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  1. Re: answer: no on Is Blockchain the Most Important IT Invention of Our Age? (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    If it ever became worthwhile for a government to compromise these systems, they will.

    When it became worthwhile for a government to compromise these systems, they did.

    TFTFY.

  2. Re:selective enforcement on Utah Bill Would Require IT Workers To Report Child Porn (ksl.com) · · Score: 2

    Naw, that's legit, if a bit bureaucracy-speak-y.

    My own disquiet lies in the fact there appear to be Slashdotters who will mod a post Insightful for referring to the "pumpkin papers"...

  3. Re:How big is this problem? on Utah Bill Would Require IT Workers To Report Child Porn (ksl.com) · · Score: 1

    If you can show that you made your report in good faith, there's no legal basis for firing you or taking any other punitive action, and the courts will almost certainly side with you on this.

  4. Re:GMO itself isn't the problem. Its how its used on Fraud Detected In Science Research That Suggested GMO Crops Were Harmful (nature.com) · · Score: 1

    My wife doesn't let me use Teflon-ware because she has two degrees in chemistry and knows exactly what happens when you scratch or scorch it.

  5. Re:GMO itself isn't the problem. Its how its used on Fraud Detected In Science Research That Suggested GMO Crops Were Harmful (nature.com) · · Score: 1

    You've posted that link plenty of times now. Yes, that patent has expired. No, it's not a get-out-.of-jail-free card.

  6. If producers of GMO foods have nothing to hide, then they shouldn't object to any factual labelling of their products, no?

  7. Re:Really? on Diary of Anne Frank Subject To Copyright Dispute (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Christ fuck this is goddamn history.

    Indeed it is. Learn something from it, why don't you?

  8. Re: How about slashdot fix the headline.. on Fedora Linux Might Drop Incremental Upgrades (happyassassin.net) · · Score: 1

    Apparently I whoooshed one of the mods as well.

  9. Re:The main problem with Linux on Fedora Linux Might Drop Incremental Upgrades (happyassassin.net) · · Score: 1

    I recall celebrating The Year of the Linux Desktop in 2005. Maybe you were asleep and missed it.

  10. Re:I never upgrade Linux on Fedora Linux Might Drop Incremental Upgrades (happyassassin.net) · · Score: 1

    I always do fresh installs since I have a /home on a separate partition.

    OpenSUSE user here, been doing essentially the same as you for years. I have difficulty seeing why anyone would want to do it any other way.

  11. Re: How about slashdot fix the headline.. on Fedora Linux Might Drop Incremental Upgrades (happyassassin.net) · · Score: 0

    You're referring to "Windows 10" as in "I quit using Windows 10 years ago, what took you so long"?

  12. Re:They aren't volunteers on French Drug Trial Leaves One Brain Dead and Five Critically Ill (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    And there's the root of your false dichotomy: "For no financial gain" != "Not compensated".

  13. I just know that I keep wanting to read the title as "Crappy Bitcoin Trader...".

  14. Re:Of course it does on What Spotlighting Harassment In Astronomy Means · · Score: 1
  15. Re:Here we go. on What Spotlighting Harassment In Astronomy Means · · Score: 1

    Yes, but--to be fair--have you looked at what's actually in the shops these days? It's a bit challenging to buy non-micro popcorn when they're not selling any...

    (Just got a new cast-iron wok, never thought to make popcorn in it, though. I'll have to give that a try. But see above.)

  16. I LOL'ed.

    (Maybe you should heed your own advice, killjoy.)

  17. Re:What the fuck has happened to Slashdot?! on How We Know North Korea Didn't Detonate a Hydrogen Bomb · · Score: 1

    Forgot one:

    * The destruction of the GNOME project thanks to the horribly failed GNOME 3 debacle.

    "And nothing of value was lost".

  18. Re:What the fuck has happened to Slashdot?! on How We Know North Korea Didn't Detonate a Hydrogen Bomb · · Score: 2

    * The fall of the GPL thanks to people wanting to use truly free licenses like the BSD and MIT licenses.

    Your phrasing clearly shows an agenda. This "fall" is occurring only in the dreams of those who want to corporatise OSS software while giving nothing back.

    * The Go and Swift programming language success stories.

    *What* Go and Swift programming language success stories?

    * The rise of FreeBSD and OpenBSD, thanks to systemd ruining Linux.

    While I'm not a huge fan of systemd (wouldn't miss it, were it to... die in a fire, for instance), this hasn't kept *me* from using Linux for the last decade-plus. I don't see it stopping many other folks, either.

  19. Re:Forbes Warning on How We Know North Korea Didn't Detonate a Hydrogen Bomb · · Score: 1

    I've started tagging all submissions from this person as bangspam. You are free to do likewise, or not.

  20. Re:Female fighters posing over ISIS dead ... on Tokyo Rose 2.0: White House Asks Silicon Valley For Terrorism Help · · Score: 1

    Crap, I missed the "Kurdish" part.

    Thanks for pointing out my error.

    *walks away pretending nothing had gone wrong*

  21. Re:Contests on Tokyo Rose 2.0: White House Asks Silicon Valley For Terrorism Help · · Score: 1

    For some reason, I'm reminded of the once-popular T-shirt that read, "To all the virgins in the world--THANKS FOR NOTHING".

  22. Re:Female fighters posing over ISIS dead ... on Tokyo Rose 2.0: White House Asks Silicon Valley For Terrorism Help · · Score: 1

    ...dead ISIS fighters on the ground with Kurdish female fighters standing over them posing victoriously with their weapons, the ISIS fighter's weapons, eating pulled pork sandwiches, drinking Budweiser, and smoking Marlboros.

    TFTFY. :D

  23. Re:Opening line... on Tokyo Rose 2.0: White House Asks Silicon Valley For Terrorism Help · · Score: 1

    "Abroad" is an adverb, as are all adverbs of position beginning in a- such as "aside", "above", "aboard", "ajar", "astride", and a-so on.

    Adverbs modify actions, not things.

    For an adjective, try the possibly less exciting but more suitable "foreign".

  24. Re:I'm inclined to what? on When Hacking Vigilantism Infringes On Free Speech (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    It parses, but not at all well.

  25. Re: Outed on When Hacking Vigilantism Infringes On Free Speech (betanews.com) · · Score: 2

    And those who are ignorant of the past are doomed to repeat it, those dismissing it with "stuff evolves" doubly so.