Slashdot Mirror


User: Black+Parrot

Black+Parrot's activity in the archive.

Stories
0
Comments
13,037
First seen
Last seen
Profile
(view on slashdot.org)

Comments · 13,037

  1. Re:No return trips? on Elon Musk Proposes Spaceship That Can Send 100 People To Mars In 80 Days (theverge.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    No need for return trips when all the passengers are killed by radiation on the flight out.

  2. But Kermit is still OK on Anti-Defamation League Declares Pepe the Frog a Hate Symbol (time.com) · · Score: 2

    so long as he doesn't fat-shame Ms. Piggy.

  3. Re:no "Russian Hackers", that's B.S. on FBI Investigating Possible Hack of Democratic Party Staffer Cell Phones (cnn.com) · · Score: 2

    Pootsky doesn't like Hil'ry because she publicly questioned the legitimacy of his election.

  4. Re:Still off Windows 10 on Windows 10 Now On 400 Million Active Devices, Says Microsoft (thurrott.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    Thank god! (and I'm not even religious!)

    Everyone is religious when it comes to operating systems.

  5. Re:hal on Scientists Study How Non-Scientists Deny Climate Change (theguardian.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Tell us more about the "(literally) trillions of dollars driving" the GW scam.

  6. Re:No they aren't denying it on Scientists Study How Non-Scientists Deny Climate Change (theguardian.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Climate Change is not a religious issue for those who "deny" it. (The other side, arguably yes...) You're confusing it with Evolution.

    But interestingly, the "reasoning" and rhetoric of global warming denial is almost identical to that of evolution denial.

    E.g., both promote the notion that they are up against a global conspiracy of scientists.

  7. Re:And how did this help Justina? on Anonymous Hacker Explains His Attack On Boston Children's Hospital (huffingtonpost.com) · · Score: 2

    Did you know she even existed yesterday?

    No, but his actions didn't bring me any closer to knowing the unbiased facts about her case. Knowing about her only means I know about yet another unresolved problem.

    The only thing publicizing his statement did was ensure that lots of underinformed+unqualified people now hold a strong opinion on it. Depending on the facts, that could hurt her more than it helps her.

  8. How can we condemn the "last resort" actions of any individual trying to bring about just and proper changes?

    Where do we draw the line?

    Deciding to take action because you believe -- rightly or wrongly -- that there's an ongoing injustice that no one else is going to fix, is the recipe for terrorism, without regard to ideology.

    A line needs to be drawn somewhere. I doubt that it's possible to create a society where no one ever gets screwed (even to death), but it would be far worse if we didn't try to draw a line and enforce it.

    IMO.

  9. Of course we should clone them! on Oldest-Ever Proteins Extracted From 3.8-Million-Year-Old Ostrich Shells (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 3, Funny

    We'll need dinosaurs to help us fight our robots when they decide to subjugate us.

    p.s. - I got dibs on the movie rights.

  10. Re:Lets hope its better than the last few series on 28 Years A Smeghead: Red Dwarf Is Coming Back (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    It's a controversial opinion, but while I thought season 7 was mostly terrible, I actually liked where they went with the last season and actually hold it up as a rare example of a show managing to breath new life into something that's gone stale by introducing a major plot development near the end.

    Nothing beats the scene of Kat trying to get sent to the hospital.

  11. This is just a ploy to further reduce banking regulations. Who needs regulations when this shit is all just a computer simulation anyway?

    They're getting you used to the idea that there's only a 50% chance they'll have your money when you need it.

  12. Re:Russia would have nada If the US system was hon on US Investigating Potential Covert Russian Plan To Disrupt November Elections (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    The current 2 party duopoly is a corrupt manipulative mess [...].

    The parliamentary system sounds much fairer, but is more subject to letting radicals get total control of a country.

    Both Hillary and Trump are AWFUL candidates.

    Hillary is only AWFUL if you believe all the right-wing smears. I've actually come to think more highly of her after following all the bogus scandal stories we're being fed.

    People on the left generally wish she was more liberal. Bernie's views matched mine better than hers do, but there's about a negative chance that he would get a congress that would let him pursue his agenda. (Even centrist Hillary probably won't.) Also, Bernie showed several times that he's too hot-headed for the job.

  13. Re:So then Hillary is the warmonger on US Investigating Potential Covert Russian Plan To Disrupt November Elections (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Trump is working for Trump and is not going to work for either the Russians or the American people.

    I almost feel sorry for all those social conservatives who say they're voting for him due to the all-important supreme court nominations. As if he actually cares about their agenda.

  14. Re:Why bother? The overt stuff is bad enough on US Investigating Potential Covert Russian Plan To Disrupt November Elections (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Also Trump himself is already going on about how the election will be rigged - he's deliberately sowing distrust in the election.

    What's funny is that he has also said the primaries were rigged. Where does that leave his nomination?

    Frankly I don't think he's "sowing" anything - he's just saying whatever crackpot idea crosses his mind while he's talking.

  15. Re:Wrong on World's Oldest Fossils Found In Greenland (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Right. Levinthals paradox makes the Earths age a DONTCARE. Order-of proton life-time to form one amuzing polypeptide. Since life can't happen at all, it can only happen once.

    Actually it's about folding into a specific configuration rather than "forming". Also it assumes no mechanism other than chance, which is where lots of these arguments go astray.

  16. Getting past all the jokes

    It's probably just an alien Weiner broadcast.

    (Sorry, there's no getting past the jokes on Slashdot.)

  17. The real news here on Tesla To Further Restrict Its Autopilot Software To Prevent Accidents (electrek.co) · · Score: 1

    is that the Tesla will be running a v8.

  18. Re:Maybe, maybe not on Early Human Ancestor Lucy 'Died Falling Out of a Tree' (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah, "a crushed shoulder joint ... as well as fractures of the ankle, leg bones, pelvis, ribs, vertebrae, arm, jaw and skull" is a long list for a fall. Sounds more like she got run over by a truck.

    Unless maybe she was 100' up the tree, and hit a lot of branches on the way down.

  19. Whatever else needs to be said, on Facebook Removes Fake Article About Megyn Kelly From Trending Topics (theverge.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    You've got to admit that the internet makes election years way less stuffy than they used to be.

  20. Re:Is he going for irony, here? on How Security Experts Are Protecting Their Own Data (siliconvalley.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Yes.

    I think my Linux is more secure than my Windows, but honestly it only takes one exploit.

    If the spooks or large organized crime want in, they're in. Small fry *may* be kept out by best practices, but I wouldn't bet on it.

    Anything secret shouldn't be on a computer, let alone a computer on the internet. But then there's the eternal trade-off between security and convenience.

  21. "a software" ? on Google Tests A Software That Judges Hollywood's Portrayal of Women · · Score: 1

    How many softwares do you have?

  22. What's missing from this discussion is any indication of what percentage of the refund-requesters actually put 50 hours into it.

  23. Re:Won't be uncommon in 70 years on 'Longest Living Human' Says He Is Ready For Death At 145 (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    For it to be not-uncommon in 70 years, a lot of 76 year olds now living will have to still be alive then.

  24. Re:recorded history on 'Longest Living Human' Says He Is Ready For Death At 145 (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Interesting fact (IIRC), if he lived to 969 then he died in the year of the flood.

  25. No, let's all sing on Linus on Linux's 25th Birthday (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    "DMCA Takedown Notice".