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  1. Re: Terrible - Assange is great on Ecuador Will Be Handing Assange Over To UK Authorities 'In Coming Weeks Or Days': RT (express.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    After embarrassing Bush and Clinton, along with many leaders of all political stripes, the people who defend Assange now are the truly principled.

  2. Journalism industry's war on people on The Tech Industry's War On Kids (curry.com) · · Score: 1

    If the production of content based on analysis of consumer behavior can be cast as "war", then nothing can mean anything.

  3. Liquid extracts are serums. Although fruits already have their own word. Sweetened Diluted Almond Serum? Not as appetizing for sure.

  4. High density superstructure on Is the Earth's Mantle Full of Diamonds? (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    of a starkiller base

  5. ...in not getting randomly raided by Chinese authorities on a regular basis.

  6. Re: Do you ask a carpenter for advice on postwar r on In the Trump Administration, Science Is Unwelcome. So Is Advice. (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    *postwar reconstruction

    No hard character limit on the mobile site.

  7. Do you ask a carpenter for advice on postwar recon on In the Trump Administration, Science Is Unwelcome. So Is Advice. (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    One imagines that psychoanalysts and cultural experts and perhaps defected army officers would be those who might provide relevant insights to help in the denuclearization negotiations. Physicists not so much.

    "Oh so the bomb uses an IMplosive mechanism to trigger the critical mass! Oh NOW I know what to say to Kim in the next meeting, we've been doing it all wrong!"

  8. Fuck Everything on Apple May Introduce a Triple-Camera iPhone This Year (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 0

    We're doing five cameras.

  9. Needs direct download APK on Pornhub Launches VPNhub, Its Own Virtual Private Network App (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    Some people need a VPN just to access the Google Play Store, and are some of the folks who are in most need of a VPN service. If they can only get it from the Play Store links, they're out of luck.

  10. Re:Roblimo on "Geeks in Space" on Robin "Roblimo" Miller, a Long-Time Voice of the Linux Community, Has Passed Away (wikipedia.org) · · Score: 1

    First thing I went to search for when I saw this article. GIS was part of the reason why I got hooked on /. and I'm glad it was able to preserve a bit of Roblimo for us.

  11. People buying GPUs and returning bricks on Amazon Is Banning People For Making Too Many Returns (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    Actual cement blocks. I for one have no sympathy for them.

  12. Race to maximum fragility on Twitter Will Start Hiding Tweets That 'Detract From the Conversation' (slate.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    By operating at a lower threshold for offense-taking than your opponents, and reporting them at a greater rate than they do you, you can leverage the apparent functional criteria of Twitter's "anti-troll" algorithm to your own ends. The race to maximum fragility has begun. Shed your tears freely and rest not those report buttons, as they are ammunition in the war for visibility.

  13. The deep state doesn't exist on Justice Department, FBI Are Investigating Cambridge Analytica (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 0, Troll

    But unelected people will chase any wild goose to try to get Trump on a technicality. The collusion investigation that was supposed to find communication between Trump and Putin now has, as it's MOST damning evidence, a guy who left the election campaign early on and whose indicted crime was having dodged taxes years before the campaign even began. Now a violation of privacy by a British firm is being argued as the next piece of evidence for the supposed Trump-Putin collusion. That is pure non sequitur if ever there was any. Not to mention that if Trump were indeed colluding with Putin, it would have been easier to have gotten the FSB to hack Facebook and give Trump's campaign access to all the data.

  14. Re: White Helmets funded by US State Dept. on Russian Fake News Ecosystem Targets Syrian Human Rights Workers (securityledger.com) · · Score: 1

    lol 4million+ user id calling me a shill

  15. White Helmets funded by US State Dept. on Russian Fake News Ecosystem Targets Syrian Human Rights Workers (securityledger.com) · · Score: 0

    Of course US will say they're the good guys and Russia will say they're the bad guys. Who is right? There are no independent journalists on the ground. You will never know.

    Faith is all you have to go on.

  16. Re: Nobel Peace Prize Winner on Two Koreas Agree To End War This Year, Pursue Denuclearization (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    [x] Not be Bush.
    [_] Chant "Yes we can" during a campaign.
    [_] Drone strike a bunch of people.

    Trump hasn't met all the criteria for the Peace Prize yet, I'm afraid.

  17. Don't forget the media constantly referring to those without a college degree as "uneducated" voters.

    And they'll in the same article laud the "highly educated" voters, which encompasses PhD 's in literary criticism and gender bullshittery but does not encompass BSc's in physics or math.

    Ah yes, we should all aspire to not be "uneducated", and to strive to be "highly educated".

  18. One of the first articles about the Clinton/DNC funding issue, back in early spring of 2016:
    https://www.politico.com/story...

    It was largely ignored by the mainstream news outlets. Even *neutral* NPR waited until June before finally mentioning it, and then only referencing it passing in an article about something completely different.

    Compare that to now, where we have a new article every day referencing Cambridge Analytica.

  19. Re:Dichotomy on Trump Signs Law Weakening Shield For Online Services (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    You are correct, but I've been told that witty ripostes pointing out hypocrisy falls in the realm of Whataboutism.

  20. CPU isn't the bottleneck for Jane/Joe on Ask Slashdot: Should CPU, GPU Name-Numbering Indicate Real World Performance? · · Score: 1

    Just convince them that the HDD option isn't worth the $100 in savings.

  21. WTF 4chan meme are too realistic! on Facebook Begins 'Fact-Checking' Photos, Videos (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    I hate photoshopped memes now... we need to put an end to this. This stopped being funny after we shopped all those memes to make fun of Obama's opponents.

  22. lol Tumblrina Trump voters? on Tumblr Takes Down 84 Russia-Linked Accounts (thehill.com) · · Score: 1

    What's next, Geocities Takes down 23 Russia-linked accounts? My sides.

  23. The Anarchist Cookbook Then vs Gun Videos Now on YouTube Bans Firearms Demo Videos, Entering the Gun Control Debate (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Remember supporting the freedom of information even though "the bad guys" might also find it?

    Remember when ISPs and server operators did it we called it censorship just as if the government had done it?

    Remember when geeks showed finesse rather than imposed their will with a hammer?

    Anyone remember?

    Nah?

  24. Re: One sided debate on YouTube Bans Firearms Demo Videos, Entering the Gun Control Debate (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Nice bait but Free Speech is not synonymous with First Amendment

  25. Re: Musings from selfish people on What Image Should Represent All of Humanity On Wikipedia? (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    How would one depict a human form that's simultaneously fat and skinny, simultaneously disabled and not disabled, simultaneously tall and short, simultaneously bald and not bald, simultaneously big breast and small breast, etc.? I guess we can make one of those kids toy hologram stickers. Imagine an alien scientist in a top secret alien military lab flipping and turning a hologram sticker scratching his head going "wtf are these humans trying to say?" while his alien leaders are breathing down his neck for a quick explanation. Holy shit fucking Wikipedia busybodies with nothing better to do are going to get that alien dude fired. Fuck.