Slashdot Mirror


User: Meski

Meski's activity in the archive.

Stories
0
Comments
1,825
First seen
Last seen
Profile
(view on slashdot.org)

Comments · 1,825

  1. Re:fucking krauts on Germany Is Burning Too Much Coal (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Japan could ride the Fukushima disaster relatively good. Look on a map ... if something like that happens in Germany, our country will end up as "non existing anymore". Idiot!

    Then I want to see which European nations take up 40 million refugees ...

    Yes, *do* look on the map. Japan's on 'the ring of fire' and is an island, Tsunamis will happen. Germany is not coastal, is not on the ring of fire.

  2. including wearables on Honolulu Now Fines People Up To $99 For Texting While Crossing Road (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Like Google Glass (heh) watches, etc?

  3. I have had a person in my family who was in an accident where someone was killed. He was completely not at fault...

    And you know this because the victim didn't dispute the police report.

    Sadly, the police tend to be biased against bicyclists and pedestrians for "getting in the way" of cars. There was a time when jaywalking wasn't a crime, but then cars came and ruined the streets for everyone.

    Streets would've been dirt lanes or similar without cars to drive the infrastructure demand.

  4. Re:Beleivable on Kaspersky Admits To Reaping Hacking Tools From NSA Employee PC (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    What really worries me here is that Kaspersky apparently deleted the NSA malware and source code once they realized what it was. They should have analyzed it, generated signatures and published details.

    Doing that with Officially Classified materials has legal consequences. For example, I assume employees of Kaspersky want to be able to travel outside of Russia without getting arrested and imprisoned. And to be able to travel to the US for security conferences.

    Does the NSA know Kaspersky's signature algorithm, and do they check the signatures 'their' code produces in Kaspersky's malware signature list?

  5. We on Ask Slashdot: Where Do Old Programmers Go? · · Score: 1

    fall to bits

  6. The thing that I find interesting is that it ought to be possible to build vapes to not have these problems. We know how to safely produce aerosols, we know pretty damn well how to predict what alterations will happen with heating, and analytical chemistry exists. Instead we just get complaining.

    Well, yes. we do make safe medical inhalers (asthma style) - adapt one of them to dispense nicotine.

  7. Sure, but the (accepted) process of ingesting coffee doesn't involve me misting it around me as I inbibe it. (unless I read something funny on the internet)

  8. Re:USA = harmful on US Preparing to Put Nuclear Bombers On 24-Hour Alert (defenseone.com) · · Score: 1

    Australians say Austria is welcome to his odious reputation.

  9. Hey, Hollywood on US Preparing to Put Nuclear Bombers On 24-Hour Alert (defenseone.com) · · Score: 1

    Isn't it time we had a reboot of Dr Strangelove? Good luck with finding anyone as good as Peter Sellers though.

  10. Re:Whatever on Google Maps Ditches Walking Calorie Counter After Backlash (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    There are many Type II diabetics out there who are controlling their blood sugar with drugs that have the unfortunate side effect of increasing their appetite. This makes it very difficult for them to avoid weight gain. I'd think that having an app that counts how many calories you're burning, especially one that you can't turn off, would be very unpleasant for them because of the implication that they could get rid of that extra weight "if they only tried harder."

    <Puts hand up>

    yes, but you're unlikely to manage your weight issues just by exercise. You *have* to eat less as well. An app that suggests exercise alone will fix your problems is counterproductive. And then there's BMR, which might exceed your calorific exercise burn. Get an app that does it all, and not a half-arsed one that just monitors exercise. And if you're T2, and you *are* gaining, it's just going to get worse, as you're going to need ever increasing amounts of those drugs that make you hungry. FWIW, Byetta got me off that positive feedback treadmill, to mix some metaphors.

  11. Re:About time! on 64-bit Firefox is the New Default on 64-bit Windows (mozilla.org) · · Score: 1

    All the corporates who won't shift from x86 to x64 Office. Which trickles thru to other apps that do calls into Office, and the shitty stuff that happens when you do calls between the two models.

  12. Re: Good Job on Neo-Nazi Site The Daily Stormer Moves To Dark Web After Shutdown (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    It isn't a valid form of truth, but what happens if most people are acting as if their perceptions are the truth?

  13. Re:And before anyone starts on GoDaddy Expels Neo-Nazi Site Over Article On Charlottesville Victim (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    It'd end up in court. https://scontent-syd2-1.xx.fbc...

  14. Another bloody service to subscribe to. I'd sooner have one that did everything, than have to take out a sub for every producer of content.

  15. Re:A $750 DVR on Millennials Unearth an Amazing Hack to Get Free TV: the Antenna (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    Is Tivo still running there? (they're cancelling the service here (AU) from the end of October))

  16. Re:If you color the tip of the antenna with a on Millennials Unearth an Amazing Hack to Get Free TV: the Antenna (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    Thought it was the (Panasonic??) green line tuning system. (where you fine tuned it for narrowest green stripe on the screen)

  17. Retina scan, if it's an Apple.

  18. Re:electronics posing as bombs? on Travelers' Electronics At US Airports To Get Enhanced Screening, TSA Says (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    Anthropomorphising. I'm fairly sure objects can't pose.

  19. Re:consumer-grade encryption is that on Feds Crack Trump Protesters' Phones To Charge Them With Felony Rioting (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 1

    Do I see honeyed words?

  20. The researcher should be able to do it whilst holding his beer. Consider it a fair handicap for Windows.

  21. In a drivethru, they have trouble understanding *standard* orders, let alone customised ones. I'm wondering if a machine would let you order something like a deep fried OJ. Do'nt want to be too close to that ...

  22. Re:What happens? on What Happens To Summer TV Binges If Hollywood Writers Strike (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Perhaps they wen't on strike ten years ago, and no-one noticed that they never went back...

  23. Telstra on Ask Slashdot: Could We Build A Global Wireless Mesh Network? · · Score: 1

    Telstra look to be attempting this with Air. (using a combination of dedicated WIFI and guest networks from their ISP clients) DOesn't seem to have taken off enough. https://www.telstra.com.au/bro...

  24. So, security by obscurity, but in reverse.

  25. Re:American problem is American on Scientists Invent Ultrasonic Dryer That Uses Sound To Dry Your Clothes (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    Good ... someone that doesn't say "being sat in the washer"