HairyNevus - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Elephants next, please (Score 1) 139

by HairyNevus on Sunday October 18, 2015 @12:04PM (#50753697) Attached to: Chinese Company To Sell Genetically Modified Micro Pigs as Pets

it's a great idea, but impossible. Don't you know? A pig and an elephant's DNA just won't splice.

Comment Re:Has The Whole World Gone Topsy Turvy? (Score 2) 83

by HairyNevus on Thursday October 15, 2015 @08:16PM (#50740229) Attached to: Walmart Open Sources Its Cloud Platform To Take On Amazon

That point holds true for Wal-Mart, but since Amazon has always been 100% Internet based (and especially after they started making Kindles) they do count as a tech company. Not saying you should trust their cloud, though.

Comment Pot Kettle Black (Score 1) 131

by HairyNevus on Saturday October 10, 2015 @07:55PM (#50701093) Attached to: Study Finds Higher Rates of Premature Birth Near Fracking Sites

I read the story in your link, and read the link that it provided to the M.D. who made that claim. Neither specified what they're including as a "medical study". Only peer-reviewed, or is a "study" published by a pharmaceutical company on their website being lumped into the mix? 'Cause I can see 50% of all medical studies being bullshit if you lower your definition of what constitutes a medical study to include the latter. I also found it interesting the articles couldn't pull up a few examples. I mean, if there's a 50/50 shot any random medical study will back up your claim, should be easy.

Comment Who are these people? (Score 1, Insightful) 399

by HairyNevus on Friday October 09, 2015 @08:37PM (#50696791) Attached to: EFF: the Final Leaked TPP Text Is All That We Feared

I really got to wonder who these people are who wield the power to write these laws. Not the congressmen, the head of these mega corporations that own the congressmen who pass laws on their behalf, while blatantly shitting down the throats of the rest of us. I mean, I got to know if they honestly have an argument for why they think this is a good thing, even in the face of overwhelming unpopularity. Or, do they just not give a fuck? Are they delusional or nihilist? [whynotboth.jpg]

Comment Re:Fukushima factoid (Score 1) 145

by HairyNevus on Tuesday October 06, 2015 @06:27AM (#50668773) Attached to: Study Finds Humans Are Worse Than Radiation For Chernobyl Animals

I'd really like to see a high-efficiency high temperature molten salt thorium reactor deployed.

Yes, that.

Comment Re: "JLENS blimp that had cost about $182 million" (Score 1) 43

by HairyNevus on Sunday September 27, 2015 @12:31PM (#50608033) Attached to: Don't Worry, That Blimp Isn't Watching You Much

That's basically what I was trying to tell the AC I responded to. But nihil novi sub sole is neither a full explanation, nor an excuse for it to continue.

Comment Re:"JLENS blimp that had cost about $182 million" (Score 1) 43

by HairyNevus on Saturday September 26, 2015 @08:07PM (#50605335) Attached to: Don't Worry, That Blimp Isn't Watching You Much

According to the Sun article, this whole project has cost $2.7 billion (with a Carl Sagan B) over 17 years. Yes, lobbyists are powerful enough, congressmen are stupid enough, and voters are apathetic enough to allow this to happen.

Comment Arbitrary Acronyms (Score 1) 43

by HairyNevus on Saturday September 26, 2015 @07:54PM (#50605293) Attached to: Don't Worry, That Blimp Isn't Watching You Much

I don't know which I hate more, when people do cartwheels naming a thing to make the acronym a specific word (e.g. PATRIOT Act), or when someone takes something like "Joint Land Attack Cruise Missile Defense Elevated Netted Sensor System" and somehow decides that its acronym is "JLENS". JLACMDENSS not catchy enough? Then just call it "that fucking blimp we built".

Comment Re: Huh? Probability. (Score 1) 299

by HairyNevus on Thursday September 24, 2015 @10:04PM (#50593953) Attached to: The #NoEstimates Debate: An Unbiased Look At Origins, Arguments, and Leaders

The poster is not suggesting people should get docked when they miss deadlines.

Yes, that's exactly what GP said:

Finish late? Get docked or don't get paid at all.

Comment Re:Call me a pussy... (Score 1) 44

by HairyNevus on Friday September 18, 2015 @05:05PM (#50551993) Attached to: Tracking a Bluetooth ATM Skimming Gang In Mexico

Call me a pussy[...]while wearing a shirt made of bacon.

IANAD, but I think bacon smell down there is a sign of gonorrhea. Unless you meant shirt of salmon?

Comment Re:I RTFA, but... (Score 2) 172

by HairyNevus on Sunday September 06, 2015 @01:45PM (#50467721) Attached to: Why the Black Hole Information Paradox Is Such a Problem

Yea, I don't see why this is a problem, anymore than any other thing in physics today.

I think what they're trying to say is: "Black Holes Matter".

*ducks*

Comment Re:What other choice is there? (Score 2) 344

by HairyNevus on Friday September 04, 2015 @09:10PM (#50460565) Attached to: Snowden: Clinton's Private Email Server Is a 'Problem'

I don't even like her, but I will vote for her just to keep a Republican out of the white house.

This is why we need Instant-runoff voting. It's the same for both sides, there's usually a third-party candidate for either side who is more practical politically, but doesn't have enough corporate sponsors to really run in the race--to stand a chance.

Comment Re:Bad name (Score 1) 94

by HairyNevus on Wednesday August 26, 2015 @04:55PM (#50398057) Attached to: Meet YouTube Gaming, Twitch's Archenemy

"Dude, you have to check out xxyomgsexygamergirl's latest video on Youtube Gaming!"

Link? ;-)

Comment Re:WoW! really its taken this long to figure that (Score 1) 119

by HairyNevus on Friday August 21, 2015 @06:28PM (#50366373) Attached to: Gamers Are Fans of Games, Not Genres

It's a medium.com article. Every medium.com article I've ever seen has been something along the lines of "Wow! The mundane is super interesting when you make the background image change as people scroll!" Oddly enough, this article is the first I've seen to just use a header image then stick to mostly (centered) text.

Comment Re:dump trump (Score 1) 686

by HairyNevus on Saturday August 15, 2015 @07:58PM (#50324369) Attached to: The current candidate I'd most like to see resign:

[...]until their businesses are indistinguishable from the government itself. Are we there yet?

I work for the USPS and carriers are in a tizzy this past month over new parcel delivery requirements that were penned....by Amazon(info link: http://www.savethepostoffice.com/we-deliver-amazon-postal-services-new-priority). So, they've gotten the Post Office [sadpanda.jpg].

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