Maybe he wasn't trying to perform a mathematical analysis, and was just making a statement about how corrupt that he view the TSA, and how much worse they've gotten in recent years, even compared to how worthless they were in the past? Maybe, I don't know. Hyberbole and satire has been lacking in recent times; hardly anyone uses them anymore.... I'm sure that almost no everyone expects/. posts to be as dry as the MSDS stapled to a sack of concrete, so by all means, continue being a pendant and a overall cunt.
Here's one for you: https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/the-fallacy-fallacy . Stop it with your stupid fallacy link garbage, that's the last resort of morons. Also, yes, it is perfectly okay to look down on societies that are shittier than your own, even if your's isn't that great. Even a slum rat in Detroit can look at Liberia and say "God damn, that place is a shit hole."
You have no right to a feeling of physical safety. Even if you did, it would not trump other rights.
Stupidest thing I've read in years. The right to not be killed unjustly is the right from which all other rights flow. I'm not even going to bother reading the rest of your garbage. Next time you want to make a post, just flush the toilet instead so none of the rest of us have to smell it.
Tip: humans are social animals. The survival of the species and close group is just as important for the strong male to spread his genes as his own survival is. Your knowledge on the subject seems cursory at best, though I suspect that you are trolling.
It's not research if you can look it up on Wikipedia. It may fail to produce groundbreaking discoveries, but the data is still being collected, and even negative results will one day find a use, even if to prevent others from chasing the same failed path. Believe it or not, scientist usually want to work on things that are worth while, not chase dead ends. Can you not understand that your free market absolutist crap doesn't apply to everything? Science doesn't (read: basically nothing) agree with your delusional, anti-intellectual position where if it's not immediately productive then the universe has spoken and it will never be. If people like you ran scientific institutions we'd be stuck with a pneumatic tube internet because you'd yank funding at the first sign of a failed experiment.
I'm going to ignore the many absolutist fallacies in this and answer the best I can.
Still, you can't rationally take the position that all advancement in medical science must be blocked because there is a potential for the pertinent information to be misused.
Of course not; nor did I make it. So far as I can tell, the only claim that I have made is that it has the potential to fuck a lot of people over. Mind point out anywhere I have ever implied otherwise, so that I may correct any misunderstandings or recognize my mistake? Also, ``all advancement''. Wow.
Think about what you are suggesting here. Condemning someone to a life of violence
Excluding pathological mental disorders, the genes likely only provide a small nudge in that direction.
(to say nothing about their victims)
Yes, we must think of the children!
because you purposely avoided looking for a cure?
Cure? Where? How many genetic disorders are there that have a cure? Treatment, perhaps. What would be a treatment for a violent disposition caused by genes look like I wonder. While advancements are made every day, the fountain of youth is quite a ways off. Meanwhile, all the potential deviants are cataloged with no known cure for their `disorder'. ``Well, it says here that you have expressed genes that have been statistically shown to correlate with greed and antisocial behavior. As such, we cannot hire you for the position of janitor, as our insurance company would not cover any loses from any theft you may commit. You may apply again at such time that your genes have been altered to exclude this trait.'' Can you think of any ethical considerations of such reductionism?
Is that the approach we took with AIDS? Drug addiction? Heart disease? Typhoid?
For a long time; mostly; `normal' people have heart disease; sometimes. Ancient lepers should have probably been grateful that they were sent to colonies instead of killed outright for a disease that was no fault of their own. Even in very recent history people have slaughtered people wholesale over perceived superiority, be it cultural or under the guise of science.
Surely it must be possible to work on both problems at once, in the Law and the Lab?
Would it be wise to give the Romans nuclear weapons? No. Their society couldn't have handled the responsibility that came along with that power. Genetics is the very basis of humanity, and I don't trust the world to not abuse it for petty reasons.
Yes. It can become worse than useless, at which point useful things must be expended to stop it from making other things useless. This site IS useless, but it's not quite so useless that I plan on filing a damages because it wasted my life.
I bet that you can't navigate with only latitude and longitude (not proper nouns, by the way), without electronics either.
which by the way, can get you a lot closer than a 3x3 meter square!
I don't think it's for giving the directions to needles in haystacks. The resolution is plenty accurate for almost everything; if you need more accuracy to point out a location, you're doing something wrong.
The UN didn't commission this. The devs have no obligation to conform to your bullshit objections that English sucks. If you want to make a version in Tagalog that's going to be even more totally useless, feel free to make one.
