Slashdot Mirror


User: queBurro

queBurro's activity in the archive.

Stories
0
Comments
223
First seen
Last seen
Profile
(view on slashdot.org)

Comments · 223

  1. yup, how about a nice game of chess?

  2. Re:Surprising? Not so much. on For The UK's 'Snoopers' Charter', Politicians Voted Themselves An Exemption (independent.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Yup. An ex PM is implicated. It goes right to the top.

  3. Here you go: "Michigan is about to sell 100M gallons of groundwater to Nestlé for $200" per year...
    https://actions.sumofus.org/a/...

  4. isn't this still a thing?
    and... cutting sugar from chocolate smacks a bit of when Thatcher worked out how to introduce air to ice cream.

  5. Re:let's be honest here on FDA Approves Large Clinical Trial For Ecstasy As Relief For PTSD Patients (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    All in all I agree with you but... E's straight to heroin, I don't see happening for the reason you state. What about E's (dancing at a party drug) to ketamine (sitting at a party, not saying much drug) to heroin (sitting at home, not saying much drug)? it's the prohibition that causes the possible gateway. We need evidence based policies on things and we shouldn't be pandering to Daily Mail reading types who just spout out what some sociopathic lord, with shares in the alcohol industry, wants.

  6. It has sunk about 16 inches...

    errr, how many billion dollah landers are you going to smash into Mars before you start using the metric system? this is ridiculous.

  7. Re:what about security? on More Performers Are Demanding Audiences Lock Up Their Phones (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    maybe not so much the taking of the actual-call as the standing up and leaving the theatre bit. i.e. Someone being sensitive of their environment but still realising that "it's only a film".

  8. Re:what about security? on More Performers Are Demanding Audiences Lock Up Their Phones (nytimes.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    and like on-call Doctors who couldn't care less if they're ruining the end of "Star Wars" for you because they have to go and err you know? save-a-life.

  9. If I've understood it correctly, the US gov has handed over IANA as well as DNS to ICANN. So ICANN is now responsible for your ISP getting assigned an IP address range which they can assign out to e.g. piratebay http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...

  10. Re:Translation: The H-1Bs are coming... on Microsoft President Brad Smith: Computer Science Is Space Race of Today · · Score: 2

    I think, but don't quota me on this, that there's a possibility of more foreign students in a university than nationals due to the university earning more money from the foreign students.It's nothing to do with affirmative action.

  11. Re:I hope it can help Slashdot users on Google To Offer Better Medical Advice When You Search Your Symptoms (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Wrong TLA? That should be: "can I get RSI from masturbating?"

  12. It's trickier than that in the UK. Demand for housing, even rental housing, currently outstrips supply in much of the country (certainly in the parts with major economic activity where people want to live). Our planning system mostly dates from the late 1960s and was designed to limit urban sprawl. That's getting very painful in light of the population growth we've seen over the last two decades, but the system has a powerful NIMBY lobby that defends it from any attempts at reform...

    That's not true anymore and hasn't been since about 2010 when the last coalition government introduced the concept of "localism" whereby locals, rather than planning officers, had the power to grant or stop new developments. In practice, this meant that a bunch of OAPs on the parish council were pitted against speculative developers' legal teams and has resulted in a massive increase in new housing development. But, this development is not the "cheap" housing that's arguably required for people to get on the property ladder, but "high profit" housing that makes these private development companies the most money. Obviously they want to make as much money as possible. They 'are' required to build a percentage of "affordable" housing, but this is defined as housing with a cost of less than 80% of the other (high price/profit) properties in the development. The result being that the poor can't 'afford' affordable housing.

  13. Re:Why do people still use Facebook? on Huge Vulnerabilities In Facebook Chat and Messenger Exploitable With Basic HTML (helpnetsecurity.com) · · Score: 2

    basically, it's pubsub for pics of cats and a big kevin-bacon-esque address book of people who want to be found by people they once knew.

  14. Re:Slow them with real traffic on Weary Homeowners Wage War On Waze · · Score: 1

    I think you got wooshed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  15. law of diminishing returns on Elon Musk: 'One In Billions' Chance We're Not Living In A Computer Simulation (vox.com) · · Score: 1

    law of diminishing returns, 80:20 rule etc. 20,000 years from now it'll still be glitchy and we'll still be moaning about pings

  16. updates up front on Ask Slashdot: Would You Recommend Updating To Windows 10? · · Score: 1

    it's the being forced to run updates before you can get on with whatever you wanted to do aspect of win10 that I don't like. I only fire my home laptop up once a week, which means there's always a few minutes worth of HDD and CPU activity before it calms down and lets me do what I want to do.

  17. I've got a build server that drops automatically named builds to a share. Automatically naming things with yyyyMMddHHmmss in the already quite convoluted descriptive title.

  18. simple proof on Computer Generates Largest Math Proof Ever At 200TB of Data (phys.org) · · Score: 2

    I've got a simple proof of this but it's slightly too large for this comment box. I'll post it laterrrrrrrrrrrrr...

  19. Re:What on The Pirate Bay Sails Back To Its .ORG Domain (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    ... if they just hand a wrench to a co-conspirator in a murder case..

    maybe it's more like: "where can I buy some weed?" pirate bay: "ask that guy in the corner"

  20. that's the only notable thing about this slashvertisment?

  21. they've not actually stolen anything have they? they've created a new work of art, that just happens to be junk.

  22. up to the minute backups? or nightly / weekly? how much data are we happy to lose here in a hospital? e.g. Mr Jones has had his chemo on Monday, but the db says he hasn't!

  23. dropping many balls through a triangle of pins and watching them fall into a bell-curve pattern. Called a "galton machine" apparently https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

  24. BUFF on B-52s: The Plane That Refuses To Die · · Score: 5, Informative

    Shirley, that'd be Big Ugly Fat Fucker. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  25. geohot vs ooxml on Ask Slashdot: Xbox One Or PlayStation 4? · · Score: 1

    sony-boycott here due to numerous problems but since you mention linux I'll e.g. "otherOS", thus it's got to be the (rrod...) xbox.