The autism caused by vax was reported by a doctor doing research.
No, it was reported by a doctor perpetrating a fraud. "Doctor" Wakefield's paper was subsequently retracted by The Lancet and he was thrown out of medicine permanently.
Phil Jones has admitted to falsifying data
Sorry, no. He did no such thing. What you just said is the Fox "News" version of the story, in which the truth is far more complicated than you make it. There wasn't any kind of fraud going on, and to talk about this in the same manner as if Jones is equal to Wakefield is pure, unadulterated, bullshit.
There was an investigation spurred by a *republican* and the result was that Jones was vindicated. Which was a fact that you conveniently left out of your "just so" story.
"They obviously do not have what it takes to write their own...."
You can say this about nearly all programmers, artists, singers, etc. To pretend that your creation is unique means that you have to ignore everything that you've learned in your life up to that point. It's the height of hubris.
Even Einstein based much of his insights on what Maxwell did.
Everything is derivative. The only difference is magnitude.
> When you're in the middle of nowhere, you aren't covered by anyone's 911 service.
But that's not true.
As long as you're covered by a tower or repeater, you're on a 911 service as long as you're in the US. Even if you don't have GPS, the law says that the wireless services need to be able to triangulate.
Using your logic, it would be impossible for anyone stranded on Mt. Washington (the middle of nowhere and high up in the sky) to get 911 service, which is blatantly not true.
That said, I'm not sure what use any of the connections are, when most of the people in someone's circle on a social work are not representative of people they choose to have part of their actual real-life circle.
This is the most important thing about why using social media "friends" networks to somehow divine whether one is a good credit risk, good at a job, or/anything/ is just dumb and frankly nonsensical, and this is why this whole "online identity==offline identity" business offends me and should offend everyone here.
Whether it's Facebook or some other social media (even going back to the Dialup BBS days - plus Ãa change, plus c'est la mÃme chose ) doesn't matter. The whole concept is flawed.
Now it isn't even your supposed social-graph determining your credibility, but trolls.
Synchronicitous radio:
The real trolls file fake liens (story on NPR right now - All Things Considered).
Only if you're applying for credit or an account at a financial institution as "bmo".
There are plenty of people who post with their real names here.
There are people who have totally fake profiles on Facebook, in spite of the Facebook TOS/AUP.
But that's totally irrelevant to the point I made. The point is that participation in online discussion is vulnerable to data-mining irrespective of the forum. Ranting about Facebook as if it's somehow more "dangerous" than Slashdot, or any other publicly available site, is myopic.
It doesn't matter whether it's Facebook or not. Your average Slashdot karma "score" and "friend," "foe," and "freak" settings could be abused like this.
This ignores the versatility of the word "fuck" in English, which can be a verb, noun, adjective, and adverb all at the same time in the same sentence.
Slashdot Mirror
We've been making organic computers since forever ago.
We call them children.
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"A team of researchers claims to have created the world's fastest spinning man-made object."
A politician?
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"Sedagive?!"
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And some day, they will replicate HITLER'S BRAIN IN A JAR!
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0265870/
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>Burt Rutan
>canard
Bravo, I fucking lost it.
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...make stupid (or dangerous) decisions.
Film at 11.
These anti-vaxxers need to be prosecuted for child abuse.
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The autism caused by vax was reported by a doctor doing research.
No, it was reported by a doctor perpetrating a fraud. "Doctor" Wakefield's paper was subsequently retracted by The Lancet and he was thrown out of medicine permanently.
Phil Jones has admitted to falsifying data
Sorry, no. He did no such thing. What you just said is the Fox "News" version of the story, in which the truth is far more complicated than you make it. There wasn't any kind of fraud going on, and to talk about this in the same manner as if Jones is equal to Wakefield is pure, unadulterated, bullshit.
There was an investigation spurred by a *republican* and the result was that Jones was vindicated. Which was a fact that you conveniently left out of your "just so" story.
I just can't figure that part out.
Because you are a moron. Full stop.
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>No one mentioned 3D copying?
We've been doing this for thousands of years. Since prehistory, even.
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He hasn't even seen a machine tool.
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RE: Your Sig.
I'm looking for examples of beautiful open source code in every language. If you know of any, please let me know.
A programmer version of Diogenes, looking for "one honest man" finding none?
http://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=181
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Which is why people like Ray Kurzweil can still get away with the nonsense they write.
The singularity is bunk.
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In the 47 years I have spent on this rock, I have yet to see a futurist reliably predict the future.
Where the fuck is my flying car?
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>never had a revolutionary idea in their lives
Name an invention that was never based on a previous invention.
I'll wait right here.
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"They obviously do not have what it takes to write their own...."
You can say this about nearly all programmers, artists, singers, etc. To pretend that your creation is unique means that you have to ignore everything that you've learned in your life up to that point. It's the height of hubris.
Even Einstein based much of his insights on what Maxwell did.
Everything is derivative. The only difference is magnitude.
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Really?
>hit print button hoping it gives the whole article
>only first page
tmp;dr
Even Cracked only divides up their "top 10" lists into two pages.
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>french quote
>slashdot butchers anything not ASCII because no Unicode
Fucking slashdot.
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> When you're in the middle of nowhere, you aren't covered by anyone's 911 service.
But that's not true.
As long as you're covered by a tower or repeater, you're on a 911 service as long as you're in the US. Even if you don't have GPS, the law says that the wireless services need to be able to triangulate.
http://www.fcc.gov/guides/wireless-911-services
Using your logic, it would be impossible for anyone stranded on Mt. Washington (the middle of nowhere and high up in the sky) to get 911 service, which is blatantly not true.
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Thank you for edifying me.
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That said, I'm not sure what use any of the connections are, when most of the people in someone's circle on a social work are not representative of people they choose to have part of their actual real-life circle.
This is the most important thing about why using social media "friends" networks to somehow divine whether one is a good credit risk, good at a job, or /anything/ is just dumb and frankly nonsensical, and this is why this whole "online identity==offline identity" business offends me and should offend everyone here.
Whether it's Facebook or some other social media (even going back to the Dialup BBS days - plus Ãa change, plus c'est la mÃme chose ) doesn't matter. The whole concept is flawed.
Now it isn't even your supposed social-graph determining your credibility, but trolls.
Synchronicitous radio:
The real trolls file fake liens (story on NPR right now - All Things Considered).
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BMO
Only if you're applying for credit or an account at a financial institution as "bmo".
There are plenty of people who post with their real names here.
There are people who have totally fake profiles on Facebook, in spite of the Facebook TOS/AUP.
But that's totally irrelevant to the point I made. The point is that participation in online discussion is vulnerable to data-mining irrespective of the forum. Ranting about Facebook as if it's somehow more "dangerous" than Slashdot, or any other publicly available site, is myopic.
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Really... a 911 dispatcher would be completely at a loss as to what to do if they got a call from Burning Man,
Modern cellphones that have GPS receivers transmit GPS coordinates when calling 911. This has been the law for quite some time now.
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And you miss the point entirely.
It doesn't matter whether it's Facebook or not. Your average Slashdot karma "score" and "friend," "foe," and "freak" settings could be abused like this.
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Fuck ~= vittu, literally cunt, from Swedish fitta
This ignores the versatility of the word "fuck" in English, which can be a verb, noun, adjective, and adverb all at the same time in the same sentence.
Perkele, I am told, is just as versatile.
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I thought the Finnish F-word was the P word. Perkele.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=op68Gh3BVEc
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It's been "The Year of the Linux Desktop" for me since February 1998.
What's your excuse?
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