Slashdot Mirror


User: AK+Marc

AK+Marc's activity in the archive.

Stories
0
Comments
31,875
First seen
Last seen
Profile
(view on slashdot.org)

Comments · 31,875

  1. Re:Fewer bug fixes? on NTP's Fate Hinges On "Father Time" · · Score: 1

    Nope, change nothing. That you are too dumb to understand localized localization doesn't change that it's the best for everyone and requires almost no change on anyone's part doesn't mean it's a bad idea.

  2. Re:Fewer bug fixes? on NTP's Fate Hinges On "Father Time" · · Score: 1

    Only talk UTC. Problem solved.

  3. Re:Fewer bug fixes? on NTP's Fate Hinges On "Father Time" · · Score: 1

    For a company that big, they'll have a separate division for charitable giving. The manager he did the work for probably could have paid him $1,000,000 for his work (that he then could have given to NTP), but the manager likely couldn't give $10 to the nonprofit, even out of personal money.

    The larger companies do that because even $1 to the wrong orphan's fund could be spun in media as "supporting terrorism" or something like that.

    My take on it is that he's deliberately naive. He could have asked for payment for services, instead, he opted to ask for a donation, knowing that was harder and more complex than just a simple contracting job.

  4. Re:M-16? on Cody Wilson Wants To Help You Make a Gun · · Score: 1

    The women's bathrooms in the dorms had urinals. The discussions at the time were that it would be unfair to have some people right next to the bathrooms for 4 years, while others were super-far from them. So the rotating bathrooms were the preferred solution, compared to making smaller bathrooms for all. So yes, the women's bathrooms have urinals. The male and female bathrooms were identical.

  5. Re:And where were the tests of spinners? on Endurance Experiment Kills Six SSDs Over 18 Months, 2.4 Petabytes · · Score: 1

    $55 for 8GB http://www.newegg.com/Product/... Shouldn't add more than $100 to the cost of a DVR and greatly improve performance, especially in the ones that have multi-tuners, and get glitchy when you are recording on both, and manipulating saved files (the reason the 2-tuner PS3 Play TV is called a 1-tuner by Sony, the PS3 can't handle the I/O, so essentially disables one in software. It's a full 2-tuner when you plug it into a PC).

  6. And where were the tests of spinners? on Endurance Experiment Kills Six SSDs Over 18 Months, 2.4 Petabytes · · Score: 1

    Wanna know how to kill a spinning disk? Put it in a DVR. My DVR (with the "pause and rewind live TV" ability), would re-write 100% of the time. It died in a few months. Replaced it with a larger one and turned off the live-TV buffer, and it's lasted years. But it's all anecdotal, so I expect tests like this to give us some level of comparison.

  7. Re:Maybe in a different country on Mental Health Experts Seek To Block the Paths To Suicide · · Score: 1
    So there was no requirement that you have a weapon to join the militia. You just had a weapon to be useful. There's a difference. I can pay for paper targets and lane usage at a gun range and not have, own, or borrow a weapon. They'll let me sit there for that time, and I don't have to shoot. Though, if crowded, I expect they'd kick me out for a shooting patron.

    You didn't "need" a weapon to join, but regardless of your needs, one would not be provided. The militia still needed cooks and medics. Couriers and scouts.

    Bring Your Own Weapon was assumed, and none was provided, but it wasn't a "requirement" for the militia.

    Just pointing out that with respect to the OP of this thread which remarked about having people inspect the safety of the firearms (f.e kept in safe, trigger locks, etc) that that would have never flown with those who wrote the Consistitution

    I think they'd have no problems with the rules, but would certainly have an issue with a foreign military enforcing them. If you think the guns they had were for military use, then a 30-second delay getting them out wouldn't be a big deal, unless they were already at war. There wasn't much "self defense" use of them at the time.

  8. Re:We've redefined success! on Mental Health Experts Seek To Block the Paths To Suicide · · Score: 1
    Not that I had to do much work,

    You acted just like a deadbeat dad. You did nothing, whined about everyone else, declared you won, and went home alone and unloved.

  9. Re: Is he dangerous? on Man Claiming Half Ownership of Facebook Is Now a Fugitive · · Score: 1

    Unless you nuke them from orbit.

