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"If you had a clue, which you don't, you'd realize that the bloated code is the result of fast computers."

No, the bloated code is a result of shitty colleges and their shitty CS courses (which apparently none even bother with teaching security...)

No, you're a fool. Also, I do programming. It's fairly obvious you don't.

Another moronic comment by an AC who doesn't know what the fuck they're talking about.

phah!

just delete system32
Makes your system faster, too.

Google it. It works.

http://i.imgur.com/llvPrt5.png

It's there, and it works. It doesn't make you immune to native slashdot ads, just ads coming from off-site.

1. A white kid walking around at night in a hoodie looks like a thug also. He does not look like a tech billionaire.

https://i.imgur.com/PKaUWZu.jp...

2. All low income kids need help regardless of race.

And Prince used his own money to help a certain group of those kids. You got a problem with that?

Did anyone else see this story looking muted for awhile?

I'm used to the occasional glitch where, even as a non-subscriber, I sometimes see stories in advance and highlighted in red. But this was something different, it's like the story itself got caught inside the advertisement. There was no way to click into the story and the "X" didn't do anything. Using Firefox on Windows. Sunspots!

It was probably the opposite of this. (Yes, its safe for work)

You should have look at his screenshot more closely, the hint was in the title: d8PTVnL

When was the last time you actually visited that link? Honestly you are making yourself look like an ass by posting a "Buy this domain" link.

For the curious: http://imgur.com/a/mMrHJ

http://i.imgur.com/DqIRe.png

I can't believe it's really that hard to just not watch a TV show or movie, and the lengths people will go to in order to bend logic to justify their illegal activity.

I just watch pirated movies and TV shows because I enjoy it. No bending of logic involved. Why is that so hard to understand ?

^This^.

Also, this.

Nothing like good old fashioned Chinese innovation

I'm not seeing any correlation in the data
https://imgur.com/Ooa6Etr

Gender issues? Pah. NASA is behind the times. In 1975 the US Army began recognizing those who sexually identify as Apache Attack Helicopters.

Yes, with UBI I can find my potential!: http://imgur.com/XT3dfsp

Perhaps with UBI, you could learn how to embed a link?

Rendering thumbnails: click on View then select Details:
http://i.imgur.com/zU5guhk.png

But they did drop the ball with tabs. Then again you can always use Clover to get tab functionality.

They swear they didn't click on anything to start the "upgrade". It started on its own. Luckily there's still a point where you can reject the EULA, and then it reverts the installation, and this actually worked, so in the end it only cost a couple of hours and a concerned call to the local nerd. But seriously, how much harder can Microsoft push that ...thing.

When I was 10 years old, Fusion was just 20 years away.

Now that I'm 40, Fusion is 30 years away.

That's because already-low funding dropped even more. See this chart formerly featured on /. . "Fusion in 20 years" was never going to happen at actually funded levels, but might have with several proposed funding plans.

See these other trollish hits... http://imgur.com/gallery/gaJxp

But sometimes the results are rather amusing.

Boaty McBoatface is hardly the worst that the internet could have put forward. If you don't want to accept the possibility of a silly name winning, why bother to have the poll at all?

Your "friend" did not noticed anything different. Like all people in North Korea are slim, because they are on permanet diet, because they do not have extra food.

They're smaller along other dimensions, too.

https://imgur.com/k6Coojh [Trigger warning: photo of JFK's head wound]

Hey, me too! http://i.imgur.com/phA10Vy.jpg

http://imgur.com/uomFe7A

Indeed, we spend almost nothing on it and expect it to achieve great things anyways.

Oh please. False Dichotomy much?

. /Oblg. DVD vs Piracy

People pirate for a variety of reasons. Such as:

1. One can't legally buy a copy. Piracy is the *only* option to watch it.
2. Artificial Scarcity. If a DVD/BluRay is not available in my region, piracy is simply more convenient
3. They can't afford it.
4. If a borrow a movie from a library, watch it, and then return it this has the exact same effect as if I had borrowed a movie from the library, made a copy, returned the original, and watch my copy later, except the former is legal, yet the latter is "magically" illegal
5. Piracy is the delusion that "copying numbers is illegal". How stupid is Civilization when it has declared Illegal Numbers !?!? /sarcasm Those pesky Mathematicians! They are the cause of the downfall of society!

To everyone who plays the bullshit piracy-is-illegal card here are some questions for you:

Q. If your friend buys a DVD and loans it to you, is it piracy if you watch it? You never paid for the content.
Q. How many friends can I loan my DVD / BluRay to before it becomes piracy?
Q. Why is it OK if I personally loan it to friends, but I can't share my copy with strangers?
Q. How "long" do I have to know a person before I can legally share my copy?
Q. Are libraries engaging in piracy?

