wasteoid - Slashdot User

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.

Comment Re: extremist comparisons (Score 1) 256

by wasteoid on Wednesday March 05, 2014 @01:46AM (#46405449) Attached to: In Ukraine, Cyber War With Russia Heating Up

160 years ago the Russians started the Crimean War with the excuse that they were protecting the Christians in the collapsing Ottoman Empire.

Comment baked shadows (Score 1) 55

by wasteoid on Wednesday March 05, 2014 @01:37AM (#46405403) Attached to: Game Tech: How <em>BioShock Infinite</em>'s Lighting Works

I prefer my shadows like my muffins - baked with no fixed upper bound.

Comment famous last words (Score 1) 121

by wasteoid on Monday March 03, 2014 @11:48PM (#46393741) Attached to: Scientists Revive a Giant 30,000 Year Old Virus From Ice

"it might have a few novel antigens" - infamous quote from pre-antigen-ravaged world

Comment Re:Aaaaaand (Score 1) 137

by wasteoid on Thursday February 27, 2014 @03:29PM (#46361069) Attached to: GCHQ Intercepted Webcam Images of Millions of Yahoo Users

what about your microphone? they might be listening to the noises you are making with the camera taped over.

Comment by doctors? (Score 1) 294

by wasteoid on Thursday February 27, 2014 @09:53AM (#46356443) Attached to: Doctors Say New Pain Pill Is "Genuinely Frightening"

Sounds like DICE is testing their grass-roots bots, although this one is seems to be set all the way to snake handler.

Comment nuclear cars (Score 1) 376

by wasteoid on Wednesday February 12, 2014 @12:21PM (#46229289) Attached to: Laser Headlights Promise More Intense, Controllable Beams

I prefer to think they would detonate on impact into a small mushroom cloud, similar to how it works in Fallout 3.

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