Slashdot Mirror


User: eclectro

eclectro's activity in the archive.

Stories
0
Comments
2,858
First seen
Last seen
Profile
(view on slashdot.org)

Comments · 2,858

  1. We can now jailbreak the laptop, and install our own open-souce, secure boot rom!

    Let's get busy!

  2. So in other words on Virgin Hyperloop One Shows Off New Futuristic Travel Pod (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    They have an underground train at this point.

  3. Re:Spam in a can. on Virgin Hyperloop One Shows Off New Futuristic Travel Pod (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    But you still might crash and end up in a massive underground fire for which there is no escape.

  4. Whatever happened to regular pencils and paper and having a computer lab for students? As a taxpayer do I really need outfit the marxists in training with every electronic gadget there is??

    Guess what, you can do math without an ipad using just a pencil, paper, and maybe a $15 calculator. For wordprocessing, that's what a computer lab is for.

  5. Compare and contrast on Pirate Music Site's Owner Sentenced to Five Years in Prison (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    To a handful of bankers that *really* managed to cause billions of dollars of damage by crashing the entire American economy back in 2007/2008- days they spent in jail: 0.

    I would say that his sentence would be appealable on that fact alone under the fourteenth amendment. However, since his assists are probably entirely gone, It's probably doubtful that he could mount a meaningful appeal.

  6. Re:Fine, whatever on Ajit Pai Celebrates After Court Strikes Down Obama-Era Robocall Rule (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    As I say, if they can't leave a voicemail, I'm not going to answer. Technology may have made this irrelevant anyway, not that I like it.

    Besides that, all these rules should be made in congress, and not the FCC. That's the real takeaway here, a do-nothing congress that really is the problem. Not an a-hole FCC chairman.

  7. Except for all those "trucks of peace" that get loose!! No thanks, I'll pass.

  8. It's simple. They did not have effective enough radar for collision avoidance. It's that simple. The car needs to be able to detect a walking human in the road and slow to a stop.

    All the technology is there. It just needs to be implemented correctly. If the cars can not do that, then why are we bothering with autonomous cars if they can not offer improved safety for everyone involved?

  9. Re:Incompetence on YouTube's New Moderators Mistakenly Pull Right-Wing Channels (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Repeated instances of "incompetence" start to form a trend-line towards malice. The number of right wing/conservative demonetization, strikes, deletions, limited state, and channel termination is becoming vast. All the while ignoring channels on the left.

    Currently, all the redpill/MGTOW channels have been hit hard with many channels being outright terminated and not returning evidently.

    Youtube has brought forth a heavy hand, and it's not a question of how much incompetence there is, but a question of how much they can get away with at any one time.

    Here's what Pat Condell had to say about the recent spat of censorship.

  10. Re: The mistake was going after Alex Jones on YouTube's New Moderators Mistakenly Pull Right-Wing Channels (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Google et al that owns youtube is a public corporation. While it may set the rules for how its site is used, that does not place it beyond long overdue anti-trust examination.

  11. That's my point exactly. I just don't see robots doing the jobs I need done for quite a long time. The best walking robot there is still doesn't have any working fingers worth a damn. This ranks up there with flying cars as plausible.

  12. and find AI bots crawling up my leg??? What's the *real* agenda behind telling everyone how the AI bots are going to kill all the jobs when I can't find an AI to do my effing household chores, or drive me somewhere, or cook a meal for me??

  13. Re:the jobs are already vanishing. on 'Tech Companies Should Stop Pretending AI Won't Destroy Jobs' (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    This is easy for me. Pick the women to stay. They'll work for 25% less than men.

  14. Hello Secrecy on AI Experts Say Some Advances Should Be Kept Secret (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    Hello Skynet.

  15. Bing is fine on 'Microsoft Should Scrap Bing and Call it Microsoft Search' (cnet.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I don't find the name to be bad. Bing as a search engine has evolved and has been steadily improving to the point that it suffices for 95% of my searches. It clearly has become a viable alternative to those who want to de-google their lives.

    Those who deride the name probably have another agenda.

  16. He's right. on The Future of Free and Open-Source Maps (emacsen.net) · · Score: 1

    Reading his rant I could identify with many of the problems. But the solution lies with the foundation itself and the board of directors. The board of directors needs to be ran by the president in a professional, transparent, ethical manner, that follows its rules especially as it might relate to conflicts of interest. I suggest finding a way to invoke parliamentary procedure to the board even if they need to hire a professional parliamentarian for meetings. Rewrite the bylaws as necessary to correct the deficiencies.

