Krazy Kanuck - Slashdot User

Comment "Save the cheerleader... (Score 1) 101

by Krazy Kanuck on Tuesday May 02, 2023 @10:26AM (#63491188) Attached to: Hollywood Writers Strike Over Pay Disputes with Streaming Giants, AI Concerns

save the world" - Heroes (2006-2010) though should have been pronounced dead in season 2 with the 2007 writers strike.

Comment Re:Competent network/system admins (Score 1) 111

by Krazy Kanuck on Wednesday August 01, 2018 @12:57PM (#57049882) Attached to: Alaskan Town Finds Solace in Typewriters Following Last Week's BitPaymer Ransomware Infection

Property taxes is how things get done around here. Well and some cities have sales tax but that's not applicable this.

Comment Re:Competent network/system admins (Score 2) 111

by Krazy Kanuck on Wednesday August 01, 2018 @12:40PM (#57049758) Attached to: Alaskan Town Finds Solace in Typewriters Following Last Week's BitPaymer Ransomware Infection

No worries man, more for me. No person in their right mind would move to Alaska for its beauty and freedom then shack up in some hole like Anchorage.... Palmer is a bit dumpy though, but its a really insignificant part of the borough let alone the state.

Comment The "Canadean" company (Score 3, Informative) 94

by Krazy Kanuck on Tuesday July 26, 2016 @01:42PM (#52583199) Attached to: BlackBerry Says Its New Android Smartphone DTEK 50 Is the 'World's Most Secure'

I didn't realize Blackberry was owned by a softdrink research company. www.canadean.com

Comment Made you look? (Score 0) 40

by Krazy Kanuck on Tuesday June 07, 2016 @11:10AM (#52267425) Attached to: Huge Vulnerabilities In Facebook Chat and Messenger Exploitable With Basic HTML

Choppa four reporting - huge chemical fire downtown this morning, smoke can be seen for miles, massive flames and explosions In other news, local firefighters and teams from surrounding counties put out the fire last week....

Comment Better Source (Score 2) 130

by Krazy Kanuck on Wednesday May 18, 2016 @11:29AM (#52135283) Attached to: Backblaze Releases Billion-Hour Hard Drive Reliability Report

I realize advertising is king here, but a link to the original and far more detailed report would have been nice. https://www.backblaze.com/blog...

Comment Lifeboat accounts hacked, not Minecraft accounts (Score 1) 40

by Krazy Kanuck on Tuesday April 26, 2016 @12:36PM (#51989963) Attached to: Over 7 Million Accounts for Minecraft Community Hacked

Per the article: "To join the community, players download the normal Pocket Edition app, connect to a Lifeboat server, and register a username with an email address and password." Its a big difference, granted some percentage of that user base was probably dumb enough to use the same password.

Slashdot Asks: Is the Golden Era of Video-Game Console Sales Over? 314

Posted by msmash on Thursday April 21, 2016 @02:04PM from the do-we-need-video-game-consoles-anymore? dept.

Microsoft announced on Wednesday that it has stopped producing Xbox 360, a gaming console it launched in 2005. According to estimations, the company sold more than 85 million Xbox 360 units worldwide. Quartz has an insightful story today, in which it compares the shipment numbers of Xbox One and the PlayStation 4, the current generation consoles, to conclude that the "golden era" of video-game console sales is over. According to estimations, citing data provided by Nintendo, CNET, GameSpot, and Giant Bomb, the crown for the most popular gaming console goes to the Sony PlayStation 2 (2000) with 155.1 million inventories shipped. Sony PlayStation (1994) saw the movement of 102.49 million units, whereas 101.63 million Nintendo Wii inventories were dispatched. In comparison, Sony has sold 35.9 million units of PlayStation 4 so far, and Microsoft has sold roughly 10 million Xbox One units. From Quartz's report: It does seem, to some degree, that the golden age of home video-game consoles may be over. The previous generation of consoles was the last generation that didn't have to contend for users' time with mobile games. And you could make a strong case that a large portion of the casual gaming audience that Nintendo attracted for the Wii was almost entirely wiped out by mobile gaming. After all, the Wii was released in 2006 -- a year before the iPhone launched. Nintendo's next console, the Wii U, has been the company's worst-selling of all time. The average consumer may now feel more inclined to just pick up their phone and play Candy Crush or Temple Run than to get up and swing a controller around. The home console's saving grace could well be virtual reality. Just about every major tech and video-games company is working on a VR headset -- apart from Nintendo, it seems -- and early reviews of Facebook's Oculus Rift and HTC's Vive headsets have reduced non-gamers to tears. None of the top 10 most popular games consoles of all time have been released in the last 10 years, and VR may well be what turns the slowing console market back around.What's your take on this?

