qbast - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Biased summary (Score 1) 282

by qbast on Monday October 13, 2014 @06:01AM (#48128749) Attached to: Four Dutch Uberpop Taxi Drivers Arrested, Fined

No society based on consent can *enforce* laws a significant portion of Slashdot readers disagrees without commensurate erosion of state legitimacy or otherwise moving of needle from "consent" toward "force".

FTFY. Slashdot-dwelling Randbots are against it, not Dutch public.

Comment Re:No because it is Apple (Score 1) 120

by qbast on Monday September 29, 2014 @09:34AM (#48018727) Attached to: Apple Faces Large Penalties In EU Tax Probe

Yes, of course. European Commission has 'Linux has failed envy' and that's why they are unjustly punishing Apple. You may get '-18 flamebait' soon but only because there is no '-18 retarded cultist'

Comment Takes two to tango (Score 3, Interesting) 120

by qbast on Monday September 29, 2014 @09:18AM (#48018627) Attached to: Apple Faces Large Penalties In EU Tax Probe

So if deal between Apple and Ireland was illegal, shouldn't Ireland be fined as well?

Comment Re:The only consequence of this is more people (Score 1) 308

by qbast on Wednesday September 24, 2014 @05:07PM (#47988015) Attached to: Irish Girls Win Google Science Fair With Astonishing Crop Yield Breakthrough

Spoken like a person who never had to go on empty stomach.

Comment Re:Another side effect (Score 1) 308

by qbast on Wednesday September 24, 2014 @05:05PM (#47987987) Attached to: Irish Girls Win Google Science Fair With Astonishing Crop Yield Breakthrough

To hell with meth ingredients, even reducing amount of fertilizers washed into groundwater would be great thing.

Comment Re:Hardly a breakthrough (Score 2) 308

by qbast on Wednesday September 24, 2014 @05:02PM (#47987941) Attached to: Irish Girls Win Google Science Fair With Astonishing Crop Yield Breakthrough

But not for barley or oats. Using process that worked for one thing to improve another is a progress. If they found new commercially viable (or at least promising) process, then it is potentially a breakthrough.

Comment Re:Frankenfood (Score 1) 308

by qbast on Wednesday September 24, 2014 @04:57PM (#47987883) Attached to: Irish Girls Win Google Science Fair With Astonishing Crop Yield Breakthrough

They are replicating completely natural process, so I doubt it.

Comment Slashdot grew up? (Score 0) 308

by qbast on Wednesday September 24, 2014 @04:52PM (#47987835) Attached to: Irish Girls Win Google Science Fair With Astonishing Crop Yield Breakthrough

So many comments and no remarks on girls' looks, stupid 'kitchen' jokes, etc. yet? Trolls are asleep or Slashdot has finally grown up?

Comment Re:Not Coincidence, it's the point (Score 1) 236

by qbast on Friday September 19, 2014 @03:58AM (#47943503) Attached to: Apple's "Warrant Canary" Has Died

Problem of important people getting upset could be solved by quiet warning to short the stock. As for hipster riots? I would pay to see this - it would be pure comedy gold.

Comment Re: Obama is but a puppet (Score 1) 236

by qbast on Friday September 19, 2014 @03:48AM (#47943469) Attached to: Apple's "Warrant Canary" Has Died

I think you are overly optimistic. Even after you cull 'undesirables', remaining population will again divide into 1% rich and 99% everybody else, just with different baseline. It is like stack ranking in MS - no matter how many people get fired, there are *always* bottom 10% destined for next cut.

Comment Re:Experience counts (Score 1) 232

by qbast on Wednesday September 17, 2014 @06:08AM (#47925149) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Have You Experienced Fear Driven Development?

I would love to have at least one of those fearful devs to handle documentation. But unfortunately we hire only people with confidence to actually code.

Comment Re:Asian-only team? (Score 2) 90

by qbast on Tuesday September 16, 2014 @05:23AM (#47915867) Attached to: MIT's Cheetah Robot Runs Untethered

Just wait until African researcher works at MIT ...

Comment Re: Imagine the good they could have done.. (Score 1) 610

by qbast on Monday September 15, 2014 @05:32AM (#47906841) Attached to: Apple Outrages Users By Automatically Installing U2's Album On Their Devices

"-1 Uncomfortable truth"

Comment Re:Why is this legal in the U.S.? (Score 2) 149

by qbast on Friday September 12, 2014 @10:55AM (#47889659) Attached to: Direct Sales OK Baked Into Nevada's $1.3 Billion Incentive Deal With Tesla

As a non-American I find forbidding car manufacturers from selling directly to customers even more bizarre.

Comment Re:Trust us with your payments (Score 1) 730

by qbast on Tuesday September 09, 2014 @03:25PM (#47864925) Attached to: Apple Announces Smartwatch, Bigger iPhones, Mobile Payments

Except the data breach you are alluding to was the fault of people using weak passwords, rather than a fault in the security of iCloud.

And you know this because ... ?

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