telchine - Slashdot User

Comment: Re:Typical Slashdot (Score 2) 647

by telchine on Monday June 17, 2013 @07:55PM (#44035025) Attached to: Supreme Court Decides Your Silence May Be Used Against You

Of course he's guilty. Why else would the police have arrested him? :p

Comment: Re:"Brigands" (Score 2, Funny) 127

by telchine on Monday June 17, 2013 @12:58PM (#44030999) Attached to: DNA Fog Helps Identify Trespassers, Thieves, and Brigands

They're brigands and blaggards; those dirty vamints. These dastardly perpetrators must be stopped forthwith! What do you think, old bean?

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Comment: Re:HTTPS enforces HTTPS? (Score 3, Informative) 89

by telchine on Thursday June 13, 2013 @11:34AM (#43996413) Attached to: iPhone Apparently Open To Old Wi-Fi Attack

Other devices are protected thanks to the use of HTTPS, which enforces HTTPS

HTTPS enforces HTTPS? Whew. That's a relief. Does SFTP enforce SFTP and SSH enforce SSH too? Just checking to make sure I'm secured.

I assume they mean HTTPS STS

Comment: HTTPS (Score 2) 89

by telchine on Thursday June 13, 2013 @11:31AM (#43996357) Attached to: iPhone Apparently Open To Old Wi-Fi Attack

Most sensitive mobile data these days is carried over SSL surely? I can't see this being any more dangerous than connecting to a public network voluntarily.

Comment: Re:This is one (Score 1) 74

by telchine on Thursday June 13, 2013 @11:03AM (#43995963) Attached to: Researchers Discover Another Layer To the Cornea

This is one of the cornea-est stories on Slashdot.

I'll get my coat...

eye was waiting for someone to post a bad pun about this!

Comment: Re:"Microsoft will continue to innovate" (Score 1) 223

by telchine on Wednesday June 12, 2013 @08:41AM (#43983851) Attached to: Half a Billion PCs To Ship In 2013, As Desktops and Laptops Dip But Tablets Grow

When did they start?

Altair BASIC

Comment: Hooray for the PC market! (Score 4, Insightful) 223

by telchine on Wednesday June 12, 2013 @08:16AM (#43983669) Attached to: Half a Billion PCs To Ship In 2013, As Desktops and Laptops Dip But Tablets Grow

And who said PCs are dying? Easy to solve that problem...

All we need to do is redefine what a PC is (desktops, notebooks, and tablets)!

Problem Solved!

Simples!

Comment: Re:ORACLE (Score 1) 61

by telchine on Tuesday June 11, 2013 @12:05PM (#43974531) Attached to: Oracle Reinstates Free Time Zone Updates For Java 7

Lehk228 had it spot on.

symlink: http://developers.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3839675&cid=43945337

Comment: Re:Finally (Score 3, Informative) 323

by telchine on Tuesday June 11, 2013 @10:15AM (#43973011) Attached to: Nicaragua Gives Chinese Firm Contract To Build Alternative To Panama Canal

I think the USSR did something similar. Made a really pretty lake, if I recall, but they could never keep it stocked with fish. But I can’t find a link so it might be my imagination.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Chagan

Comment: Re:Competition (Score 1) 323

by telchine on Tuesday June 11, 2013 @09:43AM (#43972557) Attached to: Nicaragua Gives Chinese Firm Contract To Build Alternative To Panama Canal

What's to stop Costa Rica or Columbia joining in?

Comment: Re:Theehee thats a bad comparison (Score 1) 243

by telchine on Tuesday June 11, 2013 @05:53AM (#43970841) Attached to: Microsoft Boasts of Tiny Energy Saving With IE

Heating thee? Thats a really bad comparison!

It was RIGHT THERE in the summary! In fact, you QUOTED that part of the summary! It's a three letter word and you STILL screwed it up THAT badly?

Comment: Shame about teh malware consumption... (Score 0) 243

by telchine on Tuesday June 11, 2013 @05:32AM (#43970755) Attached to: Microsoft Boasts of Tiny Energy Saving With IE

Unfortunately every Toolbar that gets installed by accident adds another two watts, and every bitcoin mining piece of Malware that IE lets in adds 100W