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  1. Re: Propaganda much? on Surprising Support Among Americans For Purchasing Smart Guns (jhsph.edu) · · Score: 1

    Liberal, not authoritarian, unfortunately most who call themselves liberal don't know the difference.

  2. Propaganda much? on Surprising Support Among Americans For Purchasing Smart Guns (jhsph.edu) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This isn't a technology site anymore. It's a pro-central power mouthpiece and disseminator of propaganda.

  3. Called it! on Remix OS in Violation of GPL and Apache Licenses (tlhp.cf) · · Score: 0

    Seriously, these REMix guys should read Slashdot, it could save them some trouble.

  4. Re:"Social Justice" prevents good journalism. on Explaining the Lack of Quality Journalism In the Internet Age (gawker.com) · · Score: 1

    What's with Slashdot itself posting left-wing propaganda pieces?

  5. Re:"Social Justice" prevents good journalism. on Explaining the Lack of Quality Journalism In the Internet Age (gawker.com) · · Score: 1, Troll

    You're part of the SJW crowd.

  6. Re:Hoarding wealth on World Bank Says Internet Technology May Widen Inequality (nytimes.com) · · Score: 0

    "Hoarding" is not the problem.

    The problem is the newly generated "wealth" due to inflation goes to those that are already hoarding it - that money in a way is worth more than ours because economic inflation doesn't happen until they start spending, the value of those dollars doesn't go down until after they are spent. These people are always increasing in dollars "hoarded" even if they are spending - and spending it hurts the rest of us.

    The solution is to stop printing more, starve them into loss mode.

    The game is rigged.

  7. Cleaner? on Physicists Figure Out How To Make Cleaner Fuel Cells (eurekalert.org) · · Score: 1

    The waste from the Space Shuttle fuel cells was water and the astronauts drank it. It's part of the reason some of the last shuttle missions to the station involved putting the water recycling system in. Before the recycling system the shuttle dumped its waste water into the station tanks, dumping the water into space was one of the reentry protocols anyways.

  8. I may modify this to block cats. on Chrome Extension Offers Trump-Free Browsing (usnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Really - what's the obsession?

  9. John Dies at the End! on Reddit Is Banning Users That Post Star Wars 7 Spoilers (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    Was a thought provoking yet twisted movie that my wife utterly hated. So she got revenge on me by making me watch Melancholia.

  10. Re:THEN STOP HIRING COLLEGE GRADS! on IT Leaders Now Expected To Be Open To Open Source (enterprisersproject.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't know much about DeVry itself, I remember the commercials and what have you.

    I will say I think a vocational school is a better choice than a full on university anymore unless you just happen to have loaded parents. Go in, learn what you need, get a job, get out, get productive.

    If you want a college education I think it's better to wait until you're actually productive in your chosen field then get the degree when you're ready to become management. It also gives some of the brain washing and cultish mandatory "training" state funded schools and universities have a difficult time penetrating your mind.

  11. Re:THEN STOP HIRING COLLEGE GRADS! on IT Leaders Now Expected To Be Open To Open Source (enterprisersproject.com) · · Score: 1

    There is hope.

    My wife - who at 30 years old grew up during the worst of the M.S. propaganda years, that most people in her age range that realized it was B.S. propaganda went Apple (a better choice in some respects but worse lock-in and has it's own problems) has asked for Linux on her laptop. I'm going to put Netrunner Horizon on it tonight or the next night I have free time.

    My daughter who is 12 was given an HP Stream laptop with Windows 8 with Bing hated it with a passion. She had a Chromebook for school (not to mention a netbook with Linux all the way back to the age of 4 for movie purposes), she asked me for Linux. Considering her Chromebook past I put Chromixium on it. She loves it, and actually uses Firefox instead of the default Chome/Chromium.

    Granted being related to me they have more exposure to GNU/Linux than most people in their categories, but they also have exposure to Mac OS (the TV system is running on that, and I setup a G5 with kids games for my daughter when she was younger), and Windows from the world at large. There's hope, if they can jump on the GNU/Linux bandwagon the world at large is ready for it.

  12. Re:THEN STOP HIRING COLLEGE GRADS! on IT Leaders Now Expected To Be Open To Open Source (enterprisersproject.com) · · Score: 1

    No, but I never said CS. There are other parts of college that different software belongs to. I'm assuming the accounting students weren't walking around with soldering irons, but I'll be they were using Excel, and if we're limiting this discussion to the era I referred to Quatrro and Lotus 1-2-3 were not only viable "other" choices they were just as popular if not more so.

  13. Re: THEN STOP HIRING COLLEGE GRADS! on IT Leaders Now Expected To Be Open To Open Source (enterprisersproject.com) · · Score: 1

    Say what you will, buy the guy who hired me bragged that I was the best hiring choice he ever made, then proceeded to look at my ISP background as what made me good. He then started pulling from the former ISP pool with mixed results.

