oic0 - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Set up an artificial market (Score 4, Insightful) 347

by oic0 on Monday May 20, 2019 @09:44PM (#58627130) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Would Rationing Air Travel Work To Cut Emissions?

You're proposing that we give the government more tax dollars and then expect them to allow that new revenue to decline year over year? Thats not how government works. They never give up anything they've gotten hold of whether that be power, money, land, etc...

Comment Death threats... (Score 5, Insightful) 143

by oic0 on Friday May 17, 2019 @06:18PM (#58611206) Attached to: Net Neutrality Supporter Sentenced For Death Threats To FCC Chairman Pai

When has a death threat ever gotten someone what they want? Do people never learn?

Comment Re:The banks are the real problem in the USA (Score 1) 269

by oic0 on Wednesday May 08, 2019 @01:07PM (#58558782) Attached to: San Francisco Bans Cashless Stores

Banks are a problem, but we have these things called credit unions. Like a bank, except not allowed to be for proffit.

Comment So much drama over a little stretch of dirt (Score 1) 568

by oic0 on Monday May 06, 2019 @07:12PM (#58549174) Attached to: In a First, Israel Responds To Hamas Hackers With an Air Strike

Just move on already. Stop relentlessly trying to kill each other.

Comment Re:This is another reason I don't do social media (Score 1) 132

by oic0 on Sunday April 28, 2019 @09:58PM (#58507480) Attached to: The Dead May Outnumber the Living on Facebook Within 50 Years

Easy to make use of peoples feeling of obligation towards the dead and desire to see things wrapped up.

Comment "Not a fast lane" but "Routes through dedicated" (Score 1) 219

by oic0 on Thursday April 25, 2019 @03:56PM (#58491612) Attached to: Cox Cable Testing a Form of 'Fast Lane' Internet For Gamers

What? It's not a fast lane but it routes through a separate faster network? So it's more like an HOV lane? Yeah that's better and feels less like a net neutrality violation...

Comment Re:Lost in translation (Score 1) 111

by oic0 on Tuesday April 16, 2019 @09:36AM (#58444022) Attached to: Traversable Wormholes Can Exist, But They're Not Very Useful For Space Travel, Physicists Say

I for one has a heck of a time understanding the summary. It seemed all over the place.

Comment Re:How do they handle taxes? (Score 2) 171

by oic0 on Sunday April 07, 2019 @12:51AM (#58397040) Attached to: 14-Year-Old Earned $200,000 Playing Fortnite on YouTube

He will have to pay quarterly taxes.

Comment Re:It was a message (Score 5, Informative) 217

by oic0 on Wednesday April 03, 2019 @07:24AM (#58377032) Attached to: Debris From India's Anti-Satellite Test Poses Threat To ISS, Says NASA

"international" space station. Not US space station. They didn't shit in our pool, they shit in the community pool.

Comment What about OUR data? (Score 4, Insightful) 82

by oic0 on Sunday March 31, 2019 @02:16PM (#58361964) Attached to: In Massive Breach, Ex-NSA Contractor Pleads Guilty to Hoarding Highly Classified Secrets

Isn't this the same thing they tell us they do with our data? they just collect it all, but outside of official work against terrorists and stuff, they are just holding it and doing nothing with it right?

Comment Re:How about NO? Lol what the (Score 2) 161

by oic0 on Thursday March 28, 2019 @04:49PM (#58350434) Attached to: Startup Coding Bootcamp Modern Labor Says It Will Pay You $2,000 a Month For 5 Months To Learn To Code, and Take Roughly 15% of

As someone who has done boot camps before, never a 5 month one, but still, what you learn in them doesn't stick very well because of the accelerated pace. You need to use it as soon as you get out for it to form into long term memories.

Comment Re:Net neutrality and colocation (Score 1) 190

by oic0 on Wednesday March 27, 2019 @07:46AM (#58340496) Attached to: Bill That Would Restore Net Neutrality Moves Forward Despite Telecom's Best Efforts To Kill It

The ISPs should be the ones courting Netflix to put servers in their data centers as a selling point to bring in new customers and to reduce costs for the ISP. That's what would happen if there were real competition, but there isn't.

Comment Re:Another nail in the coffen for Intel (Score 1) 92

by oic0 on Thursday March 21, 2019 @09:33AM (#58309658) Attached to: HardOCP Is Getting 'Mothballed' As Kyle Bennett Accepts Job At Intel

Permabanned me for talking about using ad-block in a news article about ad-block.

Comment Re: Fuck me. (Score 2) 140

by oic0 on Tuesday March 19, 2019 @10:57PM (#58302322) Attached to: Crytek Shows 4K 30 FPS Ray Tracing On Non-RTX AMD and NVIDIA GPUs

As far as hobby expenditures go, it's not that bad. I spend far far more on paintball, motorcycles, and cars.

Comment Texas us right in this... (Score 0, Troll) 255

by oic0 on Sunday March 17, 2019 @03:53PM (#58289010) Attached to: Texas Lawmakers Want To Stop Tesla From Fixing Its Own Cars

The problem is Tesla won't let anyone else work on them or sell parts. That's BS.

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