turkeydance - Slashdot User

Comment: imagine all the people (Score 1) 131

by turkeydance on Saturday May 18, 2013 @06:26PM (#43764853) Attached to: Wired Writer Imagines Google Island

blah...blah

Comment: more favorable campaign advertisement rates (Score 1) 614

by turkeydance on Friday May 10, 2013 @11:47AM (#43685571) Attached to: John McCain Working On Legislation For 'a La Carte' TV Channel Packages

tv and politicians need each other. neither can afford to make the other *too* mad.

Comment: follow the money (Score 1) 533

by turkeydance on Friday May 03, 2013 @11:06AM (#43620189) Attached to: Is Google Glass Too Nerdy For the Mainstream?

Segway never got cheap enough.

Comment: Re:Quite interresting (Score -1, Troll) 98

by turkeydance on Sunday April 28, 2013 @06:36PM (#43576707) Attached to: Experiment Will Determine Dinosaur's Skin Color

another First World Problem (or experiment).

+ - Remember 7 of 9? Well, here's Seventh Woods. 0

Submitted by turkeydance on Saturday April 27, 2013 @05:49PM

turkeydance writes "Since we just have to post about sports intermittently, here's your sports with the Star Trek name:
http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/highschool-prep-rally/seventh-woods-14-old-freshman-hoops-highlight-reel-202145885.html"

Comment: since you brought it up... (Score 2) 81

by turkeydance on Saturday April 27, 2013 @05:21PM (#43569969) Attached to: <em>EVE Online</em> Getting TV, Comic Book Adaptations

Lenny Bruce from the way, waybackmachine: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfNhiRGQ-js

Comment: no flying cars, please (Score 1) 96

by turkeydance on Saturday April 20, 2013 @07:26PM (#43506609) Attached to: Hyundai's Flying Car Flies For an Audience

no flying grandmothers nor rednecks nor tech-distracted either, all of which would be as annoying as flying opossums.

Comment: Re:A sensible move (Score 2) 70

by turkeydance on Friday April 19, 2013 @05:53PM (#43498759) Attached to: Yahoo Is Going To Stop Email Service In China

about damn time.

Comment: Re:And Now the Crowd-sourcing Cleanup Phase (Score 4, Informative) 1109

by turkeydance on Friday April 19, 2013 @09:11AM (#43492093) Attached to: One Boston Marathon Bomb Suspect Dead, Other At Large After Shootout With Police

remember Richard Jewel. http://www.businessinsider.com/lessons-from-richard-jewell-2013-4

Comment: is truth relative? (Score 0) 181

by turkeydance on Thursday April 18, 2013 @01:03PM (#43484135) Attached to: Interviews: Ask Freeman Dyson What You Will

is all truth, even the speed of light, relative? (maybe light was faster after the BigBang, and is gradually slowing)

Comment: my wife's magazines (Score 1) 363

by turkeydance on Wednesday April 17, 2013 @06:37PM (#43477875) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: What Magazines Do You Still Read?

she gets those celebrity mags and i read them while waiting to add that crap.

Comment: Re:People Magazine (Score 2) 595

by turkeydance on Sunday April 14, 2013 @09:45PM (#43448789) Attached to: Is Bitcoin Mining a Real-World Environmental Problem?

People Mag's intent is more honest.

Comment: agents GET the best For the Best (Score 1) 288

by turkeydance on Thursday April 11, 2013 @07:42PM (#43428395) Attached to: Top Coders Tell Agents, "Show Me the Money!"

the top 1% get 99% of the money. basketball ex: if you are the one-and-only LeBron, get you some. if you are the starting forward for Fordham...good luck with that.

Comment: scrutiny? from whom? (Score 1) 227

by turkeydance on Saturday April 06, 2013 @08:28PM (#43381653) Attached to: Why Do Pathogen Researchers Face Less Scrutiny Than Nuclear Scientists?

is scrutiny from A better and/or more reliable than from B? will multiple scrutinizers provide better data just because they're *more*? my position is: inviting more to the party invites more of absolutely everything.

Comment: Re:58% of the votes (Score 3, Funny) 89

by turkeydance on Thursday April 04, 2013 @09:14PM (#43364917) Attached to: HP Chairman Raymond Lane Steps Down

Lane paves HP's path to a Kodak moment.