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  1. Re:No iTunes for the Windows Store on iTunes: Still Slowing Down Windows PCs After All These Years · · Score: 1

    please tell me what programming language the cool kids are using these days!

    I am authorized to tell you it's not VB6.

    BTW, do you have the MouseWheel addon installed so you can actually scroll your form and module code with minimal effort? I mean it's not like a scrolling mouse was invented long before VB6 appeared.

  2. Re:No iTunes for the Windows Store on iTunes: Still Slowing Down Windows PCs After All These Years · · Score: 3, Funny

    As somebody who uses VB6 daily

    You've already disqualified yourself.

  3. Re:No iTunes for the Windows Store on iTunes: Still Slowing Down Windows PCs After All These Years · · Score: 4, Funny

    I can tell you that the Windows version of iTunes is probably the shittiest piece of software ever written.

    Then you haven not used FileMaker, the VB 6 IDE, or any VB 6 app.

  4. Re:I'd be excited about this movie, except... on Ender's Game Trailer Released · · Score: 1

    What is it with religious fanatics that can so little tolerate a hint of disagreement that it ruins their enjoyment of so many things in life?

    Most religious fanatics I know are among the happiest people I know. Do you have any evidence that these people are miserable?

    Intelligent people will have contrasting deeply-held beliefs.

    True, but intellectually rigorous people will strive to keep the strength of that belief in proportion to the evidence for it.

  5. Re:I'd be excited about this movie, except... on Ender's Game Trailer Released · · Score: 1

    A strange wonder one of OSC friends would apologize for him. Too bad that rant is full of false premises and misdirection. If you ask for evidence, take from just one of many the TJ reference. He believed the exact opposite of what JI cherry picked. I might have enjoyed a real attempt at the core this debate which he finally got around to here:

    You can't judge art by the artist; it has to be judged seperately, on its own merits.

    I agree with this statement because I believe it to be philosophically sound. However, what you and it's author don't weigh in on is whether you would do business with nefarious organization bent on subduing and inculcating the world's population with extreme views by modern standards questions of fine art aside.

    I chose not too. And I won't be renting it from the library either. Maybe that's a gray area for you, but financial contributions to such an entity not okay for me.

  6. People who claim immunity to Dunning–Kruger on Overconfidence: Why You Suck At Making Development Time Estimates · · Score: 1

    are the ones most likely to experience it.

    It's really a lot easier to deal with this stuff if you know rigorous ways of thinking and the very basis of this is knowing the difference between knowledge and belief AKA the Socratic method. Certitude is not knowledge and shouldn't be treated so.

  7. Re:HSR on Climate Change Will Boost Plane Turbulence, Suggests Study · · Score: 1

    Amtrak owns 730 miles of track, including nearly all of their routes in the Northeast

    Which "Lord" is that? UP?

  8. Re:HSR on Climate Change Will Boost Plane Turbulence, Suggests Study · · Score: 1

    Amtrak owns 730 miles of track, including nearly all of their routes in the Northeast

    What "facts" did this inform you of?

  9. Re:HSR on Climate Change Will Boost Plane Turbulence, Suggests Study · · Score: 1

    A(nother) failed attempt at poo-poo from a denialist:

    http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/science/2012/04/how-humans-cause-earthquakes/

  10. Re:Interesting theory on How ISPs Collude To Offer Poor Service · · Score: 1

    That study may very well be accurate, but it does nothing to support your original point. However, it is consistent with your approach of making a bold and false statement and defending it with strawmen and red herrings. I'm not interested in all these diversions and lies presented.

  11. Re:Interesting theory on How ISPs Collude To Offer Poor Service · · Score: 1

    Sure, Choctaw Oklahoma

    Wrong try again although I suspect your delusion will persist.

    Drive through any city in the central US and you will find multiple empty and abandoned grocery store properties.

    Sure, but empty lots existed before Wal-Mart and will do so after it's gone. This point doesn't even defend your original statement directly. Only if you leave to reader to assume Wal-Mart has forced out all or very nearly all competition. This is just fiction.

    Walmart is keeping prices low by squeezing their suppliers.

    You answered how. I asked why.

  12. Re:Interesting theory on How ISPs Collude To Offer Poor Service · · Score: 1

    Actually, in some parts of the country Walmart has eliminated the competition. There are many areas where they have an effective monopoly on grocery distribution.

    If there are so many then I have to assume it's easy for you to cite a 10,000+ population center with the only available grocer as being Walmart. Can you name one such instance, or are you just assuming their market monopoly and claiming knowledge on it?

    Do you want to know why Wal-Mart's pricing is so low? It's because reality is the exact opposite of your delusion. Wal-Mart hasn't eliminated the competition. ISP's have therefore you pay more and get less.

