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  1. Re:Profitable, if self-contradictory on Elon Musk: We Must Put a Million People On Mars To Safeguard Humanity · · Score: 1

    On the other hand, there's a difference between 100 million years, and 10 billion.

  2. Re:SubjectsInCommentsAreStupid on Scientists Seen As Competent But Not Trusted By Americans · · Score: 1

    Oh look, you're wrong, congratulations

    Inventing bullshit under the guise of "common sense":0
    Not assuming bullshit: 1

  3. Re:Businessese Bingo on Linux Foundation Announces Major Network Functions Virtualization Project · · Score: 1

    That's not really software though, is it? Think about the "ware" part, in means a vendable item.

  4. Re:Businessese Bingo on Linux Foundation Announces Major Network Functions Virtualization Project · · Score: 0

    That's the part before what the OP quoted. And all software is complex, or at least complex enough to have bugs.

  5. Re:Businessese Bingo on Linux Foundation Announces Major Network Functions Virtualization Project · · Score: 0

    Let's try a sanity reword and measure how much they added unnecessary(caveat: I'm prone to being overly verbose as well, and I won't do a great job)

    We make open source middleware

    Did I get it right?

  6. Re:Slashdot news for Nerds on FCC Rejects Blackout Rules · · Score: 1
  7. Re:How important is that at this point? on Adobe Photoshop Is Coming To Linux, Through Chromebooks · · Score: 2

    Really, you think professional 3d modelers don't know what a vertex is? Really?

    I mean, I can get that they might not understand how vertices are processed by a rasterizer, but that's not what they are.

  8. Re:PR Stunt on Interview With Facebook's Head of Open Source · · Score: 1

    Please, facebook doesn't want more programmer registered users. They want you to do more free work for them.

  9. Re:The complexity has to go somewhere on Building Apps In Swift With Storyboards · · Score: 1

    But how do I imagine them? It's not from nowhere. It's from a recurring familiarity with what goes wrong in software development. I didn't just get a programming language down and suddenly grasp the idea of field interdependency, did I? I mean, admittedly, it was before I got a job in the field, but the first time you try to save something where X interferes with Y and it crashes your program teaches you the concept.

  10. Re:Exploit that only affects Mac and Linux on Apple Fixes Shellshock In OS X · · Score: 1

    I'm just saying a few years ago, we had an awful lot of that variety of idiot.

  11. Re:Start menu usage dropped in lieu of what? on Microsoft's Asimov System To Monitor Users' Machines In Real Time · · Score: 2

    Well, there's always the fact that people go to open it and are like "oh yeah, windows 8 and metro" and vomit uncontrollably for a few minutes.

  12. Exploit that only affects Mac and Linux on Apple Fixes Shellshock In OS X · · Score: -1

    This is the kind of thing people on the slashdot of yesteryear thought were impossible. Remember when people would post that Apple computers and/or Linux wasn't vulnerable like Windows?

    Good times. I mean, I'm not trying to claim Windows has improved in security that it's no longer the easiest target or anything. Just that things have changed since that bygone era.

  13. Re:The complexity has to go somewhere on Building Apps In Swift With Storyboards · · Score: 1

    Well, I've always had the dream of a tool that has a natural language dialog with the the user.

    You know the kind that asks the niggling questions us devs always have for "ideas" people. Like "Who's going to provide the map data for your store layout application?" And "Can this field be blank if that one isn't?" Or "Okay, what do you mean by 'shiny animation' exactly?"

    I suspect such a thing could be done with a team of 30 AI experts and a huge machinery budget, and careful observation of how actual software projects are developed in the real world as some kind of training. And slightly better speech recognition.

  14. Re:How does the quote go...? on Former GM Product Czar: Tesla a "Fringe Brand" · · Score: 2

    If it helps, the quote came from a person who was ignored, then fought, then lost, but it commonly misattributed to someone much more successful.

    The quote is so full of bluster, and bravado, you just can't take it seriously.

  15. Re:Fox News? on Scientists Seen As Competent But Not Trusted By Americans · · Score: 1

    "If you're so smart why don't you buy into my elaborate conspiracy theory?" is the refrain of every paranoid nutjob. Now we(the US) have unresolved issues with the medical industry, but you're conflating that with a dismissal of the expertise on medical conditions that a medical doctorate and years of practice yield. I don't even need to resort to a "Not all doctors" type argument because, frankly, even basic diagnosis(much less prognosis) is almost certainly beyond your abilities, and entirely within theirs.

  16. Re:Fox News? on Scientists Seen As Competent But Not Trusted By Americans · · Score: 1

    There's certainly enough of it to be a serious problem, but no, that's not what I mean.

  17. Re:Fox News? on Scientists Seen As Competent But Not Trusted By Americans · · Score: 1

    Because you're advocating ignoring carefully studied reality in favor of simplistically presented ignorance in a way that causes people with real problems to suffer. That's what's wrong with "placebos"(if we're going to continue this charade of an overextended metaphor).

  18. Re:Alright... on Google To Require As Many As 20 of Its Apps Preinstalled On Android Devices · · Score: 1

    Yeah, this is the correct answer. There's a lot of crap on my phone that I'd have murdered if I had genuine administrator access to it, like I do my PC. Nowadays it's weird to think there was a time I liked google products.

  19. Re:SubjectsInCommentsAreStupid on Scientists Seen As Competent But Not Trusted By Americans · · Score: 1

    No, I think you conjecturing under the guises of common sense makes you unlikely to be an informed party.

  20. Re:YoureATowel on Scientists Seen As Competent But Not Trusted By Americans · · Score: 1

    Give me some credit. It was intended as humorously demanding the impossible and as commentary on internet discussions, with how people can swoop in and "correct" you two completely different ways.


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  22. Re:Fox News? on Scientists Seen As Competent But Not Trusted By Americans · · Score: 1

    Ah and here's the "racist fucks don't exist" class of racist fuckery. Good job.

  23. Re:Fox News? on Scientists Seen As Competent But Not Trusted By Americans · · Score: 1

    Hey look, it's one of those "rebels" who found an even more powerless foe to rail against. What, you think I'm gonna take away your lollypop or something?

  24. Re:Fox News? on Scientists Seen As Competent But Not Trusted By Americans · · Score: 0

    Or you're a moron. You're the asshole who tells people not to go to doctors for their problems, but that this herbal remedy you heard about will totally take care of it.

  25. Re:SubjectsInCommentsAreStupid on Scientists Seen As Competent But Not Trusted By Americans · · Score: 2

    Pakistan already has nukes, dog. That ship has sailed.