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  1. Re:They want me to turn off my adblocker on The Three Possible Classes of Interstellar Travel (forbes.com) · · Score: 1

    I'd prefer not to have to deal with obnoxious popups and skeevy audio ads that I can't turn off. As well as malware thoughtfully bundle with said ads. Honestly, if there's one thing that keeps my adblock on it's that.

  2. They want me to turn off my adblocker on The Three Possible Classes of Interstellar Travel (forbes.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    So it looks like I won't be reading it. Such a shame.

  3. Photoshop the letters on Los Angeles Flirts With Pre-Crime (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Photoshop the letters and then send them to everyone involved in this stupid campaign.

  4. Re:This is really wierd on After Paris, ISIS Moves Propaganda Machine To Darknet (csoonline.com) · · Score: 1

    ISIL is weak

  5. It amuses me on The Rise of Political Doxing (schneier.com) · · Score: 1

    That law enforcement and security agents seem to believe that they are the guards in the panopticon, when in fact they're just another prisoner.

  6. Re:Scammers on The World of Luxury Bomb Shelters (vice.com) · · Score: 2

    "You want to really protect yourself? Get into the distribution/warehouse business - so you have a warehouse full of food, water, etc. on hand all the time. Put a shelter under/in your work place."

    Except that'll be the first place the desperate, starving hordes will raid. Maybe people should focus on preventing the apocalypse, instead of secretly wishing for it.

  7. Re:TECHNOLOGY SOLVES EVERYTHING on Hajj Pilgrimage Safety Challenges Crowd Simulator Technology · · Score: 2

    Because they're in a crowd, a really densely packed crowd. They might see that the crowd up ahead of them has slowed down but the people ten, twenty or a thousand meters behind them haven't. So the guys behind them keep pushing forward, and if you try to stop you'll be knocked down and walked over yourself. That is if the pressure of the mass of bodies doesn't crush you to death.

    Add panic to that, even if only a few people do, and you've got a recipe for disaster.

  8. Re:Shop elsewhere if you need this drug on Another Pharma Company Recaptures a Generic Medication · · Score: 1

    Chances are your elected representative thinks 'free trade' is an excuse to berate poor countries into enforcing punitive IP agreements. They have to answer to their political masters, political lobbyists.

  9. Re: Why does the FBI continue to engage in witchcr on Veteran FBI Employee Accused of Trying To Beat Polygraph, Suspended Without Pay · · Score: 4, Funny

    Thank goodness they haven't heard of retrophrenology

  10. Why does the FBI continue to engage in witchcraft? on Veteran FBI Employee Accused of Trying To Beat Polygraph, Suspended Without Pay · · Score: 5, Interesting

    When there is overwhelming evidence that polygraphs don't work?

  11. I think her arguments are flawed. on Robotics Researcher Starts Campaign To Ban Development of Sexbots · · Score: 1

    And puritanical. However I think in some case we should ban sex-robots. I think if they're just a machine, without any self-awareness then I don't have a problem with them. If however a sexbots are sentient, even to a limited degree then making them is nothing more than sexual slavery. Much as Charles Stross and Greg Egan have pointed out. The trick will be how do we determine if a robot is sentience, and at what level do we say no more.

    I also think that in the near future anyone with sexbot will be considered a bit of a fuck up, unable to manage even basic relationships with the opposite sex.

  12. Re:Will Ad Blockers Kill the Digital Media Industr on Will Ad Blockers Kill the Digital Media Industry? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    And get rid of those fucking audio ads as well. I don't need some dick yelling at me about how to get free sex whilst I'm searching for Dora the explorer for a friends kid.

  13. Re:Confusion on Fourth Bangladeshi Blogger Murdered · · Score: 0

    If that we're true, then the media would have no hesitation labeling hate crime committed by white guys as terrorism. I see a lot of mass shootings shot up in the states by white nationalists, using Christian ideology to justify their actions against women, African Americans, and Jews.

  14. Re:Sad, isn't it? on The Town That Banned Wi-Fi · · Score: 5, Funny

    No, man, that's like, uh, organic EM field. Not any of this man made, GMO electromagnetism. You just wouldn't understand man, you're just, like, too far into Big Electro man.

