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  1. Re:IP law on Wired On 3-D Printers As Fraud Enablers · · Score: 1

    right, but the original intent has been fatally warped to have the opposite effect. now the guilds just sue everyone who tries to use "their" knowledge. the solution to the problem has been turned around to worsen the original problem

  2. IP law on Wired On 3-D Printers As Fraud Enablers · · Score: 4, Insightful

    is supposed to be about rewarding innovators

    IP law has been corrupted to reward entrenched economic interests

    as such, IP law needs to be ignored and/ or actively sabotaged at every available opportunity

    IP law is anticompetitive monopolistic nonsense

    it is the largest point of corruption where oligarchs have warped the government to enforce their position rather than enforce fairness

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R...

    we must do everything we can to make a mockery of IP law

  3. Re:Dark side on Does Open Data Have a Dark Side? · · Score: 1

    as to private police force protecting private property - that's the only police force that has any moral grounds to exist in the first place.

    so if you're poor, the only rights you have is to be abused anyway a plutocrats wants you to be?

    this is what freedom means to you?

    nevermind that question, not that it seems you want freedom or human rights. the only thing you understand is "i have money, fuck you"

    which is the status quo in plenty of poor countries with no functional government, with a few ultrarich who can do anything and a sea of poor who can do nothing

    that's the utopia that you want

    and you are never going to get

    because we're just not as fucking stupid as you

    now get back to sucking plutocrat cock, you ignorant sycophant

  4. Re:thanks on 800,000 Using HealthCare.gov Were Sent Incorrect Tax Data · · Score: 2

    so you want people to live shorter more painful lives and the system to cost 10-100x more than countries that handle healthcare responsibly

    the simple truth is healthcare and healthcare insurance is not voluntary. it's mandatory

    because you can spout eloquently all you want about independence and freedom, but you don't understand the subject matter. when you break your arm, you're not shaking it off and going on with your life, you're going to the hospital

    and we're not refusing you if you can't pay, because we're not sociopaths

    and when you can't pay your bill you're shafting us

    being an irresponsible freeloader is the actual real life effect of your uneducated "ideology", not real freedom

  5. Re:Pre-emptive ad hominem on Does Open Data Have a Dark Side? · · Score: 1

    I DON'T RESPECT YOU

    you and you fucking ignorant douchebags are nothing but useful fools for plutocrats interests in this country

    the sum total of your ignorant beliefs is to put money in the pockets of a few already super rich rent seeking parasites at the expense of the rest of us

    you free market fundamentalists are dangerous ignorant toxic pieces of shit

    you believe ignorant, uneducated, obviously wrong crap like a creationist or an antivaxxer

    and like an antivaxxer spreads disease

    and a creationist hurts children's education

    the sum total of your stupid low iq shit stained LIES is the damaging of our economy and the middle class

  6. Re:Pre-emptive ad hominem on Does Open Data Have a Dark Side? · · Score: 1

    seriously, just dealing with a creationist

    "natural monopoly is a myth!" DROOL SNORT

    all i can think of is this:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C...

    that's the same level of intellect i am dealing with with such an ignorant low iq comment

    you can't deny basic fucking reality and still think you get respect. you're a DUMB PERSON, who believes DUMB THINGS

    why aren't there hospitals on every street corner? why don't we all build our own gigawatt power plants in our backyards? why don't we all start our own private police forces?

    i'm going to build my own bridge over the river!

    because natural monopoly is a myth!

    there is no such thing as *high cost barrier to entry with low chance of return on investment*!

    it's a librul statist myth! just climate change!

    free market fairy, peace be unto you. everything you touch works with magic, no fucking actual thought or intelligence or logic or reason required

    seriously dealing with you knuckle dragging free market fundamentalist morons is just like dealing with a creationist or ufo cultist. ignorant unsupported faith and belief instead of actual intelligence and education on a topic

  7. Re:Dark side on Does Open Data Have a Dark Side? · · Score: 1

    because oppression always comes from government and never from anything else

    would you mind educating your ignorant shitstained mouth and then speak next time?

    here's some intellectual charity you dumb fuck:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P...

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R...

