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  1. The question people ought to be asking themselves on Zuckerberg To Give Away 99% of His Facebook Stock (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 0

    If he is truly giving this money back to a foundation, which is tax exempt and accountable only to itself, is it more about charity or about power and influence. If you wanted to be charitable you could have actually made your product less expensive, or you could remit that money to the government instead which is governed by the people. Instead what he is doing is creating an alternative power structure, much in the same way that the vatican is a power structure, meant to allow his power and influence last a "100 years".

  2. Anonymous rape claims on The War On Campus Sexual Assault Goes Digital · · Score: 4, Informative

    its like 4chan, for rape.

    But seriously, as soon as I saw the ada initiative on there, i knew it was bullshit. Selena Deklemann herself tried to entrap me once as an enemy of feminsts, by trying to cajoule me into going to meet her behind the florist dumpster alone, and after i repeatedly refused accused me of harassing her at Open Source Bridge.

    Then there is the matter that the founder of the ada initaitive, which is also listed in there, currently has a federal case open for a false rape claim against her husband, among others that she has made over the years to others, except for the fact that she killed herself over the issue. Schwern vs Plunkett

  3. Re:All right! on Boot Camps Introducing More Women To Tech (dice.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Its not as if the industry is setting up gender quotas and free schools specifically for women, the pew study indicates that women have a 2 to 1 advantage in odds of being hired in tech. They see some discrepency in the population figures, and think that any disparity is due to some 'oppression', instead of people choosing to do what they want, in reality its the older devs lot who are discriminated against.

    There ought to be a distinction made between computer scientists and computer artisans, these bootcamps are really quite shitty and churn out the worst talent. What I've noticed is that most of the female positions in the 'tech' industry aren't in 'technology', they are in fields that USE technology and not PRODUCE technology, especially the disproportionate numbers of them in 'evangelist', HR, outreach, community managers, business, etc.

  4. Re:Mostly troll posts on LILO Bootloader Development To End · · Score: 2

    maybe it will get picked up by systemD to replace the Grub bootloader ;-)

  5. Many Ed Tech Innovations are Indoctrination on Is There an Ed-Tech Critic In the House? · · Score: 1

    A friend of mine named Seattle for Truth has been doing research into the ED tech craze, in addition I have been involved with education because my wife is an educator, It appears that ED tech has a deleterious effect of both reducing attention spans, in addition to indoctrinating children to think with feelings.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6i_xjqHPcok

    There is a saying that whomever controls your eyes controls your mind, and in the case of Brown v. Entertainment Merchants Association, they call games as ideal methods of modeling behavior, by essentially getting the participants to model the behavior they want via mirror neurons.

  6. Re:Rackettering Influenced And Corrupt Organizatio on Interviews: Ask Brianna Wu a Question · · Score: 1

    Well, Renee James did get fired the day after I went to the US Attorneys office and the FBI to investigate her for the hiring quotas and connection to John Kitzhaber

    Similarly http://uomatters.com/2014/05/bonine-goes-to-asuo-and-the-students-vote-to-help-revise-student-conduct-code.html#comment-71524

  7. Rackettering Influenced And Corrupt Organizations on Interviews: Ask Brianna Wu a Question · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    What do you think about the feminists in the tech industry who are actively breaking the law by discriminating on the basis of gender and race, being that the case laws and states statues explicitly prohibit such discrimination, and the supreme court itself think that the use of "diversity" is a weasel word for discrimination?

  8. Re:I don't think it'll ever really happen on Lies, Damn Lies, and Tech Diversity Statistics · · Score: 0, Troll

    Dear uid 665546

    Your intellectual abilities are lacking, Gamergate was a result of rich entitled women, who had nothing better to do but complain about bullshit. Perhaps if they were able to tolerate criticism, without retreating with cries of tears for not being respected, they could actually deal with the 'real world' of meritocracy. Their time is better spent helping you know, the ones where that struggle to find meals, and hoping to god they don't get an insect borne disease. Instead they complain about how harsh reality is in this first class welfare state, and how everyone must bend to a reality which doesn't actually exist.

  9. blue screen of death on Airbus Patents Windowless Cockpit That Would Increase Pilots' Field of View · · Score: 5, Funny

    has never been more literally applied

  10. Re:False equivalence much? on Nobel Prize Winning Economist: Legalize Sale of Human Organs · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Considering that china puts people in prison and harvests their organs, for nothing more than their religious affiliation, it seems reasonable that the market will lead to other "externalities".

    Al Roth has done great work with market design, and how to get organs to the people that need them most, by matching incompatible donors reciprocally, however this is another chicago-school "free market fixes everything" nonsense.

    Considering the "quality adjusted life years" are coming from somewhere, and most dead people can't consent or benefit from a sale, unless of course you put them into indentured servitude first and "collect" assets upon death.

  11. Re:Math, do it. on Doctors Say Food Stamp Cuts Could Cause Higher Healthcare Costs · · Score: 4, Insightful

    That is only one of the costs, there may be other costs as well, like productivity losses from the illneess, or generally less productivity from less efficient division of labor.