  10. Re:Is he dangerous? on Man Claiming Half Ownership of Facebook Is Now a Fugitive · · Score: 1

    The police in Atlanta refused to take cash (or an out of state check) for bail. So I paid an out of state check check to a bondsman of $5500 on a $5000 bail for a $200 traffic ticket that my gf at the time had long since forgotten about. Bail was more than 30x the maximum fine of the original offense. Isn't that justice?

  11. Re:Is he dangerous? on Man Claiming Half Ownership of Facebook Is Now a Fugitive · · Score: 1

    Maybe the 10th.

  12. Re:Is he dangerous? on Man Claiming Half Ownership of Facebook Is Now a Fugitive · · Score: 1

    Bail is required to be paid by a bondsman. I found out my gf at the time was wanted for an unpaid ticket, when she was pulled over for having out of state plates (failure to properly signal was what he said, but the actual infringement was never mentioned, once they saw they could extort bail from someone). Being in a foreign state, they arrested her and were going to ship her back to TX for trial later. We were driving through, so I emptied the bank account and tried to pay the bail. The police refused, and handed me the card of a bondsman. I paid him $5500 for a $5000 bail, for a $200 traffic ticket that was forgotten years ago. The was the only way to get her out, when the charge back in TX was dealt with, the charge in GA was cleared, and the bondsman sent back the $5000. He made $500 for about 10 minutes work. Feels more like a shakedown than a public safety issue.

  13. Re:We've redefined success! on Mental Health Experts Seek To Block the Paths To Suicide · · Score: 1

    Why might that be?

    I asked questions. You refused to answer any. Instead, you launched into repeated personal attacks.

    Why might that be? I posit it's because you know I'm right. Otherwise, how could someone so full of facts and logic not be able to ever use a single one to refute anything or answer any question?

  14. Re:M-16? on Cody Wilson Wants To Help You Make a Gun · · Score: 0
    No, they shouldn't be required by law to do it. That's slavery. They should be fined 10x the cost of doing it for violating the civil rights of the people they refused.

    Should a company be able to decide to serve to because of ideology, or not?

    Nope. A company should not be allowed to only serve Blacks in the back alley, nor have separate but unequal restrooms.

  15. Re:FAKE on Watch an Original NES Run Netflix · · Score: 1

    Yeah, they could use a full computer, adapted to run off the cartridge's power, and have the network plug into that, and it just feeds the video through the cartridge to the screen. It'd be easier and cheaper to just plug the TV into the cartridge, but riles up more geeks to imply that the Nintendo is somehow "doing" something in this exercise.

  16. Re:No Clinton No Bush on Clinton's Private Email System Gets a Security "F" Rating · · Score: 1

    Give back what money? The taxes that the conservatives say are over-paid by the rich, that the poor don't pay anyway? How will giving Donald Trump another $5M stop a revolt by the tens (to hundreds) of millions of poor the US has?

  17. Re:Maybe in a different country on Mental Health Experts Seek To Block the Paths To Suicide · · Score: 2

    And most of that didn't end until the '60s or later. Sure, the first Colored regiment was in the Civil War, but they weren't equals. It's not like anyone from that regiment, no matter how decorated, would be moved to a position in a white regiment. As the Supreme Court said (eventually) "separate is inherently unequal" (or something to that effect). Integrated army didn't hit all military organizations until 1973 (or later, that's the last I know of, but they could have been other hold outs). And that's just blacks. Women are still not fully equal in the US armed forces.

    But Blacks have fought in every war (as part of the "militia") and women have been part of the militia since before the country began. It wasn't until a standing army when cooks were enlsited. Woman cooks in the early wars were common, and part of the militia. As well as nurses and other non-combat positions. Some of those persisted, but a member that can't use the members-only washroom isn't really a member, are they?

    You couldn't vote unless you were a white landowning male (the rules generally that you be a landowner, and the laws would prevent non-whites and non-males from owning land). But anyone could join the militia.

    And open carry was common. Where do you think the term "riding shotgun" came from? The driver would drive the horses, and anyone else in the front seat would be holding a shotgun.

  18. Re:We've redefined success! on Mental Health Experts Seek To Block the Paths To Suicide · · Score: 1

    All I've done is present facts and logic you unrelentingly chinless tit.

