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  1. Re:So-to-speak legal on Comcast Allegedly Asking Customers to Stop Using Tor · · Score: 3, Informative

    I think you Poe'd most of the people who responded to you.

  2. Re:And this is why Open Source is goodness on Chrome For Mac Drops 32-bit Build · · Score: 1

    To be fair, there's Chromium (entirely OSS) and maybe someone will care enough to distribute a 32-bit Mac binary.

  3. Re:As someone with a white macbook... on Chrome For Mac Drops 32-bit Build · · Score: 1

    Plenty of time to switch to Firefox. Probably they'll keep offering 32-bit for a while yet, and when they stop a third-party project will come along that will, a la TenFourFox.

  4. Re:Great one more fail on High School Student Builds Gun That Unlocks With Your Fingerprint · · Score: 1

    Missouri's state legislature has a 2/3 Republican majority, which is enough to override a veto. We've gotten other stupid laws enacted from that body since this happened and we're going to get a lot more.

  5. Re:What are you trying to do? on Ask Slashdot: Advice On Building a Firewall With VPN Capabilities? · · Score: 1

    I've got an Asus RT-N16 with Shibby's mod of Tomato Firmware. OpenVPN is available in certain builds thereof and I've used it successfully, though it takes a bit of setting up (and trial & error in my case).

  6. Re:Free? on Publishers Gave Away 123 Million Books During World War Two · · Score: 1

    If we're going to be pedantic, Lex was CV-2; CV-3 was Saratoga. :P

  7. Re:Free? on Publishers Gave Away 123 Million Books During World War Two · · Score: 1

    The verbal fellation of our military was even higher a few years ago; hero this and hero that, even military hardware got the hero treatment: one of the retired Essex-class aircraft carriers was referred to as a "hero ship" at least once.

    I like to think we're getting over the overreaction against how returning Vietnam vets were treated, but it'll probably take several more years.

  8. Re:RT.com? on Cuba Calculates Cost of 54yr US Embargo At $1.1 Trillion · · Score: 1

    Thankfully Murdoch would rather be the power behind the throne instead, because I'd rather not give him the chance to be in charge of a government.

  9. Re:Worse than that... on How Scientific Consensus Has Gotten a Bad Reputation · · Score: 1

    How many dupe accounts are you going to bring to this party?

  10. Re:Worse than that... on How Scientific Consensus Has Gotten a Bad Reputation · · Score: 1

    Let me sum up your argument, then: "You're rubber and I'm glue! What you say bounces off me and sticks to you!"

    Very junior high of you, and a logical fallacy to boot: http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/T...

  11. Re:Worse than that... on How Scientific Consensus Has Gotten a Bad Reputation · · Score: 1

    roffle. You're adorable, thinking that rationalizing your biases and taking them to logical absurdity makes you logical and right.

  12. Re:Worse than that... on How Scientific Consensus Has Gotten a Bad Reputation · · Score: 1

    Say, why are you using a dupe account, roman_mir?

  13. Re:Worse than that... on How Scientific Consensus Has Gotten a Bad Reputation · · Score: 1

    All you're showing is that

    1) you must be an American, due to your need to cheer for your side and boo the other as though it's a goddamn football game.

    2) you utterly misunderstand what Keynesianism is: it's not "bigger is always better", it's to provide countercyclical inputs so that the economy's peaks and troughs are smoothed out, so that there are not so many booms and busts and things keep ticking along. It's not perfect (nobody will argue otherwise), but it's better than letting things freewheel into much deeper busts. Unfortunately the only way to run Keynesian policy is through government intervention, because nothing else is big enough to do it.

    I'm not going to watch someone bloviate in a Youtube video, thanks.

  14. Re:Worse than that... on How Scientific Consensus Has Gotten a Bad Reputation · · Score: 1

    Of course I believe in logic. The problem is that logic only gives good results if it's fed good givens; put another way, the results can be only as good as the inputs.

    For example, if you take it as a given that Compulsion Is Always Wrong, then anarcho-capitalism is logical. If you don't, then it's not. Murray Rothbard said something to the effect that it should be legal for parents to withhold food from their children, even if they starve to death, because it's Always Wrong for the state to compel people to do things. Logical, but utterly morally bankrupt and unacceptable in a civilized society.

    The thing is that Compulsion Is Always Wrong is an emotional value judgement, so no matter how much certain people like to pretend that they're coldly, utterly logical, they are not and show they utterly lack self-awareness.

  15. Re:Worse than that... on How Scientific Consensus Has Gotten a Bad Reputation · · Score: 1

    Nothing you said contradicted what I said. Austrians, rather than deifying an invisible sky fairy, deify "reasoning" instead, but seem to ignore the principle of "garbage in, garbage out".

  16. Re:Worse than that... on How Scientific Consensus Has Gotten a Bad Reputation · · Score: 4, Insightful

    "Rejects empirical data" is another way of saying "taking it on faith", i.e. the Austrian school is a religion by another name.

  17. Re:How to know if a component of Linux.. on Fedora To Get a New Partition Manager · · Score: 5, Funny

    Could be worse: it could have been written by Lennart Poettering.

  18. Re:Why not contribute to gparted? on Fedora To Get a New Partition Manager · · Score: 1

    Besides that fdisk and gparted have totally different missions, you mean?

  19. Re:Finlandization is moral debasement on 3 Decades Later, Finnair Pilots Report Dramatic Close Encounter With a Missile · · Score: 1

    On the other hand, it kept Finland independent and non-Communist, unlike most of the USSR's immediate neighbors. It was probably about the best the Finns could have done under the (shitty) circumstances.

  20. Re:Focus on NASA Panel Finds Fault WIth Curiosity Rover Project's Focus · · Score: 1
  21. The origin of the term "blivet" on Fedora To Get a New Partition Manager · · Score: 3, Informative

    Ten pounds of shit in a five-pound bag, i.e. a nasty, dirty situation. It seems to have originated around the 1940s as US military slang.

  22. Re:"He's really not an expert" on Bill Gates Wants To Remake the Way History Is Taught. Should We Let Him? · · Score: 1

    Know who else thought he was improving the world? HITLER.

    Good trolls are less obvious. Try harder.

  23. Re:The Nimoy on California Blue Whales Rebound From Whaling · · Score: 1

    I'll just make faces.

  24. Re:And I care about this why ?? on Mozilla 1024-Bit Cert Deprecation Leaves 107,000 Sites Untrusted · · Score: 2

    If you visit an affected website in Firefox 32+ it'll warn you about the SSL certificate and you'll have to take a couple extra steps to visit it. For you it's an inconvenience, but only if you use one of these sites. For the website operator maybe it'll shame them into getting an updated certificate.

  25. "Stuff that matters" on Steve Ballmer Authored the Windows 3.1 Ctrl-Alt-Del Screen · · Score: 4, Funny

    This story belongs in idle.