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  1. Simple 2 step process on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Deal With Aggressive Forum Users? · · Score: 1

    1. Use a forum's ignore feature
    2. Grow a thicker skin when someone says a mean thing online.

  2. I wish I could call him the greatest industrialist on Elon Musk Says He'll Start Digging a Tunnel From SpaceX HQ Next Month (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    But, to be honest, beyond colonizing mars, building electric cars, a solar future, and high-speed, vaccuum tunnels, he is missing the one important part of being a motivated industrialist: storing his urine in jars. I mean, the Spruce Goose flew for sure, but let's face it, Howard Hughes wasn't legendary until he started bottling his urine.

  3. I don't think you know what you doing

  4. Re:Yeah, I'm sure that'll be a success on Apple Planning To Make Original TV Shows and Movies as Hardware Sales Soften (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    Each show will feature bearded hipsters from San Francisco, dialog about organic food, and indie music from pitchfork.

  5. Re:Meanhile Gog still has unencrypted games on 'Forza Horizon 3' Update Accidentally Published Unencrypted Build of the Game (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    The decryption of an executable into memory is most likely not the cause of terrible framerates in games.

  6. Psychiatric medications are awesome on Are Psychiatric Medications Hurting More Patients Than They Help? (scientificamerican.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I suffer from anxiety and depression that runs in my family. I used to be afraid to enter a building if there were other people in it, this invisible wall kept me from doing things I enjoyed, and I would often feel worthless, despite having a decent lifestyle with what could only be described as first world problems. Anxiety attacks that felt like either a heart attack or this sense of impending death occured almost every day. These do not occur due to some sort of emotional trigger. I tried exercise, eating healthy, and relaxing. There was some benefit, but nothing that stopped the anxiety attacks. Sertraline has been life changing for me. I'm able to go outside, I'm less nervous in large groups or around strangers, and I'm more accepting of both my gifts and my shortcoming. I haven't had an anxiety attack for years. I don't miss having one. The only major side effect is that I have to pee a lot, and I get nauseous if I miss a dose, but I'm willing to make that trade off. I wish I could go back in time and reclaim 10 more years prior to starting zoloft. I recommend that critics of psychiatric medication watch Stephen Fry's "The Secret Life of a Manic Depressive" or listen to the experiences of people who rely on those medications before making blanket statements of "useless" or some conspiratorial claim.

  7. If he's contemplating suicide on Wikipedia Editor Says Site's Toxic Community Has Him Contemplating Suicide (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    He should seek professional help to work through things. However, the whole "a bunch of people online behaving like children makes me want to kill myself" is just blaming others for one's own problems and seems like attention seeking.

  8. Slashdot isn't dead until Netcraft confirms it.

  9. Nobody likes a tattle-tale on Oklahoma Video Vigilante Uses Drone To Wage War Against Prostitutes and Johns (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    This guy seems like a nosey neighbor that everyone else on the block hates.

  10. Re:Unearned Platforms Given to Moral Guardians on Video Gamers From the '90s Have Turned Out Mostly OK (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Her claims that "poor representations of women in games make people harm women in real life" was basically stated by her as well during her "male power fantasy" claims.

  11. Re:Unearned Platforms Given to Moral Guardians on Video Gamers From the '90s Have Turned Out Mostly OK (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    That may be the case, however she still firmly believes that everything is sexist and racist.

  12. Re:Unearned Platforms Given to Moral Guardians on Video Gamers From the '90s Have Turned Out Mostly OK (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I double posted because my phone is stupid. Disregard this please.

  13. Re:Unearned Platforms Given to Moral Guardians on Video Gamers From the '90s Have Turned Out Mostly OK (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I read her transcript. She firmly believes that everything is sexist and racist; however she claims to have learned to be less whiny and annoying about it.

  14. Re: Unearned Platforms Given to Moral Guardians on Video Gamers From the '90s Have Turned Out Mostly OK (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I read her transcript. She isn't suggesting at all that people "grow out of it." She firmly states that every power system is sexist and racist ( as a belief,) and that she learned to strategically choose her battles.

  15. Why was the coin used double sided on Perfect Coin-Toss Record Broke 6 Clinton-Sanders Deadlocks In Iowa (marketwatch.com) · · Score: 1

    And why was it Hillary's head on the coin?

  16. I tested this, it gets worse than the headline on Running "rm -rf /" Is Now Bricking Linux Systems (phoronix.com) · · Score: 1

    Not only did it erase the firmware on my motherboard, it also deleted all of my files!

  17. Why is this a gendered issue in the comments. on Linux Kernel Dev Sarah Sharp Quits, Citing 'Brutal' Communications Style · · Score: 1

    I didn't see any part Sarah's post that brought gender into this, and it immediately people started making assumptions of such.

  18. Re:armchair activism on Another Pharma Company Recaptures a Generic Medication · · Score: 1

    Aren't you SJW types supposed to be against tone policing?

  19. Re:So What on Genetic Access Control Code Uses 23andMe DNA Data For Internet Racism · · Score: 1

    I would argue that vying for gender segregated websites under is quite sexist in and of itself.

  20. It's just a piezoelectric film on Transparent Paper Produces Power With Just a Touch · · Score: 1

    And people on Youtube have also already lit up LED's using piezoelectric generators as well.

  21. Don't borrow money if you can't pay it back on Writer: "Why I Defaulted On My Student Loans" · · Score: 1

    I think it's important that people view college as less of a necessity, and more of a way to earn a degree to pursue a career. If the starting career salary, or salary increase long-term won't allow for a lifestyle that can pay back any money borrowed, then borrowing money to begin with is not the best idea. Some of my peers took gen-ed classes at a community college, to save on tuition. I really wish I was smart enough back then to do that, or that the college prep advisors in my high school had suggested such. I also believe that this author does have career opportunities that would allow him to pay back part of his financial obligations, and he chooses to be a deadbeat about it, and that he shouldn't have attended an expensive school.

  22. This explains the anti-piracy ad I saw yesterday on Bell Media President Says Canadians Are 'Stealing' US Netflix Content · · Score: 1

    You wouldn't purchase a handbag. You wouldn't purchase a car. You wouldn't purchase a television. You wouldn't pay royalties to see a movie. Watching content you've paid for is a crime.

  23. The good outweights the bad on The World Is Not Falling Apart · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The big thing that is worse, I think, is economic inequality, and I do think that is something that needs to be worked on. However, the world has less racism, less homophobia, better medicine, cheap and fast global communications, inexpensive computing devices that can perform amazing computations, and put the shoe phone from "Get Smart" to shame,. Not to mention that violent crime and rape are at their lowest level since the 70's. The world is an awesome place now.

  24. Re:Out with the old... or not? on French Cabbies Say They'll Block Paris Roads On Monday Over Uber · · Score: 1

    The existing taxi system is based on crony protectionism via government regulation. I would love to see it go just for that reason.

  25. Baseball parents on Dad Makes His Kid Play Through All Video Game History In Chronological Order · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You know those crazy parents that make their kids go to baseball camps, practice several hours a week, and try to talk over the teams coach. Yeah, this guy is that kind of parent.