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M...

    this is where you go "HURR DURR MONOPOLIES DON'T EXIST WITHOUT GOVERNMENT *DROOL SNORT*"

    with weak government, their powers increase you mindless twat

    study you're fucking history

    you are stupid and uneducated person. really. that's not a baseless insult. that's objectively true, to believe the ignorant things you do. you're like a creaitonist or an antivaxxer, you're blind ignorant trust in the magic free market fairy to solve all problems, when it clearly does not

  8. Re:(looks straight down) on The Science of a Bottomless Pit · · Score: 1

    you guys need a better PR team

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

  9. Re:(looks straight down) on The Science of a Bottomless Pit · · Score: 2

    seven hundred ten

    seven hundred eleven

    seven hundred twelve

  10. (looks straight down) on The Science of a Bottomless Pit · · Score: 3, Funny

    hello perth australia from new york city

    we're not your true antipodean doppleganger, that would be hamilton bermuda

    but you're the closest thing to that for us

    and if when they find Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 it turns out to be directly antipodal to the Statue of Liberty, i'm giving up on reason and becoming a conspiracy theorist

  11. Re:Pre-emptive ad hominem on Does Open Data Have a Dark Side? · · Score: 1

    educate yourself:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N...

    then speak

    i do not respect you. do you respect antivaxxers? creationists? climate change deniers? 9/11 truthers?

    we are talking about low iq, delusional, and mentally deficient people who believe these things. attacking your mental capacity if you believe in things like this, and things like free market fundamentalism, is not an ad hominem attack. it is actually an objective description of your mental capacity, as derived from the demonstrated use of your mental faculties, to arrive at horribly ignorant beliefs

    a moron is a person of limited mental faculties. objectively correct. a moron believes in ignorant things easily demonstrated false. objectively correct. therefore, you are indeed, a moron, objectively speaking, not a baseless insult, if you are a free market fundamentalist (or antivaxxer or climate change denier etc.)

    that certain politicians and plutocrats "respect you" and give your ignorance air time and exposure is simply these people noting the utility of "useful fools" to advance an agenda which only benefits them, at the expense of the rest of us

    free market fundamentalism *does not work*. it is plutocrat propaganda. and since reagan you ignorants lap it up and believe it. because it is a simpleton's idea and you have a simplistic mind. again, not a baseless insult, an objectively correct statement as you have demonstrated by your own statements

    here's some proof from a few hours ago:

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...

    Tea Party News Network Readers Are 'Unsophisticated Simpletons,' According to Resignation Letter

    Most of the editorial staff of the Tea Party News Network resigned this afternoon following a Daily Beast exposé on the website’s desperate efforts to generate traffic. TPNN began in 2012 to give voice to the conservative grassroots and quickly grew a mass following among tea partiers, even scoring interviews with major figures in GOP. But shady business practices that blurred the line between the company’s non-profit political wing and its for-profit news wing—as well as increased reliance on fight porn—led to nearly the entire staff quitting Thursday. “The audience is regarded as unsophisticated simpletons," read the resignation letter to the site’s owner, Todd Cefaratti. "The activism that built all of the infrastructure is considered ‘a pain in the ass,’ not as an opportunity to save the country. As a group we can no longer tolerate being associated with these despicable practices.”

    many news organization will engage in false balance

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F...

    Other examples of false balance in reporting on science issues include the topics of man-made vs. natural climate change, the relation between Thiomersal and autism[5] and evolution vs. intelligent design.[6] For instance, although the scientific community attributes a component of climate change of the last 50–100 years, particularly global warming, to the effects of the industrial revolution,[7][8][9][10] there are a small number of scientists who dispute this conclusion.[11][12][13] Giving equal voice to scientists on both sides makes it seem like there is a debate within the scientific community, even though there is a scientific consensus.

    False balance can sometimes originate from similar motives as sensationalism, where producers and editors may feel that a story portrayed as a contentious debate will be more commercially successful than a more accurate account of the issue. However, unlike most other media biases, false balance may actually stem from an attempt to avoid bias; producers and editors may confuse treating competing views fairly—i.e.,

  12. Re:Dark side on Does Open Data Have a Dark Side? · · Score: 3, Informative

    My only problem is with those that would campaign for privatization when there is good evidence to suggest things will be worse as a consequence just because they are anti-government.

    And within that one tiny sentence is encapsulated decades of economically ignorant hot air. Thank you.

    There exists a class of loud, toxic morons in the USA that actually believes everything should be privatized, and they are either 1. stupid, they honestly can't see how this makes some services worse (roads, police, broadband, healthcare, etc.), or 2. evil, they do know it will make things worse, but they want to profit unfairly off of our misery as entrenched rent seeking parasites (while talking in dishonesty about "capitalism" when there is no competition and there can be none due to natural barriers to entry).

