Slashdot Mirror


User: johnsmithperson123

johnsmithperson123's activity in the archive.

Stories
0
Comments
357
First seen
Last seen
Profile
(view on slashdot.org)

Comments · 357

  1. Re: Clickbait troll much? on AAPS Doctors Run Survey On Hillary Clinton's Health (prnewswire.com) · · Score: 1

    Why don't we just appoint a commission of physicians to the president? Then we know about any health concerns, as they would also be mostly in charge of advising those doing the medical disqualifier in the, oh, 25th amendment if I recall.

  2. Re: Good plot hooks on Today Marks The 50th Anniversary of 'Star Trek' (ew.com) · · Score: 1

    Practical reasons, at least after The Undiscovered Country. If you fire while cloaked, it just takes a tracking torpedo. If you fire while cloaked with your shields up, you aren't really cloaked anymore. Cloaking devices are much less useful than they're made up to be in Star Trek (exception of the whole phasing cloak thing, which worked really well but happened to be illegal.)

  3. Re: Before the reboot on Today Marks The 50th Anniversary of 'Star Trek' (ew.com) · · Score: 1

    With the actor for Chekhov in the reboots dead, and declining revenue and angry fans, the best thing they could do would be to patch up the alternate timeline with a time travel finale to their television show. Then they could go back to the real timeline. Or even the mirror universe would be cool.

  4. Well, the best solution for everyone would be on University of California Hires India-Based IT Outsourcer, Lays Off Tech Workers (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Simply to mandate that if you replace a position with an H1-B, you have to pay them the same salary. It's only fair. And also allow them to find work, whenever they want, on the open market and leave the company at any time. No company can effectively master their H1-Bs.

  5. At least ban ads for the poor sods with cable. You don't pay for something with ads in.

  6. I'm worried about the humans using the robots, legit or illegitimate.

  7. Mostly... on Netflix Finds x265 20% More Efficient Than VP9 (streamingmedia.com) · · Score: 2

    I just want websites to use the HTML5 video player as opposed to Flash. x265 is not very important except for 4K content and mobile phones. It will, though, eventually become the standard.

  8. I want one!!! on Meet URL, the USB Porn-Sniffing Dog (cnn.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    I can never find my USB drives and SD cards. Say what you like about spinning disc, at least they were (are) easy to keep track of.

  9. Re: Carbon nanotubes... on New Carbon Nanotube Chip Outperforms Silicon Semiconductors (nanotechweb.org) · · Score: 1

    No. The storage, on the other hand, basically works by dumping a bunch of random nanotubes and aligning them to store data.

  10. Well, when you get down to it... on New Carbon Nanotube Chip Outperforms Silicon Semiconductors (nanotechweb.org) · · Score: 2

    Carbon is smaller than silicon.

  11. Stop going to Mars. Go somewhere else interesting. Titan, maybe. Or Triton. Europa. Mercury. Venus, even. But we know enough about Mars for diminishing returns to set in.

  12. Re: Worth it on Facebook Engineers Crash Data Centers In Real-World Stress Test (ieee.org) · · Score: 2

    No, it's because I find it easier to sign up for things with a Gmail account. Insecure, but my internet commenting accounts are not exactly high on my security priority list. Trust me, I've never touched Google Plus.

  13. Re: Worth it on Facebook Engineers Crash Data Centers In Real-World Stress Test (ieee.org) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Considering that Facebook is arguably the world's biggest news service, it actually is sort of important.

  14. Well, USB C until on HP Builds One Desktop PC Around a Speaker, Another Modular PC In Slices (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Somebody uses a dodgy cable and the power supply explodes. That's the current issue with USB-C.

  15. Well... on EmDrive: NASA Eagleworks' Peer-Reviwed Paper Is On Its Way (ibtimes.co.uk) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I imagine that there will be replicability tests. It's possible, but not certain, that we may have found Clarke's "space drive", a drive requiring no reaction mass. On the other hand, so many of these things have fizzled, I'm remaining VERY cautiously optimistic.

  16. Re: Translation: on Google To Drop Nexus Brand Name, Move Away From Stock Android (theverge.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Actually, most people buy Nexus devices for the lack of bloatware and the security updates. I'm thinking that they might add additional experimental/dev features that aren't going to be a stock Android feature, as opposed to meaningless apps.

  17. Kaby Lake on Intel Unveils Full Details of Kaby Lake 7th Gen Core Series Processors (hothardware.com) · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Is still Skylake Refresh. Slightly tweaked GPU (software mostly, I suspect) slight clock boost, and new chipset. My expectations for IPC increases are 0%, or maybe 3% if they bothered to create a new wafer. Trust me, Kaby Lake will underwhelm.

  18. Re: How does technology sanctions work with this? on Princeton Researchers Announce Open Source 25-Core Processor (pcworld.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Relax. In between architectural basis and the relatively low performance, it's insignificant. A few hundred million transistors for a 25 core chip in a day where your stock chip is multibillion in terms of transistor count.

  19. Probably all down to process improvements too.

  20. Well on Latest Windows 10 Update Breaks PowerShell (infoworld.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    I guess BASH was put in just in time, eh?

  21. Proxima Centauri is a flare star, and being randomly zapped with x-rays is not usually conducive to life.

  22. Really. on Intel Demos Kaby Lake 7th Gen Core Series Running Overwatch At IDF (hothardware.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Kaby Lake is Skylake Refresh. No new wafer, just slightly improved clocks, slightly lower prices and a new chipset.

  23. Re: Technical solution on India Threatens 3-Year Jail Sentences For Viewing Blocked Torrents (intoday.in) · · Score: 1

    Yeah. The ogolipoly that is the media business just means more bias, more idiocy, poorer quality media and so on. So smash them up, Viacom, Time-Warner, Disney, and so on.

  24. Too late. on Can Cow Backpacks Reduce Global Methane Emissions? (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Factory farms are about to drop the "farm" and become ground-beef printing operations. Only perhaps ten years off.

  25. The men are lying, they're just trying to act more macho and have poorer judgement when high.