Slashdot Mirror


User: Arancaytar

Arancaytar's activity in the archive.

Stories
0
Comments
3,630
First seen
Last seen
Profile
(view on slashdot.org)

Comments · 3,630

  1. Re:The Last Straw on Monthly Ubuntu Releases Proposed · · Score: 1

    I think that was the joke. ;)

  2. AWESOME! on Monthly Ubuntu Releases Proposed · · Score: 2, Insightful

    And each month, please change to a new window manager! And add some new wonderful default settings that are SO MUCH BETTER than whatever some idiot user like me might have customized to what he mistakenly thought fit his needs best! Particularly when it comes to the default internet applications, please reinstall the Evolution mailclient because the last three times I removed it I was obviously being STUPID.

    Oh, and please make sure to break the WiFi and graphics drivers each time, because, you know, dist upgrades are BORING if everything just works out of the box. I really look forward to spending an entire weekend on fixing my broken system every month rather than twice a year!

  3. Re:No people? on Tech Company To Build Science Ghost Town In New Mexico · · Score: 1

    Creating decent living conditions for the poor is just plain un-American. :P

  4. Here's how it works. on Rent Your Own Botnet · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Publish some leaked secrets and get your accounts repeatedly frozen. Blatantly engage in electronic fraud, computer intrusion and spamming, and bill for these services via credit card with impunity.

  5. Re:No more natural selection on World Population Expected To Hit 7 Billion In Late October · · Score: 1

    What you consider "natural selection" would kill off any one of us without the protection of civilization. Without the contributions of the nerdy wimps who would not survive outside this protection, we would have no technology, no medicine, no education and no science, and be utterly fucked. Ranking the species on this planet, without civilization we're closer to the bottom. Either we accept that the same selection pressure that killed off the Neanderthals and left us is also the adaptation pressure that made us develop vaccines and antibiotics, or we arbitrarily reject our only survival trait and decide to go extinct. One of these options is in accordance with natural selection.

  6. They could... on USPS Losing Battle Against the E-mail Age · · Score: 1

    Put Bernie Madoff in charge. If it worked for Lord Vetinari...

  7. Targeted users on 'Cosmo' — a C#-Based Operating System · · Score: 1

    People who:

    1.) Dislike Windows
    2.) Like Microsoft

    Sorry, can't see this getting big...

  8. Re:Wow... on Rogue SSL Certs Issued For CIA, MI6, Mossad · · Score: 1

    Ben Ali should ask for his money back.

  9. Re:Ridiculous on Samsung Halts Galaxy Tablet Promotion In Germany · · Score: 1

    There wouldn't be enough government workers in Germany to carry a majority in any election, so apparently this is not the case.

  10. Re:Choice decided by courts on Samsung Halts Galaxy Tablet Promotion In Germany · · Score: 1

    Rules are for other people.

  11. Knuth, TAOCP. on What Is the Most Influential Programming Book? · · Score: 1

    There are other works specific to certain languages, which rise and decline in importance with the popularity of these languages. The fundamentals of how to program are hard to learn better than from this.

    Of course, the question asked about the most influential work, not the best one, so this answer is more idealistic than anything. If it were more influential, we would have better programmers, and possibly less arguments about this or that language being better.

  12. Re:Social media AdBlock list on Heise's 'Two Clicks For More Privacy' vs. Facebook · · Score: 1

    AdBlock Plus exists for Chrome.

  13. Re:Can facebook see any website I go to... on Heise's 'Two Clicks For More Privacy' vs. Facebook · · Score: 3, Informative

    Yes, but only if you are logged in to facebook at the time you visit a website that has a 'Like' button.

    Regardless of whether you are logged in or not. Even if you don't have a Facebook account. The difference being logged in makes is just that they can associate the visit with an identity you built, instead of building one from all the visits to various websites you make with the same IP address.

  14. Re:Nice to see this. on Heise's 'Two Clicks For More Privacy' vs. Facebook · · Score: 1

    they're the largest German web news provider IIRC.

    Note that they're also the foremost German tech news publisher. Their articles are aimed at precisely the section of readers that are more likely to care about their online privacy and to recognize when something violates it.

  15. Re:I don't get it... on Heise's 'Two Clicks For More Privacy' vs. Facebook · · Score: 3, Informative

    The greyed-out dummy button (that's what the markup calls it in the HTML class description) has the function of showing users that the option still exists, but requires them to enable it. It also is loaded from the Heise site itself, thereby requiring users to explicitly opt in before their browser sends any request to Facebook.

    Consequently, instead of automatically sending data about all visitors (including those who don't even have Facebook accounts and have no use for the Like button) to Facebook, only those visitors who want to give information to Facebook anyway (by clicking the Like button) will be tracked.

  16. Re:.z7 - WTF?? on The Guardian and the Wikileaks Encryption Key · · Score: 1

    z7 is not an encryption; it is a compression format. The file was compressed to z7, and then encrypted with gpg.

  17. Re:ID on Journal Editor Resigns Over Flawed Global Warming Paper · · Score: 2

    We should leave the science to the scientists. Considering literal creationism to be scientifically bullshit does not make one an atheist. Not considering it to be bullshit doesn't make one a bad scientist, either, but pretending it has anything to do with science (which the term Intelligent Design inherently does by recasting it as a scientific hypothesis) does.

  18. Anoptikon on Portable Microscope Uses Holograms Instead of Lens · · Score: 1

    Asimov called it!

  19. Artificial? on Astronomers Find Unusual Star · · Score: 1

    Or possibly strip-mined for the Lithium?

  20. Re:Ha. on First Von Neumann Architecture Quantum Computer · · Score: 1

    Two bits ought to be enough for anybody.

  21. Re:But on Windows 8 Desktop 'Just Another App'? · · Score: 1

    There are good ones? Windows XP was tolerable, I suppose...

  22. Re:I don't think I'm in favor... on Domino's Plans Pizza On the Moon · · Score: 1

    You try getting a pizza to the Moon in 30 minutes. :P

  23. Re:15 minutes or it's free! on Domino's Plans Pizza On the Moon · · Score: 2

    The sun is a few minutes away, namely 8.17 - 8.46.

  24. Did they do that with a straight face? on Apple Claims Samsung and Motorola Patent Monopoly · · Score: 1

    How?

  25. Re:They had it comming on Anonymous Claims Responsibility For WikiLeaks Attack · · Score: 1

    On the contrary, at least five people would consent to be interviewed, two of whom would confirm, two of whom would deny, and one of whom would show goatse pictures to the camera.