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  1. Re:At last... on Paul Allen Helps Find Sunken Japanese WWII Battleship Musashi Off Philippines · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It's not just their upgrade...they seem to really want to replicate Microsoft in its heyday, huge company, really shitty software. They managed to fuck up DNS on OS X....how the fuck do you fuck up something as critical and (relatively) simple and stable as DNS?

  2. Re:Snowden isn't coming - this is all a ruse on Snowden Reportedly In Talks To Return To US To Face Trial · · Score: 1

    Yup, the war in Ukraine and the collapse of the price of oil were are double whammy for Snowden, but then again he was really naÃve for thinking that Putin wouldn't sell him out in a second....

  3. Re:C++ is the only logically option on Ask Slashdot: Which Classic OOP Compiled Language: Objective-C Or C++? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Which is actually kind of sad, as an object oriented superset of C Objective-C is much much better than C++(for starters it's an actual superset of C, unlike C++). However it never gained any traction outside of the Apple ecosystem.

  4. Re:Be careful, Christians on ISIS Threatens Life of Twitter Founder After Thousands of Account Suspensions · · Score: 1

    i don't believe in any sky friends, so I don't know what you are ranting about.

  5. Re:Whinging about free press... on ISIS Threatens Life of Twitter Founder After Thousands of Account Suspensions · · Score: 1

    Hypocrisy is ok as long as you have your sky friend and his child molester(Mohammed was quite proud about banging a 9 year old... "9 year olds Dude") on your side. Didn't you know that the Magical Sky Friend chose these people, but refuses to help out because he is too busy making sure these people follow all the magical sky friend's arcane rules, or else the magical sky friend has a big sad.

  6. Re:We need to stop with the censorship already on ISIS Threatens Life of Twitter Founder After Thousands of Account Suspensions · · Score: 1

    They can't, because they force all their children to spend all their time memorizing the arcane rules of their sky friend. They fail to see the hypocrisy in constantly decrying the west meanwhile using all of it's technology. Either that or they feel themselves superior and thus they are "owed" technology on account that they are better friends with their sky friend and his child molester messenger.

  7. Re:This is hilarious... on It's Official: NSA Spying Is Hurting the US Tech Economy · · Score: 1

    Protectionism is also a huge factor, China constantly decries other countries as being "protectionist", meanwhile they are one of the most protectionist countries on the planet. The spying just gives them another excuse to claim that they aren't *REALLY* violating WTO rules, they are just protecting themselves(if the spying thing hadn't come up, some other excuse would have)

  8. Dual use on Apple Patents Head-Mounted iPhone · · Score: 4, Funny

    This doubles as birth control device as well.

  9. Re:Enormous debt? on China's Engineering Mega-Projects Dwarf the Great Wall · · Score: 1

    Um, I was speaking economically. While certainly there is a connection between economics and culture, it's nowhere near as strong as you seem to think it is(nor are the cultures all that different, both are at their core confucian societies). I never said that the Japanese would start selling their bonds, but it's doubtful with a savings rate that hovers around 1%(and with the current stagflation may even fall to below 0) that the Japanese can actually afford to buy new ones. Thats why the bonds may increasingly end up in foreign hands. You simply cannot buy bonds if you have no savings.

  10. Re:Enormous debt? on China's Engineering Mega-Projects Dwarf the Great Wall · · Score: 1

    The really huge gender skew will also likely limit population growth, because among the younger generations there simply are less females, meaning that even if the current birth rate is maintained, you still will end up with fewer people.

  11. Re:Enormous debt? on China's Engineering Mega-Projects Dwarf the Great Wall · · Score: 1

    Huh? The bubble burst in 1989, the earthquakes were in 2011, they aren't related.

  12. Re:Enormous debt? on China's Engineering Mega-Projects Dwarf the Great Wall · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Because China is on track to end up like Japan, an incredibly moribund economy with a shrinking working-age demographic(the population is barely growing and set to peak within a decade), an allergy to any sort of unemployment, even if temporary, and lots and lots of bad debt. I've been saying this for years, China copied the Japanese model right down to the bad debts. Japan has been creating "roads to nowhere" for decades and it has essentially netted them very little besides more debt(Japan has the highest debt to gdp ratio in the G7, something like 250%, though unlike the US debt most of it is still held domestically...for the moment anyway). China today is Japan circa 1988, lots and lots of exuberance, but the writing is on the wall. It will be interesting to see if China can learn from Japan's mistakes. My guess is no since the CCP knows that their biggest weakness is unemployment, but I guess we will see.

