chromas - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Magic the Gathering Online Exchange (Score 1) 249

by chromas on Saturday February 08, 2014 @05:50AM (#46194205) Attached to: Bitcoin Plunges After Mt. Gox Exchange Halts Trades

beta version that they have tried to force inside everyone. I don't know what could possibly have caused me to think of that

It's completely obvious to everyone you're referring to Opera being rewritten into a Chromium clone with all the features that made it special or even usable removed. The classic version is still available but if you go to the Web site, you'll likely be directed to the shitty new beta version, which runs on fewer environments than it used to. We, the users, put up a stink but they told us to go fuck ourselves.

Comment Re:Labview (Score 1) 876

by chromas on Friday February 07, 2014 @11:28PM (#46192831) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Why Are We Still Writing Text-Based Code?

it would get so messy and stringy that at some point I'd just say 'fuck beta' and wrap up everything in a module (I forget what it's called). A nice looking little box with a few inputs and outputs that hides the horrible mess I'd made.

Maybe it shouldn't have allowed me to pull such dirty tricks.

It's about as dirty as wrapping some code into a function or an object.

Comment Re:/. Staff, anybody interested - please watch thi (Score 1) 237

by chromas on Friday February 07, 2014 @04:21AM (#46183753) Attached to: Update on the March of Progress: How Slashdot's New Look Is Shaping Up

In the case of Slashdot, they spaced the tables even farther apart and filled the menu with stock photos of food that they don't even sell. Also, the tables are rings, now, with the chairs in the middle so it's more awkward to get in and make (+5, Snide) rejoinders.

Comment Re:Surely (Score 1) 271

by chromas on Thursday February 06, 2014 @05:43PM (#46178653) Attached to: Skinny Puppy Wants Compensation For Music Used in US Interrogations

Beta doesn't have genitals—it's been neutered. Beta can only suck.

Journal Journal: Only way to be sure

Journal by unitron on Thursday February 06, 2014 @07:36AM

Someone needs to take off and nuke beta from orbit.

In the meantime, an AC has suggest that we boycott from the 10th to the 17th.

So, who's up for a Slashdot Valentines Day Massacre?

"Beta is Slashdot's version of Jar-Jar Binks, only worse."

Comment Re:Idiocy. (Score 5, Funny) 179

by chromas on Saturday February 01, 2014 @06:18PM (#46130413) Attached to: David Cameron Says Fictional Crime Proves Why Snooper's Charter Is Necessary

DC is America's thermal exhaust port. It's where all the hot air comes from.

Comment Re:what's "interesting"? (Score 5, Funny) 206

by chromas on Friday January 31, 2014 @02:53AM (#46117779) Attached to: It's Not Memory Loss - Older Minds May Just Be Fuller of Information

Its hard to dig up a single nugget from under under that pile of tailings I've accumulated over the years.

It's okay; you can blurt it out in three or so days when the article is re-posted.

Comment Re:Not even close (Score 1) 543

by chromas on Friday January 24, 2014 @05:00PM (#46060907) Attached to: 20,000 Customers Have Pre-Ordered Over $2,000,000 of Soylent

So it has crunch...it's sort of like Windows 8?

That should be the new marketing slogan—"Windows 8 has crunch!"

Comment Re:All I Have To Say Is (Score 4, Funny) 437

by chromas on Tuesday January 21, 2014 @11:05PM (#46032293) Attached to: You Might Rent Features & Options On Cars In the Future

You're just jerking your knee cause when it comes to automated technology, that is the "fashionable" thing to do these days.

Knee jerking has recently been automated.

Comment Re:NoScript (Score 1) 731

by chromas on Friday January 17, 2014 @07:50PM (#45993331) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Are AdBlock's Days Numbered?

1.- Make ads first party, 2.- Make them text or basic images

Yeah but that removes most of the incentive to block ads so—wait a minute.

Comment Re:9.1 (Score 1) 1009

by chromas on Monday January 13, 2014 @09:05PM (#45946291) Attached to: Windows 9 Already? Apparently, Yes.

Sounds like Windows Media Center before it was turned into the Start Menu.

Comment Re:The correct way to "inform the authority" (Score 4, Funny) 287

by chromas on Saturday January 11, 2014 @04:46AM (#45924987) Attached to: Australian Teen Reports SQL Injection Vulnerability, Company Calls Police

[Premature enunciation]

Comment Re:What's with all the consolodation? (Score 1) 339

by chromas on Friday January 10, 2014 @03:48AM (#45914591) Attached to: Google Begins To Merge Google+, Gmail Contacts

It's their misguided attempt to jump start The Singularity®.

Comment Re:Slash!dot Beta (Score 5, Funny) 162

by chromas on Tuesday December 31, 2013 @05:02AM (#45827009) Attached to: The Biggest Tech Mishap of 2013?

That's a good Python script you got there. Unfortunately, Slashdot is written in Perl.

Comment Re:Wouldn't someone think of the children? (Score 1) 294

by chromas on Monday December 30, 2013 @08:38AM (#45817455) Attached to: Parents' Campaign Leads To Wi-Fi Ban In New Zealand School

OTOH a banana panic would lower the price of one of my favorite fruits

Do glue sticks count as fruit?

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