Comment Beauty is in the eye of the beholder... (Score 1) 153

by Krazy Kanuck on Wednesday October 14, 2015 @03:37PM (#50728909) Attached to: "Are Games Art?" and the Intellectual Value of Design

Or in the pixels my eye perceives. Art is about experiencing the artist's perspective or portrayal of a subject. If artist and the viewer are requirements for art to exist, so if someone creates a thing and both parties agree its art who can argue otherwise?

Comment Affect to existing accounts? (Score 1) 205

by Krazy Kanuck on Thursday June 18, 2015 @11:10AM (#49936925) Attached to: FCC To Fine AT&T $100M For Throttling Unlimited Data Customers

So I'm still grandfathered in on one of these AT&T "Unlimited" accounts, should I expect to not be limited any longer? It is still very obvious every month when I hit the soft cap whatever it is, then after that things load fairly slow, which I've grown used to over the years. None of this arbitration really seems to focus on the present, but rather the past.

Comment "Just annouced" eh? (Score 2) 72

by Krazy Kanuck on Wednesday April 15, 2015 @12:41PM (#49479441) Attached to: Samsung SSD On a Tiny M.2 Stick Is Capable of Read Speeds Over 2GB/sec

I suppose one could interpret a press release from January 7th as "Samsung has just announced its new", it was announced during CES on January 7th, here's the press release: http://www.samsung.com/global/... Linked article says model numbers haven't been released either.. here you go: 128GB NVME SSD SM951 - MZVPV128HDGL-00000 256GB NVME SSD SM951 - MZHPV256HDGL-00000 512GB NVME SSD SM951 - MZHPV512HDGL-00000 They've been shipping these in Lenovo and Apple laptops, they are scarce, but available (Amazon, RamCity, Ebay, Etc) at a little more than $1 per GB.

Comment Next up: (Score 2) 108

by Krazy Kanuck on Friday April 10, 2015 @12:31PM (#49447199) Attached to: ICANN Asks FTC To Rule On<nobr> <wbr></nobr>.sucks gTLD Rollout

.farts .smells .stinks ... its like Mad Libs for tlds

Comment Oblig XKCD (Score 2) 220

by Krazy Kanuck on Wednesday January 28, 2015 @05:30PM (#48927545) Attached to: Anonymous No More: Your Coding Style Can Give You Away

Not that many of us actually use comments.... http://xkcd.com/1421/

Comment Re:YAY (Score 2) 93

by Krazy Kanuck on Tuesday January 20, 2015 @04:37PM (#48859541) Attached to: Steam Broadcasting Now Open To Everyone

except corporate websense doesn't block /. whereas kotaku is, and earns me dirty looks from by boss when he is asked to review the audits...

Comment Think of the Childr...Hollywoods (Score 1) 230

by Krazy Kanuck on Wednesday September 03, 2014 @01:25PM (#47818147) Attached to: Akamai Warns: Linux Systems Infiltrated and Controlled In a DDoS Botnet

"... may use infected Linux systems to launch DDoS attacks against the entertainment industry... " Seriously? That's our worry? or whom you are trying to scare?

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