Slashdot Mirror


User: strikethree

strikethree's activity in the archive.

Stories
0
Comments
3,499
First seen
Last seen
Profile
(view on slashdot.org)

Comments · 3,499

  1. Re:Wow $100 Million on Tech Giants Donate $750 Million In Goods and Services To Underprivileged Schools · · Score: 1

    You need to duck. That Whoooooshing sound that you heard could be dangerous. ;)

  2. Re:Time for Solidarity? on Skilled Foreign Workers Treated as Indentured Servants · · Score: 1

    This payment pretty much sucks up all expendable income normally used for living expenses.

    Mission accomplished it would seem.

  3. Re:Small Government Mandate on Help a Journalist With An NFC Chip Implant Violate His Own Privacy and Security · · Score: 1

    Actually the US has a "pay-behind" Social Security system. Each generation pays for the previous generation's Social Security benefits, so no, it wasn't "her money".

    Well, actually, until 1980, it was NOT a pay-behind system. It was not until congress looted the Social Security in 1980 that it became pay-behind. It is criminal. It was her money.

  4. Re:Stop developing 64bit on OEM Windows 7 License Sales End This Friday · · Score: 1

    Read this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P...

    Very interesting stuff. I would have rather went straight to 64 but, but climbing upwards is rarely pretty.

  5. Re:Stop developing 64bit on OEM Windows 7 License Sales End This Friday · · Score: 1

    Interesting. I took this opportunity to check and it appears that XP SP2 does support PAE. I did not know that. I was mistaken because even with PAE, XP will still only support 4GB. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-u...

    Regardless, the discussion has been quite illuminating. Thank you.

  6. Re:Stop developing 64bit on OEM Windows 7 License Sales End This Friday · · Score: 1

    Ouch. You did not have to go full-on dick mode. It is possible to have a civilized discussion about this:

    The MC68000 was a fake 32 bit chip. It had 32 bit data registers but only a 16 bit bus with 24 bit memory pointers; therefore, it is arguable that the "bitness" of a CPU is determined by the width of its memory registers/data bus.

    A CPU with 32 bit data registers but a 36 bit width bus is arguably not a true 32 bit CPU.

    Regardless, you were trying to be overly pedantic when you responded to

    32 bit cannot utilize more than 4GB ram.

    when he (she?) was responding to

    There is no earthly benefit to running Windows as 64bit

    which obviously is about XP or Win7 32 bit. Only Server 2003 and Server 2008 non-R2 had PAE capabilities... which would make his statement correct: 32 bits can not represent a number larger than 4GB.

  7. Re:Stop developing 64bit on OEM Windows 7 License Sales End This Friday · · Score: 1

    What you said did not refute that 32 bit can not utilize more than 4GB. PAE is 36 bit, not 32.

  8. Re:interesting, questionable on A Library For Survival Knowledge · · Score: 1

    Finally, it lacks a section of advanced technology.

    http://www.phy.davidson.edu/in...

    I HIGHLY recommend these.

  9. Re:Really? on CHP Officers Steal, Forward Nude Pictures From Arrestee Smartphones · · Score: 1

    The reason this sickness is so prevalent in society is that we tolerate it and fail to condemn it strongly enough.

    No. It is condemned strongly enough. That is not why it happens.

    The reason why it happens is because American Society is a puritanical society and sexual behavior is severely repressed. THAT is why we have so many people who are sick.

  10. Re:Baumgartner took too much credit on Computer Scientist Parachutes From 135,908 Feet, Breaking Record · · Score: 1

    The right reason is: It was done for fun or curiosity.

    Everything else is failure.

  11. Re:Employees who can "just figure it out" on Employers Worried About Critical Thinking Skills · · Score: 1

    What is the general type of work (I already understand there is some programming architecture stuff)? What is the pay scale? What is the location? Seriously. I want to know if it is worthwhile to send you my resume.

  12. Re:Read the interview on Machine Learning Expert Michael Jordan On the Delusions of Big Data · · Score: 1

    The whole article goes on in a very similar manner. Science reporters used to have something called "journalistic integrity". Here we get a click-bait article where a "reporter" has predetermined a topic that will gain lots of hits and is desperately trying to fit the interviewees words into his agenda.

    So what you are saying is that it is a slightly better than average news story since it was the reporter rather than a direct government employee deciding the slant.

  13. Re:Start rant here on GNU Emacs 24.4 Released Today · · Score: 1

    Like so many things in emacs, this is probably easy to fix if only you spoke lisp ;)

    I can't thpeak lithp becauthe I have a lithp.

  14. Re:Can we stop trying to come up with a reason? on NPR: '80s Ads Are Responsible For the Lack of Women Coders · · Score: 1

    I also see how much women today STILL have to fight just to get listened to in a meeting, let alone how they have to be able to put up with a myriad of small indignities.

    So what if women have to fight to be heard. SO DO MEN. What? You think all men are alpha males that stomp around and lead the pack? I got news for you, the pack is a bunch of people who were not strong enough or fortunate enough to be the leader. Want to be at the top of the pack? You have to fight for it. Women are not good at fighting? Sucks to be you.

    This is no longer about "being held back". This is crying about the way the world works. People fight for dominance. When you become the dominant one, you can try to change it but then the next most dominant person will replace you. This is a world of Might Makes Right.

