Comment Re: Was the suspension complete? (Score 1) 276

by Bombcar on Sunday March 18, 2018 @07:33AM (#56278999) Attached to: The Ordinary Engineering Behind the Horrifying Florida Bridge Collapse

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=...

Comment Re:Clarification? (Score 1) 110

by Bombcar on Tuesday March 13, 2018 @07:53AM (#56251471) Attached to: Apple Is Letting Companies Make 3.5mm To Lightning Cables Now

These exist, but the amount of text around it makes me think they're unauthorized (it talks about maybe having to reboot the phone, etc).

https://smile.amazon.com/gp/pr...

Comment Re:He'd be more successful banning bump stocks (Score 1) 314

by Bombcar on Monday December 18, 2017 @10:58AM (#55760897) Attached to: Flat Earther Now Wants To Launch His Homemade Rocket From a Balloon

I'm a low five, but that's not saying much.

Comment Re:Pimping drugs for profit (Score 1) 432

by Bombcar on Sunday December 18, 2016 @04:29PM (#53509423) Attached to: Are Psychiatric Medications Hurting More Patients Than They Help?

Read David Healy's Pharmageddon.

Comment Calculus already tried this for Captain Haddock. (Score 1) 350

by Bombcar on Friday February 15, 2013 @04:25PM (#42915113) Attached to: Alcoholism Vaccine Makes Alcohol Intolerable To Drinkers

It worked decently well.

Comment Re:I call BS (Score 1) 176

by Bombcar on Friday February 15, 2013 @01:31AM (#42906591) Attached to: IE Standardization Fading Fast

https://stripe.com/ ?

Comment Power (Score 0) 813

by Bombcar on Tuesday July 03, 2012 @10:30AM (#40527527) Attached to: After Recent US Storms, Why Are Millions Still Without Power?

Removing moderation.

Comment Re:Hmmm .... (Score 1) 858

by Bombcar on Tuesday November 09, 2010 @02:21PM (#34176478) Attached to: Mystery Missile Launched Near LA

As far as I can see, it's really close to being in the W-290 WARNING area; perhaps the MOA was hot?

Comment Re:Part deux (Score 4, Funny) 466

by Bombcar on Wednesday May 12, 2010 @10:22AM (#32182156) Attached to: Apple Loses Another 4th-Gen iPhone

Andre... you've lost another submarine?

Comment Re:Got it (Score 1) 381

by Bombcar on Friday May 07, 2010 @01:18AM (#32122592) Attached to: CRTC Approves Usage Based Billing In Canada

You should look at your gas bill. Mine has a "connection charge" and a "usage charge".

Comment Re:Ayn Rand, do you hear me? (Score 4, Interesting) 290

by Bombcar on Tuesday May 04, 2010 @04:48PM (#32090714) Attached to: The Humble Indie Bundle

The Dwarf Fortress guy made $16k last month. And his game is donation-only. And the donations aren't required.

Comment Steam (Score 1) 438

by Bombcar on Friday April 30, 2010 @11:51AM (#32045146) Attached to: Apple To Shut Down Lala On May 31

LaLa Hey Hey Kiss It Goodbye

Comment Re:Thats supposed to be obvious? (Score 1) 204

by Bombcar on Tuesday April 20, 2010 @05:20PM (#31915808) Attached to: Digital Photocopiers Loaded With Secrets

Most of them will start printing the copies of a multipage document as it is still going through the document feeder; and they'll keep printing the copies long after the last page was scanned.

That information has to be stored somewhere, even if there is no UI to get to it.

Comment Over IPv6 I still saw "Google" (Score 1) 84

by Bombcar on Thursday April 01, 2010 @12:02PM (#31700866) Attached to: Google Renames Itself "Topeka"

Heh. IPv6 is immune to the fools?

Comment Re:Benefits of DNSSEC? (Score 1) 100

by Bombcar on Wednesday February 24, 2010 @01:57AM (#31256010) Attached to: Comcast Launches First Public US Trial of DNSSEC

Remember that StartSSL.com gives out free SSL certificates. There's no reason to be running self-signed certificates anymore.