__aavevi421 - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Twenty first century schizoïd man... (Score 1) 417

by __aavevi421 on Saturday March 31, 2012 @09:51PM (#39538137) Attached to: DHS Will Now Vet UK Air Passengers To Mexico, Canada, Cuba

Fear-mongering is bigger business than war-mongering these days.

Comment Re:If not A'Fools, airpace may be the key word (Score 1) 417

by __aavevi421 on Saturday March 31, 2012 @09:29PM (#39538019) Attached to: DHS Will Now Vet UK Air Passengers To Mexico, Canada, Cuba

any attack from such a flight will always be coming from outside the borders rather than from within the U.S.

Well, fuck, you've forgotten recent history real damn quick.

Comment Re:America is Losing the Plot! (Score 4, Interesting) 417

by __aavevi421 on Saturday March 31, 2012 @09:19PM (#39537963) Attached to: DHS Will Now Vet UK Air Passengers To Mexico, Canada, Cuba

When the Brits start turning against the Yanks you know America is in trouble long term.

Lots of us already have. I've turned down two contracts there and none of my colleagues consider having a holiday there.

Comment Re:Joking right? (Score 1) 417

by __aavevi421 on Saturday March 31, 2012 @08:30PM (#39537717) Attached to: DHS Will Now Vet UK Air Passengers To Mexico, Canada, Cuba

I bloody hope this is an April 1st post! I already hate the US Govt - this is taking the piss.

Comment Really?? (Score 1) 691

by __aavevi421 on Saturday March 17, 2012 @01:10PM (#39389973) Attached to: UK Plan Would Use CCTV To Stop Uninsured Drivers From Refueling

So, when I'm driving my friends car or riding someone else's motorbike *which I am legally insured with" but the owner has no insurance, I can't get petrol??? The DVLA's huge *and incorrect* database? Is there actually someone *so F0cking stupid* as to believe our insurance premiums will reduce? Really?!?!

Comment Re:Best thing from the EU is the plane to NZ (Score 1) 170

by __aavevi421 on Monday November 28, 2011 @05:37PM (#38195062) Attached to: EU Targets Facebook's Ad System

I've chosen Brazil...

Comment Re:Yes it is! (Score 3, Insightful) 585

by __aavevi421 on Tuesday November 22, 2011 @05:54PM (#38141534) Attached to: New Batch of Leaked Climate Emails

Except the oil companies are making a fortune out of 'Global Warming' by increasing their prices and governments are making more from 'Green Taxes'?

Comment No one has quoted yet? (Score 2) 319

by __aavevi421 on Thursday November 17, 2011 @08:08PM (#38093000) Attached to: Toronto School Bans Hard Balls

"The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools." Herbert Spencer

Comment What is this for? (Score 1) 205

by __aavevi421 on Thursday November 17, 2011 @07:56PM (#38092862) Attached to: Windows 8 Secure Boot Defeated

I don't like any of the ways this can happen. It's MY computer, I built it and sometimes I like to install Windows. Sometimes I like to play with Linux. Sometimes I like to play with overclocking and keep rebooting until it actually stays usable for more than 5 minutes. The fact that there is an exploit is good. The fact that M$ is actually trying to screw us is bad, they will try harder every year. I have never actually had a computer virus.

Comment Re:Scary (Score 1) 180

by __aavevi421 on Saturday October 22, 2011 @11:37AM (#37804062) Attached to: Researchers ID Skype, BitTorrent Users

Political dissidents are child molesters now? Dick head.

Comment Re:Cmon (Score 1) 164

by __aavevi421 on Wednesday October 05, 2011 @08:05AM (#37610640) Attached to: 175 MPH Student-Built EV Smashes Speed Record

I have 3 cars, built between 1968 and 1977. They fit 4 normal size humans, do over 75mph and weigh less than 550Kg. Compared to a Smart car that weighs 750Kg and only holds 2 people?? That's progress!!
These cars are great fun, easy to work on and still usable.

Reliant Kitten

Reliant Rebel

Comment Re:billions and billions (Score 1) 86

by __aavevi421 on Thursday September 22, 2011 @10:52AM (#37479974) Attached to: UK's NHS Will Drop Delayed E-Records Project

For the same cost they could have filled a warehouse with medical records and hired a bunch of dropouts to ride around on Segways pulling files and using a high-tech fax machine to deliver medical records on demand to doctors the world over for the next hundred years until a system of electronic medical records that isn't fraught with problems was invented.

Needs modding up!!!

Comment Re:Cluster = Cloud (Score 1) 158

by __aavevi421 on Thursday September 15, 2011 @03:57PM (#37413332) Attached to: Wolfenstein Ray Traced and Anti-Aliased, At 1080p

The only way this concept works is if the rendering farm is running in a closet somewhere in your house.

With liquid cooling, you could pipe it to the central heating system.

Comment Re:Case of the Mondays.... (Score 1) 134

by __aavevi421 on Monday August 22, 2011 @04:16PM (#37170962) Attached to: Web Surfing At Work Can Boost Productivity

But if you paid someone to mow your lawn and they goofed for an hour wouldn't you be upset?

Not if the lawn got done. There is a definite task to complete, I don't care if it takes them all day and, to be honest, I wouldn't be sitting there timing them. The quicker they do the lawn, the quicker they can go and earn more money doing someone else's lawn - more fool them if they goof off.

I, however, work hard so that the company earns more money - not me. So I don't give a shit.

Comment Re:I think we all know this... (Score 1) 134

by __aavevi421 on Monday August 22, 2011 @04:08PM (#37170850) Attached to: Web Surfing At Work Can Boost Productivity

I'm the same. When I start a new project (for me) then I can sit for up to 16 hours working. At work? I can only muster 2-3 hour bursts.

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