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  1. Re:Three Cheers for Zoe Quinn on Doxing Victim Zoe Quinn Launches Online "Anti-harassment Task Force" · · Score: 1

    She oscillates between fighting back and playing the victim. All you really need to know about her is that she's a compulsive liar: https://thezoepost.files.wordp...

  2. Re:Three Cheers for Zoe Quinn on Doxing Victim Zoe Quinn Launches Online "Anti-harassment Task Force" · · Score: 1

    Well I see Anita's recent efforts as being a lot more expensive than her earlier work.

    Going on a professional victim tour to raise more money for herself? Yeah, very expensive.

  3. Re:Slashdot stance on #gamergate on Doxing Victim Zoe Quinn Launches Online "Anti-harassment Task Force" · · Score: 1

    Oh, and I forgot to mention, it uses the threat-of-rape trope, another of Anita's targets. But yeah, no prostitutes! You really are bad at this.

  4. Re:Slashdot stance on #gamergate on Doxing Victim Zoe Quinn Launches Online "Anti-harassment Task Force" · · Score: 1

    It isn't gaming culture as a whole, which is 50% female these days.

    Same old bullshit. Including in those stats are people who's extent into gaming is buying Angry Birds on their smartphone or playing Farmville. Those women in general don't play shooters, don't buy the next gaming console, don't update their PC to play games, and don't read gaming journals. Anita is critiquing games that are catered to men, because that's their demographic. And she does so in completely unequal fashion, having no qualms when men are portrayed in sexists ways.

    She is, of course, just a con artist riding the wave of feminism and video games while reading scripts for McIntosh. That was Jack Thompson's biggest mistake, not getting a female spokesperson.

    Of course it doesn't have to be - look at games like The Last of Us.

    Uses the zombie trope. Uses the young-girl-in-distress trope. Uses the poor, innocent daughter gunned down trope. Wow, I'm so glad we have you and Anita to save us from all these horrible, gritty, sexist tropes.

  5. Re:Slashdot stance on #gamergate on Doxing Victim Zoe Quinn Launches Online "Anti-harassment Task Force" · · Score: 1

    If you look at the responses on YouTube very few of them actually critique her arguments. One of the closest is Thunderf00t's

    So Thunderf00t's videos went from being "particularly bad" to "one of the closest [that actually critique her argument]?

    It's a classic mix of ad-hominem and straw man attack

    You should know all about that, as the last time you argued this with me you were full of them: http://slashdot.org/comments.p...

  6. Re: Mann is a fruad on Michael Mann: Swiftboating Comes To Science · · Score: 1

    Source?

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H...

    "So far, no one has been able to provide a compelling answer to why climate change seems to be taking a break. We're facing a puzzle. Recent CO2 emissions have actually risen even more steeply than we feared. As a result, according to most climate models, we should have seen temperatures rise by around 0.25 degrees Celsius (0.45 degrees Fahrenheit) over the past 10 years. That hasn't happened. In fact, the increase over the last 15 years was just 0.06 degrees Celsius (0.11 degrees Fahrenheit) -- a value very close to zero. This is a serious scientific problem that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) will have to confront when it presents its next Assessment Report late next year."

    The referenced article this quote was taken from:

    http://www.spiegel.de/internat...

    Another important topic the climate scientist mentions:

    "Temperature increases are also very much dependent on clouds, which can both amplify and mitigate the greenhouse effect. For as long as I've been working in this field, for over 30 years, there has unfortunately been very little progress made in the simulation of clouds."

    Keep this in mind the next time you hear, "The science is settled."

  7. Re:Incorrect. on Michael Mann: Swiftboating Comes To Science · · Score: 1

    Before making vague bullshit claims about the models, two things:

    Apply it to yourself. You have said nothing beyond what I said, except to claim the contrary.

  8. Re:Rust is pointless because has a garbage collect on Rust Programming Language Reaches 1.0 Alpha · · Score: 1

    You're being pedantic.

    I'm not. It's a garbage word. There are plenty of garbage words that stick around for no reason other than that people like to use them in place of simpler words.

    You mention "style".

    You used the word. Why did you use it? Because it's simpler and conversational and came naturally to you. People don't generally go around using the word paradigm.

    I also used the word "model". Try this: The object-oriented programming model. Gee, does that not get the point across?

    And there's nothing vague about simpler words and more common words versus less common words that have come into vogue. Nobody needs a clarification when you use those simpler words. I'm willing to bet at one point you said, "What the fuck's a paradigm?"