Do I personally pirate? No, as I like having my own personal library so I don't mind buying BluRays / DVDs. If I can't buy it, I'll just wait until it is available. But my reasons for why I _don't_ pirate may not work for someone who _does_.

> copyright is a good thing at all, then one has a ethical obligation to respect it,

1. When Copyright was only ~20 years, sure, I have no problem following that but when the law has become corrupt that something that _would_ become "public domain" will NEVER reach that status, then there is higher obligation:

Civil Disobedience is the only way to change to corrupt laws.

2. Rosa Parks would like to have some of what you are smoking. Laws are NOT absolutes. That is why they _change over time_.

Personally, abolish copyright, because it is no longer server its original purpose:

One major purpose of Copyright Law is to "promote the progress of the sciences and useful arts", in other words knowledge.

So no, we're not ethically bound to follow bullshit artificial laws.

That is absolutely false, here, I've made a venn diagram that clearly illustrates the overlapping of nuanced thought in arguments that use the term SJW in internet conversations. As you can see, plenty of nuanced thought.

I love Tesla. I wish I owned one. But we still have a long way to go towards cleaner energy, and Electric Vehicles are just playing a sly shell game with gas & particulate emission, shuffling it across town to the coal fired electric plant that's shoveling that juice into your wall charger.

Let me introduce you to the people most excited over the Tesla Model 3 pre-order:
http://imgur.com/FZJZZK8

We need a national energy policy that promotes a mesh of wind, solar, geothermal, tidal, hydro and nuclear on an epic scale. It needs to be half mandate, half significant financial incentive.

Exxon, BP, et al need to stop thinking of themselves as just "oil companies" and start thinking of themselves as "energy companies."

According to a 2012 article from Bloomberg, one new offshore oil platform cost $650 million dollars. What do the numbers look like if BP put a $650 million wind farm at sea, get the federal government to pay for the transmission lines back to shore to sell power to the local utility companies? According to a recent Purdue University study on Wind Turbines, typical 1.5 megawatt turbines by GE & Vestas have a 20 year service life.

When will household rooftop solar be mainstream? Not something used only by granola-munching superliberals like actor Ed Begley JR?

If Electric Vehicles are to replace the industrialized world's fleet of gas & diesel powered automobiles, these challenges need to be met:

1, Establish battery recycling programs on an industrial scale, comparable to the high-90 percentile rate at which current lead-acid car batteries are recycled.

2, Solve current Electric Vehicle range problems with a massive network of rapid chargers or modular automated battery module swap stations.

A. If the petroleum companies repurposed the drive-through car wash at their filling stations into automated battery pack changeout systems, that solves both massive water waste and range anxiety in one stroke. The changeout system sockets and supercharges the depleted packs in the storage basement below the drive-through floor. Drivers pay a petrol-competitive fee for the battery swap.

B. Destination locations - Shopping malls, strip malls, theme parks, large restaurants, parking garages, highway rest plazas - Install rapid charging stations. This acts as a draw, which will be popular with the merchants clustered around the charging stations. Tap to pay, loyalty card discount programs, various incentive programs to draw consumers to X mall vs Y mall across town, etc. - Everyone wins. Again, range anxiety is solved. Thirty minute supercharge time - idle time- becomes "I'm going to get a sandwich at that deli" time, or "I'm taking the kids into the Disney Store" time. What retailer wouldn't love having a parking lot full of rapid charge stations in a world full of Electric Vehicles.

3, Solve future Electric Vehicle range anxiety with improved battery chemistries.
A. Longer runtime between charges
B. Faster charge times
C. Chemistry must support battery module rebuild-ability, recycle-ability, lowest possible eco footprint

4, Understand and accept the slow adoption curve, balance against petro fuels

EV adoption can't happen overnight no matter how quickly the recharge, range and consumer price picture changes. We still need petrochemical fuels for the foreseeable future. Think of it as a teeter-totter. On one side, EV's are at the bottom, inching up slowly. High on the other side are petrochem powered internal combustion engines - Gasoline cars, diesel Semi Tractor-Trailers, commercial equipment - Bulldozers, farm tractors. Specialty kerosene vehicles - Aviation fuels. Passenger jets, military jets & rotorcraft.

