Slashdot Mirror


User: Qzukk

Qzukk's activity in the archive.

Stories
0
Comments
6,329
First seen
Last seen
Profile
(view on slashdot.org)

Comments · 6,329

  1. I thought what I'd do was... on Privacy Advocates Leave In Protest Over U.S. Facial Recognition Code of Conduct · · Score: 1
  2. Re:time to cut full time down to 32-30 hours a wee on The Future of AI: a Non-Alarmist Viewpoint · · Score: 1

    time to cut full time down to 32-30 hours a week with a longer team goal of say 20 hours

    Companies: Sure thing, guys! Here, take a paycut of 60% to go with that! Oh, and we're going to have to have you come in for unpaid overtime, and if you thought you were going to work two jobs to make up the difference, you've got another think coming because we're going to randomly call you in after hours and rescramble the shifts every month.

  3. Re:Capitalist logic on Restaurateur Loses Copyright Suit To BMI · · Score: 1

    How many times do you want to get paid for serving the same stupid meals

    Bad analogy.

    The restaurant paid for the flour they used to make your pasta. Now the FIAA is coming after you because you enjoyed the pasta made from their flour but you did not pay them for the right to enjoy their flour. Never mind that you paid the guy who paid for the flour, you're a flour-stealing thief because they say so.

  4. Re:Oh the irony on Whitehouse Mandates HTTPS For Government Sites and Services · · Score: 3, Informative

    you mean like thinking HTTPS stops anyone from seeing the URL you just visited so they can view it for themselves?

    ... it does, unless you've got some spyware installed phoning home every URL you visit. Or chrome, but I repeat myself.

    Thanks to SNI and IPv4 forcing everyone to host multiple sites on one address (but I repeat myself) SSL does now leak the hostname you are attempting to request during the handshake so the server can select a certificate.

  5. Re:Libertarian Paradise, Here We Come! on Jaguar Land Rover Makes System For Mapping Potholes For Autonomous Vehicles · · Score: 2

    We'll have the automated road-laying behemoth knocking down people's houses and paving over their remains just in time for the Vogon automated hyperspace bypass extrusion ship to swing by our arm of the galaxy.

  6. Cursor growth on WWDC 2015 Roundup · · Score: 1

    Someone on the design team has obviously watched people try to find the pointer.

  7. (I have no idea if there are any rules on when an "ss" can't be replaced by a ÃY)

    Rule 1: When used on slashdot

  8. Re:Fear of guns on Stormtrooper Arrested · · Score: 1

    Those are metric stormtroopers

  9. Re: Say what you will about Big Cable... on Why Americans Loathe Cable Companies · · Score: 1
  10. Re:Americans loathe this and that on Why Americans Loathe Cable Companies · · Score: 1

    Eh, why take a chance?

    Because it would cost a few hundred billion dollars and no investor is going to take that chance when it's clear that AT&T and Comcast can and will undercut you once you've gotten your installation complete (see their behavior in Google's markets).

  11. Before or after he was served papers? on US Prosecutors Say Clearing Browser Data Can Be Obstruction of Justice · · Score: 3, Insightful

    There is absolutely no way I'd support charges like this for anyone that deletes anything before they've been ordered to provide it to the court. Nobody is psychic and the law should not require psychic powers.

    Afterwards? Yeah, absolutely destruction of evidence assuming the government can prove that he had what they're claiming he deleted.

  12. Re: In other words on Netflix Is Experimenting With Advertising · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It's doubly a pain to see the same ones when binge watching.

    Those are absolutely the worst. Watching the same preview the second time is almost as bad as when I pull out a years old DVD and have* to sit through ancient trailers before I can start watching the movie. By the third time I see the same preview the same day, it's worse.

    *: or use a non-compliant DVD player that allows skipping this shit. Either/or.

  13. Re:What a shocker on Land Art Park Significantly Reduces Jet Engine Noise Near Airport · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The real shock here is all that prime real estate has been just thrown away when it could have been used to build houses to sell to suckers who then sue the airport for being loud and ruining their enjoyment of their home.

  14. Re:Dear Mr Judge on Murder Accusations Hang Over Silk Road Boss Ulbricht's Sentencing · · Score: 1

    And that was sworn in the trial testimony? Or did they say that everywhere except where they had to swear that was the truth?

