Slashdot Mirror


User: phantomfive

phantomfive's activity in the archive.

Stories
0
Comments
31,362
First seen
Last seen
Profile
(view on slashdot.org)

Comments · 31,362

  1. Re:C'mon guys, use your heads on How Wiretaps Actually Work (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1
  2. Re:Not so. on How Wiretaps Actually Work (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Here you go. To find it, I did a search for " Chapter 36 of Title 50 of the US Code *War and National Defense", Subchapter 1, Section 1802" and clicked on the first link.

  3. Re:Annealing again on Quantum Computer Learns To 'See' Trees (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1
  4. "everybody I know ALSO had their houses reposessed because the banks took stupid betts, and committed flagrant fraud" ?

    Here's the problem with your argument, and why you got completely fooled, and why you should be less emotional about this topic in general: Dodd Frank does absolutely nothing to prevent that.

  5. Do you think banks favor Dodd-Frank or oppose it? The big banks like it, because it helps keep down their potential competitors. Democrats passed that one.

  6. Re:Annealing again on Quantum Computer Learns To 'See' Trees (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 2

    This is good in the sense that it doesn't come remotely close to the kind of machine that maintains coherence across hundreds of bits that can mess up public key crypto.

    I don't know, I consider it a bad thing. It would cause problems, but there would be huge benefits too, and the problems could be solved.

  7. Re:Just wondering... on Tesla's New Solar Energy Station On Kauai Will Power Hawaii At Night (engadget.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    The big island has one, but the other islands aren't (actively) volcanic anymore.

  8. Um, gravity is at play with these larger bodies orbiting one another so it's not perpetual motion.

    That entirely depends on what you mean by 'motion.' From our frame of reference, the moon is definitely moving.
    The point is, that something similar could be happening at the microscopic level of these particles, although the forces involved are not gravity.

    It's also worth remembering why a perpetual motion machine is impossible: because of friction. If you could get a frictionless surface (and remove air friction, etc), you could have a perpetual motion machine. My understanding is that super-conductors can be considered perpetual motion machines, with electrons flowing perpetually. However these things are not what people normally think of when they try to sell you a perpetual motion machine: they are hucksters with a completely different goal.

  9. I think of it like the moon rotating the earth......constant perpetual motion, but no energy input.

  10. Re:Betcha Trump is going to mad at Assange again on WikiLeaks CIA Files: The 6 Biggest Spying Secrets Revealed By the Release of 'Vault 7' (independent.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    "The Buck Stops at Hillary!"

  11. It kind of makes you wonder why there's a microphone in your TV at all, though.

  12. Re:Betcha Trump is going to mad at Assange again on WikiLeaks CIA Files: The 6 Biggest Spying Secrets Revealed By the Release of 'Vault 7' (independent.co.uk) · · Score: 2

    More to the point, Hillary is in the past. What difference does it make what she would have done, if we currently have a lunatic as president? You can't defend Trump's actions by saying, "Hillary was worse."

  13. Re:Why pre-installed? on Dell Doubles Down On High-End Ubuntu Linux Laptops (zdnet.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    It's $100 cheaper than the Windows version of the same laptop.

  14. Re:we know what vs is - did anything change? on Microsoft Releases Visual Studio 2017 (visualstudio.com) · · Score: 0

    Looks like the main new changes are about "Cloud Deployment", so it has pretty good Azure integration, I guess. I notice they finally added simple refactoring capabilities, like "Extract Function," so you know, they're making progress: soon they might catch up to Eclipse.

  15. Re:$500 is Shocking??? on Microsoft Releases Visual Studio 2017 (visualstudio.com) · · Score: 1

    We had a contractor from a developing country on our team. He was really upset when he found out how much we were paying for Visual Studio Enterprise, because it was really close to his total salary.

  16. Re:Dumb move by defendant on Amazon Shares Data With Arkansas Prosecutor In Murder Case (ap.org) · · Score: 1

    Conceding this point now closes a lot of avenues of appeal should his client be found guilty

    Does it? Which avenues of appeal does it close off?

  17. Re:Or politicians can go back to basic services on Waze and Other Traffic Dodging Apps Prompt Cities To Game the Algorithms (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    tbh I'm more worried about strep.

  18. Re:Dumb move by defendant on Amazon Shares Data With Arkansas Prosecutor In Murder Case (ap.org) · · Score: 4, Informative

    "Don't talk to the cops" is good advice when you are being arrested, or pulled over for something because you're not a lawyer, and you don't know all the tricks the cops have.

    This guy does have a lawyer though, and the lawyer knows all the tricks, and has determined that it is ok to let the recordings be released. I can't really comment wisely on that topic, but I can pretend to:

    *) The lawyer may think that the recordings will help the case.
    *) The lawyer may have decided that the recordings would probably be released anyway, so might as well cut to the chase.
    *) The lawyer might think the openness will help the case.
    *) The lawyer might think his client is guilty and hopes he goes to jail.

  19. Re:Or politicians can go back to basic services on Waze and Other Traffic Dodging Apps Prompt Cities To Game the Algorithms (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    I do the same as you except it's on a normal bus because we don't have an express bus, and a good percentage of the ridership is homeless, and every few months one of them decides to start yelling at me for no reason.

    But anyway I don't have to drive and that makes it worth the chance of contracting hepatitis on the way.

  20. Re:Or politicians can go back to basic services on Waze and Other Traffic Dodging Apps Prompt Cities To Game the Algorithms (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    It should probably be mentioned that every time it comes up on the state ballot, California voters approve taxes for road construction (source: my memory so don't trust it).

  21. Re:Can't name replacements [Re:Err, guys?] on 'Robots Won't Just Take Our Jobs -- They'll Make the Rich Even Richer' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Most working people had healthcare plans from work even before ACA.

    It's not related to ACA (unless you claim ACA increased healthcare prices). If you have healthcare from work, and the cost of healthcare goes up, then you are being compensated more. This is true whether the healthcare cost went up for a good reason or a bad reason.

  22. Re: $2000 rebate on a $40000 electric vehicle on New York State To Launch Electric Vehicle Rebate (foxnews.com) · · Score: 1

    To put that in perspective.......I know homeless people who could afford a $1000 car if they wanted to. (Not all of them, but some could).
    Part of it's knowing how to make money, but part of it's knowing how to manage the money you make.

  23. Re:Normal top-of-bubble job hopping? on Uber's Silicon Valley Employees May Be Looking to Jump Ship (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    but most inappropriate behavior I've noticed in my career has been in salesy/marketing types

    Yeah. There might be sexism among programmers, but it's a rounding error compared to what sales teams do.

  24. Re:More human work? on More Fast Food Restaurants Are Now Automating (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Actually, I did forget one category of jobs: Law Enforcement

    Surely there's something else you forgot. But let's say: hopefully the day of automation arrives as soon as possible, so we can do better things with our lives than working.

  25. Re:Nuclear Japan on The US Waged A Secret Cyber War Against North Korean Missiles (tampabay.com) · · Score: 1

    The way I look at Japan, they are like are friend who got drunk and made a stupid mistake. Some people vomit all over the carpet, others try to conquer the world. You know, small difference. So we're just staying with them until they can sober up and not vomit all over the place. South Korea is the same way, except they're the roommate that got vomited on, and now they're trying to kill the roommate who did it. Calm down, calm.