Slashdot Mirror


User: deadweight

deadweight's activity in the archive.

Stories
0
Comments
1,038
First seen
Last seen
Profile
(view on slashdot.org)

Comments · 1,038

  1. Re:Is it sad that it is old hat on California Looking To Make All Bitcoin Businesses Illegal · · Score: 1

    No it does not. If you put a junkyard, an oil refinery, a strip club, a disco, and a power plant in my neighborhood they would all have customers from SOMEPLACE, but all would be completely hated by the people that live here. Zoning laws exist for a reason.

  2. You are not quite right on the depth rating. Granted I have never taken a watch below about 60 meters, but that rating is for static conditons, i.e. still water and not touching any controls. Being in rough water, surf, banging the watch around, etc. can all flood a watch well above the rated depth. 200 or 300 meter ratings have a real advantage when diving or surfing. That said, I tend to stick to the $30-$60 Casios and get my money's worth out of them.

  3. Re:Last straw? on ISIS Threatens Life of Twitter Founder After Thousands of Account Suspensions · · Score: 1

    You need to read General Giap's book. He knew full well the North Vietnamese had not one hope in hell of beating the USA in a war. He said the war will be won on the streets of Washington DC, not in Vietnam. He was 100% correct. By being an ongoing large PITA that would not quit no matter how many times we kicked his ass combined with the war becoming massively unpopular back home, he knew sooner or later we would decide we had "won" enough times and go home. And we did.

  4. Re:Oh just stop already on That U2 Apple Stunt Wasn't the Disaster You Might Think It Was · · Score: 4, Funny

    If you can make it to the retirement home, women outnumber men by quite a bit. It might take 70 years, but you will finally get some.

  5. Re:Thank you! on Spock and the Legacy of Star Trek · · Score: 1

    The second new ST movie was Die Hard with space ships. IIRC, the bad guys were trying to knock building over in San Francisco with a hijacked airliner - I mean starship - and they had chases and fights around the city. NOTHING resembling the Star Trek I grew up with.

  6. Re:Useless on Lenovo To Wipe Superfish Off PCs · · Score: 1

    I buy old Thinkpads from FleaBay and use them for all kinds of things where I need a rugged computer, doesn't have to be real fast, great display, and low enough cost to not cry if it dies. The newer Lenovos are utter crap in every possible way but raw speed compared to the old Thinkpads.

  7. Re:Credibility to rumors? on A123 Sues Apple For Poaching Employees · · Score: 1

    Ford is building aluminum trucks, Corvettes have been fiberglass for longer than I have been alive, and epoxy-carbon is pretty much how high end race cars and exotic street cars are made now. We ARE doing all this stuff - just needs to scale up.

  8. Re:Useless on Lenovo To Wipe Superfish Off PCs · · Score: 1

    Is there some reason you DID trust Lenovo at some point?

  9. Re:All the more reason... on Lenovo Allegedly Installing "Superfish" Proxy Adware On New Computers · · Score: 1

    Bought a new laptop for my son for Christmas. Thanks to a flaw in Windows 8 drivers, the wifi would go offline. Burned a Mint CD and installed it. Could not have been easier - click click click. He wanted Windows 7 for school and that was a nightmare X 100. Toshiba had NO 7 drivers since this was sold with 8, so it was about two days of Google-Fu, trial and errror, and scavenger hunts to find drivers that worked. You really should try Mint - I cannot imagine how anything could be easier.

  10. I didn't mean anyone in 1903 could BUILD a Saturn V, just that they could look at it and understand the technology. Rockets were already flying in 1903, just not to orbit. Kind of like how a diesel-elctric high speed train would be really cool in 1903, but they already had trains and would understand the basic principles.

