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  1. Re:There might not be Proper English on Why There Is No Such Thing as 'Proper English' · · Score: 4, Funny

    No thangs up in dis biatch found fo' A recent article up in tha Wall Street Journal explains why tha concept of a "proper" Gangsta aint realistic. Quoting: "It aint nuthin but a perpetual lament: Da puritizzle of tha Gangsta language is under assault. These minutes we is holla'd at dat our ever-textin teenagers can't express theyselves up in grammatical sentences. Da media delight up in publicizin ostensibly incorrect usage. .. fo' realz. As children, we all have tha instinct ta acquire a set of rulez n' ta apply em. ... We know dat a cold-ass lil certain practice be a rule of grammar cuz its how tha fuck we peep n' hear playas use tha language. ... That's how tha fuck scholarly linguists work. Instead of havin some rule book of what tha fuck is "correct" usage, they examine tha evidence of how tha fuck natizzle n' fluent nonnatizzle speakers do up in fact use tha language. Whatever is up in general use up in a language (not any use yo, but general use) is fo' dat reason grammatically erect. Da grammatical rulez invoked by pedants arent real rulez of grammar at all. They are, at best, just stylistic conventions..

  2. Simple Drupal Install on Ask Slashdot: Issue Tracker For Non-Engineers? · · Score: 1
    A simple Drupal installation with the addition of the Project Management module would probably solve all their needs. It could setup in about an hour, and it's free.

    https://www.drupal.org
    https://www.drupal.org/project/pm

  3. Re:The spread on NASA Ames Reproduces the Building Blocks of Life In Laboratory · · Score: 1

    Yes, you're correct. This is definitely one of the most interesting stories for sure!

  4. Re:What about the race of the escapee? on Racial Discrimination Affects Virtual Reality Characters Too · · Score: 1

    Ummm, yes. First of all, learn to pickup and read a dictionary.

    Exclude defined: remove from consideration; rule out. Example: "computer software is excluded from the mandatory 15-year write-off"

    Clearly black participants were removed from consideration. They were not included, and therefore they were excluded by definition. Your entire response is irrational. You clearly don't get the point.

  5. The spread on NASA Ames Reproduces the Building Blocks of Life In Laboratory · · Score: 1

    Panspermia

  6. Re:Worthless Study on Racial Discrimination Affects Virtual Reality Characters Too · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I didn't "dismiss" the article; I read the whole thing and commented on it.

    If you don't see anywhere they claim that whites are racist then you're illiterate. Racism consists of both prejudice and discrimination, and the article is FILLED from top to bottom of examples where white people exhibit both prejudice and discrimination toward black people.

  7. Re:What about the race of the escapee? on Racial Discrimination Affects Virtual Reality Characters Too · · Score: 1
    You grow up. They admitted that they were aware of this correlation:

    Being of the same ethnicity as the helper makes the victim appear more similar, and people act more favorably toward people perceived as similar to them; furthermore, it makes the helper feel a member of the same (ethnic) group as the victim, and members of the same group are treated more favorably than non-members.

    They ONLY included Italian and White participants in the study, and they excluded black participants and all other cultures/nationalities. The results of the study were obvious before the study even began. Had they shown the results of black participants, I'm quite sure it would have shown that black people can be just as racists as white/italian people can be. But they didn't include any black participants, and since they were aware of the correlation, they obviously wanted to demonstrate a particular outcome. This was clearly a "black vs white" study. If it wasn't, then black participants would have been included.

  8. Worthless Study on Racial Discrimination Affects Virtual Reality Characters Too · · Score: 5, Insightful
    I agree. The entire study is stupid. In the study, they admit this correlation:

    Being of the same ethnicity as the helper makes the victim appear more similar, and people act more favorably toward people perceived as similar to them; furthermore, it makes the helper feel a member of the same (ethnic) group as the victim, and members of the same group are treated more favorably than non-members.

    Any person with half a brain would ensure that the participant pool included members from all cultural backgrounds. But that wasn't the case:

    The participants were Italian and white.

    .

