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  1. Re:Germany .... taking on Germany Cracks Down On Illegal Speech On Social Media. (smh.com.au) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Guess who insisted that criminalising Nazism was a pre-condition for an independent Germany?

    Oh wait, it was those enlightened Free Speech activists known as the USA.

  2. Re:What about Kyle Kullinski, Darvid Pakman, etc. on Google Announces New Measures To Fight Extremist YouTube Videos (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    For the peanut gallery: I did not imply that Kulinksi and Pakman are possibly bigots, but that someone who gets called one might just actually be.

  3. Re:And one other thing... on Debian 9 (Stretch) Will Be Released Today (twitter.com) · · Score: 1

    I have never seen a system that corrupted all of the log data from an unexpected shutdown

    I have. Since we now have competing anecdotes, how about some actual arguments for a change?

    Oh no, all you do is parrot talking points. Here's a cracker, Polly.

  4. Re:And one other thing... on Debian 9 (Stretch) Will Be Released Today (twitter.com) · · Score: 1

    I see lots of unfounded assertions. I am not impressed.

  5. Re:What about Kyle Kullinski, Darvid Pakman, etc. on Google Announces New Measures To Fight Extremist YouTube Videos (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Ah yes, the tu quoque fallacy. The sort of playground-level debating you neandertals excel at.

  6. Re: And one other thing... on Debian 9 (Stretch) Will Be Released Today (twitter.com) · · Score: 1

    Sigh. Whining about a technicality in an example may make you feel like you're smart, to the rest of the world you're just a dick.

  7. Re:What about Kyle Kullinski, Darvid Pakman, etc. on Google Announces New Measures To Fight Extremist YouTube Videos (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    No. The "Left", as you call it, or as I call it: people with fucking decency, disowned Dawkins because he used Islamophobia to chastise Western women to shut up about sexism and misogyny. That makes him a sexist asshole. And depending on how much he conflates Islam with 'looking Arabic' possibly a racist asshole too.

    I am very sorry for you, but reality is not obliged to defer to your feelings, snowflake.

  8. Re:What about Kyle Kullinski, Darvid Pakman, etc. on Google Announces New Measures To Fight Extremist YouTube Videos (cnet.com) · · Score: 0

    There is of course the possibility that they actually are horrid bigots. But of course you "conservatives" just want a safe space where you can be a bigot without consequences.

  9. Re: And one other thing... on Debian 9 (Stretch) Will Be Released Today (twitter.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't see you refuting Lennart's argument, actually. He is right: Unix gives you the rope to hang yourself with, and a faulty directive in a systemd unit is as bad as a typo in a shell command (or a SysV startup script).

  10. Re: And one other thing... on Debian 9 (Stretch) Will Be Released Today (twitter.com) · · Score: 1

    In other words, parotted bullshit, no reasons.

  11. Re: on Debian 9 (Stretch) Will Be Released Today (twitter.com) · · Score: 1

    Because the service doesn't? Really, nothing is a defense against shoddy software, so neither is systemd./p

  12. Re:And one other thing... on Debian 9 (Stretch) Will Be Released Today (twitter.com) · · Score: 1

    the technical reasons smart people are against systemd

    And what would those be?

  13. Re:Could cause more harm than good. on Wisconsin Speech Bill Might Allow Students To Challenge Science Professors (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    While I agree with the motivation for discouraging universities from disinviting invited speakers,

    Why would you disagree with that? Since when do Universities get exempted from the First Amendment? Note that that also has some things to say about the government's right to interfere with who you associate with.

  14. Re:Stupid Question on Does Silicon Valley Need More Labor Unions? (salon.com) · · Score: 1

    In other words, tech workers are particularly susceptible to Dunning-Kruger.

  15. Maybe not difficult to decrypt but simply sending it in a way we cannot detect.

    But how is this essentially any different than a belief in the existence of God or Angels? Believers have also come up with various explanations why we can't detect such things, but in the end SETI runs into the same issues.

  16. Re:How the Scots can F the Brits on Theresa May Loses Overall Majority In UK Parliament (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    You missed the news? Spain has stated that Scotland would be treated as any other potential entrant. Period.

  17. Re:How the Scots can F the Brits on Theresa May Loses Overall Majority In UK Parliament (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Yoon bullshit.

    Spain has stated that if Scottish independence is gained within a correct constitutional framework they will not oppose it.

  18. Re:I would suggest... on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Choose a News Source? (csmonitor.com) · · Score: 1

    I noticed in their recent coverage a massive anti-Kurdish bias; basically following the Ankara line.

    But I notice this because I have some Kurdish acquaintances online, so the dictum that you need multiple sources remains true.

  19. Re:The Self-Attribution Fallacy on US Senator Introduces the First Bill To Give Gig Workers Benefits (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Wich, of course, per Dunning-Kruger means that he is a lot less awesome than he thinks.

  20. Re:Who cares? on Devuan Jessie 1.0 Officially Released (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    And server admins who consider systemd to be [snip FUD] now have an option.

    An option that's merely 2.5 years out of date compared to Debian proper. Which is already not famed for being bleeding edge.

  21. Re:DOT will need to set standards for map data for on Pittsburgh Is Falling Out of Love With Uber's Self-Driving Cars (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Without government [...] the private industry would just as well provide GPS

    And if the moon were made of green cheese...

    Like I said, go back to your basement and ask Mum for a biscuit. There's a good boy.

  22. Re:DOT will need to set standards for map data for on Pittsburgh Is Falling Out of Love With Uber's Self-Driving Cars (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    privately every day by phones, GPS navigators

    Gee, I didn't know Musk had been launching rockets that long.

    Here's a hint, junior[1], if you are going to make a case for the superiority of private industry, don't mention examples that rely heavily on government-created infrastructure. It kind of undercuts your point.

    [1] Anyone who is so aggressively dumbass libertarian as you is either a teen who just read Atlas Shrugged, or stuck in the mental age of one.

  23. Re:Ny playing politics on Julian Assange Still Faces Legal Jeopardy In Three Countries (chicagotribune.com) · · Score: 1

    If consent is given under duress, it's not considered to be consent in the first case

    Good boy.

    it's just a strawman you've introduced.

    You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

    I was merely commenting on the statement that consent cannot be retroactively withdrawn. Anyone with half a brain could see I posited a hypothetical, that's why the word 'if' introduced that particular statement. So that just proves you're an illiterate moron.

  24. Re:Ny playing politics on Julian Assange Still Faces Legal Jeopardy In Three Countries (chicagotribune.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    she cannot remove consent AFTER THE FACT

    That's begging the question. Of course she can, if the consent was given on false information or under duress. That is why there is a case to be answered in the first place, to establish that, using proper procedures, in a court of law.

  25. Re:not surprising on Le Pen Concedes Defeat To Macron In France's Post-Hack Election (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Oh fuck off with your neo-Nazi apologia. For one example, the FN traces its ancestry back to Occident, formed by Pierre Sidos, who was convicted of Nazi collaboration in 1946.

    The FN is a direct descendant of the Nazi collaborators in Vichy.