syrupdude - Slashdot User

Comment So was it in Yiddish? (Score 1) 51

by syrupdude on Friday May 20, 2022 @09:15AM (#62551942) Attached to: Two Military Satellites Just Communicated With Each Other Using Space Lasers

HA ha. Topical humor jokes.

Comment No Shit (Score 1) 307

by syrupdude on Friday June 12, 2020 @11:13PM (#60178008) Attached to: Young US Men Having a Lot Less Sex In the 21st Century, Study Shows

No.
Shit.

Comment Undo (Score 1) 66

by syrupdude on Wednesday February 19, 2020 @08:19PM (#59745196) Attached to: Larry Tesler, Computer Scientist Who Created Cut, Copy, and Paste, Dies At 74

If only he had invented Ctrl-Z

Comment Re:China Proudly Leads The Way To The New World Or (Score 1) 84

by syrupdude on Thursday March 14, 2019 @08:06PM (#58275396) Attached to: You Will Soon Be Able To Pay Your Subway Fare With Your Face in China

THis is not what I expected.

Comment Re:Wut? (Score 1) 84

by syrupdude on Thursday March 14, 2019 @08:05PM (#58275392) Attached to: You Will Soon Be Able To Pay Your Subway Fare With Your Face in China

THis is what I expected.

Comment still mostly useless (Score 1) 90

by syrupdude on Wednesday July 05, 2017 @11:55AM (#54747571) Attached to: Amazon's Alexa Passes 15,000 skills, Up From 10,000 in February

and still it remains mostly useless. I say this not as a troll, but as a paying customer.
If I wanted to use the Alexa app for every goddammed thing I asked, I wouldn't have spent the money to begin with.

Comment Re:Do you know how far bullets fly? (Score 1) 620

by syrupdude on Tuesday October 27, 2015 @11:22AM (#50810211) Attached to: Judge: Defendant 'Had a Right' To Shoot Down Drone

Buckshot is more lethal than a handgun round. http://www.theboxotruth.com/educational-zone-91-lets-talk-about-buckshot/

Comment Chirality (Score 1) 186

by syrupdude on Thursday October 08, 2015 @02:45PM (#50688019) Attached to: How To Make Messages Easy For an Alien Race To Understand

I've never seen a decent explanation oh how to communicate chirality to aliens. IOW, how do they determine if the message we send, and the mirror image of the message we send, is the right one. What happens when we meet in person millenia from now and they have everything backwards?

Comment Beware! (Score 1) 793

by syrupdude on Monday February 22, 2010 @02:44PM (#31233030) Attached to: When I die, I want my body to be ...

I want to be impaled on a stake at the city gates as a warning to others.

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