Slashdot Mirror


User: Impy+the+Impiuos+Imp

Impy+the+Impiuos+Imp's activity in the archive.

Stories
0
Comments
11,059
First seen
Last seen
Profile
(view on slashdot.org)

Comments · 11,059

  1. Re:Wrong industry? on Source Code On Trial In DNA Matching Case (post-gazette.com) · · Score: 2

    Well, a criminal case can demand whatever they want from the NSA. The NSA then has a choice (aside from arguing successfully the info is irrelevant):

    1. Give it up
    2. Declare it a secret, and possibly force the release of the suspect as a result.

  2. Re:Wrong industry? (not a copyright issue) on Source Code On Trial In DNA Matching Case (post-gazette.com) · · Score: 1

    Really they should not be relying on him at all to prosecute.

    If other analysis systems can't match him well, the defense should be partying and ready to call it a day, regardless of how one particular system responds. That is easily reasonable doubt.

  3. Re:Correlation is not causation on Study Finds Higher Rates of Premature Birth Near Fracking Sites (jhsph.edu) · · Score: 1

    Thanks. They could be right, but did they control for additional Hulu and Netflix binge watching?

    I am only half joking.

  4. Re:Correlation is not causation on Study Finds Higher Rates of Premature Birth Near Fracking Sites (jhsph.edu) · · Score: 1

    I wonder if the follow up story finding error and fail will be touted as loudly.

    Most papers are eventually shown wrong in their conclusions.

  5. Re:Aw fudge. What a let-down on See the Sketches J.R.R. Tolkien Used To Build Middle-Earth (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    It's the inspiration for D&D's original development maps NO TIME FOR THAT!!!

  6. Re:Stuff that matters on See the Sketches J.R.R. Tolkien Used To Build Middle-Earth (wired.com) · · Score: 2

    Ya! I already wanna comment bitching about how come he didn't use that map instead of the famous but idiotically rectilinear mountains one, expecting someone else to chime in he drew that one, too, then I would make a sarcastic comment that he obviously used rectangle graph paper for large scale outdoors instead of hex, what a doof he was.

    I am not well-appreciated answering questions on stackexchange by the humorless robots there.

  7. SJWs, 'ten-hut! on There Is No .bro In Brotli: Google/Mozilla Engineers Nix File Type As Offensive · · Score: 2

    Brazil is gonna have a hell of a time with the Olympics next year.

  8. Good start on SIgn Of the Times: Calif. Privacy Protections Signed Into Law · · Score: 1

    Thank you! I would prefer this enshrined as a constitutional right rather than a legislative one, but it's a start.

    Ideally, have an amendment stating one's papers w r t the 4th Amendment, shall include but not be limited to electronic records, data storage, and transmissions wherever they may occur.

    This could conceivably happen via Supreme Court decision as they love "evolving standards and expectations" to alter what is and is not constitutional for the government to do. Current warrantless invasiveness is based on an ancient ruling about phone records, being in the business, are not something a reasonable person expects privacy over. Now they do.

  9. They did this with fuel efficiency -- earlier tests had no load so, while reasonable for comparison between vehicles, poorly reflected actual milage So they tightenedup the test so actual milage is much closer to listed.

    In any case, this scandal will hit US companies, and we can watch as those screaming for multibillion dollar fines come up against millions of retirees seeing their meal tickets clobbered.

  10. They deserve a break on Verizon Boosts Price of Grandfathered Unlimited Data Plans By $20 (theverge.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    Those bastards!

    Grandfathers are usually on fixed incomes.

  11. Re: Jews In Space! on Privately Funded Lunar Mission Set a Launch Date For 2017 · · Score: 1

    Idiot downmodders, go learn some history. There's an apocryphal meme floating around that Hitler hampered Germany's nuclear physics by forbidding using Einstein's stuff because he was Jewish.

    This sarcastically called those "Jewish physics" in this context.

    God damn, those who forget history are doomed to repeat it. Get back to tumblr or wherever the hell you edumicated yourself.

  12. Re:I don't think it will mean much on Volvo Will Accept Liability For Self-Driving Car Crashes (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    It is conceivable they can be safer than human drivers, yet still get sued into onlivion by greedy lawyers who smell deep pockets, collapsing the industry and leaving road deaths greater than with.

  13. Re:Uh huh. on Volkswagen Boss Blames Software Engineers For Scandal (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Engineers were the triggermen, so to speak. But they were not Don Corlione.

