Slashdot Mirror


User: stealth_finger

stealth_finger's activity in the archive.

Stories
0
Comments
4,520
First seen
Last seen
Profile
(view on slashdot.org)

Comments · 4,520

  1. Re:Sounds like bullshit to me. on Peter Thiel Is Interested In Harvesting The Blood Of The Young (gawker.com) · · Score: 1

    Disclaimer: I have "baby blood", meaning I am CMV negative, so instead of receiving blood from the young, I donate to babies. A pint every 8 weeks, totalling to 10 gallons so far, and I have a t-shirt from the Red Cross to prove it.

    Why don't you sell it to this guy? Baby blood? He'll fucking love it and probably pay a lot more than some crummy t-shirt!

  2. Re:But they pay more to the EU than they get back. on Britain's Scientists Are 'Freaking Out' Over Brexit (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    As a whole, the country paid more than it got back.

    Still waiting for the gov to say anything about using that money to fund what is going to lose funding, and what might be done with the rest. Of course, after the result everyone just kinda shut up about that. I guess they've already committed a bunch of it away to their private interests. I mean we can fund trident in the aftermath but not bursaries for nurses and midwifes, who now aren't going to be coming in from the EU or from outside because they don't earn £35k/annum (Thanks to May for that one). So we can kill millions in a revenge attack that will never happen while fucking the NHS even harder. God damn mother fucking tories! All as a result from Scameron trying to score a few political points. Don't worry about him though, he's a multi millionaire and will be just fine in this shit show he got us in to.

  3. Re:They should be fined for acting like babies on Cable Companies Urge Judges To Kill 'Net Neutrality' Rules · · Score: 1

    Prices have nothing to do with net neutrality,

    Prices have everything to do with it. Cable Co. want rid of it so they can apply premiums, multiple rates and generally charge you more for everything. Everyone else wants it so they can pay for the internet and get the internet.

    I have proper internet service.

    You won't if net neutrality is gone, unless you want to get your wallet out again that is.

  4. Re:They should be fined for acting like babies on Cable Companies Urge Judges To Kill 'Net Neutrality' Rules · · Score: 1

    There is no end to your hatred of the cable companies and no end to the means you will go to to destroy them, is there?

    I'm not American so don't have to deal with them but from the impression I get isn't that what they do to you?

  5. Re:Fucking Misogynists on Chased Off of YouTube, Leaked 'No Man's Sky' Footage Runs to Pornhub (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Can we not just say No Person's Sky and be done with it?

  6. Re:Don't care, not my card, card issuer's problems on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Keep Your Credit Card Secure? · · Score: 1

    What that a debit card or a credit card? Had you given the card number to Travelocity?

    They did NOT have my permission to sign me up to any paid marketing subscription for $19/month (which is what they did).

    Wait, they want to charge you $19 for the privilege of advertising to you?

  7. Re: Easy on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Keep Your Credit Card Secure? · · Score: 1

    Cars are used to control people. you don't see it until you stop and get out for good. Then you see the rest of the world too.

    Yeah, you see the rest of world in a very small radius.

  8. Re:Works of art or entertainment on Chased Off of YouTube, Leaked 'No Man's Sky' Footage Runs to Pornhub (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    counter counter counter, watch it a third time. Once you know its secrets and you've had the second perspective it's pretty meh.

  9. Re:A thoroughly ridiculous concept on UK Judge Calls For An Online Court Without Lawyers To Cut Costs · · Score: 1

    Not a south park fan I take it.

  10. Re: Nope on The Chip Card Transition In the US Has Been a Disaster (qz.com) · · Score: 2

    Or you can put you wallet back in your pocket. I assume in your original routine you still get your wallet out again to put the cash in?

  11. Re:A thoroughly ridiculous concept on UK Judge Calls For An Online Court Without Lawyers To Cut Costs · · Score: 1

    And where pray, is this Montreal?

  12. Re:First case on UK Judge Calls For An Online Court Without Lawyers To Cut Costs · · Score: 1

    We already have that, busy arbitrating dick tattoos https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

  13. Re:Sharia courts on UK Judge Calls For An Online Court Without Lawyers To Cut Costs · · Score: 1

    (Protip: There are no sharia courts in the UK, there never have been,

    Well, there are a bit. Nothing even approaching any kind of official or even legal status. Just like in NI there are still alphabet gangs metering out their own justice doing peoples knees in.

  14. Re:A thoroughly ridiculous concept on UK Judge Calls For An Online Court Without Lawyers To Cut Costs · · Score: 1

    One guy pretended to be a lawyer for two years, representing clients, arguing cases, etc., before he was caught. When he had served his time, he went right back to it..

    Did you see that on TV, because that might've been suits.

  15. Re:dark patterns huh? on Dark Patterns Across the Web Are Designed To Trick You · · Score: 2

    I've seen a ton of sites do that. Makes the advertisers happy, but pisses off everyone else.

