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  1. Facebook will continue to be a platform for racism on Mark Zuckerberg Confronts 'Hate Speech' In Germany And At Facebook (csmonitor.com) · · Score: 0

    His response to people scrawling "All Lives Matter" was "All Opinions Matter". Facebook isn't interested in taking a stand on racism, in USA, Germany, or anywhere. It thrives on it.

  2. Re:Programs people want to use... on How We'll Program 1000 Cores - and Get Linus Ranting, Again · · Score: 1

    It's ridiculous that not only does the article not mention Erlang or Haskell, but no high modded comment does either.

    Sad. Erlang's been around for more than 25 years with its successful lockless model.

  3. Re: Sad? Saddest? on The Sony Pictures Hack Was Even Worse Than Everyone Thought · · Score: 1

    " By that logic we are responsible for the governments actions in all things, because we support them" YES. THIS. It's what your so-called democracy is supposed to f'ing mean, innit.

  4. Quibble on First Star War Episode 7 Trailer Released · · Score: 1

    How is this automatically "homoerotic"? Girls don't "sip" from "straws"??

  5. Intransigent vendors on Ask Slashdot: Dealing With an Unresponsive Manufacturer Who Doesn't Fix Bugs? · · Score: 2

    ...Is a major reason the GPL and free software / open source movements exist. Remember proprietary Unix and its tool support in the 1980s?

  6. Would anyone notice on Australian Police Arrest 15, Charge 2, For Alleged Islamic State Beheading Plot · · Score: 1

    If Abbott lost his head? http://www.theguardian.com/wor...

  7. Not kidding - Functional Programming on Scotland's Independence Vote Could Shake Up Industry · · Score: 1

    Was practically invented in Scotland - The universities of Edinburgh (and Cambridge too) being home to FP research (and researchers like the late Professor Robin Milner and the very much alive Dr Philip Wadler, https://twitter.com/philipwadl... ) that is at least as significant to our industry as Lisp (maybe, eventually, even moreso) - the branch of languages and theory that begat the ML family and begat Haskell.

  8. Correction on Chinese Couple Sells Children To Support Online Game Addiction · · Score: 1

    Apparently it's not "unthinkable".

  9. Escrow service? on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Ensure Creative Commons Compliance At Your Company? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Send a copy of the image and the license agreement to a 3rd party on concluding it.

  10. pedallers* on Shawn Raymond's Tandem Bike is Shorter Than Yours (Video) · · Score: 1

    Blame autocorrect?

  11. Re: AWS is too expensive on Amazon Wants To Run Your High-Performance Databases · · Score: 1

    A software RAID implementation like ZFS is superior to hardware RAID (it has a far higher standard of integrity and flexibility designed in), and you can monitor it however you wish. You can run it on cloud services.

  12. AWS Support isn't exactly chopped liver on Amazon Wants To Run Your High-Performance Databases · · Score: 1
  13. Maybe not so clear cut on Amazon Wants To Run Your High-Performance Databases · · Score: 1

    Re Hachette: Nice background http://www.hughhowey.com/more-...

  14. Obviously: on NSA Surveillance Reform Bill Passes House 303 Votes To 121 · · Score: 0

    Now we need to spy on those 121 dissenters to find out what the fuck they were thinking.

  15. Why is it okay to mistreat non-engineers? Why does job title make any difference?

  16. Why didn't they just use a film camera? on CSI Style Zoom Sees Faces Reflected In Subjects' Eyes · · Score: 1

    Medium format film runs into 100s of "megapixels" (i.e. up to 10x the resolution of the digital camera they used) and large format even higher.

  17. Re:a different perspective on Learning To Code: Are We Having Fun Yet? · · Score: 1
    Well, Scala, anyway.

    Ruby is only a liability.

  18. Even better on Java 8 Developer Preview Released · · Score: 1

    You can use one of the open source distributions that were forked from OpenSolaris (more or less): Nexenta, Illumos, etc

    ZFS alone makes this more than worthwhile, although you can now have ZFS with FreeBSD, OS X, and even Linux.

  19. Well said on LulzSec's Raynaldo Rivera, a.k.a. 'neuron,' Gets One-Year Prison Term · · Score: 1

    Anyone who wants "raw, uninterrupted, chaotic thrill of anarchy" just needs to observe Wall Street and banks.

    Watch Inside Job to get a look at the greedy scum who've infiltrated and taken control of every institution including our governments.

  20. & people wonder on Former Cal State Student Gets Year In Prison For Rigging Campus Election · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Why it is a social problem that there is no accountability whatsoever for the crimes and deceptions and election rigging of the rich, famous, well-connected, political dynasties and the One Party.

  21. Re:Another stupid Musk idea on Colorado Company Says It Plans To Test Hyperloop Transport System · · Score: 1
    Clearly the answer is

    1. NY to declare war on LA!

    2. Money piñata!

  22. Companies that respect experience on Silicon Valley In 2013 Resembles Logan's Run In 2274 · · Score: 1

    you can probably find a company whose culture is a better fit for people over 40.

    Amazon.

  23. NoSQL on Silicon Valley In 2013 Resembles Logan's Run In 2274 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    "Case in point NoSQL. Who had it first? Open Source"

    Depends how you define NoSQL. DynamoDB paper was published circa 2007 but the product is not open source. What open source product did you have in mind that defines NoSQL? BerkeleyDB?

    NodeJS, PHP, Ruby are the village idiots... not really worth bragging about :) But beyond these, yes, some very impressive platforms are open source.

  24. LOL on WA Post Publishes 4 More Slides On Data Collection From Google, Et Al · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If you think Assange is "untouchable" then the past 100 years of fascist history, and even the vaguest grasp of what your government has done and is doing, have passed you by.

  25. Only 99% of them on Server Farms Flourish In Iowa: Microsoft Plows $700M More Into Des Moines · · Score: 1

    n/t