It will be a slow shift over many decades as the EV side of the seesaw comes up and the petrochemi

non-logging VPN

Hahahahahah

Perhaps something like this?
https://i.imgur.com/4AOq97x.png

offensensitivity

As you can clearly see from these statistics, this site was ruined long before the attack helicopters from Reddit arrived.

Yes. I'm so sorry. http://i.imgur.com/D6KCTL7.gif

You're god damn right it is

Ha ha ha. Look at you making it seem like it's the same thing. You can basically be disregarded as a fucking idiot opining on shit they know nothing about.

No, AshleyMadison turned out to be mostly men talking to bots and fake female accounts. Tinder is at least people interacting with people. I have no idea how many hookups happen, but I'd bet its a lot more than you think, and a LOT more than ever happened on AM.

AshleyMadison was men interacting with bots.
Tinder is women interacting with bots. Proof (SFW): http://i.imgur.com/JAwaxFU.gif

http://i.imgur.com/MoAQjf7.gif?noredirect

This is exactly why I will never buy a car with a touch screen. Or flat buttons on the dashboard.

As it is, my 80s turbo shitbox has better design. Every button can be reached comfortably, every switch and button can be used by feel alone so I never have to take my eyes off the road.

Meanwhile, in the [CURRENT YEAR], we have touch screens and dashboards with a million flat square buttons that all feel the same.

http://imgur.com/a/HOWaH

See this shit? This drives me up the fucking wall.

To be fair, I saw it on imgur.com today. http://imgur.com/gallery/j4jhM Also with the focus on Putin and Iceland.

And there are plenty of news agencies and news papers covering it. Perhaps give them a bit time.

I think their agenda is this:

http://imgur.com/j95hMhn

On this day, even the advertisements are jokes.

I'm one of the 115,000 who put down a £1000 reservation for this space capsule.

Take a look at interior, the pictures here and tell me that's not something to die for.

I'm one of the 115,000 who put down a £1000 reservation for this space capsule.

Take a look at interior, the pictures here and tell me that's not something to die for.

Depends on your feelings towards the oxford comma. I personally prefer the Walken comma:
http://imgur.com/gallery/l4vGY...

If minimum wage kept place with college tuition since 1970, minimum wage would be $38/hr
http://imgur.com/gallery/L9gpY...

When student loans have increased access to college, they have also caused college and Universities to get extremely fat and top heavy.

https://www.higheredjobs.com/s...

Just like in the US economy, professors are replaced by adjuncts and the money flows to the top.

We are all feeding the top 1%.

This is most likely what they want, and so far they're doing a pretty good job of getting it.

"Universal surveillance is a direct, targeted and determined attack on free society. "

They are worried about the globe awakening politically.

Our brains are much worse at reality and thinking than thought.

Science on reasoning:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYmi0DLzBdQ

The (mass surveillance) by the NSA and abuse by law enforcement is just more part and parcel of state suppression of dissent against corporate interests. They're worried that the more people are going to wake up and corporate centers like the US and canada may be among those who also awaken. See this vid with Zbigniew Brzezinski, former United States National Security Advisor.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7ZyJw_cHJY

Brezinski at a press conference

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWTIZBCQ79g

Protectionism for the rich and big business by state intervention, radical market interference.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHj2GaPuEhY#t=349

From war is a racket:

"I helped make Mexico, especially Tampico, safe for American oil intersts in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefits of Wall Street. The record of racketeering is long. I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for American sugar interests in 1916. In China I helped to see to it that Standard Oil went its way unmolested."[p. 10]

"War is a racket. ...It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives." [p. 23]

"The general public shoulders the bill [for war]. This bill renders a horrible accounting. Newly placed gravestones. Mangled bodies. Shattered minds. Broken hearts and homes. Economic instability. Depression and all its attendant miseries. Back-breaking taxation for generations and generations." [p. 24]

General Butler is especially trenchant when he looks at post-war casualties. He writes with great emotion about the thousands of tramautized soldiers, many of who lose their minds and are penned like animals until they die, and he notes that in his time, returning veterans are three times more likely to die prematurely than those who stayed home.

http://www.amazon.com/War-Racket-Antiwar-Americas-Decorated/dp/0922915865/">War is a racket

US distribution of wealth

https://imgur.com/a/FShfb

http://www2.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/power/wealth.html

The Centre for Investigative Journalism

http://www.tcij.org/

Some history on US imperialism by us corporations.

https://kurukshetra1.wordpress.com/2015/09/27/a-brief-history-of-imperialism-and-state-violence-in-colombia/

"...does our current group of "leaders" not get?"

They get it, they worry about the globe awakening politically.

Our brains are much worse at reality and thinking than thought.

