Skip Whiffle - Slashdot User

Comment Link bad? (Score 2) 21

by Skip Whiffle on Wednesday July 01, 2020 @10:15AM (#60250356) Attached to: Apple Races To Push Ahead With 5G iPhone Mass Production

The link that I'm seeing goes to an article on TikTok, not Apple.

Comment Lacking button for "can't tell" (Score 3) 34

by Skip Whiffle on Saturday June 06, 2020 @04:03PM (#60153844) Attached to: A New AI-Powered Eye Exam Reduces Errors By 74%

I took the test, but I had no idea how to tell the system when the letter was indecipherable and just looked like a box, at which point I just had to guess. I think the test could have been more accurate, or at least more enjoyable to take, if it had a button for "I can't tell."

Comment Re:Uhmmm.... "appears" to explode? (Score 5, Interesting) 284

by Skip Whiffle on Tuesday April 23, 2019 @10:04AM (#58476998) Attached to: Tesla Investigates After Parked Model S Appears To Explode In China

Is it just me or does that phrasing suggest that something that happens to look like an explosion of some kind could actually ever be something else entirely?

A short video of surveillance footage posted on Chinese social media site Weibo (WB) showed white smoke emerging from what looks like a white Tesla car parked at a lot in Shanghai. After a few seconds, the electric vehicle bursts into flames and the clip ends soon afterward.

Can someone explain to me how what that footage caught is not *actually* an explosion? What else can it possibly be?

The video jumps directly from 19 to 20 seconds and they hold the 20 second frame for a couple of seconds, I’m guessing, to make it look way more dramatic. That little edit makes the entire incident questionable.

Comment I watched the embedded video and lost 10 IQ points (Score 2) 176

by Skip Whiffle on Thursday July 26, 2018 @04:36PM (#57015202) Attached to: Scientists Perfect Technique To Create Most Dense, Solid-State Memory in History that Could Soon Exceed the Capabilities of Curr

I thought the article was light on information until I watched the embedded video. Wow.

Comment Humans don't have a language. Why should an animal (Score 0) 143

by Skip Whiffle on Monday July 24, 2017 @02:13PM (#54868407) Attached to: Amazon Report Predicts Pet Translation Devices By 2027

Humans don't have a language. They have the capacity for language. That's why there are so many independent languages. So, why should anyone believe there's a Dog Language or a Cat Language?

Comment Head Transplant? (Score 0) 66

by Skip Whiffle on Wednesday March 29, 2017 @05:30PM (#54138219) Attached to: The Story of the First Human Head Transplant Won't Die

Hopefully, this will be a body transplant, or someone's going to be pretty upset.

Bush Turns Down Job Offer From Dallas Hardware Store 11

Posted by samzenpus on Monday February 23, 2009 @03:07PM from the home-improvement-accomplished dept.

Elliott's Hardware store offered George W. Bush a position as a greeter in an open letter in a Dallas newspaper last month. Bush walked in the store on Saturday and said, "I'm looking for a job." Andrea Bond, a manager at the store, said president Bush spent about an hour with his secret service security detail shopping and talking to customers during the surprise visit. Despite having a lot of free time, the former president turned the job down. I'm sure W would make a great hardware store employee as long as Karl Rove worked in the aisle next to him.

3 Cups of Coffee Increases Hallucinations 628

Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday January 14, 2009 @12:37PM from the but-they-ARE-out-to-get-me dept.

PearsSoap writes "The Telegraph and other sources are pointing out a study on 200 students which has found that a high caffeine intake can cause visual and auditory hallucinations, and can make people think that others are 'out to get them.' The abstract (and full version if you have access) is available. 'The volunteers were questioned about their caffeine intake from products including coffee, tea, energy drinks, chocolate bars and caffeine tablets.'"

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