Greyfox - Slashdot User

Submission + - Detergent Phospate Ban Leads to Dirtier Dishes (npr.org)

Submitted by Greyfox on Wednesday December 15, 2010 @12:01PM

Greyfox writes: A couple months ago I moved into a new house, and almost immediately noticed that the dishwasher was not working as well as the one in my last place. I thought I might have to replace it, but it turns out that the problem is a quiet phosphate ban for dishwasher detergent in 17 states. Rather than mix two formulas, the detergent manufacturers just switched over to phosphate-free detergent for everyone. No phosphates for you! The lady in the story mixes her own detergent now, but I'm finding that a quarter cup of vinegar every now and then seems to do the trick. Glad I didn't replace that washer.

Submission + - Corporation That Wrote Arizona's Immigration Law (npr.org)

Submitted by Greyfox on Friday October 29, 2010 @10:30AM

Greyfox writes: NPR has a story I have not seen anywhere else about the corporation behind Arizona's new immigration law. As it turns out, it's a privately owned and operated prison and the entire goal of the operation is to profit as illegal immigrants are put in jail.

Submission + - USA Authorizes Killing of US Citizen in Yemen (aclu.org)

Submitted by Greyfox on Wednesday April 07, 2010 @08:03PM

Greyfox writes: According to this bit at the ACLU (Among other places,) the Obama administration has authorized the killing of Anwar al-Alwaki, a Muslim cleric who has allegedly been up to all sorts of shenanigans. The ACLU glosses over those shenanigans and waves their hands vaguely, but they do raise an important question, exactly how many and what sorts of shenanigans must you be up to before someone puts you on a list of people who should be killed?

Submission + - OMG Velociraptor! (cnn.com)

Submitted by Greyfox on Thursday September 17, 2009 @08:14PM

Greyfox writes: Title kind of says it all...

Submission + - Specter Jumps Ship!

Submitted by Greyfox on Tuesday April 28, 2009 @01:30PM

Greyfox writes: Arlen Specter announced yesterday that he has become a Democrat, giving the Democrats a fillibuster-proof majority in the Senate. I can't wait to hear the wailing from Fox!

Submission + - The Environmental Impact of Printing an Email?

Submitted by Greyfox on Monday April 13, 2009 @04:43PM

Greyfox writes: Lately I've been seeing the obnoxiously smug "Please consider the environmental impact before printing this Email" in the signature of a number of people who send me email far too regularly. This really makes me want to print their email, cut out the signature, and start making a "Please consider the environmental impact before printing this Email" rug out of signatures and tape. But it got me wondering, what exactly IS the environmental impact of printing their email? And what is the environmental impact of their sending me their generally useless trivia at all? I googled around a bit but couldn't find anything useful. Could someone point me to a study on this?

Submission + - Best Method of Zombie Destruction? 1

Submitted by Greyfox on Tuesday July 01, 2008 @02:29AM

Greyfox writes: * Chainsaw
* Fire/Flamethrower
* Brass Knuckles
* Katana
* Shotgun

Submission + - New Hitman Scam Hits Internet (cnn.com)

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Greyfox

on Wednesday June 20, 2007 @03:40PM

Greyfox writes: "According to This CNN Story, a new "Hitman" scam is circulating around the Internet. In a nutshell the scammer says that the person being email has a contract on his life but offers to spare him if he pays the scammer a large sum of money. Investigations are difficult because most of the scammers are believed to be in a different country."

Submission + - Student Suspended for Pastafarian Practices

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Greyfox

on Friday March 30, 2007 @05:35PM

Greyfox writes: "According to the metro news, a student in North Carolina has been suspended for his religious beliefs. Those beliefs? That global warming is caused by the decline in the number of pirates and therefore followers of the religion should wear full 'full pirate regalia' to combat global warming. The school insists that the student's suspension had 'nothing to do with religion and everything to do with his refusal to heed warnings about wearing pirate costumes to school.' But isn't that like saying that suspending a student for praying at lunch had nothing to do with religion and everything to do with praying at lunch?

I'm sure this is just another case of the Administration attempting to suppress global warming-related speech!"

Submission + - EVE Online to Come to Intel OSX

Submitted by Greyfox on Friday March 16, 2007 @11:43AM

Greyfox writes: According to this Macworld article, EVE Online is to be ported to Intel OSX. CCP will be using Transgaming technology to make it happen and the game will have full parity with the PC version when released.

Submission + - What Ever Happened to the Linux Beer Walk?

Submitted by Greyfox on Wednesday November 08, 2006 @03:59PM

Greyfox writes: A few years back I tried to sell my manager at IBM on the idea of sending me to the Linux Beer Walk on the company dime. Well he wasn't particularly keen on the idea for some reason but I'm working at a new company now and am set to try again! However... there doesn't seem to be a Linux Beer Walk that I can pitch anymore! Whatever happened to that event and will there ever be another?

Submission + - S. 2686: Communications yadda yadda act of 2006

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Greyfox

on Thursday September 07, 2006 @03:01PM

Greyfox writes: "Our good buddy, Ted Stevens has introduced S. 2686: Communications, Consumer's Choice and Broadband Deployment act of 2006. I haven't yet read the entire text of the bill but the summary makes it sound surprisingly clueful from "The Internet is not a dump truck" guy. There's probably some nastiness hidden in the bill text though. Notably, it looks like the bill could make your ISP have to pay into the universal service fund, it seems it will probably give the FCC the authority to mandate that hardware implement and respect the copyright protection flag and there's the usual stuff about preventing child pornography."

Submission + - Katherine Harris wins Primary

Submitted by

Greyfox

on Wednesday September 06, 2006 @03:19AM

Greyfox writes: "Hey, remember that woman who certified the Florida results in the 2000 election, thus comitting our nation to 8 years of being run by a retarded monkey? Well she's back and up to her usual shennanigans, winning a nomination to run as the Republican canidate for a Senate seat in Florida. Ms. Harris leads Tom DeLay and Scarface Al Capone by a narrow margin in terms of popularity and GOP leadership is concerned that her presence in the election will motivate a large turn out of Democrats for this ultra-important mid-term election. The GOP went so far as to withdraw backing of Ms. Harris in this election, which she responded to by ponying up $10 Million of her own money to run her campaign. She still won handily, possibly due to high amounts of toxic mercury in the Florida water supply, possibly due to the fact that the Republican party could only mobilize a chimpanzee against her in this primary. And the chimp only got 42% of the vote.

Ms. Harris goes on to face Democrat Bill Nelson in the election, which she is expected to win by a margin of 2000 or so. Pat Buchanin is expected to take about 2300 votes in the election. Ms. Harris is also expected to fire four entire groups of campaign staffers between now and the election in an attempt to get rid of the Democratic spies in her campaign. Toxic mercury and all that.

If I may take a moment to deviate from my usual balanced and fair reporting of the news to briefly voice my personal opinion, if Ms. Harris wins the general election I will personally feel compelled to drive to the home of every Democrat in the state and put my foot up the ass of any of them that didn't actually turn out to vote in the election. Fair warning."

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