wasteoid - Slashdot User

Comment Re:MSN Gaming Zone Backgammon allows cheats... (Score 2) 102

by wasteoid on Wednesday April 30, 2014 @08:50PM (#46885769) Attached to: The Million-Dollar Business of Video Game Cheating

Either this is one superbly-crafted joke, or there is actually someone playing backgammon on Microsoft's network. Hard to tell. A cautious kudos to you either way.

Comment Re:Punishment fits the crime (Score 1) 1198

by wasteoid on Wednesday April 30, 2014 @12:17PM (#46880269) Attached to: Oklahoma Botched an Execution With Untested Lethal Injection Drugs

Ah, here is the core of the problem with these arguments - it's not his fault but society's fault he ended up this way.

Comment Re:Punishment fits the crime (Score 1) 1198

by wasteoid on Wednesday April 30, 2014 @12:15PM (#46880219) Attached to: Oklahoma Botched an Execution With Untested Lethal Injection Drugs

Gandalf killed his fair share of goblins. You didn't see him pussy-footing around, trying to gently incapacitate them.

Comment Re:What ever happened to good old bullets? (Score 1) 1198

by wasteoid on Wednesday April 30, 2014 @12:10PM (#46880157) Attached to: Oklahoma Botched an Execution With Untested Lethal Injection Drugs

A .22 caliber round to the base of the skull would likely not blow the criminal's face off, and that technique has been verified effective by mobsters for a long time.

Comment Re:Lost (Score 1) 169

by wasteoid on Sunday April 27, 2014 @05:32AM (#46851899) Attached to: Why Should Game Stories Make Sense?

Cotrast the ending of Lost with the ending of Breaking Bad to see how a great series can properly conclude.

Comment Re:It's basically legal property. (Score 1) 83

by wasteoid on Wednesday March 26, 2014 @10:50PM (#46589879) Attached to: Owner of Nortel Patents Sues Cisco For 'Immense' Patent Infringement

for years i thought i had invented the blt sandwich. i even told women that. then i later found out the blt was invented in 1903.

Comment Re:It's interesting.... (Score 1) 436

by wasteoid on Sunday March 16, 2014 @12:51AM (#46496715) Attached to: Malaysian Flight Disappearance 'Deliberate'

Ukraine is not much further than where the plane might have ended up.

If some rogue state, such as one in political chaos, with access to a military base and airbase, decided to equip such a plane with a nuclear device ...

Comment Re:On Turing (Score 1) 74

by wasteoid on Wednesday March 12, 2014 @04:24PM (#46467939) Attached to: Turing's Theory of Chemical Morphogenesis Validated 60 Years After His Death

+1 Funny (oddly no more mod points after i started using beta)

Comment Re:crime? (Score 1) 234

by wasteoid on Wednesday March 12, 2014 @04:02PM (#46467719) Attached to: How the NSA Plans To Infect 'Millions' of Computers With Malware

Shut it down!

Seriously, until the masses/sheeple/sleepers are awakened, nothing will change.

Comment white hot (Score 1) 137

by wasteoid on Tuesday March 11, 2014 @05:55PM (#46458407) Attached to: Drones Used To Smuggle Drugs Into Prison

i think you mean "white hot shit" not "white shit hot", although if one were to have "white shit", it would inevitably be warmer than the regular brown variety because the person would be very sick and probably have a high temperature.

Comment autonomous (Score 1) 498

by wasteoid on Monday March 10, 2014 @05:56PM (#46450081) Attached to: Ukraine May Have To Rearm With Nuclear Weapons Says Ukrainian MP

So, by the same logic, the Republic of Texas should be allowed to secede, since they never agreed to be annexed by the USA.

Comment Last Heroic Act (Score 1) 498

by wasteoid on Monday March 10, 2014 @05:52PM (#46450047) Attached to: Ukraine May Have To Rearm With Nuclear Weapons Says Ukrainian MP

If you are about to die (or your country is about to dissolve), what would stop you from trying to get a parting shot off at the enemy who is destroying you?

Comment Crimean War - Ukraine (Score 1) 498

by wasteoid on Monday March 10, 2014 @05:49PM (#46450023) Attached to: Ukraine May Have To Rearm With Nuclear Weapons Says Ukrainian MP

Russia occupies Romania/Crimea to protect their citizens - May 1853
Russia occupies Crimea to protect their citizens - Feb 2014

Old tactics that didn't work back then may work now, especially since USA is neutered by an ineffectual leader.

Comment substances (Score 1) 82

by wasteoid on Monday March 10, 2014 @05:39PM (#46449875) Attached to: Nanomaterial May Be Future of Hard Drives

we like our substances, dammit

Comment if you have money (Score 1) 519

by wasteoid on Friday March 07, 2014 @12:32PM (#46428441) Attached to: Massachusetts Court Says 'Upskirt' Photos Are Legal

if you have enough money to own an ICBM, you probably don't have to worry about laws for us regular folks.

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