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. Alphabet soup on FAA Moves Toward Treating Drones and Planes As Equals (hackaday.com) · · Score: 1

    So, new SOPs on DOAs from the FAA?

  2. Re:irresponsible youths and their toys on FAA Moves Toward Treating Drones and Planes As Equals (hackaday.com) · · Score: 1

    Sure, birdshot falling down from the sky isn't going to hurt anyone but once every nitwit runs out and starts to shoot down drones there is a much larger risk that you will get hit in the eye.

    Not every problem needs to be solved with guns.

    No, I think this one needs lasers. Heavy powered type shit that'll melt a hole through the plastic in two seconds flat.

  3. More just working on Apple Releases iOS 12.0.1 With Fixes For Wi-Fi 2.4GHz Bug, Lightning Charging Issue (macrumors.com) · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    More just working, the extra care and attention apple put in really is worth the premium, right, right....right?

  4. Re:maybe they didn't get it due to data breach? on Google Drops Out of Pentagon's $10 Billion Cloud Competition (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    They announce they "choose" not to compete for this contract right at the same time they shutdown Google+ due to massive data breach. Related? I think so.

    Yes, that must have affected dozens of people.

  5. For ten billion on Google Drops Out of Pentagon's $10 Billion Cloud Competition (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    For $10billion how much of a cloud system could you build for yourself. Also, ten billion? Where the fuck do they come up with these numbers?

  6. Re:Billion dollars? on UK High Court Blocks Billion-Dollar Privacy Lawsuit Against Google (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Google collected data on them, and used that data to display ads.

    So they saw ads for things that matched their interests, rather than ads for things that did not match their interests.

    It is hard to see how that was damaging.

    I think they were just trying to get started on saving for next years "new" model.

  7. It just works...mostly

  8. Re:15 GB in month? on Canadian Music Group Proposes 'Copyright Tax' On Internet Use (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    So what am I saying? Netflix stream, perfectly legal, can exceed 10 GB/day without trouble.

    That's their point. They don't think netflix et al are paying them enough so they want everyone using the internet to cough up what they think should be the difference. You can go way past 15gb a month without even touching any streaming services quite easily these days.

  9. I thought it was the broken government's attempt to get Canadians to stop endlessly watching mockery videos of their idiotic PM.

    Like that one of him walking up the steps of his jet with toilet paper hanging off his show? What a knob!

  10. By "streaming" spotify, netflix, youtube, whatnot, all the "dues" are already paid for you greedy fucking dinosaurs.

    Yes, but they want more dues. All the dues that could be due.

  11. I don't want a self flying car on Boeing CEO: First Operational Self-Flying Cars Are Less Than 5 Years Out (geekwire.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    I don't want a self flying car, I want to fly that fucker myself, and if it could be the shape of a spitfire that would just be tops.

  12. Re:My New Font Is Called Ophidian Lubrica on Researchers Create 'Sans Forgetica,' a Memory-Boosting Font (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    I think the White House should choose a different font from those so-called news organizations: Alternativ Factica.

    I would honestly be surprised if they weren't using comic sans at this point.

  13. Re:My New Font Is Called Ophidian Lubrica on Researchers Create 'Sans Forgetica,' a Memory-Boosting Font (cnn.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    Mine is called Fake Newsica. It's the new font for CNN and the failing New York Times.

    Also good for white house press releases.

  14. Re: You'l never forget a Clinton Genocide on Researchers Create 'Sans Forgetica,' a Memory-Boosting Font (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Not as much as Trump has laundered of Russian oligarch money to suppress the pee tape.

    Probably not even as much as he's spent playing golf.

  15. So with the film canon then, why does Leia deserve her position and what has she done? A new hope is still canon by the way and there were different levels of stuff in the EU some was canon some was semi and some was not, it really depended on the source.

  16. Re:What a stupid question on Ask Slashdot: Why Does Almost Nothing Come With a Proper Printed Manual Anymore? · · Score: 1

    >Who's the retard now AC?

    It appears that you are, and I'm not that AC. You can't expect national or international businesses to cater to people who are so far from civilization that they can't browse a manual online, except maybe with farm equipment.

