Slashdot Mirror


User: Camel+Pilot

Camel+Pilot's activity in the archive.

Stories
0
Comments
1,370
First seen
Last seen
Profile
(view on slashdot.org)

Comments · 1,370

  1. Re:God created man, man created robot on Machine Intelligence and Religion · · Score: 1

    Nobody should worship anybody based on faith.

    Memes demand faith - not real entities.

  2. Re:Encourage action, life not wasted on Ask Slashdot: Terminally Ill - What Wisdom Should I Pass On To My Geek Daughter? · · Score: 1

    F*ck Cancer.

    Indeed. The threat is here and yet we spend enormous resources on "defence" when we should be working on threats that have solutions.

  3. Sad to see him go... on Jon Stewart Leaving 'The Daily Show' · · Score: 1

    I doubt anyone could replace him. Maybe CK Lewis?

  4. Re:The strangest moon in the solar system is ours. on The Strangest Moon In the Solar System · · Score: 1

    Coincidence eh? Or is it that God wanted us to explore our world...

    "The Moon is unique in the solar system in its large relative size compared with the Earth. The Moon appears from the Earth to be the same size as the sun, in perfect artistic symmetry, unlike any known other planet-moon system. [...] To many Christians, these characteristics appear as "clues" or "hints" left by God for men to discover. [...] The Moon appears to have the same size as the Sun when viewed from Earth. This creates a unique symmetry and phenomenal solar eclipses. The odds of this occurring by chance are nearly zero"

    Conservapedia

  5. One fiber to rule them... on Google Fiber's Latest FCC Filing: Comcast's Nightmare Come To Life · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Why not just run one fiber, ditch all the copper, terminate it at the local POP and then allow various vendors access to that fiber and compete for my business?

  6. Re:Automated manufacturing on The Coming Decline of 'Made In China' · · Score: 1

    Automation increases the demand for engineers and scientists. Those technologies don't just appear or are supported out of thin air.

    The jobs being replaced by automation are mundane repetitive jobs - work that is demeaning for a human anyways. The problem impeding the rise of automation is that surplus humans are just cheaper robots.

  7. Re:Well That About Wraps It Up For God on Science Cannot Prove the Existence of God · · Score: 2

    The Bible needs to be taken in context of the time.

    Right a book written by humans that were stuck on worshiping an anthropomorphic ego-centric god.

    As well many of the moral stories still hold true.

    Such as women are property and that a father can sell his daughter in slavery if it pleases him? That it is moral to take virgin girls as war prizes?

  8. Blood pressure increases with decreasing temp on Being Colder May Be Good For Your Health · · Score: 2

    The summary claims "Good For Your Health" but only considers one aspect. Shame on them...

    http://www.webmd.com/hypertens...

  9. Dementia will get'm long before 120 on How Venture Capitalist Peter Thiel Plans To Live 120 Years · · Score: 1

    Or many of the other old age related diseases of which there is no treatment. Wishful thinking.

  10. KISS It on Ask Slashdot: Best Software For Image Organization? · · Score: 1

    I use a perl script and organize everything into YYYY/MM/DD directories and then links to another directory composed of sub-directories of tag names that I store in the exif.

  11. Re:Ok, let's hear all the stories how Seagate suck on Seagate Bulks Up With New 8 Terabyte 'Archive' Hard Drive · · Score: 1

    Boy I was about to post a Backblaze survey concerning enterprise vs consumer drives. I am so glad I waited until I read your post.

  12. Re:entrapment on Man Caught Trying To Sell Plans For New Aircraft Carrier · · Score: 1

    Entrapment? This wasn't a spur of the moment decision. The fellow actually followed through in deliver a 1 TB hard drive offering advice where to attach the ship. You are worried he might have been entrapped? Ludicrous.

  13. Re:Darwin Awards (security department) on Man Caught Trying To Sell Plans For New Aircraft Carrier · · Score: 1

    The guy was pointing out the vulnerable locations in the design. I doubt he was much of expert on that but he may be passing on more informed position on that matter. This guy should be sent away for a long time as you though nothing of endanger the lives of thousands of sailor for a few bucks and probably was motivated by hate.

  14. Escape velocity. on Philae Lands Successfully On Comet · · Score: 1

    The escape velocity is around 1 m/sec so it wouldn't take much to send the probe off again. A good jump from 67P would send you flying away (or maybe in orbit).

  15. Queequeg on Philae Lands Successfully On Comet · · Score: 2

    I can only hope they named the Harpood system Queequeg...

  16. Flickr on Philae Lands Successfully On Comet · · Score: 1

    Ahh here they are...

    https://www.flickr.com/photos/...

  17. More images... on Philae Lands Successfully On Comet · · Score: 1

    List of images....

    http://www.reuters.com/article...

    Hoping for some larger resolution of these. Fantastic the surface of a comet close up.

  18. Only 1-foot long? on New Particle Collider Is One Foot Long · · Score: 1

    And no one has mentioned outfitting these on friggen sharks yet?

  19. Re:as a perl wizard.... on The Effect of Programming Language On Software Quality · · Score: 1

    Indeed... From the fine paper

    "The remaining coefficients are significant and either positive or negative. For those with positive coefficients we can expect that the language
    is associated with, ceteris paribus, a greater number of defect fixes.These languages include C, C++, JavaScript, Objective-C,
    Php, and Python. The languages Clojure, Haskell, Ruby, Scala, and TypeScript, all have negative coefficients implying that these languages are less likely than the average to result in defect fixing commits
    "

    Although not mentioned by name Perl's coefficient was -.15

  20. Re:banking websites on Password Security: Why the Horse Battery Staple Is Not Correct · · Score: 2

    Not effective. Proxies are too easy.

  21. Give me a civilian CAC already on Password Security: Why the Horse Battery Staple Is Not Correct · · Score: 1

    Why haven't we moved to using smart cards to access important sites like on-line banking? A smart certificate card + pin provides much better security.

  22. Re:Geany on Comparison: Linux Text Editors · · Score: 2

    Vote here for geany also...

    In my recent switch from Windows to Centos for my desktop/development computer I was missing an editor on par with notepad++. Found geany and I haven't looked back. Excellent all around.

  23. Cancerous tumor. on Western US States Using Up Ground Water At an Alarming Rate · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Some time ago I remember reading about a proposal to building an aquaduct from the Snake River in Idaho to Southern California. It reminded me of the metaphor that when a cancerous tumor grows unchecked it will commadeer local blood vessels for its own use.

  24. House boat and lake Pend Oreille on Train Derailment Dumps Two 737 Fuselages Into Clark Fork River · · Score: 1

    Two of them? Great would make an awesome houseboat. I wonder if you they would sell them for scrape.

  25. Are you referring to reg exp? If so... it is you loss for not understanding reg exp.