lastomega7 - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Public address (Score 1) 170

by lastomega7 on Wednesday December 16, 2009 @02:04AM (#30454462) Attached to: Gravatars Can Leak Users' Email Addresses

Because everyone has only one email. Especially /.ers.

Comment Meta (Score 5, Funny) 92

by lastomega7 on Thursday October 22, 2009 @09:31PM (#29842077) Attached to: Mozilla Messaging Unveils Raindrop

Looks like with the current trend of new 'universal aggregators' we'll soon need an aggregator aggregator. I think they planned for this though, with possible titles such as 'mozilla monsoon' and 'google tsunami.'

Comment Re:Heaven forbid... (Score 2, Insightful) 517

by lastomega7 on Thursday September 17, 2009 @11:46AM (#29454151) Attached to: Lawyer Demands Jury Stops Googling

Yeah, the media is always accurate. We should revamp the entire judicial system to be run by the media. The correct ruling is always the most sensationalist. No need to make sure both sides of the case have equal voice.

Comment Re:... they used a cellphone GPS? (Score 1) 215

by lastomega7 on Sunday September 13, 2009 @03:01PM (#29406685) Attached to: Students Take Pictures From Space On $150 Budget

It only needs to report its location accurately when it falls to the ground for retrieval purposes. Then perhaps the texts from the out-of-range altitudes would be saved on the phone as unsent messages?

Comment Re:Trivial. (Score 1) 197

by lastomega7 on Monday September 07, 2009 @01:23PM (#29342001) Attached to: Password Hackers Do Big Business With Ex-Lovers

a ridiculously long password like: '>AFD,!21)Â£"($Â£$3La57~}{'

That's amazing. I've got the same password on my luggage!

Comment Re:Brainless! (Score 1) 429

by lastomega7 on Friday September 04, 2009 @11:40AM (#29311807) Attached to: Pain-Free Animals Could Take Suffering Out of Farming

Or just grow the cow tissue in an industrial-sized petri dish.

At what point are they no longer cows?

Comment Re:No link (Score 5, Informative) 212

by lastomega7 on Saturday August 08, 2009 @05:25PM (#28998555) Attached to: Firefox 3.6 Alpha 1 Released

Now with extra clickability: https://developer.mozilla.org/devnews/index.php/2009/08/07/firefox-3-6-alpha-1-now-available-for-download/

Comment Re:WTF??? (Score 3, Funny) 357

by lastomega7 on Thursday August 06, 2009 @08:21PM (#28980957) Attached to: Microsoft Patents XML Word Processing Documents

There's already prior art for that...

so it should be really easy to get. :/

Comment Re:Same old story... (Score 2, Insightful) 281

by lastomega7 on Friday June 26, 2009 @04:58PM (#28488193) Attached to: New Lithium-Air Battery Delivers 10 Times the Energy Density

Because there is no way an actual instrument would require a battery. No need for any kind of preamp.

Comment Re:$4,700 doesn't even require a CMIR (Score 1) 460

by lastomega7 on Friday June 19, 2009 @01:41PM (#28392423) Attached to: ACLU Sues DHS Over Unlawful Searches and Detention

[Citation Nee---

Er...

Shoot.

Comment Re:Summary grossly incorrect. (Score 5, Funny) 135

by lastomega7 on Monday June 08, 2009 @07:00PM (#28258313) Attached to: Acer To Launch 3D Notebook In October?

"A few technological obstacles..."
All they have to do is get the whole 3D thing working.

Comment "Even more attractive..." (Score 5, Funny) 352

by lastomega7 on Friday May 29, 2009 @10:24PM (#28146501) Attached to: Microsoft Kills 3-App Limit For Windows 7 Starter Edition

I don't get how it's "even more attractive"

MS: Ok so guys, you can only use 3 apps at a time on our new OS.
World: Well who would want to use that?
MS: Ok, we changed it back. Now it's even better than before!

Sigh.

Comment Re:Pulleys FTW. (Score 1) 490

by lastomega7 on Thursday May 28, 2009 @07:26PM (#28131989) Attached to: My favorite simple machine is ...

Screws in carpentry have been around for a lot longer, but only about 150 years ago did the manufacturing techniques and materials improve enough to make them more feasible than say, nails. Ever try making a screw by hand? Er... Don't answer that...

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