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  1. People who were associated with... on Assange Implies Murdered DNC Staffer Was WikiLeaks' Source (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    I wonder if you take some random individual (especially someone whose profession is to interact with people and groups of people) and map all the people they were ever associated with and find a.... gasp!.... number of individuals who met with an untimely demise.

  2. Operatoring Systems are still too complicated on TVs Are Still Too Complicated, and It's Not Your Fault (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    And it is not your fault either... err well maybe it is.

  3. Obligitory theme song on Mozilla To Remove Hello In Firefox 49 (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1
  4. Sad state of affairs on C Isn't The Most Popular Programming Language, JavaScript Is (networkworld.com) · · Score: 1

    That the ugliest language is the most popular due to an odd set of circumstances.

  5. What's his phone number on Judge Rules Political Robocalls Are Protected By First Amendment (onthewire.io) · · Score: 1

    Someone should organize the "Do Not Call" political party and put him on a hourly loop with vitally important messages.

  6. Re:could have died != almost died on Harrison Ford Could Have Died In Star Wars Set Incident, Court Hears (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    "Andrew Marshall, prosecuting, said the breaches had caused a “risk of death” and that if the emergency stop had not been pressed in time, it could have been a very different outcome for Ford. “It could have killed somebody. The fact that it didn’t was because an emergency stop was activated,”

  7. Re:Who is Kurzweil? Why should I care? on Kurzweil Argues Technology Improves The World, Compares DNA to Code (geekwire.com) · · Score: 1

    Either life is rare and we are one of the few if not only intelligent, self-aware entities in the universe or due to the immensity of the universe life is common and rather prevalent though out. Either possibility is mind blowing.

  8. Re:Who is Kurzweil? Why should I care? on Kurzweil Argues Technology Improves The World, Compares DNA to Code (geekwire.com) · · Score: 1

    Is God watching or will God (that is the singleton) emerge and be present latter in the progress of the Universe. Perhaps we have it all backwards... Are you for or against the singularity? Your position on the matter may determine where your essence spends eternity.

  9. I get the feeling that on Scientists' Biggest Search For Dark Matter To Date Just Turned Up Nothing (sciencealert.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    dark matter is today's epicycles

  10. Re:Stupid python comment on The Slashdot Interview With Larry Wall · · Score: 1

    I dunno but I do

    open($file, "file.txt");
    my @data = <$file>;

    To slurp in a whole file

  11. I seriously don't know what you point is. It would be instructive for you to concisely state your point. If you think that police killed in the line of service and crime committing citizens killed by police should equal their per capita percentages your are nuts. The police routinely deal with desperate people in desperate situations, the worst of the worst, including those who seek suicide by cops. Your percentages do not take that into consideration. Your attempts at logical reasoning are seriously flawed.

    To further demonstrate you illogical and irrational position when you say:

    Because every criminal, especially jaywalkers, should be executed on the spot?

    Your fallacy is ---> strawman fallacy.

    Again police routinely deal with and are better

  12. Re:I was just thinking of this today on Baton Rouge Police Database Hacked In Retaliation For Killing of Alton Sterling (dailydot.com) · · Score: 1

    You are probably wrong.. you weren't shot probably because you didn't have a concealed weapon to which your hands were moving towards.

  13. Re:Really? A paedophile with a history of violence on Baton Rouge Police Database Hacked In Retaliation For Killing of Alton Sterling (dailydot.com) · · Score: 1

    " they can't control his hands"

    Exactly. You said it yourself. And what are hands good for when someone is armed and desperate?

  14. " There is pretty much no way you can misinterpret that video"

    Looks like you did. How do you know what Sterling is doing with his other hand that you can't see? If he was resisting arrest, and continued to go for his gun this was justifiable. A token fight eh? It only takes a small movement and trigger pull to kill either cop who are trying to subdue Sterling. You do not resist arrest while carrying a weapon...

  15. Of course the statistics are asymmetrical. Seriously were you expecting this number to be about equal? What is your point?

    Look how many people commit suicide by cop? Further cops are generally better armed, better trained and deal with desperate people who usually have nothing to lose. So I am if anything surprised that the ratio is as it is.

    And when you say "shidt all the risk off of themselves and onto the public" What you really mean is the criminal inclined public. Why don't you train to be cop and maybe you can try out these social caring attitudes in in real life.

  16. Retaliation? on Baton Rouge Police Database Hacked In Retaliation For Killing of Alton Sterling (dailydot.com) · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Resisting arrest and wrestling with police while possessing a gun is not healthy - this can't be stressed enough.

    We have a gun loving culture and as such police having a hair trigger mentality is a survival advantage. A local cop in my area hesitated last year and paid the price, they got great body cam video of the criminal searching his dead body for another weapon.

  17. What if the tractor trailer was on autopilot? on US Regulators Investigating Tesla Over Use of 'Autopilot' Mode Linked To Fatal Crash (cnbc.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    This would not have occurred I suspect.

  18. Re:Was this before or after on Scientists Say The Asteroid That Killed The Dinosaurs Almost Wiped Us Out Too (theweek.com) · · Score: 1

    I have facebook contacts that seriously promote a flat earth...

  19. Re:Can I be hit if I don't use swagger? on Java, PHP, NodeJS, and Ruby Tools Compromised By Severe Swagger Vulnerability (threatpost.com) · · Score: 1

    I think swagger is like WSDL using json instead of xml

  20. And then less known artist who don't mind having their music shared will get more exposure. When Prince died I hardly knew any songs he had ever done, despite all the hype yada yada on how important he was. Evidently he was very protective of his music.

  21. I wonder... on Online Loans Made In China Using Nude Pictures As Collateral · · Score: 4, Funny

    I wonder how big a loan the goatse.cx guy forfeited on.

  22. What is to worry... they have a money back guarantee

  23. Crowd sourcing? on Attackers Steal $12.7M In Massive ATM Heist (mainichi.jp) · · Score: 1

    Crowd sourcing white collar crime.

  24. Re:i wonder difference in cost of mirror vs PV pan on Google-Backed Solar Plant Catches on Fire (pv-tech.org) · · Score: 1

    Even if there is cost parity, molten salt plants have the benefit that they continue to generate electricity long after the sun goes down, something which obviously is not possible with visible spectrum photovoltaics.

    The Ivanpah Solar Power does not use molten salt but its entire cycle is steam. However now that you bring it up one needs to do a cost comparison of molten salt energy storage to new battery technology.

    I think concentrating solar production like the Ivanpah will be left in the dust for photovoltaic in the future... photovoltaic is getting cheaper, has less problems, less environmental impact and can easily be decentralized or located closer to the demand.

  25. Trust Fund Babies on AI Will Create 'Useless Class' Of Human, Predicts Bestselling Historian (theguardian.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Looks like we will all be trust fund babies... collecting art, sampling fine wine, travelling to exotic places, etc. Bring it on.