Slashdot Mirror


User: Falos

Falos's activity in the archive.

Stories
0
Comments
1,041
First seen
Last seen
Profile
(view on slashdot.org)

Comments · 1,041

  1. I can't tell if she's saying the streams have different priorities or if they should be compressed with different codecs. Live action and animation act rather differently on screens. My understanding was jpgs are better suited to photographs and pngs for flatter images (ie website screencap, logos), so I imagine there's also best-choice temporal/spatial tech for video. And it shouldn't be too hard to write an algorithm to classify the strea- wait, they would already be tagged.

    Or maybe not, and she's bashing one of the titles. And while everyone else is laughing with OP, I'm genuinely uncertain which. TV is a big source of culture sync, and I don't supplement with enough other sources (eg current literature, regular community events, even advertising) to keep in the loop.

  2. Re:Shocking Company funded by Movie Companies... on Torrent Sites Earned $70M After Dropping Malware On Visitors (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    TFS is referencing the webpage, not the torrent. They just keep repeating the latter for some reason. "One in three websites is spreading malware, claims a recent joint report" would probably still be accurate.

    Pretty sure the "free mp3s" pages of the 90's were laden more than 33%. Actually, I reckon that's still not a smart google to date.

  3. Re:Short lived on Chubb To Offer UK 'Troll Insurance' Policy (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    Have a little faith in capitalism leeching from rubes, it's what they do best.

    As (facetiously) remarked at Ars:
    >This policy only covers the websites and services listed in Paragraph H. Travel to other destinations including but not limited to 4Chan, ExtremeTech and independent.co.uk is not covered by this policy.

  4. Re:More traffic shaping needed now! on Streaming Video Is 70 Percent of Broadband Use (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    Sounds highminded, though I'm not completely unsympathetic...

  5. Re:Blow up the world! on Scientists Begin Another Attempt To Drill Through the Earth's Crust · · Score: 1

    Note that the surrounding material is also under pressure. It hasn't really been "released", there won't be really "new" sudden physical conditions as they inch down.

    It's hard to imagine a catalytic surprise here. Your point still has some validity, reality itself can't be Absolutely Certain on anything, and it probably wouldn't be the first experiment that overlooked dramatic-grade potentials (which, yes, can be entirely beyond predicting), but in practice we estimate risk-reward and make a decision. That's all we /can/ do.

  6. Re:Death Serves a Purpose on Scientists Working To Extend Lifespan of Pets (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    Interesting. This post ALSO happens to include a secondary, incidental purpose. While it had a primary function (to express an observation) it too offers useful, supplemental insight when given a bit of thoughtful reflection - by examining the responses.

    >1037830: wish death on an animal
    >0143899: get a pet just for the death experience
    >0877834: you think pets should die?
    >2477430: if the life cycle is the point of a pet

    The hypersensitive terminally-offended really came out in full force this year. Victims of chronic victimitis. I'm going to need rock climbing anchors and a pressurized suit to survive all this whoosh.

    "He who takes offense when it is not intended is a fool. He who takes offense when it is intended is a greater fool."

  7. Did you really just plug your ears and hum? I did wonder if that's how they handle things.

  8. Re:Why emojis/emoticons are in Unicode? on Companies Want To Insert Ads Into Unicode (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 1

    The flip was a negligible point of idle nostalgia, whereas I am perfectly capable of appreciating the increased functionalities of my humble Galaxy Alpha, thanks. I'll try to be considerate enough not to reminisce about trivial quirks around you in the future.

    My observation was about a bit of compatibility-vs-hypestatus contradiction, not "relevance". The your subordinate submission to my desk of authorized judgement is beneath me and _dismissed_ card is really weird to pick in a context of deliberately submitting emoji to someone. Actually it's a pathetic card to play at all, every time I've seen it.

  9. commentsubjectsaredumb on Italy Invests 150 Million Euros In Surveillance, With Emphasis On PS4 Chats (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    > Italy is spending 150 million euros
    ...on dragnet'ing a katamari blob scrutinized by automation /at best/ with a negligible chance of detecting activity that can pick any number of alternative, unmonitored channels for communication*.

    A bullshit motive means ulterior motive. Naive optimists hope for (A) incompetence, theater, tax dollars wasted; expect (B) malice, blanket surveillance, mass scooping, terrorism is an afterthought if not omitted entirely.

    not even including srs bsns super-secure ones for the real masterminds who dgaf if the fall guy tier use skypesnapper.

  10. Re:Why are we not funding this? on Washington Hosts Summit On Gene Editing and 'Designer Babies' (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    It's an extra weakpoint. Not so much the attack vector though of first blush, but consider, say, skull structure. Which could be reoptimized, but won't equate. Musculature is probably nonissue? Dunno.

    The nervous system and brain architecture will DEFINITELY be upturned if not incompatible for having three elements. Entire parts of the brain are devoted to visual correction and sync'ing and two-eye dynamic tracking and fuck if I know what else. Like that story about adapting to "upside-down glasses" after a week. To phrase it better, the hardware is built around two vision organs, and it's not exactly modular as-is.