  12. Self medication on Daily Pot Use Tied To Age of First Psychotic Episode · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Many people who have psychotic episodes, feel the need to prevent those psychotic episodes, and will be "self medicating" themselves. Its similar to saying that people who take lithium salts are more likely to develop psychosis, while there may certainly be a causation there is no correlation. This is why we have twin studies after all.

  13. Re:Any Android Tablet on Ask Slashdot: Easy Wi-Fi-Enabled Tablet For My Dad? · · Score: 2

    WebOs is extremely easy to use

    I think that you can either install WebOs on some android tablets, or you can simply by one of the HP touchpads.

  14. Re:The only solution is workers revolution on Siberia's Methane Release Larger Than Previously Thought · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Did you even bother to read the definition of capitalism:

    a way of organizing an economy so that the things that are used to make and transport products (such as land, oil, factories, ships, etc.) are owned by individual people and companies rather than by the government

    You don't even address the main point, that capitalism inherently produces market failures, for instance what we call externalities. If you think that the failures of socialism is bad, nearly every ecological indicator that we see seems to indicate failure, most of which are borne from a market failure of capitalism.

    Furthermore what people refer to as "the third way" or otherwise known as a hybrid of socialism / capitalism IS actually the most stable, as it provides checks and balances to prevent excessive corruption from either the public or private sectors, they are two halves of the same coin the introverted and extroverted locus of economic growth.

  15. Re:The only solution is workers revolution on Siberia's Methane Release Larger Than Previously Thought · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Actually, a central planned economy is not a bad thing, people who argue about the "economic calculation problem", fallaciously think that a distributed network of calculators, are more efficient than a centralized clearing house.

    Furthermore our version of capitalism is riddled with market failures, one for instance not recognizing that non humans are also producers and consumers, because they are unable to "vote with their dollars" in our economy.

  16. Psyops at its finest. on NSA Wants To Reveal Its Secrets To Prevent Snowden From Revealing Them First · · Score: 5, Insightful

    When you get to frame the issue the way you want, you can try to convince the people that it was for their own good. Snowden may likely say show that it was used abused in practice, and the NSA likely wants to say that they prevented a suspected domestic terrorist.

  17. First infection on GCHQ Created Spoofed LinkedIn and Slashdot Sites To Serve Malware · · Score: 1

    Viral Marketing to Governments.

  18. What about japanese sex robots on Japan Promises an Ultra-High-Tech 2020 Olympics · · Score: 2

    I mean we all know that's why they create lifelike looking robots, instead of producing roomba's or drones.

  19. Re:they have a girl!!!!!!! on Cyanogen Mod Goes Commercial To Make "Available On Everything, To Everyone" · · Score: 0

    I think the dude behind her named danesh is her boyfriend.

  20. Space exploration a waste of money on Bill Gates Promotes Vaccine Projects, Swipes At Google · · Score: 1

    Using absurd amounts of resources and energy, to go to a place which is environmentally unfriendly, much like going to the bottom of the ocean, something that is best performed cheaply with robots. Beyond having those robots to help us learn things better, the whole idea of "manifest destiny" is utterly absurd at this point in time, we have completely more realistic priorities. We dont need an aerospace (and defense) "bubble" of fake capital, we dont need to be wasting precious minds on this nonsense, and the last people we should be serving is the super rich.

  21. Re:Why should it be any different? on Marriages Spawned From Online Dating As Satisfying As From Traditional Dating · · Score: 5, Interesting

    My Wife and I got married on OKcupid. I have to say that it worked out okay, despite the difficulty of long distance for a year, travelling across the country every 2 months.

    However I think that online provides a different veil from what you get IRL, Because your able to filter out what you want to say to a person, though its easier to narrow down interests.

    On one side I married a beautiful geek woman who is motivated to change the world, on the other side I didn't know about the extent of the despression / suicidal thoughts from abuse and neglect.

    YMMV

  22. Designed Poorly on In France, a Showcase of What Can Go Wrong With Online Voting · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Clearly its not that internet voting cannot work, its that this was implemented poorly, credit cards are easy to get your hands on, what really matters is the vote verification. Nothing prevents a person from stealing vote by mail ballots, and using a fake signature to send in the vote, whether the vote is tallied is another matter.

    Now if you used multi-factor verification, along with biometrics (webcam photo) and IP logging, you would be able to sample and defeat fake votes.

  23. why non FOSS sofware? on Slashdot Killed My Kickstarter Campaign · · Score: 2

    I mean presumably you have to be charging for the severs, and now your asking for people to pay you to write software thats already working, so that you can continue to make money on the software, that eventually you may abandon sometime later if its unprofitable?

    Step 1. GPL the client software

    Step 2. GPL the server software (which is probably running linux).

    Step 3. Offer a optional traffic package

    Step 4. Ask for crowd funded money.

  24. Re:Asylum on Interview: Ask John McAfee What You Will · · Score: 1

    i need help very badly, as i have chrons.

  25. Asylum on Interview: Ask John McAfee What You Will · · Score: 1

    Do you know of any place I can have asylum in portland for 2-3 weeks? i have some money to pay, but the vacancies around here are low.