    Which should hardly be surprising given that the sites don't run for free, and their income comes from advertisers because most web users will give up almost any amount of time, quality, and information, to avoid actually paying for websites.

    What do you propose, have your card details on file with every website you visit to pay pence per page view? subscriptions to each site?

    A) No
    and
    B) Hell fucking no!

    They can appease the advertisers all they want but they drive people off their content.

  16. I was with you until you took a left turn into sheer fantasy. The most compelling stories are about humans (or analogies), after all, so I have a hard time believing we'll be discarding the human element entirely from story-driven entertainment.

    Only until computers are also the target audience and all the shows are about how they killed all humans.

  17. So you don't watch Walking Dead because there exists news? That's the dumbest argument I've ever heard.

    I stopped watching the walking dead because it was boring as fuck and nothing ever happened

  18. Re:BS "most popualar" on The Most Popular Product Of All Time · · Score: 1

    Maybe, maybe not. Ios and iPhone are interchangeable, you can't have one without the other. The same can't be said for android and any specific phone. Well it kinda can because you can't get a galaxy or nexus or whatever without android but you know what i mean.

  19. Re:BS "most popualar" on The Most Popular Product Of All Time · · Score: 1

    The iPhone is a special case because they make the software, they make the hardware and they won't let anyone else. Not that there's anything particularly wrong with that. If google did the same, only made the galaxy line and didn't licence android out to whoever wants to make an android phone the market would probably be very different. Essentially you choose ios or a droid. If it's ios you get an iPhone if android you're spoiled for choice.

  20. Re:BS "most popualar" on The Most Popular Product Of All Time · · Score: 1

    Not really, an android phone is equal in scope to an iphone. That one company makes all the different versions of iphone and wont let anyone else make anything i... is irrelevant.

    Would you compare all burgers sold by Burger King against the McDonald's Big Mac in a comparison. That's essentially what you're doing.

    No, I wouldn't but that's essentially what they're doing. I get that they may well have sold more of the overall iphone line than say samsung have sold of the galaxy line or possibly even phones but the iphone is a special case. The modern smart phone market is basically ios vs android. the iphone is the only ios device, there are probably a million different makes of an android phone but there are more phones with android on them than ios but more idevices than any brand of android device. It's a shit comparison to start with and started as apples/oranges. Thanks for the toyota clarification though.

  21. Genericproduct on The Most Popular Product Of All Time · · Score: 1

    I wonder how many iphones have been sold vs those basic casio watches that are fucking everywhere!

  22. Re:BS "most popualar" on The Most Popular Product Of All Time · · Score: 1

    If they are counting all models of iPhone as one, they should count all Android phones as one too. In which case the iPhone is small fry - last year Android was estimated to have 1.4 billion active users.

    All Android phones from different manufacturers? That's like saying if the most popular car is the Toyota Camry, then all American cars are more popular. Apple and oranges.

    Not really, an android phone is equal in scope to an iphone. That one company makes all the different versions of iphone and wont let anyone else make anything i... is irrelevant.

    Also, I'm not a car guy but aren't toyotas Japanese? But in that example it'd be like saying the motorbike is the best selling transport when compared against fords, nissans etc

  23. Re:If a cigarette doesn't "smoke", is it harmful? on E-Cigarettes Emit Toxic Vapors, Says Study (upi.com) · · Score: 0

    I am always amazed by the people "smoking" e-cigarettes in places where smoking is not allowed. I've seen people use them in restaurants where smoking is prohibited, inside a school, and I even saw someone use one on an airplane.

    Just because it doesn't create smoke like a conventional cigarette doesn't mean that the vapors and your exhalations aren't harmful. Stop using them in places where smoking is banned. Thank you.

    I know what you mean, I hate it when people drink juice in places alcohol is banned!

  24. Re:Always question a study... on E-Cigarettes Emit Toxic Vapors, Says Study (upi.com) · · Score: 1

    And we've all seen people exhale big clouds of vapor, right?

    People do that all the time when it's cold, warm breath + cold air = water vapor. Does that on it's own mean something's bad? Are you instantly aware the composition and conditions of a vapor on sight?

  25. Re:So in other words... on E-Cigarettes Emit Toxic Vapors, Says Study (upi.com) · · Score: 1

    The same with my mandated health insurance tax. If smokers and vapers want to ignore the scientific evidence of how harmful both items are to their health that is their right but again, I shouldn't, nor should the government, have to pay for their medical bills. Fair enough?

    I sure hope you don't put alcohol, or too much/little salt/sugar/fat or any of the other shitload of things that are known to have negative affects on you into yourself. I suppose that whatever happens to you is all completely natural and non-fault on your own part? You wouldn't want your fuckups, like say a injury while you're off having fun, affecting other people's premiums would you?

    As an aside can you explain why you feel good health is something you should have to pay for (regardless of the cause) and if you can't might as well be left to die in a gutter?