Forgot your password?
typodupeerror

Comment Re:Unconstitutional (Score 1) 163

Well now I have no idea what fucking argument you're making. You posted a link to the "Fire in a crowded theater" argument in response to "what law did he break," and that specific case-law for that argument shows he didn't break any! You cited an article that literally reinforces OP's question with the addition of "educate yourself" showing you're, at best, ignorant and, at worse, retarded.

Now you're telling me to go write bomb on my shit? What fucking strawman is this? If you look at the rest of the comments on this thread, it's pretty obvious it was a product that had "Bomb" in the name of the speaker. I don't know if you've ever used this magical thing called Bluetooth, but the funny thing is your can't change the identifier on most products. Very rarely you might be able to with a device specific app, but it's not common.

So this kid likely literally did nothing wrong and the passenger who made a big deal about it is as stupid as this elementary school teacher:

https://www.sacbee.com/news/lo...

..and I bet you'd probably do the same retarded shit in the same situation.

Comment Re:It just keeps getting worse!! Ahhhhh (Score -1, Offtopic) 93

The vaccines were the most untested novel drugs ever released on humanity in modern regulatory history and they have killed millions of people. Blood clots, turbo cancers, athletes facing of heart disease at age 30 ... if you think the jabs were truly neutral, I don't understand what insane scientism religious fantasy world you live in.

As regards to the mosquitos, messing with a major piece of the ecosystem will have consequences. Humanity's hubris is on fully display.

Comment Re:Beholden to shareholders? (Score 1) 35

Yea exactly. At least this way more information will be public. I bet they're padding their numbers a lot and I hope they deeply underestimate the ability of people to comb through their docs and find all the stuff worded to fool AI tools. I don't see how either Anthropic or OpenAI can sustain their current compute with their current subscriptions. I want to see both of them taken down several pegs before we see the disaster of a collapsing home computer industry.

Comment Half-Life and Counterstrike (Score 2) 9

In the 2000s, you cold play Half-Life 2 Team Fortress, Counterstrike or any mods totally offline hosting your own server. Blizzard sent a cease and desist to bnetd and that open source project took everything down (I still have the ancient rpm somewhere) because people we using it to get past product key protection on Warcraft 3.

Consumers didn't demand local servers. Halo and Halo II were fully playable offline on your local network, between two xboxes. We have regressed so far and people have accepted so much from shitty game companies. It's not just about "release the damn server." It's "stop suing people for reverse engineering their own servers!"

Comment Re:I'll get the popcorn... (Score 1) 130

Not much. Plutonium isn't like uranium, it's effectively safe for human contact outside its fissioned form. This has been pretty well documented.

This is a step forward which is a long time overdue. It should've happened 30 years ago, and we'd have averted having to depend on China for our electricity production (wind + solar) without the net-zero production problems those two 'sources' introduce.

Comment Uranium (Score 1) 130

There was a company in Tennessee that had the contract for turning enriched weapons grade uranium into fuel, but it was flooded out during Hurricane Helene. There was also a company run by an Israeli decades ago with a contract which stole insane amounts and is the reason Israel has a weapons program (unofficially). All of Israel's nuclear tech was stolen from the US and Russia.

It would be great if we could use weapons grade fuel in reactors. It was such a waste to turn so much of it into warheads. But no one has been able to do it yet. I doubt any startup could make fuel for current reactors either. You would likely need completely different reactors and fuel rod designs to reuse this fissile material for power, and America doesn't have any of the steel manufacturing facilities left to even make a nuclear pressure vessel today.

Comment Re:embarrassing what qualifies as a programmer (Score 1) 166

I'm even seeing tiny firmware moving to Rust.

An awful lot of firmware moved over to C++ yonks ago, too before Rust was on the cards. There have been a few hold outs where reasonable C++ compilers didn't exist, usually on platforms so small you really can write it in C or even ASM without that much penalty.

Last time I wrote C in anger was on some 8051 base bluetooth controller years ago. The compiler was IAR Embedded C/C++ 9 I think (2010 ish?). Eventually after trying to write C++ I kept bumping into so many missing things I gave up trying to figure out what passed for C++ in their minds an wrote C instead.

Still, no allocation, some basic logic and a few FIR filters. It was fine.

Slashdot Top Deals

APL is a write-only language. I can write programs in APL, but I can't read any of them. -- Roy Keir

Working...