ZzzzSleep - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Can't wait to read the Oatmeal's take on this (Score 1) 173

by ZzzzSleep on Tuesday September 24, 2013 @12:24AM (#44931233) Attached to: Charles Carreon Finally Surrenders To the Oatmeal

Now, now, it's not like he's robin anybody....

Comment Re:Test the Attachments (Score 3, Funny) 238

by ZzzzSleep on Thursday July 18, 2013 @12:15AM (#44314779) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: How Do You Automatically Sanitize PDF Email Attachments?

Then just do all your work in a VM, and you'll be safe from malware!

Comment Re:TheOldReader is promising (Score 1) 335

by ZzzzSleep on Wednesday June 12, 2013 @12:20AM (#43981731) Attached to: Slashdot Asks: How Will You Replace Google Reader?

I've also moved over to The Old Reader. It does almost everything that Google reader, and even has the sharing like reader used to have, before Google decided that everyone should use Google+ to share instead...

Comment Re:Excellent; (Score 1) 362

by ZzzzSleep on Thursday January 03, 2013 @04:40PM (#42466455) Attached to: Canada To Stop Producing Pennies In 2013

Oddly enough, this didn't happen in Australia when we got rid of our 1 and 2 cent coins back in 1991.

Comment Re:Awesome for web developers and designers. (Score 1) 476

by ZzzzSleep on Thursday December 15, 2011 @10:10PM (#38392792) Attached to: Microsoft Upgrading Windows Users To Latest Version of MSIE

You still need this t-shirt....

Comment Re:Do you have to live in USA? (Score 1) 230

by ZzzzSleep on Thursday November 24, 2011 @08:58PM (#38162208) Attached to: 3-Way Price War On Black Friday: iPad, Nook, and Kindle

Steam's prices are the same in every country

They certainly aren't the same in Australia. See http://www.ausgamers.com/features/read/3047097 for details...

Comment Re:Free or Free with a catch? (Score 1) 103

by ZzzzSleep on Monday September 19, 2011 @11:28PM (#37452312) Attached to: <em>DC Universe Online</em> Goes F2P

Sounds very similar to how City Of Heroes is doing things (or will be, Real Soon tm). I'm not sure how it compares with Champions Online. Anyone able to tell me?

Comment Re:Yawn. (Score 1) 295

by ZzzzSleep on Monday July 25, 2011 @09:10PM (#36878628) Attached to: Review: Captain America

Well it looks like Seth MacFarlane is set to remake the TV show. http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/tvandradioblog/2011/may/17/flintstones-seth-macfarlane

Comment Re:Success, not failure (Score 1) 505

by ZzzzSleep on Thursday June 02, 2011 @08:02PM (#36326662) Attached to: School Super Asks Governor To Make His School District a Prison

Have a look at this article from 2007. http://science.slashdot.org/story/07/10/23/1839245/Crime-Reduction-Linked-To-Lead-Free-Gasoline

Comment Re:math doesn't add up (Score 1) 55

by ZzzzSleep on Tuesday May 31, 2011 @09:52PM (#36303952) Attached to: Jonathan Coulton Answers Your Questions

Errr... it states that the artist gets ten cents on the dollar from the labels. So the labels are taking 90%.

Comment Re:US employs 80,000 prisoners for labor (Score 1) 313

by ZzzzSleep on Thursday May 26, 2011 @02:18AM (#36247780) Attached to: China Alleged To Use Prisoners In Lucrative Internet Gaming

He also wrote a much longer story along similar lines.

Comment Re:The issue... (Score 2) 200

by ZzzzSleep on Wednesday May 18, 2011 @03:45AM (#36163222) Attached to: Australian Journalist Arrested, Released After Detailing Facebook Flaws

I didn't think that he published the photo. Here's the article:
http://www.theage.com.au/technology/security/security-experts-go-to-war-wife-targeted-20110517-1eqsm.html
And Ben Grubb's version of events:
http://www.theage.com.au/technology/technology-news/grubbs-story-privacy-news-and-the-strong-arm-of-the-law-20110518-1esn9.html

Comment Re:There's a new strategy! (Score 1) 201

by ZzzzSleep on Wednesday April 27, 2011 @09:16PM (#35959282) Attached to: Roguelikes: the Misnamed Genre

While not exactly what you're asking for, have you tried Knightmare Chess?

Comment Re:What's going on? (Score 1) 778

by ZzzzSleep on Wednesday February 23, 2011 @02:34AM (#35287856) Attached to: Ubuntu: Where Did the Love Go?

I've heard that Puppy Linux is a good choice these days for older PCs...

Comment Re:Good! (Score 1) 297

by ZzzzSleep on Sunday July 25, 2010 @01:24AM (#33019004) Attached to: Top Authors Make eBook Deal, Bypassing Publishers

There's Lulu, which was recommended here, but I haven't used the service myself, so I can't vouch for how hard/easy it was to use.

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