  13. don't worry about it on Ask Slashdot: How Could We Actually Detect an Alien Invasion From Outer Space? · · Score: 1

    just write a virus on your apple powerbook and upload it to their mothership

    problem solved

    neil degrasse tyson understands:

    http://www.goodreads.com/quote...

    We conquer the Independence Day aliens by having a Macintosh laptop computer upload a software virus to the mothership (which happens to be one-fifth the mass of the Moon), thus disarming its protective force field. I don’t know about you, but back in 1996 I had trouble just uploading files to other computers within my own department, especially when the operating systems were different. There is only one solution: the entire defense system for the alien mothership must have been powered by the same release of Apple Computer’s system software as the laptop computer that delivered the virus.

    duh! easy as pie

  14. Re:In Before... on Sony To Release Google Glass Competitor · · Score: 1

    ahh! they already did repurpose the name, thanks for the info

  15. Re:In Before... on Sony To Release Google Glass Competitor · · Score: 1

    How about Walkman?

    And now I'm not joking... that device was as big a cultural shift as the smartphone.

    Why not reuse the name? It's their IP.

    It shows an introspective, penitent, and confident Sony looking into its past to claim its future.

    The ad campaign could feature Blade Runner-esque and William Gibson style "jacking in" and all that great early 1980s cyberpunk culture.

  16. Re:Rate of use on Federal Study: Marijuana Use Doesn't Increase Auto Crash Rates · · Score: 1

    yeah an x-y plot of inebriation vs/ addictiveness is a good shorthand way to think of drugs because people will say accurate but misleading things like "nicotine is more addictive than heroin!" (but it doesn't leave you unable to work/ have a relationship)

    the one-two punch of being inebriated and addicted is what makes a few drugs radioactive. just inebriating you without addictiveness or addicting you without inebriation is not really a problem. because you can still work and have relationships. inebriating you and addicting you blots out the world, and that is how you lose your job and your loved ones. so that's the "sweet spot" that means a drug should be verboten, that the costs of prohibition are less than the costs of the drugs themselves

    alcohol has such a profile that it can only be considered moderately addictive and inebriating. which does, indeed, as you say, make it more dangerous than a casual understanding of drugs makes it. certainly more dangerous than marijuana, lsd (which should require a babysitter though, if made legal), psilocybin, mdma, etc. but not meth, heroin, coke, etc. alcohol is the "gateway" drug in a new meaning here of being on the edge between less harmful and truly life destroying drugs

    i think the most important thing is that people who want to talk about drugs in blanket therms: whether for legalizing everything or legalizing nothing besides caffeine, are completely wrong. every single drug is different, and every single drug needs it's own social/ medical/ legal approach. anyone who wants to legalize everything or legalizie nothing is someone who is demonstrating ignorance or ideological extremism

  17. Re:Rate of use on Federal Study: Marijuana Use Doesn't Increase Auto Crash Rates · · Score: 1

    it amazes me to meet people who think they can sound intelligent when talking about drug policy and not even mention addiction

    addicts don't just hurt themselves, they become zombies that we have to take care of

    this is where you lecture me that all of the problems about drugs has to do with uptight prudes and dumb laws. not at all anything to do with, gee, i dunno, fucking addiction maybe?

    or where you lecture me that we should just let people rot away in the street so they alone suffer for the consequences of their actions. because we're all sociopaths

  18. Re:Rate of use on Federal Study: Marijuana Use Doesn't Increase Auto Crash Rates · · Score: 0

    I support the legalization of marijuana (and lsd/ psilocybin, with a MANDATORY babysitter) and insist meth/ heroin/ coke never become legal.

    Usually I hear the "drug policy should be the same for all drugs" from the legalize-all-drugs morons.

    It's refreshing, I guess, to hear such hamfisted purposeful ignorance from the drug control side.

    The simple fact is that drug policy will never be a blanket concept: all drugs are not chemically the same, and so the law for each drug will be different.

    The pertinent qualities are inebriation and ease of addictiveness (toxicity, delivery method, potency, fatal dosage threshold, etc.: some other qualities to consider).

    If moderately addicting and inebriating, like alcohol: legal. If easily addicting but not inebriating, like nicotine: legal (you can still hold a job/ relationship). If inebriating but not easily addictive, like marijuana: legal (you can use the drug, then choose not to later).

    Only when you combine addictiveness and inebriation, like meth, coke, heroin, do you have a problem. Because now your ability to maintain a job/ relationships is impacted: the drug takes over your life. Simply as a function of the chemistry of the drug (not societal attitudes as idiots who think drug policy can be formulated without addressing the obvious fucking topic of addictiveness think).

