spatterson - Slashdot User

Comment: Re:Siri says: "Your breath is over the alcohol..." (Score 1) 114

by spatterson on Sunday January 06, 2013 @12:15PM (#42495909) Attached to: Your iPhone Will Soon Detect Bad Breath

Dude, you need to get out of your mom's basement.

Comment: Meanwhile the Russians... (Score 2) 114

by spatterson on Sunday January 06, 2013 @11:33AM (#42495619) Attached to: Your iPhone Will Soon Detect Bad Breath

are handing out gum

+ - Military uses DNA Barcodes to tackle counterfeit gear-> 1

Submitted by spatterson on Tuesday November 06, 2012 @09:38AM

spatterson writes ""Cutting corners with substandard or counterfeit electronics won't be as easy for suppliers whose parts end up with the U.S. military, as the Department of Defense turns to DNA “barcodes” to track" Looks like the Chinese will have to work a bit harder to sneak in fake gear"
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Comment: Swot Sauce (Score 1) 348

by spatterson on Monday September 24, 2012 @12:16PM (#41438311) Attached to: Favorite way to add capsaicin to a dish:

I add Swot Sauce. The only good hot sauce out there

Comment: Re:Link, please? (Score 1) 186

by spatterson on Thursday June 21, 2012 @10:50PM (#40407111) Attached to: The World's First Supercavitating Boat?

You're not the best speller

Comment: Re:Bose (Score 0) 448

by spatterson on Wednesday June 13, 2012 @08:20AM (#40307391) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Best Headphones, Earbuds, Earphones?

I fourth that. Best headphones hands down, ever. I will never buy anything else. Ety MC5s are $58 and are ALMOST as good as ER4Ps. If they hurt your ears, they can form custom inserts that'll last you a lifetime.

Comment: Re:Yawn (Score 1, Informative) 94

by spatterson on Saturday June 02, 2012 @03:18PM (#40195617) Attached to: Light Table IDE Finds Funding Success

Ummm... vi is the greatest editor ever created. That's what's with us "old guys". BTW, I'm not old

Comment: Re:All Chinese authors (Score -1, Offtopic) 115

by spatterson on Saturday May 05, 2012 @07:29PM (#39904911) Attached to: Diamonds Used To Increase Density, Performance of Phase-Change Memory

Way off topic but I have to say... you have the dumbest signature I've ever seen "Friendly Reminder: Apple, Google, Nintendo and Valve are the for-profit corporations a Slashdotter is permitted to like." I guess we can't like RedHat? Or github? MongoHQ? Sourceforge? Geeknet? Need I go on?

Comment: Congratulations Linus (Score 2) 111

by spatterson on Thursday April 19, 2012 @08:19PM (#39740959) Attached to: Linus Shares the Millennium Technology Prize

Well deserved.

Comment: Re:For years (Score 1) 225

by spatterson on Wednesday February 29, 2012 @08:27PM (#39203999) Attached to: The Math of Leap Days

God damn that was an epic fail

Comment: Dvorak... the only way to go (Score 1) 362

by spatterson on Saturday September 03, 2011 @09:21PM (#37299756) Attached to: Weak Typing — the Lost Art of the Keyboard

Proof http://mkweb.bcgsc.ca/carpalx/?dvorak

+ - Vim 7.3 released 0

Submitted by Ulfalizer on Monday August 16, 2010 @04:59PM

Ulfalizer writes "After two years of development since Vim 7.2, version 7.3 of the popular text editor has been released. New features include persistent undo across editing sessions, support for blowfish encryption, and new Lua and Python 3 interfaces."

+ - Vim 7.3 Released-> 0

Submitted by spatterson on Monday August 16, 2010 @11:25AM

spatterson writes "Finally, after two years of hard work, this is a new release of Vim. It includes an awful lot of bug fixes and a few new features. It is better than ever before. New features include:

- Persistent undo and undo for reload
- Blowfish encryption, encryption of the swap file
- Conceal text
- Lua interface
- Python 3 interface"
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