Slashdot Mirror


User: cat_jesus

cat_jesus's activity in the archive.

Stories
0
Comments
380
First seen
Last seen
Profile
(view on slashdot.org)

Comments · 380

  1. I just broadcast in FM on When Internet Radios Get Affordable · · Score: 1

    I got myself a ramsey fm transmitter from here and hooked up a cheap dedicated PC with my 3 terabyte music collection and I can hear my music from anywhere in the house or outside on cheap fm radios.

    Sometimes people over think things.

  2. I saw the meteor on Meteor Spotted Yesterday Over Midwestern United States · · Score: 5, Informative

    None of the video I've seen comes close to the spectacular sight. There was a huge tail of plasma and it was green, orange white with a hint of blue. It was huge and looked like it was close by.

  3. Re:Holy shit? on Heart Monitors In Middle School Gym Class? · · Score: 1

    Often the first symptom of something like hypertrophic cardiomyopathy is sudden cardiac death. In many cases routine cardiac tests will not reveal the presence of this disease.

    As far as cost is concerned, this isn't an issue in more affluent school districts. I assume this is one of those based on their desire to buy these devices.

    My recommendation would be to buy a couple of portable defibrillators and train all the teachers to use them. This is much more likely to be useful than routine monitoring.

  4. Re:Falun Gong on Chinese Censor-Beating Software Resembles Malware, But Isn't · · Score: 2, Funny

    Oh yeah that's way nuttier than believing drinking the blood and eating the body of a zombie will get you into heaven.

  5. Almost there on World's First Battery Fueled By Air · · Score: 5, Funny

    Now we just need to create a battery that recharges using CO2. That would be the invention of the century.

  6. Re:Let me be the first one to say it ... on Pirate Bay Trial Ends In Jail Sentences · · Score: 1

    By copying and distributing the work of others you reduce the income they get in reward for their work.

    Exactly. The traditional distributors of content have been screwing the creators for many decades. Now there are ways for people to get content without the obstruction and exploitation of the creators by the distributors. The trick is to get a fair amount of money to the creators without rewarding the old distributors who add nothing.

  7. Re:Anonymity at this level is dangerous on Pirate Bay To Offer VPN For $7 a Month · · Score: 1

    What makes you think they(the criminals) don't do that now?

    Or do you mean the dumb criminals will start doing it too?

  8. huh? on Are Quirky Developers Brilliant Or Dangerous? · · Score: 1

    What I mean is, yes, I'd rather have someone working for me who says, "I can get this project done in 2-9 weeks" and gets it done in < 9 weeks then, someone who says, "I can get it done in 16 weeks" and gets it done in 16 weeks exactly. 9 weeks is shorter, that's an easy call.

    Why would you have two people doing the same project, one after the other? That's really dumb.

  9. National security threat on How the Economy Is Changing Clean Energy · · Score: 1

    Too big to fail should mean National security threat.

    I think the larger a business is(the more people it has the potential to impact negatively), the more oversight it should have.

  10. Re:I was an Army Computer Programmer on How Do Militaries Treat Their Nerds? · · Score: 1

    Actually I was a 74F. Trained at Ft. Ben Harrison. I understand they moved the computer school to GA after I left.

    I beleive 74D was computer operator(tape monkey).

  11. I was an Army Computer Programmer on How Do Militaries Treat Their Nerds? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Of course this was back in the cold war but my understanding is that my experience is still rather common.

    Technical people are not given commissions. If they are, they are usually expected to take on a supervisory role only. During my 4 year stint as an Army programmer I met an MIT CompSci grad who got a commission and was never given a technical assignment. He was the XO for our data processing unit but that is only an administrative position. He was rightly pissed during his enlistment. It was a complete waste of his talent.

    I also knew a guy who had a masters from Yale who became a programmer. They offered him a commission but he turned it down when he found our that he would not be doing programming work. He took the training, let the army pay off his considerable student loan and left with 4 years of experience under his belt and a masters degree.

    Keeping programmers past their enlistment period was so hard that they changed the minimum enlistment period to 6 years. In my opinion they should have at the very least made highly technical positions warrant officer positions so they get more pay, more respect and with that, longer retention.

