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  1. Re:State doing the CYA thing on State Dept. Releases 5,500 Hillary Clinton Emails, 275 Retroactively Classified (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    "though they were not classified at the time they were sent to Clinton's personal email"

    Legally, it doesn't matter that the emails weren't classified at the time they were sent. Classification doesn't depend on markings, classification depends on content. If you strip the classified markings from an item that doesn't mean it isn't classified anymore.

    These sort of things are too complicated for the public and press to understand, which is why the State Department and Clintons keep saying them. As the Secretary of State, Clinton should be aware of, say, the rules behind classified information.

    If she was anyone else she'd be nailed to the wall already.

    Classification doesn't depend on markings, classification depends on content.

    There are over 50 million documents classified every year. And who classifies documents? Unelected bureaucrats with absolutely zero accountability.

    I would say most classification doesn't depend on markings or content. It depends on horseshit.

    If cablegate and Wikileaks have taught us anything, it's that there is too goddamn much being kept secret for absolutely no good reason. Classified documents are the government's way of protecting their privacy while violating ours.

  2. Re:State doing the CYA thing on State Dept. Releases 5,500 Hillary Clinton Emails, 275 Retroactively Classified (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Who do you think classifies information?

    Who do YOU think classifies information?

  3. Re:Look at the source on The Empathy Gap and Why Women Are Treated So Badly In Open Source Projects (perens.com) · · Score: 1

    SJW hates humour, film at eleven.

    I don't know where you've been, but "comedians" does not equal "humor". If you doubt that, just check out the comedy videos on Netflix.

  4. Re:You really want to know why? on The Empathy Gap and Why Women Are Treated So Badly In Open Source Projects (perens.com) · · Score: 1

    Nope, not even putting my name to this one, I don't feel like getting vaporized this early in the morning.

    Nobody told me vaporize was an option. Is there a Chrome extension for that?

  5. Re:Look at the source on The Empathy Gap and Why Women Are Treated So Badly In Open Source Projects (perens.com) · · Score: 1

    MRAs
    PUAs
    GamerGate
    Libertarians
    Conservatives
    Comedians
    Tech Enthusiasts (geek/nerd/whatever)

    That's a pretty comprehensive list of the worst people on the Internet.

  6. Re:Summary insufficient, click through the link. on The Empathy Gap and Why Women Are Treated So Badly In Open Source Projects (perens.com) · · Score: 0

    I'm genuinely curious why women's standards of behavior and empathy are the norm to which we ascribe?

    If you accept that men are "naturally" more apt at STEM fields and set the standards therein, why would you reject the notion that women are more capable of empathy? As we are often told on Slashdot, it doesn't help to lower the standard.

    It doesn't hurt anyone for women to learn STEM and for men to learn how to behave.

  7. I'm watching Dick Clark on New Year's Rockin' Eve and he's not looking so good:

    http://static.comicvine.com/up...

  8. Re:From a former editor on Is Wikipedia's Popularity Causing Its Decline? · · Score: 1

    You make sense, damn you.

  9. Re:They lie, push agenda on Is Wikipedia's Popularity Causing Its Decline? · · Score: 2

    Take it with a grain of salt, unless you can independently verify the information from other sources.

    Fortunately, sources are listed on Wikipedia.

  10. Re:What the fuck is there to study?! on Is Wikipedia's Popularity Causing Its Decline? · · Score: 1

    and this drives away the best normal users.

    Fuck 'em. If I wanted "normal", I'd go read allrecipes.com.

  11. Re:So-called "social justice" is to blame, too. on Is Wikipedia's Popularity Causing Its Decline? · · Score: 2

    "social justice"

    Wishing all of the family of Slashdot commenters a safe and happy New Year.

  12. Re: I.S.I.S. on Should We Fill the Sahara With Solar Panels? (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Islam accounts for more than 99% of terrorist attacks.

    Not in this hemisphere.

  13. Re:I.S.I.S. on Should We Fill the Sahara With Solar Panels? (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    When someone says, Party A has a problem, calling out Party B doesn't solve Party A's problem.

    Islamic terrorists and white right-wing terrorists are all one big party. There is no "A" and "B".

  14. Re:I.S.I.S. on Should We Fill the Sahara With Solar Panels? (bbc.com) · · Score: 0

    According to THIS [washingtonpost.com], it's well-educated engineer types who are most likely to embrace terrorism.

    Yeah, about that:

    https://www.democracynow.org/i...

    https://media.salon.com/2015/1...

    http://freakoutnation.com/wp-c...

    http://media2.s-nbcnews.com/j/...

  15. Re:Great Moments in Private Enterprise Space Histo on SpaceX To Test Recovered First Stage, Then Put It On Display (floridatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    "So... This lecture, please?"

    Since we're coming up on a holiday, I'll give the very short version of the lecture:

    "If an AC rando uses the word 'irony' I'll give you evens that it's used incorrectly."

  16. Spying on active members of Congress is outside of the authority of the executive branch. Unless they had a warrant when they did this, they are doing exactly what Nixon was going to be impeached for.

    If the target of the surveillance is a foreign head of state (Netanyahu), it's not the NSA's fault that US legislators happened to be calling that foreign head of state to get their marching orders.

    In fact, members of congress dealing directly with foreign heads of state directly violates the Logan Act, and it would absolutely be appropriate for the NSA to be looking into this. Maybe Pete Hoekstra (R-Tel Aviv) should be answering some questions.

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

  17. Doesn't this story basically describe why captcha is still effective?

  18. Re:Who would plug into a random USB port? on New York Begins Public Gigabit Wi-Fi Rollout (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    a good accessory to have would be a USB cable that has the data pair disconnected.

    So basically, any cheap USB cable you can buy on Amazon. I've probably bought a half-dozen that would charge my Nexus, but not transfer data. Finally, I started buying the brand name cables and they'd be fine.

  19. Re:Great Moments in Private Enterprise Space Histo on SpaceX To Test Recovered First Stage, Then Put It On Display (floridatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    is it irony if it's a choice?

    Someday, I'll have to give my lecture on irony. There seems to be a need.

  20. Great Moments in Private Enterprise Space History on SpaceX To Test Recovered First Stage, Then Put It On Display (floridatoday.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    2015: Space X recovers the first reusable rocket stage and doesn't reuse it.

  21. Re:FTFY... on Twitter Bans 'Hateful Conduct' (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah, he mad.

  22. Friday kind of Wednesday on Twitter Bans 'Hateful Conduct' (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    I guess with the holiday and all, we could just go ahead and consider today Friday, right? I mean, it's not like anybody's doing any work.

  23. Re:FTFY... on Twitter Bans 'Hateful Conduct' (reuters.com) · · Score: 1, Troll

    Only in America is being a good and decent person considered a negative trait.

    https://www.salon.com/2015/11/...

  24. Re:good but.... on Chrome Extension Offers Trump-Free Browsing (usnews.com) · · Score: 1

    do they have one for hillary and burnie as well?

    You should have read to the end of the summary:

    Trump Filter's code is open source and can be found on GitHub.

    In other words, you could roll your own extension to filter out everything but Fox News and white supremacist websites if you'd like. It's free software and it's a free country.

  25. Re:Walking and texting on Emergency Room Visits From Distracted Walking Skyrocket (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 1

    And how - I've personally saved two young ladies who were texting and walking out into traffic. Both gave me a nasty look at first, then realized the situation and thanked me.

    That could be the beginning of an excellent Penthouse Forum story.