  9. Re:Obligatory on Rust Programming Language Reaches 1.0 Alpha · · Score: 1

    I'm not the anon, but yeah, what he said. There are a myriad number of ways to screw up memory in C and C++. But if you want to look like a moron and pretend the vast majority are just null pointers, be my guest.

  10. Re:Rust is pointless because has a garbage collect on Rust Programming Language Reaches 1.0 Alpha · · Score: 1

    And yet you instinctively fell into "style" later on, and nothing was lost by using that word. Instead, you gained in clarity of communication. You could also say "model" and it would have the same meaning. "Paradigm" is a fancy buzzword.

  11. Re:Scientists are the minority on Michael Mann: Swiftboating Comes To Science · · Score: 1

    By saying the models are out of range, you have already admitted the models are correct, just out of range.

    Lol, wut? The point of a model is to be predictive, in this case predictive within a range. If the model isn't predictive, it isn't correct. Holy shit. Did you actually learn any science in school?

  12. Re:Obligatory on Rust Programming Language Reaches 1.0 Alpha · · Score: 1

    It's not you being kind, it's you being a dickhead, because I explicitly acknowledged that they were segfaults "in a very trivial sense".

    The point being that when a random segfault occurs in a C/C++ program, it could be anything. If you're lucky, the pointer is null. In Java this is a nuisance issue and usually trivial to track down, a typical example being you forgot to check for null when you pulled something out of a collection or similar.

  13. Re:Obligatory on Rust Programming Language Reaches 1.0 Alpha · · Score: 1

    Yes it is lol

    Nice job taking what I said out of context, dickhead. You completely ignored the rest of the explanatory text.

    I wasn't bashing Java lol. You have some kind of weird defensiveness issues.

    Uh huh, sure you weren't.

    Memory leaks are surprisingly common in Java as well, because people don't think. If you put something in a list or queue, you need to have a plan for getting it out.

    If the list goes out of scope and nothing else points to the object in the list, it gets collected. Yes, you can leak memory in Java. No, it doesn't happen nearly as often as it does in a language like C or C++, and you aren't constantly spending time worrying about memory allocation issues to do trivial code. That to me is the biggest thing.

  14. Re:Rust is pointless because has a garbage collect on Rust Programming Language Reaches 1.0 Alpha · · Score: 1

    (Aside: Not quite sure why, but the use of the term "paradigm" multiple times makes me feel slightly icky for some reason. Probably due to it's misuse in business jargon.)

    Probably because there's no reason to use such an awkward word in the first place. In this case, notice how you fall into using "style" instead? Also, the vast majority of time, when people use "paradigm", they could replace it with the much more common and simpler word "model" or another simpler term.

  15. Re:Obligatory on Rust Programming Language Reaches 1.0 Alpha · · Score: 1

    An NullPointerException is not a segfault or memory corruption, except in a very trivial sense you can consider it a segfault. The difference is night and day between the kind of memory corruption and wild pointers you get with C/C++.

    As for memory leaks, yeah, that can still happen, but it isn't very common and they are easy to track down with VM tooling.

    Now if you want to bash Java for not tackling serious issues, just look at its threading model, basically "threads and locks", and it's very easy to have threads stomping on data that it shouldn't. That's corruption.

    Java also didn't do a good job for resource leaks, meaning things besides memory, like connection handles.

  16. Re:Mann is a fruad on Michael Mann: Swiftboating Comes To Science · · Score: 1

    The standard right wing response "The evidence isn't in yet."

    The evidence is in, and the pause in global warming in outside the range of climate models. But the "science is settled", right?

  17. Re:Mann: science by lawsuit on Michael Mann: Swiftboating Comes To Science · · Score: 1

    He and the universities he was a part of have defended not releasing his private correspondence as a matter of principle for academic freedom. A scientist should be primarily judged on their published work.

    Oh really? So you think it isn't fair to judge scientists who set out to "hide the decline" in their email (and spare me, I know exactly what was being hidden)? Who ask other scientists to delete email to avoid a freedom of information request on IPCC work?

    These emails came out after a leak. I think it is more than fair to judge these scientists on these criteria. That Mann, using work email for a public university, seeks to hide them from scrutiny, isn't inspiring of trust.

