quantumRage - Slashdot User

Comment Re: More likely (Score 1) 625

by quantumRage on Thursday February 13, 2014 @09:32AM (#46237285) Attached to: Majority of Young American Adults Think Astrology Is a Science

You might be onto something here. When I read the summary I mixed those two up. (I'm not a native English speaker, but still it's not an excuse). When I got to the end of summary, thought to myself... Astronomy... And realised the text was about horoscopes.

Comment Re:Fucking ground this fleet. (Score 1) 394

by quantumRage on Monday January 09, 2012 @09:16AM (#38636518) Attached to: World's Largest Passenger Plane May Be Unsafe, Some Say

sorry, apparently this was a failed joke. Actually I'm in europe, but google still creates a bubble for me... I just recently tried the experiment with some friends, and I got really annoyed about the results being so different. PS: googling 'Qantas grounding' gives indeed articles about Qantas grounding, just they probably are different articles

Comment Re:Fucking ground this fleet. (Score 1) 394

by quantumRage on Monday January 09, 2012 @05:40AM (#38635798) Attached to: World's Largest Passenger Plane May Be Unsafe, Some Say

But my filter bubble doesn't let me see your results :(

Comment Re:RSS as Fair Use (Score 1) 303

by quantumRage on Friday January 06, 2012 @04:55AM (#38607674) Attached to: AP and 28 News Groups To Collect Fees From Aggregators

Sorry, I'm not american so I might be a little out of loop... Which war is exactly going on? WW2.5? I haven't heard of any declaration of war between any countries. But I think in 10-15 years history books(probably non-american) will tell that this war you are talking about is/was ww3.

Comment Re:Get over it (Score 1) 108

by quantumRage on Friday November 11, 2011 @12:42PM (#38025534) Attached to: How Is Technology Changing the Brain?

Get over it grammar nazi... Not everyone's native language is English, and those seemed to be common typos probably because of speed typing and a browser without a spell checker

Comment Re:Not prior art (Score 1) 354

by quantumRage on Friday July 15, 2011 @02:58AM (#36772458) Attached to: Apple Patents Portrait-Landscape Flipping

Since when is holding a finger against the screen a gesture? Or is any input operation on a touchscreen device a gesture? Basically this is a shortcut to temporarily disabling the whatever orientation sensor the device might have. Why does it matter if this shortcut is operated by a real button or a virtual button? PS. i think patents are crap.

Comment Re:They came first for the perverts... (Score 1) 764

by quantumRage on Thursday December 30, 2010 @11:39AM (#34711084) Attached to: Amazon Censorship Expands

So if I had a kindle and live in Europe and bought a book which they have the right to sell in Europe but not in US. Does that mean when I move to US, they would delete it from my device?

Comment Re: Go electronic! (Score 1) 441

by quantumRage on Wednesday December 22, 2010 @04:52PM (#34645132) Attached to: Banknotes Go Electronic To Outwit Counterfeiters

Why do we still carry money anyway?

For anonymous transactions. This puts that concept at risk.

You may have noticed, but there are places where you can't pay with a card. Mostly at the countryside.

Comment In other news (Score 1) 184

by quantumRage on Tuesday November 30, 2010 @08:42PM (#34397820) Attached to: Student Googles Himself, Finds He's Accused of Murder

In other news..

Garcia and his mother tell us that she is interested in getting all the references on the internet moved from the World Wide Web so nobody gets the wrong idea again.

I don't think this is really possible to remove the entryes but then again who am I to know.

Comment Re:Gold is pretty much worthless outside earth. (Score 1) 421

by quantumRage on Friday October 22, 2010 @03:05PM (#33988918) Attached to: NASA Strikes Gold and Water On the Moon

I've heard that gold makes a fine shield material against cosmic rays. I'd say that makes it quite useful metal, when it helps to keep you alive.

Comment Re:this is my dream too (Score 1) 561

by quantumRage on Saturday October 09, 2010 @07:27PM (#33848354) Attached to: Google Secretly Tests Autonomous Cars In Traffic

Have you considered taking the bus?

it's rather impossible to sleep while standing

Comment Re:Buying rights with the purpose to sue! (Score 1) 253

by quantumRage on Monday September 06, 2010 @07:17AM (#33487524) Attached to: Senate Candidate Sued By Copyright Troll

If they didn't send a takedown notice, and TFA didn't mention it, they are trolls in my eyes.

Comment Re:Buying rights with the purpose to sue! (Score 1) 253

by quantumRage on Monday September 06, 2010 @05:56AM (#33487210) Attached to: Senate Candidate Sued By Copyright Troll

from http://www.righthavenlawsuits.com/

Righthaven LLC is owned 50/50 by two limited liability companies. The first is Net Sortie Systems, LLC, which is owned by Las Vegas attorney Steven Gibson – the Nevada attorney who is behind all of the lawsuits filed by Righthaven. The second is SI Content Monitor LLC, which is owned by family members of investment banking billionaire Warren Stephens whose investments include Stephens Media, LLC which owns the Las Vegas Review-Journal.

It looks to me that Review-Journal is part of this troll-scheme.

Comment Re:And the largest solar power plant currently is. (Score 1) 635

by quantumRage on Thursday July 29, 2010 @08:25AM (#33067416) Attached to: Nuclear Energy Now More Expensive Than Solar

skyrocketing price of nuclear power

Could anyone please explain why is the price skyrocketing? Things usually get cheaper when produced in greater quantities

Verizon Denies DSL Because of Subscriber's Name 493

Posted by kdawson on Sunday August 03, 2008 @05:43AM from the gravel-in-ya-guts-and-the-spit-in-ya-eye dept.

mikek2 writes "When retired Philadelphia-area doctor and Vietnam veteran Dr. Herman I. Libshitz went to upgrade his dial-up connection to Verizon DSL, he was informed they wouldn't complete the order because his last name contained an expletive. Repeated calls to several levels of management at Verizon failed to resolve the problem, with several managers suggesting he change his last name. It all worked out in the end, after the Philadelphia Enquirer intervened."

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