queBurro - Slashdot User

Comment fat, not weight (Score 1) 688

by queBurro on Thursday August 17, 2017 @09:11AM (#55033443) Attached to: Why Does Hollywood Remain Out of Step With the Body-Positive Movement?

The Rock is overweight, his BMI is 34ish. This article refers to weight but what it's actually talking about is fat. "over-fat" ought to be the term used instead of "over-weight".

Comment Re: he's an idiot (Score 1) 365

by queBurro on Wednesday July 05, 2017 @09:03AM (#54746421) Attached to: Customer's 20-Year-Old Email Account Shut Down Over Unusual Address

it's a roman numeral joke? it seems a bit s15050y to me.

Comment Re:What (Score 1) 172

by queBurro on Monday April 24, 2017 @04:55AM (#54290743) Attached to: Richard Stallman Interviewed By Bryan Lunduke

IMO, he does that so that he doesn't have to shake hands with people.

Comment Re: Failed logic (Score 1) 95

by queBurro on Saturday April 08, 2017 @02:33PM (#54198825) Attached to: Wolves May Be 'Re-Domesticating' Into Dogs

Here's a study of 30 years of dog attacks.http://www.dogsbite.org/dog-bite-statistics-study-dog-attacks-and-maimings-merritt-clifton.php There's a definite problem with keeping a hybrid wolf as a pet but compare the figures to keeping a pit bull.

Comment Re:Several languages! (Score 0) 366

by queBurro on Thursday March 30, 2017 @07:27AM (#54141591) Attached to: Ivanka Trump To Take Coding Class With 5-Year-Old Daughter

finally, a joke I can get behind

Comment Re:Don't know (Score 1) 498

by queBurro on Friday March 10, 2017 @10:20AM (#54012057) Attached to: Slashdot Asks: Are Password Rules Bullshit?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
title ought to have been "Password rules are bullshit"

Comment Re:Consumer router options (Score 1) 46

by queBurro on Friday March 10, 2017 @09:57AM (#54011931) Attached to: Nearly 200,000 Wi-Fi Cameras Are Open To Hacking

most routers have an option of a guest access point. your pc and your IoT are then on different vlans. This would be a start.

Comment Re:First you have to be able to imagine the palace (Score 3, Funny) 190

by queBurro on Friday March 10, 2017 @04:53AM (#54011317) Attached to: Ancient Technique Can Dramatically Improve Memory, Research Suggests

I used to use the route I walked my dog, putting 'objects' at points along the way. Derren Brown wrote a book covering it, I forget which book it was though.

Comment Re: Stories (Score 1) 111

by queBurro on Tuesday February 28, 2017 @06:53AM (#53944795) Attached to: In Twenty, Fifty Years, 'We May Be Entertaining AI', Says Netflix CEO

It's a shame that's not the worst thing a tory prime minister has ever done, e.g. Edward Heath.

Comment Your scientists were... (Score 1) 169

by queBurro on Friday February 17, 2017 @06:05AM (#53884947) Attached to: Woolly Mammoth On Verge of Resurrection, Scientists Reveal

...so preoccupied with whether they could, they didn't stop to think if they should.

Comment Re:Until (Score 1) 374

by queBurro on Wednesday February 15, 2017 @05:16AM (#53871957) Attached to: Is IoT a Reason To Learn C?

I've not watched all of the video, just a few minutes, but what I'm getting is that there's *no* (or some) overhead in using a modern C++ compiler over C? what am I missing? does it blow up later on in the video?

Comment Re:Verbal Abuse (Score 1) 174

by queBurro on Monday February 13, 2017 @10:01AM (#53855843) Attached to: 34 'Highly Toxic Users' Wrote 9% of the Personal Attacks On Wikipedia

you want to verbuse him? chillax, there's no need for that.

Comment Re:Censorship. (Score 1) 405

by queBurro on Friday February 10, 2017 @07:58AM (#53838117) Attached to: Wikipedia Bans Daily Mail As 'Unreliable' Source

yup. If you trust wikipedia's sources... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Comment Re:Censorship. (Score 1) 405

by queBurro on Friday February 10, 2017 @04:44AM (#53837831) Attached to: Wikipedia Bans Daily Mail As 'Unreliable' Source

http://efp.org.uk/wp-content/u...

Comment Re:Censorship. (Score 1) 405

by queBurro on Thursday February 09, 2017 @05:02AM (#53831427) Attached to: Wikipedia Bans Daily Mail As 'Unreliable' Source

Daily *Heil*, not *Fail*. "Hurrah for the Blackshirts" etc.

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