Slashdot Mirror


User: cthulhu11

cthulhu11's activity in the archive.

Stories
0
Comments
2,247
First seen
Last seen
Profile
(view on slashdot.org)

Comments · 2,247

  1. The cheeto has demonstrated that over and over. His merchandizing and his daughter-wife's aren't made in the US, for example.

    But I do have to note that "the death penalty is the appropriate punishment for their behavior" is ironic, since it really applies to Rubio and Cotton themselves.

  2. Re:Well now we know how the cat is doing on Giant African Baobab Trees Die Suddenly After Thousands of Years (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Hooray for snakes!

  3. ... or by eating meat. How many of those named above do so? Yeah....

  4. Re: How surprising,... on Suicide Rates Are Up 30 Percent Since 1999, CDC Says (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    How much a part of the problem are you? What did you eat for supper?

  5. s/ten/twenty/

    Lots of jobs at Amazon -- if you're an H1-B. Good luck if you're a citizen or >30 -- when I interviewed with them it was obvious I never had a chance.

  6. In Seattle I hired Millionair Club guys like this repeatedly, though admittedly those were self-selected for wanting day labor.

  7. Re:Smartphone vs home theater on Dolby Looking To Monopolize Consumer Audio By Restricting Its Codec (audioholics.com) · · Score: 1

    Atmos is mostly an attempt to goose sales into a saturated durable-goods market -- much like 3D TV and 4k.

    Few people will ever care about Atmos, which adds yet more speakers for subtle effects for which there is little content available - and likely won't be for a long time if ever.

    Lots of people care about 5.1, which is simply classic "surround sound" with a subwoofer. "Height Virtualized" sounds to me like contriving something to send to the extra Atmos channels for non-native content, just so someone who's shelled out the bucks for yet another receiver and set of speakers can feel like they're getting something out of it.

    As weasely as this sounds, it will have very little actual impact. And for sure the intersection of Atmos and eg. soundbar consumers is going to be miniscule.

    I use my 5.1 speakers "properly" all the time. No idea WTF the GP is on about, though I'll speculate that it's an obsessive rant about wanting 11 full-bitrate audio channels, sorta like FLAC fanbois times ten.

  8. Re:Amazon should be responsible on Judge Rules Amazon Isn't Liable For Damages Caused By a Hoverboard It Sold (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    We can only make decisions based on products that are actually available.

    If everyone who makes paint puts lead in it, what is the GP's "simple solution"?

    If Amazon truly knew that this product was dangerous, then yeah they have no excuse for continuing to sell it. I've in the past encountered items on Amazon that the vendor misrepresented, that Amazon would not take down listings for. Eg. a medical device with a description and photo that clearly identified one manufacturer, but they shipped a vastly inferior and unusable product made by someone else.

  9. Re:Capitalists no more? on Trump Orders a Lifeline For Struggling Coal and Nuclear Plants (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    So, like, the "free market" that Republicans say they want?

    Funny how that works.

  10. Re:Why not stereo? on Apple May Introduce a Triple-Camera iPhone This Year (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 1

    Viewable with ... ? About as useful as a 3D TV.

  11. Re:I'm a bit of an Emacs fan. on Emacs 26.1 Released With New Features (lwn.net) · · Score: 1

    TFS is clueless. GNUmacs was released 33 years ago, not 42.

    Before then we had the original TECO/PDP-10 EMACS, Gosling's EMACS (first on Unix), Unipress EMACS (I still use keybindings from gosmacs/unipress), microemacs / mg, JOVE, Epsilon, even MINCE which hopefully none of you suffered with.

  12. Re:That's great, but ... on Walmart Offers To Foot College Tuition Bills for US Employees (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Three schools. How many Mal-Wart employees? If those schools aren't accredited, such a "degree" is worthless.

  13. Re:You need the lesson on Ask Slashdot: Did Baby Boomers Break America? (time.com) · · Score: 1

    >If you do hold any major debt, pay that off BEFORE you make any major purchase. If you're not doing that, then your priorities are stupid: Why the fuck are you delaying the payment just so you can pay more interest? Stupid. Even with 3% interest, a 30 year loan means you're going to pay 3 times the total principal of your house.

    When house prices grow at 12% a year, and income doesn't, waiting means that one may well never be able to buy a house at all.

    Sounds like you don't have an ex-wife or a family, and live in an area with a lard-based diet.

  14. Re: Swap the twitter phone while he sleeps on Trump Ignores 'Inconvenient' Security Rules To Keep Tweeting On His iPhone, Says Report (politico.com) · · Score: 1

    So he demanded that HRC be jailed because she was clueless about which email server she was using, but he himself commits this deliberate violation.

    Funny how that works.

  15. Re:funny when Trumpies try deflecting from Mueller on Trump Personally Pushed Postmaster General To Double Rates on Amazon, Other Firms: Report (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Clearly you haven't been paying attention.

  16. Re:funny when Trumpies try deflecting from Mueller on Trump Personally Pushed Postmaster General To Double Rates on Amazon, Other Firms: Report (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    >You cannot charge a president with a crime while in office.

    What about a führer?

  17. Re:Homelessness on Amazon Threatens To Move Jobs Out of Seattle Over New Tax (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    This has already been done. Over the last 15 years the city has become rife with cookie-cutter mixed-use monstrosities. Which are still expensive.

    Buying a home isn't just the monthly payment, it's also scraping together a sizeable downpayment along with the downplayed racket that is PMI.

  18. Re:Curriculum on Carnegie Mellon Launches Undergraduate Degree In AI (cmu.edu) · · Score: 1

    And back in the day they refused to even offer an undergrad degree in CS. Funny how they change their minds.

  19. Re: This article is wrong on The Rise of the Pointless Job (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    I would hate being paid hourly. In most cases Iâ(TM)ve seen it would result in a net reduction of take-home. It means less accounting for me and the company, and I know how much Iâ(TM)ll make next month. And I can go to a school thing or be sick and still pay the mortgage.

    Nobody forces me to overwork.

  20. Strange, in the past I've filed advance replacements from Seagate.

  21. Re: $10/month on PSA: Amazon Will Increase Price of Prime To $119 (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    It's easy when one works from home.

  22. Re:Corporate rights on Trump Administration Plans To Freeze Obama-Era Fuel Standards (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Funny how that happens.
    They talk about waste and inefficiency, but are silent on how having 50 governments duplicate efforts is better than having one.

  23. Re: $10/month on PSA: Amazon Will Increase Price of Prime To $119 (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Not having to schlep a cart load of tp every month alone is worth the cost.

  24. Because there is no viable alternative for doing our jobs. And because most laptops donâ(TM)t travel much, an external keyboard is common.

  25. Re:Crimes against humanity on Doctors Tried To Lower $148K Cancer Drug Cost; Makers Tripled Its Price (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    We do this with a med my son takes. Insurance won't cover it without wasting months on "step therapy" using cheaper meds that have been medically demonstrated won't work for him. So we buy the adult dose OOP and split it in 4. We shouldn't have to.