Apocryphos - Slashdot User

Comment Re:the days of lan play supporting games are over (Score 1) 175

by Apocryphos on Thursday December 15, 2011 @04:30PM (#38387952) Attached to: Google Engineer Builds Ultimate LAN Party House

diablo 2 is very lan-friendly
also - play icewind dale 2 instead of NWN. (unless you are talking about NWN mods)

Comment Re:Kids want to differentiate themselves... (Score 1) 532

by Apocryphos on Wednesday December 14, 2011 @01:44PM (#38372210) Attached to: Nokia Exec: Young People Fed Up With iPhone and Android

and share their individuality with people just like them.

Submission + - DARPA to Sponsor R&D for Interstellar Travel (nytimes.com)

Submitted by Apocryphos on Thursday August 18, 2011 @09:48AM

Apocryphos writes: The government agency that helped invent the Internet now wants to do the same for travel to the stars.

In what is perhaps the ultimate startup opportunity, Darpa, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, plans to award some lucky, ambitious and star-struck organization roughly $500,000 in seed money to begin studying what it would take — organizationally, technically, sociologically and ethically — to send humans to another star, a challenge of such magnitude that the study alone could take a hundred years.

Comment Re:Solution: Better Protests (Score 1) 196

by Apocryphos on Tuesday August 16, 2011 @04:17PM (#37111286) Attached to: BART Keeps Cell Service Despite Protests

yes because those protests were so much more effective /sarcasm

Comment Re:Where's my Lucy Liu-bot? (Score 1) 137

by Apocryphos on Thursday June 30, 2011 @04:34PM (#36627300) Attached to: The Science of Human-Robot Love

that wouldn't be settling - it would be upgrading

Comment Re:Outsourcing? (Score 1) 242

by Apocryphos on Wednesday June 29, 2011 @10:01AM (#36610404) Attached to: The Dark Side of Making <em>L.A. Noire</em>

"Must be able to enter hours"

That is a shit requirement, and you really can't blame the off-shore software group for the end result. I'm not saying they didn't deliver a crap product, but I am saying your example is essentially negative. i.e. that YOUR company was the weak link.

Comment Re:Well that does it. (Score 1) 417

by Apocryphos on Monday June 27, 2011 @12:00PM (#36584880) Attached to: Flood Berm Collapses At Nebraska Nuclear Plant

I feel like I just read an early, rough draft of The Lorax.

Comment Re:Creative, but predictable. (Score 1) 310

by Apocryphos on Wednesday June 15, 2011 @04:52PM (#36455084) Attached to: Libyan Rebels Weaponize Power Wheels Toys

Well, they aren't actually illegal as far as I know. The US just decided to stop using them for various reasons. Your day may yet come.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flamethrower

Comment Re:Creative, but predictable. (Score 1) 310

by Apocryphos on Wednesday June 15, 2011 @03:40PM (#36454286) Attached to: Libyan Rebels Weaponize Power Wheels Toys

There IS footage of flamethrowers being used against people. I wasn't there, but I hear it happened a lot during WW2.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VD89Z0_Rav8

Comment Re:Press needs to examine its life (Score 1, Informative) 284

by Apocryphos on Saturday June 11, 2011 @12:33PM (#36411714) Attached to: Crowdsourcing Analysis of the Palin Email Trove

Mod parent up. Brilliant turn around to make a point.

Comment Re:ah geez. (Score 1) 276

by Apocryphos on Monday June 06, 2011 @11:40AM (#36350934) Attached to: A Brief Sony Password Analysis

For my school's system, one of the superuser accounts was "a" with no password. Things ended badly.

Comment Re:I approve of this course of action. (Score 2) 544

by Apocryphos on Friday May 27, 2011 @04:58PM (#36267360) Attached to: Zuckerberg Only Eating Animals He Personally Kills

I think AC had that covered with "excellent businessman"

Comment Re:What's a horse? (Score 2) 154

by Apocryphos on Tuesday May 24, 2011 @03:22PM (#36231330) Attached to: Draft Horses Used To Lay Fiber-Optic Cable

humanHealth--;

Comment Odd choices (Score 2) 480

by Apocryphos on Thursday May 05, 2011 @03:41PM (#36039660) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Becoming a Network Administrator?

Why would a star programmer want to transition to network management?

Comment Re:Well.... (Score 1) 422

by Apocryphos on Thursday April 28, 2011 @02:46PM (#35966522) Attached to: GPS Maker TomTom Submits Your Speed Data To Police

Your reply may not convince darkness of anything, but it may interest other readers. I, for one, am curious what your response would be.

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