    So they tested racial bias for white helping blacks, but they did not test for bias when blacks had to assist whites even though they KNEW there was a strong correlation in willingness to assist when similar cultural backgrounds are involved. Then, they take the test results (which were obvious before the study even began) and ran to the internet with cries of racism amongst Italian and white people. Ridiculous...

  9. Re:Head on? on Homeland Security Urges Lenovo Customers To Remove Superfish · · Score: 1

    In less than a day it has gone from scandal to basically resolved

    LMFAO!!! Not even close. Its only been less than a day SINCE YOU HEARD ABOUT IT. They've been in the media for installing Superfish for the last 5 years. It just finally hit mainstream media, and they resolved it in less than a day since it blew up in their faces.

  10. Re:DHS Internal Memo (Classified) on Homeland Security Urges Lenovo Customers To Remove Superfish · · Score: 1

    This needs to be modded up to fucking hilarious!!!!

  11. Re:It's a vast field.... on Ask Slashdot: What Portion of Developers Are Bad At What They Do? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    You're asking "developers" questions about "information security" by using vaguely worded questions that even "information security" experts would need to clarify, and when you don't get the results you're looking for, you take to the internet and declare that you are "worried about the quality of developers/engineers". I am quite sure that many of your interviewees have left your facility worried about the leadership qualities at your firm as well.

    Try asking very broad open-ended questions such as, "Tell me about your general understanding of different types of encryption processes, and elaborate on any experiences you have using them." You might find that interviewees dump so much information on you about encryption that you can't get them to shut up.

  12. CentOS & Webmin/Virtualmin on Ask Slashdot: Is There a Web Development Linux Distro? · · Score: 1

    CentOS & Webmin/Virtualmin do everything you're asking for and more.

  13. Re:Terrible on Female-Run Companies Often do Better Than Male-Run Ones (Video) · · Score: 2

    LMAO! This could be the poster definition of irony.

  14. Re:Huh??? on Ask Slashdot: Best Medium For Personal Archive? · · Score: 1

    RAID is definitely both a backup and an archive solution. System A on RAID > Backup to System B on RAID > Archive to System C on ZFS's zraid-3 to prevent long term bit rot. Who wants to sort through 1742 DVD disks with sharpie writing on the top of them? Ridiculous.

  15. Re:Optometrist? on Ask Slashdot: Are Progressive Glasses a Mistake For Computer Users? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    He likely paid more for the progressive lenses, and as a result, the optometrist also made more money. Therefore, any professional opinions provided by the optometrist are going to be biased by the money involved. In fact, money is probably the reason he ended up receiving a product he didn't need or want in the first place.

    I was sold the same bottle of snake oil when I was 40. Asking his optometrist these questions is the last thing you would want to do.

  16. Similar Experience on Ask Slashdot: Are Progressive Glasses a Mistake For Computer Users? · · Score: 1

    I had all the same issues with progressive lenses. In addition to that, driving a car or riding a motorcycle became more difficult, even dangerous, as my peripheral vision was blurred to some extent. The distortion in the lenses also gave me headaches. I went back to regular glasses, and I have no intention of changing that until I'm so old that all I do is sit around and read books. If you're too close to your monitors, buy larger ones so you can push them back, and then all your problems are solved.

  17. Content Management Systems on Ask Slashdot: Best Software For Image Organization? · · Score: 2

    Drupal with something like the Node Gallery module would allow you to easily upload entire galleries, tag them all, quickly search through them, and even allow you to share them with the world with authentication if you choose.

  18. Translation on Microsoft Partners With Docker · · Score: 4, Funny

    Docker = Mens apparel company
    Open Container = Open and ready-to-drink beer usually found in a moving vehicle
    Docker Engine = Something that goes "vrooom" in your pants
    Images = pictures
    Docker Hub = a place to connect your pants with people
    Azure = bright blue color, often associated with a sky

    A men’s apparel company is teaming up with Microsoft to bring its ready-to-drink beer technology to the next server in the window. Penises will work with the server and pictures of everything will be available while people share experiences with each other’s pants. The penises and pants will also integrate directly into uh-hem “Blue stuff”. The partnership moves pants n shit away from Linux for the first time. With new multi-ready-to-drink beers technology clouds will consume enterprise developers.

