fuzzywig - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Go Phone - AT&T Store (Score 1) 146

by fuzzywig on Monday June 30, 2014 @07:24AM (#47348957) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: SIM-Card Solutions In North America?

In the UK most pay-as-you-go carriers will give you a free SIM, often with £5-£10 worth of credit, as a way to get to you locked to their network.

Comment Re:You know ... (Score 1) 358

by fuzzywig on Wednesday June 25, 2014 @10:14AM (#47314651) Attached to: Florida Man Faces $48k Fine For Jamming Drivers' Cellphones

I'm not sure how dangerous it is in terms of speed, but in terms of distraction it's much worse than drink driving. For example.

Comment Re:Turn your head to switch documents (Score 1) 72

by fuzzywig on Friday June 20, 2014 @05:37AM (#47279885) Attached to: 3D Windowing System Developed Using Wayland, Oculus Rift

"A securities day trader would climax over this."

Funny you should say that.

Comment Re:You keep using that word... (Score 1) 250

by fuzzywig on Friday June 20, 2014 @05:02AM (#47279823) Attached to: TrueCrypt Author Claims That Forking Is Impossible

frogrot is my favourite word of today.

And yes, the (alleged) TC developer was doing a great job of avoiding the main questions "can we change the license on the code to GLP?" and "can we use the name TrueCrypt?". The original email even mentions that they foresee having to re-write chunks of the code.

Comment Re:A minority view? (Score 1) 649

by fuzzywig on Thursday June 19, 2014 @10:26AM (#47271915) Attached to: Teaching Creationism As Science Now Banned In Britain's Schools

It's not really smugness, it's closer to the feeling you get when you understand something better than you did the day before, ("oh, that's how a carburettor works").

It's not necessarily a nice feeling, for example I know I'm not going to get to meet my dead granddad again, but I'd rather have it than be wandering around with false hope that somehow everything is going to be fine.

Comment Re:A minority view? (Score 1) 649

by fuzzywig on Thursday June 19, 2014 @10:20AM (#47271813) Attached to: Teaching Creationism As Science Now Banned In Britain's Schools

To put it simply, in science classes you're taught science, and in religion classes you're taught religion. How complicated can that be?

Comment Re:Laser Sintering (Score 1) 104

by fuzzywig on Thursday June 19, 2014 @06:33AM (#47270389) Attached to: 3-D Printing with Molten Steel (Video)

We should start worrying about 3D printed guns when it becomes easier/cheaper to print a gun than it does to build one out of scrap in a basic machine shop. That day is a ways off yet.

Comment Re:Morons (Score 1) 34

by fuzzywig on Thursday June 19, 2014 @06:02AM (#47270291) Attached to: How Sabu Orchestrated the Hack of FBI Contractor ManTech

So you're telling me I shouldn't trust anybody, but why should I trust you eh?
Nice try buddy, I'm going to be trusting everyone from now on.

Comment Re: Useful Idiot or Russian Agent (Score 1) 346

by fuzzywig on Tuesday June 10, 2014 @04:34AM (#47201069) Attached to: Did Russia Trick Snowden Into Going To Moscow?

Probably GCHQ in the UK, although given how closely they work with the NSA I'm not sure there's a substantive difference.

Comment Re:Well that makes no sense (Score 2) 346

by fuzzywig on Tuesday June 10, 2014 @04:31AM (#47201057) Attached to: Did Russia Trick Snowden Into Going To Moscow?

"2. Why would Russia release this information? What do they have to gain from saying this?"

This guy isn't in Russia any more, he defected, so this is either disinformation from someone in the US/UK security apparatus, disinformation from the FSB just to screw with everyone, or possibly he just likes to see his name in the papers and has made it all up.
Either way it smells like propaganda of some form.

Comment Re:Not the best Demo for rift i've seen... (Score 1) 45

by fuzzywig on Monday June 02, 2014 @06:46AM (#47145607) Attached to: <em>My Neighbor Totoro</em> In Virtual Reality

The new version is supposed to be much better at head tracking, as it's also using an external camera to track the position and orientation of the head-set. Plus, watching that video, I'm not sure if the video of his face is properly synced to the 3D view.

Comment Re:Great site, if one is a warez hound... (Score 1) 80

by fuzzywig on Monday June 02, 2014 @05:27AM (#47145431) Attached to: Popular Shuttered Torrent Site Demonoid Returns

It means to close the window shutters on something, like when a shop closes that metal grate over the entrance, it is being shuttered.

Comment Re:But... (Score 1) 490

by fuzzywig on Monday June 02, 2014 @04:34AM (#47145341) Attached to: UK Ballistics Scientists: 3D-Printed Guns Are 'of No Use To Anyone'

Bloody hard to buy ammunition here though, even if you do get hold of a gun. (without a license anyway)

Comment Re:Actually, a gun is a useful machine (Score 1) 490

by fuzzywig on Monday June 02, 2014 @04:33AM (#47145339) Attached to: UK Ballistics Scientists: 3D-Printed Guns Are 'of No Use To Anyone'

And the thrusters on the new Dragon 2 capsule are 3d printed using laser sintering. To be fair though, that sort of printer must cost way more than buying a gun, and more than a CNC machine which you could also use to make a gun.

Comment Re:Yes, you pretty much are... (Score 1) 433

by fuzzywig on Friday May 23, 2014 @04:38AM (#47072823) Attached to: U.S. Drone Attack Strategy Against Al-Qaeda May Be Wrong

"Why did they pick the US as a target? Because the US has been mucking about in their countries for decades."

And because the US government supports the government of Israel. I'm not saying that they are right or wrong to do so, but it is one of the main reasons the US is hated in the Middle East.

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