    I started out on an 8 man team that got whittled down due to structure changes and was working alone for a year at the end on that job. Say what you will about my personality but it got me employee of the month at a multinational this year as well as being featured otherwise. BTW, the tech guy at a non tech company got that title.

      No, the oil company used Front Page for their internal sites, had Microsoft nearly everything and the attitudes we're immediately changed towards me upon the first mention of replacing an NT box that only recorded and transmitted measurements but crashed all the time with a reliable simple Linux system. I am not a soft pushover but I am fair and friendly. When someone is getting kickbacks and you threaten that their attitudes change.

  14. THEN STOP HIRING COLLEGE GRADS! on IT Leaders Now Expected To Be Open To Open Source (enterprisersproject.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I've been in I.T. since about 1997.

    I've been pushing for Open Source acceptance almost just as long.

    What has stood in my way? College grads. Turns out schools in the 90's and 00's were fed Microsoft money and free software to teach the likes of Microsoft servers and Front Page. When I mentioned the word "Linux" at a large oil company around a decade ago I was branded a heretic and nothing I said on any subject was taken seriously by project managers or developers who were on the M.S. Gravy Train during that era from that point forward - even when the subject was along the lines of electrical engineering and had nothing to do with software. Turns out I was right on that one too.

    Just like web developers from that era who didn't go to college wrote the best web pages because they shunned Front Page server/network guys who didn't go to college had a leg up from not being taught bad habits. Pair that up with the modern PC (not the computer type) culture being taught at school you're pretty much guaranteed a brainwashed in multiple ways spineless slug if you hire a college grad, whereas a self starter got a real education in the school of hard knocks.

    Those people like software without agendas.

  15. GPL Violation? on Remix Mini Review: a $70 Android Desktop PC (liliputing.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Was going to load up RemixOS on a VM to try it out, looked at the website found this:

    Disclaimer: Remix OS is only licensed to authorized business partners and pre-loaded on specific product models of those partners;it's not intended for personal use.

    I know they have their part of the software that doesn't have to be GPL, but the rest has to be released. Scrutinize....

  16. Re:No, it wasn't. on Arkansas Has a Growing Population of "Climate Change Refugees" · · Score: 1

    If we don't call out the obvious hypocrisy by making smart-assed comments the oppressors win.

    BTW, the science is settled. Then it was again. Oh then they changed it and settled it again.....

    Yes it's climate change.

    Yes it's always happened.

    No it's different now.

  17. Re:Wait - 1970's wasn't that global cooling time? on Arkansas Has a Growing Population of "Climate Change Refugees" · · Score: 1

    Oh trust me. I've paid really close attention.

  18. Wait - 1970's wasn't that global cooling time? on Arkansas Has a Growing Population of "Climate Change Refugees" · · Score: 0

    Seems like there would be an opposite effect in the 70's if we're supposed to be worried about heating flooding the earth, shouldn't cooling have the opposite effect? There's quite a few news stories on it and what do you know - they even say the same thing the zealots are saying now! We're going to have to give up our freedom over it!

  19. Re:Surprised? on George Lucas: "I'm Done With Star Wars" · · Score: 1

    Perhaps I got a first release or something? I know that the actual movie DVD's had a sample level of Lego Star Wars for the original XBox on them.

  20. Re:Surprised? on George Lucas: "I'm Done With Star Wars" · · Score: 2

    I have these disks. Despite having bought the wide-screen trilogy the bonus disks were full frame.

  21. Re:Why are Slashdot Editors obsessed on Could a Change In Wording Attract More Women To Infosec? (csoonline.com) · · Score: 1

    I would argue trying to manipulate women - as this article suggest we should do - is far from feminism. It's all in the name of collectivism of course.

  22. Why are Slashdot Editors obsessed on Could a Change In Wording Attract More Women To Infosec? (csoonline.com) · · Score: 1

    with getting women to do what they don't want to do?

    Namely work in STEM fields.

  23. Re:The leftist agenda on Grow Your Daily Protein At Home With an Edible Insect Desktop Hive · · Score: 1

    That was nasty.

    That film stands out, not as a good movie, it really wasn't all that great, but it had some serious holding and contemplation power.

  24. Re:The leftist agenda on Grow Your Daily Protein At Home With an Edible Insect Desktop Hive · · Score: 2

    I'm sure this is covered by Agenda 21 somehow.....

  25. As an avid Humble Bundle buyer, on ISP To Court: BitTorrent Usage Doesn't Equal Piracy (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    I have to agree. I get my books, movies, and whatever else I buy from the Humble Bundle (that isn't a video game) using torrents. 100% legit and paid for.