grim-one - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Round 3 (Score 1) 331

by grim-one on Sunday October 09, 2011 @09:41AM (#37653546) Attached to: Samsung Seeking Ban of iPhone 4S in Europe

Submissives

Comment Re:Uh, tough? (Score 5, Informative) 385

by grim-one on Saturday July 16, 2011 @04:21AM (#36783774) Attached to: Belgian Newspapers Delisted On Google

You're welcome to opt-out with your robots.txt

Comment Epic Games too (Score 1) 76

by grim-one on Saturday June 11, 2011 @04:43AM (#36409652) Attached to: Codemasters' Website Hacked

Got a couple of emails from them:

Our Epic Games web sites and forums were recently hacked. After some downtime, they're back up and running now.

The hackers may have obtained the email addresses and encrypted passwords of forum users. Plaintext passwords weren't revealed, but it's possible that those passwords could be obtained by a brute-force attack on the encrypted passwords. Therefore, we have reset all passwords. Your new password at the bottom of this message.

The Unreal Developer Network (UDN) hasn't been compromised. Thankfully, none of our web sites ask for, or store, credit card information or other financial data.

We're sorry for the inconvenience, and appreciate everyone's patience as we wrestle our servers back under control.

Tim Sweeney
Founder, Epic Games Inc

Comment a heliostat rather than a photovoltaic system? (Score 1) 475

by grim-one on Tuesday May 24, 2011 @10:42AM (#36227906) Attached to: Large Scale 24/7 Solar Power Plant To Be Built in Nevada

Those two aren't mutually exclusive. In fact they're pretty commonly used together. Summary should read "a solar thermal plant rather than photovoltaic, using a molten salt system to store power as heat for times when the sun isn't shining".

Comment Re:Which date? (Score 2) 235

by grim-one on Friday April 08, 2011 @01:08AM (#35753972) Attached to: Minecraft To Officially Launch 11/11/11

Are you implying that YY/MM/DD is not easily human readable? I would suggest that's just because you've been trained to recognize other formats.

Comment Re:What a shitbag... (Score 1) 464

by grim-one on Thursday February 17, 2011 @01:05AM (#35228576) Attached to: Teenager Tries To Hire Hitman Via Facebook

The problem with your idea is that everybody would know the martial art including the assailant.

Comment Re:WTF? (Score 1) 243

by grim-one on Friday February 04, 2011 @10:36AM (#35103174) Attached to: Senate Panel Backs Patent Overhaul Bill

I don't see why it would abolish prior art.

Any published or public work is prior art, invalidating any later patent applications. This would prevent your example and is reasonably similar to how patents work now.

Any trade secret or unpublished work is fair game for patenting. This would be the scenario where two inventors in separate labs create something in parallel - the first to file wins (or if they choose to publish - prevent) the patent.

Comment Eye problems (Score 1) 208

by grim-one on Wednesday January 26, 2011 @05:00AM (#35006022) Attached to: Congressman Introduces Video Game Warning Label Legislation

I'd rather see a warning label that warns about over use leading to eye problems (e.g. myopia). Although maybe that should go on the TV / monitor instead. At least that link is reasonably consistent. You could also label books and magazines!

Comment Re:Seems unfair to me (Score 1) 203

by grim-one on Friday January 07, 2011 @03:54AM (#34788474) Attached to: Aussie Retailers Lobby For Tax On Online Purchases

The government may not benefit either. Currently they collect GST on individual's imported goods valued at over $1000. The tax gained from the multitude of items with imported valued less than that probably wouldn't outweigh the actual collection costs. Hence why they exclude such low value items from the GST.

Comment Re:No thicker than... (Score 5, Funny) 352

by grim-one on Wednesday September 15, 2010 @02:37AM (#33583790) Attached to: Promised Microsoft Tablet 'No Thicker Than Sheet of Glass'

Osaka's Aquarium has 30cm thick plate glass. The tablet may be thicker than it is tall or wide =)

Comment Re:and still (Score 1) 414

by grim-one on Monday July 19, 2010 @03:37AM (#32948100) Attached to: <em>StarCraft II</em> Cost $100 Million To Develop

Something struck me as I read your comment on resellers.

How will internet-cafes that have pay-to-play games work with StarCraft II? StarCraft I is still very popular in many of these places. Would users need to BYO their own account or share one for that particular cafe machine or have Blizzard got something up their sleeve on this?

I know they have a special LAN app for tournaments, I guess a cafe one isn't too much of a stretch.

Comment Re:Me fail logic? That's purple! (Score 1) 341

by grim-one on Wednesday July 14, 2010 @10:52PM (#32909244) Attached to: The Chicken May Have Come Before the Egg

I always took the view that sea creatures and dinosaurs laid eggs, long before there was any semblance of chicken or bird-like animals. No one ever specified it had to be a chicken egg.

Comment Re:Schools? + Broken link (Score 1) 371

by grim-one on Wednesday July 07, 2010 @03:00AM (#32822588) Attached to: AU Band Men At Work Owes Royalties On 'Kookaburra'

Singing it at a school performance may fall under fair use - but my point was you and the school would be making neither profit nor royalties from these performances. Applying the Justice's decision here would not be useful as there's nothing to take a share of.

Comment Schools? + Broken link (Score 1) 371

by grim-one on Wednesday July 07, 2010 @02:43AM (#32822478) Attached to: AU Band Men At Work Owes Royalties On 'Kookaburra'

"Let's hope the primary schools are up to date with their ARIA license fees!" How did schools come into this? It's a band making royalties and profit from a musical arrangement written by someone else, possibly even sampled directly from a recording (according to the summary). Oh, and the article link appears broken

Comment Re:CSIRO are still good guys (Score 1) 308

by grim-one on Wednesday June 02, 2010 @02:13AM (#32428396) Attached to: CSIRO Sues US Carriers Over Wi-Fi Patent

Perhaps, but you rely on everyone playing 'nice'. If any one nation/organisation/corporation decides to not play 'nice' they benefit immeasurably more than all other parties.

Also I still think that in your model only the mega-corporations benefit and the taxpayer is left holding the bill.

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