    But the problem with the army is their heirarchical thinking. An enlisted position has very little chance of becoming anything more. If you do real work, you are considered less than an officer who largely does pretend work.

  12. I've got a better idea on Calif. Politican Thinks Blurred Online Maps Would Deter Terrorists · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Why don't we just ban terrorism instead?

  13. I concur on How To Handle Corporate Blackmail? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I had a similar situation happen to me. My asshole of a supervisor said I HAD to give them more time I changed my date from 2 weeks to one week, he decided to make it immediate and I had a nice little vacation between jobs.

    I understand he has since been fired.

    You can't trust someone who is going to threaten you.

  14. My cat clicks on Don't Like EULAs? Get Your Cat To Agree To Them · · Score: 1

    I don't have to entice my cat to click anything. She does it all the time on her own.

    Damn annoying cats.

  15. Re:This is an old argument which will not fly on Is the Relational Database Doomed? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Total records in our biggest table number about 57 million with 49 rows.

    I think you mean columns.

  16. Logical fallacy on Darwinism Must Die So Evolution Can Live · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You are equivocating on the word faith. This is a common error, please don't perpetuate it.

    http://www.logicalfallacies.info/equivocation.html

  17. I'm a vet on Obama Edicts Boost FOIA and .gov Websites · · Score: 1

    When I was in the Army we were trained that obeying illegal orders can get you court marshalled and that it's every soldier's duty to only obey lawful orders. It was stressed that POWs were to be treated humanely and NOT tortured.

    Of course this was during the cold war and the christianization of the military may have changed things a bit.

    I was an atheist in a foxhole.

  18. I have this disease on One In 100 Carry Mutation For Heart Disease · · Score: 3, Informative

    The gene is responsible for Hypertrophic Cardio Myopathy. HCM causes a thickening of the heart muscle and is often treated with medication, installation of an ICD to mitigate the chance of sudden cardiac death and for those with obstructions, a myectomy can be done. Something like 5% of HCM cases will require a heart transplant.

    Gene testing is something I'll be doing soon to identify exactly which mutation I have, several are responsible for HCM. Once that's done I'll have my kids tested so they don't have to go through the annual testing that they are beginning this year.

    HCM is the number one cause of sudden cardiac death in people under the age of 30. You may have heard of professional or college level athletes dying on the court/field/ whatever. This is usually the cause.

    I am in otherwise excellent condition. I have had a "healthy lifestyle" my whole life but now I can't walk up a flight of stairs without experiencing shortness of breath. I will likely have a myectomy this year.

    The good news is that this operation has a very high success rate. Another piece of good news is that if you have HCM and are treated by a specialist your life expectancy jumps back up to that of the general population.

  19. Re:your math is a bit screwy on $30B IT Stimulus Will Create Almost 1 Million Jobs · · Score: 1

    How exactly would this help the people who don't have jobs now?

    Bush tried the type of stimulus you're talking about several times and it just made things worse.

    Face the historical facts, the conservative ideology simply doesn't work in reality.

  20. Re:99.3% accurate? on New Method To Revolutionize DNA Sequencing · · Score: 1

    Do the sequencing three times. So you spend 1.5 hours instead of .5 hours. If you're really worried do it 7 times. That should be enough to weed out the errors.

  21. Video buffer anyone? on LG High-Def TVs To Stream Netflix Videos · · Score: 1

    What I don't understand is why no TV manufacturer has put in a video buffer. Ram is cheap and you could pause/FF/RW live tv rather easily. Especially with HD sets.

  22. Re:Not so on iPhones, FStream and the Death of Satellite Radio · · Score: 1

    I notice you are ignoring the aftermarket stereo portion of your comment. Aux inputs are quite common in aftermarket stereos.

  23. unusual? on iPhones, FStream and the Death of Satellite Radio · · Score: 1

    There are a few cars/aftermarket car stereos that have aux-in jacks, but those are pretty unusual.

    I don't think this is still true. I just went to crutchfield and easily a third of the car receivers on the first page had front auxiliary inputs.

  24. I know of one on Reducing the Risk of Human Extinction · · Score: 1
  25. Brownian motion on Reducing the Risk of Human Extinction · · Score: 1

    It has been hypothesized that Brownian motion could be the power source for the type of nanotechnology that could create a gray goo scenario.