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  1. Re:Boo Fucking Hoo on Sexism Still a Problem At E3 · · Score: 1

    d) Make your own damn game, and show everyone what they're doing wrong.

  2. Re:doesn't help people take games seriously either on Sexism Still a Problem At E3 · · Score: 1

    The best programmers find it fun, challenging and quite rewarding to develop software. Getting paid just kept the wolf from their door, and getting paid well was gravy.

    Having done both, let me say... there are worlds of difference between "developing software" and "developing games."

  3. Re:doesn't help people take games seriously either on Sexism Still a Problem At E3 · · Score: 1

    Extreme chauvinists wouldn't come up with anything different, you know. Perhaps rather than slamming feminism as a whole because of a vocal minority, you could consider more mainstream views on it...

    Unfortunately, the noisy, misandric, intellectually and rhetorically dishonest "feminism" is the "mainstream" of feminism now. There's some movement to by some to separate themselves from that, to the point of adopting new self-labels (like Sommers' 'Equity Feminism').

  4. Re:doesn't help people take games seriously either on Sexism Still a Problem At E3 · · Score: 1

    If I were to post a link below to a nude picture of Zooey Deschanel, everyone would click it, and then ones who would claim they hadn't would either be lying or gay

    Bad example, since it excludes the ones who have been on the internet long enough to remember getting emails like "Attached: CindyCrawfordNude.jpg.exe".

  5. Re:Strange term on Facebook's Complaint Process Is Arbitrary — But So Is Campaigning · · Score: 1

    No, the second is "rape culture" bullshit denial. BIG difference. The fact that you just used the phrase unironically suggests that trying to explain why, though, would be a waste of time.

  6. Re:Strange term on Facebook's Complaint Process Is Arbitrary — But So Is Campaigning · · Score: 2

    "Pro-rape" comments apparently include this and this[PDF warning].

    If you think either of those endorses rape, you might be a redneck^Wfeminist.

    Modbomb incoming. Come at me, bro.

  7. Re:we can also expect... on Do-It-Yourself Brain Stimulation Has Scientists Worried · · Score: 1

    Hell, I have no business eating mushrooms even if they DO come from someone who knows what they're doing. I hate the things. :) Almost as much as I hate carrying around incorrect little factoids in my head. So that's one fewer for me to worry about!

  8. Re:Who to believe? on Snowden Is Lying, Say House Intelligence Committee Leaders · · Score: 1

    There is! When the corporate masters are REALLY in charge, at least we'll have our datajacks!

    Goddamn it, I want my DNI already!

  9. Re:we can also expect... on Do-It-Yourself Brain Stimulation Has Scientists Worried · · Score: 1

    Fungi perfecti looks to have more information about holistic and appetizer rather than nutritional values...

    I did find this though. Not completely devoid, but I can see why they'd suggest looking for other sources of food if you're stuck in the woods. The risk/return seems a little high.

  10. Re:think I can petition my college to.. on Red Hat Ditches MySQL, Switches To MariaDB · · Score: 1

    Might want to be careful with throwing "troll" around, if you're going to miss/ignore rather important things like Maria being a drop-in replacement for MySQL, so nothing you learned about LAMP is lost by this change.

    But what the hell university teaches LAMP anyway? UoP?

  11. Re:we can also expect... on Do-It-Yourself Brain Stimulation Has Scientists Worried · · Score: 1

    Biologically interesting, but what are the health benefits you mentioned? I think it was in scouts where I "learned" that they were nutritionally void at best, and deadly at worst, so there was really no reason to be eating them...

  12. Re:we can also expect... on Do-It-Yourself Brain Stimulation Has Scientists Worried · · Score: 1

    Pretty sure I remember reading that, nutritionally speaking, a mushroom is nothing.

  13. Re: Republicans should "go for it" on Do-It-Yourself Brain Stimulation Has Scientists Worried · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Somehow this is being translated into "GOP hates children", which is laughable.

    At least until they're born. After that, fuck 'em, they're on their own, right?

  14. Re:Think again ! on NSA Surveillance May Have Dealt Major Blow To Global Internet Freedom Efforts · · Score: 2

    Occam says they're better at math than that

    Not all professors are STEM professors. You can get a PhD without being any good at HS-level math, much less the sort of math you need to understand "big picture" stuff like that.

  15. Redphone, huh? on Ask Slashdot: How To Bypass Gov't Spying On Cellphones? · · Score: 4, Informative

    Funny how a privacy-oriented app like TextSecure (text app from the makers of Red Phone, mentioned in TFS) wants to access my Device ID, SIM serial number, and Subscriber ID...

  16. Re:so many things on Ask Slashdot: What To Do With New Free Time? · · Score: 1

    It's not a non-compete, and being "on-call" isn't "your own time."

  17. Re:Hmmm... on Dmitry Itskov Wants To Help You Live Forever Via an Android Avatar · · Score: 1

    Not really. It's just parroting Sagan, or ripped from Babylon 5 (who ripped it from Sagan).

  18. Re:No shit on Another Study Confirms Hands-Free Texting While Driving Is Unsafe · · Score: 1

    Seriously? You can't wrap your head around the notion that fatality rates would be even lower than they are now if we didn't have texting and phone calls distracting drivers?

    The "notion", sure. Whether or not it's a "fact", I question. Didn't one of those assholes in DC just make a big stink about needing cops to be allowed to search cell phones without a warrant, to determine if it was in use during an accident? If that's the case, then that would suggest that the data (if any) correlating the two is rather suspect.

  19. Re:Can't have it all. on Keeping Your Data Private From the NSA (And Everyone Else) · · Score: 1

    Just goes to show you the founding fathers must have been criminals according to the popular belief of "no reason to worry if you have nothing to hide".

    Well, strictly speaking, they were criminals before they became the founding fathers. Waging war against your own government, whether necessary or not, is, I think, rather universally in the "shit the government says you're not allowed to do" column.

    But don't let my pedantry give the impression that I think there's anything other than soft-headed cowardice behind that authoritarian bootlicking.

  20. Re:It is all software, really on Sony's PS4 To Have Less Stringent DRM Than Microsoft's Xbox One · · Score: 1

    It is true for all three of the "last" gen consoles. PS3 and Wii did it unabashedly, but even Xbox360 got in on the act when Catherine came out with a required update on-disc.

  21. Re:Phone-based ransom-ware? on Apple's War Against Jailbreaking Now Makes Perfect Sense · · Score: 2

    Nah, he was right the first time.

  22. Re:Someone start a defense fund on USA Calling For the Extradition of Snowden · · Score: 2

    And acting on a definition handed down from your self-styled "betters" is feudalism, at best.

  23. Re:I'm not a manager, but... on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Prove an IT Manager Is Incompetent? · · Score: 1

    Other way around. At least back when I was in school, our "standard" was that calling new with an object argument was a clone op.

    IOW, turn the manager into a cafeteria cashier. :)

  24. I'm not a manager, but... on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Prove an IT Manager Is Incompetent? · · Score: 5, Funny

    IANAM, but the simple pseudo-code I came up with would probably work.


    for each job responsibility
              if !manager.capable(responsibility) then
                            ++strikes;

    if strikes > threshold
              new CafeteriaCashier(manager);

  25. Re:Infidel defilers. on Ask Slashdot: What To Do When Another Dev Steals Your Work and Adds Their Name? · · Score: 4, Funny

    No, Cohen's response would be "Hot water, good dentistry, and shoft lavatory paper." ;)