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  1. Re:Wait so now on Protesters Show Up At the Doorstep of Google Self-driving Car Engineer · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Intelligent people tend to abandon farms and rural areas and move to the cities, where there is more intellectual stimulation.

    False. Intelligent people prefer independence and elbow room. The "intellectual stimulation" of an overly-dense metropolis is a cacophony of self-important masses clamoring for attention.

  2. Re:We have one of those already. on CmdrTaco Launches Trove, a Curated News Startup · · Score: 2

    I'm a callous libertarians, militant atheist, hysterical feminist, misogynistic masculist, generally contrarian, white, suburbanite, American child who likes to masturbate in a circle with others, you insensitive clod!

  3. Re:The problem... on BitTorrent's Bram Cohen Unveils New Steganography Tool DissidentX · · Score: 3, Funny

    it would surprise me if they don't have automated tools to spot steganography. (i.e. They know exactly what the formatting of say a Word document should be, and should have the capability to automatically flag traffic which has nonstandard information in the headers or data.)

    Have you seen the formatting of Word documents that come out of your typical user?
    You don't hit the "enter" key to make space, you jackasses. That creates a new fucking paragraph. Edit the paragraph's spacing if you want space below it. If you want an actual newline+carriage return, hit shift+enter. Stop using tab without first defining your tab stops to control where you want shit to be. Why are you using tabs to make columns anyway? Why are you trying to make columns (incorrectly via tabs) when what you want is a table? That's it, you're getting party vanned.

  4. Its 2014. Time to move on. You can get 4 gigs of ram for $50. Bare in mind Windows 7 disk and ram usage is over reported as it buffers things if the kernel detects extra ram. Disk usage is inflated from SXS which means Windows keeps extra dll versions that dynamically linked. That is a feature and you can trim with disk cleanup.

    XP is a security nightmare and most MBA managers do not know or calculate this. XP doesn't scale well past 2 cores and is not optimized with CPU instructions from more modern CPUs

    WinSxS can fuck right on off.
    Their line has always been "It's not REALLY taking that much space up, trust us!". When it's "not" taking up the reported size of 30 GB, explorer.exe still believes it is, so to the end user it is actually taking up 30 GB.

    And no, you can't clean it up with cleanmgr.exe . You can only cleanup a subset of that shit that is covered by a service pack. You basically lock yourself to the versions of shit included in the service pack. Everything else you install and update over the life of the system just generates bloat, bloat, bloat. And guess what - Windows no longer has service packs. Windows 7 SP1 was the last service pack for consumer Windows operating systems.. Windows 7 SP2? Not going to happen. Windows 8 SP1? Not going to happen. "Windows 8.1" is just a regular patch that adds a Start button graphic and tweaks some of the interface shit.

  5. Re:So does this mean the TrueCrypt hijacking busin on TrueCrypt Master Key Extraction and Volume Identification · · Score: 1

    Actually they have - sort of. The general idea is to replace the metal thing on your keyring with (a part of) yourself. You can get door locks that uses bionics to unlock/open the door instead of keys, which can be lost, stolen, duplicated or circumvented with picks. Most bionic solutions today are insecure, flawed, buggy or just not good enough, but I'm sure that will change as the technology matures.

    Biometrics? It's just a signal on a fucking wire. The biometric reader scans your finger, your retina, your anus, whatever, and creates some sort of flimsy hash of that scan and sends that hash over to the authenticating system. The hash is flimsy because you need to be able to log in tomorrow when your finger is slightly different due to how you pressed it on the reader, your retina has aged and deteriorated, and your anus is covered with a different patterns of shit particles.

    Morons who like biometrics like to tout "Something you have, "something you know, and something you are" as some sort of trifecta of authentication.

    With biometric scanners, "something you are" is simply something you have.
    "Something you have" is pointless. When you're arrested, THEY have YOU and everything YOU have.
    "Something you know" is the only thing that means a damned thing. When you authenticate with remote systems, it's all "something you know" anyway. Your bank doesn't send someone to your house to verify who you are or that you have their little temporal password authenticator.

  6. Re:Killer app? on Windows 9 Already? Apparently, Yes. · · Score: 1

    Proper high-DPI support would be quite important.

