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  1. Re:So basically... on VR Devs Pull Support For Oculus Rift Until Palmer Luckey Steps Down (vice.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    This seems to be what a lot of people don't get. That Trump's conduct reminds one familiar with history of nobody so much as the pre-Chancellor Hitler. The main message is demagogic rage.

  2. They didn't tolerate intolerance on VR Devs Pull Support For Oculus Rift Until Palmer Luckey Steps Down (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    What you are telling me is that they didn't tolerate intolerance. Good for them.

  3. It's OK to Not Tolerate Inteolerance on VR Devs Pull Support For Oculus Rift Until Palmer Luckey Steps Down (vice.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It's OK to refuse to tolerate intolerance. Indeed, it's something you need to do.

  4. Re:So basically... on VR Devs Pull Support For Oculus Rift Until Palmer Luckey Steps Down (vice.com) · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Hm. Did I hear someone who was the least likely person to support communists and Jews using them as an example? Naah, must have been more noise. Slashdot is really noisy tonight.

  5. Re:"Shitposting" is fraud, not speech on VR Devs Pull Support For Oculus Rift Until Palmer Luckey Steps Down (vice.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    Did someone say something? No, must have been noise.

  6. Re:"Shitposting" is fraud, not speech on VR Devs Pull Support For Oculus Rift Until Palmer Luckey Steps Down (vice.com) · · Score: -1

    How does it feel to be shunned?

  7. Re:"Shitposting" is fraud, not speech on VR Devs Pull Support For Oculus Rift Until Palmer Luckey Steps Down (vice.com) · · Score: -1

    You're shitbaiting.

  8. "Shitposting" is fraud, not speech on VR Devs Pull Support For Oculus Rift Until Palmer Luckey Steps Down (vice.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "Shitposting" is fraud rather than speech for a few reasons.

    It is knowingly false. For example, "shitposters" distribute a purported photo of Hillary Clinton in blackface with Bill, which doesn't match her eye color or her and Bill's appearance at the time. But they keep distributing it.

    They then spoof the comment system by having robots upmod posts and downmod their detractors, thus fraudulently promoting their comments as highly regarded.

    They mis-state the first amendment of the constitution by telling people that reactions to their abuse are hypocritical and against the first amendment, when the first amendment does not protect anyone from the consequences of their speech, nor does it promise anyone the podium of their choice.

    Taking action to show your disapproval of such action is laudable.

  9. No conspiracy here. The conspiracy folks can go over to here and figure out why the base is now fighting its third fire in a week.

  10. Why does this sound so old school rocketry to me? My Estes solid fuel rockets sound more advanced, and I did that in the 1960s.

    This is pretty funny. Of course SpaceX is more sophisticated than Vernon Estes and his toy rockets.

    The helium is for pressurizing the tank so that the turbopump can receive fuel at a very high volume. In addition, ullage motors cause a small G force on the rocket before the main engine activates in microgravity, so that the fuel or LOX rather than the helium is at the bottom of the tank where the outlet to the turbopump is.

    Vernon Estes never had to deal with microgravity and the fact that when you want the fuel, it might have floated away from the fuel intake.

  11. Re:Same System Regardless of What SpaceX Says on SpaceX Blast Investigation Suggests Breach in Oxygen Tank's Helium System (reuters.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Um. You really are becoming a troll.

  12. Same System Regardless of What SpaceX Says on SpaceX Blast Investigation Suggests Breach in Oxygen Tank's Helium System (reuters.com) · · Score: 2

    Although SpaceX asserts that this is not related to the CRS-7 mishap, it's the same system. On CRS-7 it came loose and released the helium through a broken tube, bursting the second stage nonexplosively (until it self-destructed). This time, it looks like the same tank, a carbon-overwrapped pressure vessel, ruptured. Carbon + LOX + heat of compression from the pressure of the burst = explosion.

    This system also leaked during the 2014 Orbcomm misison, delaying the launch by several months.

  13. Re: Does anyone care what Trump thinks? on Trump Opposes Plan For US To Hand Over Internet Oversight To a Global Governance (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Hitler's pre-chancellor platform was 100% deception, so I don't really see what your point is. Unless you are expecting Trump to burn the Capital.

