Uniquitous - Slashdot User

Comment Re:So what's the reaction? (Score 2) 184

by Uniquitous on Thursday April 15, 2021 @09:04AM (#61276264) Attached to: Biden Announces New Sanctions on Russia, Expulsion of 10 Diplomats, in Retaliation for Hacking and Election Interference

I've seen some confusion in the ranks. There's still a remnant of "damn russkies" and "support the troops" in their hivemind that is muddling their response. I think they'd be happy for some scenario in which both Biden and Russia could lose.

Comment Re:Robots don't need to be as fast as humans (Score 1) 108

by Uniquitous on Wednesday June 03, 2015 @10:09AM (#49829987) Attached to: Building Amazon a Better Warehouse Robot

That would be short-sighted. Robots make great workers but are lousy consumers.

Comment Re:Robots don't need to be as fast as humans (Score 1) 108

by Uniquitous on Wednesday June 03, 2015 @08:40AM (#49829349) Attached to: Building Amazon a Better Warehouse Robot

A basic minimum income would surely relieve the sting of having physical labor made obsolete.

Comment Re:Stupid ... (Score 3, Insightful) 126

by Uniquitous on Thursday May 21, 2015 @12:28PM (#49744379) Attached to: US Proposes Tighter Export Rules For Computer Security Tools

You're both right. Both the politicians and the people are ignorant. The politicians are simply more cunning at manipulating people.

Comment Re:I predict... (Score 1) 322

by Uniquitous on Wednesday September 04, 2013 @04:45PM (#44760475) Attached to: What's your favorite medium for Sci-Fi?

I think that to do so would be to miss the point of books. They exercise your imagination, whereas movies just show you the product of someone else's.

Comment Re:What's your favourite book? (Score 1) 322

by Uniquitous on Wednesday September 04, 2013 @04:42PM (#44760431) Attached to: What's your favorite medium for Sci-Fi?

I'm making my way through Iain M. Banks' Culture series. So far, it's a toss-up between Use of Weapons and Excession for the title of favorite.

Comment Re:Movies (Score 1) 322

by Uniquitous on Wednesday September 04, 2013 @04:32PM (#44760329) Attached to: What's your favorite medium for Sci-Fi?

Control in games is often illusory. Sure, you can control some things, but often the choice comes down to "advance the plot" or "dick around some more." Probably the closest you could come to true control would be a tabletop RPG / collaborative storytelling thing.

Comment Re:Nice (Score 1) 719

by Uniquitous on Monday July 15, 2013 @10:35AM (#44284309) Attached to: Edward Snowden Nominated For Nobel Peace Prize

Giving it to Obama was nuts, and it's now not clear if this prize has any point any more.

That ship sailed when they gave it to Arafat.

Comment Re:Buddha says... (Score 2) 120

by Uniquitous on Friday July 05, 2013 @01:34PM (#44196227) Attached to: BBC Gives Up On 3-D Television Programming

Technically I think he said to stop wanting shit, stupid or not, because freedom from desire was the path to fulfillment. Or something along those lines, anyway.

Comment Cool, let's send Congress first. (Score 5, Funny) 285

by Uniquitous on Wednesday June 19, 2013 @03:07PM (#44052851) Attached to: U.S. House Wants 'Sustained Human Presence On the Moon and the Surface of Mars'

The moon, Mars, deep space... just get them off this planet and out of our hair ASAP.

Comment Re:Civillian cyber-casualties (Score 0) 186

by Uniquitous on Wednesday April 10, 2013 @12:08PM (#43412893) Attached to: S. Korea Says Cyber Attack From North Wiped 48,700 Machines

Yet.

Comment They need to just get out of the hardware biz. (Score 0) 188

by Uniquitous on Friday October 26, 2012 @02:12PM (#41780821) Attached to: Nintendo's Wii U Will Be Sold At a Loss

I'd love to play their franchises again, but not enough to shell out for one of their consoles with yet another nonsensical controller scheme. Just go entirely 3rd party and put those games on Steam. I'll buy 'em.

Comment Deal with it. (Score 2) 515

by Uniquitous on Monday October 15, 2012 @10:53AM (#41657827) Attached to: Thousands of Muslims Protest 'Age of Mockery' At Google's London Headquarters

If you don't want to be mocked, don't be ridiculous.

Comment Re:Just wondering... (Score 1) 405

by Uniquitous on Monday October 08, 2012 @11:33AM (#41585801) Attached to: If I was to be killed by science-fiction villains, I'd rather:

I picked the Garthok because I notionally had a fighting chance of survival.

Comment Re:Experimental Data? (Score 1) 405

by Uniquitous on Monday October 08, 2012 @11:26AM (#41585707) Attached to: If I was to be killed by science-fiction villains, I'd rather:

We'd need to sentence a lot of people to death in order to get trustworthy data. Hmm... now what does this remind me of? Didn't somebody do this already?

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