Slashdot Mirror


User: rubycodez

rubycodez's activity in the archive.

Stories
0
Comments
10,921
First seen
Last seen
Profile
(view on slashdot.org)

Comments · 10,921

  1. Re:Use Regularly Scheduled Leap Seconds on Leap Second May Be On the Chopping Block (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    No it doesn't, that's two graphs in one. The one graph shows a positive deviation to length of day (rotation slowing, day gets longer), and the other shows cumulative deviation from standard day (increasing in length over standard day so rotation slowing)

  2. Re:If I were king... on Leap Second May Be On the Chopping Block (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    a negative leap second might be needed, the spec includes them though they are less likely. the earth's axis of rotation moves and jumps. so don't count on each second being longer than the next. otherwise your subjects might revolt and pass a metallic plane perpendicular to your axis at your minimum radius

  3. Re:That's great news on New Artificial Fingerprints Feel Texture, Hear Sound (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    Reasonable protection against infection has existed for over 2,000 years. Condoms are old, old tech.

    Of course we could include the gay fellers, same statement applies I just forgot RealDoll comes in the dude version too (and transgendered chick with a stick)

    Marriage is optional, don't have to buy a cow to get milk.

  4. Re:Am I the only one that... on A Push To Ratify the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty? (thebulletin.org) · · Score: 1

    Go ahead and chug a shot of the mercury, elemental mercury will just go right through you with no worries. Compounds of mercury are a different matter.

  5. Re:rm -rf trolls? on Twitch Viewers Will Try To Collaboratively Install Arch Linux (twitchinstalls.com) · · Score: 0

    I totally optimized my install of Ubuntu with systemd by not putting that shit on my machine

    look at the stars at night, and realize the observable universe is roughly 10E-23 of the whole or less. Most stars have worlds around them. So the number of worlds is roughly 10^21 in the observable universe, or 10^44 in the whole (or even more). Ten with 44 zeros worlds that Lennart Poettering hasn't fucked up with systemd, 100,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 worlds that aren't cursed with his presence.

  6. Re:That's great news on New Artificial Fingerprints Feel Texture, Hear Sound (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    human female already has ridges and buds in many good places, who needs your RealDoll(tm) ?

  7. Re:Price tags are the greatest innovation of retai on Are Car Dealers a Business Worth Keeping? (vox.com) · · Score: 1

    so you're what p.t. barnum would call a "sucker"

    fool and his money are soon parted and all that

  8. Re:Price tags are the greatest innovation of retai on Are Car Dealers a Business Worth Keeping? (vox.com) · · Score: 1

    I've found small independent used dealerships care, cash is king. I think they don't get the benefits of the credit system the big guys do an have to take higher fee

  9. Re:Price tags are the greatest innovation of retai on Are Car Dealers a Business Worth Keeping? (vox.com) · · Score: 1

    I haggle for car prices and many other things. I'm not about to give up my freedom and ability for real capitalism because you're a pussy

  10. Re:How about IMPRISONING those responsible on $600k Fine Over Data Center Death (datacenterdynamics.com) · · Score: 1

    oh, so he did an electricians job, not being one, and killed himself

  11. Re:Am I the only one that... on A Push To Ratify the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty? (thebulletin.org) · · Score: 2

    The real world nuclear devices are not clean, even without counting fission primary they aren't even "fusion" weapons, but a fission-fusion positive feedback system. so half the energy comes from fission and half from fusion (again completely ignoring primary trigger)

    There are estimates of cancers and deaths from all that testing, the answer is they performed all those detonations and killed and maimed thousands. let's stop doing that, m'kay?

  12. Re:Testing is necessary on A Push To Ratify the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty? (thebulletin.org) · · Score: 1

    you gotta be kidding, those things run on backpack/suitcase nukes

  13. Re:How about IMPRISONING those responsible on $600k Fine Over Data Center Death (datacenterdynamics.com) · · Score: 1

    Medium voltage electricians are expected to be able to perform work under such conditions. He fucked up, now he's dead.