  14. Re:Are you smarter than a Trump supporter? on Trump Opposes Plan For US To Hand Over Internet Oversight To a Global Governance (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Snopes debunked the blackface rumour, it's neither Bill nor Hillary.. The "C.P. Time" comment was made by New York City mayor Bill de Blazio, Hillary did her best to clean it up by saying it meant "cautious politician" time.

  15. Re: Does anyone care what Trump thinks? on Trump Opposes Plan For US To Hand Over Internet Oversight To a Global Governance (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Check out the definition of Confabulation. I think it fits.

  16. Re: Does anyone care what Trump thinks? on Trump Opposes Plan For US To Hand Over Internet Oversight To a Global Governance (reuters.com) · · Score: 0

    So, we have a campaign that Donald Trump publicly led for 5 years with every opportunity he had to appear before the media, and a story that Hilary's friend once said it to a reporter, but the friend but denies it. Trump owned the Birther movement. With all of its inherent racism. For 5 years. And now denies that.

  17. Re: Does anyone care what Trump thinks? on Trump Opposes Plan For US To Hand Over Internet Oversight To a Global Governance (reuters.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I have not been keeping a formal record, but I do hear big whoppers from him. His accusation last week that Hilary started the Birther campaign was not just pants on fire. More like pants undergoing nuclear fusion.

  18. Re:Fuck the spec on W3C Set To Publish HTML 5.1, Work Already Started On HTML 5.2 (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    What's probably happening is that autoplay is not set on the static content, and Javascript on the page is modifying it or starting the play. So various settings won't catch it.

    If you know Javascript you might start with the Page Modifier plugin, I don't know if you will have every browser API you'll need. You can do fun things like add onplay events to videos, and stop them from the handler.

  19. Does anyone care what Trump thinks? on Trump Opposes Plan For US To Hand Over Internet Oversight To a Global Governance (reuters.com) · · Score: 1, Troll

    The last I'd heard, news fact-checking organizations were reporting that he told the truth 15% of the time. Why would I ever care what the opinion of someone like was?

    And don't tell me "because he's going to be president". The people of the United States are still smarter than that.

  20. S/N not an issue, I guess.

  21. Re:How Many Slashdot User Does it Take ... on Wildfire at Vandenberg Air Force Base Threatens ULA, SpaceX Launches (latimes.com) · · Score: 1

    It's my own darned fault. Driving from Berkeley to Vandenberg on 101 last Friday, I didn't really consider that I wasn't very far from Big Sur when I passed through Salinas.

  22. Re:fireproof launch pad? on Wildfire at Vandenberg Air Force Base Threatens ULA, SpaceX Launches (latimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes. I was interested to find, a while back, what happens to plasterboard in a fire. It just turns to powder.

  23. Actually, dropping salt water on a forest isn't very good for it. If there is a fresh water source they'll try to use it.

  24. Re:fireproof launch pad? on Wildfire at Vandenberg Air Force Base Threatens ULA, SpaceX Launches (latimes.com) · · Score: 1

    If you watch a launch, you'll notice that the pad is deluged with water during the launch to protect it. Without that, it wouldn't survive. Most of the pad is not fireproof, especially the big tanks full of liquid oxygen and rocket fuel, the control buildings, and in general all of the ground support equipment and anything else that isn't a big hunk of concrete right under where the rocket goes. And even concrete can only stand so much fire before it degrades.

  25. Re:Oh dear, poor SpaceX. on Wildfire at Vandenberg Air Force Base Threatens ULA, SpaceX Launches (latimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Forests need to burn, it's part of their ecology. The problem is that people keep them from burning to protect property, and then when they finally do burn it's a big conflagration with lots of fuel.

    Falcon 9 second stages have all successfully de-orbited and modern satellites are required to deorbit at the end of their life or in the case of geosynchronous, enter a higher storage orbit where they aren't a hazard.to anything in an operational orbit.

    Planets die of natural causes eventually. Suns too. If any of our ecology is to survive, that will be because of the work to move man off of the planet.