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  1. See "John Doe" use in court. Not very difficult at all.

    John Doe is when the accuser is holding back on naming the defendant, not the other way around, and the purpose is not to hide identity but to initiate the process before some kind of deadline occurs (such as a statute of limitation). It's usually because the actual defendant is not yet known (is it the CEO? the CFO? etc), and by the time it gets to court if this is still a John Doe the case is dismissed.

    In other words, clearly YANAL.

  2. It's funny how when the bully's get bullied back, they suddenly don't like it.

    Well, when Gawker took it up the pooper thanks to Hulk Hogan, they also suddenly didn't like being on the receiving side of bullying. That's life.

    As for the orange troll - no he didn't "endorse" violence against the media, that's an outright lie. You may not like his stance about the media, but that's because you share their liberal bias.

    Imagine if the situation was reversed; if 90% of the media was like Fox News; how would you feel about the way "the media" covers your liberal politicians? If all they did was loop sound bites taken out of context to make your candidate look bad, or were sending emails to the other party asking how they can help (like we saw in the wikileaks)?

  3. So, a real-life example of the Dunning-Kruger effect?

    You've been using the Dunning-Kruger effect in a lot of posts recently. Did you just discover it and can't help but see it everywhere? Or are you simply a one-trick pony?

  4. Re: idiots on Amazon and eBay Images Broken By Photobucket's 'Ransom Demand' (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Thinking before acting is overrated in your opinion?

    Thinking *instead* of acting is the real problem. And yes, if you have to choose a leader and your only options are one that thinks too much before acting and one that doesn't think enough, it's best to pick the second one. If you are familiar with military history, for instance, you will see that the biggest disasters and blunders were made by wafflers, not by hotheads.

  5. Re: idiots on Amazon and eBay Images Broken By Photobucket's 'Ransom Demand' (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Making decisions is difficult and takes a toll; there is such as thing as decision fatigue, that's why Steve Jobs was always wearing the same thing.

    https://medium.com/personal-gr...

    As for understanding all the nuances and ramifications, I think it doesn't apply all that much in high-level executive jobs (including the presidency). Life is complex, and if you get down the rabbit hole you waste way too much time while other matters are waiting. The guy at the top of the pyramid has to grasp things globally and make calls based on the available information. It's people lower in the ranks that have the luxury of swimming in data.

    Anyways for the most part it's ludicrous to assume that anyone can really foresee all the consequences and ramifications of decisions. Here's an example. Let's say you just deposed a dictator, who was part of a minority that has been in power for a while. Do you replace the leaders of that minority with leaders from the majority that has suffered under that regime? If you answered yes, then congratulations, you just made the same mistake that was made in Iraq and led to the creation of ISIS. If you answered no, then congratulations, you just made the same mistake that was made in Iran and led to the Islamic Revolution.

  6. he suffers from the Dunning-Kruger effect. He is completely confident that everything he just said is funny and intelligent.

    the best part about the Dunning-Kruger effect is that most idiots don't get it and quote it without realizing how wrong they are; it's very similar to irony in that regard.

  7. Re: idiots on Amazon and eBay Images Broken By Photobucket's 'Ransom Demand' (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Being more capable at making decisions is not necessarily a good thing.

    Yes. You can make up outlandish examples if you want, but for a person in charge (such as a president), being more capable at making decisions is a good thing.

  8. Do you actually think liberals smoke more pot than conservatives?

    Yes. They even did studies of dorm rooms, comparing those of conservatives and liberals. They found that conservatives had more cleaning supplies and sports posters, and liberals had more entertainment apparatus.

  9. Re: What could possibly go wrong? on 'Call For a Ban On Child Sex Robots' (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    German has stopped even trying to prosecute rape of the offender isn't white. More countries will probably follow.

    The UK does it too.

    "Paedophile gang's abuse lasted 16 YEARS as authorities feared being labelled racist if they tackled it"
    http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/u...

    and again:
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  10. Re:What could possibly go wrong? on 'Call For a Ban On Child Sex Robots' (bbc.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    That's like Walmart who stopped selling toy guns but keep seeling real ones.

  11. Re: idiots on Amazon and eBay Images Broken By Photobucket's 'Ransom Demand' (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    my picture of a Norton Antivirus Basic box

    Wait, is it some kind of art trend that I'm not aware of, or are people really buying that to install on their computers?

  12. If you paid $100 for a steak you got ripped off. I can tell because clearly the GM borrowed the suit he wears on the photo and the chef looks like an aspie who's playing pocket pool. Those people can't deliver a good $100 steak.

    https://www.craftsteaklasvegas...

  13. Re: idiots on Amazon and eBay Images Broken By Photobucket's 'Ransom Demand' (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Trump supporters really have the biggest brains I tell you, they did a study

    They actually did a study a while ago and found out that conservative people are more capable at making decisions. That's why more things happen per week with Trump than during the entire Obama administration, who was petrified in doubt and insecurity.

