slashkitty - Slashdot User

Comment Re:so-called 'lauch day' is a complete failure (Score 1) 130

by slashkitty on Sunday July 07, 2019 @03:22PM (#58886886) Attached to: In New Benchmark Tests, AMD Challenges Both Intel And Nvidia

Just buy it from NewEgg. It's a little retailer online https://www.newegg.com/amd-ryz...

Comment Got the other end right. (Score 1) 289

by slashkitty on Monday June 24, 2019 @12:00PM (#58814030) Attached to: USB Inventor Regrets Making Them So Difficult To Plug in Correctly

It's funny, cause I think they got it right on the other end, the USB A connection. It's keyed and pretty sturdy.

Comment The list? (Score 1) 139

by slashkitty on Sunday June 23, 2019 @10:13AM (#58808602) Attached to: Microsoft Puts Slack On Internal List of 'Prohibited and Discouraged' Software

Read through it and didn't actually see the full list. Is that posted anywhere?

Comment One sided description.. (Score 4, Interesting) 752

by slashkitty on Thursday June 06, 2019 @11:18AM (#58719122) Attached to: Bowing To Pressure, YouTube Will Reconsider Its Harassment Policies

Not one mention of Maza's calls of violence!

Comment Re:Mirror ... (Score 4, Informative) 76

by slashkitty on Friday April 26, 2019 @09:20AM (#58495314) Attached to: iFixit Pulls Galaxy Fold Teardown At Samsung's Request

Archive.org is there https://web.archive.org/web/20...

Comment Re:Current extinction event.. (Score 2) 114

by slashkitty on Sunday March 31, 2019 @01:30PM (#58361790) Attached to: Scientists Find 66-Million-Year-Old Fossils From The Day The Dinosaurs Died

Follow up: https://www.livescience.com/47... Life Science article on current mass extinction event.

Comment Current extinction event.. (Score 4, Insightful) 114

by slashkitty on Sunday March 31, 2019 @12:54PM (#58361674) Attached to: Scientists Find 66-Million-Year-Old Fossils From The Day The Dinosaurs Died

Aren't we in the middle of a current mass extinction event? Only 12 more years to go.

Comment Re:Probably worse than that (Score 1) 79

by slashkitty on Thursday March 14, 2019 @12:49PM (#58272946) Attached to: Tumblr's Web Traffic Has Dropped From 520 Million Page Views in December 2018 To 370 Million Page Views in February This Year Fo

Also, they haven't completely banned porn YET! Still lots of porn on the site, and those people looking can still find it!

Comment It's not a problem if you don't run unsigned code (Score 1, Insightful) 98

by slashkitty on Thursday February 21, 2019 @01:18PM (#58158590) Attached to: Google Researchers Say Software Alone Can't Mitigate Spectre Chip Flaws

We need to get away from this unsigned, unreviewed, wild code (like javascript) running on your machines. Lock it down and stuff like this won't be a problem.

Comment Re:e-cigarrettes arent tobacco (Score 3, Insightful) 246

by slashkitty on Monday February 11, 2019 @04:15PM (#58105730) Attached to: Tobacco Use is Soaring Among US Kids, Driven By E-cigarettes

As does caffeine!

Comment Re:Maybe it's not that bad of a deal (Score 1) 201

by slashkitty on Sunday February 10, 2019 @03:42PM (#58100036) Attached to: Amazon To NYC After Reconsidering HQ2 Plans: It'd Be a Shame If Something Happened To Your Kids' CS Education

Your math makes it obvious. State taxes it's workers then gives it to big corporations. THIS IS NOT ACCEPTABLE. Live and work in a state that doesn't tax you!

Comment Re:DB lookup? (Score 1) 116

by slashkitty on Thursday January 31, 2019 @01:43PM (#58051116) Attached to: Hackers Are Passing Around a Megaleak of 2.2 Billion Records

it'd be nice to search on domain.. I gotta someone get the original db to check everyone at work.

Comment Alternatives? (Score 1) 29

by slashkitty on Tuesday January 08, 2019 @11:18AM (#57924276) Attached to: Pingdom Will Kill Its Free Website Monitoring Plan on February 6

I see statuscake and uptrends. Are these or others good alternatives to the pingdom free plan?

Comment Re:No need to break the laws (Score 1) 308

by slashkitty on Thursday November 23, 2017 @10:25AM (#55610189) Attached to: Cloudflare Might Be Exploring a Way To Slow Down FCC Chairman Ajit Pai's Home Internet Speeds

Sorry, but the phone company is still a utility and can't deny service.

Comment Re:The Chrome team "broke the web"... (Score 1) 283

by slashkitty on Wednesday November 08, 2017 @12:51PM (#55513981) Attached to: 'How Chrome Broke the Web'

I use Chrome, but not on mobile. Haven't noticed anything wrong in with sites, including mine that rely on dragging. I'm guessing this is very limited to Chrome Mobile, which means Android, a fraction of web sites broken for a smaller fraction of web users

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