Hobbes897 - Slashdot User

Comment: Re:Can someone explain what they did wrong? (Score 1) 1671

by Hobbes897 on Monday April 05, 2010 @06:55PM (#31742534) Attached to: Wikileaks Releases Video of Journalist Killings

Ask yourself this .. if American soldiers were attacked and defeated .. and then the attackers came back and creamed the wounded, how would you feel? What sort of outrage would you see in the American press?

Do you remember Operation Anaconda?

Comment: Re:No iPad for me (Score 1) 584

by Hobbes897 on Friday March 12, 2010 @11:12PM (#31460898) Attached to: Here Come the Linux iPad Clones

You, my friend, have described what's happened to Vancouver perfectly.

Comment: I can't believe nobody has said it yet (Score 1) 297

by Hobbes897 on Wednesday March 11, 2009 @04:22PM (#27156481) Attached to: How To Keep a Web Site Local?

What's that? Is it a VPN? Is it a P2P? No! It's...DARKNET!

Comment: A simple explanation (Score 1) 555

by Hobbes897 on Wednesday January 17, 2007 @05:39PM (#17653088) Attached to: Who won?

During the 2004 Canadian federal election there was a similar phenomenon with discrepancies between polls and the actual results. An observation was made by Rex Murphey on the CBC the day after, and it went something like this:

My wife has been answering calls from pollsters and was exit-polled after she voted yesterday. After receiving so many questions in such a short period of time she came up with a plan to protect her right to privacy while still answering the questions: She lied to them.