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  1. Re:It's a she, not a he on Senator Accuses CIA of Snooping On Intelligence Committee Computers · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    And so the NRA's smear campaign continues to influence idiots like you.
    Good to know.

  2. Re:uhh on Men And Women Think Women Are Bad At Basic Math · · Score: 1

    " probably about as good at math as the average man. "
    probably? there is the stinking bias again.
    When a girl has it implied that she may not be as good as a boy at math, it's has a long standing effect in that they will start to avoid it, so naturally their SAT scores are lower. And the bias in colleges is even greater the grade school.

    "My guess is that this is due to the stereotypical reputations of CS/Engineering"
    tat streotype died over a decade ago.

  3. Re:In my experience on Men And Women Think Women Are Bad At Basic Math · · Score: 1

    I like how you assume she only does arithmetic.
    IT's that kind of ingrained cultural bias the article is talking about. Nothing in the sentence say arithmetic.

  4. Re:Life extension is bad on Men And Women Think Women Are Bad At Basic Math · · Score: 1

    life extension is an awesome idea. I have no idea why you think we are over populated or by what you measure that by.

  5. Re:Cultural bias biggest factor on Men And Women Think Women Are Bad At Basic Math · · Score: 0

    " Men outnumber women at both extremes .."
    That's not true at all.

  6. Re:Math ? on Men And Women Think Women Are Bad At Basic Math · · Score: 1

    It's the worlds most spoken language, and it spoken by about half the world.
    Not necessarily as the native language. It is the language of the modern world.

  7. Re:Disturbing phenomenon on Men And Women Think Women Are Bad At Basic Math · · Score: 1

    And yet, we see it all the time. Why do you thing we still have people who believe that just becasue we have a huge excess of CO2, that traps IR doesn't mean the planet will have more trapped energy.

    While it's a lack of critical things skill and the ability to change a narrative based on facts, and not intelligence, this always comes to mind:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...

  8. BEcause both geneder on Men And Women Think Women Are Bad At Basic Math · · Score: 1

    are a product of the same cultural conditioning.

  9. Re:Interesting Math (like there's another variety) on Meat Makes Our Planet Thirsty · · Score: 1

    I do, that's why I only had 2 kids.

    Ad you can put measures in place to discourage having more then a couple chilred.
    I say the following statement as someone who benefits from it: Stop giving tax breaks for children
    give people 1000 tax break for not have any children, 500 for having 1, 0 for having 3, -500 for 4 and so on.

  10. Re:Interesting Math (like there's another variety) on Meat Makes Our Planet Thirsty · · Score: 1

    "iety. Agriculture, as it has been for millennia, is monoculture, you can grow plants in a non monoculture way but that is not farming/agriculture as it has ever been done. "
    You could have just said you have no clue about modern farming techniques instead of using a long winded and ignorant sentence.

  11. Re:Interesting Math (like there's another variety) on Meat Makes Our Planet Thirsty · · Score: 1

    All agriculture is destructive by definition. We don't need to false dichotomy here, TYVM.

  12. Re:Interesting Math (like there's another variety) on Meat Makes Our Planet Thirsty · · Score: 1

    You can have an agenda. You just need to be able to realize it's wrong when you look at facts.
    Open data, Critical thinking skills and an actual open mind.

  13. Re:Microwaves? on How Engineers Are Building a Power Station At the South Pole · · Score: 1

    You still need to get pwoer to the station that's send the microwave energy.
    Plus ther ewould be more losses.

    Or did you mean from space? In that case:
    BWAHAHAHAHAHAHhahaha

  14. IF I understand this correctly on How Engineers Are Building a Power Station At the South Pole · · Score: 4, Insightful

    They want to know how to generate power at a place that gets lots of sun half the year and has a steady wind?
    And they chose solar and wind? wow..shocking.
    Stop asking questions that are answered in the in article as a headline.

  15. Re:The Song of Their People on Author Says It's Time To Stop Glorifying Hackers · · Score: 1

    Yeah, that out of context lyrics must mean the song is about hackers! clearly not about a soul wrenching, but inevitable break up.

    IN fact, anything with the word broken in it means hacker !

    Sigh. Your herp has derped.

  16. Re:Idiots... on Author Says It's Time To Stop Glorifying Hackers · · Score: 1

    "Hmm...elitist art person?"
    oh, someone mentions what they where doing when something happened and now their elitist art person?
    May you should get a little culture so you can have some perspective? Not everyone who like going to museums is elitist.
    She might b, but the jump to that statement says a lot about you.

    Protip: They can be a great place for a date, because there is always an opportunity for conversation. Even snarky conversation.

    You've never been to the smoking gun? you should check it out.

    "Aaaaand this immediately sets off my warning bells that you probably did something monumentally stupid in order for this to happen."
    Clearly, but so what?

  17. Re:Dear Diane... on Author Says It's Time To Stop Glorifying Hackers · · Score: 1

    You're ding the same thing as the media, stop it.
    Hacking is something people do, what they do determines good / bad or legal / illegal.

  18. Re:Slashdot is the wrong audience for this rant on Author Says It's Time To Stop Glorifying Hackers · · Score: 1

    If it's worth watching, why isn't it worth paying for? If not a tick, the redbox? the library? Amazon?

    Of course, if it isn't available, I really have no issue with leeching a copy.

  19. Re:Slashdot is the wrong audience for this rant on Author Says It's Time To Stop Glorifying Hackers · · Score: 1

    You should never trust a documentary. What you see is what fills a preconceived narrative of the producers.
    They could have 100 people say: "Well, I stole it and I shouldn't have", and 5 that say "They had it comin'" and guess who gets past editing?

    Gasland, fast food nation, and so on are all piles of fact-less crap.
    Nature documentaries are about the only ones not full of intentional lies.

    FTR: I used to do volunteer work with prisoners. The vast majority of them did NOT blame the victim, or claim to be innocent.
    Hey, look the media got something wrong...again.

  20. Re:Agreed! on Author Says It's Time To Stop Glorifying Hackers · · Score: 1

    Those stupid gloryholers.

  21. Re:Agreed! on Author Says It's Time To Stop Glorifying Hackers · · Score: 1

    voyeurs usual involve spying on someone. It's not spying when the people let you watch.

  22. Re:Need to stop trying to market brand "hackers" on Author Says It's Time To Stop Glorifying Hackers · · Score: 2

    I would rather they say 'A criminal hacked into...

  23. Re:Victim blaming on Author Says It's Time To Stop Glorifying Hackers · · Score: 1

    "We live in the real world. Time to wake up."
    you cower and hide. You can just sit by building higher and higher walls. I will be a member f a free society and use my brain, you fucking coward.

  24. Re:Victim blaming on Author Says It's Time To Stop Glorifying Hackers · · Score: 1

    and since of 80% shots fired in an actual situation miss, she gets to go to jail for manslaughter when she hits a bystander. where. ironically, she will get raped.

    " Look at me everyone, I gots a gun and wills foreve has a fix fur everthing, always."

  25. Re:Victim blaming on Author Says It's Time To Stop Glorifying Hackers · · Score: 1

    In a free society, a person can wear whatever they want, freely. Without being attacked., If they are attacked then the attacker is at fault.

    "This "victim blaming" nonsense needs to be put to rest."
    Are you really that stupid? Some people don't understand that giving advice is different then victim blaming, so now it's ok for victim blaming?

    Just like I don't blame you for being raised by people who don't teach critical thinking to their children.