Wizel603 - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Hope their hull is bulletproof. (Score 1) 80

by Wizel603 on Friday July 11, 2014 @02:13AM (#47429521) Attached to: SpaceX Wins FAA Permission To Build a Spaceport In Texas

I really cannot think of a less desirable location to build this "space port".

Mos Eisley

Comment Re:Not just misspelled, but misspelled *differentl (Score 1) 275

by Wizel603 on Thursday March 27, 2014 @07:35AM (#46591465) Attached to: TSA Missed Boston Bomber Because His Name Was Misspelled In a Database

Good point highlighting how Slashdot still doesn't support Unicode in 2014 by the way...

Slashdot BETA doesn't appear to support Unicode either, for that matter.

Comment Re:So much wrong in this thread... (Score 1) 173

by Wizel603 on Thursday March 20, 2014 @09:20PM (#46539989) Attached to: Intel Announced 8-Core CPUs And Iris Pro Graphics for Desktop Chips

I may be wrong, but I've been led to understand that EMT64 is a typo of EM64T. How true is this?

Comment Re:In all fairness (Score 1) 237

by Wizel603 on Wednesday January 29, 2014 @10:17PM (#46106549) Attached to: Hard Drive Reliability Study Flawed?

Now, though, Seagate is not Miniscribe.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe Seagate absorbed Miniscribe by way of Maxtor. I wouldn't be so sure that 'shipping bricks' isn't in their patent portfolio.

Comment Starlite Starbrite (Score 1) 143

by Wizel603 on Saturday January 11, 2014 @03:56AM (#45924829) Attached to: Mars One Studying How To Maintain Communications With Mars 24/7

After opening the Mars One web site, why do I get the feeling that their concept artist is oddly familiar with trailer parks?

Comment Re:Good article (Score 1) 201

by Wizel603 on Wednesday January 01, 2014 @04:35PM (#45839347) Attached to: Dual_EC_DRBG Backdoor: a Proof of Concept

Too bad I've already given up on Slashdot and left. Really, I'm not here. You don't see me.

Comment Already located. (Score 1) 98

by Wizel603 on Wednesday December 04, 2013 @09:24PM (#45603859) Attached to: Medical Radioactive Material Truck Stolen In Mexico

Just wow. The mainstream news articles confirming that the radioactive material was located were posted more than a half hour ago.

Comment Re:has anyone asked Cyberbunker? (Score 1) 218

by Wizel603 on Thursday October 13, 2011 @04:01PM (#37705700) Attached to: Dutch ISP Files Police Complaint Against Spamhaus

ISP's need to learn to grow a back bone.

Please tell me that horrible pun was intentional.

Comment has anyone asked Cyberbunker? (Score 1) 218

by Wizel603 on Thursday October 13, 2011 @03:13PM (#37705100) Attached to: Dutch ISP Files Police Complaint Against Spamhaus

I would love to hear from Cyberbunker on why they are providing hosting to a spammer. Oh wait, I just found their AUP that's linked from their website:

Mind Your Own Business
CyberBunker does not poke around on your servers. Customers are allowed to host any content they like, except child porn and anything related to terrorism. Everything else is fine. CyberBunker has adopted a policy not to mind our clients business. Our famous "Mind Your Own Business" policy.

I'm sure glad they are up front.

Comment Re:Interesting link on the history of HTML5 (Score 1) 145

by Wizel603 on Friday March 04, 2011 @04:01AM (#35377396) Attached to: Firefox 4 Web Demos: Web O' Wonder

Would you prefer comic sans perhaps?

Comment Re:Welcome to Wikipedia (Score 1) 432

by Wizel603 on Thursday March 03, 2011 @01:12PM (#35370370) Attached to: Old Man Murray Entry Deleted From Wikipedia

There's also DeletionPedia, though I can't really tell what the current status of the site is.

After browsing the site some, I believe it's being considered for deletion.

Comment Re:Why bother? (Score 3, Insightful) 531

by Wizel603 on Tuesday December 01, 2009 @02:30PM (#30286292) Attached to: Trying To Bust JavaScript Out of the Browser

The javascript hate probably isn't coming from people that have done web development.

It's probably coming from people that have done web browsing.

Comment Re:Yep (Score 1) 667

by Wizel603 on Thursday October 15, 2009 @05:14PM (#29762597) Attached to: Toyota Claims Woman "Opted In" To Faux Email Stalking

So free publicity is a punishment now?

if you believe the salesman mantra of, "there's no such thing as bad publicity."

Comment Re:Yep (Score 2, Informative) 667

by Wizel603 on Thursday October 15, 2009 @04:55PM (#29762255) Attached to: Toyota Claims Woman "Opted In" To Faux Email Stalking

how do you punish a company except by a fiscal penalty?

you get an article put up on a major news site that features the company name and alludes that they've been stalking their customers.

Comment Re:Targeting Linux? (Score 1) 297

by Wizel603 on Monday March 02, 2009 @12:18AM (#27036367) Attached to: Analyzing Microsoft's Linux Lawsuit

Your comment makes me wonder if bsd running companies will become the next logical target if enforcing the FAT patents proves to hold any value whatsoever, even if only gaining a settlement.

I suspect microsoft believes it holds at least as many patents for technology within bsd as it does for linux, but are concentrating on one target at a time. Any wins they have in the fight against linux will only make their patent arsenal stronger when they turn their guns on bsd.

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