second_coming - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Fear leads to Hate, Hate leads to Measles (Score 1) 668

by second_coming on Monday July 22, 2013 @08:33AM (#44349103) Attached to: Fifteen Years After Autism Panic, a Plague of Measles Erupts

It doesn't help when you get conflicting information from seeing different Doctors. My wife is getting treatment for a partially paralysed vocal chord and depending on which Doctor she speaks to she get's wildly varying opinion on the cause and how to deal with it.

Comment Re:Would you ride in one? (Score 4, Insightful) 205

by second_coming on Sunday June 30, 2013 @10:17AM (#44147153) Attached to: Jetstream Retrofit Illustrates How Close Modern Planes Are To UAVs

Yes, they could choose another airline that keeps pilots as a marketing ploy.

Comment Re:Glass??? (Score 1) 307

by second_coming on Saturday June 15, 2013 @09:26AM (#44014531) Attached to: Don't Panic, But We've Passed Peak Apple (and Google, and Facebook)

I still can't believe they did away with the XServe.

Comment Re:Solution (Score 2) 221

by second_coming on Tuesday June 11, 2013 @06:45AM (#43971087) Attached to: Sharing HBO Go Accounts Could Result In Prison

Because 2 billion would be even better?

Comment Re: where is the bluray? (Score 1) 221

by second_coming on Tuesday June 11, 2013 @06:44AM (#43971081) Attached to: Sharing HBO Go Accounts Could Result In Prison

I believe the main reason for people wanting access to GoT (and others) immediately is due to the fact that the longer it takes to release them the greater the chances are that they will see spoilers. s03e09 is a prime example of this.

Comment Re:dumb (Score 1) 221

by second_coming on Tuesday June 11, 2013 @06:38AM (#43971045) Attached to: Sharing HBO Go Accounts Could Result In Prison

That is how Spotify and Steam both handle the situation. You can obviously switch to offline mode and use locally cached content still though.

Comment Project Management (Score 1) 331

by second_coming on Monday June 10, 2013 @08:33AM (#43959975) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: How Do You Prove an IT Manager Is Incompetent?

Don't you have project managers to manage projects? Head of IT in corporate would not normally project manage (unless the IT department isn't very big).

Comment I'll probably watch it but.. (Score 5, Insightful) 181

by second_coming on Tuesday June 04, 2013 @10:17AM (#43904421) Attached to: <em>World of Warcraft</em> Film Shooting Begins Early 2014

.. it's at least 5 years too late

Comment Re:Seems counter-intuitive (Score 2) 132

by second_coming on Wednesday May 22, 2013 @10:34AM (#43793831) Attached to: Thousands of Whistle Blowers Vulnerable After Anonymous Hacks SAPS

I will be very surprised if there aren't deaths directly as a result of this.

Comment Re:Haha, let them. (Score 1) 258

by second_coming on Tuesday May 14, 2013 @08:19AM (#43718633) Attached to: New Prenda Law Shell Corp Threatening to Tell Your Neighbors You Pirated Porn

haha

Comment Re:10GB Free, Wow! (Score 1) 193

by second_coming on Tuesday May 07, 2013 @12:59PM (#43655645) Attached to: Using YouTube For File Storage

create a few dropbox accounts, piss easy

Comment Maybe next time (Score 1) 235

by second_coming on Monday April 22, 2013 @08:50AM (#43514623) Attached to: Boston Police Chief: Facial Recognition Tech Didn't Help Find Bombing Suspects

.. use Google Picasa :D

Comment Re:Hmmm (Score 1) 252

by second_coming on Monday March 25, 2013 @06:25AM (#43268839) Attached to: Testers Say IE 11 Can Impersonate Firefox Via User Agent String

The main culprits I've seen which do this are telephone system providers (Mitel/iPecs etc).

The issue being that people are very touchy about updating telephony software, primarily following the old adage, "if it ain't broke don't fix it".

Comment Re:What word is translated "Pornography"? (Score 0) 853

by second_coming on Thursday March 07, 2013 @02:36PM (#43107089) Attached to: EU To Vote On Proposal That Could Ban All Online Pornography

This is easily fixed by making access to porn an opt-in option with your ISP.
br It already happens with mobile internet providers and works well.

Comment Re:Get yourself a copy of Winplit Revolution (Score 1) 312

by second_coming on Sunday March 03, 2013 @01:12PM (#43061977) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Monitor Setup For Programmers

What constitutes a real OS then? Or are you just trolling?

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