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Comment Re:How about sending up a Flat Earther (Score 1) 118

by Mogster (#61885299) Attached to: Star Trek's William Shatner On His Plan To Boldly Go Into Space

Your fallacy is that you are trying to use Logic to change a person who is ruled by Emotion.

There will always be spiritually blind people: Flat Earthers, Atheists, Alien Deniers, etc.

There is no point in wasting everyone's time. There is even an old proverb about it:

You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink.

Or:
"You can lead lead a person to knowledge, but you can't make them think"

Comment Re:Christ, give it up Microsoft (Score 1) 21

by Mogster (#61750641) Attached to: LinkedIn is Shutting Down Stories

I wound up adding a note to my profile saying that I was not looking for work. Stopped all recruiters bugging me for 'one off contract gigs in my area'
They drove me nuts as
1) I'm happy in my job and currently not looking for anything else, and
2) I live in a smallish region - I'm pretty certain that these gigs aren't actually real

I check LinkedIn about once a month - These days it's just another form of Social Media BS

Submission + - Scientist Create 1 Atom Thick Magnet that works at Room Temperature (scitechdaily.com)

Submitted by Mogster
Mogster writes: A one-atom-thin 2D magnet developed by Berkeley Lab and UC Berkeley could advance new applications in computing and electronics.
The researchers synthesized the new 2D magnet – called a cobalt-doped van der Waals zinc-oxide magnet – from a solution of graphene oxide, zinc, and cobalt.
The new material – which can be bent into almost any shape without breaking, and is a million times thinner than a sheet of paper – could help advance the application of spin electronics or spintronics, a new technology that uses the orientation of an electron’s spin rather than its charge to encode data.
And unlike previous 2D magnets, which lose their magnetism at room temperature or above, the researchers found that the new 2D magnet not only works at room temperature but also at 100 degrees Celsius (212 degrees Fahrenheit).

Submission + - Steven Weinberg, who unified two of the Fundamental Forces has died (livescience.com)

Submitted by Mogster
Mogster writes: Steven Weinberg, a Nobel-prize winning physicist whose work helped link two (the electromagnetic force and the weak force) of the four fundamental forces, has died at the age of 88, the University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin) announced Saturday (July 24).

HIs work was foundational to the Standard Model, the overarching physics theory that describes how subatomic particles behave.

Weinberg also had a knack for making physics accessible to everyone. His book "The First Three Minutes: A Modern View of the Origin of the Universe," (Basic Books, 1977) described, in exciting and simple language, those first minutes of the universe's infancy and laid out the case for the expansion of the universe.

Comment Re:Why are you so scared to mention death? (Score 2) 58

by Mogster (#59646282) Attached to: Monty Python's Terry Jones Passes Away At 77

He didn't "pass away" he died.

It is even in the quoted article ffs.

OP here

Who's afraid to mention death? I even quoted it in the article as you pointed out

I do however like to stretch my use of the English language once in a while after hours of hacking code together. And those with sufficient grasp of said language read "passed away" and know it means death

Don't be scared to stretch your vocab every so often. I recommend 4 seasons of Monty Python to get you started

Submission + - Netflix is still saying "no" to ads on its service. (techcrunch.com)

Submitted by saccade.com
saccade.com writes: During its Q4 earnings call, Netflix shot down the idea of an ad-supported option for its service.

From the article:

'To grow a $5 billion to $10 billion advertising business, you’d need to “rip that away” from the existing providers [such as Facebook, Amazon Google], he continued. And stealing online advertising business from [them] is “quite challenging,” Hastings added, saying “there’s not easy money there.”

“We’ve got a much simpler business model, which is just focused on streaming and customer pleasure,” he said.

The CEO also noted that Netflix’s strategic decision to not enter the ad business has its upsides, in terms of the controversies that surround companies that collect personal data on their users. To compete, Netflix would have to track more data on its subscribers, including things like their location — that’s not something it’s interested in doing, he said, calling it “exploiting users.”'

Submission + - Monty Python's Terry Jones has passed away at age 77 (bbc.com)

Submitted by Mogster
Mogster writes: Monty Python stars have led the tributes to their co-star Terry Jones, who has died at the age of 77.
The Welsh actor and writer played a variety of characters in the iconic comedy group's Flying Circus TV series, and directed several of their films.
He died on Tuesday, four years after contracting a rare form of dementia known as FTD.

"Now, you listen here! He's not the Messiah. He's a very naughty boy!" — as Brian's mother in Monty Python's Life of Brian

Submission + - Ask Slashdot: Catching up on Linux and sysadmin skills

Submitted by PrimeGoat
PrimeGoat writes: Hello,

I've used Linux for 20 years, 10 of which were during my career as a Linux sysadmin. I'd say that I'm very familiar with the OS and how to use it. However, there's more to being a sysadmin than just knowing how to use Linux. There are best practices that evolve, new methods of doing things and new software that constantly comes out and evolves.

This is where my challenge comes. In 2012 I stopped my career as a Linux sysadmin and turned to crime. Though I did use my Linux skills in various capacities in my criminal career as I worked on the darknet, my primary skillset switched more to graphics and printing and some coding as I became highly skilled in forging fake IDs and wrote software to automate the process. This came to an end when I ended up being busted for dealing with the Russian Mafia when the FBI busted them with me alongside them.

See: https://www.justice.gov/usao-s...

29 months later, I came home. I anticipated that my tech skills will be partially outdated, and I was correct. There's a lot of stuff that I missed out on. I'm wondering what I should do to refresh my skills and to catch up on what I've missed. An obvious solution would be to get a job as a sysadmin again, but this probably isn't going to happen, as I'm changing my trajectory. I'm currently training to become a fullstack web developer, but still have a need to update my sysadmin skills and keep them fresh. I will be looking to go into business instead of getting a job. Any suggestions on what actions to take on my own to catch up and keep fresh?

Comment Re:Why....? (Score 1) 212

by Mogster (#56301513) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: I Want To Get Into Comic Books, But Where Do I Start?

Asterix is still funny!
I grew up with Tintin as well. It's definitely "of a different era," but that makes it more interesting to a certain extent.

I'll second that. Both are fun for all ages, and I'd say a good place to start if you're new to the comic/graphic novel format

I also find the humour in Asterix similar to that of the Discworld series

Comment Re:It's all true (Score 1) 77

by Mogster (#52772117) Attached to: ISP Lobbyists Pushing Telecom Act Rewrite

Disallow corporations from contributing to campaign funds?

Allow donations from private citizens only?

Get rid of the PACs and make politicians work their own campaigns?

Prevent lobbying from corporations?

FYI I'm a kiwi and admittedly don't know much about the US electoral laws - our process is a little different down here

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