  14. Re:What they really need on In Midst of a Tech Boom, Seattle Tries To Keep Its Soul · · Score: 2

    This was on top of 15 years of ridiculous increases. In the early 2000s my house went up $500 a year. When I moved out after 10 years, the last two of which had a similar 2% max, the taxes had gone from $4200 to $7800.

    Greedy politicians can suck it. Taxes are not even yet down to where they should be. Politicans ripped off citizens for years for amounts tied to house prices AKA housing bubble inflation rather than general inflation.

  15. Fries cooked with trans fats legally too! on Privately Funded Lunar Mission Set a Launch Date For 2017 · · Score: 2

    McDonald's should take the opportunity to fund a $50 million pre-launch that lands a small habitat on the moon, well-stocked and waiting, for an extended stay if necessary (this is how we should go to Mars BTW) complete with a tiny McDonald's in it where they can buy four Big Macs, run by one astronaut who is also a legal McDonald's employee.

    McDonald's, are you listening?

  16. Re:Give me a raise on 'First, Let's Get Rid of All the Bosses' -- the Zappos Management Experiment · · Score: 2

    Because I will start gaming it myself and go to straight production of thousands of well-debugged and commented lines a month. Screw the organization.

  17. Re:Give me a raise on 'First, Let's Get Rid of All the Bosses' -- the Zappos Management Experiment · · Score: 1

    People will try to game the badges and votes.

    Would a guy like me who specializes in finding bugs no one else can rise to the top or fall down for a low number of lines or whatever.

  18. Re:I, for one, on 'First, Let's Get Rid of All the Bosses' -- the Zappos Management Experiment · · Score: 1

    Well if OP was using monospace to add to the programming sarcasm, yey. But the objector's description suggests this is his normal font.

  19. Re:The money quote on Jimmy Wales and Former NSA Chief Ridicule Government Plans To Ban Encryption · · Score: 2

    I was under the impression the Supreme Court had already ruled you can encrypt as the encrypted message is protected speech, too.

    That should be the case if not, but I do remember reading that. This was also why the government could get away wth banning export of encryption devices, but not the speech itself.

  20. Re: Jews In Space! on Privately Funded Lunar Mission Set a Launch Date For 2017 · · Score: 0

    Jewish physics ensured the defeat of the Axis.

  21. Pro am on eSports Now a Part of College Athletics · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Let's get ready ti RUMMMMMMBLEEEEEEEEEEE!

    "In this corner, weighing in at 327, the Buttonmasher from Boston, the World Champeen Jason 'Couch Potato' Johnson!

    "And in this corner, weighing in at 294, the Dollar Menu Don, the Permanent Indenter, Phil 'And a Diet Coke, lite on the ice, please' Pullman.

  22. Re:From TFA on Wind Power Now Cheapest Energy In UK and Germany; No Subsidies Needed · · Score: 0

    most of the decline in capacity factors is due to expensive "base-load plants that are being turned on less because of renewables," according to BNEF analyst Jacqueline Lilinshtein. Plants designed to come online only during the highest demand of the year,

    Translation: "Fossil fuel plants suck because they are more and more used only when solar and wind are not working, nights, cloudy, calm times, and peak times we cannot handle !!!1!111elev3nty1one!!!"

    They note that with unobtanium batteries they will be able to take over peak loads too.

  23. Overrun on Worries Mount Over Upcoming LTE-U Deployments Hurting Wi-Fi · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Do wifi routers have their own spectrum? Perhaps there should be a set-aside just for short range, get-along-nicely protocols.

    The clogging varies with the square of the range. It is stupid to allow a handful of transmissions to clog up a million houses in a city.

    Alternatively, disallow telcos from charging for data sent over this spectrum. There you go!

  24. "But the federal government has agreed to back off monopolization charges in exchange for real names they can track!"

    This threat is normally reserved to extract donations to senators and representatives.

  25. Re:This ruling won't fix anything on EU Court of Justice Declares US-EU Data Transfer Pact Invalid · · Score: 1

    It's important to note the ruling did not judge if the US satisfied its requirements from the EU w.r.t. data handling. The ruling just loudly notes the NSA and any other legal entity may ignore those rules at will, so they are meaningless, and hence the EU commission was wrong to issue a judgement blanket approving the US.

    There was also legal wrangling that a national commission (e.g. Ireland's, in this case) may examine protections independently of commission judgements (a clarification on how the protection enforcement rules are set up), and if it conflicts with a commission judgement, may kick it up to the EU court even if it cannot directly overrule the EU commission. This allowed the Irish high court to challenge the blanket US approval by doing just that.