    Like it? Fuck no, but stop trying to convince me that women need me to step aside so they can have theirs. That is not how it works. They need to reach out and grab it. If I do not, I starve and die. If women do not, they can always fall back on having a man to give them stuff... but I support them choosing to starve and die instead. At least they have another option... and maybe THAT is why so many do NOT fight to get "theirs". For men, it is a battle for survival. For women, it is only a battle for self-determination.

    All of the female first people are about to get their asses handed to them by all of the not-dominant males that they are stomping on.

  15. Re:Hey Verizon, can you hear us NOW! on 32 Cities Want To Challenge Big Telecom, Build Their Own Gigabit Networks · · Score: 1

    It's already socialism, because the big Telcos and cable providers have a government-protected monopoly.

    No. That is closer to Fascism.

  16. Re:Not my LG... on Which Android Devices Sacrifice Battery-Life For Performance? · · Score: 1

    If at all possible, I would recommend rooting your phone and killing/removing apps. You could also try Cyanogenmod if it is supported on your device... which it likely is.

  17. Re:Unity is rubbish. Systemd is rubbish on Ubuntu Turns 10 · · Score: 1

    You are trolling.

    Discuss.

  18. Re:Ho-lee-crap on The Largest Ship In the World Is Being Built In Korea · · Score: 1

    Wait wait wait! It gets even MORE radical when you consider that they are also building 100 other ships AT THE SAME TIME. Oy oy oy. 46 thousand employees indeed. It must be an amazing dance to watch. It sounds like they have some great management there too if they are sustaining this kind of work.

  19. Re:If you want results from the web on If You're Connected, Apple Collects Your Data · · Score: 1

    Anything to help the user is best.

    Won't someone think of the children, erm um, user?

    It is downright invasive to do such things without the user knowing about and being able to control such things.

    Granted, it is potentially a nice service to offer. Forcing such privacy violations on EVERYONE without recourse is just evil. No excuses.

  20. Re:This won't stop until we are in chains on Trans-Pacific Partnership May Endanger World Health, Newly Leaked Chapter Shows · · Score: 1

    While I can see the temptation, it isn't going to work so well. That war was of states verses states, with access to military hardware on both sides. A revolution in the US today would consist of semi-organised armies of volunteers with rifles verses a government with long-range artillery, bomber aircraft, advanced intelligence-gathering equipment and much more powerful fully-automatic assault rifles.

    Erm, yeah. So how did less than a thousand Islamic State "fighters" just defeat a state (Iraq) sponsored force 10 times their size when the state sponsored force has all of the stuff you seem so fearful of? You seem to think it will be a simple us vs them battle whereas the truth is that the "us" and "them" are both part of the same government. You do not think that some general will command his people to defend citizens from a government assault or that some FBI analyst might pass information about upcoming ops to the rag-tag bunch of high school students fighting for freedom in the foothills of Colorado? Etc etc. The personal weapons are just a prerequisite.

  21. Re:Meh on Google Announces Motorola-Made Nexus 6 and HTC-Made Nexus 9 · · Score: 1

    Why couldn't they have hit the sweet spot - 5", 1080p, and focused on camera quality & battery life?

    Erm... My Nexus 5 is about 5 inches. It has 1080p. The camera seems pretty good. If my phone idles for 14 hours is still has 93% battery left.

    Isn't the Nexus 5 what you really want? It is dirt cheap too.

  22. Re:I don't get the rage on How Women Became Gamers Through D&D · · Score: 1

    I for one have decided to 'check-out' from games; I'm no longer spending any money on games with anyone for anything. I'm not pushing a boycott, I've just decided that the well has been so poisoned, that I don't want to be supporting anyone with my custom.

    Just play games. Ignore them. Do what YOU want to do. Just play games. You are in control of your life, not them. They are outside. You are inside. Just play games.

    Fuck 'em.

  23. Re:Don't bother with AP CS on Despite Push From Tech Giants, AP CS Exam Counts Don't Budge Much In Most States · · Score: 1

    One of the best things about AP Computer Science is that you get some good experience with recursion, inheritance, interfaces, class design --- more advanced topics that you might not encounter as a self-educated programmer

    As a self taught programmer, some of the most enlightening things I learned were algorithms and data structures. These are the ones generally missed by many of the self taught people that I have met. No, Big O notation has nothing to do with Office Space and Jennifer Aniston while Red and Black trees have nothing to do with Christmas.

    I did not, and still do not really like recursion, but I do find tail recursion useful at times. Very elegant. Object Oriented stuff... is useful but I prefer to stay in C and ASM and use function pointers instead of strictly defined objects.

  24. Re:More information: on Z Machine Makes Progress Toward Nuclear Fusion · · Score: 1

    Can you imagine if we put the war on drugs budget against fusion power instead? If we had started 40 years ago we might already have it.

    Control of people is more important than control of energy. I feel certain the rulers of this world would be happy to go back to stone age living conditions if the alternative would mean losing control.

  25. Re:What makes you think on Ask Slashdot: VPN Setup To Improve Latency Over Multiple Connections? · · Score: 1

    Nope. If I am understanding the situation correctly, there is only one connection from his server at the datacenter to the Battlefield server. The "duplicate" streams are handled before they ever leave his own datacenter server. I see no reason why this could not be accomplished since he controls both endpoints... but AFAIK, he would need to write his own networking stack. It seems that what he wants is a bit outside of the protocol specs and can not be handled "automatically".