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  1. Perhaps he's bored by children his own age. MAybe a mix of 5-9 year olds. He needs to stay stimulated but also learn to be pleasant to people his own age.

  2. Re:It's bad, but it's not exclusive to women. on How To End Online Harassment · · Score: 1

    If you get worked into a frenzy by whichever moment the media chooses to show, you'll be always frenzied about different types of moments. If you care about the actual issue, stick with the issue and care about the moments with no coverage too.

  3. Re:It's bad, but it's not exclusive to women. on How To End Online Harassment · · Score: 1

    Media attention is like a fickle middle schooler with ADD. The problem won't go away when the media attention does. The only way to impact this issue is by accepting it's of a bigger scope and addressing it over the longer term.

  4. Re:It's bad, but it's not exclusive to women. on How To End Online Harassment · · Score: 1

    Why is gamergate (which is a horrible name, BTW. Not everything has to be paralleled to the GOP's break-in to a Democratic headquarters that happened in the 19 fucking seventies for fuck's sake) the big focus of all that is wrong with threats and misogyny on the Internet?

    This is a more general problem with more general roots than anything to do with the principle actors in this situation. You blame the people attacking this particular journalist at this particular time for picking their target specifically when there's in general a bigger problem in gaming journalism. I'm simply saying that beyond this one case of targeting specific people, there are other cases of "doxxing" (another loathesome word, by the way), threats, and general misanthrophy/misogyny/misandry all over the Internet.

    Getting these 4chan dwellers and other trash to leave these specific women alone is a victory, but it's a small and isolated one. Convincing a generation of maladjusted young men (and yes, it is mostly boys and young men although they target both men and women) of the terrible distastefulness and inappropriateness of their words and actions should be the long-term goal.

  5. It's bad, but it's not exclusive to women. on How To End Online Harassment · · Score: 1

    It's bad, but it's not exclusive to women. Anyone who hangs out in the filthy sewers of the Internet (4chan, parts of Reddit, many newspaper and magazine comment sections) knows that threats of beatings, killings, and rapes are common. They are commonly laid out against men by men. Yes, that includes rape. Most of it is idle posturing by mouth-breathing basement-dwelling mental juveniles many of whom are chronological juveniles as well.

    Could we please focus on the anti-social, violent nature of these threats and not label the entire Internet as misogynist pigs just because women are finding themselves included as targets?

  6. Re:Obama on President Obama Backs Regulation of Broadband As a Utility · · Score: 1

    The FCC is not Congress. It's an executive department under the aegis of the President, who is the chief of the Executive Branch. The courts already basically said the FCC is free to categorize ISPs as common carriers unless Congress passes a law to stop it. Read the Ars article about it.

    If they declare ISPs to be common carriers, then they can apply common carrier regulations on them. The problem with parts of the Open Internet Order was that they were applying common carrier regulations to ISPs without classifying them as common carriers beforehand. The FCC is free to do so under current laws. They just haven't done it.
     

  7. Re:Bullshit on President Obama Backs Regulation of Broadband As a Utility · · Score: 1

    Points on Slashdot are rarely mute, although they are sometimes moot.

  8. Re:Obama on President Obama Backs Regulation of Broadband As a Utility · · Score: 1

    Right now, if you don't like your Internet service, you often have to keep it. That includes if they discriminate based on who is sending you data.

  9. Re:Obama on President Obama Backs Regulation of Broadband As a Utility · · Score: 1

    ISDN was broadband. You could band as many PRIs together as you chose. One BRI to an office, well, that wasn't broadband. 30 or 40 PRIs muxed off a fiber was. A DS3 was. An OC-12 definitely was.

  10. What deity do he pray to that needs him to know? on Washington Dancers Sue To Prevent Identity Disclosure · · Score: 1

    What deity do he pray to that needs him to know the names? Most people who pray choose to pray to an all-knowing, all-seeing, everywhere all the time, all-powerful deity. Surely if he prays for them in general an omniscient, omnipresent, all-powerful deity could figure it out.

    This sounds like a ploy for a dirty stalker.

  11. Re:Team Fortress on Blizzard Announces Overwatch, a First-Person Shooter · · Score: 1

    It sort of looks to me like TF2 or any other arena team shooter (Q3 Arena, Unreal Tournament/UT2004, Nuclear Dawn, lots of others) but with characters more from DOTA. I like the idea of a shooter with these wacky powers.

    It's probably better than the alternative mix, too: a top-down, zone-of-control, resource renewal, last hit game where everyone runs around with a shotgun. I might give that a shot too, though.

  12. Re:The food pyramid screws you up and then... on Human Clinical Trials To Begin On Drug That Reverses Diabetes In Animal Models · · Score: 1

    How does the food pyramid exactly cause type I diabetes?

  13. Re:freedesktop.org on Debian's Systemd Adoption Inspires Threat of Fork · · Score: 1

    I work on servers with systemd as the init system. Yes, it's quite possible to run a server with it. It does things that in fact make much more sense for a desktop. It's not terrible, but it's moving away from the simplicity and modularity we've come to expect.

