Lewrker - Slashdot User

Comment: Missing option: (Score 1) 409

by Lewrker on Tuesday March 13, @11:23AM (#39339161) Attached to: What Is Your Favorite Way of Watching a Movie

Wait for Rifftrax commentary, then torrent.

Comment: Re:It was a good run. (Score 1) 93

by Lewrker on Saturday January 28, @12:45PM (#38850281) Attached to: Google+ Officially Open To Teens

I'm just worried that all the worst aspects of facebook (attention-whoring, crappy games, internet-disease solarflare photos etc) will inevitably be ported to g+, either making it a replacement for fb or rendering it useless when it becomes a clone of it. "If you don't like it just ignore it" doesn't work when the developers are actively pushing that stuff to generate more ad revenue.

Comment: Streaming is a waste of bandwidth. (Score 0) 170

by Lewrker on Saturday January 28, @11:33AM (#38849935) Attached to: How much of your music/video entertainment is streamed online?

I don't know why people get so excited about netflix and youtube and other services like that. It reminds me of the 1990s with all the BUFFERING. It's just another way to push DRM upon users, nothing else.

Comment: It was a good run. (Score 2, Interesting) 93

by Lewrker on Saturday January 28, @10:52AM (#38849753) Attached to: Google+ Officially Open To Teens

The only appeal of G+ was not having all the bs teenage drama there, and people seemed a little bit less mentally challenged.
Good night sweet prince.

Google+ Officially Open to Teens-> 1

Submitted by hypnosec on Saturday January 28, @02:07AM

hypnosec writes "Google+ made a landmark move and opened itself to users who are over the age of 13. Google+ did not initially target the younger crowd and kept itself available only for users above the age of 18. Besides, opening up to youngsters over the age of 13 the social network also added improved safety features to keep the younger crowd protected. Now it features more rigid default settings for privacy but, they can be overridden none the less. Vice president Product management at Google+, Bradley Horowitz, in a Google+ post stated, "With Google+, we want to help teens build meaningful connections online. We also want to provide features that foster safety alongside self-expression. Today we're doing both, for everyone who’s old enough for a Google Account.""
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Comment: Coolest Railgun Ever (Score 0) 445

by Lewrker on Friday September 12 2008, @05:27PM (#24984675) Attached to: Greek Hackers Target CERN's LHC

Well, probably technically impossible, but still tempting.

#1 story on reddit is a clear embarrassment-> 0

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 14 2007, @01:29AM

An anonymous reader writes "The top story on reddit right now is "VOTE UP if you want GEORGE BUSH in Prison!!" It received 740 votes in 6 hours. I love a good anti-Bush rant, but this this reddit story is a clear example of a spammer gaming reddit."
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Journal: An(other) Inconvenient Truth 2

Journal by corbettw on Friday March 02 2007, @01:14PM

In case this doesn't get accepted, here's a submission I just put into the queue:
From the National Geographic Society comes a(nother) report that Mars is warming at a similar pace as the earth, pointing to a solar, not a human, cause of both. Obviously, the Society is pandering to Big Oil....