Big Hairy Ian - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Excuse to keep using oil (Score 1) 249

by Big Hairy Ian on Monday July 13, 2015 @08:43AM (#50097515) Attached to: Double-Dynamo Model Predicts 60% Fall In Solar Output In The 2030s

Given that the typical response from climate scientists when confronted with shrinking Ice caps on Mars is that its to do with the Martian rotational plane and that the suns output never varies. I find this very interesting

Comment Why is it always developers (Score 1) 79

by Big Hairy Ian on Monday July 13, 2015 @08:38AM (#50097495) Attached to: Calculating the Truck-Factor of Popular Open Source Projects

I've known business analysts, testers and stake holders who were just as if not more vital to a project than any one of the developers.

Comment Re:Correct (Score 1) 267

by Big Hairy Ian on Monday July 13, 2015 @08:30AM (#50097461) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Giving Users Extra-Firewall Access For Sites Normally Blocked?

Just use a proxy server like everyone else

Comment Re:Never heard that one before (Score 1) 504

by Big Hairy Ian on Monday July 13, 2015 @08:13AM (#50097353) Attached to: J.J. Abrams On "Star Wars" Cast's Racial and Sexual Diversity

In fairness to George Lucas the kids really liked Jar Jar it was just us who had been the kids the first time around who thought he was a pile of shit

Comment Re:Here we go again. (Score 4, Funny) 122

by Big Hairy Ian on Monday July 13, 2015 @08:01AM (#50097303) Attached to: First Java 0-Day In 2 Years Exploited By Pawn Storm Hackers

I was just going to suggest everyone just change their brand of coffee! Problem solved

Comment Re:It's about yield (Score 1) 89

by Big Hairy Ian on Friday July 10, 2015 @08:48AM (#50081001) Attached to: IBM Beats The Rest of the World To 7nm Chips, But You'll Need to Wait For Them

high enough yield

You mean they've got to make weapons grade Silicon Galanium?

Comment Re: Like the nazi used to say (Score 1) 431

by Big Hairy Ian on Friday July 10, 2015 @07:58AM (#50080789) Attached to: Bomb Squad Searches House Over Teenager's Chemistry Experiments

I hope he's got some selenium too as mercury poisoning is a bitch

Comment There's nothing NYSE (Score 1) 190

by Big Hairy Ian on Thursday July 09, 2015 @08:13AM (#50074805) Attached to: Glitches: United Airlines Grounds All Flights, NYSE Suspends Trading

about the New York Stock Exchange

Comment Re:Amazon Data Services (Score 1) 190

by Big Hairy Ian on Thursday July 09, 2015 @08:11AM (#50074797) Attached to: Glitches: United Airlines Grounds All Flights, NYSE Suspends Trading

There's an outage? Just blame it on Canada

Comment As long as they're not forced (Score 2) 217

by Big Hairy Ian on Tuesday July 07, 2015 @07:35AM (#50061497) Attached to: Even the "Idea Person" Should Learn How To Code

Great idea but not everyone is cut out for programming. Also if they're going to learn programming it's worth them learning comprehensivley not just doing a bit of Java script as the more they know the better they'll understand what the pitfalls are.

Submission + - Ask Slash Dot: Why isn't the Gun Control Lobby using health & safety?

Submitted by Big Hairy Ian on Friday July 03, 2015 @08:28AM

Big Hairy Ian writes: If a gun manufacturers products repeatedly miss fire they will do a product recall because they are afraid of being sued. Why then does the gun control lobby not sue the gun manufacturers and importers (Don’t forget the ammo manufacturers too) for breaching health and safety regulations?
You could sue the pants off them every time some dumb cop shoots a member of the public for breathing.

Comment Re:David Cameron is actually a genuine idiot (Score 1) 260

by Big Hairy Ian on Friday July 03, 2015 @08:12AM (#50038635) Attached to: Cameron Asserts UK Gov't Will Leave No "Safe Space" For Private Communications

Funny the people I know in the US usually come off as arrogant jerks. Of course this isn't true really I know a lot of people in the US who are perfectly nice people. But if you're going to take the views of a few people and tarnish us all with them then you individulally are a bigotted twat.

Thanks

Comment Re:Fee Fees Hurt? (Score 1) 270

by Big Hairy Ian on Friday July 03, 2015 @07:47AM (#50038515) Attached to: Trolls No Longer Welcome In New Zealand

Is there any compensation for "serious emotional distress"? Because I have a phobia of fluffy kittens :)

Comment Re:Adverts (Score 1) 80

by Big Hairy Ian on Thursday July 02, 2015 @07:15AM (#50031593) Attached to: SlideN'Joy Extender Adds Up To Two More Screens For a Multi-Monitor Laptop

To be honnest I just use a second monitor at th3e destination I'm using my craptop at. This looks like it will add a lot of bulk and weight. Thanks

Comment Damn you Uber (Score 1) 230

by Big Hairy Ian on Monday June 29, 2015 @07:39AM (#50010305) Attached to: How Uber Takes Over a City

Coming over here taking our illegal immigrants jobs!!

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