    "Support" for high DPI really means "Make sure the UI always takes up X% of the screen's real estate.". And every X set by a develoeper is always too damned high because they think their fucking buttons need to take up the world. Fuck that.

    The size of the UI should be controllable by the USER. Fonts should be decently scalable and graphics should be in a scalable format or provided in a slew of fixed resolutions. Let ME decide how big I want the menus and buttons to be.

  7. Re:Took them long enough... on Federal Judge Rules Chicago's Ban On Licensed Gun Dealers Unconstitutional · · Score: 1

    Let me know next time someone shows up with Congress with a gun demanding the little people get their say because I have literally never seen this happen.

    Then why was it so important that Turkey, USSR, Germany, China, Guatemala, Uganda, Cambodia, and Rwanda made sure to take the guns away from 100 million people just before committing genocide on those 100 million people in the LAST 100 YEARS? Shooting back gave people a 400% better chance at survival than letting their government disarm them in the 1900's. This is not ancient history. These are basically current events.

    Because the latest generation of voters is absolutely retarded and refuses to consider history - even recent history.
    If it's not happening on Twitter or being parroted by Wolf Blitzer, it's not worth thinking about.

    An armed populace is the only thing that empowers them against they tyranny of government. When anyone seeks to register, limit, or remove arms, their ultimate motive is control and tyranny. During any period of war in Europe (which is the vast majority of its history), the following occurred on a regular basis:

    Have people register weapons under the guise of safety.
    Have people turn in weapons under the guise of safety.
    Round up the adult males and kill or conscript them.
    Round up the women and children.
    Rape and pillage.
    Lock them all up in a building.
    Set fire to the building.

    During periods of peace, the same fucking shit occurs, except it's perpetrated by the government.

  8. Clippy 2.0 on Healthcare IT's Achilles' Heel: Sensors · · Score: 1

    Can't wait for Clippy 2.0 and all his sensors.

    I see you're smoking. Your health insurance has been revoked automatically.
    I see you haven't shat in 2 days. I've ordered an enema from Amazon and emailed your office to let them know you'll be out Monday.
    I see you're trying to masturbate. Microsoft Bob will read you 50 Shades of Grey to help maintain engorgement of your genitalia.

  9. Slashdot Out To Kill Self on Lawmakers Out To Kill the Corn-Based Ethanol Mandate · · Score: -1, Troll

    Slashdot suuuuuuuuuuuuuuucks.

  10. Re:IEC Login on Standardized Laptop Charger Approved By IEC · · Score: 1

    Does anyone have an IEC login to share so I can actually look at the standard?

    Try "guest".

  11. Re:NSA failed to halt subprime lending, though. on NSA Says It Foiled Plot To Destroy US Economy Through Malware · · Score: 0

    In philosophical, logical, grammatical and legal contexts, authorities deem such usage to be mistaken or at best unclear.

    Well, in places where that specificity is required, maybe.

    But in almost all other contexts, people do not use it that way. Language is fluid and evolves, and the vast majority of people will never find themselves worrying about someone "begging the question", but lots of things "beg a question be asked".

    But it's been in common usage for literally decades, and is probably used more often than the original term.

    Oh look, it's the "language evolves" horse shit again.
    Language also devolves. People using the language incorrectly is detrimental the core purpose of the language (communication), and thus detrimental to the language itself.

  12. Re:NSA failed to halt subprime lending, though. on NSA Says It Foiled Plot To Destroy US Economy Through Malware · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It is entirely possible that they did, indeed, halt a plot, just as they said they did.

    Not it fucking isn't.

    The NSA says it closed this vulnerability by working with computer manufacturers.

    Where are motherboards and BIOS shit is fucking manufactured / written? (Hint: China and Taiwan)

    Do you really think it's possible that a BIOS update was created by those manufacturers that:
    1: Applied to all the vulnerable systems, many of which are 10+ years old and manufactured by a now defunct-company
    2: Worked
    3: Got deployed
    4: Had all of the above happen with no one knowing about it outside of the NSA, the manufacturers, and the one guy in the world who writes BIOS patch notes
    ?

    Hell, I'll GIVE you the fucking BIOS patch notes.

    BIOS Version 2.3.5

    1 - Updated tables to half-support new Intel processors. Buy a new motherboard with new socket if you want it to actually work, though.
    2 - Updated Intel Option ROM. Just kidding, we're not updating that anymore, this motherboard has been out for 2 months already.
    3 - Various menu items have been slightly changed, and some of your settings will be wiped, we won't document which or why, though.

