Slashdot Mirror


User: Joce640k

Joce640k's activity in the archive.

Stories
0
Comments
11,688
First seen
Last seen
Profile
(view on slashdot.org)

Comments · 11,688

  1. Re:That's ok on German Police Mock 'Not Very Clever' ATM Robbers (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    That's ok, so long as there are no guns in the country, then the country is safe.

    There's a LOT of guns in Germany.

  2. Re:he bet on the winner on Peter Thiel Is Joining Donald Trump's Transition Team (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Letting big corporations and the rich run and control everything also results in abuses of power.

    Yep. The problem is that people have elected Donald Trump to try and "fix" this problem.

    The real fix would have been "none of the above".

  3. Re:he bet on the winner on Peter Thiel Is Joining Donald Trump's Transition Team (theverge.com) · · Score: 0, Troll

    The funny thing is that that bullying is what may have led to the polls being so wrong about this election. Many Trump supporters were so scared of being labeled racist, sexist, homophobe, blah, blah for merely supporting Trump that they kept their support secret and avoided pollsters.

    That doesn't mean they aren't racist, sexist, homophobes, etc., it just means they were secret racist, sexist, homophobes.

    No matter what the reasons, stupidity won out. We now have a President For Narcissism And Stupidity.

  4. Re: he bet on the winner on Peter Thiel Is Joining Donald Trump's Transition Team (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Coal isn't dying because of politics. It is dying because of cheap shale gas. Coal is not coming back.

    If Trump can make coal cheaper to kill a wind farm near one of his holiday homes, he will.

  5. Re: he bet on the winner on Peter Thiel Is Joining Donald Trump's Transition Team (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Oh noes! He's going to allow pipes to carry oil instead of those so much more environmental methods such as trucks and trains!

    The (monetary) expense of those trucks and trains is preventing a lot of oil being burned. It's a net gain.

    If we make it much cheaper for people to burn oil then they'll do so. That's not an improvement.

  6. Re:Enough rope for impeachment on Peter Thiel Is Joining Donald Trump's Transition Team (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Selling a particular, high cost mitigation approach hard while ignoring other reasonable approaches such as adaptation (and combinations of mitigation and adaptation) is evidence of such propaganda.

    And... which "reasonable approach such as adaptation (and combinations of mitigation and adaptation)" has Trump indicated he might support?

  7. Re:It's that other 2% that is the problem... on Tesla Tells Germany that 98% of Drivers Don't Find the Term 'Autopilot' Misleading (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    We're assuming Tesla's survey is accurate.

    More likely that the questions asked were misleading and worded in a way that gave Tesla the result they wanted.

    Either that or they went to pilot schools all over the country to find interview subjects.

  8. Re:Oh, god damn it. on Trump Picks Top Climate Skeptic To Lead EPA Transition (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 1

    America, seriously, what in the actual fuck have you done.

    What ever the fuck we want. If you don't like it you can go fuck yourself.

    Yes, we know WHY you did it (you all think you're Texans).

    The question was: "Do you know what you've done?"

  9. how much of that $800K/shell is from sunk costs like R&D that has already been spent.

    Who cares? The point is that somebody sat down and thought it would be OK to build this at taxpayer expense.

  10. Yeah, this. OK so I know it's 8AM on the US west coast where my daughter lives, and in Japan where my MIL lives, and in the Czech Republic where my parents are. That still doesn't tell me a damn thing about what time it is over there - can I call them? Are they home? At work?

    This is an idiotic solution to a problem that doesn't exist.

    It's like the Tennessee legislature passing a law that pi equals 3.

    And... if we all have the same times on our watches you STILL won't know what time they get up, what time they go to bed, etc.

    Or were you proposing we all adjust our lifestyles to match your own personal agenda?

  11. But first, can we finally kill the pointless, arbitrary, and downright absurd concept of daylight "savings"?

    No, lets start with metric measurements.

  12. Re:There's a simple way to reduce the defense budg on Long-Range Projectiles For Navy's Newest Ship Too Expensive To Shoot (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    True.

    Most of the people signing up for ISIS are doing because ISIS pays well, not because they really, really believe in Allah/Islam/etc.

  13. perhaps if you bring the jets the UK can...

    Are there any operational F35s to bring?

  14. OMG! Who touched Tasha?

  15. Re:Want to know why we don't have flying cars yet? on Long-Range Projectiles For Navy's Newest Ship Too Expensive To Shoot (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    The military also spins off a lot of technology, networks for instance.

    Really? None of that would have been invented without blowing things up?

  16. Re:Cost of the target. on Long-Range Projectiles For Navy's Newest Ship Too Expensive To Shoot (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Yep. I'm more worried that they'd have been perfectly happy paying $80,000 per bullet (that was the design!)

    And that only half of them would land within 50 meters of the target. That's WWI accuracy from GPS-guided bullets that cost nearly $1 million each.

    Also ... that they're about to spend a crapload more money refitting some freshly-built ships that don't have any bullets for their guns when taking them out to sea and making large holes in their bottoms is probably a much more sensible thing to do. At this point in history all they really need is something capable of launching drones.

  17. Re:170 miles range from just 30 minutes, you meant on New Tesla Buyers Will Have To Pay To Use Superchargers (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    30 minutes to go 170 miles you say? Amazing. It took me about 2 minutes to "recharge" so I can go 220 miles.

    Do you have your own charging station at home or did you have to waste 30 minutes driving to a special place to do that? (and how much charge did that use?)

  18. Re: Typical Elon Musk bait and switch on New Tesla Buyers Will Have To Pay To Use Superchargers (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Whoosh.

  19. Re:He asked Microsoft for help? on Microsoft Promises To Defend World Chess Champion From Russian Hackers (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Isn't it as simple as "unplug the cable"?

  20. Re:Fatties on A Naked Black Hole Is Screaming Through the Universe (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 2

    And how come you can hear them screaming if they're in space?

  21. Sure...if all you need is Firefox.

    This sort of behavior by Microsoft seems like an excellent opportunity for anti-malware vendors to step in. I Wonder if anybody is offering anto-Win10 protection.

  22. Re: Simple on Here We Go Again: Microsoft's Popping Up Ads From the Windows 10 Toolbar (pcworld.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Windows 7 still has majority market share my a large margin. Programs will still be working for quite a while.

  23. Re:Not Surprising on Windows 7 and 8.1 Are Gaining More New Users Than Windows 10 (digitaltrends.com) · · Score: 1

    Also they did away with the flashy Windows 7 UI and replaced it with rectangles - another performance improvement that I don't mind. I like minimal, simple things.

    You really think that drawing rectangles is the reason it's faster?

    Do you even have any idea what a graphics card is?

  24. Re:Thanks Apple on Future iPhones Could Fold In Half (geek.com) · · Score: 1

    And that's why Apple is getting patents on folding phones, because they're so creative and they're going to have patented rounded corners, wow, how creative is THAT, huh, Samsung could never compare to Apple which has phones that fold in half and rounded corners! /sarc - I think

    Apple is in for a surprise when they arrive at the patent office. Samsung has already patented folding phones.

    http://www.digitaltrends.com/m...

  25. Re:DGW - Dinosauric Global Warming on Study Links Human Actions To Specific Arctic Ice Melt (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    So we have a length and width, but no height. So say we assume a height of 1um...doesn't seem like much ice.

    Arctic ice floats, at any given point in the arctic there's either ice or water.

    "One football field" less ice means "one football field" more water.

    It's not difficult to understand.