SpockLogic - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Actually there is a name for this behavior (Score 1) 114

by SpockLogic on Thursday May 29, 2014 @08:42AM (#47118229) Attached to: Comcast-Time Warner Deal May Hinge On Low-Cost Internet Plan

It's called empty promises. The primary purpose of this merger is not nor will it ever be to take care of the poor. It merely serves to unhook the approval process that would create an internet oligarchy.

Cheap internet for anybody is the last thing that these guys want.

Remember the AT&T 768Kbps $10.00 a month naked internet service that was almost impossible to find. It was the short term bribe to get the BellSouth merger passed the regulators. This is Comcrap's version of the same three card monte.

Comment Re:guns are stupid (Score 0) 765

by SpockLogic on Monday May 12, 2014 @01:46PM (#46981083) Attached to: A Look at Smart Gun Technology

the phrase 'smart gun' is an oxymoron.

As is the phrase "smart 'gun owner' ".

Comment Re:We aren't stupid... (Score 1) 105

by SpockLogic on Monday May 12, 2014 @08:44AM (#46978183) Attached to: FCC Chairman Will Reportedly Revise Broadband Proposal

"We aren't stupid..."

The chairman of the FCC and the other content cartel lobbyists hope you are wrong.

Comment Re:Australia is ready to save the penguins again (Score 1) 95

by SpockLogic on Friday April 25, 2014 @07:52AM (#46839707) Attached to: Panel Says U.S. Not Ready For Inevitable Arctic Oil Spill

when they needed to clean oil spills off penguins.

That can be done in a fast and efficient way using flamethrowers

Anti Linux flamebait? Oh No.

Comment Re:Just because they dont overlap (Score 4, Insightful) 107

by SpockLogic on Saturday April 12, 2014 @06:05PM (#46736101) Attached to: The Comcast/TWC Merger Is About Controlling Information

Should Comcast be allowed to control both what content you consume and how you get to consume it?"
No. Hell NO.

Comment Re:no practical knowledge in the industry at big u (Score 1) 295

by SpockLogic on Sunday March 16, 2014 @11:51AM (#46498533) Attached to: Federal Student Aid Requirements At For-Profit Colleges Overhauled

But they actually know and understand the curriculum. Besides which, professors at real universities aren't hired to teach, they're hired because of the research they've done. So yes, they have experience in research.

Tenured professors are hired to do research, adjunct professors are the under paid teachers.

Comment Re:And the Stockholders Don't Want the Policy Chan (Score 5, Insightful) 348

by SpockLogic on Saturday March 01, 2014 @10:58AM (#46375465) Attached to: Tim Cook: If You Don't Like Our Energy Policies, Don't Buy Apple Stock

HEADLINE

Right Wing Ideologues looking for Publicity get their asses handed to them.

The NCPPR were only trying to raise their own profile by attacking Apple's policy, nothing more.

Comment Steyn is Slime (Score 0, Flamebait) 393

by SpockLogic on Sunday January 26, 2014 @06:23PM (#46075659) Attached to: Michael Mann Defamation Suit Against National Review Writer to Proceed

Hope Steyn, the lying sack of shit, gets hit with a massive fine.

Comment Re:May I propose an alternative? (Score 1) 87

by SpockLogic on Friday January 10, 2014 @05:51PM (#45921397) Attached to: Roadable, Vertical-Takeoff Aircraft Is Eager To Hit the Battlefield

I saw James Bond's Octopussy, but there was 8 of nothing in it.

Damn, I was sure there were 8 good looking women ... or was it cats.

Comment Re:Here We Go Again (Score 1) 674

by SpockLogic on Tuesday January 07, 2014 @10:49AM (#45887287) Attached to: The Internet's Network Efficiencies Are Destroying the Middle Class

It's the Internet's fault! It took ur jerbs! It is wrecking the middle class. The Internet cause the financial crisis, not unmitigated greed and stupidity.

Give me a fucking break. How did this half-wit get published by the NY times?

What?

By responding to your post I have created new content and I want to be paid for it. You may want a second payment for the quoted portion ...

OK, I know that's not going to happen so I'm off to spend some mod points on something more interesting.

Comment Re:I'm shocked, shocked (Score 5, Funny) 85

by SpockLogic on Monday October 07, 2013 @03:48PM (#45062787) Attached to: UK Minister: British Cabinet Was Told Nothing About GCHQ/NSA Spying Programs

In other words pompous self-aggrandizing politician learns his true standing in the pecking order and what the powers that be really consider his worth.

You do realize that "Yes Minister" and "Yes, Prime Minister" were documentary and not comedy?

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

Comment Re:"...not disclosing....where the base is located (Score 4, Informative) 237

by SpockLogic on Thursday August 22, 2013 @10:08PM (#44650403) Attached to: Report: Britain Has a Secret Middle East Web Surveillance Base

The UK have sovereign bases on Cyprus, about 150 miles wet of Lebanon, and having a listening post on the top of the islands highest mountain shouldn't be difficult.

Comment Re:Typical Microsoft approach (Score 1) 174

by SpockLogic on Wednesday August 07, 2013 @11:11AM (#44497675) Attached to: MS Office For Android: Pretty, But Woefully Incomplete

From my memory of pre-dismal coinage there are 16 farthings in tuppence

Eight. A farthing is a quarter-penny and tuppence is, well, two pence.

You are correct Sir. My gray matter must be failing ...

Comment Re:Typical Microsoft approach (Score 1) 174

by SpockLogic on Wednesday August 07, 2013 @08:11AM (#44495869) Attached to: MS Office For Android: Pretty, But Woefully Incomplete

My grandfather used to call it "Tripping over nickels to pinch pennies."

my GREAT grandfather used to say, don't trip over the farthings to pick up the tuppence!

From my memory of pre-dismal coinage there are 16 farthings in tuppence. Did you perhaps make a transpositional error?

Comment Re:Down the line... (Score 1) 248

by SpockLogic on Thursday July 25, 2013 @08:17AM (#44379551) Attached to: Court Upholds Ruling On Dish Network's 'Hopper'

Or you might find yourself taxed, a' la PBS or the BBC, in order that these entities have operating funds. Some might applaud that, but some will scream bloody murder about the additional levy.

If it happens that we rid ourselves of commercials AND get something like another PBS or BBC, then I can tolerate a lot of screaming from some people.

Hallelujah, PBS is a welcoming oasis in an ocean of network mediocrity.

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