russryan - Slashdot User

Comment Up in smoke ... (Score 1) 449

by russryan on Saturday December 15, 2012 @05:25PM (#42303497) Attached to: Marijuana Prosecution Not a High Priority, Says Obama

Barak's not here, man.

Comment Re:As we move into Memorial Day and Americans reme (Score 1) 225

by russryan on Monday May 28, 2012 @01:26PM (#40135987) Attached to: Remembering America's Fresh Water Submarines

Someone had in their sig, "The English language was invented by Norman soldiers to seduce Saxon barmaids".

Comment Re:Burn the heretic! (Score 1) 616

by russryan on Thursday April 12, 2012 @03:40PM (#39663529) Attached to: Ex-NASA Employees Accuse Agency of 'Extreme Position' On Climate Change

Exactly! Like questioning evolution or the value of PI.

Comment an easy failure ... (Score 1) 227

by russryan on Saturday March 31, 2012 @01:27AM (#39532235) Attached to: Bringing Auto-Graders To Student Essays

i guess e. e. cummings just won't survive the 21 st century.

Comment Obligatory (Score -1, Offtopic) 294

by russryan on Sunday March 18, 2012 @05:52PM (#39398185) Attached to: Mammoth "Metal Moles" Tunnel Deep Beneath London

I, for one, welcome our new voracious worm robot under lords.

Comment Re:Ironic? (Score 1) 756

by russryan on Monday January 30, 2012 @06:17PM (#38870153) Attached to: What If the Apollo Program Never Happened?

I, for one, support our new Paul overlords Ron, Rand, and Ru.

Comment The Tim Allen principle? (Score 1) 61

by russryan on Monday October 17, 2011 @12:20PM (#37740466) Attached to: Nanomaterial May Allow Devices to Rewire Themselves

So I rewired myself!

Comment Re:Slippery slope? (Score 1) 301

by russryan on Sunday September 11, 2011 @03:15PM (#37369964) Attached to: Global Mall Operator Starts Reading License Plates

Godwin! I called it first!

Comment Re:Uncertainty (Score 1) 66

by russryan on Wednesday August 31, 2011 @06:42PM (#37269874) Attached to: Record-Low Error Rate For Qubit Processor

It means the cat is dead.

Comment Probably too late, but Nathan Myhrvold says (Score 1) 961

by russryan on Thursday August 25, 2011 @11:06PM (#37215072) Attached to: Michael Mann Vindicated (Again) Over Climategate

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0912/20/fzgps.01.html Basically, pump sulfur dioxide into the stratosphere. The science sounds right.

Comment Time to wear the foil hat. (Score 1) 90

by russryan on Friday July 29, 2011 @01:19PM (#36923688) Attached to: Hackers' Flying Drone Now Eavesdrops On GSM Phones

Combine this cracking technology with the Japanese flying sphere (http://slashdot.org/index2.pl?fhfilter=flying+sphere ) for very flexible snooping.

Comment Facts and Sarcasm ... (Score 1) 954

by russryan on Friday July 29, 2011 @01:07AM (#36917898) Attached to: New NASA Data Casts Doubt On Global Warming Models

The press release boils down to an analysis that the atmosphere is more efficient at shucking off heat than current models account for. Conclusion: ramp up the output. We can bust this sucker yet!

Comment My God, it's full of stars! (Score 1) 105

by russryan on Sunday May 29, 2011 @07:09PM (#36282520) Attached to: Time Lapse Video of the VLT In Chile

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oALxLNOhI6I

Comment Re:Sounds a bit odd. (Score 1) 279

by russryan on Friday May 20, 2011 @08:01PM (#36197594) Attached to: Apple: an 'App Store' Is Not a Store For Apps

Sometimes an App is just an app -- S. Freud

Comment Re:Comcast isn't a monopoly everywhere (Score 2) 366

by russryan on Monday May 09, 2011 @05:14PM (#36076222) Attached to: Netflix CEO Hesitant To Fight Cable

To quote myself, "When government is corrupt, it is for the same reason we need it"

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