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  1. My advice, turn off email notifications from slashdot. Not only is it not beneficial to your life, it isn't beneficial to your conversations for you to instantly log in and fire off a reply instead of waiting until you're already coming to a forum to communicate, and doing the communication then. It is supposed to be asynchronous, no reason to make it blocking.

    I turned it off in 2000 and it was a huge improvement.

  2. This seems like a 'Step 2: ???' kinda plan, since the FCC database gets you exactly nothing in terms of money, or ability to transfer ownership of the towers.

    Just because the reporter who wrote the story didn't have details of the scam, doesn't mean that there were no details. It just means they're not going to be able to tell you.

    An obvious thing would be scamming investors by making your company look larger than it is. Who knows? Chances are, catching him at this stage means whatever the rest of the plan was we'll never know because he won't be able to do it now.

  3. Re:Beware of strangers bearing buzzwords. on Should Your Company Switch To Microservices? (cio.com) · · Score: 1

    What if you are familiar with it, and it sounds like bullshit that is similar to past bullshit you already analyzed?

    Oh, yeah, that would be exactly this situation. Seriously, you just walk up to somebody and assume they don't know about the subject that they made an insightful comment about? What does that say about your knowledge? It tells me you probably don't understand the words I used, or how any of them relate to the words used in summary.

    Just fucking google "microservices" and find out it is literally a new word for existing things. There is nothing new, and it isn't even a specific thing, just a new word for a style of doing things that goes back to the dawn of computing. It says right in the fucking wiki page that the word was coined in 2011 by a bunch of morons to describe the different things that they were all already doing. It isn't something specific that differs in any way from anything that came before. There is no new technique or philosophy. Only a new fucking word. Talk about not understanding gibberish; you read some gibberish and ran out to tell the world what it means!

  4. You actually would have to know what they mean before you theorize that they might be contradictory.

    What you did is, you didn't understand, and just assumed, "Golly, maybe they even mean different things?" If you don't know what it meant, you don't fucking know if it was contradictory.

    And it wasn't something I said. Somebody else said something clear. You failed to understand it. Instead of trying to understand what he said, you demanded that they agree with your correction. But it didn't need correcting. Just learn to read, and stop trying to correct people's English. You don't have a fucking clue what it should have said.

  5. No, I didn't even address that mistake. I only addressed the claim that regulation of radio broadcasting isn't the same as regulating the space that the broadcast travels through.

  6. Re:Beware of strangers bearing buzzwords. on Should Your Company Switch To Microservices? (cio.com) · · Score: 2

    All I heard was, "XML Thin Client Push Services XML Java Workstation Structured NoSQL XML New Free Blah Blah XML Blah"

    If none of it is new, it doesn't even need a new word. That just proves it is snake oil bullshit and you really just need to upgrade the BOFH.

  7. Re:Red Hat Linux... on 'Stack Clash' Linux Flaw Enables Root Access. Patch Now (threatpost.com) · · Score: 2

    They were busy practicing with goop stones all week, just check the headlines. They even threw their backs out trying!

  8. Are you a civics expert from the space internet?

    They're not regulating the space that the signals pass through. They're only regulating the signals.

  9. Don't run code helps.

    Another is: don't allow users. A privilege escalation relies on there being privileges to escalate. Services require privileges in order to start, but why should they keep them?

    Actually, if you have systemd it might not be true that services have to have privileges to start, you might be able to give them sanitized I/O pipes and they never even open a filehandle. At least, in the future.

  10. Or, they gave the benefit of the doubt, "he wouldn't make a non-joke that stupid and intend it as a joke... right?"

    Which gives the speaker more benefit of doubt; that they might actually be so ignorant that there is a surprise in there that would create a funny irony, or that they might have left out some words and they meant to say something better?

    If they say they don't get it, it means they're trying really hard to find an interpretation other than that you're an idiot, and they're failing. And they tell you that in a diplomatic way. But you missed it. Which isn't recursive at all, the whooshes never double back they just keep going.

  11. Re:His book's title needs modification, I'm afraid on Former Slashdot Contributor Jon Katz Believes He Can Talk To Animals (amazon.com) · · Score: 1

    I spend a lot of time in the woods, and wild animals can communicate just fine. They communicate across species as part of their daily routine, so once you realize that you're also an animal species and get over the "Me Humaan, Me Special, Me Special, Me Not Understand Because Too Special" nonsense then you can understand most of it just fine.

    And just a hint, that chipmunk is not saying hello, he is not welcoming you to the forest. "Get out of my yard you ugly giant!" is the nicest thing any chipmunk ever said to a human. When you feed a chipmunk in a park or campground and make friends with it, they'll be totally quiet. They don't have anything nice to say, at least not in the human frequency range.

    And if a bear talks to you, my advice: listen carefully the message will be very clear.

  12. They looked out the window and realized he wasn't so bad after all, but you can't expect them to admit it any more than you can expect them to trim the lower portion of that thing on their neck they call a goatee.

