Slashdot Mirror


User: raydobbs

raydobbs's activity in the archive.

Stories
0
Comments
203
First seen
Last seen
Profile
(view on slashdot.org)

Comments · 203

  1. Re:What happens with no ID? on Federal Government Removes 7 Americans From No-Fly List · · Score: 2

    Sure, you can *technically* fly without an ID... but plan on getting to the airport about a day ahead of time if you want to stand a chance of making your flight - which WILL happen once the TSA gets a hold of you. Only other way is to charter your own flights - but then the FAA and DHS have your name from the passenger manifest - fat lot of good it will do them though as by the time they do all the investigative work, your flight will have already departed, arrived, and you will be long gone.

  2. Re:"fighting" crime? on Tired of Playing Cyber Cop, Microsoft Looks For Partners In Crime Fighting · · Score: 1

    ...only if you consider that stubby, broken off plastic thing they are waving around a 'knife'

  3. Re:no-ip is shady? on Tired of Playing Cyber Cop, Microsoft Looks For Partners In Crime Fighting · · Score: 0

    Slashdot.... journalists? Hehe... re... Hahahaha....really? Did you *laughs uncontrollably* really call Slashdot.... journalists?

    Hold on, I might just pass out from laughing so hard, rolling on the floor...

  4. Re:the real question is... on Nathan Myhrvold's Recipe For a Better Oven · · Score: 1

    A Salamander is an adjustable height broiler used in commercial kitchens. They are not usually used for the cooking itself, more the browning, searing, or melting part of the preparation.

  5. Better question... on Nathan Myhrvold's Recipe For a Better Oven · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Why the fsck should we listen to anything this dishonest vulture says or wants? He has worked to single-handedly ruin everything about anything we could ever care about. Intellectual Ventures is the scum of the Earth, and is akin to the mafia coming to you and mentioning that they need some money else something bad could happen to your precious new business venture. Everything this man and his cohorts touch is tainted - Intellectual Ventures and Mr. Myhrvold needs to be removed like a cancer before they can spread even further.

    Fsck Intellectual Ventures.
    Fsck Nathan Myhrvold.

    In some parts of the world, they'd cut off his thieving hands. I wouldn't take one of his new ovens even if they gave it to me - except maybe to smash the crap out of it on YouTube.

  6. Re:This isn't going to do much on Reading Rainbow Kickstarter Heads Into Home Stretch · · Score: 3, Informative

    I thought one of the things they were hoping to do with the extended stretch goals is give subscriptions to poorer communities (libraries in rural or inner-city settings, etc) so that it could be utilized by the people who couldn't normally afford it.

  7. Re:...another possibility... on Ninety-Nine Percent of the Ocean's Plastic Is Missing · · Score: 1

    EXACTLY! Research - where is it going? Perhaps chain that along with "What ACTUALLY happens to stuff in the ocean - like dead animals, waste, petrochemicals, natural (but toxic) items introduced into the ecosystem, etc?"

  8. Re:...another possibility... on Ninety-Nine Percent of the Ocean's Plastic Is Missing · · Score: 1

    I am not saying this IS what is happening - I am saying that this is a possible scenario - like the article is proposing a possible scenario (hence the very concrete words 'possibly', 'maybe' and 'perhaps' being used. Oh, forgot the word 'IF' - the biggy).

    This entire article is short on facts, very big on supposition.

  9. Re:One non-disturbing theory on Ninety-Nine Percent of the Ocean's Plastic Is Missing · · Score: 1

    This very well could be - we (you and I) basically came up with the same thought. With so little we know about the oceans of Earth, there could be a vast number of reasons the plastics we littered into the oceans have not turned up as pristine trash that lasts forever and ever. It could be fish, it could be other marine animals, it could be micro-organisms, it could also be some other unexplained process. Racing to panic about it being in the foot supply (without proof) is a little premature.

  10. Re:MOD PARENT REDUNDANT on Ninety-Nine Percent of the Ocean's Plastic Is Missing · · Score: 1

    ...or I started to write it when Slashdot showed no submissions on the page, but when I hit post on it - there were already a post or two (story of every Slashdot page ever)?

  11. ...another possibility... on Ninety-Nine Percent of the Ocean's Plastic Is Missing · · Score: 0

    ...is that there is a complex ecosystem of micro-organisms that are breaking down the plastic into lesser components that we aren't looking for? I mean, there is a LOT about the ocean we don't yet understand. I mean, we know more about our solar system than we know about the entirety of the ocean ecosystem. That's not to say that the plastic BELONGS there or that we shouldn't be trying to reduce our uses for plastics - just that perhaps we aren't finding them in their entirety because there is some natural processes at work beyond fish consumption.

  12. That's a long wait... on Congressman Asks NSA To Provide Metadata For "Lost" IRS Emails · · Score: 4, Insightful

    That's going to be a long wait for a train that never comes - the NSA will simply not comply. Its a nice 'in your face' gesture though, real cute. Should get some political points during election time, I'm sure.

  13. Re:50MB = 750$ on AT&T Charges $750 For One Minute of International Data Roaming · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Guaranteed by your personal credit card? Whose fault is that? If your teaching, get the institution to foot the bill, so if (or in your case - when) they blitz AWS, the institution has recourse to bill the student and you aren't on a express train to financial raping. Your school should never have put you on the financial hook for covering such expenses - at least if they have any credibility.

