Slashdot Mirror


User: louden+obscure

louden+obscure's activity in the archive.

Stories
0
Comments
221
First seen
Last seen
Profile
(view on slashdot.org)

Comments · 221

  1. Re:Now justify US prisons and treatment of POW's on Sleeping In Rooms With Even a Little Light Can Increase Risk of Depression, Study Finds (iflscience.com) · · Score: 1

    Shawshank Redemption == prison
    El Camino Christmas == jail

  2. Eventually debian will run out of toy story character names cept fer sid, and then what? Well it prolly won't happen in my lifetime but still...

  3. Re:What ever happened to defending unpopular speec on YouTube Is Full of Easy-To-Find Neo-Nazi Propaganda (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Keep your friends close, keep your enemies toaster. https://youtu.be/oLBojtg22nk

  4. I have debian stable running a mate DE. (and with compiz-fusion cuz eye candy). I can hover the mouse pointer over the network applet in my top panel and get my ip. Or i can click the network icon in the notification area in the same panel and get all sorts of info, all graphical. Or jeeze I can fire up an xterm and use the effin keyboard. Linux distros are not a one-size-fits-all answer where the default presentation is what you're stuck with.

  5. Re:Broadcom = buggy hardware on US Calls Broadcom's Bid For Qualcomm a National Security Risk (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    I have an example; the O.E.M. broadcom wi-fi card on my vostro 1500 would exhibit buggy behavior running debian stable with factory firmware and the b43 module. Sometimes the card would just "disappear' from the pci bus. The half-assed workaround/voodoo ritual I came up with was to shutdown the laptop, remove the battery, and hold down the on/off button for a few seconds then plug the battery back in and start it up normally and low and behold the firmware loaded and wi-fi connectivity would be enabled. So yeah, buggy AF. Anecdotal, and because not windows. Don't know, don't care, buggy is as buggy does.

    My ultimate solution was a less than five dollar intel wi-fi card. Woo hoo, n is way faster than g. And no more wtf where did the wi-fi card go moments.

  6. The good package or the big gun? on Scientists Say Space Aliens Could Hack Our Planet (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    So maybe the plot of "Real Men" isn't as far-fetched as it appeared back in the eighties?

  7. Roll up for the Mystery Tour on Two More 'SWAT' Calls in California -- One Involving a 12-Year-Old Gamer (ktla.com) · · Score: 1

    The world is going to hell in a handbasket and I'm unsure what to put in my carryon bag.
           

  8. With algorithm in the title on Hospitals May Turn To Algorithms To Fight Fatal Infections (scientificamerican.com) · · Score: 2

    I really thought there was going to be medical blockchains somewhere in the story. Maybe next week...

  9. "was formed by compressing water between two diamonds "

    So are fluids compressible or is this just a bad bit of paraphrasing?

  10. Maybe the medium is not the message on Are Music CDs Dying? Best Buy Stops Selling CDs (complex.com) · · Score: 1

    Recorded music is at best a close approximation of a live event. It may or may not be massaged/mangled by post production. My opinion is real music is experienced live. There are probably exceptions...Electric Ladyland comes to mind.

    I've been watching/listening to Postmodern Jukebox on youtube and the audio is only one component, the presentation is smile inducing. Babymetal's Gimme Chocolate video makes me smile.

    The evolution of recorded sound marches on. Good enough is always going to be good enough. Best will always be superseded by the next best.

  11. picture in picture on Camera Makers Resist Encryption, Despite Warnings From Photographers (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Would it take a rocket appliance to use steganography?

  12. Re: Congrats, Burger King Russia! on Burger King Now Has Its Own Cryptocurrency - the 'Whoppercoin' - in Russia (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    Or maybe Ricky's hash coins.

  13. Maybe I read the title wrong; it seems to imply some distant planet's atmosphere is 39 light years away from that planet.

  14. they discovered how to make Ice-9?

  15. A typical roofing system on a commercial building begins to fail inside twenty years. It costs a crapton of money to roof/re-roof a building when there are only a few obstacles. Now cover it with retrofitted solar panels; labor intensive at best. Nevermind that the building probably wasn't engineered for the additional weight. Providing that 80% of the required power is going to be very expensive.

  16. Re:I'll wait for a third party review... on Elon Musk: Tesla's Solar Roof Will Cost Less Than a Traditional Roof (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    Fiberglas shingles still incorporate asphalt as the waterproofing element.

  17. Re:don't trust uTorrent on Mr. Robot 'Plugs' uTorrent and Pirate Release Groups (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 2

    rtorrent and screen.

  18. I saw a visual studio reference in the summary.
    Why do the blind need a GUI? Or a monitor for that matter...
    Well three things then.

  19. Re:Patent pending fix on Star Trek Actor's Death Inspires Class Action Against Car Manufacturer (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    yuh, BMWs have a separate "P" button. To go backwards you push the shifter forward, not exactly a logical move but it does conform to the standard PRNDL pattern.

  20. huh? on Infographic: Ubuntu Linux Is Everywhere · · Score: 1

    Just seems to me they made a few marginal improvements to debian and colored it orange. I seriously don't get it.
           

  21. Re:Where Is Bob & Doug McKenzie on Canadian Startup Uses Trump to Lure Tech Workers (siliconbeat.com) · · Score: 1

    What about Ricky, Bubbles and Julian?
    What about Wayne and Darryl from Letterkenny?

  22. time to watch/re-watch Idiocracy on The Spread of Ignorance (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Mike Judge got it right.

  23. Doesn't matter on FBI Tells Local Law Enforcement It Will Help Unlock Phones (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 2

    The purpose of a lock is only to keep honest people honest.

  24. Re:Specific and Custom Linux on Reports: NVIDIA Launching a Distro of Its Own (phoronix.com) · · Score: 1

    You do understand, don't you, that nVidia has never provided OSS drivers for Linux? Their Linux drivers are nothing more than binary blobs that you can only install by booting into a CLI, then rebooting after the installation is complete. And, you have to do the exact same thing each and every time your kernel is updated. Yes, Fedora uses a simpler system, akmod-nvidia, but that's just a repackaging of the binary blob for those of us who don't want to reboot twice every time there's a new kernel.

    All I ever have needed to do is log into a console, kill the xserver, run the installer and restart the xserver. If you need to reboot to install modules for a running kernel you may be doing it wrong. I've been running debian with nvidia drivers for hardware acceleration because I like my compiz eye-candy .

    I have done the same with a laptop gentoo install.

  25. Re: There was no before on Are Some Things About the Universe Fundamentally Unknowable? (forbes.com) · · Score: 2

    The way she goes...