Probably because the developers spoke English. Grow up, not everything is cultural imperialism. Maybe when you graduate college you'll be able to ask less idiotic questions.
The technology was not available before; of course the things it might imply were not expressed before.
Adjusting your question to a more meaningful one: yes, it has been has been common practice in the past to have certain phenotypes (like being black) exclude you from certain jobs. Already having a family history of cancer or heart disease can cause your insurance rates to skyrocket. If genes were found that predisposition one to violence or other antisocial behavior, there is no reason to assume that discrimination would not be faced. Suppose genes which predisposition a person to pedophilia, do you think that a school's insurance company is going to allow the school to hire them? Of course not.
I'm not usually one to claim that stuff doesn't belong here; in fact, I usually make shitty, trollish posts in whatever thread brings that up. I'm not upset, and I came here specifically to argue both sides with vaguely racist nonsense and make people angry, so I'm pretty content. But I wholeheartedly agree: this garbage does not belong on a Slashdot which claims to be a tech news site. If Timothy wants to post this, he should go back to Reddit. This isn't a complain about a perceived abundance of Bitcoin and Raspberry Pi articles, it's a complaint about blatant clickbait to stir up page views. If I had any decency myself, I'd say it shameful that Timothy would so low as using a racially and politically charged (understand that I'm referring to the media circus, irrespective of what the true truth was) tragedy to do so. But, as I've said, I'm ruining the article myself, so I have no room to condemn him ^.^~!
But look at how many people he failed! That proves that whoever managed to get high enough to fuck up the ridiculously huge curve is the best of the best of the best of the best.
Oh, never mind. I thought that that was yet another complaint that the 50KB or whatever transfer for jQuery was just unreasonable to load over and over.
Slashdot Mirror
Maybe he wasn't trying to perform a mathematical analysis, and was just making a statement about how corrupt that he view the TSA, and how much worse they've gotten in recent years, even compared to how worthless they were in the past? Maybe, I don't know. Hyberbole and satire has been lacking in recent times; hardly anyone uses them anymore.... I'm sure that almost no everyone expects /. posts to be as dry as the MSDS stapled to a sack of concrete, so by all means, continue being a pendant and a overall cunt.
You have no right to a feeling of physical safety. Even if you did, it would not trump other rights.
Stupidest thing I've read in years. The right to not be killed unjustly is the right from which all other rights flow. I'm not even going to bother reading the rest of your garbage. Next time you want to make a post, just flush the toilet instead so none of the rest of us have to smell it.
Editor's edit; reader's read. If you've got a problem with the division of labor, talk to the union.
Also, http://tech.slashdot.org/story/13/07/26/2344215/gps-spoofing-with-3000-worth-of-equipment-and-a-laptop . God damn, it looks like this story just isn't going to stop showing up until every ``editor'' has had their turn.
No one cares about what law enforcement thinks, especially not in a thread about evolution\psychology\biology\whatever-GGGP-is-expecting.
Tip: humans are social animals. The survival of the species and close group is just as important for the strong male to spread his genes as his own survival is. Your knowledge on the subject seems cursory at best, though I suspect that you are trolling.
It's not research if you can look it up on Wikipedia. It may fail to produce groundbreaking discoveries, but the data is still being collected, and even negative results will one day find a use, even if to prevent others from chasing the same failed path. Believe it or not, scientist usually want to work on things that are worth while, not chase dead ends. Can you not understand that your free market absolutist crap doesn't apply to everything? Science doesn't (read: basically nothing) agree with your delusional, anti-intellectual position where if it's not immediately productive then the universe has spoken and it will never be. If people like you ran scientific institutions we'd be stuck with a pneumatic tube internet because you'd yank funding at the first sign of a failed experiment.
Bullshit.
Police are cowards then.
Currently, the best treatment for cancer is to poison yourself and hope that the cancer dies before you do.
I'm not sure what the analogous treatment would be for that 47th chromosome of yours.
Still, you can't rationally take the position that all advancement in medical science must be blocked because there is a potential for the pertinent information to be misused.
Of course not; nor did I make it. So far as I can tell, the only claim that I have made is that it has the potential to fuck a lot of people over. Mind point out anywhere I have ever implied otherwise, so that I may correct any misunderstandings or recognize my mistake? Also, ``all advancement''. Wow.
Think about what you are suggesting here. Condemning someone to a life of violence
Excluding pathological mental disorders, the genes likely only provide a small nudge in that direction.