  14. Re: Time for the judicial to know its place. on Court Blocks EPA Effort To Suspend Obama-Era Methane Rule (pbs.org) · · Score: 1

    Why do you mourn democracy? Every time you lose your elections you riot and talk about impeachment and murder. Why don't you step out of your hypocrisy and just flat out say that you will never accept the results of an election that doesn't go your way?

    Since day 1 of the Trump presidency the sour grapes like you have been "warning us" about fascism and the financial mayhem and the poor people dying in the streets and the world war and the police state, but guess what, so far the only sources of trouble are you, the losers. The country is in a better place than under Obama and that just makes your pussy hurt, doesn't it?

  15. Authoritarians hardest hit.

    "Let's get rid of authoritarians and put religious fanatics in charge!"

    Is Florida one of those super religious bible areas?

    Used to be a blue state, now they voted Trump so this kind of bashing is to be expected.

  16. Texas public schools are proof that phony religionists with a political agenda can convert public schools (and public school curriculum) into their own publicly funded religious institutions.

    Yes, and countless incidents of students freaking out about their "safe space" and "intolerant" teachers are proof that pot-smoking liberals have converted colleges into their own church of mediocrity and entitlement. What's new?

  17. Re:Time for the judicial to know its place. on Court Blocks EPA Effort To Suspend Obama-Era Methane Rule (pbs.org) · · Score: 0

    They got all excited when they slowed down the immigration ban, so now they're trying to impose the agenda again. All they're doing is making people wonder about them, like it happened with the mainstream media during the election.

  18. Re: The problem with systemd on 'Severe' Systemd Bug Allowed Remote Code Execution For Two Years (itwire.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Lately I had a flaky service and to get it working I ended up wrapping the daemon in a shell script, and had systemd call that shell script instead. I still had to fight with systemctl because apparently it knows better than me how long a daemon should take to start before giving up, but I managed to get it working *in spite* of systemd.

    Now I have a Docker-first policy and for the most part it's to avoid dealing with systemd.

  19. Re: Now it becomes clear... on 'Severe' Systemd Bug Allowed Remote Code Execution For Two Years (itwire.com) · · Score: 1

    It's just a matter of time before we get kernelctl. Then Linux will be perfect since the whole ecosystem will have been "improved" to work with systemd. No more discrepancies between distributions; just one big binary file.

    When this is done, maybe The Hero could go and save other things, like smartphones and IoT devices.

  20. Re:Time for tar and feathers? on 'Severe' Systemd Bug Allowed Remote Code Execution For Two Years (itwire.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Followed your link, and interestingly:

    poettering locked and limited conversation to collaborators 23 hours ago

    He's a real team player

  21. Re: Doesn't belong here on Seeking YouTube Fame, A Teenager Kills Her Boyfriend (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 0

    He was talking about melons.
    Besides, Trump isn't competent enough to be a fascist.

    Maybe, but I'm sure that unlike you, he's competent enough to understand how threads work on Slashdot.

    Just kidding, he can't even send proper tweets.

  22. Re:And the sheriff doesn't understand? on Seeking YouTube Fame, A Teenager Kills Her Boyfriend (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    Human beings aren't like that. While they have to accept responsibility, they are note solely responsible. Why is that so hard for your to grasp?

    It's not hard for me "to grasp" that you're draping yourself in the cloth of social virtue instead of looking at things for what they are.

    Here we have two kids living in the land of opportunity (Minnesota unemployment rate is under 4%, placing it in the top 15 states) who choose to make a video of one shooting at the other as a mean to get instant access to fame and money.

    They could have spent that time working their way up the ladder in any organization, or creating a small business (lots of programs to help your entrepreneurs in MN), or learned to sing and at the very least try to get famous for their music. But no. They choose the shortcut and didn't even spend 5 minutes on google to find out that their stunt was ill-designed.

    We are talking about careless, idiotic fame-seekers with no skills and no interest in hard work. If you want to play the game of finding who is responsible beyond them, suits yourself, but society/the media/trump/religion/global warming had nothing to do with it. Stupidity, laziness and greed, that's all there is in this case.

  23. Re: Doesn't belong here on Seeking YouTube Fame, A Teenager Kills Her Boyfriend (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 0

    I don't know if you realize to what point the whole "trump is a fascist" thing is just happening in your head

  24. They need help on China's Rocket Fails After Liftoff (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Maybe they could hire the engineers of Troposphere V.

    https://youtu.be/bF55DtTx458?t...

  25. Re:Just FYI: bullets go thru things on Seeking YouTube Fame, A Teenager Kills Her Boyfriend (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    This is why I can't stand it when on TV bullets are stopped just by squatting behind a couch. You really think some foam and fabric will stop bullets? :-)

    No, the bullets are stopped by the gallons of useless flame-retardant chemicals that furniture are doused in. Polybrominated diphenyl ethers bind with foam and creates a kevlar-like polymer.