●Stories
●Firehose
●All
●Popular
●Polls
●Software
●Thought Leadership
Submit
●
Login
●or
●
Sign up
●Topics:
●Devices
●Build
●Entertainment
●Technology
●Open Source
●Science
●YRO
●Follow us:
●RSS
●Facebook
●LinkedIn
●Twitter
●
Youtube
●
Mastodon
●Bluesky
Catch up on stories from the past week (and beyond) at the Slashdot story archive
Forgot your password?
Close
wnewsdaystalestupid
sightfulinterestingmaybe
cflamebaittrollredundantoverrated
vefunnyunderrated
podupeerror
×
95366617
comment
byWillKemp
2017 @02:44AM
(#55593219)
Attached to: What's your favorite laptop brand/type?
a [...] laptop [...] that is compatible with linux.
That seems to be pretty much all laptops nowadays. I've been running Linux on laptops for 22 years now (starting with a DEC HiNote) and there was a time when it wasn't always so easy. In the past i've had problems with no Linux driver being available for components which were very recent and from uncooperative manufacturers, but there's always been a workaround.
88014811
comment
byWillKemp
2016 @05:06AM
(#53512527)
Attached to: Should cell phone calls be allowed on commercial airplane flights?
There is a technological solution to it: pressure equalizing earplugs.
88013355
comment
byWillKemp
2016 @04:10AM
(#53512403)
Attached to: Should cell phone calls be allowed on commercial airplane flights?
I've always wondered if Americans shout a lot when they're at home, because they certainly tend to talk very loudly overseas. I was walking down a busy street in Kabul, Afghanistan, ten years ago with an American friend. She was talking at the usual American overseas, ear-splitting volume, which made me feel a bit self-conscious. When i suggested she might like to speak a little less loudly, she was surprised - she had no idea she was shouting. Security in Kabul wasn't too bad in those days, but foreigners did get kidnapped now and then, and it seemed smart not to draw too much attention to ourselves - particularly with an American accent.
85197213
comment
byWillKemp
2016 @05:55PM
(#52631935)
Attached to: PSA: Windows 10 Is Still Free For Those Who Use Assistive Technologies
You seem to be asking a question, but it's not clear exactly what you're asking. I'd suggest you look at the html source of your comment (try "inspect" in Chrome) and then google "rel nofollow". That might help. It might at least stop you pointlessly spamming forums.
82664113
comment
byWillKemp
16 @01:17AM
(#51882525)
Attached to: Should we abandon the Slashdot mobile theme in favor of a fully responsive site?
... the entire poll is the joke!
(I'm serious, the ambiguity here is too high to make a correct decision)
My impression is that they've decided they're going to redesign the web site and they've thrown us this poll to make us feel like we asked for it.
79072179
comment
byWillKemp
3, 2015 @01:07AM
(#51047343)
Attached to: I'd like my data center to be powered by ...
Burning qur'ans.
Chuck bibles in the furnaces too, for extra power. And every other book of religious mumbo jumbo too.
78664445
comment
byWillKemp
18, 2015 @11:57PM
(#50960353)
Attached to: A human will first walk on Mars ...
Or those who don't wish to be destitute and homeless should their house catch fire
Destitute? Do you keep all your money in your house in banknotes?
78210689
comment
byWillKemp
2015 @11:53PM
(#50861143)
Attached to: Self-Driving Delivery Robots To Hit Sidewalks of London In 2016
[......] what do you figure the odds are someone won't give it a good kick or otherwise find ways to abuse it?
This is London we're talking about, so it's guaranteed that will happen. A lot. The other thing that's guaranteed to happen is they'll get stolen - then probably sold as scrap.
77424847
comment
byWillKemp
2015 @12:33AM
(#50707103)
Attached to: Biggest factor for personal data protection:
Agree. Useless poll, not worth my voting.
Are you implying that some Slashdot polls are not useless?
75858785
comment
byWillKemp
015 @11:58PM
(#50433953)
Attached to: Cities Wasting Millions of Taxpayer's Money In Failed IoT Pilots
Let me Google that for you
75515289
comment
byWillKemp
2015 @12:35AM
(#50351943)
Attached to: How Long Until We Have a Home Robot That Lives Up To the Hype?
I'll give you a clue... It'll be powered by cold fusion.
75053663
comment
byWillKemp
2015 @05:52AM
(#50247319)
Attached to: Researchers: The Thermostat In Your Office May Be Sexist
If 24C is a suitable medium and the men would prefer 21C, doesn't that imply that the women would prefer 27C - that's sounds pretty hot.
I'm a man and i'd prefer 30C.
I often have to go outside and stand in the sun to thaw out - luckily i work in Darwin (in the Australian tropics) and it mostly isabout 30C outside.
74149923
comment
byWillKemp
5 @12:03AM
(#50037457)
Attached to: Volkswagen Factory Worker Killed By a Robot
"Western" is reserved for North and South America since it is "west" of the Atlantic. Eastern would be China, Japan, India, etc.
"Western" is a euphemism for ethnically European.
It is quite distinct from the "western hemisphere", which is a euphemism for the Americas. Technically speaking, parts of Europe and Africa are in the western hemisphere, as well as part of Russia and some Pacific islands, but when people say "the western hemisphere", that's not what they mean.
73862909
comment
byWillKemp
5 @09:12PM
(#49959219)
Attached to: Is the End of Government Acceptance of Homeopathy In Sight?
To them, one cold remedy is the same as another.
To anyone who knows anything much about health, one cold remedy isthe same as another. A cold is caused by a virus and, apart from interferon, there is no remedy for viral infections like that. All cold remedies are placebos.
73862679
comment
byWillKemp
5 @08:59PM
(#49959165)
Attached to: Is the End of Government Acceptance of Homeopathy In Sight?
I went to the chemist a while back to buy some ibprofen, the chemist suggested a homeopathic, insisting it was just as good. If I hadn't been educated about homeopathy, I would have probably bought the homeopathic crap.
Recent research has shown that most over the counter painkillers are ineffective - i.e., no more use than homeopathics, exhibiting only a placebo effect. However there's nothing in homeopathic "medicine" that's likely to make you sick, but the same isn't true of analgesics. Homeopathics may not do anything, but they may do less harm than other "medicines", which also don't do anything.
« Newer
Older »
Slashdot Top Deals
●(email not shown publicly)
●
Years Read
●
Got a Score:5 Comment
●
Days Metamoderated in a Row
●
Re:Depends on usage.
●
Re:You don't want to hear my call
●
Re: I don't want to hear your call
(Score:3, Interesting)
●
Re:Oh thanks guys
●
Re:Missing the joke option, oh wait...
●
interesting (submissions)
●
slashdot (submissions)
●
insightful (comments)
●
troll (comments)
●
informative (comments)
●
Tesla and Noeon to build world's biggest lithium ion battery in South Australia
●
Australian lawyers to serve notices via Facebook
Slashdot
●
Submit Story
BYTE editors are people who separate the wheat from the chaff, and then
carefully print the chaff.
●FAQ
●Story Archive
●Hall of Fame
●Advertising
●Terms
●Privacy Statement
●About
●Feedback
●Mobile View
●Blog
Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information
Copyright © 2026 Slashdot Media. All Rights Reserved.
×
Close
Working...
Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information
Copyright © 2026 Slashdot Media. All Rights Reserved.
×
Close
Working...