Dins - Slashdot User

Comment Re:sniff (Score 4, Funny) 148

by Dins on Monday February 16, 2015 @06:16PM (#49069589) Attached to: Wheel of Time TV Pilot Producers Sue Robert Jordan's Widow For Defamation

...while pulling on braid and muttering something under breath about sheepherders...

Comment Re:so... (Score 2) 271

by Dins on Friday February 13, 2015 @02:37PM (#49049199) Attached to: Peak Google: The Company's Time At the Top May Be Nearing Its End

Duck Duck Go is just Bing, dude. So is Yahoo.

Yeah, sure, they slip some other results in there, but there is a pretty bright line between having the capacity to index the web and not, and neither duckduckgo nor yahoo has that capacity. Only bing, baidu, yandex, google.

but by all means go on being a brand-monkey.

I'll go with the brand that does not track me, thanks.

Comment Re:so... (Score 4, Interesting) 271

by Dins on Friday February 13, 2015 @10:09AM (#49046557) Attached to: Peak Google: The Company's Time At the Top May Be Nearing Its End

I've become increasingly impressed with Duck Duck Go. At first I rarely used them because they didn't have predictive results, image search, etc. But now they do have all that stuff and I used them as my default. The only things I still need to jump back to Google for is the latest news and most recent articles. If something's happening on the web RIGHT NOW, Google is still the better search engine for it. But for most of the searching I do, stuff happening RIGHT NOW isn't that important. However if your job depends on top efficiency internet searches, I'm sure Google is still king.

Comment Re:Makes sense (Score 4, Funny) 116

by Dins on Wednesday February 04, 2015 @04:54PM (#48983293) Attached to: TP-82: The Gun Cosmonauts Carried On Space Missions

A space bear once bit my sister. No realli!

Comment Re:It's true then, what I've been told some time a (Score 1) 53

by Dins on Wednesday February 04, 2015 @04:11PM (#48982803) Attached to: Executive Director Andrew Lewman Answers Your Questions About Tor and Privacy

That's what I got out of it too.

Comment Re:Company does exactly what it says it does... (Score 1, Interesting) 619

by Dins on Tuesday February 03, 2015 @11:25AM (#48969113) Attached to: Google, Amazon, Microsoft Reportedly Paid AdBlock Plus To Unblock

In the past the end user can still opt to not see any ads, even if they comply with the "acceptable ads" policy. This would be news if they are making a change so that the end user is forced to see a given ad that the advertiser pays extra for, regardless of their extension settings.

Comment Re:Fear (Score 1) 333

by Dins on Wednesday January 28, 2015 @04:31PM (#48926997) Attached to: The discovery of intelligent alien life would be met predominantly with...

I hate that - I've done it too. If I hadn't already posted, I'd throw a +1 Funny towards the GP too.

Comment Re:Everything would suddenly have an alien connect (Score 1) 333

by Dins on Wednesday January 28, 2015 @04:29PM (#48926987) Attached to: The discovery of intelligent alien life would be met predominantly with...

Sad thing is, the Muslims will declare jihad on the infidels while the Christians try to convert them to Jesus. Fun times to be had by all......

Comment Hope (Score 2) 333

by Dins on Wednesday January 28, 2015 @03:53PM (#48926691) Attached to: The discovery of intelligent alien life would be met predominantly with...

I chose hope. As in, "I hope they don't immediately wipe us out."

Comment Re:Don't worry, AMD would never lie to us... (Score 1) 113

by Dins on Monday January 26, 2015 @05:21PM (#48908077) Attached to: NVIDIA GTX 970 Specifications Corrected, Memory Pools Explained

AMD isn't involved here. This is NVIDIA...

Comment Re:Cube of distance, so 47 million pound magnet. (Score 1) 146

by Dins on Monday January 26, 2015 @03:05PM (#48906947) Attached to: Secret Service Investigating Small Drone On White House Grounds

Ok, so I missed the "?" at the end of the GP. Attempt at humor...mostly failed. :p

Comment Re:Cube of distance, so 47 million pound magnet. (Score 1) 146

by Dins on Monday January 26, 2015 @03:01PM (#48906915) Attached to: Secret Service Investigating Small Drone On White House Grounds

Your hobby drone can't carry 47 million pounds?

What? Yours can't? Noob...

Comment Re:Ethically worse? (Score 1) 392

by Dins on Monday January 26, 2015 @10:52AM (#48904227) Attached to: Omand Warns of "Ethically Worse" Spying If Unbreakable Encryption Is Allowed

No "worse" is possible. So go ahead!

I wouldn't issue that challenge...

Comment Re:The 3 Laws of Robotics (Score 1) 258

by Dins on Monday January 12, 2015 @03:41PM (#48795985) Attached to: AI Experts Sign Open Letter Pledging To Protect Mankind From Machines

The 3 laws are a good starting point, but are nowhere near enough by themselves. Too many possible loopholes and unforeseen consequences.

Comment Re:Modem connection tones (Score 1) 790

by Dins on Monday January 12, 2015 @12:48PM (#48793773) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Sounds We Don't Hear Any More?

Ahh yes. Wish I had mod points for you. I ran a BBS too for a while back in high school - on a Commodore 64 using CNET. Had a couple of 1541 floppy drives and an SFD 1001 (1 MB, baby!).

Used to love hearing those sounds, then I'd run over to see who logged on and what they were doing, maybe chat with them, etc. *sigh* Those were the days...

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