brouski - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Saw it Sunday (Score 1) 412

by brouski on Monday December 20, 2010 @03:16PM (#34619062) Attached to: Tron: Legacy

"Something Wild" was Melanie Griffith, btw.

Comment So, if the iPad is an giant iPhone... (Score 1) 68

by brouski on Saturday November 27, 2010 @04:26PM (#34359628) Attached to: Early Look At Acer's Iconia Dual Touchscreen Device

The Acer Iconia is an giant Nintendo DS?

Comment You're right. (Score 1, Troll) 1348

by brouski on Monday October 18, 2010 @01:44PM (#33935302) Attached to: Desktop Linux Is Dead

You'll play it on a gaming console.

Comment Facebook's memorializing procedures... (Score 1) 284

by brouski on Thursday August 12, 2010 @12:47PM (#33229594) Attached to: Can Twitter and Facebook Deal With Their Dead?

leave a lot to be desired.

On a message board I frequent, there's a prank going around where a "friend" of a Facebook user will report the death of the user to Facebook, along with a faked obituary (apparently there are websites where one can easily create same), and based solely on this Facebook will lock down the account into "memorial" status.

It's currently easier for a stranger to convince Facebook that you're dead than it is for you to convince them that you're still alive.

Comment Let me tell you... (Score 4, Interesting) 414

by brouski on Wednesday August 04, 2010 @08:17AM (#33136220) Attached to: Barnes and Noble Bookstore Chain Put In Play

I sure feel great about my Nook purchase this week.

Comment Re:Energon Cubes? (Score 0, Offtopic) 253

by brouski on Monday July 05, 2010 @09:17AM (#32798650) Attached to: New Material Can Store Vast Amounts of Energy

Fuck, beaten!

Comment Re:How is the porn part relevant? (Score 1) 263

by brouski on Wednesday May 19, 2010 @05:08PM (#32270108) Attached to: FTC Takes Out Porn- and Botnet-Spewing ISP

Two things:

1. It's James Rhodes.

2. Watch less wrestling.

Comment Re:Half of 200k is still 100k (Score 1, Troll) 185

by brouski on Wednesday May 12, 2010 @09:21PM (#32188596) Attached to: John Carmack To Cut Space Tourism Prices 50%

Actually, no, it looks like you've just had a rash of shitty misogynistic opinions lately. Hey, maybe they make hormone therapy for that!

Comment Re:To be fair (Score 1) 699

by brouski on Tuesday February 23, 2010 @12:12AM (#31240594) Attached to: School Spying Scandal Gets Even More Bizarre

The only real "modern" Christianity movement with any longevity and a smattering of cohesion is the Evangelicals. Saying that some do or do no believe anything is somewhat pointless, since they can make up just about anything they want and it's "okay". Nonetheless, the overwhelming majority are certain that once you're Saved, you're good.

I frequent a message board or two with active religion sections that I browse from time to time. That generalization is far far FAR from the truth. The "works vs. grace" debate flares up often, and it gets quite heated.

Comment Re:Child Pornography Laws (Score 1) 699

by brouski on Monday February 22, 2010 @11:59PM (#31240520) Attached to: School Spying Scandal Gets Even More Bizarre

Tell that to these girls (in Pennsylvania, no less): http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/03/aclu-sues-da-ov/

Your average jackass D.A. will prosecute anyone for anything.

Comment Re:Son of WGA (Score 1) 819

by brouski on Thursday February 11, 2010 @06:02PM (#31105814) Attached to: Anti-Piracy Windows 7 Update Phones Home Quarterly

I've been paying for Windows for most of my IT career...

Don't you mean that Windows has been paying you for most of your IT career? I know it has mine...

Comment Re:foot.shoot(); (Score 2, Funny) 619

by brouski on Monday January 18, 2010 @01:43PM (#30809990) Attached to: HandBrake Abandons DivX As an Output Format

What about when you only have one hand free?

Comment Re:And the point of this is ... ??? (Score 1) 232

by brouski on Monday January 18, 2010 @01:36PM (#30809894) Attached to: ChromeOS Zero Released

Let you retrieve the email you downloaded yesterday?

Comment Re:I think you've already decided... (Score 1) 600

by brouski on Tuesday December 01, 2009 @01:33AM (#30279714) Attached to: Ethics of Releasing Non-Malicious Linux Malware?

I take it the first Austin Powers is the only one you've seen then?

Microsoft Denies Windows 7 "Showstopper Bug" 241

Posted by kdawson on Friday August 07, 2009 @11:33AM from the show-must-go-on dept.

Barence writes "Windows chief Steven Sinofsky has taken the unusual step of responding in the comments of a blog posting that claimed Windows 7 was suffering from a potential 'showstopper bug'. Stories had been sweeping the Internet that using the chkdsk.exe utility on a second hard disk would lead to a massive memory leak bringing the operating system to its knees in seconds. Responding to a blog post titled 'Critical Bug in Windows 7 RTM,' Sinofsky wrote: 'While we appreciate the drama of "critical bug" and then the pickup of "showstopper" that I've seen, we might take a step back and realize that this might not have that defcon level.' He signs off with the words: 'deep breath.'"

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