  13. Top video on galactic youtube on The Search For Starivores, Intelligent Life That Could Eat the Sun · · Score: 1

    Eating the sun seems like the ultimate "fire challenge"

  14. Re:Not sure what to think on Tumblr Co-Founder: Apple's Software Is In a Nosedive · · Score: 1

    Are you sure it's a software issue? If you are pushing your minis this hard and don't have sufficient cooling it could very well be that the hardware is shutting down because it's getting too hot....which would be true regardless of your OS choice. If you are doing something like this, a rack mounted server is a much better choice regardless of the OS.

  15. Re: who cares how many children on AirAsia Flight Goes Missing Between Indonesia and Singapore · · Score: 1

    Wow, I didn't realize Jonathan Swift posted on slashdot.

  16. Re:lots of lag and will eatup your download cap. on PlayStation Game-Streaming Service Comes To Samsung Smart TVs In 2015 · · Score: 1

    if you use netflix without waiting for buffering, you likly have the bandwidth rate to game remoatly.

    I keep on trying, but the black knight who guards the socket on the other end of the moat won't let me plug in my TV.

  17. Re: I'm not surprised they don't want to defect on North Korean Defector Spills Details On the Country's Elite Hacking Force · · Score: 1

    Let's also not forget "love of pussy" and "love of money". These elites are also often essentially bribed to stay with access to premium housing and often whatever women they want.

  18. Re:"We didn't do it. Shutup or we'll do it again." on US Seeks China's Help Against North Korean Cyberattacks · · Score: 1

    Um, have you ever thought that maybe the reason there wasn't any response until June 2014 was because the movie wasn't hyped until then? Do you really think there is someone deep in the bowels of Pyongyang scraping TMZ looking for any hints of a movie that may not be portraying North Korea in a glowing fashion?

  19. Boy who cried "wolf" on Google Proposes To Warn People About Non-SSL Web Sites · · Score: 2

    Have they ever read "The boy who cried wolf"? You warn people that their local community bulletin board website isn't encrypted enough times and they will probably start to ignore all your warnings. All this would probably do is annoy people to the extent that they will automatically click away any warning window, including when certs are invalid, possibly forged etc. In other words, it will really annoy people and could even be detrimental to security. Maybe if they restricted it to POSTs not GETs, though that may just incentivize lazy developers to use GETs instead of POSTs.....

  20. Re:Terrible on Russia Takes Down Steve Jobs Memorial After Apple's Tim Cook Comes Out · · Score: 5, Interesting

    You are looking at this through your own cultural lens. Take a step back and look at in the context of the broader culture and conditions in which these men live. Polygamy and much shorter lifespans for women has created a shortage of marriageable women in Afghanistan. This coupled with severe cultural taboos on pre-marital sex(in the case of Afghanistan, it's not just a taboo, it's illegal) means that for many men, especially those on the lower rungs of the economic ladder, other men are essentially the only way they can have sex.

    This is not much different from any other situation where women are rare to non-existant(prison, the front lines of a war etc). In these situations men often engage in what is referred to as "trade", but of course none of them wants to label themselves homosexual because:
    a) homosexuality is taboo and/or illegal where they come from and/or
    b) they aren't actually gay, they are only engaging in homosexual behavior because that's all they have available to them.

    It doesn't surprise me at all that men in Afghanistan are having sex with each other but not declaring themselves to be gay.....

  21. Re:What a great idea! on US Army May Relax Physical Requirements To Recruit Cyber Warriors · · Score: 1

    My former boss smoked weed(at Microsoft of all places) and basically had to write an essay when she applied for her clearance that basically said, "Weed is bad, I won't smoke weed anymore". Sort of a 3rd-grade level punishment but

  22. Re:Cuba sends doctors, US sends soldiers on Pentagon Builds Units To Transport Ebola Patients · · Score: 0

    Yeah, because all those US doctors who got ebola got sick because they were overseeing ebola patients in the mines they were overseeing. Your ignorance is showing, maybe your anti-US hatred is clouding your view of reality.

  23. Re:Yawn... on How Sony, Intel, and Unix Made Apple's Mac a PC Competitor · · Score: 1

    Yeah, Sony has been making parts for Apple well... pretty much since Apple started making computers. The author is either ignorant of history or just plain doesn't care. Either way a worthless article.

  24. Want to contribute to the EFF? on Ask Slashdot: Aging and Orphan Open Source Projects? · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I will make a donation to the EFF for 5 cents for every thumbs down and 10 cents for every troll comment on the following: video

  25. Troll request on Internet Broadband Through High-altitude Drones · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Please troll this video, it desperately needs trolls.