  14. Ubisoft and PCs... on Watch Dogs Released, DRM Troubles · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Those 'in the know' generally don't buy Ubisoft games for the PC anymore - even though they have been trying to turn over a new leaf in terms of how they view PC gamers. Many at Ubisoft apparently still see PC gamers as pirates - even those who pay for products. Not the way to garner new customers.

    Sadly, these days - the only way to buy new release Ubisoft products (if you want to at all, that is) is to buy the console versions of the products.

  15. Pet projects and the hidden skunk-works. on How To Approve the Use of Open Source On the Job · · Score: 4, Interesting

    In small businesses - often the best foot in the door for open source software is a pet project, something you can do transparently to design something to show management about the advantage of the software has over more traditionally licensed fare. Being able to speak the language of IT management helps - Cost of Ownership, Return on Investment, being able to present facts based on license costs is also helpful - management listens to dollars and sense, followed by legality.

    Of course, if your business deals with large vendors who have a stake in keeping things locked to Microsoft, Oracle, IBM or HP - you are fighting a steeply uphill battle.

  16. Re:Well the way things are going internationally.. on SpaceX Files Suit Against US Air Force · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The problem with this plan is that Russia and its leader don't want goodwill from the United States. They want a monster that can be slain with saber-rattling like in the old Cold War days - even if they have to manufacture one out of an ally. Putin isn't interested in who dies in the process in his quest to cement his legacy as the greatest leader of the NEW Soviet Union that ever was - we (not just the United States, but the International community at large) can't be so foolish as to just ignore it. The only way he can get what he wants to have us in a position of weakness - and giving his nation the only means to get to and return from the International Space Station is about the best leverage that we can give him.

    Its not a matter of *if* the relationship between the United States and Russia goes bad, its *when* it goes bad if Putin remains in power.

  17. Re:You don't understand, yep! on NSA Allegedly Exploited Heartbleed · · Score: 2

    ...and I learn something new every day. Thank you for sharing that without calling me a moron. I knew it had been a few years since my last political science class, now I have something new to read up on.

  18. Re:I don't understand on NSA Allegedly Exploited Heartbleed · · Score: 1

    One cannot simply sue a branch of the government without asking permission from the government to allow it to be sued - guess how often THAT happens? Plus is NSA has a built-in out; its in the interests of national security. Its bullshit - we all know it - but it a legal out, its the reason they can deny your FOIA request for information about Area 51, the Roswell incident, as well as the intelligence records on Jimmy Hoffa or J. Edgar Hoover.

  19. Re:Fuck Obamacare on Can the ObamaCare Enrollment Numbers Be Believed? · · Score: 3, Informative

    BS - You pay unless your a college student, a citizen from another European Union country that signed an agreement with the NHS, or other select cases

    From the NHS - http://www.nhs.uk/chq/pages/10...

  20. Antidepressants... on Peter Molyneux: Working For Microsoft Is Like Taking Antidepressants · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I don't know about working at Microsoft being like being on antidepressants (never worked for them, don't think I'd want to), but I know that whenever I hear him talk about his next greatest game - I want to TAKE antidepressants as I know none of the shit he talks about will actually make it into the game at 1/100th the grandeur he describes. Can we say 'Master of the over-sell and the under-deliver'?

  21. Re:Ouya's killer app....where is it? on Ouya Dropping 'Free-to-Play' Requirement · · Score: 1

    I don't have enough of a product to really HAVE a page talking about it yet (despite the fact that the product is in a two way tie with another product internally as to which is written first). I haven't discounted the idea of writing for the console - just not sure I'd take their 'exclusive for more $$$$' matching funding as I don't think I'd get the return on investment locking it to a console with such a small customer base. Their barrier to entry is definitely a plus, though (no big investment in the SDK, no media costs, no artificial limitations, etc). I just wish they had a killer, knock-out exclusive - something to really scream, "Look at us! See what the Ouya can do!".

  22. Ouya's killer app....where is it? on Ouya Dropping 'Free-to-Play' Requirement · · Score: 2

    The big problem with the Ouya is that there is no really good exclusive out there to show people what the console can really be pushed to do. So you have a lot of half-hearted ports from other platforms, pretty much limiting the sales of the product to people who haven't purchased any recent computer, game console, phone or tablet (very few indeed).

    Frankly, Ouya needs to pick a product that is distinctly their market - nurture and help it be THE GAME on the Ouya to own, a reason to buy the console and controllers. Really showcasing what the system can do with the hardware its got will bring developers looking to 'one-up' that product and it really would have a shot.

    Right now - its a no-mans land of retreads and badly written indie games. And I can say this as someone looking to release a product on the Ouya.

  23. Re:but it does work on my machine on Lies Programmers Tell Themselves · · Score: 1

    ..so...you run Microsoft's internal quality assurance standard on your work?

  24. No place for 'almost', 'not quite' and 'nearly'... on RadioShack To Close 1,100 Stores · · Score: 5, Interesting

    There isn't a place for a Radio Shack that won't commit 100% to being the hobbyist shop they started to be, or an online retailer that isn't just a smaller version of Mouser or DigiKey. We already have little rat shacks everywhere on the Internet that sell soup-to-nuts, we need a retailer that is passionate about their place in the market. You can't beat the big boys on price - they can always undercut you, and if needs be - they can give product away for free until they drive you out of business. You need to be able to provide service and product that the larger competitors can't or won't - so far, Radio Shack doesn't seem to be able or willing to do it.

  25. Re:"Forgettable sea creature" on Horseshoe Crabs Are Bled Alive To Create an Unparalleled Biomedical Technology · · Score: 1

    Agreed - article tagged !forgettableseacreature