Kartoffel - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Oh really? (Score 1) 533

by Kartoffel on Friday March 12, 2010 @05:14PM (#31456630) Attached to: China Warns Google To Obey Or Leave

Agreed! As long as China remains a closed dictatorship, they have no business getting ahead. It's not that I dislike the people of China; on the contrary I wish them the very best. Their evil government simply has to go.

Comment Re:Game of Chicken (Score 1) 533

by Kartoffel on Friday March 12, 2010 @05:12PM (#31456606) Attached to: China Warns Google To Obey Or Leave

It would be so great (famous last words, I know) if MS and Google together agreed to pull out of China. Send the Chinese government a unified FUCK YOU from the western centers of technology.

Comment Re:And what will the Register say? (Score 4, Funny) 261

by Kartoffel on Sunday March 07, 2010 @09:53PM (#31396248) Attached to: Facebook Founder Accused of Hacking Into Rivals' Email

If at all possible, they'll use the word "boffin" in there somewhere, too.

Comment Not Really Surprised (Score 5, Insightful) 261

by Kartoffel on Sunday March 07, 2010 @09:52PM (#31396238) Attached to: Facebook Founder Accused of Hacking Into Rivals' Email

When you look at Facebook's dismal history of privacy policies and changes, it's really not that surprising. A person with flawed ethical standards tends to do unethical things.

Comment Try GunPal Instead (Score 3, Informative) 253

by Kartoffel on Saturday March 06, 2010 @08:40PM (#31385010) Attached to: PayPal Freezes Cryptome's Account

Not trying to advertize, but if PalPal's politics rub you the wrong way, try GunPal instead. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GUNPAL https://www.gunpal.com/?

Comment electrolytes (Score 5, Funny) 819

by Kartoffel on Wednesday March 03, 2010 @01:49AM (#31340934) Attached to: Officials Sue Couple Who Removed Their Lawn

They should have watered their lawn with Brawndo. It's got what plants crave.

Comment Re:It's ice, you clod! (Score 1) 271

by Kartoffel on Tuesday March 02, 2010 @01:20PM (#31331844) Attached to: NASA Estimates 600 Million Metric Tons of Water Ice At Moon's North Pole

It's equivalent to 31,700,646,200 ten-gallon Gatorade coolers. If you stacked them on top of one another, it would be enough to go to the moon and back 12 and a half times.

Comment Re:It's ice, you clod! (Score 1) 271

by Kartoffel on Tuesday March 02, 2010 @12:47PM (#31331324) Attached to: NASA Estimates 600 Million Metric Tons of Water Ice At Moon's North Pole

Yes, but for larger volumes, the cubic school bus is a good alternative unit.

Comment Re:Clever of someone (Score 1) 200

by Kartoffel on Saturday February 27, 2010 @10:59PM (#31301956) Attached to: The Difficulty of Dismantling Constellation

Two ways to remedy that: 1. Abolish re-election. One term and out. 2. Hold candidates accountable for campaign promises. Make violation a felony.

Comment Re:Of Course (Score 1) 200

by Kartoffel on Saturday February 27, 2010 @10:53PM (#31301904) Attached to: The Difficulty of Dismantling Constellation

Makes no sense that a government hellbent on government-run health care would want to throw away government-run space exploration.

NHS Should Stop Funding Homeopathy, Says Parliamentary Committee 507

Posted by samzenpus on Tuesday February 23, 2010 @02:57PM from the how-am-I-going-to-align-my-chakras-now dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Homeopathic remedies work no better than placebos, and so should no longer be paid for by the UK National Health Service, a committee of British members of parliament has concluded. In preparing its report, the committee, which scrutinizes the evidence behind government policies, took evidence from scientists and homeopaths, and reviewed numerous reports and scientific investigations into homeopathy. It found no evidence that such treatments work beyond providing a placebo effect." Updated 201025 19:40 GMT by timothy: This recommendation has some people up in arms.

Why Are There No Popular Ultima Online-Like MMOs? 480

Posted by Soulskill on Monday February 22, 2010 @05:45AM from the risk-is-not-our-business dept.

eldavojohn writes "I have a slightly older friend who played through the glory days of Ultima Online. Yes, their servers are still up and running, but he often waxes nostalgic about certain gameplay functions of UO that he misses. I must say that these aspects make me smile and wonder what it would be like to play in such a world — things like housing, thieving and looting that you don't see in the most popular massively multiplayer online games like World of Warcraft. So, I've followed him through a few games, including Darkfall and now Mortal Online. And these (seemingly European developed) games are constantly fading into obscurity and never catching hold. We constantly move from one to the next. Does anyone know of a popular three-dimensional game that has UO-like rules and gameplay? Perhaps one that UO players gravitated to after leaving UO? If you think that the very things that have been removed (housing and thieving would be two good topics) caused WoW to become the most popular MMO, why is that? Do UO rules not translate well to a true 3D environment? Are people incapable of planning for corpse looting? Are players really that inept that developers don't want to leave us in control of risk analysis? I'm familiar with the Bartle Test but if anyone could point me to more resources as to why Killer-oriented games have faded out of popularity, I'd be interested."

Owners Smash iPhones To Get Upgrades, Says Insurance Company 406

Posted by timothy on Wednesday February 17, 2010 @02:59PM from the dog-ate-it dept.

markass530 writes "An iPhone insurance carrier says that four in six claims are suspicious, and is worse when a new model appears on the market. 'Supercover Insurance is alleging that many iPhone owners are deliberately smashing their devices and filing false claims in order to upgrade to the latest model. The gadget insurance company told Sky News Sunday that it saw a 50-percent rise in claims during the month Apple launched the latest version, the iPhone 3GS.'"

Comment Re:5,000 year old man? (Score 1) 80

by Kartoffel on Sunday February 14, 2010 @06:40PM (#31137866) Attached to: Greenlander's DNA Sequenced, After 5,000 Years

Tell him it's a good thing his remains were frozen in ice during the Flood! It's much harder to find preserved antediluvian remains from warm climates. :p

Comment Re:5000 Years? (Score 1) 80

by Kartoffel on Sunday February 14, 2010 @06:36PM (#31137826) Attached to: Greenlander's DNA Sequenced, After 5,000 Years

Bah. NCIS would have already done it before Gibbs walked in to ask about it. Great, now I'm imagining Abby raising a gothic neanderthal kid with tats and piercings.

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