Thud457 - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Country run by oil barons does nothing!!! (Score 1) 195

by Thud457 on Monday July 13, 2015 @05:33PM (#50102383) Attached to: How the Biggest, Most Expensive Oil Spill In History Changed Almost Nothing

"proper safeguards" == cuts into profits.
A fatal flaw with nuclear power, too.

Comment dog in the manger (Score 1) 485

by Thud457 on Monday July 13, 2015 @02:44PM (#50100783) Attached to: European Agreement Sets Up Third Greek Bailout

honestly, what do you expect of a 100EUR / week hotel room?

Comment Re:Sunk cost fallacy (Score 2) 485

by Thud457 on Monday July 13, 2015 @02:08PM (#50100475) Attached to: European Agreement Sets Up Third Greek Bailout

Surely the enter the EU there are certain prerequisites that need to be met. Such as :
1. retirement age properly in line with demographics
2. transparent and mostly non-corrupt government
3. mostly fair and enforced tax system
4. reasonable spending on military

Comment don't need no steenkin' computers to drive Boston (Score 1) 114

by Thud457 on Thursday July 09, 2015 @11:38AM (#50075953) Attached to: Google's Driverless Cars Now Rolling In the Heart of Texas

The Japanese figured out all the algorithm you need to drive in Boston way back in the 60's.

Comment DO NOT WANT! (?) (Score 1) 64

by Thud457 on Thursday July 09, 2015 @09:31AM (#50075253) Attached to: Robot Performs Prostate Surgery Inside an MRI

no no no no No NO NO!

They got the headline wrong, should read : ROBOT ATTACKS PROSTATE of MAN TRAPPED in MRI with NEEDLES

I'm sure the younger generation will accept this as a beneficial advancement and not some of the scariest parts of the major motion picture "Prometheus".

Comment Ron Paul was right. (Score 2) 190

by Thud457 on Wednesday July 08, 2015 @02:18PM (#50070987) Attached to: Glitches: United Airlines Grounds All Flights, NYSE Suspends Trading

IT'S HAPPENING!

We'd all be safe from this calamity if the traitor John Snowden hadn't sold our country's secrets to the Soviets.

Comment ERROR : Xzibit overflow (Score 1) 95

by Thud457 on Tuesday July 07, 2015 @01:38PM (#50064021) Attached to: Hacking Team Scrambling To Limit Damage Brought On By Explosive Data Leak

Yo dog, I heard you like backdoors. So I backdoored your backdoor so you can get p0wned while you p0wn!

Comment Re:The fickle finger of fate..... (Score 2) 95

by Thud457 on Tuesday July 07, 2015 @10:55AM (#50062803) Attached to: Hacking Team Scrambling To Limit Damage Brought On By Explosive Data Leak

As the Bataman said, "the world only makes sense when we force it to".
That's why we all morally obligated to track down evildoers and punch them in the balls. I'm pretty sure Thomas Jefferson wrote that, somewhere.

Comment Re:1 sec time change? (Score 1) 80

by Thud457 on Monday July 06, 2015 @03:46PM (#50056961) Attached to: Pluto Probe Back To Normal, Cause of Snafu Found

ixnay on the pluterday talk, you'll get the 1%'s whining about class warfare again.

Comment It's Ken Thompson (Score 1) 198

by Thud457 on Thursday July 02, 2015 @03:39PM (#50035115) Attached to: San Francisco Fiber Optic Cable Cutter Strikes Again

Long-distance electrodes shot into the pinion pituitary glands of recent dead.

Comment Re:No rear camera? (Score 1) 843

by Thud457 on Tuesday June 30, 2015 @03:38PM (#50021033) Attached to: Test Pilot: the F-35 Can't Dogfight

wait, I thought that was one of the bells and whistles they were flogging with this.
So why does the pilot need to turn his head to see behind the plane? He shouldn't even need to set down his beer.

Comment holy black lung, Batman! (Score 3, Funny) 189

by Thud457 on Tuesday June 30, 2015 @02:02PM (#50020127) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: What To Do With Empty Toner Cartridges?

Although you can make a bong from an old toner cartridge, it's probably not a good idea.