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  1. The cost of anti-terrorism on Germanwings Plane Crash Was No Accident · · Score: 2

    So now one plane has been destroyed as the direct result of anti-terrorism measures; in this case, the relatively uncontroversial hardening of the cockpit doors.

  2. I think I know her fashion sense on Child Psychotherapist: Easy and Constant Access To the Internet Is Harming Kids · · Score: 1

    She habitually wears pearls. And she's clutching them right now.

  3. Re:Couldn't have happened. on Online "Swatting" Becomes a Hazard For Gamers Who Play Live On the Internet · · Score: 2

    It must be SO HARD being a white male!

    It was until I got my Patriarchy Card. Not only does it allow me to commit rape, lynch blacks, and cut the line at Disney World, it also gets me 20% off at Applebees.

  4. Couldn't have happened. on Online "Swatting" Becomes a Hazard For Gamers Who Play Live On the Internet · · Score: -1, Troll

    It appears the swatting victim here was a white male gamer. I have it on good authority that white male gamers are always the perpetrators and never the victims. Therefore this story is a fabrication of the patriarchy meant to distract from the horrors being inflicted on women and people of color. Like being mentioned on twitter.

  5. Re:Flip it. on A Software Project Full of "Male Anatomy" Jokes Causes Controversy · · Score: 1

    Somebody did write clit (also known as "convert lit") -- it was a project to remove the DRM from Microsoft Reader books. Since it was different times when the group now known as SJWs were on the wane, and no one ever cared about Microsoft Reader anyway, it got relatively little hate.

  6. Needs a honeypot on Islamic State Doxes US Soldiers, Airmen, Calls On Supporters To Kill Them · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The military needs to post a few names and addresses themselves. They'll look like regular houses but they'll actually be guard posts. If anyone shows up and starts shooting, they end up dead.

  7. Re:And the almond trees die. on How 'Virtual Water' Can Help Ease California's Drought · · Score: 2

    Or bite the bullet and build massive pipelines all the way across the country. Or desalinization plants and shorter pipelines I suppose. Of course, both projects require ridiculous amounts of energy, labor, and land, and as a result haven't really been feasible since the 1930s.

  8. Re:Doesn't matter on Chevy Malibu 'Teen Driver' Tech Will Snitch If You Speed · · Score: 1

    What makes you think anything has changed? Teenagers are still going to drive like teenagers (sure, the spoiled brats will be worse, but not the only problems) and they still have more time and motivation to figure out things like this than their parents, even if their parents are tech-savvy.

  9. Re:Doesn't matter on Chevy Malibu 'Teen Driver' Tech Will Snitch If You Speed · · Score: 3, Informative

    Spoiled brats don't have to deal with consequences. Spoiled brats will drive like assholes.

    My first car was a piece of shit and I still drove it like I stole it. And if my parents had a technology like this one, I'd have had to explain to them how to set it up.

  10. Re:Oh, *BRILLIANT* on Fake Suicide Attempt Tests Facebook Prevention Tool, Lands Man In Asylum · · Score: 1

    While it makes sense to have the Authorities to look at and interview the victim^Hsoftware tester, putting a 72 hour mental health hold on someone is hard.

    No it isn't, at least not in Pennsylvania. You just need a mental health professional to sign a paper saying the person is a danger to themselves or others

  11. Re:My $0.02 on Some Biodegradable Plastics Don't Live Up To Their Claims · · Score: 1

    20 years ago, my house was made of biodegradable wood. It is still usable today.

    Yeah. Because it was coated in plastic or some other non-degradable substance.

  12. Re:2 substantial reasons to not allow cloning on Lawsuit Over Quarter Horse's Clone May Redefine Animal Breeding · · Score: 1

    No, insubstantial difference. That is, if the "bloodline" is a shorthand for real physical things, cloning does not break it. If it's some sort of nonphysical woo, sure, cloning could break it, but nonphysical woo isn't real.

    If they want to make arbitrary rules for their horse-breeding game, I'm fine with that. But I'm not going to pretend they're anything but arbitrary rules.

  13. Of course there's proper English on Why There Is No Such Thing as 'Proper English' · · Score: 4, Interesting

    However, it has nothing to do with purity. English is famously a language which mugs other languages for their vocabulary. But just because it is impure and inconsistent doesn't mean it doesn't exist.

