Smivs - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Sexist Much? (Score 1) 608

by Smivs on Thursday April 26, 2012 @06:00AM (#39804635) Attached to: Who Is Your Favorite Fictional Robot or Android?

And no mention of Hadaly! Not only female, but the first ever Movie Robot/Android.

Comment Hydrogen? (Score 1) 58

by Smivs on Friday March 02, 2012 @04:02PM (#39224037) Attached to: Oxygen Found Around Saturn's Moon Dione

The radiation breaks the water molecules down, liberating oxygen into the moon's exosphere.

So what happens to the Hydrogen? (No of course I didn't RTFA! This is /.)

Comment Buy! (Score 0) 570

by Smivs on Sunday February 26, 2012 @09:38AM (#39163413) Attached to: Apple Has Too Much Money

Smivs rushes out to buy Apple shares

Comment Spider bite! (Score 1) 111

by Smivs on Thursday February 23, 2012 @03:37PM (#39139721) Attached to: Are Smartphones Starting a Boom In DIY Medicine?

the lesion I'd wrongly thought was the result of a spider bite

Now that could have been waaaay cooler than Lyme desease.

Comment I don't own a cellphone... (Score 1) 396

by Smivs on Saturday February 18, 2012 @02:08PM (#39086513) Attached to: Do you like your cell phone?

because I'm British.

Comment Re:Sigh (Score 2) 206

by Smivs on Thursday February 02, 2012 @10:47AM (#38902267) Attached to: 3,500 Year Old Florida Tree Dies of Natural Causes

Why shouldn't it be on /. ? This is a 'nerdy' item, and a rather sad one as well. Rather this than the endless, tedious and (to me and many others) redundant posts relating to US politics.

Comment Black holes? (Score 1) 332

by Smivs on Sunday December 25, 2011 @12:21PM (#38488404) Attached to: I am, at present, from the place of my birth ...

Looking at the number of posters whose place of birth no longer exists, are we to believe that dotted around the surface of the Earth are various black holes or null-fields or other phenomena where the normality of the familiar space-time continuum has simply........vanished?!

Comment What is... (Score 2) 198

by Smivs on Saturday November 26, 2011 @05:21AM (#38173600) Attached to: Black Friday, for me, means ...

this Black Friday of which you speak?

Comment Stupid idea (Score 1) 344

by Smivs on Monday November 07, 2011 @01:32PM (#37975176) Attached to: Setting the various household clocks ...

We have this nonsense forced on us in the UK as well. I mean we invented 'time' (GMT) and then don't use it for half the year. WTF!

Comment Did some good in the UK (Score 1) 308

by Smivs on Friday October 21, 2011 @03:23PM (#37797126) Attached to: A Digital Direct Democracy For the Modern Age

The Turing petition

Comment Haha! (Score 1) 314

by Smivs on Monday September 19, 2011 @06:53PM (#37450232) Attached to: I tend to keep random notes most often ...

I voted for "I'll explain my system below.", but I'm not going to.

Comment Huh, what? (Score 1) 167

by Smivs on Saturday September 03, 2011 @02:11PM (#37297166) Attached to: Google To Shut Down 10 Products

Well I've never heard of, or used, any of them, so.......So what!

Comment Farewell (Score 1) 1521

by Smivs on Thursday August 25, 2011 @09:18AM (#37204530) Attached to: Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda Resigns From Slashdot

All the best for the future...thanks for your services to Geekdom - beyond the call of duty.

Comment Re:news for nerds (Score 3, Funny) 129

by Smivs on Monday August 15, 2011 @12:35PM (#37095856) Attached to: Star Wars Coins Issued By Pacific Island Nation

These are not the coins you are looking for!

Comment Elite (Score 1) 129

by Smivs on Friday June 24, 2011 @06:05PM (#36561140) Attached to: Why Classic Video Game Revamps Must Disappoint

Elite is alive and well, re-born as Oolite. Cross platform, open source and very free, with an enthusiastic community of players and modders.

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