Slashdot Mirror


User: jblues

jblues's activity in the archive.

Stories
0
Comments
331
First seen
Last seen
Profile
(view on slashdot.org)

Comments · 331

  1. Re: Minecraft Mods on Ask Slashdot: How To Introduce a 7-Year-Old To Programming? · · Score: 0, Troll

    >You fucking lie like a rug. Link to his code or its >total fucking bull you fucking liar asshole. The thirteen year old is more of a SlashDot kind of person.

  2. Re: Cool to hear I guess on GCC 5.0 To Support OpenMP 4.0, Intel Cilk Plus, C++14 · · Score: 1

    Perhaps you misread? I said only that GCC was an alternative and released under a different license. I'm sure there are pros and cons to each licensing model that warrant a deep discussion, but obviously neither precludes industry backing.

  3. Re:Cool to hear I guess on GCC 5.0 To Support OpenMP 4.0, Intel Cilk Plus, C++14 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Clang/LLVM receives finance and contribution (and therefore an element of control) from Apple. Its also BSD licensed. These are not bad things at all, but its great that GCC, which GNU licensed, is an alternative.

  4. Re: Good Luck with That on UK's Tories Promise To Enact Age Limits For Viewing Online Porn · · Score: 1

    Have you seen the Recaptcha system for authentication? Takes text that failed to scan during optical character recognition and presents it to a human, along with some known text. Besides authentication it expands humanity's (NSA's) digital library. Perhaps the same idea could be applied for age authentication on porn sites? Take sex sex acts and positions that are so strange that they failed to be digitally indexed by computer and present them to the humans? Correctly naming the position means age over 18, otherwise we stop right there thank you very much.

  5. Re: It's that damn cancer! on Microsoft Engineer: Open Source Windows Is 'Definitely Possible' · · Score: 1

    How dare they steal the name that OSX would be using 10 years later!

  6. Re: Coincidence? on Massive Power Outage Paralyzes Turkey · · Score: 1

    It's a common approach. There's always power outages here in the Philippines around election time.

  7. Re:Cause, or effect? on Poverty May Affect the Growth of Children's Brains · · Score: 2

    Its common for poor folks to suffer from ill health, including being overweight as a result of eating calorie dense but nutritionally poor foods. In the country where I live there's a huge wealth gap, with a proportion of the population being malnourished and another being overweight, and possible to fall into both categories. Its not always the case of course. My wife had a very poor upbringing - they had a dirt-floor kitchen, no refrigerator, wood-fired stove, and no running water (only hand pumped). Income trickled in just enough to cover daily food and kids' school fees (public school system not yet up to par in the country of origin). Yet their diet consisted only of whole agricultural foods and almost no processed food whatsoever. They'd have a variety of fare, depending on what was cheap/growing/available. I think farming in their community was pretty low-tech and compensated with cheap labor, so doesn't have a lot of pesticides and other contaminants. Furthermore she's happy to eat nutritionally dense foods like eyeballs, hearts, livers and intestines that are not considered appetizing in other cultures. Generally fish and vegetable based though. Anyway, I think despite poverty their nutrition was pretty good as far as I know.

  8. Re: Cut My COmputing eye teeth on the original on Rebuilding the PDP-8 With a Raspberry Pi · · Score: 1

    Grrrr - comment above supposed to be a reply to Camel Pilot's interesting point below (btw a fair point of view not sure why it was moderated down)

  9. Re: Cut My COmputing eye teeth on the original on Rebuilding the PDP-8 With a Raspberry Pi · · Score: 1

    Maybe an important discovery could be made in the process. I still appreciate classical music and play baroque trumpet - it lead me to some great discoveries about the mathematics of musical scales and possibilities in modern compositional music.

  10. Re:Common sense on Hacking Weight Loss: What I Learned Losing 30 Pounds · · Score: 1

    But the kind of processing is pretty low-tech. We're not talking gasoline induced sub-atomic ion exchange of Monsato People's-Gruel (R). Just the addition of an ingredient that will encourage the right kind of "live" bacteria, yeasts, moulds that are good for people. In fact fermentation is one of the oldest food processing techniques. Lacto fermentation is great, not just for dairy foods but for vegetables as well. In fact a (correctly) fermented cabbage is *more* nutritious than the original raw cabbage. I recently discovered "live" Kim-Chi (fermented cabbage) at the super market. Now I'm hyped to do my own home fermentation. I'm looking at something like Pickl-it jars, which should give predictable results and, since I don't need to do a whole winter's worth (I live in a tropical climate) will be more convenient on a modern schedule than burying buckets of cabbage. Apparently traditionally fermented vegetables go through a few stages (yeasts, aerobic bacteria, etc) before the anaerobic lacto-bacillus strains set in. This gives some good flavors, but is easy to mess up. Pickl-it jars apparently encourage going straight to the anaerobic lacto-baciluss stage.