    Because everyone always has an always on connection?

  17. through the expanded universe

    I stopped reading right there

    You might as well, disney deleted it all so they could retell the stories in the laziest way possible.

  18. Fuck off, Rogue One took a massive shit on Leia's legacy and made the opening of a new hope a joke.

    What the actual fuck? Can you please explain that one.

    Love to.

    Because Leia's main big thing was building the rebels death star understanding through the expanded universe. They first learn of it in the force unleashed (with the original starkiller whos family crest became the rebel alliance emblem) then over the course of years they built up their copy of the plans by multiple missions, raids and operations all orchestrated chiefly by Leia. The empire knew of the potential and didn't keep all the plans in one place, the people building the engines had the plans for that, the weapons only knew the weapons and so on. There was no one place or group that had the whole picture. Look up operation skyhook. Anyway, rogue one wiped all that out and just had the plans neatly handed over on a platter with relatively little fuss. Leia's contribution is now essentially a courier.

    As for the start of A New Hope the whole I'm a diplomat on a peaceful mission line should be followed by vader saying 'Bullshit! We just watched your little ship coming out of that big one that just attacked that base that we blew the fuck up'

    That's not to mention The Last Jedi making the whole thing fucking pointless because they should've just rammed a few x-wings at hyperspeed into it because that's now an established legit tactic, but that's a different rant.

  19. I notice you didn't throw specific criticism at Rogue One. I agree with you that Disney doesn't understand Star Wars, but I liked Rogue One anyway. It almost felt like Disney accidentally made a good one.

    Fuck off, Rogue One took a massive shit on Leia's legacy and made the opening of a new hope a joke. But like the other recent star wars films it looked and sounded the business while being very thin on substance.

  20. It had a negative buzz because it was shit. Poorly written nonsensical bollocks.

  21. £117 seems too low. Columbia University says 4.5% of income goes to UK Government healthcare. That's 2600 pounds per month and 31,200 per year. That's really all you earn?

    - My income is 140,000 dollars, so I'd be paying $6300 per year for UK Government healthcare. In contrast my PRIVATE insurance is much less.(about half)

    I'll stick with private

    Thanks :-)

    Pfft. I wish I got that much. Wages are really shit here but the cost of living isn't as bad so it levels out a bit but its still shitty. Anyway, it's good that your sorted out but still, even though your premiums may turn out less at the top end (isn't it curious the more people earn the less they are willing to pay in?) what kind of bills are you going to come out with should you need to use it?

  22. I'd be surprised if your insurance cost was only £117 and there aren't additional income from your taxes paid.

    That's why it's called National Insurance and it goes a long way when literally every tax payer is paying in but I honestly wouldn't know how much if any additional tax money goes into it. It's true the current government are doing everything they can to erode and privatise the whole show but even with all that it's still going strong enough to do its job.

  23. Well if you're going to be like that my last National Insurance payment was £117 (If I was unemployed it would be 0 and I would still be covered for exactly the same). What's your premium? Do you have a deductible, co-pay or any of that shit? After your premiums how much would it cost you to have a baby? 5k? 10? It obviously has to be paid for, nothing is free free. But there was no bill, no after the facts payment schedule, no fighting over if anything is covered. Job or no I can walk into a hospital tomorrow with anything from a cold to cancer and be sorted out no questions asked about my ability to pay. Any worries about getting ill are to the fact of getting ill, nothing more.

    Come on though, hit me with how the US system is the best ever and nothing else is worth considering. This'll be good.

  24. It said in "the world" not in "America".

    Most Americans can't distinguish between the two.

  25. Sure they are living paycheck to paycheck, but perhaps that's because they are paying the credit card bill for the 65" flat screen TV they spend all their time watching, or the loan payments & gas for the SUV or pickup truck they drive around that gets only 12 MPG? Hint: that is all discretionary spending. If you're living paycheck to paycheck because you chose to spend all your money, that doesn't make you poor.

    So what you're saying is EVERY job pays an excess of what someone needs and the ONLY reason they might not be able to get by is because they can't control spending? Are you seriously that fucking detached from reality? I bet you think all unemployed people are just lazy too don't you?