  13. Re:Interesting theory on How ISPs Collude To Offer Poor Service · · Score: 1

    Food is a much more essential good than fiber optic internet service, and yet I never hear anyone calling for the municipalities to nationalize (city-ize?) all the food stores in town.

    Because for utility like services, the barrier to entry is extraordinarily high, dangerous, or otherwise seemed some sort of national threat.. Also for these reasons, competition is scarce. Again this warrants government intervention since there aren't any grocery store monopolies in any major urban center and I believe nearly all population centers greater than 10,000 has multiple chains and likely distributors servicing them. Yet in the 150,000 population city I live near, you have 1 option for wired internet with speeds greater than 1.5 Mbps. The second major competitor sold out when the city in question refused to let them lay their warehouse of fiber since that would upset the monopoly.

    This all seems obvious. I don't supposed you hate any "guberment" programs in general and as such are unwilling to look at reality?

  14. Re:I have got fuel and amonium nitrate on Drawings of Weapons Led To New Jersey Student's Arrest · · Score: 1

    That's a tautology

    That's a sophistry.

  15. Re:10 years from now... on VPN Providers Say China Blocks Encryption Using Machine Learning Algorithms · · Score: 1

    faster than the speed of light.

    Bullshit. Your 5 minutes pseudo-intellectual masturbation session has failed to produce any legitimate results. Imagine that.

    Einstein: 1
    slashmydots: 0

    BTW, where did you "learn physics"? I'd like to make sure never to send my children there.

  16. Re:10 years from now... on VPN Providers Say China Blocks Encryption Using Machine Learning Algorithms · · Score: 2

    gravity change waves

    Now that you've summited Mt Stupid, I invite you to climb back down and join the rest of us on the Plane of Reality.

  17. Re:10 years from now... on VPN Providers Say China Blocks Encryption Using Machine Learning Algorithms · · Score: 1

    So you've found a way to violate causality and transmit information FTL? Please do share the details of how this works.

  18. Re:Obligatory on FreeBSD Project Falls Short of Year End Funding Target By Nearly 50% · · Score: 1

    KVM is level 1 hypervisor

    Pure gibberish faith. KVM looks a kernel module, it operates exclusively within the kernel making it a Type 2. However the distinction itself is meaningless now days except for those who like to pontificate on Old Wives Tales like "Type 1 gives a better security profile" or "Type 2 doesn't have feature X".

    It's all bullshit.

  19. Re:Shocking. on High-Voltage Fences For Zapping Would-Be Copper Thieves · · Score: 1

    what idiot added that part

    I'm guessing that "idiot" is someone who understands we couldn't be where we are today unless we allow language to evolve over time. Probably also someone who doesn't jump head first into any bit of anal mythology which crosses their path. Someone who only hits submit after having a bit of knowledge rather than faith on the topic.

  20. Re:Shocking. on High-Voltage Fences For Zapping Would-Be Copper Thieves · · Score: 1

    I really hate it when people make lame attempts at pedantry.

    I'll been electrocuted several times and I'm here to tell you about it.

    https://www.google.com/search?q=electrocute+definition

    After you convince multiple respectable sources such the Oxford Dictionary, I promise I'll follow suit.

  21. Re:Cue the murder trial from early 90s... on High-Voltage Fences For Zapping Would-Be Copper Thieves · · Score: 1

    It isn't the voltage that kills you.

  22. Re:In other news on Linus Torvalds Tries KDE, Likes It So Far · · Score: 4, Funny

    He likes it! Hey Linus!

  23. BSD on Ask Slashdot: Finding Legacy UnixWare Installation Media? · · Score: 1

    http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=svr4&sektion=4

    Might work, experiment at your own risk. If it does work, your options have become much greater.

  24. All you need to know on Is Silicon Valley Morally Bankrupt and Toxic? · · Score: 1

    Earlier Silicon Valley tweeted:

    Duh, WINNING

  25. Re:doesn't matter on Dr. Richard Dawkins On Why Disagreeing With Religion Isn't Insulting · · Score: 2

    Everything in the OP's approach requires a belief in sola Sciptura, because he thinks that the Bible has a plain meaning that he and his Christian interlocutor can reach just by looking at the text, without consulting a canon of interpretation.

    Complete gibberish. Let's play of a bit of Whack-A-Strawman. First, sola Sciptura doesn't mean what you are arguing against. Second, what you are arguing for is invalid. You may argue in effect that the foundational texts of Torah based religions require 3rd party "interpretation", but even a child can see through this hucksterism.

    Put down the thesaurus and do some real research.