thrillseeker - Slashdot User

Comment: Re:didn't they decline H264 on Windows a while ago (Score 5, Interesting) 403

by thrillseeker on Saturday May 17, 2014 @08:45PM (#47028895) Attached to: Free Software Foundation Condemns Mozilla's Move To Support DRM In Firefox

I wonder if anyone technically competent and influential has recently left the company...

Comment: Re:Statute of limitations (Score 2, Insightful) 467

by thrillseeker on Sunday February 16, 2014 @10:36PM (#46263545) Attached to: South Carolina Woman Jailed After Failing To Return Movie Rented Nine Years Ago

They always have a choice.

Comment: Re:I find it interesting (Score 1) 223

by thrillseeker on Sunday February 16, 2014 @10:58AM (#46259561) Attached to: Plan 9 From Bell Labs Operating System Now Available Under GPLv2

No permissions.

Comment: Re:good (Score -1, Flamebait) 393

by thrillseeker on Sunday January 26, 2014 @07:28PM (#46076069) Attached to: Michael Mann Defamation Suit Against National Review Writer to Proceed

I think you are being a bit optimistic if you expect to find actual scientists having proper scientific discussions with each other when government funding is involved.

FTFY.

Comment: Re:The original poster didn't read even the abstra (Score 1) 148

by thrillseeker on Friday January 10, 2014 @06:59PM (#45922107) Attached to: Physicists Claim First Observation of a Quantum Cheshire Cat

Sounds like it was both observed and not observed ...

Comment: Re:join the group. I did. Most work done via maili (Score 1) 80

by thrillseeker on Sunday December 15, 2013 @11:25AM (#45695055) Attached to: IETF To Change TLS Implementation In Applications

damn it - fat fingered the informative upvote.

Comment: Re:When are we going? (Score 1) 250

by thrillseeker on Saturday December 14, 2013 @04:07PM (#45690663) Attached to: Chinese Lunar Probe Lands Successfully

Forget the blackjack.

Comment: Re:Kicking up the lundar dust (Score 3, Insightful) 250

by thrillseeker on Saturday December 14, 2013 @04:05PM (#45690639) Attached to: Chinese Lunar Probe Lands Successfully

You only own what you can defend.

+ - $0 commission stock brokerage backed by Google 0

Submitted by thrillseeker on Saturday December 14, 2013 @03:02PM

thrillseeker (518224) writes "A Google Ventures backed brokerage is offering $0 commisson per trade in an invitation-only sign up process. Per their FAQ they say they will require no minimum balance and describe how they will make their money: Robinhood will offer margin trading as well as API access. We also plan to offer premium services for active investors in the future. Robinhood is venture-funded by Google, Andreessen Horowitz and many others, which affords us the freedom to focus on building a wonderful brokerage experience rather than short-term profits."

Comment: legitimacy (Score 3) 420

by thrillseeker on Saturday April 13, 2013 @01:23PM (#43441133) Attached to: Eric Schmidt: Regulate Civilian Drones Now

it's one thing for governments, who have some legitimacy in what they're doing, but have other people doing it ... it's not going to happen

Well Mr. Schmidt - from where do you think governments derive their legitimacy?

Comment: Re:A non techy benefit of Amazon (Score 5, Insightful) 76

by thrillseeker on Sunday March 17, 2013 @05:11PM (#43198707) Attached to: By the Numbers: How Google Compute Engine Stacks Up To Amazon EC2

Do you think AWS will continue if it's eventually found to be nonprofitable?

Comment: Re:my iPhone?? (Score 4, Funny) 114

by thrillseeker on Sunday January 06, 2013 @12:04PM (#42495815) Attached to: Your iPhone Will Soon Detect Bad Breath

Well, guess who has bad breath.