Reece400 - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Bush was right after all (Score 1) 431

by Reece400 on Friday December 03, 2010 @04:34PM (#34436680) Attached to: Foodtubes Proposes Underground, Physical Internet

Well, it can, it crashes and loses it's load all over a freeway.

Comment Re:Anti-US Government, Maybe (Score 2, Insightful) 1018

by Reece400 on Tuesday November 30, 2010 @05:13PM (#34395014) Attached to: WikiLeaks Will Unveil Major Bank Scandal

Yup, interesting that their reaction to this leak is greater security/secrecey. Really shouldn't they just avoid doing a lot of these things first place?

Comment Re:You have got to be kidding me? (Score 1) 426

by Reece400 on Wednesday November 24, 2010 @10:58AM (#34331240) Attached to: Students Banned From Bringing Pencils To School

Maybe we should just ban the kids from school? online instructor lead learning for all? Just think of the saving in facility costs and bussing alone (if it were done right, in reality burocrats would make it an overbudget ineffective waste of time)

Comment Re:Private Certificate Authority (Score 2, Informative) 286

by Reece400 on Tuesday November 23, 2010 @01:09PM (#34319666) Attached to: SSL Certificates For Intranet Sites?

http://www.namecheap.com/learn/other-services/ssl-certificates.asp I messed that link up some how.

Comment Re:Private Certificate Authority (Score 1) 286

by Reece400 on Tuesday November 23, 2010 @01:07PM (#34319624) Attached to: SSL Certificates For Intranet Sites?

http://www.namecheap.com/learn/other-services/ssl-certificates.asp>NameCheap Found them only recently, prices were so much lower we weren't sure, but they work fine.

Comment Re:I'm surprised that the 911 system (Score 1) 321

by Reece400 on Tuesday November 23, 2010 @12:50PM (#34319292) Attached to: FCC To Allow Texting To 911

Location is still important in many cases. for example if your in a large condo, which floor/unit are you at?

Comment Re:Oblig. Futurama reference (Score 1) 160

by Reece400 on Thursday November 11, 2010 @09:42AM (#34195462) Attached to: US Army Develops Tooth Cleaning Gum

A local store around here has individually packaged giant pickles in various flavours, along with the pepperoni sticks etc. at the counter

Comment Re:Did someone say Missile? (Score 1) 858

by Reece400 on Tuesday November 09, 2010 @03:44PM (#34177844) Attached to: Mystery Missile Launched Near LA

According to the video, the previous launch from the Vanderburg airforce base was a 'space italia cosmos skynet satilite'... coincidence? I think not...

Comment Re:Interesting Ideas (Score 1) 133

by Reece400 on Monday October 04, 2010 @04:31PM (#33787938) Attached to: Google Announces Project 10^100 Winners

I was thinking more the people who pass on the right, with their vehicle half in the ditch or the ones that make a left turn from the right turn lane so they don't have to wait in the queue.

Comment Re:Interesting Ideas (Score 1) 133

by Reece400 on Friday September 24, 2010 @03:59PM (#33691302) Attached to: Google Announces Project 10^100 Winners

Not legally, but in practive people in cars pass people using shoulders and other creative methods if someone is moving slow enough.

Comment Re:WD40 (Score 2, Informative) 597

by Reece400 on Thursday September 02, 2010 @03:51PM (#33456186) Attached to: AMD Hates Laptop Stickers As Much As You Do

Last time I used goo gone, it softened the plastic and when I went to scrub the goo off it permanently marred the shiny finish... Always test on an inconspicuos location as they suggest!

Comment Re:Freenet (Score 1) 467

by Reece400 on Friday August 06, 2010 @03:00PM (#33166324) Attached to: Web-Based Private File Storage?

True for his work PC, but on a secure web service your password should be good enough. On top of that, I imagine that once you die and stop paying the bill it will be purged for you within a few months.

Comment Re:People with too much time on their hands (Score 1) 135

by Reece400 on Friday July 09, 2010 @04:21PM (#32854612) Attached to: Hotels Lead the Industry In Credit Card Theft

I expect it wasn't that employee's actions, but when they were later accused of being the scammers by management or whomever. Blaming the customer shouldn't be the first response.

Comment Re:Well... (Score 1) 365

by Reece400 on Tuesday July 06, 2010 @04:20PM (#32816672) Attached to: Working Toward a Universal Power Brick For Laptops

Mmmmm, that would be glorious although I suspect they would become somewhat more messy to transport (and good luck getting it on a plane).

Comment Re:Well... (Score 1) 365

by Reece400 on Tuesday July 06, 2010 @12:21PM (#32812548) Attached to: Working Toward a Universal Power Brick For Laptops

I suspect that the connection system was already widely used, and apple somehow managed to patent using it for a laptop... Apple is good like that.

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