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  1. Nothing has changed on Is It Time To Rethink the Fundamental Dynamics of Twitter? (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    > "log in and see content relevant to your interest"

    That sure as hell sounds like creating echo chambers to me - which is exactly the opposite of what is needed for meaningful discourse. The latter is what Twitter *should* be promoting if it actually cares one iota about abuse and misinformation, but of course it doesn't; it just cares about talking the talk so it can continue raking in ad money.

  2. Re:definition of terms first on Are Silicon Valley Workers Abandoning Libertarianism For Socialism? (salon.com) · · Score: 1

    To be fair, those replaceable cogs aren't in Silicon Valley, they're in India or various other cheap third-world countries.

  3. Re:definition of terms first on Are Silicon Valley Workers Abandoning Libertarianism For Socialism? (salon.com) · · Score: 0

    A person who doesn't understand basic grammar (hint: it's "your" possessive, not "you are" contraction) calling someone else ignorant. Classic.

  4. Re:Civil War on Are America's Big Telecom Companies Suppressing Fiber? (salon.com) · · Score: 1

    The descent will stop once most people stop thinking that way and realize that they're all Americans even if they may hold different viewpoints.

    So never, in other words.

  5. Re:No, government is. on Are America's Big Telecom Companies Suppressing Fiber? (salon.com) · · Score: 1

    But Libertarians hate to admit to those, as they are natural market failure mechanisms, and they don't like to admit that the market can have inherent failure modes.

    It's not so much as they won't admit to problems as they can't. Because if they admit to one, they admit to all, and the foundations of libertarianism are really fucking shaky, even for a theoretical system of government.

  6. Because white nationalists aren't aiming to make a whites-only nation. I seem to remember a guy who wanted to do that around 1940, just can't remember his name.

    You apologists would be adorable for your inability to exhibit basic logic, if the fact that you're allowed to vote wasn't so terrifying.

  7. https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Globalresearch

    Whenever someone makes a remarkable claim and cites GlobalResearch, they are almost certainly wrong.

    Here's an unpopular opinion for you: the USSR collapsed because the foundations behind its facade had rotted beyond their ability to support said facade, and the fallout from that collapse are still being felt today.

  8. After which, the apologists show up to defend appalling behaviour by claiming "it's just joke bro". Tell you what, I'll shoot you in your face and tell you I'm trolling you, and we'll see how you feel about that.

  9. If you wear the Klan hood for any reason, you are a shit human being who deserves to experience exactly the kind of vile things that the Klan wants to do to non-white people.

  10. And the problem is that Trumpanzees like you don't possess the cranial capacity to consider *why* that association is made.

  11. Re:Third-world country on Are America's Big Telecom Companies Suppressing Fiber? (salon.com) · · Score: 1

    We really shouldn't use Texas laws as anything like an example for the rest of the country.

    They are very useful as an example of what *not* to do!

  12. Re:While unpopular, I'm not 100% against on Congress is About To Ban the Government From Offering Free Online Tax Filing (propublica.org) · · Score: 1

    Capitalism at its finest: create an industry that doesn't need to exist, so that said industry can get rich by taking taxpayers' money, and convincing useful idiots like yourself that perpetuating said industry is the best option "because it creates jerbs". What the fuck is a luddite like you doing on a technology website?

  13. Re:Windows 10 Compromised by Default on Microsoft: Windows 10 Devices Open To 'Full Compromise' From Huawei PC Driver (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    You're the one making bullshit conspiracy theorist claims that make you sound like a Stallman sockpuppet, so I think the onus is on you to prove you understand computer security, as opposed to being online Linux fanboy #10554546.

  14. Re:Well, this is scary on Salon: Republicans Are Launching Fake Local News Sites To Spread 'Propaganda' (salon.com) · · Score: 0

    BUT
    HER
    EMAILS

  15. Re:Well, this is scary on Salon: Republicans Are Launching Fake Local News Sites To Spread 'Propaganda' (salon.com) · · Score: 0

    If any of that was possible within the current political climate, it would already have been done. Fact is that unless you've got enough money to have your name up in lights often enough to remind people to vote for you, you ain't gonna get their votes. And the only way to get that money, is by selling out. The American Dream in its final, purest form. Welcome to rampant capitalism.

  16. Re:Russia-Gate fell apart. on Salon: Republicans Are Launching Fake Local News Sites To Spread 'Propaganda' (salon.com) · · Score: 1

    So verifiable facts are straws now? That does go a long way to explain how the GOP continues to appeal to its voters...

  17. Except that's not what the article is about. Perhaps you should consider returning to school, since you evidently failed reading comprehension.

  18. Re:When did slashdot become used as a political si on Salon: Republicans Are Launching Fake Local News Sites To Spread 'Propaganda' (salon.com) · · Score: 1

    When did Slashdot become filled with right-wing Trump lover dipshits who try to discredit factual reporting by playing the "partisan politics" card?

  19. 1.4.2 is ancient history on Elasticsearch Clusters Face Attacks From Multiple Hacker Groups (csoonline.com) · · Score: 0

    ES is currently on version 6 and v7 is in beta. If you are still running version 1, you deserve anything that happens to you.

  20. Slashdot, get a competent editor on Alaska Airlines Trials Virtual Reality On Some Flights (pcmag.com) · · Score: 0

    No, airlines are not "trailing" VR. I believe you meant "trialling".

  21. Re: "I have friends who own coal mines..." on White House Proposal Rolls Back Fuel Economy Standards, No Exception For California (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    > Therefore your entire premise is wrong.

    And you're dishonest. No corporation is going to produce a more efficient vehicle, because it costs money to do that research which eats into their profit. This is why governments need to exist, why government regulations need to exist, and why libertarianism is nonsense: it is necessary to force companies to do the right thing.

    Unfortunately, when you get corrupt governments that abuse this power to benefit themselves, you have a problem. But I wonder who the libertarians voted for in 2016, hmmm?

  22. Microsoft, get your damn house in order on Windows 10 To Use Machine Learning in Latest Attempt To Make Reboots Less Annoying (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 0

    This auto-reboot idiocy is the single biggest reason why people *and enterprises* are avoiding Windows 10. You've had how many fucking years to get kernel hotswapping updating working, and you haven't done it, and now you need it and your solution is to force people to reboot? That's just plain idiotic.

    Just put the damn updater back to Windows 7's model - you know, the one where it asks you first - and we can stop this stupidity. Is it really that difficult? Seriously?

    If you don't fix this bloody mess you are never going to get the adoption you want, it's that simple. Come 2020, when Win7 goes EOL, I can forsee a number of very painful legal challenges as Win10 is the only upgrade option but it could easily be construed as not fit for purpose due to its rebooting nonsense.

    Just FIX IT, Microsoft. Why is that too much to ask?

    - a Windows user since 98 SE who is very very tired of Microsoft's bullshit around what used to be their best product

  23. Re:Why does Ireland have a "National Investment Fu on Ireland Becomes World's First Country To Divest From Fossil Fuels (theguardian.com) · · Score: 0

    *sniff* *sniff* I smell a libertarian.

  24. Re:We wouldn't on Firefox and the 4-Year Battle To Have Google To Treat It as a First-Class Citizen (zdnet.com) · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    You eternally-Microsoft-blaming mouth breathers are as bad as Republicans who blame Obama.

  25. Do you know what else is a safety risk? Rockets... on Could SpaceX Rocket Technology Put Lives At Risk? (chicagotribune.com) · · Score: 2

    Manned rocketry involves attaching humans to what is essentially a controlled explosion. There is always going to be a risk in this, regardless of when you trigger that explosion.