    At least this shit is believable.

  13. Re:Come on on FDA Seeks Tougher Rules For Antibacterial Soaps · · Score: 1

    Plenty of organisms develop resistances to alcohol, bleach, peroxide, and other things we use.

    Citation needed. Especially for chlorine bleach.

    Regardless, the use of alcohol and other sanitizing agents does absolutely NOTHING to contribute to DRUG resistant organisms.
    Yes, properly washing with soap and water has been shown to be just as effective as sanitizing using an agent such as bleach or alcohol for some types of organisms. There are plenty of exceptions, for example Anthrax spores.
    But the point of antibacterial soaps is that the vast majority of the time proper washing with soap and water is either inconvenient or simply not possible.

    You could pick just about any bacteria or virus you want and breed in resistance to ethanol, chlorine, fire, whatever

    Again, citations are needed for this kind of silly claim. Boiling your drinking water is every bit as effective today as it ever has been. Even the toughest super-bugs have never been shown to develop a resistance to chlorine-based bleaches.

    Citation needed? You kidding me? Get a spray bottle and spritz yourself with bleach. What exposure (concentration and time) does it take for you to die?
    Now do the experiment again on various molds or fungi. On parasitic mites and worms. On plant spores. There are tons of organisms that resist bleach, alcohol, etc. How the fuck do you think plant seeds evolved? It's a fucking resistance to being digested by stomach acid. If the seed survives the stomach it gets shit out in a nice pile of warm fertilizer.

    Go put some tap water under a microscope. Look at all the buggers. Boils the water. Then look again. Lots of stuff is dead. Lots of stuff still lives.
    Would you cook your chicken and pork to just 100 degrees? Go ahead, try it. It'll be extra juicy and tender!

    You can palpate your own genitals all you want with your "citation needed" crap all day long, though. It's incredible how you jackasses can google about all day to find a Shitipedia article (or edit one) to support your own positions, but when it comes to someone else's argument you take the laziest, most passive-aggressive and contrary position possible and demand that they do all the thinking and research for you so you can sit there while you stick your fingers in your ears and sit on your own dick.

    Here, go ahead and ignore this information:

    http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC238613/
    http://yosemite.epa.gov/water/owrcCatalog.nsf/1ffc8769fdecb48085256ad3006f39fa/208c8ba0e54feb3a8525702d00592dbf!OpenDocument
    http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC291561/

  14. Re:Come on on FDA Seeks Tougher Rules For Antibacterial Soaps · · Score: 1

    An organism that is immune to alcohol, bleach, peroxide, etc would be so specialized that they would not be effective in any other environment. It's like saying an organism that has evolved to survive being in the direct blast of the particle jets of a blackhole. Ok, not that bad, but still. It would be a one-trick pony.

    That's just wrong. Look at all the organisms we have today that ARE resistant to such things. They're fucking prevalent as shit.
    You ever deal with an infestation of mold? Mites? Parasitic worms?

  15. Re:Come on on FDA Seeks Tougher Rules For Antibacterial Soaps · · Score: 3, Interesting

    It is anti-bacterial. It just isn't done with antibiotics. And there isn't a resistance. Not that would be a hideous situation.

    Plenty of organisms develop resistances to alcohol, bleach, peroxide, and other things we use.
    I don't know why people believe otherwise. Your own skin is evidence of such resistance. Your typical seed is resistant to harsh stomach acids. Mold spores resist the hell out of crap. And water bears are on a whole other level.
    You could pick just about any bacteria or virus you want and breed in resistance to ethanol, chlorine, fire, whatever. Whether or not the resulting generation of bacteria or virus does the same thing afterward is a separate issue.

  16. Re:If you don't like them hearing your private spe on NSA Able To Crack A5/1 Cellphone Crypto · · Score: 1

    Well then, just self-censor. Isn't that the road we're heading down?

    Fuck that.
    Our government is thoroughly corrupt and they'll have to kill me to stop me from saying so.

  17. Re:Horseshit on Simulations Back Up Theory That Universe Is a Hologram · · Score: 1

    Actually, current thinking is that it is stored on the surface of an N-sphere.

