fizzer06 - Slashdot User

Comment Re:boats and planes (Score 1) 136

by fizzer06 on Thursday April 19, 2018 @03:06PM (#56466559) Attached to: Autonomous Boats Will Be On the Market Sooner Than Self-Driving Cars

Democrats are now running on a platform of increased illegal immigration and higher taxes.

Comment Re:God.... (Score 2) 16

by fizzer06 on Thursday April 05, 2018 @07:28PM (#56389909) Attached to: Intel Tells Users to Uninstall Remote Keyboard App Over Unpatched Security Bugs

It's almost like Intel is in the process of destroying their brand.

Comment Re:Gigabits per second of rubbish? No shit. (Score 1) 136

by fizzer06 on Thursday April 05, 2018 @02:29PM (#56388309) Attached to: 1.1.1.1: Cloudflare's New DNS Attracting 'Gigabits Per Second' of Rubbish

People have written sleep utilities in compiled languages for use in batch files.

Comment Re:Well said (Score 1) 68

by fizzer06 on Thursday March 22, 2018 @12:39AM (#56303219) Attached to: A 15-Year-Old Hacked the Secure Ledger Crypto Wallet

I saw that too and wonder what's really going on there.

Comment Re:Several decades? (Score 1) 76

by fizzer06 on Monday March 05, 2018 @08:21PM (#56213639) Attached to: Google Unveils 72-Qubit Quantum Computer With Low Error Rates

2 + 2 = 4.04

Are they saying that is allowable?

Comment Re:Women love fat men (Score 1) 119

by fizzer06 on Saturday February 10, 2018 @03:30PM (#56100947) Attached to: Hackers Manage To Run Linux On a Nintendo Switch

Long as the wallet is fat.

The only bulge in my pants the ladies seem to care about.

Comment Re:Why is Slashdot obsessed with this witch hunt? (Score 1) 220

by fizzer06 on Monday January 29, 2018 @01:49AM (#56024597) Attached to: Russian Trolls Created Facebook Events Seen By More Than 300,000 Users

Nyet!

Comment Re:Congratulations you invented LOGO! (Score 1) 335

by fizzer06 on Thursday January 25, 2018 @11:29AM (#55999403) Attached to: Tim Cook: Coding Languages Were 'Too Geeky' For Students Until We Invented Swift

PC Magazine used to have printed hexadecimal assembly code that you could type into Microsoft's debug program to create small utilities in the .com format.

Comment Re: Totally unbiased opinion by TFA's 'journalist (Score 2) 155

by fizzer06 on Monday January 22, 2018 @11:26AM (#55977837) Attached to: Facebook VP Says Company Won't Use Experts To Fix Fake News Because It is Worried About Criticism

tbannist may actually believe that everything he wrote is actually true. In the good old days, you know, when America was Great, people like him used to get jackets with long sleeves and rooms with padded walls.

Comment Re:Running this very thing in AWS right now (Score 1) 233

by fizzer06 on Wednesday January 10, 2018 @11:34PM (#55905879) Attached to: Meltdown and Spectre Patches Bricking Ubuntu 16.04 Computers

uname -a
******* 4.13.0-26-generic #29~16.04.2-Ubuntu SMP Tue Jan 9 22:00:44 UTC 2018 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

My CPU is: Intel Core i3-2120 CPU @ 3.30Ghz

Updated my Linux Mint 18.3 Cinnamon 64 bit this afternoon and all is well after reboot.
Ran sysbench tests on CPU and File IO before and after and noticed no difference.

Comment Re:One Word: (Score 2) 215

by fizzer06 on Wednesday January 10, 2018 @11:15PM (#55905813) Attached to: Future Samsung Phones Will Have a Working FM Radio Chip

I went from a Samsung S4 to an LG G6 and it has a working FM radio as long as the headphones are plugged in. LG isn't Apple by any stretch, but it's still pretty big.

Comment Re:NT4 called (Score 1) 94

by fizzer06 on Wednesday December 06, 2017 @11:32PM (#55692783) Attached to: ReactOS 0.4.7 Released

I burned the last two releases to CD only to find they won't boot on real hardware so I could run them "live". Maybe I should wait for version 1 to try that again?

Comment Re:This is already avaliable (Score 2) 370

by fizzer06 on Tuesday November 07, 2017 @03:28PM (#55507941) Attached to: Facebook To Fight Revenge Porn by Letting Potential Victims Upload Nudes in Advance

I bet you will.

Comment Re:Please no (Score 5, Funny) 236

by fizzer06 on Sunday November 05, 2017 @11:56PM (#55496669) Attached to: Amazon (and Netflix) Pursue a 'Lord of The Rings' TV Series

Pretty sure "J. J." initials stand for "Jar Jar".

Comment Re:I know (Score 2) 322

by fizzer06 on Wednesday November 01, 2017 @11:39PM (#55474073) Attached to: Every Other Summer Will Shatter Heat Records Within a Decade

It's too hot. Think I'll stay inside under the AC.

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