Slashdot Mirror


User: doconnor

doconnor's activity in the archive.

Stories
0
Comments
620
First seen
Last seen
Profile
(view on slashdot.org)

Comments · 620

  1. Re:Begging the question... on 'Technology Will Replace the Need For Big Government' (vice.com) · · Score: 2

    "The US up until FDR qualifies"

    They had a depression every few decades, each one worse then the last. The only thing that broke the last one was World War II, a government economic intervention of unprecedented scale.

    The Scandinavian counties top the UN Human Development Index.

  2. Re:Begging the question... on 'Technology Will Replace the Need For Big Government' (vice.com) · · Score: 0

    Libertarians have lots of reasons, but are missing the most important thing, empirical evidence.

    If look at the most successful societies, like the Scandinavian countries, they have the most involved government (excluding nondemocratic ones). An even bigger government could be even better, but that remains untested.

  3. Re:Oh so I don't have a virus then... on Google Testing a Radical Change By Turning People's Search Results Black (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    They don't need your permission to change how their website looks. There are browser tools that let you override their colours.

  4. Re:going for the record on UAE To Build Artificial Mountain To Improve Rainfall (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    It would be hard to beat the Panama Canal at 27,000.

  5. Re:"Industry desire" is all good and well on Intel Wants To Eliminate The Headphone Jack And Replace It With USB-C (9to5mac.com) · · Score: 1

    All this DRM is really more about manipulating consumers who legally buy content, then preventing piracy.

  6. Re:So much video on Americans Abandoning Wired Home Internet, Shows Study (seattletimes.com) · · Score: 1

    The people who do this are the subset of people that only do light web browsing, who don't have Netflix and don't watch random YouTube videos.

  7. Two differnt products on BlackBerry Comments on Canadian Police Eavesdropping Report (blackberry.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    BlackBerry has two products. One for businesses and other large organizations called BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES) that gives them their own private server with their own secret key and one for everyone else where BlackBerry controls the server and has and apparently shares the key.

    Lets them have their cake and eat it too, because they can both cooperate with the courts to help them catch (non-corporate) criminals with not turning off big corporations and governments who care about security.

  8. If you saw Fascism rising in your country, would you obligated to try to stop it?

  9. Re:Not a necessary device on Slashdot Asks: It's Been a Year Since Apple Watch Release, What's Your Thought On It? · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't daily charging be better the weekly charging. With daily charging you just put it in a charger every night when you take it off to go to sleep. With weekly charging you would have to remember once a week it is time to charge it and half the time you would forget and it would die on you.

    Ideally it should be daily or never (like my old digital watch with a solar panel).

  10. Google+ on Facebook Users Are Sharing Less and It's a Big Problem (fortune.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Google+ created circles to allow you to control who you share things with, which would prevent this problem.

  11. Re:Pirate Party on Icelandic Prime Minister Resigns After Panama Data Leak (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    In Iceland, what to they call copyright infringes?

  12. Re:Pirate Party on Icelandic Prime Minister Resigns After Panama Data Leak (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    As a province, full Canadian Federal taxes would apply plus whatever provincial taxes they have, so it wouldn't be any more of tax shelter then Alberta.

  13. Pirate Party on Icelandic Prime Minister Resigns After Panama Data Leak (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Of interest to Slashdotters is that the Pirate Party of Iceland currently has a generous lead in the polls if an early election is called.

  14. Re:Correct statement, wrong reasonig on Jason Bradbury Believes Coding Lessons In Schools Are a Waste of Time (trustedreviews.com) · · Score: 1

    Teaching game programming is a fun way to learn math and critical thinking.

  15. Penny Arcade on Apple Pay Has a Siri Problem (theverge.com) · · Score: 0

    Obligatory Penny Arcade comic.

  16. Re:Why conceal it? on Tiny Vermont Brings Food Industry To Its Knees On GMO Labels (ap.org) · · Score: 1

    It's true, GMO is much more controlled then cross-breeding. The results are more predicable when a well understood gene is added in a well understood way rather then randomly combining millions of genes and hoping to to get the result you want along with thousands of unknown side effects.

    (I wonder if my argument would be more persuasive if I used the one-two punch of swearing and alteration.)

  17. Re:And they wonder why I use an adblocker.... on Malvertising Campaign Hits MSN, NY Times, BBC, AOL · · Score: 1

    I think the grand parent is talking about how Google became the dominate online ad company, not how it became the dominate online search company.

    Those who two separate events, both important in making what Google is today.

  18. Re:Where's my UTF8? on The State of Slashdot: Https, Poll Changes, Auto-Refresh, Videos, and More · · Score: 4, Informative

    Look like subscriptions is still a thing, assuming you have an account.

  19. Re:How about a totally client-side adblocker? on YouTube Shows Adblock Plus Users an Error Message Instead of Ads · · Score: 1

    You'll still have to wait for the period of time to show the commercial, which is exactly what it happening now.

  20. Re:A disaster yes, but in perspective on Fukushima Cleanup, 5 Years On (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 0

    Even more people will die from the climate change caused by increased fossil fuel burning that is the result of the fear of nuclear energy that Fukushima caused.

  21. I like the Special Edition better. The Battle of Yavin at the end makes a lot more sense then the sometimes random collection of ships flying presented in the original. I'm not obsessed about whether Han shoots first.

  22. Software as Art on Auschwitz Museum Releases Software To Rewrite Holocaust Nomenclature (thestack.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I wouldn't view this as software with a functional purpose, but rather as a political and social commentary in the form of software, rather then a speech or a painting. It doesn't help you achieve a task, but it does make you think about the issues involved.

    It's a very interesting idea.

  23. Re:OpenBSD is the best replacement for Linux. on Red Hat, Google Disclose Severe Glibc DNS Vulnerability; Patched But Widespread · · Score: 1

    You can get a limited base system and control what is being installed by using Gentoo Linux, while gaining the benefits of all the things that support Linux.

  24. Re:The headline should read like this on Wired To Block Ad-Blocking Users, Offer Subscription (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    Most ad blockers lets you easily allow ads for specific sites. A lot of people may do this for Wired if they want to read it, although if the ads are too obnoxious many will quickly leave.

  25. A lot of these hackers are in Russia and other countries with $29,000 per year is a fair amount of money, plus they might also have other jobs.