  18. Re:It indicates he may not be critical or worse on Michael Mann: Swiftboating Comes To Science · · Score: 1

    I think Mann's problem with Steyn is that he said Mann "molested and tortured data in the service of politicized science," in an obvious allusion to the Jerry Sandusky case and that his science was fraudulent. Those are serious accusations against a scientist that could affect his future career if taken seriously.

    Mann's a big fucking hypocrite then: http://climateaudit.org/2015/0...

  19. Re:Scientists are the minority on Michael Mann: Swiftboating Comes To Science · · Score: 1

    And nature only speaks through evidence.

    And the evidence says that the scientists were wrong. Carbon dioxide levels have kept rising, but temperatures have remained flat. The models are out of range.

    Try arguing about evidence rather than your feelings.

  20. Re:On the other hand... on Michael Mann: Swiftboating Comes To Science · · Score: 2

    The long-term trend is a failure. The models were supposed to predict surface temperatures. A recent claim that it went into the deep oceans instead doesn't validate the models. It's over ten years and the models have fallen outside of any predicted range.

    Also, the big threat with global warming was supposed to be due to water vapor feedback, as opposed to just the forced warming from carbon dioxide. That has yet to be proven.

  21. Re:But That Pause! on 2014: Hottest Year On Record · · Score: 1

    There is a pause. Despite rising carbon dioxide levels, temperatures have plateaued (this "hottest year on record" is insignificantly the hottest one in a statistical sense), and none of the models predicted this, despite claims of the science being "settled".

    That the science was settled is complete bullshit anyways, because the true threat of global warming has always been predicated on the supposed feedback of water vapor, which is still an open question.

  22. Re:Why do they care what he thinks? on Neil DeGrasse Tyson Explains His Christmas Tweet · · Score: 1

    I do know of him and your comment inspired me to do a little Internet searching which quickly led me to this: http://www.upworthy.com/neil-d...

    He's lying in that video, which appears to be from 2012. Try watching instead this video from 2006:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

    A quote from a little segment starting at about 10:40:

    "We've all seen the data. There's 90-whatever percent of the American public believes in a personal god that responds to their prayers. Then you ask, "What is that percentage for scientists?" Averaged over disciplines, it's about 40 percent. Then you say, "How about the elite scientists?" Members of the National Academy of Sciences. An article on those data, recently in Nature, it said 85 percent of the National Academy reject a personal god. Then they compare it to 90 percent of the public.

    That's not the story! They missed the story! What that article should have said is, "How come this number isn't zero?" That's the story!"

  23. Re:Only people offended on Neil DeGrasse Tyson Explains His Christmas Tweet · · Score: 1

    Your wife was offended by a tweet celebrating Isaac Newton because it could be construed to relate to Jesus, because of a shared birthdate, even though she isn't christian?

    Oh please. I'm an atheist, so is Tyson, and he was clearly taking a jab at the Christian religion on the biggest Christian celebration of the year . Being an atheist, I'm not offended by it and even support it, but I can understand why some Christians were offended, or even somebody who isn't Christian.

  24. Re:TOR is a fucking honey pot ! on Tor Network May Be Attacked, Says Project Leader · · Score: 1

    Tor Stinks... But it Could be Worse

    • Critical mass of targets use Tor. Scaring them away from Tor might be counterproductive.
    • We can increase our success rate and provide more client IPs for individual Tor users.
    • Will never get 100% but we don't need to provide true IPs for every target every time they use Tor.

    http://www.theguardian.com/wor...

    Seems the NSA doesn't want targets to move away from Tor because they have some success and are confident of gaining more. They don't need to own all the nodes. It's a documented weak spot that they just need to tap the incoming and outgoing nodes and do timing attacks. Given the NSA's (and their foreign, cooperating counterparts) massive taps on the Internet backbones, that sounds pretty feasible.

  25. Re:What a shame on Pirate Bay Co-founder Arrested In Northeastern Thailand · · Score: 1

    Oh my god you are a moron.

    Stop projecting.

    No they are not. Aaron Swartz actually attempted to liberate the data himself.

    He also didn't attempt to profit from it. He was acting out of noble purposes to share academic information, much of which is produced or supported by government tax money.

    TPB amorally allowed users to break the law if they want. They are no less moral or culpable in this situation than you ISP or Google.

    As has been made clear multiple times, their primary and advertised purpose was to facilitate the sharing of copyrighted material like TV shows and movies. Google indexes the Web and an ISP provides access to the Internet. Those are quite generic in purpose. Learn to think critically instead of just spouting stupid shit that fits your agenda.