zill - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Relevance (Score 1) 196

by zill on Wednesday October 31, 2012 @12:20PM (#41831321) Attached to: D&D Monster Study Proves Eyes Have It

This is hugely relevant when I transmute myself into a tentacle monster.

Fake eyes on autotomic* tentacles will give me the tactical advantage I need to evade the police and finally get laid.

*Brownie points for anyone who knows this word off the top of their head.

Comment Re:How Does It Raise that Question? (Score 4, Funny) 104

by zill on Wednesday October 31, 2012 @11:46AM (#41830889) Attached to: Google Launches Open Source Voter Information Tool

If only there was some sort of database out there with all the registered voter's information...

If only the "Feds" had access to such a database...

Comment Re:Did the cop got fired? (Score 5, Funny) 451

by zill on Wednesday October 31, 2012 @06:32AM (#41828297) Attached to: Supreme Court Hearing Case On Drug-Sniffing Dog "Fishing Expeditions"

I, as a person with a not so keen sense of smell, can tell you which apartments have pot in them if you walk by at the right time of day.

You don't have to hide it. On the internet no one knows you're a dog.

Comment 78% of slashdot summary contain glaring errors (Score 1) 268

by zill on Tuesday October 30, 2012 @03:06PM (#41821173) Attached to: Windows Phone 8 Having Trouble Attracting Developers

A survey by IDC and Appcelerator found 78% of Android developers were 'very interested' in programming for Android smartphones

Wait, what?

Comment This is a Public Service Announcement (Score 1) 372

by zill on Sunday October 28, 2012 @11:36AM (#41796651) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Ideas For a Geek Remodel?

(FF to 6:09)

Next time, pause the video, right click on it, and select "Copy video URL at current time".

If you're using a FOSS flash player and it doesn't have that feature then just manually add "#t=XXXs" at the end of the URL.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MMkiq8Kxis#t=365s

Comment Re:Maybe raising taxes isn't the only solution. (Score 2) 220

by zill on Saturday October 27, 2012 @07:58PM (#41792909) Attached to: Cisco Pricing Undercut By $100M In Big Cal State University Network Project

You clearly don't know what "per capita" means.

Comment Re:And users will continue (Score 3, Funny) 360

by zill on Saturday October 27, 2012 @02:37AM (#41787195) Attached to: Yahoo Will Ignore IE 10's "Do Not Track"

AOL is still around, somehow, though I have no fucking clue how.

Lies! I haven't received any free coasters from them for years now.

Comment Re:What is wrong with that? (Score 2) 199

by zill on Thursday October 25, 2012 @01:47AM (#41761421) Attached to: Experts Warn About Security Flaws In Airline Boarding Passes

I believe GP was being sarcastic. I believe he was referencing the fact that terrorists are usually technically inclined.

Comment Promoting Synergistic Synergy (Score 1) 115

by zill on Sunday October 21, 2012 @07:13PM (#41724505) Attached to: Pols Blur Line Between Data Mining, Cyberstalking

text analytics, social network/media analysis, web personalization, computational advertising, and online experiments & testing

What the fuck does any of these even mean?

If you scrap facebook to send out targeted spam, then just say so.

Comment Re:Romney says top 5% pays 60% of the load (Score 1) 706

by zill on Wednesday October 17, 2012 @02:08AM (#41678479) Attached to: US Presidential Debate #2 Tonight: Discuss Here

That completely ignores the payroll tax (among others), which amounts to as much as the income tax itself .

Another bald-faced lie from Romney. What a surprise.

Comment Re:More importantly (Score 2) 706

by zill on Wednesday October 17, 2012 @01:49AM (#41678393) Attached to: US Presidential Debate #2 Tonight: Discuss Here

Not "months", just 24 working days.

Comment Re:Logical Fallacy Bingo (Score 1) 706

by zill on Wednesday October 17, 2012 @01:42AM (#41678367) Attached to: US Presidential Debate #2 Tonight: Discuss Here

The Green Party and the Libertarian Party have almost the identical stance on abortion, same sex marriage, drug legalization, military spending, and foreign policy. They are more similar than you think.

Comment Re:Same Difference (Score 4, Funny) 706

by zill on Wednesday October 17, 2012 @01:28AM (#41678317) Attached to: US Presidential Debate #2 Tonight: Discuss Here

As Colbert puts it:

So you see no Americans are in harm's way, it's just flying robots killing Libyans. You know, peace.

Comment Re:I sure hope the planet can survive (Score 1) 319

by zill on Tuesday October 16, 2012 @06:11PM (#41674849) Attached to: Huge Geoengineering Project Violates UN Rules

Don't you worry, the planet will survive just fine; it's the humans that won't.

Comment Re:Who's up first? (Score 1) 205

by zill on Thursday October 11, 2012 @05:34PM (#41624011) Attached to: Air Force Lab Test Out "Aircraft Surfing" Technique To Save Fuel

Apparently birds could figure this one out on their own, yet you can't.

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