Glarimore - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Oh how great is this! (Score 1) 158

by Glarimore on Monday December 29, 2014 @01:52PM (#48690555) Attached to: Norse Security IDs 6, Including Ex-Employee, As Sony Hack Perpetrators

Except juries are well known to have convicted people of crimes which they haven't committed with less-than-bullet-proof evidence -- usually because the media had already crucified the defendant publicly before the trial even started.

Are you really going to sit by and let it build up until it's too late? Yeah, most likely you'll get a fat settlement. The downside risk, however, is spending ten years in jail for a crime you didn't commit. That gamble isn't worth it.

Comment Re:Hysteria (Score 1) 278

by Glarimore on Monday December 29, 2014 @01:43PM (#48690471) Attached to: Snowden Documents Show How Well NSA Codebreakers Can Pry

His point, which I think is a fair one, is that the definition of what constitutes an "enemy of the US" is going to vary a lot depending on who you ask. The US government, with the help of the media, has painted many groups/bodies, both foreign and domestic, as dangerous enemies of the state. And I, like GP, don't trust the US government and/or the NSA to define who is an "enemy of the US" in a reasonable way or with the proper checks/balances in place.

Comment Re:What? (Score 1) 440

by Glarimore on Tuesday December 16, 2014 @07:00PM (#48612937) Attached to: Federal Court Nixes Weeks of Warrantless Video Surveillance

Fair, but when the Federal Government's power trumps that of the States more often than not ("Make your drinking age 21 or we take away your highway funding!"), living in one state is the same as another, so there is no point in moving.

Comment Re:Beloved by Builders and Developers (Score 1) 178

by Glarimore on Wednesday December 10, 2014 @06:17PM (#48568089) Attached to: LA Mayor Proposes Earthquake Retrofits On Thousands of Buildings

I actually think Boston drivers are some of the best. I now live in Boston -- the roads aren't conducive to organized driving, so people ignore the rules when necessary for the sake efficiency and doing what makes sense. People honk to let people know their intention or to make themselves known when in a blind spot.

It beats the hell out of places like North Carolina, where drivers are classically bad (tailgating, no blinkers, drive way under the speed limit, stop on on-ramps, people don't know how to parallel park, etc.), but also impractical (no one will cross double yellow to go around a tractor, even with plenty of vision, because "it's against the law") and people take it personally when others honk, as if honking is only reserved solely for when you want to let someone know that you are flipping them the bird.

Comment Re:You shouldn't need insurance for most things (Score 1) 739

by Glarimore on Friday October 31, 2014 @01:23PM (#48280593) Attached to: Statisticians Study Who Was Helped Most By Obamacare

I believe limiting profit in that way will just lead to clever accounting -- a la Hollywood. I assure you, insurance companies will find a way to be making just under that threshold.

Comment Re:Dear Canada.... (Score 2) 529

by Glarimore on Wednesday October 22, 2014 @05:50PM (#48207735) Attached to: Shooting At Canadian Parliament

...we should be bombing the fuck out of assholes who start conquering, looting and raping their neighbors like it was the middle ages! ...... We can't let that cancer grow - humanity mustn't slide back into barbarism.

Hahaha... Do you read what you write? These statement are about 3 sentences apart!

Comment Re:Hosted in the US? (Score 1) 98

by Glarimore on Monday September 22, 2014 @07:48PM (#47969925) Attached to: Service Promises To Leak Your Documents If the Government Murders You

Then I'd recommend some sort of RAID 5 scenario, where distributed parity allows for the image to be maintained even when one stripe is missing.

Comment Re:The sad part is... (Score 1) 183

by Glarimore on Thursday September 18, 2014 @12:21PM (#47937201) Attached to: Snowden's Leaks Didn't Help Terrorists

Citation for any of this? Why is this rated insightful? Because he said it is so?

Comment Re: Got Burned by Titanfall (Score 1) 292

by Glarimore on Tuesday September 16, 2014 @10:44AM (#47917379) Attached to: The Growing Illusion of Single Player Gaming

Their "service", which in most cases is simply allowing my xbox to connect to another -- for most games, one player's Xbox is hosting -- it's not like Microsoft servers are hosting the game for us or anything.

I use to play Halo 1 online for free using XBConnect. Paying a monthly fee to simply be routed to another user is ridiculous.

Comment Re:Never been a fan of multiplayer. (Score 1) 292

by Glarimore on Tuesday September 16, 2014 @10:19AM (#47917165) Attached to: The Growing Illusion of Single Player Gaming

Honestly, EVE is worth checking out for anyone who is into math, numbers, or science-fiction, even if only to be able to say that you "experienced EVE (spreadsheets online)."

In my opinion, it's the most brutal online game in existence -- one where scamming and causing other players misery is not discouraged, but is actually a valid in-game career-path.

Comment Re:Simple (Score 1) 610

by Glarimore on Monday September 15, 2014 @01:42PM (#47910809) Attached to: Apple Outrages Users By Automatically Installing U2's Album On Their Devices

Sell the cards (they'll typically only get you a few cents, but it adds up and it gets them out of your account), trade the coupons with your friends for coupons that actually interest you (a friend had a 90% off coupon for a game this weekend that semi-interested me). The coupon gave me a game for 70 cents, and my card sales paid for that.

But to do all of that probably take 30 minutes, taking into account the time required to learn how to do it and the fact that there isn't a bulk-sell option in Steam. With what most of the people here get paid, I'd much rather save myself the time, the hastle, and the clutter, and just spend the ten dollars.

I buy games so I can spend time playing them, not so I'm forced to spend time managing them.

Comment Re:Hot Damn! (Score 1) 730

by Glarimore on Tuesday September 09, 2014 @10:29PM (#47868285) Attached to: Apple Announces Smartwatch, Bigger iPhones, Mobile Payments

So what are the features that the Apple 6 has that are either not present or not-as-polished in the Nexus 5?

Comment Re:So what exactly is the market here. (Score 1) 730

by Glarimore on Tuesday September 09, 2014 @10:27PM (#47868273) Attached to: Apple Announces Smartwatch, Bigger iPhones, Mobile Payments

Apple was simply the first to put an SSD in a laptop (because they were prohibitively expensive at the time). The "ultrabook" would have happened with or without the Macbook Air.

Comment Re:Who signs the checks (Score 1) 371

by Glarimore on Sunday August 17, 2014 @07:20PM (#47691421) Attached to: Companies That Don't Understand Engineers Don't Respect Engineers

So my engineering friend would often have to point out to people such as the accountant how things worked(as opposed how the salesman dreamed they worked) and that either one of them could fire anyone so if they tried picking a side they would be gone the next day.

I can't imagine working in that kind of an environment. That sounds awful.

Comment Re:That seems fair (Score 1) 371

by Glarimore on Sunday August 17, 2014 @07:12PM (#47691387) Attached to: Companies That Don't Understand Engineers Don't Respect Engineers

Sure, but remember that you can only find the "succeed by risk" examples. Those who took the risk and won. The companies that took the risk and failed tanked and you never heard of them.

This is called Survivorship Bias.

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