trevc - Slashdot User

Comment I'm confused (Score 0) 56

by trevc on Wednesday May 05, 2021 @09:30AM (#61349840) Attached to: Ancient Australian 'Superhighways' Suggested By Massive Supercomputing Study

So it took modern humans weeks on a Super Computer to work out what people 65000 years ago worked out using just their brains?

Comment Elvis? (Score 1) 96

by trevc on Friday March 19, 2021 @03:36PM (#61176848) Attached to: Some Dead Stars May Harbor Enough Uranium To Set Off a Thermonuclear Bomb

How much does Elvis harbor?

Comment Is it? (Score 1) 30

by trevc on Friday March 19, 2021 @03:34PM (#61176832) Attached to: Instagram, WhatsApp, and Facebook Messenger Are Down for Many

The end of civilization as we know it?

Comment Dropping? (Score 1) 71

by trevc on Thursday March 11, 2021 @03:24PM (#61148646) Attached to: Netflix Set To Release Documentary on the Last Ever Blockbuster Store

Very confusing use of the word dropping. Releasing would be a better choice?

Comment Amazon too (Score 1) 215

by trevc on Friday January 15, 2021 @02:26PM (#60948692) Attached to: Intel Has To Be Better Than 'Lifestyle Company' Apple at Making CPUs, Says New CEO

Amazon too is now a chip company, making products better that established companies.

Comment Really? (Score 2) 178

by trevc on Friday December 04, 2020 @02:41PM (#60794638) Attached to: 'It's Time For Movie Theaters To Die So Movies Can Live Again'

Really? What an odd opinion. "Movies are, by their very nature, good. Movies are one of the best things to have happened to the human race, probably ranking right up there in the top 5 with eating, sex, indoor plumbing, and music."

Comment FedEx is s a dinosaur (Score 1) 45

by trevc on Tuesday May 19, 2020 @08:59AM (#60077860) Attached to: FedEx, Microsoft Are Teaming Up To Deliver Packages, Widening Gap with Amazon

You just have to look at each companies stock chart to see what is happening. FedEx badly underestimated Amazon and they are now paying for it. The Smith's need to hand over the reigns of the company.

Comment I'm scared now (Score 1) 25

by trevc on Monday May 18, 2020 @09:56AM (#60073470) Attached to: Mystery Data Breach Dubbed 'db8151dd' Exposes Records of 22 Million People

I give people my name, email address, phone number, address every day. It's public record.

Comment Is anyone surprised? (Score 1) 101

by trevc on Tuesday February 18, 2020 @09:57AM (#59739216) Attached to: Pier 1 Files For Bankruptcy, Warns of Dangers In Handful of Online Vendors Dominating Retail Sales

Overpriced stuff that nobody really needs. This is called evolution - only the fittest survive!

Submission + - Lost world revealed by ancient human relics washed up on North Sea beaches (sciencemag.org)

Submitted by sciencehabit on Friday January 31, 2020 @10:15AM

sciencehabit writes: Most days, Willy van Wingerden spends a few free hours walking by the sea not far from the Dutch town of Monster. Here, the cheerful nurse has plucked more than 500 ancient artifacts from the broad, windswept beach known as the Zandmotor, or “sand engine.” She has found Neanderthal tools made of river cobbles, bone fishhooks, and human remains thousands of years old. Her favorite beach—made of material dredged from the sea bottom offshore—preserves traces of a lost world, when sea levels were lower, and what is now the North Sea was a rich lowland, home to modern humans and Neanderthals. While she and other dedicated amateurs amass artifacts, scientists are applying new methods to date the finds and sequence any genetic traces, as well as to map the sea floor and analyze sediment cores. Together, researchers and collectors are bringing to light a vanished homeland of ancient Europeans.

Comment Re:Water is a Forever Chemical (Score 1) 314

by trevc on Thursday January 23, 2020 @12:26PM (#59647604) Attached to: US Drinking Water Widely Contaminated With 'Forever Chemicals'

Thank you for pouring that couple ounces of putrid orange sludge down the drain each day, to go back into the water supply.

Comment And they teach others to code? (Score 1) 122

by trevc on Thursday January 23, 2020 @10:37AM (#59647184) Attached to: 'How I Stopped a Credit Card Thief From Ripping Off 3,537 People -- and Saved Our Nonprofit in the Process'

They obviously doesn't know how to write code that is secure.

Comment What brand? (Score 1) 76

by trevc on Friday January 10, 2020 @10:40AM (#59606316) Attached to: Installing Air Filters in Classrooms Has Surprisingly Large Educational Benefits

I want (need) one.

Comment So why do they keep going back? (Score 1) 184

by trevc on Thursday December 05, 2019 @11:31AM (#59487732) Attached to: Climate Change is Forcing One Person From Their Home Every Two Seconds, Oxfam Says

If they know they are going to be kicked out again in two seconds why do they keep going back?

Comment What in the world does this mean? Waffle? (Score 1) 69

by trevc on Tuesday December 03, 2019 @10:01AM (#59480012) Attached to: Microsoft is Creating a New Rust-Based Programming Language For Secure Coding

"So by taking ownership at the level of ownership of objects, then we get much closer to the level of abstraction that people are using and it gives us the ability to build data structures without going outside of safety"

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