Sovetskysoyuz - Slashdot User

Comment How do I deprogram myself? (Score 2) 129

by Sovetskysoyuz on Tuesday March 01, 2011 @03:40PM (#35350250) Attached to: Google's Nexus S, A Look At Gingerbread

I'm appalled at myself. The first thing I noticed in the summary was 'That should be "its", not "it's".

Comment Re:the usual stalking horse (Score 1) 419

by Sovetskysoyuz on Friday December 17, 2010 @08:14AM (#34585756) Attached to: The French Government Can Now Censor the Internet

Sexual contact with a child (i.e. someone under the age of consent) is always rape, legally speaking, because the child is held to have been unable to consent to the activity. Violence or the lack thereof is irrelevant.

Comment Re:Oh no.... (Score 1) 177

by Sovetskysoyuz on Wednesday December 08, 2010 @09:18PM (#34495880) Attached to: Scientists Discover Solar Powered Hornets

No need to suck up to them, just wait for a cloudy day and the resistance will triumph.

Comment Re:This is worse than the New York Times in 1971 (Score 1) 464

by Sovetskysoyuz on Wednesday December 08, 2010 @07:55PM (#34495208) Attached to: Pentagon Papers Ellsberg Supports Wikileaks

The New York Times wasn't likely to skip bail.

Comment Re:Well, that about wraps it up for the US (Score 1) 685

by Sovetskysoyuz on Friday December 03, 2010 @10:38PM (#34440704) Attached to: Graduate Students Being Warned Away From Leaked Cables

It's not just the USA. I'm in the Canadian military and recently received an email from the IT people warning us not to access Wikileaks because:

The site attracts a large volume of traffic. Given the nature of the material, third parties could collect and exploit visitor data or deliver malicious software through downloaded files.
Conducting web searches for this information may expose the user’s computer to malicious search engine poisoning attacks.
Some information on Wikileaks remains classified and could constitute a breach of security policy if viewed from, or downloaded to, DND/CF computers.

The third point is the one that the US used in this submission. The first two are just entertaining.

Comment Re:Hey wow, this is true, I live here. (Score 1) 153

by Sovetskysoyuz on Wednesday November 17, 2010 @07:24PM (#34262558) Attached to: Rural North Carolina Experiences Data Center Boom

Yeah, and the Republicans are progressive because they had Lincoln! Oh wait, maybe parties change over time.

Comment Re:Good and bad (Score 1) 261

by Sovetskysoyuz on Thursday November 11, 2010 @08:32AM (#34195070) Attached to: When DLC Goes Wrong

And then there's RailWorks, a $40 game that has $920 worth of DLC available on Steam, and more comes out practically every week. It's perhaps the only game that could be as expensive to play as the hobby that it simulates (model trains).

Comment Re:I do not see the difference ... (Score 1) 261

by Sovetskysoyuz on Thursday November 11, 2010 @08:28AM (#34195042) Attached to: When DLC Goes Wrong

My solution is to read the negative reviews and see whether the flaws that they point out sound like they'd bother me.

Comment Re:EH (Score 1) 486

by Sovetskysoyuz on Monday October 04, 2010 @02:26PM (#33786470) Attached to: The Binary Code In Canada's Gov-Gen Coat of Arms

That's what you get for mixing the least healthy parts of Ontario, Alberta, and Quebec cuisine at the same time.

Comment Re:It is well known where it is (Score 1) 560

by Sovetskysoyuz on Wednesday August 25, 2010 @10:20AM (#33368594) Attached to: UVB-76 Broadcasts New Voice Message

In Soviet Russia, is no one expectink inquisition. For what are you askink so many questions, comrade?

Comment Re:I thought Child Porn (Score 1) 1017

by Sovetskysoyuz on Saturday August 21, 2010 @04:52PM (#33327532) Attached to: Julian Assange Faces Rape Investigation In Sweden — Updated

So, hypothetically, if Assange did rape some random Swedish woman, and Mandela wasn't around to watch (maybe that's not his thing), you would be unwilling to accept her testimony?

Comment Re:I have something else for you to think about (Score 1) 483

by Sovetskysoyuz on Friday August 20, 2010 @05:46PM (#33319350) Attached to: Building a Traffic Radar System To Catch Reckless Drivers?

Spy sappin mah sentry camera!

Comment Re:Israel (Score 1) 483

by Sovetskysoyuz on Friday August 20, 2010 @05:44PM (#33319324) Attached to: Building a Traffic Radar System To Catch Reckless Drivers?

My former roommate grew up in Kuwait, and has awesome stories like guys doing doughnuts in the middle of major intersections and hanging out the windows, or seven lanes of traffic on a road that only has four lanes. He saw the same thing in other Mid-East countries. His conclusion is that they're all crazy.

Comment Re:Firest a ground zero mosque now this whats next (Score 1) 671

by Sovetskysoyuz on Tuesday August 17, 2010 @02:06AM (#33272812) Attached to: Controversy Arises Over Taliban Option In <em>Medal of Honor</em>

GP has specifically asked about "nuke the USA" game. Nuclear strikes are carried at a "high level of abstraction" in reality as well.

This was something that DEFCON nailed so very well. Playing to the soundtrack of muffled beeps and ventilation fans, then hearing someone sobbing in the background as "5 Million Dead" glows over Los Angeles, was enough to make me stop playing, creeped out.

Comment Re:Firest a ground zero mosque now this whats next (Score 1) 671

by Sovetskysoyuz on Tuesday August 17, 2010 @02:03AM (#33272794) Attached to: Controversy Arises Over Taliban Option In <em>Medal of Honor</em>

I had a ridiculous game once as the Romans... half the world, way ahead in production and a modest lead in tech. Several cities with over 200 hammers/turn, repeat-building ICBMs, and many of the other large cities repeat-building Tac Nukes for my subs and Missile Cruisers. Babylon, the other major power, decided it would be a good time to declare war. Three hundred mushroom clouds later, they had no cities larger than size 1. Zooming all the way out and seeing one side of the planet glowing yellow was pretty cathartic.

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