Comment Re:What is this BS? (Score 1) 83
Like a light switch?
Comment Re:And as usual, Slashdot commenters miss the poin (Score 1) 280
Bullshit.
You're playing a persecution card that no longer exists, but is still happily cited when it's convenient to push feminist agendas.
Comment Re:Birds are not living dinosaurs, (Score 1) 47
XKCD is wrong.
Comment Re:Worst? Heh (Score 2) 574
+1 for mentioning over-compression, which should be punishable with stocks and public fruiting.
Comment Re:"You have to thrust the authorities." (Score 1) 431
I love this guy. So, by your logic, if you can see it and it looks like a bomb, it couldn't possibly be a bomb.
Got it.
Comment Re:"You have to thrust the authorities." (Score 1) 431
What do you want, a medal for demonstrating pathological immaturity?
Vancouver Area Teen Sentenced To 16 Months For Swatting 331
An anonymous reader writes: A 17-year-old from the Vancouver area in Canada has been sentenced to 16 months in youth custody and 8 months under supervision in the community after pleading guilty to 23 charges including criminal harassment, public mischief, extortion and uttering threats. The teenager was responsible for a number of swatting calls across the United States and Canada — mostly of female gamers. The judge told him, "It appears that when real life became too hard you retreated into the online world and became increasingly socially isolated. While you may think you enjoyed greater success in the online world, that success was an illusion. You were left with severely limited social skills and a significant educational deficit."
Comment Re:"You have to thrust the authorities." (Score 1) 431
There was no ambiguous constellation. This was a cartoon character in a clear gesture of "fuck you", as clear as if had been written in several different languages.
There is no alternate interpretation there.
Now if you think posting devices with hostile messages around a metropolitan area is a good idea, then I have bridge you may be interested in...
And no, "because it's art" is not a reasonable explanation. Planting and detonating an actual bomb that killed a lot of people could also be called art by some sick nutter.
Comment Re: Like the nazi used to say (Score 3, Insightful) 431
...which are also glass tubes.
Comment Re:Thomas Edison (Score 0) 431
Umm, no I'm pretty sure patent trolls are doing quite well in this era, thank you very much.
Comment Re:"You have to thrust the authorities." (Score 0) 431
The 2007 Boston Bomb Scare was absolutely an appropriate response.
Consider what was found:
Electronic devices with lights shaped in the likeness of characters from an obscure television show that nobody born before 1990 had ever heard of, posed in a gesture that is universally understood to convey "fuck you".
What right-minded officer of the law would not regard that as hostile?
Comment Re:Fahrenheit? (Score 1) 65
Ladies and gentlemen, I give you Straw Man of the year!
Comment Re:well then (Score 1) 132
Debian Potato?
Comment Re:Warning: DO NOT USE SAMSUNG SSDs IN LINUX SERVE (Score 2) 195
While I agree with you for the most part, why do you say Hardware RAID instead of Software?
The historical reasons for not using Software RAID (via mdadm) have long been resolved:
- No scope for hot-swapping disks (resolved by AHCI eight years ago)
- Slow (resolved about ten years ago when multi-core CPUs effectively eliminated CPU overhead in Software RAID)
What, then, is the advantage of spending hundreds (or thousands) on a RAID card and introducing another point of failure?
Comment Re:Also gone is Elop (Score 1) 249
That was announced in June.
Although I suspect he's just being primed as a trojan horse for another unsuspecting tech company that holds a chest of patents that Microsoft wants.
