Slashdot Mirror


User: 14erCleaner

14erCleaner's activity in the archive.

Stories
0
Comments
886
First seen
Last seen
Profile
(view on slashdot.org)

Comments · 886

  1. You can pay in two ways on MoviePass CEO Proudly Says App Tracks Your Location Before, After Movies (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    $10/month plus your location, or $10/movie. Your choice.

  2. Cultural Differences? on China Bans Letter N From Internet as Xi Jinping Extends Grip on Power (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Apparently in the Chinese calendar, April 1st falls on our February 28th.

  3. Re:Learn math on Ask Slashdot: How Would You Teach 'Best Practices' For Programmers? · · Score: 2

    Get yourself into meaningless arguments about trivial things like vi vs. emacs. Refuse to stop arguing, even when everyone else has left the room.

    God intended Man to put the opening bracket on the same line as the if statement. No corporate drone's so-called "standards" can convince me otherwise.

  4. Hey, did YOU make $3 million in 2016? Huh, did you? Didn't think so, Mr. Smarty-Pants!

  5. Re:The best of all three worlds! on Venezuela Launches Oil-Backed Cryptocurrency (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    This is the slickest CC to date!

    You mean greasiest...

  6. 10,000 days on Jeff Bezos Shares Video of 10,000-Year Clock Project (cnet.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I predict that money to guard it will run out in a few decades, after which it will be vandalized and plundered for metal, or occupied by survivalist squatters.

  7. Re:No on Learning To Program Is Getting Harder (slashdot.org) · · Score: 1

    Or maybe just look on the web? Jeez...My first programs were on a TI calculator, there are a million easier (and better documented) learn-to-program web sites out there now. Here's a Basic site, just as an example: http://www.calormen.com/jsbasi...

  8. Re:Anxiety started in 1966 on AIs Have Replaced Aliens As Our Greatest World Destroying Fear (qz.com) · · Score: 2

    It goes a lot further back than that. The 1921 play that coined the word "robot", R.U.R., ends with the robots exterminating humanity.

  9. Fake News! on Why Airports Rename Runways When the Magnetic Poles Move (wired.com) · · Score: 2

    Anthropomorphic magnetic pole shifting is a hoax! The poles have always been where they are, and the Fake Liberal Media just wants you to believe that they're moving to advance their left-wing agenda!

  10. Re:Uforgiveable on The Tech Failings of Hawaii's Missile Alert · · Score: 1

    "Missile alert" and "Missile alert Test". Both items give the same "are you sure" confirmation.

    Their fix will probably be to add an extra "are you REALLY sure?" confirmation to the real one.

    These guys probably stopped reading the text in the confirmation box years ago. It's easy to form bad habits like that.

  11. But... on Cities With Uber Have Lower Rates Of Ambulance Usage (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    What about Lyft? When Uber is consuming all the oxygen, Lyft might be the only thing to keep some patients alive.

  12. Or as it says in Proverbs (King James version): "There is treasure to be desired and oil in the dwelling of the wise; but a foolish man spendeth it up." Suckers have been around for millenia.

  13. Re:First Post? on Ask Slashdot: Are There Any Alternatives To Android Or iOS? · · Score: 1

    Well, clearly we should move. I mean, we're not getting the data we deserve!

  14. Re:First Post? on Ask Slashdot: Are There Any Alternatives To Android Or iOS? · · Score: 1

    The phone is unlocked, meaning it takes a SIM. She also had to buy a Republic SIM for $5, but could switch if she wants to. So far the quality and service are both fine, and it's hard to knock the cost.

  15. Re:First Post? on Ask Slashdot: Are There Any Alternatives To Android Or iOS? · · Score: 1

    But my wife just got a new unlocked Android Moto E for $120, and is using it on Republic Wireless for $20/month, unlimited calling and texts but no data other than wi-fi.

  16. First Post? on Ask Slashdot: Are There Any Alternatives To Android Or iOS? · · Score: 4, Informative

    No, there are no good alternatives.

  17. And in other Surprising News... on Cloud-Based Repository Leak Exposes 123 Million American Households (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    A private data analysis firm has detailed information on every American household.

  18. Facts schmacts. Stop trying to influence politics with reality.

  19. Send them to a class on Ask Slashdot: What's the Best Way to Retrain Old IT Workers? · · Score: 1

    I'd have them take an offsite week-long class on managing the systems you currently have. It's a good way to get some focus on learning the new system, and in my experience it's also a good way to keep somebody a little fresher at work - change is good, but sometimes you need a BIG change for a short period to get it kickstarted. Once they've been introduced in-depth to the new system, they can use google and stackoverflow to fill in details later, just like the rest of us do.

  20. Re:Bitcoin is stupid. on Steam Ends Support For Bitcoin (polygon.com) · · Score: 1

    At least if you bought a Beanie Baby, you had a stuffed animal.

  21. Exponential on 'Bitcoin Could Cost Us Our Clean-Energy Future' (grist.org) · · Score: 0

    You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

  22. Re: CIA Director doesn't trust the CIA? on Trump Is Looking at Plans For a Global Network of Private Spies (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Remember, you can't spell "Benghazi" without "AHHHHHHHH!!!!!!"

  23. Re:Reality of All Billionaires on The Winklevoss Twins Are Now Bitcoin Billionaires (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    What the hell would you actually buy with it?

    Today's stylish billionaire starts his own space program.

  24. Re:Obvious unimportant topic on There's A Cluster of 750 Raspberry Pi's at Los Alamos National Lab (insidehpc.com) · · Score: 1, Funny

    This will obviously be used to verify global warming, so it belongs here. Let's argue politics!

  25. Re:Security through obscurity? on Taking The Profit Out Of Killing 'Net Neutrality' (cringely.com) · · Score: 1

    Everybody doesn't have to know how to set up their own VPN, any more than they have to be able to fix their own plumbing. Yes, you and I are nerds who find this stuff interesting, but most people just want to watch cat videos and shop, not configure TCP/IP networks.