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  1. Wishful thinking on Could Twitter Have Stopped the Media's Rush To War In Iraq Ten Years Ago? · · Score: 1

    This is such a bad case of wishful thinking it borders on Dunning Kruger example.

    The reality is even afterwards with full knowledge that the WMD case was wrong it's taken years to get to the bottom of why.

  2. Mass hysteria ... on Windfarm Sickness Spreads By Word of Mouth · · Score: 1
  3. Avoiding the Murdock tax on Ask Slashdot: IPTV Service In the UK? · · Score: 3, Informative

    You can still go Satellite without paying the Murdoch tax.

    Install a motorised dish at £300 buy a DVB-S STB at anything from the Eagle-HD at £60 to the Dreambox DM800 £400 depending on features required.

    You will get all FreeSat channels plus literally thousands of overseas channels and more with software cams.

    These are both Internet enabled and can view BBC iPlayer, YouTube, etc and support CAS emulation.

  4. I don't doubt.... on Over the Antarctic, the Smallest Ozone Hole In a Decade · · Score: 2

    That climate change deniers will use this to argue there is no such thing as 'global warming'.

    When the lesson to take from this news is that we can reverse the negative impact of our actions on our environment with decisive action.

  5. Dunning Kruger effect on Paper On Conspiratorial Thinking Invokes Conspiratorial Thinking · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Conspiratorial Thinking is clear example of the Dunning Kruger effect at work.

    They overestimate their own intelligence or skill, and ignore contrary feedback. They disavow the intelligence or skill of others. These people are simply too stupid to invalidate their own hypothesis and recognise the validity of the alternative.

  6. Innovators Dilemma on Hard Drive Revenue About To Take a Double-Digit Dip · · Score: 1

    As one of the Disruptive Technology posters applications highlighted in Innovators Dilemma this is pretty ironic.

  7. Re:Are we all supposed to know what Airbnb is? on Amsterdam Using Airbnb Listings To Identify Illegal Hotels · · Score: 1

    -1 Offtopic is a bit harsh. I also have absolutely no idea who Airbnb are either and the whole topic looks like link farming non-story to me.

  8. ROFLMAO on DMVs Across the Country Learning Textspeak · · Score: 1

    Banning ROFLMAO seems a bit harsh to me, when the British DVLA is selling this for 599UKP ($950).

  9. Professional Ethics on Student Expelled From Montreal College For Finding "Sloppy Coding" · · Score: 1

    This is an issue of professional ethics that seems to be sadly lacking. You don't probe somebody else system without express permission. To do it a second time is clearly deliberate not an accident.

  10. Doh... on 3D Printable Ammo Clip Skirts New Proposed Gun Laws · · Score: 1

    Crooks can go shop lifting all over but that not an reason to legalise it.

  11. You need an... on US DOJ Claims It Did Not Entrap Megaupload · · Score: 2

    Internet Lobby that is powerful as the Gun Lobby.

  12. 3 Minutes ... on What Did Google Earth Spot In the Chinese Desert? · · Score: 1

    To find out that the large industry in Kashgar is a Brick Factory.

  13. Software Metrics on Ask Slashdot: How To React To Coworker Who Says My Code Is Bad? · · Score: 1

    The answer to both Questions is use objective Software Metrics.

  14. Promotion by ersatz criticism on The Trouble With 4K TV · · Score: 1

    I see what the OP did there: Criticise some new technology on ill-conceived grounds to Slashdot audience and let them evangelise it across the net and world.

  15. root kits and bots on Ask Slashdot: Dealing With Anti-Spam Service Extortion? · · Score: 1

    Your problem is likely to be your customers running bots.

    Clean your best strategy is to clean them up, they are bad customers for an isp any way, expensive to support and heavy band width users.

    IMHO is they can't keep their computer clean it is their own fault, we don't let incompetent drivers on the road and we shouldn't allow incompetent users on the net either.

  16. Re:Kudos on Anonymous Hacks Westboro Baptist Church · · Score: 1

    If you are going to wrap your self in 1st Amendment you should at least make the effort to get it right and consistent.

    It protects against "[b]Congress[/b] shall make no law ... abridging the freedom of speech".

    Anonymous and Kudos enjoy the same protection.

  17. All Publicity... on Music Industry Suits Could Bankrupt Pirate Party Members · · Score: 2

    The Pirate Party should consider the McLibel defence.

  18. Yahoo on Yahoo "Loses" $2.7B In Mysterious Mexican Yellow Pages Lawsuit · · Score: 1

    Always seems to be the search behind search spoofing malware I have to clean up from the PCs of family and friends.

  19. Before jumping to conclusions on Anthropologist Spends Three Years Living With Hackers · · Score: 1

    Perhaps you should take to to hear what she actually has to say.

    Peeking Behind the curtain at anonymous.

    A long way from sweeping generalisations common here.

  20. Irony on GOG: How an Indie Game Store Took On the Pirates and Won · · Score: 1

    The only Irony here is the the OP think he know what the word means but in reality has no idea what it actually means.

  21. Don't treat these people as a problem on Ask Slashdot: Troubling Trend For Open Source Company · · Score: 1

    Treat them as an opportunity this is a ready made sales channel and like all sales channels be prepared for the usual objections.

  22. wtf is ... on You Can't Say That On the Internet · · Score: 1

    wtf is un-Chick-fil-A some American cultural assumption and why is it so un-American?

  23. Scam on Coffee and Intellectual Property · · Score: 1

    Starbucks is one example of this bullshit intellectual property rights abuse. They claim they make no profit in the developed work and therefore evade paying tax. The profit is made in some third world tax haven that invoices the trading operation for IP rights that wipe out any profit.

  24. Northern Australians on Total Solar Eclipse Bedazzles Northern Australians · · Score: 1

    I assume you mean expats :)

  25. Re:Very curiously... on Samsung Accuses Foreman Hogan of Misrepresentation · · Score: 1

    Will you elaborate?