  14. happens all the time to more important things than your entertainment/news/bill paying feed

    is the power line to your house redundant? the water line? the sewer line? Cities have done without those for over a week and causes sickness, death, financial troubles, etc.

    but you go crying about the fucking internet pipe

  15. Re:Price tags are the greatest innovation of retai on Are Car Dealers a Business Worth Keeping? (vox.com) · · Score: 1

    Wrong headed thinking, the option to wheel and deal is more advanced, and can benefit everyone, and should be an option in our system

  16. Re:Republucans hate the vault on Doomsday Vault Opens To Give Seeds To Syria (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    we're talking about his foundation that funds corporate fascist interests, largely a Republican realm

  17. incorrect final sentence on US Senate Passes the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act 74-21 (dailydot.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Senators don't pass bills they know nothing about, they pass bills they see as having some sort of benefit. Benefits might be popularity, might be to appease donator, might be something darker. What benefit did they get from passing this and from whom? Who encouraged them to pass it?

  18. Re:The 1911A1 is still the most perfect pistol on Makers Compete To Produce US Army's Next Official Handgun (military.com) · · Score: 1

    I have some of each. Yes .45 ACP is a great caliber and Browning's is a genius design (a lot of people don't know you can use parts of the gun as tools as you disassemble it to take it ALL the way down to its individual pieces) , ahead of its time which is why its still a great and popular gun today BUT

    Real statistics gathered by authoritative sources indicate 9mm and 45 have equal stopping power given the best designed rounds of each. One edge a .45 has in is in accuracy since its a lower pressure round while the high pressure 9mm is much more sensitive to variations in...just about everything, it magnifies them. So handloading bullseye shooters such as myself shun 9mm for matches. But for self defense that's not a concern, handgun fight won't be against targets a block away or more....

    And by the way, 9mm standard military parabellum has *slightly* more stopping power than bog standard .45 ACP, higher kinetic energy seems to be important. Ubran legend will say otherwise but facts from real shootings are facts.

    Yes recoil spring got away from me twice in 25+ years of being firearms hobbyist, one time took out light bulbs and fixture over the dinner table. oops. at least that was before I was married, wives hate that. other gun designs allow disassembly with recoil spring relaxed.

    1911 blued steel is NOT as durable nor corrosion resistant as modern gun coatings. you can look up the ratings and testing methodologies for that. Someone on extended tour might not have the means to prevent rust

      There are modern gun designs with the features you like such as frame safety from Sig and Taurus, etc. Not that anyone should ditch their beloved .45, I'm keeping all mine too.

  19. Elephant in the room on Ubuntu 15.10 'Wily Werewolf' Released (omgubuntu.co.uk) · · Score: -1, Troll

    It has systemd. do not want

  20. Re:What will happen to the current guns? on Makers Compete To Produce US Army's Next Official Handgun (military.com) · · Score: 1

    the matches having 90 or more rounds were enough to foul quite a few people's "classic" (no 80s firing pin safety) 1911s. I handloaded my own rounds for a few matches to make cleanest rounds, found winchester 231 and beeswax lubed bullets made for very little residue. "bullseye" powder and normal bullet lube very dirty and much more likely to make the jams, as was any factory common factory ammo

  21. Re:What will happen to the current guns? on Makers Compete To Produce US Army's Next Official Handgun (military.com) · · Score: 1

    the slop is part of what keeps them working when dirty, match-tightened .45 are much more finicky as we bullseye match shooters know

    remember the average handgun gunfight distance is about 21 feet, a group size of a foot doesn't matter

  22. Re:Very impressive on Looking At the Hardware and Software of JAXA's Hayabusa-2 (imgtec.com) · · Score: 1

    Most NASA missions in the solar system were launched from USA rockets. when you're wrong, you're wrong

  23. Re:Desert Eagle on Makers Compete To Produce US Army's Next Official Handgun (military.com) · · Score: 1

    pffft, the desert pigeon. .45 Wildey Magnum for the win.

  24. Re:What will happen to the current guns? on Makers Compete To Produce US Army's Next Official Handgun (military.com) · · Score: 1

    you're funny, the world has had the influx of .45 for decades; very, very popular in many countries. Of course that will happen with the M9

    it won't make any difference in murder / crime rate though

  25. Re:yup, we need a more powerful standard weapon. on Makers Compete To Produce US Army's Next Official Handgun (military.com) · · Score: 1

    the very smallest nuclear weapons fit your criteria but have the downside you can't point them at someone's head.