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  1. Re:I predict on Combating Recent, Ugly Incidents of Misogyny In Gamer Culture · · Score: 0, Troll

    Oh, right. So let's pretend death threats live up to that, so we can excuse the rampant misogyny.

    Look, misogynists definitely exist, and if you even briefly consider defending what happened to this two women, you are one. No amount of personal disagreement with their views(or affairs) would justify it. None.

  2. Re:Franchise laws = Racket laws on Tesla's Next Auto-Dealer Battleground State: Georgia · · Score: 2

    "Special interests" is an obnoxious phrase purposely constructed to conflate issue groups that are mostly grassroots(on "both sides") with big money market manipulators who like having a senator in their pocket when they need one to make more money.

    I'm not saying I like the influence of those issue organization, just that they're not greedy rent seekers actively harming others for their own benefit like the latter group.

  3. Re:Ah, how heartwarming... on Tesla's Next Auto-Dealer Battleground State: Georgia · · Score: 4, Informative

    Yes!

    Some of them were outright morally repugnant, like slavery.

  4. Re:E.Coli on Researchers Harness E. Coli To Produce Propane · · Score: 1

    No. Really. I'm sure OP didn't figure that out from the fact that they're different words.

    That detail never occurred to them. I'm sure the mere possibility that different alkanes exist is a closely kept secret.

  5. Please make sure you have your phone ready on New Usage-Based Insurance Software Can Track Drivers Using Smartphones · · Score: 1

    You never know when you're going to be in an accident, so you should be using this app whenever you're driving, just in case. I promise it'll pay off faster that way.

  6. Re:Stop Making Up Words! on Reno Selected For Tesla Motors Battery Factory · · Score: 2

    Let me only reply to the topic for a second.

    Making up words is healthy. It's a necessary part of communicating sometimes. Especially when it's just dropping a prefix onto a word to help establish one of its primary qualities(in this case, scale).

  7. Re:Stop Making Up Words! on Reno Selected For Tesla Motors Battery Factory · · Score: 4, Funny

    35 GWh/Year isn't fooling me!!!

    That's only 4 megawatts!

  8. Re:I don't know... on Samsung Launches Virtual Reality Headset For Galaxy Note 4 · · Score: 2

    Okay, I'm going to pull an Internet impossibility and change my mind based on your perfectly reasonable assertions.

  9. Re:I don't know... on Samsung Launches Virtual Reality Headset For Galaxy Note 4 · · Score: 1

    I call it nonsense because there's a real limitation to trying to use a touchscreen with a VR device over your eyes. It's petty, but I just found it rather silly.

  10. Re:Probably not. on Does Learning To Code Outweigh a Degree In Computer Science? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    My university took the attitude that computer science was an engineering discipline. You need to understand the theory, because the theory helps you classify and interpret that problem you're dealing with. But as an engineer, you're also on the hook for the process of design, and the actual design itself.

    Certainly they do not want to just teach you a programming language, because that's like teaching a mechanical engineer the tools and settings for a single CAD program. Or an architect just how to draw blueprints.

    But they still called it a computer science degree because I guess the world assumes people with a "software engineering" degree don't understand theory? I don't know why they made that choice.

  11. Re:How do I answer a call? on Samsung Launches Virtual Reality Headset For Galaxy Note 4 · · Score: 4, Funny

    I don't know. Have you considered hiding in a virtual world from all the external obligations that phone call represents?

  12. We're still 6-10 months away on Samsung Launches Virtual Reality Headset For Galaxy Note 4 · · Score: 1

    It's still 6-10 months before any facebook buyout related applications/tech should start to show up. So this is all still "startup trying to find its feet" exploration. We can't yet blame zuckerberg for any nonsense of this sort that occurs.

  13. Re:A body in motion etc. on Welcome To Laniakea, Our New Cosmic Home · · Score: 0

    Bullshit on so many fronts.

