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  1. Here is the link - too difficult for you? on Slashdot and SourceForge Sold, Now Under New Management (bizx.info) · · Score: 1

    Here is the link leading to a steaming pile of such shit.
    www.google.com/search?q=slashdot+women+not+fit+for+it
    Are you really so useless at using computers that you could not do it yourself?

  2. Re:Maybe we'll see the end of the Friday night fig on Slashdot and SourceForge Sold, Now Under New Management (bizx.info) · · Score: 1

    I keep asking for a link to those assertions. You have yet to provide one.

    I could link to any single one of those stories as you well know - so what exactly are you trying to do here?

  3. Re:Take back Slashdot on Slashdot and SourceForge Sold, Now Under New Management (bizx.info) · · Score: 1

    More badges, go back to numerical representations of karma

    It became too much of a game and was annoying. Now the annoying game seems to be people who just come to argue like high school debating losers nearly every time an opinion is expressed. They do not seem to understand that I do not care that they know some petty little tricks to argue against reality or recently performed well at spelling bees but they go on and on.

  4. Maybe we'll see the end of the Friday night fight on Slashdot and SourceForge Sold, Now Under New Management (bizx.info) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Maybe we'll see the end of the Friday night "SJW" vs "MRA" clickbait fight where assertions are made that sitting typing in an office is "mens work", as if we are all 1920s lumberjacks or something.

  5. We've been goosed on The Widely Reported ISIS Encrypted Messaging App Is Not Real · · Score: 1

    We've been goosed by a proper gander.
    Funny thing this time is that it's propaganda about a propaganda application that doesn't exist because there's plenty of other ways to get propaganda out.

    There plenty going wrong in reality without making shit like this up. It's as insane as the false report about Iraqi atrocities in a Kuwait hospital when there were far worse atrocities being committed in reality (only without handy sound bites provided by actors).

  6. Re:Here we go again ... on Desktop 3D Printers Shown To Emit Hazardous Gases and Particles (acs.org) · · Score: 1

    Dust - and the newer ones have it sealed in and don't get dust everywhere.

  7. Obvious is obvious on Desktop 3D Printers Shown To Emit Hazardous Gases and Particles (acs.org) · · Score: 1

    Ensure ventilation and don't breathe in the fumes just like when working with solvents and a pile of other things you don't want inside your lungs.

  8. Re:When I said I was a fan of transparency on Edward Snowden Is Tired of Being Bombarded By Suitors (mirror.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Here's one of the more ridiculous examples of this bit of demonising a group for the sake of extra votes:
    http://www.abc.net.au/news/201...
    The guy who gave her an award in 2011 (Lord Mayor's award) was running the state in 2013.

  9. Re:NASA Learned it's lesson? on The Tragedy Of Apollo 1 And The Lessons That Brought Us To The Moon (forbes.com) · · Score: 1

    Track record. An extreme is Feynman not caring that the NASA enquiry he was part of was supposed to be a whitewash and bringing out the evidence that the engineers were unable to get beyond their immediate management, because their managers were afraid it would make NASA look bad.

    In most cases however it's about having someone that has run difficult things that take some time to succeed instead of a seagull manager that flies from place to place taking credit - it's about not being afraid of setbacks and not pretending that everything is an instant success.
    That's probably dumbed down far too much but it's something that should be obvious so it's pretty hard not to dumb it down.

  10. Re:An NDA works and makes for Target to sue on Ask Slashdot: How To Work On Source Code Without Having the Source Code? · · Score: 1

    It might, however, be very interesting to a legal team, who might want to scan it for patent and licensing violations. If they can find some, real or imagined, they can exploit these liabilities for FUD purposes, or to strategically cripple the competition's products.

    Hence NVIDIA refusing to release their driver source code after SGI got burnt that way and some SGI people later went to work for NVIDIA. Software patents suck and make zero sense since copyright does the job.

  11. Re:NASA Learned it's lesson? on The Tragedy Of Apollo 1 And The Lessons That Brought Us To The Moon (forbes.com) · · Score: 1

    you are almost sure to look bad because the project is delayed

    Which is why you want such a project run by somebody confident enough that they do not care if they look bad.

  12. Re:Lesson could have been learned from the Ruskies on The Tragedy Of Apollo 1 And The Lessons That Brought Us To The Moon (forbes.com) · · Score: 1

    What's the lesson to be learned from the Russkies?

    Use stray dogs on the missions first?

  13. Re:Fools think this is horrible. on EFF: License Plate Scanner Deal Turns Texas Cops Into Debt Collectors (eff.org) · · Score: 1

    That's just describing an example instead of what the term actually means and it also describes regimes that are not fascist.
    The above poster is far closer to what the dictionary, academics etc say on the topic. It may make you feel warm and fuzzy to pretend that you can't actually have fascists until they run the place, but in reality a lot of places had people with that sort of ideology especially in the 1930s. Fascists were making a lot of noise in the media of the USA and UK even though they didn't actually get to set policy.