    So you need a sympathetic president, and enough like minded members to constitute a majority. Then you start voting. Get the new bylaws approved. Then the board needs to gain control of the entire project head to toe. Find a way to raise *some money* to hire an attorney. You may need to step on some toes. Get rid of the frenemy gatekeepers at that time.

    Then it becomes about money. Wikipedia manages to fundraise. Wikipedia sucked forever until it got a critical mass to start hiring programmers, and this project might need to follow the same path. Until you can hire on programmers, look for free help from college programming departments and others who could glean something for doing so. I'm not sure what would be best route for fund raising, but as an idea maybe the Pokemon guys might be interested in buying custom mapping or data (just as an example). Eventually you will formally need to hire a programmer. You need to chop up the project in smaller individual chunks. You need to create an easy to use standard for data transfer to make the data you do have easy to use and the different chunks of the project to interact with and standardize around. The interface needs to be dead drop easy to use with no command line knowledge necessary. Over time, you will get more users who might be willing to donate that $3 to the project when asked. Again, you might want to look at Wikipedia's successes and its mistakes (hard to use editing interface) and learn from them.

    Eventually you will succeed in overcoming the things mentioned in the rant. But the very beginning starts with cleaning up the board of directors first that run the foundation before the project itself can be cleaned up.

    At least that's how I'd do it. I'd love to hear other's opinions.

  17. More importantly on The Quest To Find the Longest-Serving Programmer (tnmoc.org) · · Score: 1

    Outside of a museum, are there any Elliot 903s actually in service that Mr.Froggatt is writing code for??

    I understand why there might be some old IBM 370 machines still kicking around, but not an Elliot 903.

  18. Re:This is why we can't have nice things on Apple Intern Reportedly Leaked iPhone Source Code (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Future interns will have to sign away even more of their rights, be locked down even harder, and feel like a prisoner

    You mean that they'll be treated like regular interns now?

  19. Simple solution on Malware Exploiting Spectre, Meltdown CPU Flaws Emerges (securityweek.com) · · Score: 2

    Get all passwords and documents you care about off the pc so there is nothing for spectre to read. The spectre attacks are not detectable so antivirus programs likely will not detect them. Running a secure Linux rather than Windows still might be the best hope, but not for attacks taking place through the browser. Perhaps have an "empty" machine with just a browser for internet connectivity and browsing/surfing.

  20. Bastardizing the GNU on Chrome OS Is Almost Ready To Replace Android On Tablets (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    So they are using the Linux Kernel, but yet their license looks nothing like the GNU license?

    If I wanted to be locked-in with an OS and other services, I'd buy Apple products. They do a much better job it seems and are not a search company trying to get all my data so they can mine personal information about me then sell it.

  21. Re:errrr no on eBay Is Dumping PayPal For Dutch Rival Adyen (cnn.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The horror stories surrounding paypal are legion (search for Paypal warning - there could be some old slashdot posts around too). I still hold my breath when doing a transaction with them. They found ways to hold up sellers' money countless times and it would often just disappear. I even felt guilty using Paypal just knowing their sordid past.

    This is a smart move by ebay and you can bet there are boatloads of people who are ready to jump ship.

    There really seems to be a lot of karma in this, and don't forget that everyone's hero Elon Musk made his money from "horrible" Paypal.

  22. The force behind 28 Days Later and Ex-Mechina, Alex Garland, is about to release Annihilation in three weeks.

  23. Batteries are heavy. They can "sag".

  24. Send in the.....robots on Ask Slashdot: What Kind of Societies Will the First Mars Colonies Be? · · Score: 1

    The first communities should be robotic that can do all the hard work that humans would normally do. There is no reason to send humans there. Robots are going to replace the workforce on earth, so why should astronauts be exempt from that?

    Even then it would be a waste of resources. It makes more sense to try and mine an asteroid for something, because then at least you're extracting a resource.

  25. Re:"more eyeballs mean more secure code"?! on Are the BSDs Dying? Some Security Researchers Think So (csoonline.com) · · Score: 1

    It's not the quality of people but perhaps how much they are being paid. The difference between Linux and the BSDs is that there are many more paid developers working on the Linux kernel than the BSDs.

    Everybody has to find a way to put groceries on the table.