    If the internet gets any worse I'm going to start reading Joel On Software again and convert my websites to use Matt's Scripts.

  13. Re:Not particularly surprising on Former Slashdot Contributor Jon Katz Believes He Can Talk To Animals (amazon.com) · · Score: 1

    That's nothin', my father knew the difference between a lamp post and a chicken.

  14. Re:Not particularly surprising on Former Slashdot Contributor Jon Katz Believes He Can Talk To Animals (amazon.com) · · Score: 1

    Stupid question: Why shouldn't you be able to talk to animals?

    Because they don't know humans are animals, they think we're "different" because we were created special order by Diety, and because we're so Special we're not allowed to understand what is going on around us.

  15. Re:Lol on Former Slashdot Contributor Jon Katz Believes He Can Talk To Animals (amazon.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    The chickens I live next to talk to me all the time. Idiots on slashdot are free to call me names, but I do understand much of what they say. There isn't much to understand, really, they're rather simple-minded.

    Usually they say, "I see you, I'm right here. I see you, I'm right here. I see you, I'm right here." That sounds like, "bok. bok bok. bok."

    Sometimes they say, "I just laid the most wonderful egg, I'm so happy I laid this egg, it is the best egg ever because I laid it." That sounds like "bok bok baGOK, bok bok baGOK, bok bok baGOK."

    Rarely they're having a crisis, like malfunctioning water source, and they'll say, "bagokbagokbagok? bagok? bagokbagok?"

    If they're free range they also have a bunch of phrases relating to food, which mostly translate to, "dibs! dibs! hey, I called dibs you jerk! dibs! dibs!" They also have descriptive terms for the quality of food, but I doubt a human is going to translate that as easily as the above. But it is often obvious what the topic and general thrust of conversation is.

  16. Re: I call bullshit on the call of bullshit. on 'Chiropractors Are Bullshit' (theoutline.com) · · Score: 1

    The ones who try to tell you they can cure disease are the ones to avoid.

    You could visit a different chiropractor every month for your whole life, and you'd most likely never meet one. They're something held up for tinfoil hat bullies to shout at, they're not a real problem in the community.

  17. Re:I call bullshit on the call of bullshit. on 'Chiropractors Are Bullshit' (theoutline.com) · · Score: 1

    If they never said it, they aren't the ones you're talking about and they have nothing to repudiate. And that makes it your hokum, not theirs.

  18. Re:Conventional mediicne started the same way. on 'Chiropractors Are Bullshit' (theoutline.com) · · Score: 1

    That's around the time that the average physician stopped believing in Vapors, for example.

    Wikipedia lists 1880 as the date of adoption of germ theory. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

    1900 is basically the beginning of modern medicine from a patient perspective.

  19. Re:I call bullshit on the call of bullshit. on 'Chiropractors Are Bullshit' (theoutline.com) · · Score: 2

    It doesn't matter what somebody calls themselves, it matters what they're doing. That's why the "origins attack" is so blatantly stupid. It is like doubting gravity because Newton engaged in alchemy.

  20. Re: I call bullshit on the call of bullshit. on 'Chiropractors Are Bullshit' (theoutline.com) · · Score: 1

    That is as relevant as talking about Freud to discredit a modern therapist.

    No, chiropractors aren't back doctors; they're joint alignment specialists.

  21. Re:I call bullshit on the call of bullshit. on 'Chiropractors Are Bullshit' (theoutline.com) · · Score: 1

    Exactly, it is all straw man bullshit pretending that chiropractors are witch doctors, when all of the chiropractors that I've visited were only offering to straighten my spine, something that relieves the pain in about 25% of people.

    Real chiropractors in your community don't claim to replace doctors or treat other conditions.

  22. Re:I soviet russia the source code opens you on Under Pressure, Western Tech Firms Including Cisco and IBM Bow To Russian Demands To Share Cyber Secrets (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    In Soviet Russia, code repository forks you!

    Incidentally, this is why my next router is going to be a generic linux SBC and not an appliance.

  23. Re:The trade standards != penny-pincher standards on Home Improvement Chains Accused of False Advertising Over Lumber Dimensions (consumerist.com) · · Score: 1

    I checked Home Depot and their website lists the 2x4 ones as being for 2x4. You didn't read all the labels and didn't realize that the one marked 2"x4" dimensional is different than the one marked 2x4. Beginner's mistake, but you don't make that one if you either find out which one you need, or at least read all the labels of all the options.

  24. You'll have to wear gloves and use the rough cut.

  25. Notice the difference between "2x4" and `2"x4"' though?

    They're not sold as something that is 2"x4", they're sold as something that was 2"x4" before they do some value-added work that increases the cost and reduces the size. And then it is called a 2x4.

    It is like suing because they took the guts out of the pig before roasting it, and sold you a "whole" roast pig. Don't sue. Be glad.