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Comment /thread (Score 1) 351

by Thud457 on Monday July 20, 2015 @09:37AM (#50144535) Attached to: Is Advertising Morally Justifiable? The Importance of Protecting Our Attention

No better proof of Betteridge's law.

Comment Re:Europe has also had wire transfers (Score 1) 294

by Red Flayer on Friday July 17, 2015 @01:45PM (#50130243) Attached to: Cashless Adoption Growing In Europe

>It's 2015. Why does transferring money in the US take more than a minute and a few cents? I transfer money via ACH all the time for $1 per transaction.

Manual wires are different, and have a lot of costs associated with them. There are people involved, not just data being pushed.

Comment See this movie before... (Score 2) 459

by Thud457 on Tuesday July 14, 2015 @02:22PM (#50110201) Attached to: Iran Has Signed a Nuclear Accord

Hans, Hans, you're breaking my balls!

Comment The transit in the US sucks. (Score 1) 654

by Tatarize on Monday July 13, 2015 @06:13PM (#50102787) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: If Public Transport Was Free, Would You Leave Your Car At Home?

I took the bus from my house to college from time to time. It literally went from a block from my house straight to the college. It was still a pain in the ass.

Comment Re:Country run by oil barons does nothing!!! (Score 1) 195

by Thud457 on Monday July 13, 2015 @05:33PM (#50102383) Attached to: How the Biggest, Most Expensive Oil Spill In History Changed Almost Nothing

"proper safeguards" == cuts into profits.
A fatal flaw with nuclear power, too.

Comment dog in the manger (Score 1) 485

by Thud457 on Monday July 13, 2015 @02:44PM (#50100783) Attached to: European Agreement Sets Up Third Greek Bailout

honestly, what do you expect of a 100EUR / week hotel room?

Comment Re:Sunk cost fallacy (Score 2) 485

by Thud457 on Monday July 13, 2015 @02:08PM (#50100475) Attached to: European Agreement Sets Up Third Greek Bailout

Surely the enter the EU there are certain prerequisites that need to be met. Such as :
1. retirement age properly in line with demographics
2. transparent and mostly non-corrupt government
3. mostly fair and enforced tax system
4. reasonable spending on military

Comment How is this a barrier? (Score 0) 144

by Tatarize on Friday July 10, 2015 @05:12AM (#50080453) Attached to: OCZ Toshiba Breaks 40 Cent Per GB Barrier With New Trion 100 Series SSD

Seriously price per gb isn't a barrier. They could sell the 120GBs for a dollar, it would just be money losing and stupid. But, it would smash the "barrier". When there ain't nothin' in your way, that ain't a barrier.

Comment don't need no steenkin' computers to drive Boston (Score 1) 114

by Thud457 on Thursday July 09, 2015 @11:38AM (#50075953) Attached to: Google's Driverless Cars Now Rolling In the Heart of Texas

The Japanese figured out all the algorithm you need to drive in Boston way back in the 60's.

Comment DO NOT WANT! (?) (Score 1) 64

by Thud457 on Thursday July 09, 2015 @09:31AM (#50075253) Attached to: Robot Performs Prostate Surgery Inside an MRI

no no no no No NO NO!

They got the headline wrong, should read : ROBOT ATTACKS PROSTATE of MAN TRAPPED in MRI with NEEDLES

I'm sure the younger generation will accept this as a beneficial advancement and not some of the scariest parts of the major motion picture "Prometheus".

Comment Ron Paul was right. (Score 2) 190

by Thud457 on Wednesday July 08, 2015 @02:18PM (#50070987) Attached to: Glitches: United Airlines Grounds All Flights, NYSE Suspends Trading

IT'S HAPPENING!

We'd all be safe from this calamity if the traitor John Snowden hadn't sold our country's secrets to the Soviets.

Comment ERROR : Xzibit overflow (Score 1) 95

by Thud457 on Tuesday July 07, 2015 @01:38PM (#50064021) Attached to: Hacking Team Scrambling To Limit Damage Brought On By Explosive Data Leak

Yo dog, I heard you like backdoors. So I backdoored your backdoor so you can get p0wned while you p0wn!

Comment Re:The fickle finger of fate..... (Score 2) 95

by Thud457 on Tuesday July 07, 2015 @10:55AM (#50062803) Attached to: Hacking Team Scrambling To Limit Damage Brought On By Explosive Data Leak

As the Bataman said, "the world only makes sense when we force it to".
That's why we all morally obligated to track down evildoers and punch them in the balls. I'm pretty sure Thomas Jefferson wrote that, somewhere.

Comment Re:So does this qualify as 'organic'? (Score 1) 279

by Red Flayer on Tuesday July 07, 2015 @09:53AM (#50062299) Attached to: Philips Is Revolutionizing Urban Farming With New GrowWise Indoor Farm

Yes, but you claiming that it must be cyclical to be truly organic... well, "No true Scotsman..." seems to apply.

You are co-opting the term organic to mean something extra.

Comment Re:Your biggest screw up (Score 1) 452

by Red Flayer on Monday July 06, 2015 @09:00PM (#50059467) Attached to: "We Screwed Up," Says Reddit CEO In Formal Apology

Reddit was started as an experiment in free speech.

Wait, what?

I recall Alex coming on Slashdot a lot to promote Reddit when he first launched it. "An experiment in free speech" was not anything I recall being discussed. I also remember him posting on Slashdot while still developing reddit.

What I recall, is promotion of a general interest platform that was more open than Slashdot (unlimited moderations for all!) and less susceptible to vote brigading than Digg.

It was while ago, so I may be a bit foggy on the specifics.

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