  14. Re:When I said I was a fan of transparency on Edward Snowden Is Tired of Being Bombarded By Suitors (mirror.co.uk) · · Score: 1
    Sorry, had to work so didn't get to read much before.
    The biker laws were part of a scare campaign to try to get cheap votes in a few states of Australia, culminating in the most ridiculous laws in the state of Queensland drafted by a lawyer with less than four years experience (property law in a very sleepy coastal town) before being put in charge of justice for the state.

    In the documentary, IIRC, one of them was going to prison if he made even the slightest mistake as he'd been placed on probation for having been with three other "bikeys"

    That is how utterly stupid it was in Queensland - a librarian, her boyfriend and another biker they met at a hotel were imprisoned for just meeting in public. After a bit of a public outcry the decision to refuse bail was reversed and they were released and the case was thrown out when it got to court nearly two years later. Others, not sure of the numbers but there were a lot, were never offered bail, so were locked up for months before their cases were dismissed. Meanwhile a member of the government that pushed that idiocy was caught robbing the poor box (literally - stealing everything from a charity for the homeless that let him get too close to the money), and a long list of other activities that made people catch on that the attack on bikers was a distraction from the real criminals and dodgy dealers.

    Keep warm and get well - far too warm here but that's probably better for me than a place where frozen water sometimes falls from the sky.

  15. Re: My favorite Minsky story on Marvin Minsky, Pioneer In Artificial Intelligence, Dies at 88 (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1
    Thanks.

    Interestingly, Minksy may have actually been the first researcher to implement a hardware neural net with 1951’s SNARC (Stochastic Neural Analog Reinforcement Calculator)

    I've always seen neural nets as a digital approximation of some of the stuff that can be done with an analog computer despite only ever seeing one and only doing one subject way back as an undergrad on how to model dynamic systems with analog computers.

  16. Re:When I said I was a fan of transparency on Edward Snowden Is Tired of Being Bombarded By Suitors (mirror.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Though I could have sworn that there were a couple of States where there were some rather draconian penalties and that they had been successfully prosecuted

    One of the idiot drafters of the draconian law claimed "success" when a drug dealer got five years for being a drug dealer and the judge threw out the extra fifteen years for being a drug dealing biker. Pointless, nasty, way over the top and a stupid name as well (VLAD - Vicious Lawless Association Disestablishment - I'm not joking that's really the name of the law mandating fifteen years in prison for being an "outlaw biker"). I've got some relatives that live across the road from one of the lawyers pushing against it and working on having it repealed.

  17. Re:When I said I was a fan of transparency on Edward Snowden Is Tired of Being Bombarded By Suitors (mirror.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    the laws had been passed and were actively being used

    A lot of people were arrested under the law about bikers meeting, including a female librarian with no criminal record that had actually been given an award by the idiot that pushed the laws, but nothing has actually stuck in court. It had resulted in a few people locked up for over a year before their trial because originally there was a condition of no bail.

    I'll read the rest and reply a bit later on.

  18. Re:If you haven't read Society of Mind by Minsky on Marvin Minsky, Pioneer In Artificial Intelligence, Dies at 88 (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Aye.

  19. Re:Complete article below: on Edward Snowden Is Tired of Being Bombarded By Suitors (mirror.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    The security issues alone of that ego trip make the mind boggle, let alone throwing away cash that does not come out of the pocket of the person signing it away.

  20. Re:When I said I was a fan of transparency on Edward Snowden Is Tired of Being Bombarded By Suitors (mirror.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Hate politics is big in Australia and bikers were picked as target by a "conservative" party run by bottom feeding property developers and car salesman to show how "conservative" they were by bringing in ridiculously pointless and draconian laws. Very stupid, never actually stuck in court, but a lot of people were given a hard time over it.

  21. Re:If you haven't read Society of Mind by Minsky on Marvin Minsky, Pioneer In Artificial Intelligence, Dies at 88 (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    I prefer reading stuff by Sachs etc about the wetware side of things - consciousness in practice doesn't seem to match up so tightly with the models we have of it.
    I suppose the question is whether we want something that really is awake or just a special effect designed to inspire suspension of disbelief. The latter still has value. Even if it's not the real deal there are tasks that it could carry out.

  22. Re:RIP, Science WHORE on Marvin Minsky, Pioneer In Artificial Intelligence, Dies at 88 (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    That's not a lie, just overconfidence.

  23. Re: My favorite Minsky story on Marvin Minsky, Pioneer In Artificial Intelligence, Dies at 88 (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Could you please try that again on something other than a smartphone or whatever - what you managed to get onto the net in English is interesting enough that I want to read whatever you meant that got mangled into insensibility.

  24. Re:Complete article below: on Edward Snowden Is Tired of Being Bombarded By Suitors (mirror.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Yes that's exactly what happens when you can bring in a lot of cash and another popular way to funnel it out. It's funny, but if a non-Communist government ever comes to power in China there will be a lot of US and other pressure applied against it to keep all those Party officials that bought their way in to the west happy.
    Those in politics would support their wallets instead of a democratic China so long as the cash reserves continue.

  25. Re:Another victory for corporate corruption on TPP Signing Ceremony To Take Place In February (freezenet.ca) · · Score: 1

    More trivia: yet another reason I hate the NRA and the people they slip money to but don't hate guns.
    http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-01-26/ted-cruz-rape-gun-claim-australia-lie-washington-post-says/7115598