adric - Slashdot User

Comment: Re:Points at Giant Snails (Score 1) 245

by adric on Monday April 15, 2013 @04:54PM (#43456277) Attached to: Giant Snails Invade Florida

Hideki!

This amused me more than it probably should have, but I'm having a hard time spotting the Chobits connection here...

Comment: Re:News for Nerds? (Score 1) 577

by adric on Tuesday April 10, 2012 @06:57PM (#39638661) Attached to: Santorum Suspends Presidential Campaign

Should they post stories about a cat climbing up trees? I mean, some nerds like cats, therefor it's news for nerds.

Sure, as long as they include pictures! :P

Comment: Re:And in the US (Score 1) 815

by adric on Sunday November 20, 2011 @12:48PM (#38117404) Attached to: In the EU, Water Doesn't (Officially) Prevent Dehydration

Seconded. Gates Extra Hot barbeque sauce is good stuff.

Comment: Re:Great...now just one more issue.... (Score 1) 681

by adric on Monday November 22, 2010 @01:25PM (#34308474) Attached to: Making Airport Scanners Less Objectionable

Is somebody in Kansas City seriously going to consider a drive to Atlanta or Cleveland, or will they just stay home for Thanksgiving and decide that 15 minutes on Skype will have to be good enough?

I'm driving from Kansas City to Orlando in 2 days to visit family. My wife left a week earlier, making essentially the same trip by train.

So yes, there are definitely some of us who will opt for this approach.

Comment: Re:The solution.. (Score 1) 484

by adric on Wednesday December 23, 2009 @07:00PM (#30540336) Attached to: Best Filesystem For External Back-Up Drives?

Please take note, irregardless is not a word!

Please take note, nobody actually cares!

Comment: Re:No lawsuits? (Score 1) 244

by adric on Tuesday October 27, 2009 @01:12PM (#29886617) Attached to: Comparing the Freedoms Offered By Maemo and Android

Hey AC, The lawsuit was a cease a desist on including copyrighted software in his releases. Namely Gmail and other Google Apps.

Not to mention that it's now moot. :)

Comcast Intercepts and Redirects Port 53 Traffic 527

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday June 09, 2009 @01:11PM
from the why-we-need-ipv6 dept.

An anonymous reader writes "An interesting (and profane) writeup of one frustrated user's discovery that Comcast is actually intercepting DNS requests bound for non-Comcast DNS servers and redirecting them to their own servers. I had obviously heard of the DNS hijacking for nonexistent domains, but I had no idea they'd actually prevent people from directly contacting their own DNS servers." If true, this is a pretty serious escalation in the Net Neutrality wars. Someone using Comcast, please replicate the simple experiment spelled out in the article and confirm or deny the truth of it. Also, it would be useful if someone using Comcast ran the ICSI Netalyzr and posted the resulting permalink in the comments.

Comment: Fusion? BAH!!! (Score 5, Funny) 401

by adric on Monday August 18, 2008 @09:35PM (#24654043) Attached to: Amateur Scientists Seek Fusion Reaction

Now if they could put it in the form of a suppository...