    Optic nerves are brought right up by the brain by necessity, and the third eye will surely be along the symmetry axis - the trope'y forehead slot is actually pretty likely, that or nose/bridge. The location restriction means you can't expect much gain on vision improvements.

  11. commentsubjecthere on New Campaign Features Internet Trolls On Roadside Billboards (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    The troll response to seeing "HITLER DID NOTHING WRONG" plastered across a billboard will be checking a box labeled [x] Huge success

    Hell, even my own inner troll is tickled retarded at the idea.

  12. Re:Why emojis/emoticons are in Unicode? on Companies Want To Insert Ads Into Unicode (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 1

    1 - This is a sobering reminder that whatever device you're using ("current rendering environment"?), any device, will have an easier time handling a goddamn image than dicking around with unicode.

    2 - I miss my flip. The gentle wrist snap in particular.

  13. Re:IMHO that's good on It's Getting Harder To Reside Anonymously In a Modern City (citiesofthefuture.eu) · · Score: 1

    Oh. You think commoners have access to Big Data. Imaginary property will actually resemble property when it's undistributed.

    But this isn't about Frank down the street. Precedent and protocol should be determined by more than your minisemiquasimicrocosm. If you can't see the big picture - a perspective that's better delivered by separating The Message and the identity that happened to write it - then defer to those who will think beyond themselves.

  14. > who wants to bet it won't pan out?
    https://xkcd.com/955/

  15. commentsubjecthere on Purdue Experiments With Income-Contingent Student Loans · · Score: 1

    > replenishing the fund for future investments
    Obviously the "financial services firm" expects ROI and then some, and the money comes from proles. Oh how grateful we are for money-shuffling middlemen.

    The silver-lining, if this is done correctly (lol), is that it'd leech off salaries that live comfortably anyway.

  16. Re:Fail. on On iFixit and the Right To Repair (vice.com) · · Score: 2

    Market forces caused it.

    Expected obsolescence, first-party vendors, privatized repair, they were born of boon, they were born of bounty. The system deepens the black - why else would it conceive, grow, and circulate, Mr/Mrs Rational Economist? I'm not just being cute; market forces caused it. You're a dumbfuck or a shill for some agenda you won't understand anyway.

  17. Re: Freedoms on EFF launches Site To Track Censored Content On Social Media (eff.org) · · Score: 1

    If it weren't for the laypeople, only Our Betters would've had electrical power.

  18. Re:Micro means ignore the whiny fools on Social Media and the Age of Microcomplaints (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Hey dumbass, if someone is really really RUDE the phone's tiny audio speaker could explode catastrophically.

    In fact, I'm pretty sure these pixels on my screen are about to toilet paper my house. I wish I could just turn it off or change to another tab.

  19. Don't care about demanding a single standard, reasonable enough on the surface claims, boondoggle away.

    More concerned about legal aid going where it's needed. Particularly in today's world of arbitrary enforcement and arbitrary judgement. Particularly when those who aren't Our Betters have shit support and shit access.

  20. Re:And this is news? on Usernames Reveal the Age and Psychology of Game Players (sciencedirect.com) · · Score: 1

    That is a game? Okay, here is an opera.

    Just a heads up, I'm going to be a bitch for the duration. I did pay for MY ticket, you know. The fact that I'm fucking with everyone else's experience is irrelevant to my entitled behavior. The world should adapt to me, not the other way around.

    Hmm. I sense a lack of imagination. I'll be more specific: I'm going to show up wearing a tank top and sweatpants that say JUICY, chain smoke, talk loudly on my phone, make faux-clever remarks (you're obviously familiar with these) about the performance/performers, get up to pee about eight times (my bladder will be empty during intermissions ofc), and for the cherry on top, complain about someone else's child in attendance at a formal, cultured, adult event.

    Thanks for ensuring "flappy crush casuals" remains a valid means of identifying incompetent undesirables that no one wants at their opera. Er, deathmatch.

  21. It can. If the robo-frycook is $9/h and minimum wage is $8/h, everything is fine.

    Robo at $8.01/h, everything is fine.

    Robo at $7.99/h, everyone is fired. Overnight. And I realize that's just reasonable behavior for a rational business.

    Millions of "frycooks" (did you think I was only talking about ONE job?) suddenly applying elsewhere, except there is no elsewhere left.

  22. > They aren't crippled
    implying work will be worth anything anymore lolololol

    I'm tired of laughing at you now, so I'm going to hire a prole for five cents an hour to laugh for me, because I'm currently using my usual one as an ottoman.

    Or maybe I'll use a robot. Costs four.

  23. Re:Mississippi doesn't need the Internet! on Rural Mississippi: The Land That the Internet Era Forgot (wired.com) · · Score: 2

    "The bad news is it's a horde of spambots trying to shove porn and pornware in your face at every turn."
    "What's the good news?"
    "That's also the good news."

  24. So s/he has even more enemies, including those more able to track people down (if sufficiently motivated).

    Well, they're kneecaps I won't feel very sorry for.

  25. Re:Interactive fiction -- that's stuff like... on Interactive Fiction Competition Enters Its Third Decade (thenewstack.io) · · Score: 1

    Wikipedia dates CYOAs to 1976, but yes.