Gavagai80 - Slashdot User

Comment Re:I'm suspicious of patents on things made of ste (Score 1) 192

by Gavagai80 on Monday March 31, 2014 @11:42PM (#46627877) Attached to: Supreme Court Skeptical of Computer-Based Patents

Imagine if you could copyright steel designs like you can copyright software code. Would there be any need for patents anymore?

Comment Re:Remember when.... (Score 1) 57

by Gavagai80 on Saturday March 29, 2014 @11:17PM (#46612973) Attached to: Software Upgrade At 655 Million Kilometers

Even if the software is flawless, the world it's written for evolves so the requirements change.

Comment Re:ads (Score 1) 162

by Gavagai80 on Saturday March 29, 2014 @07:32PM (#46612167) Attached to: Yahoo May Build Its Own YouTube

Even google (google video) couldn't compete with youtube. That's why they had to buy it.

Comment Re:I dont get it (Score 1) 551

by Gavagai80 on Monday March 24, 2014 @03:24PM (#46566649) Attached to: Russians Take Ukraine's Last Land Base In Crimea

These "traitors" will no doubt say they're loyal to the constitutional president of Ukraine who was deposed in a coup and himself went to Russia. Why wouldn't Russia like that? I'm sure if protests overthrow Putin they'll be happy to have soldiers who stay loyal to Putin.

Comment Re:Bullshit (Score 1) 551

by Gavagai80 on Monday March 24, 2014 @03:20PM (#46566607) Attached to: Russians Take Ukraine's Last Land Base In Crimea

Finland was united. A large percentage of Ukraine would rather the Russians win, as evidenced by the 50% defection rate here.

Comment Re:Movie prop for Airbus Flight 655 (Score 1) 298

by Gavagai80 on Sunday March 23, 2014 @01:11PM (#46557741) Attached to: Iran Builds Mock-up of Nimitz-Class Aircraft Carrier

Since when have movies been accurate? An air craft carrier is more iconic, so you can bet it'd be used for a movie.

Comment Re:What about OS/2? (Score 1) 367

by Gavagai80 on Saturday March 22, 2014 @03:44AM (#46549695) Attached to: Linux May Succeed Windows XP As OS of Choice For ATMs

That was about 2-3 years ago.

So why would anyone install Windows XP in the year 2011 or 2012? Couldn't they see the end coming?

Comment Re:Big bad bunnies (Score 2) 48

by Gavagai80 on Saturday March 22, 2014 @03:34AM (#46549665) Attached to: Spacecraft Returns Seven Particles From Birth of the Solar System

The last hundred plus years of science defines matter and energy as different, denies the previously held law of conservation of matter, and instead uses the law of conservation of matter-energy. It's time for you to update your definitions.

Comment Easier and more effective strategy (Score 2) 76

by Gavagai80 on Friday March 21, 2014 @10:59AM (#46543359) Attached to: Mathematician Gives Tips On How To Win $1 Billion On NCAA Basketball

Pick a team from each of the 63 games that you want to bet against. Offer two of their starting players a million dollars each to throw the game. Pocket the other $874 million.

Comment Re:Lemme posit this... (Score 1) 100

by Gavagai80 on Friday March 21, 2014 @04:20AM (#46541359) Attached to: College Grads Create Fake Tesla Commercial That Elon Musk Loves

I see now that a bunch of other people have said the same thing already, so let's pretend the above duplicate is to illustrate how annoying repetition is.

Comment Re:Lemme posit this... (Score 1) 100

by Gavagai80 on Friday March 21, 2014 @04:18AM (#46541353) Attached to: College Grads Create Fake Tesla Commercial That Elon Musk Loves

The real problem I have with commercials is just that they repeat so many times. Could you watch that commercial 500 times and still enjoy it?

Comment Re:A toy for the 1%ers (Score 1) 100

by Gavagai80 on Friday March 21, 2014 @04:15AM (#46541347) Attached to: College Grads Create Fake Tesla Commercial That Elon Musk Loves

That's why most of America drives Chinese cars. Oh, wait...

Comment Re: Ridiculous. (Score 1) 914

by Gavagai80 on Thursday March 20, 2014 @01:10PM (#46535909) Attached to: Time Dilation Drug Could Let Heinous Criminals Serve 1,000 Year Sentences

A drug that makes a criminal think they've been let off and gone on to live 50 years as a fine upstanding free citizen could be effective -- they'd be too used to being good to go back to being bad. Bound to work better than one that simulates prison time.

Comment Re:According to the latest study.... (Score 1) 86

by Gavagai80 on Tuesday March 18, 2014 @11:28PM (#46521689) Attached to: New Stanford Institute To Target Bad Science

The fundamental problem is that false results tend to be much more exciting than true ones, and people gravitate to the exciting.

Comment Re:These work some of the time, cars all the time (Score 1) 144

by Gavagai80 on Tuesday March 18, 2014 @11:08PM (#46521599) Attached to: Lit Motors, Danny Kim, and Changing How Americans Drive

For families who want two cars -- one commute car one family car -- it could make a lot of sense. Plus it's good for antisocial people like me.

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