  14. freedesktop.org on Debian's Systemd Adoption Inspires Threat of Fork · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The distributions should be wary of putting all their eggs in the freedesktop.org basket. Not all systems are desktops, and they shouldn't rely on desktop features at the expense of their own roles.

  15. Savage 110? Ruger 700? Tikka T3? on No More Lee-Enfield: Canada's Rangers To Get a Tech Upgrade · · Score: 1

    It's bolt action. It's fairly accurate. It's available in .308 Winchester which means it should fire 7.62 NATO fine. IT's also available in .338 Lapua if that's preferred. It's under $1600 at single unit prices. The .338 has a box magazine.

    The Ruger 700 is under $900 in .308 and it can take a suppressor, muzzle brake, or flash hider on its threaded muzzle.

    The Tikka T3 CTR cost about $1000. It has a glass fiber-reinforced copolymer stock, a 10-round box magazine, an integrated picatinny rail, and a threaded muzzle.

    My choice would probably be the Tikka CTR which in volume pricing should be more than affordable.

  16. Re: a quick search on No More Lee-Enfield: Canada's Rangers To Get a Tech Upgrade · · Score: 1

    You underestimate how difficult it is to keep the Coke fluid in those climes. ;-)

  17. Lots of places on Ask Slashdot: Good Hosting Service For a Parody Site? · · Score: 1

    Some reasons for RPGs and MUDs being banned are that traditional MUDs are server systems rather than web apps, RPGs for the web tend to be heavy applications, they tend to be heavily trafficked, they tend to be poorly written and become security issues, the gamers tend to complain to the hosting company when things go wrong, they tend to get very spammy in their chat systems, and they tend to turn into command and control systems for malware if the people running them aren't careful and skilled. If you want to do something like an RPG, a dedicated server is really more appropriate than shared hosting.

    As for parody, any decent US ISP understands the DMCA and copyright law. The DMCA forces them to forward the complaint and to take things down after a certain amount of time if there's no response. Parody protects you in the courts. The DMCA makes pre-court demands of the hosting provider. They can lose their immunity from copyright suits if they don't cooperate lawfully. Just be prepared to challenge takedown notices.

    Other than a conforming DMCA takedown notice, any decent hosting provider shouldn't care as long as you're not a DDoS target and the content is lawful.

    You seem to be more concerned about defamation than DMCA. HostGator for one won't do anything about defamation claims until there's a court order. They'll shut your account down if you are a frequently repeated DDoS target on a shared server, though. They'll do what the law says they have to do when the DMCA is involved, though.

  18. Re:Designed in US, Built in EU, Filled in Iraq on Pentagon Reportedly Hushed Up Chemical Weapons Finds In Iraq · · Score: 1

    I was re-asking questions asked in the articles.

  19. Re:Designed in US, Built in EU, Filled in Iraq on Pentagon Reportedly Hushed Up Chemical Weapons Finds In Iraq · · Score: 3, Informative

    Honestly I think the edited summary flows better, but some of the information has been removed. The original is here, which you can also find by following the links through the user's username link and then clicking on "submissions" on the top left.

  20. Re:The hushing wasn't very effective on Pentagon Reportedly Hushed Up Chemical Weapons Finds In Iraq · · Score: 1

    How many times did you hear about US troops being injured when handling them? Or about them being disposed of by being detonated remotely without warnings to nearby villages? Or about some of them being still there, in Daiesh/ISIL areas?

    Is that all old news from during the war?

  21. Re:What a load of nonsense on Pentagon Reportedly Hushed Up Chemical Weapons Finds In Iraq · · Score: 4, Interesting

    That's really just the beginning of the story. Why the cover-up of US troops being injured by them? Why weren't they disposed of according to international accords on chemical weapons? Are we sure they were all destroyed before ISIL started scrounging old bases and ammo dumps?

    Here's the original submission. If you read the multiple articles linked from the original or edited summaries you'll see that just finding them was far from the end of the story.

  22. Re:Designed in US, Built in EU, Filled in Iraq on Pentagon Reportedly Hushed Up Chemical Weapons Finds In Iraq · · Score: 5, Interesting

    That wasn't missing in the summary as submitted, but editors will edit.

  23. Re:More nuclear waste? on Lockheed Claims Breakthrough On Fusion Energy Project · · Score: 1

    Actually tritium has a half-life of about a dozen years. This isn't plutonium we're talking about.

  24. Re:He tried patenting it... on Independent Researchers Test Rossi's Alleged Cold Fusion Device For 32 Days · · Score: 1

    You're giving 100 to 1 odds? On anything? How much can you cover?

  25. Re:critical point from the article on The $1,200 DIY Gunsmithing Machine · · Score: 1

    Most of the hype and publicity over gun control is the mass events, which are rare.

    Guns are designed to be weapons. Water heaters are not.

    The 60 or so (not 30 -- that's just form the explosions) deaths per year from a benign appliance that's in every home and workplace show that anything can go wrong.

    I assure you that once you buy a water heater there are a lot fewer legal controls over what you do with it than your firearm or your car. The manufacture of commercially built water heaters is highly regulated for safety, as it is with commercially built firearms. The plumbing industry is fairly well regulated, as is any role that requires carrying a firearm as part of the job description. Still, accidents happen in both areas.