Slashdot Mirror


User: Minwee

Minwee's activity in the archive.

Stories
0
Comments
3,730
First seen
Last seen
Profile
(view on slashdot.org)

Comments · 3,730

  1. Re:I don't get it on Supreme Court Rules Extending Traffic Stop For Dog Sniff Unconstitutional · · Score: 1

    I mean think about it, apparently the problem is the officer finished his job then asked the defendant to wait for a second search. If the officer had started a 15 minute search after placing the defendant in his car to ensure he was safe would that have made this incident ok? Searches are legal, but waiting for backup to conduct a search isn't?

    No, that would still have been conducting an unlawful search as part of a fishing expedition. The courts do not tolerate that sort of thing.

    What would have been legal would have been to ask the driver to step out of the car, and then shoot him eight times because he made a sudden movement with his hands out of sight.

  2. Makes sense on Update: No Personhood for Chimps Yet · · Score: 1

    Hey, if Florida man has the right to be treated as a human, then these chimps surely should too.

  3. Re:Good on Exploit For Crashing Minecraft Servers Made Public · · Score: 1

    No worries about that. Slashdot will be around for quite a while.

  4. Re: And this is news... on NVIDIA's New GPUs Are Very Open-Source Unfriendly · · Score: 1

    There are also plenty of people asking for free beer and a pony, but some of them just read the article instead.

    "Until NVIDIA finally delivers these signed firmware blobs (they're not even trying to get the source to the firmware, just the signed binary blobs) to Nouveau developers, the GeForce GTX 900 open-source support is going to be really problematic and basically non-existent."

  5. That's it? on The Voting Machine Anyone Can Hack · · Score: 1

    Only people can hack it?

    A real voting machine should be hackable by a chimpanzee.

  6. Re:And this is news... on NVIDIA's New GPUs Are Very Open-Source Unfriendly · · Score: 3, Insightful

    That's funny. They had no trouble ignoring these problems before last September, which is when they started requiring signed firmware images.

    Nobody is asking for source code or intellectual property rights related to firmware, all they need is the single signed blob of otherwise unreadable code which the new GM20x cards require before doing anything more complicated than simple mode switching. The kind of thing that nVidia said they would provide last year, but haven't.

  7. Re:That's not strange at all on Chess Grandmaster Used iPhone To Cheat During Tournament · · Score: 1

    After about eight years someone is bound to get suspicious.

  8. Re:14 out of 18 isn't bad... on Transforming Robot Gets Stuck In Fukushima Nuclear Reactor · · Score: 1

    ... unless you're in Japan, then 78% is abject failure and cause for banishment from the family.

    That's okay. Just claim that you got the other 12% and pretend that nothing is wrong. It can't possibly fail.

  9. Just encrypt the data and seed it as a torrent called "Game.Of.Thrones.Season.Six.Leaked.Episodes.zip". You'll have thousands of off-site backups by the next morning.

  10. I think in this situation it is assumed that you would have a nominated person per office to do the cloning, swapping and carrying in their car.

    Just remember to have another nominated person check the clones every now and then, because the first person has no idea why that little red lamp turned on and has been driving around with a blank disk for the past six months.

  11. Re:Anyone remember... on ESA Rebukes EFF's Request To Exempt Abandoned Games From Some DMCA Rules · · Score: 1

    you can get Secret of Monkey Island from Good Old Games. It's a remake (still kinda old even so), but very faithful.

    You may not be able to see "A Midsummer Night's Dream" performed in the Globe Theatre by the Lord Chamberlain's Men, but you can watch "Get Over It" on Netflix. It's practically the same thing.

  12. Re:20 years too late on ESA Rebukes EFF's Request To Exempt Abandoned Games From Some DMCA Rules · · Score: 1

    The "Dark Ages" are called that because of the lack of historical records from that time.

    Really. It has nothing to do with how complicated their games were.

    Since so much of modern culture -- not just video games but also books, music and movies -- is locked into digital formats which prioritize new sales over preservation of the original, future historians may well look at the current era in the same way.

    The ESA is trying to ensure that we continue to live in a Digital Dark Age.

  13. Oh, I see.

  14. Re:Where have I heard about that before... on LG Will Lend You a Free Phone If You Talk About It On Social Media · · Score: 1
  15. Re:CALIF. CALLED. SAID IT WANTS SOME WATER! on The Solar System Is Awash In Water · · Score: 1

    Like the shake guarding his well in the arabian desert, you can't have. Unless you ~PAY~!

    Do fries come with that sheik?

  16. Re:When was that again? on "Brontosaurus" Name Resurrected Thanks To New Dino Family Tree · · Score: 3, Funny

    He was implying that you hadn't the summary.

  17. Paging Dr. McCoy. on "Brontosaurus" Name Resurrected Thanks To New Dino Family Tree · · Score: 5, Funny

    In, the U.S.

    Uh oh. Sounds... like... wemayhavea... case... of.

    ...

    Shatner's Disease.

    Get... thismanto.. sick. Bay. Now!

  18. Re:call the library ? on Watching a "Swatting" Slowly Unfold · · Score: 1

    Why would he use an anonymous VOIP service to call the police, only to tell them exactly where he is?

    You've made your decision then?

    Not remotely! Because anonymous VOIP service comes from Australia, as everyone knows. And Australia is entirely peopled with criminals. And criminals are used to having people not trust them, as you are not trusted by me. So I can clearly not choose the library in front of me.

    Truly, you have a dizzying intellect.

  19. Re: call the library ? on Watching a "Swatting" Slowly Unfold · · Score: 3, Insightful

    A smart bank robber...

    ...already did it. Without leaving his desk. And not only did you never notice, the police will never even hear that it happened.

  20. Re:Wow, a whole 1%? on Tesla's April Fool's Joke Spoofs Market Algorithms · · Score: -1, Troll

    1% increase a day is almost 38x by year's end, fwiw.

    Because there are 380 trading days in a year.

    And not, say, 260.

  21. A new Firefox? on Firefox 37 Released · · Score: 5, Funny

    Oh, is it Firefox Tuesday already?

  22. There was a focus group for this. on Robots4Us: DARPA's Response To Mounting Robophobia · · Score: 2

    "Now I want you all to imagine the perfect DARPA robot. What would it be like?"

    "It should be soft and cuddly."

    "Yeah, with lots of firepower."

    "Its eyes should be telescopes! No, periscopes! No, microscopes! Can you come back to me?"

    "It should be full of surprises."

    "It should never stop dancing."

    "It should need accessories."

  23. This could be interesting. on Amazon Requires Non-Compete Agreements.. For Warehouse Workers · · Score: 1

    Can anyone here name three products which are legal in the USA and do _not_ "[compete] or is intended to compete with any product or service sold, offered, or otherwise provided by Amazon (or intended to be sold, offered, or otherwise provided by Amazon in the future)"?

  24. Re:Gen Con? on Gen Con Threatens To Leave Indianapolis Over Religious Freedom Bill · · Score: 1

    Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it, and possibly graduate a year late.

  25. Re:Gen Con? on Gen Con Threatens To Leave Indianapolis Over Religious Freedom Bill · · Score: 3, Funny

    That's okay. You can leave the shredded ashes of your Nerd Card in the bowl by the door.