Dunbal - Slashdot User

Comment Seriously (Score 2) 255

by Dunbal on Monday January 26, 2015 @10:05AM (#48903835) Attached to: Verizon, Cable Lobby Oppose Spec-Bump For Broadband Definition

1200 baud should be enough for anyone.

Comment Evoluent definitely (Score 1) 431

by Dunbal on Saturday January 24, 2015 @06:18PM (#48895051) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Where Can You Get a Good 3-Button Mouse Today?

Vertical mouse best mouse. Yeah it takes a week or so to really get used to the new hand position and buttons but after the learning period it's everything a regular mouse is but without the wrist/forearm pain I used to have after long gaming sessions.

Comment Re:betteridge's law of headlines (Score 1) 489

by Dunbal on Monday January 19, 2015 @03:23PM (#48851383) Attached to: Windows 10: Can Microsoft Get It Right This Time?

No because Nazis. There you go.

Comment Re:Waiting for Republicans to come in and defend t (Score 1, Insightful) 316

by Dunbal on Friday January 16, 2015 @08:31PM (#48835821) Attached to: Eric Holder Severely Limits Civil Forfeiture

Even a broken clock is right twice per day. Finally Holder got something right.

Comment Re:public feed? (Score 1) 32

by Dunbal on Wednesday January 14, 2015 @06:11AM (#48809799) Attached to: Uber Will Provide Transit Data To Cities

Or Waze...

Comment Re:car prices have been decreasing (Score 1) 426

by Dunbal on Monday January 12, 2015 @02:22PM (#48795003) Attached to: Chevrolet Unveils 200-Mile Bolt EV At Detroit Auto Show

That's a 10% increase over 19 yrs! It's actually a decrease in price if you consider what you're getting for the cost

You must work for the treasury department.

Comment Re:Bah ... (Score 5, Funny) 189

by Dunbal on Friday January 09, 2015 @01:25PM (#48775987) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Options For Cheap Home Automation?

Total cost of ownership is way too high nowadays. And they've even taken away the "ownership" part. If you read the TOS it's scary as hell. You just can't whip them anymore.

Comment But the very best bit (Score 0) 160

by Dunbal on Thursday January 08, 2015 @07:02AM (#48763253) Attached to: Over 30 Uber Cars Impounded In Cape Town

The best bit is the banks valuing Uber at 17 billion dollars and thinking of raking in many more billions than this with a possible IPO. Caveat emptor.

Comment Re:huh? (Score -1, Troll) 300

by Dunbal on Monday January 05, 2015 @08:23PM (#48741677) Attached to: Why We're Not Going To See Sub-orbital Airliners

They had a damn good safety record too.

Yeah right up till the end when all those people died, excellent safety record...

Comment Re:Funny how "free trade" is not on this level (Score 2) 437

by Dunbal on Saturday January 03, 2015 @09:30PM (#48727857) Attached to: Netflix Cracks Down On VPN and Proxy "Pirates"

What, you find the Pax Americana to be one sided? Shame on you. I think perhaps we should park a few legions in your province for a few decades.

Comment Heard it before (Score 1) 578

by Dunbal on Saturday January 03, 2015 @07:15AM (#48724063) Attached to: What Language Will the World Speak In 2115?

But that's unlikely. For one, Latin happens to have gotten there first. It is now so deeply entrenched in print, education and media that switching to anything else would entail an enormous effort. We retain the QWERTY keyboard... the Chinese do not use QWERTY, either.

Comment Easy fix. (Score 0) 232

by Dunbal on Friday January 02, 2015 @05:45PM (#48720639) Attached to: Aircraft Responsible For 2.5% of Global Carbon Dioxide Emissions

We can solve this problem if everyone stops breathing for 10 minutes. No cheating. Ready? 3, 2, 1 GO

Comment Personally (Score 4, Funny) 278

by Dunbal on Friday January 02, 2015 @04:05PM (#48719769) Attached to: Vinyl's Revival Is Now a Phenomenon On Both Sides of the Atlantic

I'm waiting for punch cards to come back. You just don't get the same experience when loading your program on cassette tape.

Comment Re:Are people sick of the MPAA? (Score 2) 400

by Dunbal on Friday January 02, 2015 @10:23AM (#48716485) Attached to: Box Office 2014: Moviegoing Hits Two-Decade Low

No I think it has to do more with the shitty overpriced movies.

Comment So (Score 1) 63

by Dunbal on Friday January 02, 2015 @07:22AM (#48715667) Attached to: Study: Birds Slur Their Songs When Drunk, Just Like Humans

In b4 drunk parrots become an internet thing...

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