Science on reasoning:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYmi0DLzBdQ

The (mass surveillance) by the NSA and abuse by law enforcement is just more part and parcel of state suppression of dissent against corporate interests. They're worried that the more people are going to wake up and corporate centers like the US and canada may be among those who also awaken. See this vid with Zbigniew Brzezinski, former United States National Security Advisor.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7ZyJw_cHJY

Brezinski at a press conference

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWTIZBCQ79g

Protectionism for the rich and big business by state intervention, radical market interference.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHj2GaPuEhY#t=349

From war is a racket:

"I helped make Mexico, especially Tampico, safe for American oil intersts in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefits of Wall Street. The record of racketeering is long. I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for American sugar interests in 1916. In China I helped to see to it that Standard Oil went its way unmolested."[p. 10]

"War is a racket. ...It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives." [p. 23]

"The general public shoulders the bill [for war]. This bill renders a horrible accounting. Newly placed gravestones. Mangled bodies. Shattered minds. Broken hearts and homes. Economic instability. Depression and all its attendant miseries. Back-breaking taxation for generations and generations." [p. 24]

General Butler is especially trenchant when he looks at post-war casualties. He writes with great emotion about the thousands of traumatized soldiers, many of who lose their minds and are penned like animals until they die, and he notes that in his time, returning veterans are three times more likely to die prematurely than those who stayed home.

http://www.amazon.com/War-Racket-Antiwar-Americas-Decorated/dp/0922915865/">War is a racket

US distribution of wealth

https://imgur.com/a/FShfb

http://www2.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/power/wealth.html

The Centre for Investigative Journalism

http://www.tcij.org/

Some history on US imperialism by us corporations.

https://kurukshetra1.wordpress.com/2015/09/27/a-brief-history-of-imperialism-and-state-violence-in-colombia/

Ah yes, claiming a win after an astonishingly thorough defeat. Reminds me of something:

So who were they defeated by? Looks like to me you're pretty damn salty that a leaderless grassroots revolt against shitty journalists that ran their own giant story/article writing collusion group akin to Journolist(which was called Gamejournopros). The leaks from that easily show exactly how much collusion was going on in that. And you're also very salty at just how these incestuous people were caught giving giving hand outs to their friends, people they were shacked up with, or fucking. Sure does speak a lot about people who don't give a shit that they're being lied to, and like it instead.

Like Gawker, right?

Well GG has never actually claimed for gawker, except costing them 7 figures in ad-revenue and showing people exactly how shitty they are. And showing advertisers exactly how shitty companies like Gawker are. You know, Gawker the same site that believes that bullying people is good. For a group of supposedly evil people though, GG's response was to donate to an anti-bullying campaign. But anti-GG? Oh they were right out there supporting what ol'Sam was saying. But other sites? Yep. Some are just significant drops in traffic, others have closed for good.

No, they just believe in "ethics" as defined by (a) making shit up about people, (b) doxxing them and (c) the hate campaign,

So who have they made shit up about? I'll wait. I'm sure you're going to try trotting out something on Quinn. You know, the same piece of shit that filed multiple false DMCA claims, and then slapped order against her ex because he pointed out that she was a domestic abuser, and was trying to warn others away from her. Also, who has GG doxxed? I'm sure they'll be forthcoming. I'll be happy to point out various anti-GG individuals who have openly doxxed people, and continue to do so to this day. Oh, like that prominent anti-GG person Graham Lineham. FYI, one of the most prominent anti-GG people was arrested a few months back for trying to tell a terrorist how to build a bomb. But they also wrote for big name progressive sites, and as a feminist too.

And what hate? Find it. Because I'll tell you something, anti-GG's have done a very good job of attacking anyone who refuses to fall in line with their group think. I think my person favorite is when anti-GGers decided the "if you're supporting GG, and you're a minority/women/etc., you're a racist/sexist/homophobes." But that's really all their arguments boil down to anyway, trying to claim that they're being harassed and screaming that people are racist/sexist/homophobes because they're losing an argument or being shown that they're actually the shitty people out there. I think my favorite out of all of that has been when Quinn and Sarkeesian ran to the UN crying about how demands for proof of their statements and criticism of their work was harassment.

The entire thing has done a wonderful job of proving how many people can't be bothered to actually read the news beyond what they're being told. Then again, I kinda like this bit too. Where people starting saying "muslims are terrorists," the media will start screaming "not all muslims are terrorists, you're just islamophobic!!!" But if one person in GG does something wrong, all of GG has done something wrong. Yep, no agenda there at all.