Bombcar - Slashdot User

Comment: Re:Hmmm .... (Score 1) 858

by Bombcar on Tuesday November 09 2010, @01:21PM (#34176478) Attached to: Mystery Missile Launched Near LA

As far as I can see, it's really close to being in the W-290 WARNING area; perhaps the MOA was hot?

Comment: Re:Part deux (Score 4, Funny) 466

by Bombcar on Wednesday May 12 2010, @09:22AM (#32182156) Attached to: Apple Loses Another 4th-Gen iPhone

Andre... you've lost another submarine?

Comment: Re:Got it (Score 1) 381

by Bombcar on Friday May 07 2010, @12:18AM (#32122592) Attached to: CRTC Approves Usage Based Billing In Canada

You should look at your gas bill. Mine has a "connection charge" and a "usage charge".

Comment: Re:Ayn Rand, do you hear me? (Score 4, Interesting) 290

by Bombcar on Tuesday May 04 2010, @03:48PM (#32090714) Attached to: The Humble Indie Bundle

The Dwarf Fortress guy made $16k last month. And his game is donation-only. And the donations aren't required.

Comment: Steam (Score 1) 438

by Bombcar on Friday April 30 2010, @10:51AM (#32045146) Attached to: Apple To Shut Down Lala On May 31

LaLa Hey Hey Kiss It Goodbye

Comment: Re:Thats supposed to be obvious? (Score 1) 204

by Bombcar on Tuesday April 20 2010, @04:20PM (#31915808) Attached to: Digital Photocopiers Loaded With Secrets

Most of them will start printing the copies of a multipage document as it is still going through the document feeder; and they'll keep printing the copies long after the last page was scanned.

That information has to be stored somewhere, even if there is no UI to get to it.

Comment: Over IPv6 I still saw "Google" (Score 1) 84

by Bombcar on Thursday April 01 2010, @11:02AM (#31700866) Attached to: Google Renames Itself "Topeka"

Heh. IPv6 is immune to the fools?

Comment: Re:Benefits of DNSSEC? (Score 1) 100

by Bombcar on Wednesday February 24 2010, @12:57AM (#31256010) Attached to: Comcast Launches First Public US Trial of DNSSEC

Remember that StartSSL.com gives out free SSL certificates. There's no reason to be running self-signed certificates anymore.

Comment: Re:I'm writing this comment from 2017 (Score 4, Interesting) 338

by Bombcar on Wednesday December 02 2009, @11:10AM (#30298202) Attached to: LHC Knocked Out By Another Power Failure

Then why does your user name have 2009 in it?

Comment: Re:Old Games on Faster Computers can be tough (Score 1) 367

by Bombcar on Tuesday November 17 2009, @08:07AM (#30127920) Attached to: Making Old Games Look Good On Modern LCDs?

You've obviously never played the OpenGL accelerated majesty that is Dwarf Fortress. http://www.bay12games.com/forum/index.php?topic=40349.0