  11. Re:Das Keyboard or Apple/Slim Keyboard on Ask Slashdot: Good Keyboard? · · Score: 1

    I love the look of the Apple keyboard but recently switched to a regular old-school one as I was getting RSI in my pinky fingers. The switch seems to have helped.

  12. Re: I'm So Sick of This on SXSW: Do Androids Dream of Being You? · · Score: 1

    "I think there would be a world market for maybe five human-mind-equivalents"

  13. Re:compression approach for video chats on Algorithm Clones Facial Expressions And Pastes Them Onto Other Faces · · Score: 1

    This approach was used in Vernor Vinge's 'A Fire Upon the Deep' published in 1992. In the book, bandwidth between faster than light network nodes is very limited, so an initial capture of the user is sent followed by facial expression data. . . its a pretty awesome book actually.

  14. you're doing it wrong on Ask Slashdot - Breaking Into Penetration Testing At 30 · · Score: 1

    You don't *break* into penetration testing. You jab, probe, insinuate, bore or stab into penetration testing.

  15. Re:Why not multiple dogs? on Dog Sniffs Out Cancer In Human Urine · · Score: 2

    You mean like a Beau-woof cluster?

  16. Re: Bad idea on Snowden Reportedly In Talks To Return To US To Face Trial · · Score: 1

    Perhaps try the south-east of Russia? Cities like Krasnodar are supposedly pleasant, with short mild winters and long hot summers.

  17. Re: Easy life on Research Suggests That Saunas Help You Live Longer · · Score: 1

    Jogging can help to build strong bones, as it is a weight bearing exercise, strengthen muscles (not just leg muscles, but core muscles too), improve cardiovascular fitness, burn plenty of kilojoules help maintain a healthy weight. Between jogging and nothing, for most people it will be beneficial. Its free, easy to schedule in and can be done almost anywhere. Add in some push-ups, pull ups and sit-ups and other body weight exercises for more free goodness. Also, I believe there's nothing too wrong with a low fat, high protein/carb diet as long as the protein and carb macro-nutrients are high quality (whole grains, unprocessed meats). This is also true for fats. The human body is very adaptable, but good with the unprocessed kinds prepared by nature and not Mr Corporation. I do agree: In the 70 and 80s is was thought that saturated fats caused problems like high cholesterol, with advice to stay away from things like eggs, beef, coconut oil. This now seems to be incorrect with new research the biggest problems come from processed hydrogenated oils like canola (these are found in almost all pre-prepared food from the supermarket, hence the importance of buying simple unprocessed ingredients and making things yourself. . In a modestly equipped, but modern kitchen its possible to within minutes produce palatable food that can be eaten on the run during a busy schedule).

  18. Re:Let me be the first... on Only Twice Have Nations Banned a Weapon Before It Was Used; They May Do It Again · · Score: 2

    Speak for yourself, I suffer from joke amnesia, you insensitive clod!

  19. Affiliated with ISIS? on Lizard Squad Hits Malaysia Airlines Website · · Score: 1

    I'm not familiar with this group. The Australian Murdoch press reported a few days ago that they're the official ISIS hacker group. Propaganda and/or fabrication to sell news?

  20. Primum scribee / first post on Interior of Burnt Herculaneum Scroll Read For First Time · · Score: 5, Funny

    The scrolls were found to contain long-winded, mostly irrational arguments regarding the contents of another (unseen) scroll. Each began with the phrase: 'primum scribe'

  21. Re: a better question on Why Run Linux On Macs? · · Score: 1

    Never had a problem with MacPorts. Maybe you're not holding it right.

  22. Re: a better question on Why Run Linux On Macs? · · Score: 1

    'L&C me' = 'like', damn autocorrect

  23. Re: a better question on Why Run Linux On Macs? · · Score: 1

    MacPorts solved this before HomeBrew (and nobody was driven to drink). HomeBrew is cute, but I don't L&C me their marketing angle that they were the first to get it right. With MacPorts you get a whole gnu system, built from source running in a sandboxed environment.

  24. Re:Big Pen1s! on To Avoid Detection, Terrorists Made Messages Seem Like Spam · · Score: 1

    Hello, you may not know me, but my name is Mohammed bin Saeed and I am being from Sudan. I have recently come into a large amount of bombs and ammunition, but I need your help! . . .

  25. Meanwhile in Manila . . . on Pope Francis: There Are Limits To Freedom of Expression · · Score: 1

    Meanwhile in Manila . . . street Children are being caged for the Pope's visit. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new... Doesn't really relate to freedom of speech comment, which I more or less agree with, but since we're discussing pope . . . Jesus H. Christ, living in the Philippines, it doesn't surprise me a bit.