    What, facts and logic like:

    99% of men and women lose their homes in UK divorces? What?

    That looks to be fact and logic free. You've not touched either.

    If you have facts, tell us. How many men keep the primary house in a divorce? How many women keep the primary house in a divorce?

    What percentage of men file for full custody in a divorce?

    Come on, you bitter little misogynist, fact me up. I'm guessing you can't, and you'll just further insult me because you can't support your irrational position, other than rants about how the rich white man is the most oppressed minority in America.

  19. Re:No Clinton No Bush on Clinton's Private Email System Gets a Security "F" Rating · · Score: 1

    It's a closed primary with same-day registration. Most call that open, but you have to "declare" a party (and go on the rolls for that party) to vote in the primary, and you are officially a member of that party until the next election cycle.

    The truly open primaries allow you to vote for one candidate for seat 1, and a different candidate for seat 2, your choices could be among the Repubicans for seat 1, and among the Democrats for seat 2.

    But primaries of any kind are a bad thing. They are state-sponsored petitions for the parties. The result is a lower barrier for the Democrats and Republicans than the 3rd parties. It's undemocratic and unfair.

  20. Re:No Clinton No Bush on Clinton's Private Email System Gets a Security "F" Rating · · Score: 1

    I've found that the local parties are amusingly not well aligned. The Republicans were first to try to close primaries in Texas and Alaska (while I lived in each), but the Democrats should do the same in more Democratic leaning states. For insane definitions of "should". The one with the most unopposed candidates in the fall wants to close the primaries.

  21. Re:We've redefined success! on Mental Health Experts Seek To Block the Paths To Suicide · · Score: 1

    Listen bud, drop the hardman act and educate yourself on the real issues before mouthing off in public and making yourself look like an idiot again.

    I know more about the issues than you do. You can't attack the logic or facts, so you attack the person. All that proves is that you know that the facts and logic is against you. What, are you a deadbeat dad too?

    All the whiners are. Have some kids, abandon them, rant about your poor life choices, blaming everyone else, especially "that bitch".

  22. Re:We've redefined success! on Mental Health Experts Seek To Block the Paths To Suicide · · Score: 1

    The great thing is that with 50 states, some have bad laws. Rather than trying to target the bad ones, the associations of deadbeat dads get together to help them get worse, then lie and imply that tit's the case everywhere. But it's not. Some guy in Detroit or wherever has no impact on my situation. Paternity is biological-only in most places. So it's a non-issue for nearly everyone in the US (And probably everyone outside).

  23. Re:We've redefined success! on Mental Health Experts Seek To Block the Paths To Suicide · · Score: 1

    99% of men and women lose their homes in UK divorces? What?

    What's confusing? Every divorce I've had intimate knowledge of (mostly family members, including my parents), both parents lost the home. How is that hard to believe? With it being the largest asset, it's often liquidated to split up the estate. The divorces by the billionaires that make it on news often have one or more homes to each person, so neither is left homeless.

    I suggest you contact Fathers4Justice

    Nah, I know enough deadbead dads, I don't need to go out and try to hang around more of them. Bitter angry old men. How dare that bitch get treated fairly!

  24. Re:Maybe in a different country on Mental Health Experts Seek To Block the Paths To Suicide · · Score: 1

    Guns are used over a million times per year in this country for self defense.

    That would work out to about 1% of households a year are defended with a gun. That seems high. It means that if you live ling enough, it's almost certain you'll defend yourself with a gun. With less than 50%of households with a gun in them, that moves more to a 5% of gun owners use a gun defensively every year.

    You should use the FBI numbers, they will generate much less laughter.

  25. Re:Maybe in a different country on Mental Health Experts Seek To Block the Paths To Suicide · · Score: 1

    And nearly all business doors, where fire codes require that it open from the inside by pushing, regardless of whether it's locked from the outside. Not that I'd expect that in a residential bedroom, but there are plenty of situations with locks that are easy to open from the inside. The locks that can be twisted open from the inside are common. If you have two free hands, it adds 0 to the time to open it, and if you don't have two free hands, you aren't getting out easily. You have to unlock, and lock open the top lock (the one I'm thinking of is usually the top lock), then open the handle. Unless you lock it open, it auto-locks when closed.

    That you don't know what people use doesn't make it impossible, or even unusual.