    Let's start with your mischarcterization of sciences, then go to your mischaracterization of my post.
    Climatology affects a shit ton of day-to-day life. Absolutely 100% vital for modern agricultural planning, even setting asside that climate change is more immediate than you're giving it credit for. Geology is markedly relevant to anyone doing resource exploration, today, on top of its importance in seismology and vulcanology.

    So that's bullshit #1. Those things do, in fact, have huge implications in human lifespans.

    Bullshit #2 is that I made it explicitly clear that I understand the value of the new classification to cosmology. And was only critiquing the language of replacement.

  14. A body in motion etc. on Welcome To Laniakea, Our New Cosmic Home · · Score: 5, Interesting

    So I get the idea of the new grouping. Some things we used to consider our neighbors, we're actually just flying past and have no long term connection to.

    I get why that's useful. But I don't get why it'd replace our existing grouping. For a human lifespan, that grouping is all but permanent.

  15. Re:This is also how Sarah Palin's email got "hacke on Apple Denies Systems Breach In Photo Leak · · Score: 1

    Guess what I don't do. That thing you guessed I do.

  16. Straight to the pointless debate on Out of the Warehouse: Climate Researchers Rescue Long-Lost Satellite Images · · Score: 2

    I read this article earlier.
    Here's the things people are going to fixate on, without having near enough data actually genuinely analyze them.

    The article states that Antarctic Ice was way larger in are in 1964 than it is today(or was in 1972, the until-now earliest satellite data date)
    And the deniers are going to fixate on the fact that there were holes in the ice.

    And since there's not a lick of expert analysis vis-a-vis the implications for climate change involved there, I can't bring myself to care, what some people on slashdot are going to conclude without the numbers.

  17. Re:This is also how Sarah Palin's email got "hacke on Apple Denies Systems Breach In Photo Leak · · Score: 1

    No, I'm pretty sure it's the random guy, not 4chan as a whole, that's the douche, Mr. Anonymous-needs-defending.

    This is the "your lock could be picked so I let myself in" defense.

  18. Re:Subscribers? on Amazon's Plan To Storm the Cable Industry's Castle · · Score: 1

    To be topical: Amazon, perhaps? You have prime for old things on a subscription, and instant for newer things on a per episode basis.

  19. Re:This is also how Sarah Palin's email got on Apple Denies Systems Breach In Photo Leak · · Score: 1

    He's using SHA1 as a one time pad against people who know the answers to his questions, but not that he encrypts them.

    The algorithm being broken doesn't do the theoretical malicious actor any good. He could use a checksum/rot13/whatever and the effect would be the same.

  20. Re:Not just public figures on Apple Denies Systems Breach In Photo Leak · · Score: 1

    You're clearly arguing that the best solution is to have no friends.

    (Also how did you get Karma so bad that you're lower than ACs?)

  21. Re:This is also how Sarah Palin's email got "hacke on Apple Denies Systems Breach In Photo Leak · · Score: 2, Funny

    Sarah Palin has proven to be good at that.

    BOOM politics slam.

  22. Re:Subscribers? on Amazon's Plan To Storm the Cable Industry's Castle · · Score: 1

    I'm a little more of a hardliner than that.

    I say no ads at all. I'll gladly pay you for your product if I like it(and they fucking let me), but I won't suffer manipulation.

  23. This is also how Sarah Palin's email got "hacked" on Apple Denies Systems Breach In Photo Leak · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Remember 2008? Some random douche on 4chan just looked up her dog's name?

    Security questions do not work for public figures. Almost none of them will hold up to people whose whole lives are pointlessly documented.

  24. Re:Subscribers? on Amazon's Plan To Storm the Cable Industry's Castle · · Score: 3, Insightful

    And yet plenty of people are on huluPlus already.

  25. Re:The obvious solution... on Appeals Court Clears Yelp of Extortion Claims · · Score: 1

    most reviews were factually and demonstrably inaccurate

    That's different. That's open-and-shut libel, which yelp is liable for publishing. Cheap cease and desist letters might help.
    (Not a lawyer, though).