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Comment: Re:News? (Score 2) 119

by Tx (#47431393) Attached to: Child Thought To Be Cured of HIV Relapses, Tests Positive Again

Umm, they couldn't find any trace of the HIV virus, or specific antibodies to it. It seems reasonable to hope that someone is cured of a disease if you can't find any trace of said disease in their body. And it's not like they jumped the gun on it, she was supposed to be on anti-viral drugs because they weren't sure the virus was gone.

Comment: Re:Little Snitch (Score 1) 348





Comment: Re:aka (Score 4, Insightful) 186

by Tx (#47211297) Attached to: Toyota Investigating Hovercars

The trouble with those car-sized hovercraft is the turning and braking profile, which is nowhere near good enough for public roads designed for cars. Now a design something like the Aero-X hoverbike might be able to improve on that - by hovering a bit higher and tilting the entire craft, you could effectively vector a large proportion of the lift airflow for turning force, as opposed to redirecting a bit of the horizontal thrust only with a fin as with conventional hovercraft. Aerofex don't seem to make any such claims about their design though, they seem to be targeting off-road use only, and I guess turning that way might present problems for other road users/pedestrians getting hit by the airflow.

Comment: Re:Overthinking it. (Score 1) 199

by Tx (#47154389) Attached to: To distress my enemies, I'd force on them ...

I used to disable adblock on slashdot, and not use that disable ads option either; I've even clicked the odd ad on rare occasions. I have no problem with reasonably sized static ads. But they started having those stupid ads expanding at the bottom of the screen when your mouse went near them; those were the final straw, adblock enabled again. As far as I'm concerned, ads that pop up or expand or move or anything like that are too annoying.

Comment: Re:Interstitials - on mobile! (Score 1) 199




Comment: Re:Where's The Content? (Score 1) 207

by Tx (#47129393) Attached to: 4K Displays Ready For Prime Time


Philips Ambilight.

Comment: Re:GNU/Linux (Score 1) 264

by Tx (#46959217) Attached to: The Man Behind Munich's Migration of 15,000 PCs From Windows To Linux

I think you're just trolling. Seriously? You're annoyed that common usage of a term has diverged from its original correct usage? Better rip out about 90% of your dictionary and burn it then. So operating systems using the Linux kernel have become known as Linux in common parlance; how infuriating. I tell you, I am completely fascinated to know what other earth-threatening evils are giving you ulcers right now.

Comment: Re:Slow follower (Score 1) 179

by Tx (#46876665) Attached to: Microsoft Continues To Lose Money With Each Surface Tablet It Sells

It's a shame TFA didn't provide a breakdown of device types, I would have been interested in the percentage of Surface versus Surface Pro devices, but also I would like to know if they included convertible ultrabooks as tablets. I find it a bit unlikely that Windows tablets could hit 6% without convertibles, but they really aren't part of the "tablet market" IMHO.

Comment: Re:"LONG extinct"? Hah. (Score 5, Interesting) 187

by Tx (#46482227) Attached to: 43,000-Year-Old Woolly Mammoth Remains Offer Strong Chance of Cloning



However I believe the current thinking is that mammoths are not amongst our victims, and were wiped out by natural climate change instead.

Comment: Re:Where is the big problem? (Score 2) 125

by Tx (#46454735) Attached to: Major Wikipedia Donors Caught Editing Their Own Articles

"Editing your own article on Wikipedia is not prohibited as long as you disclose your conflict of interest and follow the rules[...]"

That's just the point though, they are not following the rules. FTA; "While the research behind the 144 named donors who gave more than $5,000 to the WMF is not yet complete, it is already clear that several dozen of them are not widely notable enough to have a Wikipedia article associated with them", "While a few have adequately disclosed their conflict of interest, most have not."

"[...]so I have trouble seeing how this submission is anything other than yet more manufactured controversy and/or anti-Wikipedia astroturfing."

If they are getting away with not following the rules because they are donors, then that is different from people who don't obey the rules for other reasons.










Comment: Re:AWESOME (Score 2) 129

by Tx (#46311753) Attached to: Gmail's 'Unsubscribe' Tool Comes Out of the Weeds

It's not as bad as it used to be, I don't think. I recently went through the exercise of unsubscribing every spam mail that came in to the accounts of two former employees at the company I work for, and the spam level dropped almost to zero, around one spam mail per day rather than 30-50. Granted, the kind of spam you get on the work account of a reasonably sensible employee is probably going to be from more reputable sources on average than most personal accounts, but they weren't all reputable-looking. For sure I always do a little checking up on the source before I click that "unsubscribe" link on my own mail.

Comment: Re:Duh? (Score 5, Insightful) 219

Apple didn't make a success of the iPhone by being first to market with a smartphone, they did it by getting it right. I'm no Apple fanboy, and I own no Apple products, but current smartwatches are a joke, and if anyone is going to take the concept beyond niche/gimmick level, it wouldn't entirely surprise me if it was Apple.

Comment: Re:By reef... (Score 5, Informative) 277

by Whiney Mac Fanboy (#46139151) Attached to: Australia OKs Dumping Dredge Waste In Barrier Reef

As for Tasmania, almost 50% of the entire state is currently world heritage listed.

Are you sure about that? Closer to 20% it would seem.

I don't think de-listing a fraction of a percent of that ....

A fraction of a percent? They're de-listing ~74000 hectares of 1.4 million. Thats closer to 20%.

...is going to cause much damage.

You can't even get basic facts right & you expect people to believe your assessment of what will cause much damage? Even by slashdot standards, you're a fuckwit.