  14. Re:Of course! on Prison Program Aims To Turn Criminals Into Coders · · Score: 1

    I saw that article, but while it claims the numbers are from the DoJ, there's no cite and the link is dead. I'm fairly sure it's referring to the same study and the interpretation of the number has been perverted.

  15. Re:Of course! on Prison Program Aims To Turn Criminals Into Coders · · Score: 4, Informative

    Appears to be false; the statistic of 40% relates to the percentage of American men who have been arrested by age 23, not the percentage of working-age Americans with a criminal record. It includes juvenile arrests for status offenses (e.g. truancy, underaged drinking) and also arrests for which there was no conviction.

    I've been arrested (twice, even), and I do not have a "criminal record". First arrest all charges were dropped and the arrest record expunged, second arrest was for a matter not rising to the level of a criminal offense (NYC ordinance "violation"); I took adjournment in contemplation of dismissal (does not require an admission of guilt).

  16. Re:2 substantial reasons to not allow cloning on Lawsuit Over Quarter Horse's Clone May Redefine Animal Breeding · · Score: 1

    Also, to all the people harping on the blood comment: You know what they mean. You also know they do not mean it the way you are trying to portray it. AQHA breeders know far more equine biology than you so quit trying to show your superiority through snark and lack of reading comprehension.

    I know what they mean, but I also know it is meaningless. There is no real "bloodline" which is broken by cloning; the foal of a clone has the same grandsire and granddam as the original.

  17. Re:Your justice system is flawed, too. on How To Execute People In the 21st Century · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The only real term in a "social contract" is "Society (i.e. the government) may change the terms of this contract in any way, at any time, prospectively or retrospectively, and the individuals all remain bound by it."

    In other words, it's bunk.

  18. It can't speed on Self-Driving Car Will Make Trip From San Francisco To New York City · · Score: 1

    Ergo, it'll never make it through New Jersey unless it's on manual 90+% of the time.

  19. Re:But that's the problem... on Ask Slashdot: Why Does Science Appear To Be Getting Things Increasingly Wrong? · · Score: 1

    Only problem with your link is meta-analyses are shit.

  20. Re:STL on Was Linus Torvalds Right About C++ Being So Wrong? · · Score: 1

    push_back is the old way. It's now emplace_back, to construct the value directly in the vector rather than constructing it and then copying it.

  21. Re: The moan of sour grapes on Reactions to the New MacBook and Apple Watch · · Score: 2

    The point of a Rolex is to advertise to the world that you are made of money. Personally I wouldn't want anything on my wrist that is worth more than my hand

    I don't know about you, but if I had to pay $10,000 to save my hand, I would. Or $40,000 for that matter.

  22. C++ is shit on Was Linus Torvalds Right About C++ Being So Wrong? · · Score: 1

    and I say this as a professional C++ programmer. Nothing is straightforward. There are many ways to do anything, and every one of them has edge cases which don't do what you expect. It's got classes, templates, and functional stuff, all of which has bad syntax and works poorly together. It's got two things going for it, inertia from existing codebases and lack of any better on-the-metal language (unless you're willing to restrict yourself to C, which seems like a good idea much of the time).

    Ask a C++ compiler implementor about it sometime.

  23. Re:When in Rome on Facebook Rant Lands US Man In UAE Jail · · Score: 2

    The question of US jurisdiction over Sklyarov's actions was never litigated, because a deal was arranged wherein the charges against Sklyarov would be dropped in exchange for his testimony against Elcomsoft, his employer. Elcomsoft was then acquitted at trial.

  24. Seems like he's cool on Former MLB Pitcher Doxes Internet Trolls, Delivers Real-World Consequences · · Score: 5, Informative

    The guys who were just messing around with stuff like "Can't wait to date her!" he responded in kind, and the people who were total shits he took the gloves off with.

  25. Re:Same deal as Petraeus? on Snowden Reportedly In Talks To Return To US To Face Trial · · Score: 2

    Snowden is guilty of turning over a detailed review of our internal security apparatus to our national enemies

    I'm not a great fan of the Guardian either, but "national enemies" is going too far.