    Thinking by who? Show me one fuck who thinks this, and I'll show you some jackass in Academia who likes palpating their own genitals and calling it research.
    Then get along and show me some fucking evidence that this wacky shit is true. There is exactly as much evidence to support the theory that the entire universe we see is actually just a mote of dust floating around some alien's underwear after ripping a hot dry fart.

  18. Re:Horseshit on Simulations Back Up Theory That Universe Is a Hologram · · Score: 1

    All 3D holograms can be stored in two dimensions. Stop "debunking" science you do not even begin to grasp the faintest notion of.

    Wrong. You cannot collapse a dimension without losing information.
    You either force a single perspective, meaning your resulting "projection" is not truly n+1 dimensional, or you store multiple copies from multiple perspectives, thus losing all other perspectives not stored. 2 perspectives (2 copies stored in 2D) gets you a resolution of 2 in the 3D plane, 100 gets you a resolution of 100. No matter how high you go, you've traded a continuous dimension for discrete steps.

  19. Horseshit on Simulations Back Up Theory That Universe Is a Hologram · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    The universe is not a hologram stored on a flat plane.
    Holograms are not stored in 2 dimensions.
    If you project a hologram you have to project it onto something.

    Physicists need to stop tugging their dicks in mathematical fancy and start developing ways to TEST things.
    The shit they trot out now is more absurd than humors or celestial spheres.

  20. Oh Great on Why Reactive Programming For Databases Is Awesome · · Score: 1

    'In the RP paradigm, you can create complex applications from a series of simple declarative statements. Many of the details of implementation and work of gluing together various sorts of application constructs can be hidden because of the declarative approach.'

    Sounds like another wishy-washy piece of shit language designed to be "easy", "fast", and "human readable" that will end up being kludgey, slow, and a pain in the ass.

  21. Re:Sounds perfect for high risk suicide patients on Scientists Boost the "Will To Persevere" With Current To the Brain · · Score: 1

    "Not to be confused with you, who are a nihilistic insensitive piece of shit who cannot
    even punctuate a simple sentence correctly."

    You are missing a comma there, after 'shit'.

    No he isn't. And your comma is incorrect.

    WRONG:
    You are missing a comma there, after 'shit'.

    CORRECT
    You are missing a comma there - after 'shit'.

    CORRECT
    You are missing a comma there (after 'shit').

    I also find your use of single quotation marks (') disturbing. You should be using double quotation marks (").

  22. Re:Sounds perfect for high risk suicide patients on Scientists Boost the "Will To Persevere" With Current To the Brain · · Score: 2

    What if it just makes them persevere at attempting suicide?

  23. Re:Small Connectors on Death to the Trapezoid... Next USB Connector Will Be Reversible · · Score: 1

    Did you want to carry around CAT6 size cable to charge your phone?

    I carry around a cat 60 (image search it, plebes) sized cable to take a piss.

  24. Re:Multitasking? on The Brains of Men and Women Are 'Wired Differently' · · Score: 1

    Define "true multitasking"./p>

    Consciously focusing on more than one task simultaneously. It's harder than you think; in fact, according to scientific consensus, it's physically impossible for humans to do.

    Horse shit.
    Show me a scientific definition of multitasking that jives with your own, then show me a "scientific consensus" that shows humans can't do that shit.
    People who trot out "scientific consensus" instead of actual fucking science are clowns who should be ignored.

    Have you never taken a phone call while having sex? Eaten while watching TV? Played a shitty game on your phone while squeezing out a turd? Watched TV and replied to an email? Driven while talking to a passenger? Looked at things and also heard things? If you can't fucking multi task at all, you're a retard, plain and simple.

  25. Multitasking? on The Brains of Men and Women Are 'Wired Differently' · · Score: 0

    In my experience, men are far better than women at multitasking.
    I'll never understand why people claim the opposite.

    Take a simple chore list - take out the trash, do the dishes, do the laundry, vacuum.
    Females in my experience will do them sequentially, in an order that suits them - if they hate vacuuming that gets done last.
    Males in my experience will do them concurrently. Fill the sink, put the laundry in the washer, do one rack of dishes, take out the trash, put the laundry in the dryer, vacuum, put the dry dishes away and do the rest of the dishes, fold the laundry.