  15. Re:Bad headline on Academics Build a New Tor Client Designed To Beat the NSA · · Score: 1

    your traffic wasn't interesting enough

    How interesting is interesting enough? Interesting enough to spend $5 on? $0.05? GCHQ redirected the slashdot site for Belgacom users to their own servers, so slashdot readers are at least that interesting, and mass observation programs like PRISM make it cheaper and cheaper to watch you.

  16. Re:It's RAID 0 on Linux 4.0 Has a File-System Corruption Problem, RAID Users Warned · · Score: 1

    Linux's MD raid10 isn't the same as RAID 1+0, so I'm not entirely sure it would be affected by this.

  17. Re:All about tha Benjamins on Cocaine Use Can Now Be Tested In Fingerprints Using Ambient Mass Spectrometry · · Score: 1

    Unless simply handling money doesn't result in your body absorbing enough cocaine

    It's a safe bet that whoever rubbed the cocaine on the money in the first place likely has enough of it in them to be rubbing the metabolites on the money too.

  18. Ads that assault my computer are immoral on Editor-in-Chief of the Next Web: Adblockers Are Immoral · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Ad blockers would not have been necessary if we didn't have ad networks distributing malware.

  19. Definitely a different kind of hostile takeover on Apple, A123 To Settle Lawsuit Over Poached Battery Engineers · · Score: 1

    Who cares about buying 51% of the stock when you can hire 100% of the employees away.

  20. Re:Summary is Misleading on How Responsible Are App Developers For Decisions Their Users Make? · · Score: 1

    if an app pretends to offer a service and then can't deliver, or provides data that leads to bad decisions

    It's more than that. How about an app that offers the ability for a doctor to purge the record of a certain bad decision? How about a financial app that allows double bookkeeping, if someone was so inclined to hide their embezzlement? How about a default password of 12345, after all it's the user's responsibility to fix it?

    There are plenty of ways to make apps that do the wrong thing, correctly.

  21. Re:I have a cunning plan. on FWD.us To Laid-Off Southern California Edison Workers: Boo-Hoo · · Score: 1

    Meanwhile a westlake will explain which felony exactly is committed by a person unable to pass on years of experience in the span of months, without the benefit of a degree/training in education.

  22. Re:Libertarians are to the right of Republicans on Two Programmers Expose Dysfunction and Abuse In the Seattle Police Department · · Score: 2

    Authoritarians, of both the "left" and "right" wings, love to use government force

    Agreed, look no farther than reactions to the war on drugs. A local government banning Big Gulps because it's bad for you is government overreach into areas of your life and people should have the personal responsibility not to overuse, but we need to spend billions of dollars at the federal level to prevent people with no personal responsibility from smoking a plant they grew in their own backyard because it's bad for you.

  23. Re:No single payer on The Medical Bill Mystery · · Score: 1

    I know I do.

    Yeah, I can imagine you sitting there after a car wreck, horribly mangled, holding onto consciousness just so you can make sure that they take you to the best hospital. Wait! Is this ambulance fully accredited and received at least an A rating from Consumer Reports? No? Well, I'll just wait here for one that is.

  24. Re:Like multiplayer? on GOG Announces Open Beta For New Game Distribution Platform · · Score: 1

    Actually my suggestion was to let people decide whether or not to let GOG try to change it since not all users trust apps to change the firewall, not all firewalls allow apps to change it, and so on. Maybe for maximum paranoia there could be a setting that hides the uPNP option completely so nobody accidentally checks it.

  25. Re:Like multiplayer? on GOG Announces Open Beta For New Game Distribution Platform · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Invitations are absolutely an awesome feature, but you know what would blow my socks off? If the GOG launcher handled all the bullshit firewall crap.

    I still get games where the authors have failed to bother to document the port(s) their server uses or where they think it's awesome to have the server start up on a random port from 1024 to 65534. Usually 30 pages deep in the game forum there's a thread where you find posts like "i forwarded UDP 19228 and the server showed up on the browser for 30 seconds but nobody could connect and I couldn't get it to show up again after a restart". If, along with all the other brilliant work GOG has done to get the games working in current versions of windows, GOG's launcher popped up a window like steams cdkey window that said

    Hosting a multiplayer game requires these ports:
        TCP 12421, TCP 12422, UDP 20000-20400
      [x] Use uPNP to request forwarding these ports on my firewall
      [x] Do not show this again
        [ OK ] [ Cancel ]

    I think my socks loosened a bit just thinking about it.