96909473 comment Comment Re:World Food Problem Solved (Score 0) 103 by Kevin Oldman on Friday January 26, 2018 @03:41AM (#56005839) Attached to: Microbes May Help Astronauts Transform Human Waste Into Food For some reason nobody wants the beer I brewed from the urine resyc
96844281 comment Comment Re:Simple (Score 0) 660 by Kevin Oldman on Tuesday January 23, 2018 @02:01PM (#55987759) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: What Is Your View On Forced Subscription-Only Software? I actually agree with this. I do in fact use free alternatives no matter how crashy, shitty and unintuitive they are.
96797579 comment Comment Re:For Unclear Reasons (Score -1, Flamebait) 507 by Kevin Oldman on Monday January 22, 2018 @02:48AM (#55976077) Attached to: Linus Torvalds Calls Intel Patches 'Complete and Utter Garbage' Took the chickenshit way out and punched his own ticket. Must have taken himself by surprise.
96403063 comment Comment Re:Performance (Score 1) 375 by Kevin Oldman on Wednesday January 03, 2018 @05:40PM (#55858823) Attached to: Intel Responds To Alleged Chip Flaw, Claims Effects Won't Significantly Impact Average Users I feel like the kid that saved all his paper route money and bought a new bike only for it to fall apart.
96311363 comment Comment Re:Originally ran on Apache/FreeBSD (Score 1) 84 by Kevin Oldman on Friday December 29, 2017 @06:59PM (#55831503) Attached to: How Hotmail Changed Microsoft (and Email) Forever I vaguely recall this. I still use my original hotmail address, had it since I was about 16 I think? I just turned 37.
95977743 comment Comment Re:Don't Roll Your Own Crypto (Score 1) 186 by Kevin Oldman on Friday December 15, 2017 @03:31AM (#55744187) Attached to: A Cryptocurrency Without a Blockchain Has Been Built To Outperform Bitcoin I'm glad this whole this is still Opt In and I can safely ignore it for now.
94993719 comment Comment Re:The time for that has passed (Score 1) 187 by Kevin Oldman on Sunday November 05, 2017 @04:44PM (#55495251) Attached to: No, the Linux Desktop Hasn't Jumped in Popularity Yeah it flat out missed the boat didn't it?
94501823 comment Comment Re:Cheaper to license, costlier to support (Score 1) 412 by Kevin Oldman on Monday October 16, 2017 @06:17AM (#55376109) Attached to: Munich Plans New Vote on Dumping Linux For Windows 10 Is the GUI still run on X these days? I never really understood why distros stuck with that when I was a teen in the 90's.
94456653 comment Comment Bring on the replacement reality (Score 1) 302 by Kevin Oldman on Saturday October 14, 2017 @04:12PM (#55369857) Attached to: What Will Replace Computer Keyboards? Can't come fast enough IMO.
94384035 comment Comment This is horrific to me (Score 1) 267 by Kevin Oldman on Wednesday October 11, 2017 @08:48PM (#55353619) Attached to: Moscow Has Turned Kaspersky Antivirus Software Into a Global Spy Tool, Using It To Scan Computers For Secret US Data The Russians now know what kind of messed up porn I'm into! The shame!
94341593 comment Comment Re:*BSDs are rendering Linux irrelevant. (Score 1) 114 by Kevin Oldman on Tuesday October 10, 2017 @02:53AM (#55341447) Attached to: OpenBSD 6.2 Released Is there abuse in BSD Kernel development like linux?
94237151 comment Comment Re:In all fairness.... (Score 1) 223 by Kevin Oldman on Wednesday October 04, 2017 @07:56PM (#55312417) Attached to: Expert Says You're Deluding Yourself If You Think You're Productive On Six Hours of Sleep I don't need more that six_fdsff*@five doLLaRs!?? Get oUtta herE
94155053 comment Comment Re:Microsoft will just be another Linux distro (Score 1) 156 by Kevin Oldman on Saturday September 30, 2017 @07:19PM (#55285749) Attached to: Bill Gates Has An Android Phone. Has Microsoft Changed? Kind of makes sense now that you mention it.
94138459 comment Comment Missed the boat (Score 1) 417 by Kevin Oldman on Friday September 29, 2017 @04:23PM (#55280039) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Whatever Happened To the 'Year of Linux on Desktop'? TBH I think linux distros just missed the boat. I remember back when many things didn't 'just work' and digging in text config files was frustrating when many things were stubbornly undocumented. That might be not be the case now but... too late?
84787895 comment Comment Only two parties? (Score 1) 360 by Kevin Oldman on Friday July 15, 2016 @07:52AM (#52517113) Attached to: 145 Tech Leaders Say 'Trump Would Be A Disaster For Innovation' Can you only vote for one of two people in a U.S. election?