FatdogHaiku - Slashdot User

Comment Re: Why blame Amtrak? (Score 3, Informative) 240

by FatdogHaiku on Friday June 08, 2018 @09:31PM (#56753572) Attached to: Senator Makes Amtrak Hire Ticket Agents Because 30 Percent of His State Lacks Internet

In 2016 Amtrac got One Billion Three Hundred Eighty Five Million dollars in grant money, from the U.S. Department of Transportation ->Federal Railroad Administration. That's in addition to the money they get for, you know, selling tickets...
https://www.fra.dot.gov/Page/P0249

They also got over a Billion dollars in 2009 as part of ARRA.

So, if a Senator has clout and says Hop, they should check back for parameters after they are in the air...

Comment Re:This is not for US-ians (Score 1) 170

by FatdogHaiku on Thursday June 07, 2018 @11:28AM (#56742966) Attached to: YouTube Can Be Liable For Copyright Infringing Videos, Court Rules

I was hoping it was Fingers, or Sausages...
Do not infringe on our cookies, or questionable meat products!

Comment Re:So.... (Score 1) 18

by FatdogHaiku on Tuesday June 05, 2018 @11:36PM (#56734962) Attached to: Google's Lens AI Camera Is Now a Standalone App

Maybe they are worried about diluting the Google Glass brand.
The warning at the top of the Wikipedia page may not be getting the job done...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Glass

Comment Re:Zombie (Score 1) 164

by FatdogHaiku on Friday June 01, 2018 @10:22PM (#56713648) Attached to: Microsoft Is Talking About Acquiring GitHub, Says Report

A few years ago I would have said it is the end of GitHub. Now it is most likely to be turned into a zombie

That seems reasonable...
If GitHub lets this happen they should already be out seeking BRAINS ...

Comment Re:Thatâ(TM)s a shame (Score 1) 92

by FatdogHaiku on Tuesday May 22, 2018 @02:56PM (#56654810) Attached to: The Wayback Machine is Deleting Evidence of Malware Sold To Stalkers

https://archive.fo/flexispy.co...

Comment Re:And it will be for a long time (Score 1) 125

by FatdogHaiku on Monday May 21, 2018 @12:31PM (#56647590) Attached to: Netflix's DVD Rental Business Is Still Profitable

As long as studios keep up outrageous fees for online streaming licenses, the physical discs will remain popular - both for rental and purchase. Over the long term they will probably decline, but I wonder if greed has any expiration...

Greed not only has no expiration, it increases as fast as possible...
In other news, the wages of sin remain fixed...

Comment something a bit less vague... (Score 4, Informative) 24

by FatdogHaiku on Sunday May 20, 2018 @04:37PM (#56643822) Attached to: Tesla Releases Some of Its Software To Comply With Open-Source Licenses

https://github.com/teslamotors...
https://github.com/teslamotors...

Comment Re:so how do you prevent from scanning your plate (Score 2) 239

by FatdogHaiku on Saturday May 19, 2018 @10:56PM (#56641052) Attached to: Repo Men Scan Billions of License Plates -- For the Government

If you found out what the scan database table name is you could model your plates on this idea...
https://xkcd.com/327/

Comment Re:Opinion (Score 1) 522

by FatdogHaiku on Thursday May 10, 2018 @08:45PM (#56592246) Attached to: Richard Stallman Demands Return Of Abortion Joke To libc Documentation

I'm offended at the suggestion I have a soul! How dare you! I demand you take that back!

- Soulless professional offense taker

S.P.O.T?
(sigh) Now I have to rename the dog...

Comment Re:lasers instead of radio waves (Score 1) 69

by FatdogHaiku on Monday May 07, 2018 @10:00PM (#56571032) Attached to: MIT Invented a Tool That Allows Driverless Cars To Navigate Rural Roads Without a Map

Remember back when every simple term didn't have to be explained in the summary?
Like LIDAR is cutting edge or something.
Come on, it's not 3D printed rocket science...
(but that may come up soon)

Comment Re: $10/month (Score 1) 274

by FatdogHaiku on Friday April 27, 2018 @11:59AM (#56513951) Attached to: PSA: Amazon Will Increase Price of Prime To $119

If you say something they usually give you a credit towards digital merch or add an extra month of (lackluster?) service to your Prime account. They have missed the mark a few times, but if you call they will make some kind of amends... and it's hard to beat the return policy on FBA.

Comment Re:Make a "skill"? (Score 1) 44

by FatdogHaiku on Thursday April 19, 2018 @08:45PM (#56468655) Attached to: New Alexa Blueprints Let Users Make Custom Skills Without Knowing Any Code

You mean like Slashdot but with decent responses? It'll never catch on.

I was thinking "Alexa, teach me to create a skill"...

Comment Re:Oh no! (Score 1) 81

by FatdogHaiku on Thursday April 19, 2018 @02:35PM (#56466263) Attached to: Microsoft Has Run Out of Windows Phone Stock

It's not dead yet...
https://www.google.com/

Comment Re:Yes, people are that stupid (Score 1) 135

by FatdogHaiku on Thursday April 19, 2018 @02:10PM (#56466065) Attached to: Turn Right at the Burger King: Google Maps Begins Using Landmarks To Help With Guidance

Yeah. Directions where I grew up always seem to reference at least one landmark that hasn't existed for decades. For example, "take the road up the hill behind the old Zellers building". Never mind that Zellers closed over 20 years ago and it's had several other department stores in it since....

Yup, we get those. Turn where the double-wide used to be...
I like the subjective ones even better, "After a couple of miles you'll see a rock that looks kind like a bear..." if you get to Phoenix you missed it...

Comment Re:Can't wait for this to get loose (Score 1) 219

by FatdogHaiku on Thursday April 19, 2018 @02:03PM (#56466005) Attached to: Scientists Accidentally Create Mutant Enzyme That Eats Plastic Bottles

The summary and the article don't say that, but I have no doubt you are right. It's hard to beat Mother Nature, so let's co-opt her!
No one bothered to link the paper, which is a PDF here:
http://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/early/2018/04/16/1718804115.full.pdf
The story did mention that the enzyme was not optimized (do to young age of the whole process no doubt) and suggested a transplant of the mutant enzyme into an “extremophile bacteria” for a greater range of temperature resistance... I can hear Jeff Goldberg saying "Yes Yes, make it hard to kill!

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