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  1. George Carlin: I don't believe anything the govern on US Bombs ISIS Command Center After Terrorist Posts Selfie Online · · Score: 2

    George Carlin weighed in on such issues, "I don't believe anything the government tells me." https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

    This is a really cute story about why they blew up some building in another country. Oh, and it's a completely unverifiable story, too. It's kind of like when Clinton blew up that pharmaceutical factory. There was never really any evidence it was producing chemical weapons. But it was a good story to tell. It sounds better than "we caused ten of thousands of Sudanese to die, in a terrorist retaliation for the embassy bombings." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A...

  2. Re:To the U.S. gov, it has now become on US Bombs ISIS Command Center After Terrorist Posts Selfie Online · · Score: 1

    Very true.

  3. Or they're lying on US Bombs ISIS Command Center After Terrorist Posts Selfie Online · · Score: 2

    I see no reason to believe the Air Force is telling the truth about this.

  4. Or pharmaceutical factory? on US Bombs ISIS Command Center After Terrorist Posts Selfie Online · · Score: 1

    The US government tells tales. I'm sure they are announcing this as the alibi for a crime. Just like Al-Shifa was supposedly making weapons, and they never really provided much evidence for that. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  5. If the government says it, it must be true... on US Bombs ISIS Command Center After Terrorist Posts Selfie Online · · Score: 1

    We'll never know why they blew up this building or if there were terrorists in it. They are probably announcing it as an alibi for a crime. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  6. Dumb Slashdotters on The Reason For Java's Staying Power: It's Easy To Read · · Score: 3, Insightful

    This is an article about why Java has decent staying power, not about why it is the perfect language, nor most readable language possible. The article does not say people will be using Java in 1,0000 years. But Java became popular and continues to have strong staying power for an old language. There are reasons for that, even if it isn't your cup of tea.

  7. Fucking Dice.com on Choosing the Right IDE · · Score: 1

    Slashdot, please stop posting stories that come from dice.com. Thanks.

  8. My musical tastes keep expanding on What Happens To Our Musical Taste As We Age? · · Score: 1

    While it's true that I am less interested in chart toppers, I am always moving and finding new styles of music. More extreme metal, folk, classical, jazz, blues, rap. I have much more diverse tastes than when I was young. And I do like new music if I think it's good.

  9. Don't let them snatch your phone! on What To Say When the Police Tell You To Stop Filming Them · · Score: 1

    They will generally try to steal your phone, so keep the camera on them and don't let them snatch it.

  10. Rooting against on IBM CIO Thinks Agile Development Might Save Company · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I hope IBM bets big on Agile, and it's a complete disaster, and then no one ever has to hear about Agile ever again. Oh, and I won't have to stand around like an asshole every morning while everyone explains they worked on the same thing they worked on yesterday.

  11. Yes, partly because it's easy on JavaScript Devs: Is It Still Worth Learning jQuery? · · Score: 1

    If you need to support IE 7, definitely. But if you don't, you what? Use it anyway. The best of jQuery has been brought into the JavaScript language itself and other libraries. But jQuery still makes a lot of little things easier.

    You could use the new querySelectorAll functionality in JavaScript, but learning that teaches you the basics of how to use jQuery. Also, I think jQuery still has a few selectors that aren't in querySelectorAll . Furthermore, querySelectorAll is very long to type.

    You can use a different AJAX library, but is that library any easier or better than jQuery? You can do AJAX with no library, but bare JavaScript API is ugly.

    It might be better to use Q for promises, but the API for Q is about the same as the jQuery promises API.

    Again, you might get these things from other libraries but it has deep extend. It is much nicer to trigger events with jQuery. Ready is much nicer with jQuery.

    Ironically, I'm going to refer you to http://youmightnotneedjquery.c... Because guess what? When you look, a lot of those things are a lot easier with jQuery and that site makes it clear.

    Also, there are jQuery plugins. I don't think writing jQuery plugins is something that you want to do for a modern webapp, but you might find yourself supporting them.

  12. Can you prove your claim? on Audi Creates "Fuel of the Future" Using Just Carbon Dioxide and Water · · Score: 1

    How do you know there isn't enough CO2 to make this work? Can you prove your claim? We have too much in the atmosphere at the present.

  13. Corporate welfare on New York State Spent Millions On Program For Startups That Created 76 Jobs · · Score: 1

    Tax breaks as an economic development program. There is a similar giant program in Chicago called TIF. No one believes it actually creates jobs or anything. It's just a way for the mayor to reward his supporters and other rich people.

  14. Religous freedom on Florida Teen Charged With Felony Hacking For Changing Desktop Wallpaper · · Score: 1

    This isn't funny. This student violated his teacher's religious freedom.

  15. Jury nullification is good on Florida Teen Charged With Felony Hacking For Changing Desktop Wallpaper · · Score: 1

    The first supreme court justice John Jay said to vote your conscience. The people themselves are final check against stupid laws.

  16. This is really old news on Google's Angular 2 Being Built With Microsoft's TypeScript · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Yes @ script is a superset of Typescript and it will be used in Angular 2. Not really a hot news story.

  17. They should give both on Number of Legal 18x18 Go Positions Computed; 19x19 On the Horizon · · Score: 1

    It's interesting to see the exact number, but we obviously can't grok it. We want to know how many digits that number has.

  18. They don't want to up the ante for experience on Do Tech Companies Ask For Way Too Much From Job Candidates? · · Score: 5, Informative

    They want everything, but when someone who has everything applies, they don't want to up the ante with high pay.

  19. They use new Windows to break into moblie on Microsoft Convinced That Windows 10 Will Be Its Smartphone Breakthrough · · Score: 1

    People keep asking why are they changing Windows when people like what they have? The answer is that new versions of Microsoft Windows will sell whether you like the new features or not. So they are using Windows for other goals. Specifically, they are using Windows for PC to accustom you to their Mobile offerings. That is their most logical way of making money and staying relevant. Just making you really like Windows 10 a lot doesn't really help them.

  20. You know what would be cute? on Snowden Reportedly In Talks To Return To US To Face Trial · · Score: 1

    If the judge and the bailiffs were actually kangaroos! That would be adorable!

  21. They are pushing tablet platforms, etc. on Users Decry New Icon Look In Windows 10 · · Score: 1

    Windows 10 will sell. Why? Because it's there. Microsoft's goal is to push their tablet OS's and stuff. So they are making the UI more like the tablet, so you'll be used to it and want their tablet offerings.

  22. Stupid article on Is Sega the Next Atari? · · Score: 1

    Is Sega? Is Sega? Sega is just a software maker at this point. Did it fail is the question. Yes, it failed like Atari and countless other companies in other industries. These are two companies past their glory days in the same industry. The idea that they are the next Atari is frankly stupid. They are already out of the hardware biz. They WERE the Atari. Unless they dramatically have some kind of turn around their story is written and we know what it is. A more interesting question would be, "Is Sega the next Apple?" The answer is probably not, but at least that would be a question that would make sense to ask at this point.

  23. Re:Stop the InfoWorld Madness on The Robots That Will Put Coders Out of Work · · Score: 1

    Strongly agree. All these InfoWorld articles are crap.

  24. 95% might be good enough for most... on Your Java Code Is Mostly Fluff, New Research Finds · · Score: 5, Funny

    But I shoot to make 100% of the code I write fluff.

  25. Most of it is marketable on Obama Proposes 2 Years of Free Community College · · Score: 1

    Almost anything at community college is general education or applied trade skill. In community college you can get a lot of good degrees in medical technician things and such. Aside from that its all, math, English, etc. I doubt you can take a single class in being a community organizer at any community college in the US.