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  1. Re:How is it different than GoPro? on Google Releases Glass Kernel Source Code · · Score: 1

    Then complain about that future version in the future. Every single thing could be misuses if it evolves 5-10 years towards some nefarious end - if we all adopted your logic we'd have nothing.

  2. Yes - that you read a site which only has stories about guns saving lives, and not the stories in which they claim lives, giving you a biased opinion of how they affect society. Just as if someone spent their time reading OnlyReallyNiceThings.com they will probably thing everything's really cool. Guns are necessary to protect people from other people with guns. Remove the guns, and things get a lot nicer. If guns really made everything wonderful, the murder rate in the US would be the lowest in the developed world, not one of the worst.

  3. Nope. You can't claim that with any sincerity. The action of slitting an artery with a knife is a lot more difficult, emotionally and physically, than simply pulling a trigger. You pretending otherwise for the sake of your argument paints you as either ignorant, or deceitful.

  4. Re:Speculation on Drug Site Silk Road Says It Will Survive Bitcoin's Volatility · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Most folks are not unwilling to provide for themselves, but simply incapable of doing so. You assuming they are all free-loaders speaks more of your view of humanity than of those you wish to degrade.

  5. Re:Get off your USA high chair on Google Gets Consumer Service Ultimatum From German Consumer Groups · · Score: 1

    Because it's a service. The price doesn't matter.

  6. Re:Watch the total absence on One Boston Marathon Bomb Suspect Dead, Other At Large After Shootout With Police · · Score: 1

    Correlation does not imply causation. Get a grip.

  7. Re:20 years passed on Huge Explosion at Texas Fertilizer Plant · · Score: 5, Informative

    Terrorism is a motive, not an action. Until it has been proven that the perpetrator(s) committed their deed in order to coerce people, it's simply not terrorism - just barbaric murder.

  8. Re:Meanwhile... on U.S. Offshore Wind Farm Receives $2 Billion From Japanese Banks · · Score: 3, Informative

    The US is spending twice per capita on a healthcare system compared to comparable systems in other countries. That's clearly not acceptable.

  9. Re:Wrong quote on Explosions at the Boston Marathon · · Score: 1

    You looked up the quote but couldn't look up the word "crises"? Interesting.

  10. Re:Why not Iran? on Explosions at the Boston Marathon · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Iran wants to start a war? That's news to fucking everyone who pays attention. Get a grip.

  11. Re:Here's the difference on Explosions at the Boston Marathon · · Score: 5, Insightful

    And the terrorists aren't just doing it to senselessly kill people - they are usually trying to (whether accurately or not) protect thousands or millions of people from threats they perceive. That's the whole point of terrorism - to coerce people into taking them seriously. If governments earnestly listened to concerned citizens groups from both outside and inside their borders, there would be no terrorism. No happy person wakes up and thinks "Oh, I'll become a terrorist today. It's lovely weather for it". They usually do it because of perceived threats to their family/culture/country/their notion of "us". This is not a mystery. They see it as them having to do it to spare even more misery down the road. Some idiot throwing pipe bombs without political motive is not terrorism, but simple violence. And knowingly using shoddy intelligence to take out what might be a military target is hardly more noble, is it? Drone strikes suck donkey dick. So does terrorism. Solution: honest diplomacy.

  12. Re:What a Scam? on OUYA Console Starts Shipping To Kickstarter Backers · · Score: 0

    Whatever gets you through the night, buddy. Waah waah waah.

  13. Re:No shit on OUYA Console Starts Shipping To Kickstarter Backers · · Score: 1

    There are already 104 free-to-play games in the Oyua market, so that bit's taken care of.

  14. Re:This is horrid on Automated System Developed To Grade Student Essays · · Score: 1

    Homework is never a discussion between the student and the teacher, unless the student in question is home-schooled. If the teacher was using this in class in lieu of lessons, you'd have a point. Homework and examinations are not about interacting with the teacher, but reviewing what's been learned in the lessons, and evaluating the level of understanding of the student on the subject at hand.

  15. Re:To all web developers on Blink! Google Is Forking WebKit · · Score: 1

    Google's main problem with WebKit was not rendering, but the legacy code included by Apple for support of old Macs, most importantly the networking code, which was thousands of lines of bug-inducing insanity. Don't confuse the two. Most developers already know how to develop.

  16. It was not called "HMS Bounty" on A Sea Story: the Wreck of the Replica HMS Bounty · · Score: 1

    The ship wasn't part of the Royal Navy, so it was just called "Bounty".

  17. Re:Go Green on Ask Slashdot: Enterprise Bitcoin Mining For Go-Green Initiatives? · · Score: 2

    As others have stated, the only serious way to be green in this situation is to use Wake-on-LAN. Just schedule certain computers to wake up, scan and backup, and then turn off. Do it in batches to ease possible network congestion or power spikes, and you're good to go. Even better, you can schedule the computers to wake before work starts so people don't even know anything has changed. Problem solved. Running every computer 24/7 is simply going to chew up energy.

  18. Re:What the hell on Will Donglegate Affect Your Decision To Attend PyCon? · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Feminism is not sexism at its finest - it's the logical and expected reaction of rational people who despise sexism against anyone. You making massive sweeping statements about women speaks volumes about how you perceive women. You have some serious issues to deal with, and with them I wish you luck.

  19. Re:For a Safe and Secure Society on Should We Be Afraid of Google Glass? · · Score: 1

    Your data is being used as a tiny fraction of a mass of similar data in order to hone their techniques of making relevant data. I don't know where the arrogance comes from which makes people seem to think there is a computer on a desk at Google where a dedicated member of staff works tirelessly day and night composing an accurate picture of your personality and routine in order to meticulously sell your data, on its own, to the highest bidder. Your data is anonymised as it is detrimental to their selling-your-data business to have extraneous data in their exported product.

  20. Re:For a Safe and Secure Society on Should We Be Afraid of Google Glass? · · Score: 1

    Most of the cameras in the UK are privately owned, plus everyone can request a copy of the footage of them from whomever owns the camera in question. All this "oh no the cameras!!!" stuff is pretty annoying.

  21. Re:Google OWNS you on Should We Be Afraid of Google Glass? · · Score: 1

    If you live in a sane country you can issue a request under the local data protection laws for a full copy of whatever data they have concerning you. Then you can know for sure instead of making guesses.

  22. Re:So.... on New Pope Selected · · Score: 1

    So they believe wafers become the body of Christ when some Latin is uttered over them? That doesn't sound like everybody to me at least...

  23. Re:Well... on European Parliament Decides Not To Ban Internet Porn · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Stop peddling this nonsense. You are so woefully incorrect in every single assertion you made it's tragic. I'm sure fellow idiots slap you on your back when you make such statements, but people who know more than you about these subjects just lower their shaking heads and sigh in disbelief that society can produce such ignorant people. I guess you are a demonstration of how a caring, just society protects you enough to survive this long while being so utterly deluded about existence. Grow up - I beg you.

  24. Re:Glasses in real life on Seattle Bar Owner Bans Google Glass, In Advance · · Score: 1

    Which makes these glasses just as dangerous as cellphones or cameras. I fail to see the point of your paranoia.

  25. Re:What? on For Jane's, Gustav Weißkopf's 1901 Liftoff Displaces Wright Bros. · · Score: 1

    Whitehead's flights were repeatable, flew above ground effect, and had full control. He repeated these flights many times. Either we discount the dozens of articles about the many flights as a gross conspiracy, or we listen to them. One overlooked aspect of the Wrights' success was their blatant demands to be recognised as the first simply because they said so.