Slashdot Mirror


User: RivenAleem

RivenAleem's activity in the archive.

Stories
0
Comments
2,069
First seen
Last seen
Profile
(view on slashdot.org)

Comments · 2,069

  1. Re:It's amazing she still has defenders on Assange: Wikileaks Will Publish 'Enough Evidence' To Indict Hillary Clinton (rt.com) · · Score: 1

    This is so indicative of the real problem in the US, the lack of proper healthcare and orthopaedic shoes. Everyone leans one way or another and nobody seems to maintain a good balance.

  2. Re:No One Else Uses This One. on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Create A Highly-Secure Password? (securitymagazine.com) · · Score: 1

    How can you tell which are upper and which are lower-case?

  3. Re:Password Generator on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Create A Highly-Secure Password? (securitymagazine.com) · · Score: 1

    Use a password Algorithm.

    Use the same PIN on every site
    Add in something unique to the site
    Add in some junk letters or a word

    So slashdot could be: 12345/.story
    while gmail could be 12345gmailstory

    So as long as you remember your method for generating passwords, and the part that's unique to the site, then you can have unique passwords for everything. On the plus side, you can then simply write down the site specific part of your password on postits to your hearts content, since it is only part of the password.

    The problem about passwords are whether they are 5$ wrench secure...

  4. Re:aren't there airports in switzerland? on World's Longest, Deepest Rail Tunnel Opens In Switzerland (latimes.com) · · Score: 2

    [Gasps and heavy breathing echo in the chambers of commerce.]

    Merkel: "We now have but one choice."

    [Light appears from Merkel's staff, showing the startled and frightened faces of the EU Councillors.]

    Merkel: "We must face the long dark of Swiss Alps. Be on your guard. There are older and fouler things than Italians, in the deep places of the world."

    Merkel: "Quietly now. It's a 30-minute journey to the other side. Let us hope that our presence may go unnoticed."

    [Time passes. The EU Council enters a great cavern.]

    [Merkel rests her hand upon a rock with a dark, silver veins running through it.]

    Merkel: "The wealth of Switzerland was not in gold or jewels"

    [The Chancellor tilts her staff down towards a clock.]

    Merkel: "but Time."

  5. Re:who doesn't like hyperbole? on India Records Its Hottest Day Ever As Temperature Hits 51C (123.8F) (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Surely that's an increase by a factor of 10?!

  6. Ask it about it's mother.

  7. Re:Very niche product. on Transparent Displays Are Here, But They're Pretty Useless · · Score: 1

    I was very disappointed to find nobody had mentioned Peril Sensitive Glasses.

  8. Do Android Ns Daydream of Electric Sheep?

  9. 30,000 more drivers a year. on Will Self-Driving Cars Clog Our Highways? (go.com) · · Score: 1

    They also forget to mention the additional 30,000 people on the roads each year, due to not having died to road accidents.

  10. Re:Perhaps... on Iran Is Arresting Models Who Pose Without Headscarves On Instagram (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Fringes are also banned/have to be covered up.

  11. Re:Wha' happen!? To the NASA story? on Slashdot Asks: How Long Before Self-Driving Cars Become Mainstream? · · Score: 1

    If it was a reasonable request, I probably would. I would consider my situation first. Am I being chased by Bees? Then no. Am I on or at risk of being on fire? Then yes.

    If we have a situation where we actually have a duplicate story, and all the comments are "Hey you have a duplicate story, pull it" then how would pulling it be wrong?

  12. Re:Another case of bullshit government overreach on Government Spy Truck Is Disguised As A Google Street View Car (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    A bald patch probably.

  13. Re:Wha' happen!? To the NASA story? on Slashdot Asks: How Long Before Self-Driving Cars Become Mainstream? · · Score: 1

    What if all the comments are just "Hey, this is a dupe, pull it"?

  14. So hitching and ditching are both illegal? Seriously, WTF NK!?

  15. Re:One single question on Intel Wants To Eliminate The Headphone Jack And Replace It With USB-C (9to5mac.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The times are not nearly as few as you think. Anyone who listens to music at their desk at work, will almost always have the phone plugged in to charge at the same time.

  16. I get that, but given how everything accelerates towards a black hole, with things further away accelerating slower, then it is not unreasonable to assume that it continues behind the event horizon, given that the event horizon is only the point at which light cannot escape, and not as such a physical barrier. Beyond the event horizon, everything is still accelerating, but even faster than outside it, until...

    However, if things are still accelerating thus they are breaking the lightspeed barrier and all bets are off.

  17. The Doppler shift of the universe shows us that the extremities are accelerating away faster than tings at the core. If the universe was contained in a black hole, then everything would be doppler shifted in reverse, with everything accelerating towards the centre.

  18. Re:Be Careful What You Wish For on Slashdot Asks: What's Your View On Speed Reading? · · Score: 1

    I wonder, then, would software meant for speed reading, like Spritz, actually benefit you, because it feeds you the words.

  19. There's a reason some call it "Eye Porn". Those things are never really lauded for their story either.

  20. Re:Hilarious on NASA Feed 'Goes Down As Horseshoe UFO Appears On ISS Live Cam' (mirror.co.uk) · · Score: 2, Funny

    This is exactly the kind of misdirecting post someone at NASA would think up to deflect our attention from what they are REALLY trying to hide. How do you explain that the feed DID actually drop out after the reflection showed up?

    What if, the reflection, and the loss of feed are BOTH fabricated to distract us from something even bigger?

  21. Re: tech ain't bad on James Cameron Announces Four Sequels to 'Avatar' (egyptindependent.com) · · Score: 1

    The Cycle of Fire trilogy by Janny Wurts is great for this. A mystical island is creating Wizards to fight the "demons". Turns out its advanced tech left on a planet with Alien POWs and Humans trying to create a human with superpowers to fight an interstellar war.

    Is awesome.

  22. True, they shouldn't contain every piece of information, however, they should endeavor to contain The Most Important Piece.

  23. Re:Only Biologic drugs will be not patented on UK Pharma Giant GSK Won't Patent Its Drugs in Poorer Countries · · Score: 1

    Many people know that a large part of the high cost of meds is the recovery of the R&D cost, however, many of the large molecules and inherently expensive to make too, and even "stolen" will be super expensive to the end user. So the poorer countries will just not be able to sell them in any large quantities anyway.

  24. I wonder how many of these tax avoidance schemes were done on a computer. I wonder that if the level of spying that the government wants would have found this without the leak... I wonder if a different standard of spying would be applied to regular people as opposed to the rich and those in government.

  25. The Book "Fallen Dragon" by Peter F. Hamilton has a great scene where the protagonist is mislead into eating organic beef. Society had developed to eating synthetic meat to the point that he was so repulsed when he found out that we was actually sick. I may be paraphrasing as I can't find a quote online handy, but he said, horrified "You fed me meat from a dead animal?!"