    Even then: healthcare for addicts, not jail, like Portugal.

  19. your observations are spot on on Ask Slashdot: Are General Engineering Skills Undervalued In Web Development? · · Score: 2

    but what you are really criticizing is the mediocrity of the hiring process

    hiring a good team is perhaps the most vital function of a company, and so many get it wrong, in terms of who and what kind of skills they should be looking for

    they'll hire the guy who knows the buzzwords of the moment, and ignore the guy who doesn't know the buzzwords, but could learn them in half a day and, most importantly, apply them with the requisite scalability, maintainability, versioning, testing, etc. that means the difference between a world class site and a brittle piece of shit

  20. Re:Papers, please on Notorious 8chan Board Has History Wiped After Federal Judge's Doxing · · Score: 2

    how can a SJW silence you?

    i don't like SJWs but i also dislike the douchebag blowback against them

    all you assholes, SJWs, and people like you so so butthurt by SJWs, poor baby, you can all swallow a shotgun as far as i am concerned

  21. Re:Big Data on Will Submarines Soon Become As Obsolete As the Battleship? · · Score: 2

    your observation applies to "big data" too

    but we can only sell one revelation per post, or the natives get restless

  22. Re:Big Data on Will Submarines Soon Become As Obsolete As the Battleship? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    None.

    Like "cloud computing" is a new buzzword for an old concept, that doesn't mean the concept loses value. In fact the old concept is quite reinvigorated, the buzzword is just along for the ride.

    People have an aversion to trendy buzzwords for good reason, but it's interesting how this means a little bit of smarmy style can turn your mind off from analyzing the genuine substance here. "Big data" is being used to reinvigorate a powerful tactic. Oh you don't like that buzzword? Well, the tactic is still reinvigorated.

    Why have you tuned out just because you don't like a word? It makes you and your analysis shallow. Just ignore the word and move onto the substance.

  23. Re:Don't be a dick!!! (Emphasis added) on Notorious 8chan Board Has History Wiped After Federal Judge's Doxing · · Score: 1

    you can't respond to someone's argument by misunderstanding it

    try again and maybe i'll reply to you. first, try to read what i am actually saying, and actually respond to that. rather than making bullshit up in your head that has nothing to do with what i am saying

  24. Re:Don't be a dick on Notorious 8chan Board Has History Wiped After Federal Judge's Doxing · · Score: 1

    the american revolution wasn't actually a revolution, it was a war of independence

    independence movements always existed, and always will

    many factors go into whether or not they succeed

    the most important factor is the cohesive quality of the idea a group is fighting for

    some may go nowhere

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L...

    even with interesting backing

    http://www.washingtontimes.com...

    other movements may ignite convulsive earthquakes of power balances into orgies of death and destruction

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B...

    http://www.history.com/topics/...

    and there are many such ideas. they range from the noble ideas of the founding fathers, to degenerate violence loving "revolts"

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C...

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C...

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M...

    the point is, terrorism, in the name of vile efforts, is real, and should be opposed, and is a separate concept than genuine reasons for revolution or independence

    and no, whoever wins does not decide it's legitimacy, the *concept behind the effort* is what matters

    just fighting society is not noble in and of itself, the question is: what exactly are you fucking fighting for?

    and if your ideas suck (even if you mean well, your ideas may not be intended with malevolence, you just might be a fucking moron), and actually represent more injustice and suffering, like fundamentalist religion, or racist twattery, or whatever, then yeah: you're a fucking loser terrorist and fuck you

    just fucking with society isn't noble. for many reasons it just means you're a pathetic socially retarded douchebag

  25. Re:Don't be a dick on Notorious 8chan Board Has History Wiped After Federal Judge's Doxing · · Score: 3, Insightful

    the greatest enemy to freedom is cynicism like yours

    vile evil people can do many things to remove your freedom. but it's quite hilarious that some people, like you, roll over in quivering fear and give it up on your own. because you perceive the enemies of freedom to be so potent. they aren't. they are in your cowardly mind. not reality

    reality:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M...

    Mark Arthur Ciavarella, Jr. (born March 3, 1950) is a convicted felon (Federal Bureau of Prisons Inmate number 15008-067) and former President Judge of the Luzerne County Court of Common Pleas in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania who was involved, along with fellow judge Michael Conahan, in the "Kids for cash" scandal in 2008.[4]

    In August 2011, Ciavarella was sentenced to 28 years in federal prison for his involvement in the Kids for Cash scandal.[5]

    if you think justice doesn't prevail, then whose side are you on in the end?