(to say nothing about their victims)
Yes, we must think of the children!
because you purposely avoided looking for a cure?
Cure? Where? How many genetic disorders are there that have a cure? Treatment, perhaps. What would be a treatment for a violent disposition caused by genes look like I wonder. While advancements are made every day, the fountain of youth is quite a ways off. Meanwhile, all the potential deviants are cataloged with no known cure for their `disorder'. ``Well, it says here that you have expressed genes that have been statistically shown to correlate with greed and antisocial behavior. As such, we cannot hire you for the position of janitor, as our insurance company would not cover any loses from any theft you may commit. You may apply again at such time that your genes have been altered to exclude this trait.'' Can you think of any ethical considerations of such reductionism?
Is that the approach we took with AIDS? Drug addiction? Heart disease? Typhoid?
For a long time; mostly; `normal' people have heart disease; sometimes. Ancient lepers should have probably been grateful that they were sent to colonies instead of killed outright for a disease that was no fault of their own. Even in very recent history people have slaughtered people wholesale over perceived superiority, be it cultural or under the guise of science.
Surely it must be possible to work on both problems at once, in the Law and the Lab?
Would it be wise to give the Romans nuclear weapons? No. Their society couldn't have handled the responsibility that came along with that power. Genetics is the very basis of humanity, and I don't trust the world to not abuse it for petty reasons.
Yes. It can become worse than useless, at which point useful things must be expended to stop it from making other things useless. This site IS useless, but it's not quite so useless that I plan on filing a damages because it wasted my life.
It's even more disappointing when you find that there is no here.be.dragons . I'll never find a dragon. ;_;
which by the way, can get you a lot closer than a 3x3 meter square!
I don't think it's for giving the directions to needles in haystacks. The resolution is plenty accurate for almost everything; if you need more accuracy to point out a location, you're doing something wrong.
The UN didn't commission this. The devs have no obligation to conform to your bullshit objections that English sucks. If you want to make a version in Tagalog that's going to be even more totally useless, feel free to make one.
Probably because the developers spoke English. Grow up, not everything is cultural imperialism. Maybe when you graduate college you'll be able to ask less idiotic questions.
Maybe one day we can find a gene for homosexuality that can be identified in the womb, allowing for swift abortions.
The technology was not available before; of course the things it might imply were not expressed before.
Adjusting your question to a more meaningful one: yes, it has been has been common practice in the past to have certain phenotypes (like being black) exclude you from certain jobs. Already having a family history of cancer or heart disease can cause your insurance rates to skyrocket. If genes were found that predisposition one to violence or other antisocial behavior, there is no reason to assume that discrimination would not be faced. Suppose genes which predisposition a person to pedophilia, do you think that a school's insurance company is going to allow the school to hire them? Of course not.
If I were to run a Tor server, I'd filter it. (Actually, I'd first have to write my own so I could filter).I'd block all bittorrent usage,
It's already blocked in the default configuration.
and I'd throttle the traffic so people surfing porn (legal or illegal) would get frustrated.
You going to crack AES to filter out all the hidden services, where all that nasty stuff is at, too?
I was last time I ran a Tor exit node.
Good thing you stopped, you don't seem to quite grasp how it works.
I'm not usually one to claim that stuff doesn't belong here; in fact, I usually make shitty, trollish posts in whatever thread brings that up. I'm not upset, and I came here specifically to argue both sides with vaguely racist nonsense and make people angry, so I'm pretty content. But I wholeheartedly agree: this garbage does not belong on a Slashdot which claims to be a tech news site. If Timothy wants to post this, he should go back to Reddit. This isn't a complain about a perceived abundance of Bitcoin and Raspberry Pi articles, it's a complaint about blatant clickbait to stir up page views. If I had any decency myself, I'd say it shameful that Timothy would so low as using a racially and politically charged (understand that I'm referring to the media circus, irrespective of what the true truth was) tragedy to do so. But, as I've said, I'm ruining the article myself, so I have no room to condemn him ^.^~!
No. Let me guess, you `invest' your money into gold. *snicker*
But look at how many people he failed! That proves that whoever managed to get high enough to fuck up the ridiculously huge curve is the best of the best of the best of the best.
Buy a real printer, not an HP piece of shit, and most of the time you won't have that problem.
Oh, never mind. I thought that that was yet another complaint that the 50KB or whatever transfer for jQuery was just unreasonable to load over and over.
Nonsense. I test all my code on universal Turing machines and it never runs out of resources.