  19. The real questions to ask on Ask Slashdot: Is It Worth Being Grandfathered On Verizon's Unlimited Data Plan? · · Score: 1

    You could definitely get cheaper UNLIMITED DATA elsewhere. But would you be happy with the COVERAGE? At some point you may want new EQUIPMENT, to which Verizon will tell you that your new phone isn't compatible with the "grandfathered" rate plans. The real questions to ask are "am I happy with the coverage" and "Will I be happy with this phone forever?" If the unlimited data works for you now, keep it for now. But at some point, you'll be forced to make a decision. All the other arguments about "unlimited" data are irrelevant. There are much better UNLIMITED deals elsewhere for the money.

  20. My vote is for Drupal. Wordpress & Joomla don't seem to be flexible enough for these kinds of deployments (at least for us). We built a procedure/policy/asset/access/resource tracking website with Drupal. It handles procedural documentation, policies, equipment assignments, loaner device checkout program, software license assignments, and much more. We dropped in an LDAP module, and life was good. We used to run a wiki too, but the requirement to hand code special markup was a turn-off for most of our users, so we ditched it.

  21. Re:There are numerous other obvious flaws on Nvidia Sinks Moon Landing Hoax Using Virtual Light · · Score: -1, Redundant

    I'm not totally sold on the "moon landing conspiracies", but I agree that there are numerous other bizarre factors that may point to conspiracy to consider other than just the lighting aspect of the moon landings.

  22. 12U Rack on Slashdot Asks: What's In Your Home Datacenter? · · Score: 1
    Hardware
    • 12U Rack in the attic enclosed and sealed with Oak panels force cool with a 8inch hydroponic blower from 70deg air in the house.
    • 24TB Dell R510
    • 24TB Dell C2100
    • 4TB Four Cluster Dell C6100
    • 4TB Dell R410
    • Dell iSCSI Certified 48P gigabit switch
    • Dell 1920W UPS
    • Dell 1920W UPS Extended Battery Module

    Configuration

    • 4gigabit iSCSI SAN with redundant links
    • 4 node Hyper-V failover cluster with SAN storage
    • Stand alone VMware servers
    • 4 drops to livingroom
    • 4 drops to office
    • 3 drops to bedroom 1
    • 3 drops to bedroom 2
    • 3 drops to bedroom 3
    • 3 drops to bedroom 4
    • Ubiquiti Wifi AC
    • 4 external facing IP cameras
    • 4 internal facing IP camera
    • and one badass pitbull named "buddy" to help run physical security
  23. Re:Solar storm EMP vs nuclear weapons on New Data Center Protects Against Solar Storm and Nuclear EMPs · · Score: 1

    Also detonating a nuke would be a full fledged war

    Lets ponder the stupidity of that statement for a moment...

    Several different nations have detonated over a combined 2000 nukes throughout history, and none of them resulted in a "full fledged war". Furthermore, only two nukes have been detonated during wartime, however it was a "full fledged war" that resulted in the detonation of the nukes. It was not the detonation of the nukes that resulted in the full fledged war. In fact, throughout history exactly ZERO detonated nukes have ever resulted in a full fledged war. Since there is ZERO evidence to support your claim, I'd say you look pretty stupid right about now.

    Before you troll around the interwebs looking for "stupidity" in other people, you should check the mirror first.

  24. Endian Firewall on Ask Slashdot: Advice On Building a Firewall With VPN Capabilities? · · Score: 1

    I absolutely love Endian firewall. Put it on an old box, a virtual machine or whatever you want. It has all the firewall features you could want, and has VPN support out of the box.
    http://www.endian.com/us/

  25. Pondering... on Shadowy Tech Brokers Deliver Data To the NSA · · Score: 4, Funny

    Wouldn't a "New Star" (Neustar) be similar to "New World". So if you place an order with Neustar, is that a New World Order?