magpie - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Still sceptical (Score 1) 168

by magpie on Friday December 14, 2012 @09:30AM (#42286065) Attached to: Electrical Grid Hum Used To Time Locate Any Digital Recording

Intelligent life on earth?!?! Where?

Comment Come on (Score 2) 190

by magpie on Thursday October 18, 2012 @11:08AM (#41693025) Attached to: In UK, Apple Must Run Ad Apologizing to Samsung

It would have been so much better if the judge had specified comic sans 24 pt.

Comment Re:Who gives a shit? (Score 1) 215

by magpie on Friday September 21, 2012 @08:36AM (#41409565) Attached to: US Military Tested the Effects of a Nuclear Holocaust On Beer

Really, if I see a mushroom cloud and a 6-pack, the last thing on my mind will be "oh, I hope that's not irradiated." I'm getting WASTED!

Funny, in that situation my first though would be to get as wasted as possible (the odds are your dead anyway before long so why in gods name would you not get wasted?)

Comment Re:Firefox (Score 4, Funny) 174

by magpie on Thursday August 30, 2012 @10:18AM (#41178019) Attached to: Linus Torvalds Says Linux 4.0 Could Be Out In Three Years

Meanwhile debian will be on 6.0.6 (though they might still be on 6.0.5).

Comment Saw this comming (Score 1) 48

by magpie on Saturday May 19, 2012 @12:15PM (#40051669) Attached to: UK Gov't Reneges On Open Source Promise For Cloudstore 2.0

The head of IT acquisition and the tech head of the civil service quit no long back. Thhe tories have got there mates in. (would provide links but...well hibs lost so am in no state to do so...see el-reg)

Comment Re:I'll bet that'll be effective (Score 1) 151

by magpie on Sunday April 08, 2012 @05:16PM (#39614181) Attached to: Anonymous Hacks UK Government Sites Over 'Draconian Surveillance'

hey the scottish gov is not backing them but is against the laws http://www.snp.org/media-centre/news/2012/apr/snp-condemn-uk-government-surveillance-plan yet another reason to vote yes when the referendum comes.

Comment Re:sad... (Score 1) 151

by magpie on Sunday April 08, 2012 @05:14PM (#39614165) Attached to: Anonymous Hacks UK Government Sites Over 'Draconian Surveillance'

oddly the government of scotland is http://www.snp.org/media-centre/news/2012/apr/snp-condemn-uk-government-surveillance-plan not that the bbc will ever mention it though.

Comment Re:They have a right to be angry ... (Score 1) 151

by magpie on Sunday April 08, 2012 @05:13PM (#39614153) Attached to: Anonymous Hacks UK Government Sites Over 'Draconian Surveillance'

Hey the system would work if the mean stream media, including the bbc were woth shit. On party, the biggest in one of the nations of the UK has stood up. http://www.snp.org/media-centre/news/2012/apr/snp-condemn-uk-government-surveillance-plan but don't expect the bbc to make note of it...or any of the mainstream media. Yeah wer'e used to being ignored up here.

Comment Only backed by the unionist parties (Score 1) 151

by magpie on Sunday April 08, 2012 @05:03PM (#39614109) Attached to: Anonymous Hacks UK Government Sites Over 'Draconian Surveillance'

Labour will back it, but oddly the biggest party in scotland stands opposed http://www.snp.org/media-centre/news/2012/apr/snp-condemn-uk-government-surveillance-plan Hey another resaon to desolve the act of union.

Comment Erm what this is not news for nerds (Score -1) 90

by magpie on Monday December 05, 2011 @06:37PM (#38273062) Attached to: Book Review: Head First HTML5 Programming

And sure doesn't matter that's all I have to say

Comment Re:Time to solve the problem (Score 0) 333

by magpie on Saturday March 12, 2011 @04:14PM (#35465914) Attached to: Is Daylight Saving Time Bad For You?

Sorry your using the daily mail as a reference...can't believe anything you say. BTW how did they link it to immigrants and mortgage rates?

Comment So they can't use any software then (Score 1) 193

by magpie on Friday January 21, 2011 @05:49AM (#34950082) Attached to: Australian Government Denies Microsoft Bias In OOXML Choice

So basically they have decided to adopt a 'standard' that no one, even Microsoft, implements correctly? I assume they mean the ISO one. Just demand that they only use software that implements it correctly according to the standard and what them have fun.

Comment Re:Imagine a beowulf cluster of those (Score 2) 97

by magpie on Friday January 14, 2011 @11:20AM (#34877812) Attached to: EDSAC Computer To Be Rebuilt

We'd have the mind-numbing processing power to get my garage door open, and one less US state.

Seems a fair trade in some cases.

Comment Re:People read forums? (Score 1) 221

by magpie on Thursday January 06, 2011 @07:11AM (#34774722) Attached to: Why Creators Should Never Read Their Forums

tl;dr Soulskill isn't that bad

Comment A/UX (Score 1) 763

by magpie on Saturday December 18, 2010 @03:12PM (#34601476) Attached to: OS I'd Most Like To See Make a Comeback

Little known, odd, but I loved it. Wish I could find the hardware and a copy of the software somewhere. But I can't find the software and the hardware is getting trick to find. Look it up, it was great...but odd and way ahead of it's time.

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