 1) 150

by actionbastard on Friday May 14, 2010 @11:30PM (#32216760) Attached to: The Futurama of Physics

Futurama has, and always will be, a love story. One nerdy guy's awkward pursuit of the the girl he fell in love with at first sight. All the 'science-y' stuff is just there to fill in the plot.

Comment Re:I outlasted Atlantis (Score 1) 143

by actionbastard on Friday May 14, 2010 @11:11PM (#32216626) Attached to: Atlantis Blasts Off On Final Mission

You, sir, are a steely-eyed missile-man.

Comment Re:Best book for this -- hands down. (Score 5, Informative) 411

by actionbastard on Monday April 19, 2010 @08:52PM (#31904792) Attached to: Adding Some Spice To *nix Shell Scripts

The only bash scripting guide you will ever need:

http://tldp.org/guides.html

free as in beer.

Comment Re:Jet stream doesn't go that way. (Score 4, Informative) 338

by actionbastard on Monday April 19, 2010 @09:54AM (#31895300) Attached to: Volcanic Ash Heading Towards North America

Generally, yes. However, you need to look at this: http://wxmaps.org/pix/NHanim.html, to understand why it's possible for this to occur.

Comment Re:Make it line-sharing like some Electricity (Score 1) 178

by actionbastard on Sunday April 18, 2010 @02:47PM (#31888878) Attached to: Still Little To Do About a Bad ISP

"In some states electric lines are "shared" - you have one company that runs the wire to your house and other companies actually provide the power." And in some municipalities they are the same company. They bill you for the power and for the transmission of the power. This is all in response to de-regulation that was enacted by the state legislature under the guise of saving the consumer money.

Comment Ed Tittel... (Score 1) 236

by actionbastard on Monday April 12, 2010 @09:33PM (#31825860) Attached to: Lessons In Hardware / OS Troubleshooting

The Gregory House M.D. of OS installation.

Comment My memory... (Score 4, Funny) 141

by actionbastard on Wednesday April 07, 2010 @09:47PM (#31770668) Attached to: HP Reports Memory Resistor Breakthrough

Has been resisting me for years. I'll be damned if I can remember where I put my keys.

Comment Maybe... (Score 4, Funny) 213

by actionbastard on Tuesday April 06, 2010 @07:32PM (#31755900) Attached to: Six Atoms of Element 117 Produced

Jumbonium?

Comment Hey! (Score 4, Funny) 776

by actionbastard on Sunday April 04, 2010 @09:04PM (#31728730) Attached to: Toyota Accelerator Data Skewed Toward Elderly

I resemble that remark you young whipper-snapper!
Now get off my lawn before I accelerate uncontrollably and run you down!
God-damned kids!

Comment Re:3...2...1... Wake up! (Score 5, Funny) 617

by actionbastard on Saturday April 03, 2010 @01:33PM (#31716932) Attached to: iPad Launches, FCC Teardown Leaked

It seems as though you are not so upset at the size of the iPad, but the size of your pockets.

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