Gorath99 - Slashdot User

Comment: Re:FAQs /.ed (Score 1) 220

by Gorath99 on Tuesday May 29, @05:20AM (#40140349) Attached to: Flame: The Massive Stuxnet-Level Malware Sweeping the Middle East

Napoleon *almost* subjugated all of Asia.

Indeed. If only he'd started in India rather than France... ;-)

Comment: Re:Google is invincible (Score 2) 214

by ackthpt on Friday May 25, @07:09PM (#40115327) Attached to: Dark Days Ahead For Facebook and Google?

A shift in usage from desktops to mobile will not take down Google; if anyone were in a position to embrace this sort of change, Google would be a top contender. As for Facebook, I would venture to say that it is reaching the end of its life-cycle.

Google is like a Road Map, which collects a little bit from any gas station, restaurant or hotel you ask about along the way. They are a starting point and make money on referal.

facebook is a destination. You go there to share pictures, natter a bit or nose around your connections connections connections. If you want to research anything to buy you go back to Google.

Comment: pln t ntrdc mmnl cmmnctn stndrd (Score 0) 214

by ackthpt on Friday May 25, @07:07PM (#40115279) Attached to: Dark Days Ahead For Facebook and Google?

ll mk mllns!

Comment: Re:First post! (Score 1) 444

by ackthpt on Wednesday May 23, @01:17PM (#40090455) Attached to: Facebook, Zuckerberg Sued Over IPO

Some information was withheld by OP, I'm suing!!!

Comment: Re:Justice was fairly served (Score 5, Insightful) 200

by ackthpt on Friday May 18, @07:22PM (#40047319) Attached to: Microsoft Wins US Import Ban On Motorola's Android Devices

If you cannot do business honestly, don't do it at all.

Yeah, if Microsoft were held to that particular standard they would have been out of business a long time ago.

Microsoft has hardly been an innovator. I wonder who they bought the patent from.

Comment: May the Force be with the Rebels (Score 1) 139

by ackthpt on Friday May 04, @01:23PM (#39892549) Attached to: Syrian Government Uses Skype To Push Malware To Activists

On this day and always.

Comment: For a second.. (Score 1) 52

by ackthpt on Tuesday May 01, @06:15PM (#39862381) Attached to: British Government Prepares For Solar Storms

I thought this would be having another go at The Sun.

Comment: Re:Does this guy say... (Score 4, Funny) 289

by ackthpt on Monday April 30, @01:58PM (#39847723) Attached to: Australian Billionaire Plans To Build Titanic II

I'M KING OF THE WORLD!?!

Only when his wife lets him.

Comment: Probably strike a coral reef and sink (Score 5, Funny) 289

by ackthpt on Monday April 30, @01:50PM (#39847587) Attached to: Australian Billionaire Plans To Build Titanic II

Yeah, that would be hilarious. Oh, wait, the Italians beat him to it.

Comment: Re:What's best (Score 4, Insightful) 411

by ackthpt on Tuesday April 24, @02:58PM (#39785799) Attached to: Firefox 12 Released — Introduces Silent, Chrome-like Updater

I believe Chrome knows what's best for us.

I believe Mozilla does not.

So... Interesting and compelling comment you've posted.

I don't think Chrome knows what's best for us -- I keep finding changes I find anywhere between no-care to highly-annoying. Too bad the default setting in every rollout is "ON" and sometimes you really have to dig to find ways to disable them.

Imagine making the decision to standardize on a browese, across your enterprize and then find every user is suddenly stuck on morning because some update to Chrome broke the application everyone runs. Not a plus.