skaralic - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Thanks for the tip! (Score 1) 448

by skaralic on Wednesday June 25, 2014 @12:19PM (#47315969) Attached to: $500k "Energy-Harvesting" Kickstarter Scam Unfolding Right Now

Plans are already afoot for a major tour of Iceland.

So, one stop in a bar in Reykjavík?

One stop at the bar in Reykjavík!

Comment Re:Thanks for the tip! (Score 1) 448

by skaralic on Tuesday June 24, 2014 @03:57PM (#47309093) Attached to: $500k "Energy-Harvesting" Kickstarter Scam Unfolding Right Now

Or not. I'm sorry, I don't trust kick starter campaigns.

Right? I gave Toad the Wet Sprocket $50 for their new record. Then it arrived as double LP with four bonus tracks! If I wanted bonus tracks I would asked for freakin' bonus tracks! And don't get me started about that photo essay book I bought into. It was so good I almost cried. If I want to feel stuff I'll give to an Indiegogo campaign!

Rex Stardust, lead electric triangle with Toad the Wet Sprocket has had to have an elbow removed following their recent successful worldwide tour of Finland. Flamboyant ambidextrous Rex apparently fell off the back of a motorcycle. "Fell off the back of a motorcyclist, most likely," quipped ace drummer Jumbo McCluney upon hearing of the accident. Plans are already afoot for a major tour of Iceland.

So excited!!

Comment Re:No He Won't, There Is No Money in Exploration (Score 1) 275

by skaralic on Thursday June 19, 2014 @12:50PM (#47273637) Attached to: Elon Musk: I'll Put a Human On Mars By 2026

He could always do a Facebook, i.e. IPO but keep the majority of the shares to himself. That way he gets the cash and keeps control.

Comment We've been here before... (Score 1) 339

by skaralic on Wednesday May 28, 2014 @08:33PM (#47115329) Attached to: The Singularity Is Sci-Fi's Faith-Based Initiative

In the 60s researchers thought that "machines will be capable, within twenty years, of doing any work a man can do" and "within a generation ... the problem of creating 'artificial intelligence' will substantially be solved". Pretty soon they realized that they were way off in their predictions. Our machines are much faster today but other than some limited machine learning algos, we haven't really moved that much. Every new generation thinks the breakthrough is just around the corner.

Comment Re:Terminology (Score 1) 140

by skaralic on Wednesday March 19, 2014 @12:59PM (#46525267) Attached to: Enlightenment E19 To Have Full Wayland Support

Yep, running it at work and at home. I have it configured with a lot of custom keybindings which make it very fast and comfortable to use. E is fast on all manner of hardware and most of my machines are older so its a good fit. When I got a brand new laptop (T530) I figured I would try the latest desktops out there including Cinnamon and Unity. They are definitely more friendly but even on a brand new, well-spec'd machine, I found them laggy and unresponsive compared to E on an older machine. Of course, I do come from a WindowMaker background so I'm used to fast desktops...

Comment Re:Good for E! (Score 1) 89

by skaralic on Wednesday February 12, 2014 @07:37PM (#46233679) Attached to: Enlightenment E19 Pre-Alpha Released

I'd love to see E succeed after all these years of promise. But I installed from Debian some time ago and it immediately crashed (E17).

I tried Bodhi in its 2.0 version (E17), and the file manager crashed on certain themes, but the DE didn't go down.

Perhaps the E-team could make a truly stable version before moving on to more esoteric goals?

Please? I'm so tired of XFCE....and too old for blackbox.

So what you are saying... is that it's as good as the other Linux DEs out there!

Comment Impossible to steal too... (Score 4, Insightful) 114

by skaralic on Thursday November 28, 2013 @01:59PM (#45549857) Attached to: FOIA: NSA Contracts Stored In Paper Files, Unsearchable, Unindexed

On the upside, for the NSA, that makes a Snowden-like leak pretty much impossible.

Comment Skunk Works (Score 1) 216

by skaralic on Friday November 01, 2013 @05:22PM (#45305299) Attached to: Skunk Works Reveals Proposed SR-71 Successor: the Hypersonic SR-72

I just started reading the Skunk Works book by Ben Rich. He took over SW after Kelly Johnson stepped down in the 70s. So far it's a good read, enjoyable for any engineer...

Comment Re:Bill is doing the right things (Score 1, Troll) 247

by skaralic on Friday November 01, 2013 @05:16PM (#45305207) Attached to: Bill Gates: Internet Will Not Save the World

Imagine having a library in your village that could show you how to build water condensers, new farming techniques, basic chemistry that could improve your quality of life, really ANY piece of information you could conceive of as well as the ability to communicate remotely with other vilalges trying to overcome similar problems at the touch of your hands.

But no, better to hand out fish then give access to fishing instructions.

Knowledge is power.

Knowledge is power. That's bullshit. What use is knowledge when you are in no condition to put it to use. These people are not stupid.

Comment What is this?! (Score 1) 93

by skaralic on Wednesday October 30, 2013 @12:59PM (#45282145) Attached to: Magma Reservoir Under Yellowstone Is Much Bigger Than Previously Thought

A magma reservoir for ants?! It has to be at least... 3 times bigger than this!

Comment Re:Problem solved (Score 1) 140

by skaralic on Tuesday October 29, 2013 @01:34AM (#45266051) Attached to: Is Europa Too Prickly To Land On?

...with 6000 and one hull!

Comment Re:Control of information is power (Score 1) 431

by skaralic on Tuesday October 29, 2013 @01:30AM (#45266041) Attached to: UK Prime Minister Threatens To Block Further Snowden Revelations

Power is power.

Comment Have you HURD? (Score 1) 206

by skaralic on Saturday September 28, 2013 @01:29AM (#44977563) Attached to: GNU Hurd 0.5, GNU Mach 1.4, GNU MIG 1.4 Released

It was my understanding that everyone had HURD...

Comment "...he finished, and his hand fell." (Score 3, Funny) 692

by skaralic on Tuesday August 13, 2013 @12:21PM (#44553883) Attached to: Larry Ellison Believes Apple Is Doomed

At Tanagra.
Wow, that is as dramatic of a story summary as I have ever seen on Slashdot. Made me tingle all over...

Comment Chrome Incognito (Score 5, Funny) 347

by skaralic on Wednesday July 31, 2013 @12:44PM (#44436747) Attached to: Training Materials for NSA Spying Tool "XKeyScore" Revealed

I wonder how much of an accident it is that Chrome's Incognito mode tells you:

Going incognito doesn't affect the behavior of other people, servers, or software. Be wary of:

Websites that collect or share information about you
Internet service providers or employers that track the pages you visit
Malicious software that tracks your keystrokes in exchange for free smileys
Surveillance by secret agents
People standing behind you

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