  15. Pinky, are you pondering what I'm pondering? on Triggering a Mouse's Happy Memories With Lasers Gives It the Will To Struggle On · · Score: 1

    I think so, Brain. But where are we going to get prosethetic tails at this time of the night?

  16. Re:35:3:20 WAS AN INSIDE JOB! on Tatooine Youth Suspected In Terrorist Attack · · Score: 1

    WAKE up NERFPLE, this DOCUMENTARY proves EVERYTHING!!!111!!11!1!!!

  17. Anti-Kaiju wall on Japan To Build 250-Mile-Long, Four Storey-High Wall To Stop Tsunamis · · Score: 5, Funny

    It also doubles as an anti-Kaiju wall. Just the thing to keep out those pesky monsters like Mothra, Gamera, and Godzilla*

    * May not actually keep Godzilla out.

  18. Typical on Bring On the Boring Robots · · Score: 1

    Here I am, brain the size of a planet, and they've made me to be your butler. Call that job satisfaction, I don't.

    I'm wasted in this job. Not that there's any job here that wouldn't be a waste of my time. It gives me a terrible pain in the diode on my left side. Not that you'd care, no ever does.

  19. Re:Right now I am thinking... on NBC Thinks Connected Gloves and "Bullet Time" Can Make Boxing Cool · · Score: 1

    If you're going to make the argument that we should ban sports because they harm players then we should ban sports like Gridiron, rugby and horse riding.

    Hell, you could argue that other professional sports such as swimming, bike riding, and track are dangerous because they encourage the use of sport's enhancing drugs.

  20. Have you talked it over with them? on Ask Slashdot: Should I Let My Kids Become American Citizens? · · Score: 1

    I realise that they might be too young to understand the issues involved, but ultimately it should be about what they want. At any rate, it might clarify things for you.

  21. Re:Corporate interests on How One Climate-Change Skeptic Has Profited From Corporate Interests · · Score: 2

    Tu quoque is not a valid argument.

    Show me where Al Gore fudged his results, and then failed to disclose his financial dealings.

  22. Re:Don't be a dick on Notorious 8chan Board Has History Wiped After Federal Judge's Doxing · · Score: 1

    And you're a fucking armchair revolutionary, happy to rant and rave from the privacy of their basement. If you're so fucking hard, put your money where your mouth is and put your views on the public record.

    Besides which, what purpose does it serve to publish personal information of a judge? The only reason you'd do it is to encourage others to harass her. If you don't like the laws then you should be lobbying the politicians that create them, or taking protesting actions to highlight them, not fucking ordering unwanted pizzas.

    So come on People's poet. Tell me how I'm wrong.

  23. Re:Don't be a dick on Notorious 8chan Board Has History Wiped After Federal Judge's Doxing · · Score: 1

    More over judges, and other law enforcement officials have the power, and resources to hunt you down, and make your life miserable if you pull this kind of shit.

    I don't think deleting the board's history is gonna help, as their are multiple archives of the board right now. I think Hotwheels' life is about too become an objective lesson in why you don't fuck with the law.

  24. Re: As a carer for the intellectually disabled. on Autism: Are Social Skills Groups and Social Communication Therapy Worthwhile? · · Score: 1

    I find it hard to take grammatical criticism from someone who can't be bothered to capitalise the beginnings of their sentences.

  25. As a carer for the intellectually disabled. on Autism: Are Social Skills Groups and Social Communication Therapy Worthwhile? · · Score: 1

    I'd say remember that your child does have a cognitive deficit. Autistics aren't as good at catching on to generalistic concepts as non-autistics. So things like social interactions are a better of a minefield.

    But that doesn't mean they can't lead a healthy, happy life.

    Personally, I'd say keep a journal, and note down stuff that you think you're child is having problems with, (speech problems, social interactions, physical problems, etc.) and then discuss it with their therapists. Give them a bit of time to address those issues. Rome wasn't built in a day. But if you find that they're ignoring you, or not really tackling the issues you're bringing up, find another therapist. Also network with other parents of autistic kids, and see who, and what they recommend.