  11. Re:All the more reason... on Lenovo Allegedly Installing "Superfish" Proxy Adware On New Computers · · Score: 1

    Mint is EASIER to install AND use than Windblows 8. My wife learned Mint in about 30 seconds - "Look, just like Windows 7 except the laptop now recovers from hard shut downs without you doing anything"

  12. The Saturn V would not be THAT much of a mystery in 1903. "Look at this huge rocket! In the future we took your small rockets and scaled them WAY up. It works the same, just way way bigger". In 1903 British naval rockets were around 100 years old ;)

  13. Re:Mooted??? on Mooted: An Undersea Link From Finland To Estonia · · Score: 2

    Yes - "Moot Court" is a think in law school where you pretend to have a trial. The headline makes it seem like the tunnel idea was cancelled in USAian English.

  14. Re: What makes a plane a plane? on ESA Complete Spaceplane Test Flight; IXV Safely Returns To Earth · · Score: 1

    Now if you make it look like a Corvette and can use the wipes to get reentry residue off the windshield my Heavy Metal wet dream will be complete!

  15. Re:Dog on Ask Slashdot: Panic Button a Very Young Child Can Use · · Score: 1

    YES! +1000 The dog will give the wife enough warning to push the button herself usually. My friends son started having seizures and the first time the dog went for help even without being trained to do so.

  16. Re:Unless NoFLyZone is part of the FAA on NoFlyZone.org Aims To Keep the Airspace Above Your Home Drone-Free · · Score: 2

    Pilot here : 3000 feet is WAY too high for one thing. Somedays I never get above 1000 feet. The other thing is a "be careful what you wish for" issue. Right now the FAA can and will come after me if I fly lower than 1000 feet over your house. If you make an "FAA free zone" for me to play under, you might not like the results.

  17. Re:Ridiculous on The Uncanny Valley of Voice Recognition · · Score: 1

    "Siri, where is the nearest gas station" is too hard half the time. The only real use for Siri was on long trips - we would give the phone to my toddler age son and let him ask Siri things and then argue with her about her nonsense answers for miles andnmiles LOL.

  18. Re:Pointing fingers at problems on Will Elementary School Teachers Take the Rap For Tech's Diversity Problem? · · Score: 1

    How the hell does THIS work with freaking MATH? Dick: 4+4 = 8, good job A+ Jane: 4+4=8, stupid girl, fail F- UNless Jane really is not too bright won't she mention she got the right answer????

  19. Re:Optics! on What Happened To the Photography Industry In 2014? · · Score: 2

    My rather low end DSLR is orders of magnatude better than my iPhone camera. The ONLY things the iPhone can get even a semi-decent photo of is something that is in bright sunlight and not moving. Now for photos of lunch, even an etch-a-sketch can do that ;)

  20. Re:thank god for the poor states on Mississippi - the Nation's Leader In Vaccination Rates · · Score: 2

    When I was a kid and got vaccinations, I could not fly an airplane. Now I don't get any and know how to fly. If we just stop with the vaccines, the Air Force can save a TON of money and get rid of pilot training!

  21. Re:Texas Schools Suck on Texas Boy Suspended For "Threatening" Classmate With the One Ring · · Score: 1

    THIS is what I remember from Texas. BTW - that isn't a good thing. Any communists been after your bodily fluids lately?

  22. Re: I love the snark here on State Television Says Iran Launches New Satellite Into Space · · Score: 1

    That old system was a PITA compared to GPS. You needed sever passes at specific times to get your position plotted.

  23. Re:Texas Schools Suck on Texas Boy Suspended For "Threatening" Classmate With the One Ring · · Score: 1

    Texas - Land of christian-hating PC homos? I guess it could happen, but I am surprised to say the least.

  24. Re: Regulation? on Davos 2015: Less Innovation, More Regulation, More Unrest. Run Away! · · Score: 2

    It all belongs to his parents!

  25. Re: Cam-tastic on DEA Cameras Tracking Hundreds of Millions of Car Journeys Across the US · · Score: 1

    This can be good for the police to map out all the buyers and suppliers over time. It can be an utter nightmare for the neighbors with the crime and violence that the police do nothing to stop in the short run. I knew of a situation like this some years ago where the neighbors took to burning whatever cars the dealers managed to buy until they got a clue and left.