Comment Re: Meh (Score 1) 33
Might be easier to start loading the ark ship B
https://hitchhikers.fandom.com...
Submission + - Slashdot Alum Samzenpus's Fractured Veil Hits Kickstarter
CmdrTaco writes: Long time Slashdot readers remember Samzenpus,who posted over 17,000 stories here, sadly crushing my record in the process! What you might NOT know is that he was frequently the Dungeon Master for D&D campaigns played by the original Slashdot crew, and for the last few years he has been applying these skills with fellow Slashdot editorial alum Chris DiBona to a Survival game called Fractured Veil. It's set in a post apocalyptic Hawaii with a huge world based on real map data to explore, as well as careful balance between PVP & PVE. I figured a lot of our old friends would love to help them meet their kickstarter goal and then help us build bases and murder monsters! The game is turning into something pretty great and I'm excited to see it in the wild!
Comment Cybercrime is so common now (Score 1) 29
"the hacker inexplicably returned most of the money to him" - so cybercrime is so easy now that criminals are engaging in "catch and release" just for the fun of it.
Comment Re: not advice...trends that may make them money. (Score 1) 43
Exactly - last Jan while GME was going on I figured out the game was to squeeze the shorts and buy cheap out of the money call options ('lottery tickets') and saw a random tweet about AMC. Hmmm, AMC has a big short interest, has not popped yet so bought 4 near term calls with money I could sacrifice. Next day BOOM - have never seen so little get so big so fast. Largely lucky.
Comment Celebrity meat (Score 1) 107
Um I'll have the Brittany Burger please http://bitelabs.org/
Comment To put that in perspective (Score 0) 123
That is only about twice the US Federal Debt
Comment Re:No need (Score 1) 125
MuseScore may have a public address in belgium, but the company isn't using Yandex because they have a thing for matryochka dolls. TheRegister refers to "The Russia-based WSM Group, owner of Audacity".... Which is to say the Russians have a Belgian subsidiary address, but Vlad calls the shots or run a risk of defenestration.
Comment I kinda miss the interface of Mozilla M16. (Score 1) 194
It was the first time I thought of a browser interface as "cool".
Comment Carbon waste is the source of the value (Score 3, Insightful) 183
Bitcoin is a modern, super-harmful variation on an old theme. Gold is not worth very much inherently; it's over-valued because some people think it's currency. But the easy gold has been found, so miners will put in huge effort for it, so long as the value of the gold exceeds the cost to mine. The cost of mining helps set the value.The money supply, in a gold standard, depends to some extent on the success of miners, and is divorced from the needs of the economy. Too much gold created inflation -- Spain's pillaging of Mexico tanked its economy.
Bitcoin is similar. The value is based on the cost of mining, which is predominantly the cost of electricity. So it is almost literally created out of carbon emissions into the atmosphere. Even if you were to use "renewable" energy to mine BTC, that energy could better be used displacing coal and oil. The total amount of CO2 on the plant is what matters, and BTC causes huge amounts to be generated. It is stupid, evil, and existentially harmful to everyone on the planet.
Man Dies Inside Spanish Dinosaur Statue After Trying To Retrieve His Phone (theguardian.com) 215
According to The Guardian, a man in Catalonia died after becoming trapped inside a large dinosaur statue while trying to retrieve his smartphone. From the report: Officers were called to the statue in Santa Coloma de Gramenet, a satellite town of Barcelona, after a man and his son noticed something inside the papier-mache stegosaurus on Saturday afternoon. A spokeswoman for the regional police force, the Mossos d'Esquadra, said the death of the 39-year-old man was not being treated as suspicious.
"A father and son noticed that there was something inside and raised the alarm," she said. "We found the body of a man inside the leg of this dinosaur statue. It's an accidental death; there was no violence. This person got inside the statue's leg and got trapped. It looks as though he was trying to retrieve a mobile phone, which he'd dropped. It looks like he entered the statue head first and couldn't get out." "We're still waiting for the autopsy results, so we don't know how long he was in there, but it seems he was there for a couple of days," she added. Slashdot reader shanen submitted this story with the following commentary: Not sure what the technology link is. Smartphones make people stupid? Dinosaurs are scientific, but this is ridiculous? It would be funny, but it's too gruesome. But I guess I'll go ahead and submit it in the Darwin Awards category. Maybe a better title is man kills himself with dinosaur and smartphone? Death by paper mache?
"A father and son noticed that there was something inside and raised the alarm," she said. "We found the body of a man inside the leg of this dinosaur statue. It's an accidental death; there was no violence. This person got inside the statue's leg and got trapped. It looks as though he was trying to retrieve a mobile phone, which he'd dropped. It looks like he entered the statue head first and couldn't get out." "We're still waiting for the autopsy results, so we don't know how long he was in there, but it seems he was there for a couple of days," she added. Slashdot reader shanen submitted this story with the following commentary: Not sure what the technology link is. Smartphones make people stupid? Dinosaurs are scientific, but this is ridiculous? It would be funny, but it's too gruesome. But I guess I'll go ahead and submit it in the Darwin Awards category. Maybe a better title is man kills himself with dinosaur and smartphone? Death by paper mache?
Comment Re: Hippos are not hirsute. (Score 4, Funny) 46
I'd prefer Hungry Hippo
Comment Open source isn't Free software. (Score 1) 350
Oh no! What will Free software do without the OSI!
Comment Re:None of our business. (Score 1) 151
Look everybody! A liar sharing misinformation!
Comment Re:Human hubris is to blame... (Score 1) 663
I guess if you don't poop, pee, eat, or use gas maybe? A real life trip across Texas takes at least a day of driving.
Comment Re: Kill yourself, Ms. Mash (Score 0) 663
Not expecting below-freezing temperatures is stupid considering what happened in 2011. The dipshits who run the wind farms are to blame for not planning ahead.
