Cow Jones - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Get the facts. (Score 1) 226

by Cow Jones on Sunday April 27, 2014 @02:17AM (#46851553) Attached to: American Judge Claims Jurisdiction Over Data Stored In Other Countries

Talking about "facts"... who is Boris Putin?

Comment Re:In plain English, what's a FreedomBox? (Score 1) 54

by Cow Jones on Wednesday April 16, 2014 @07:54PM (#46775191) Attached to: All Packages Needed For FreedomBox Now In Debian

Oh. Right. Damn, I should have noticed that. I'm sorry.

I just saw that all of your links were marked as "read" and didn't bother to check any further. Hats off to you, I have been well and truly trolled.

Comment Re:In Plain English: Security Crap (Score 5, Interesting) 54

by Cow Jones on Wednesday April 16, 2014 @11:26AM (#46768247) Attached to: All Packages Needed For FreedomBox Now In Debian

$ curl -s https://pagekite.net/pk/ |sudo bash

I've noticed this kind of crap more and more often lately, usually as one of the "preferred" methods of installation for projects on GitHub. Who in their right mind would run that? There's a reason why we have package systems and a method of signing said packages. Blindly trusting some website with root shell access... boggles my mind.

Comment Re:In plain English, what's a FreedomBox? (Score 2) 54

by Cow Jones on Wednesday April 16, 2014 @11:21AM (#46768151) Attached to: All Packages Needed For FreedomBox Now In Debian

Easy my ass. GP is absolutely correct, they completely fail to give a summary of what a FreedomBox is and why we should care. I've read those pages you linked and there is no summary. The closest thing I could find are links to video presentations with titles like "FreedomBox Update", "FreedomBox 1.0" and "Freedom, out of the box!".

Comment Sample (Score 5, Funny) 136

by Cow Jones on Monday February 24, 2014 @04:20PM (#46326685) Attached to: Harold Ramis Dies At 69

I'd like a sample of his brain tissue.

Comment Re:"To Stop Fracking"? (Score 1) 317

by Cow Jones on Monday February 24, 2014 @04:13PM (#46326561) Attached to: Exxon Mobile CEO Sues To Stop Fracking Near His Texas Ranch

http://www.dailykos.com/story/...

This comment on the Daily Kos article contains a very clear explanation of the Halliburton loophole.

Haliburton Loophole: No such thing.

http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/P...

Thanks for the link. The passage you apparently missed is on page 694 (sec 322).

CJ

Submission + - Ask Slashdot: Once Slashdot beta has been foisted on me, what site should I use? 10

Submitted by rueger on Wednesday February 05, 2014 @09:34PM

rueger writes: A fair question that is on many people's minds. Given that the beta site is proving incredibly unpopular, what Slash-replacements are out there?

Submission + - Slashdot BETA caused my penis to hide in walls of flesh 1

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 05, 2014 @09:25PM

An anonymous reader writes: no disassemble number 5!

Submission + - Slashdot creates beta site users express theirs dislike (slashdot.org) 4

Submitted by who_stole_my_kidneys on Wednesday February 05, 2014 @09:23PM

who_stole_my_kidneys writes: Slashdot started redirecting users in February to its newly revamped webpage and received a huge backlash from users. The majority of comments dislike the new site while some do offer solutions to make it better. The question is will Slashdot force the unwanted change on its users that clearly do not want change?

Submission + - Once Slashdot beta has been foisted upon me, what site should I use instead? 2

Submitted by somenickname on Wednesday February 05, 2014 @09:06PM

somenickname writes: As a long time Slashdot reader, I'm wondering what website to transition to once the beta goes live. The new beta interface seems very well suited to tablets/phones but, it ignores the fact that the user base is, as one would expect, nerds sitting in front of very large LCD monitors and wasting their employers time. It's entirely possible that the browser ID information gathered by the site has indicated that they get far more hits on mobile devices where the new interface is reasonable but, I feel that no one has analyzed the browser ID (and screen resolution) against comments modded +5. I think you will find that most +5 comments are coming from devices (real fucking computers) that the new interface does not support well. Without an interface that invites the kind of users that post +5 comments, Slashdot is just a ho-hum news aggregation site that allows comments. So, my question is, once the beta is the default, where should Slashdot users go to?

Submission + - Slashdot beta sucks 9

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 05, 2014 @08:04PM

An anonymous reader writes: Maybe some of the slashdot team should start listening to its users, most of which hate the new user interface. Thanks for ruining something that wasn't broken.

Submission + - Once Slashdot beta has been foisted on me, what site should I use? 3

Submitted by buswolley on Wednesday February 05, 2014 @07:45PM

buswolley writes: Just asking. Because we do not want the Beta site.

Submission + - The nmber of users that SLASHDOT will lose with new interface? (slashdot.org) 3

Submitted by jackb_guppy on Wednesday February 05, 2014 @07:37PM

jackb_guppy writes: SLASHDOT today started to push users from the old interface to the ugly, slow, new interface. Any guess on the number of users that will be leaving SLASHDOT. So much for market share.

Comment Re:One disturbing aspect... (Score 1) 156

by Cow Jones on Tuesday January 14, 2014 @08:22PM (#45959647) Attached to: Chinese Firm Can Now Produce 500 Cloned Pigs Per Year

Although it sounds cool, I can't help but being a little weirded out by the thought of the exact same pig being experimented on endlessly throughout time...

Would you also feel weird about people experimenting on the exact same human for 63 years and counting, with no end in sight?

Comment Re:Russian Times to the rescue (Score 1) 431

by Cow Jones on Tuesday October 29, 2013 @06:16AM (#45267095) Attached to: UK Prime Minister Threatens To Block Further Snowden Revelations

They laughed at me and called me paranoid and gullible. Sure sucks when the tinfoil-hat crowd is right.

And that is precisely what's so special about the whole Snowden affair. Lots of people claim outrageous things all of the time. Conspiracy theories and stunning revelations are a dime a dozen. Without any confirmed sources or any kind of acknowledgement by the involved parties, the impact those stories have is about par with urban legends. The documents leaked by Snowden are different because their authenticity has been confirmed by the NSA itself (I'm still not sure exactly why they did that, seems like a bad move on their part).

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