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Comment Re: Yawn (Score 1) 556

There is just as much practical knowledge in the field of theology as there is psychology, sociology and many of the other soft sciences.

No there isn't. There is almost no knowledge in theology at all, except for knowledge of some arcane scriptures.

theology only has the human experience to study and as such, is probably dead on with how the world behaves.

There is not the slightest evidence for that claim. Moreover, the study of human experience is part of psychology.

Science and religion do not have to be opposed to each other. They can coexist quite happily.

Only in the mind of hypocrites, namely people who apply completely different standards of adequacy, consistency and correctness to religion and science without being able to explain why they would be justified to do so.

The only conflict comes is when either goes beyond it's theoretical framework and tries to apply it to the other.

Religion really has no 'theoretical framework' worth speaking of. It's a bunch of old stories with a lot of bullshit in them, plus some mildly interesting and arcane cultural heritage and rites.

Comment Complete syncing to GNU/Linux (Score 1) 421

There is no easy to use, one click install solution for syncing all your calendars, notes and todo lists between Android and your GNU/Linux PC without having to give away all your data to third parties or having to pay monthly subscription fees.

Hopefully someone will develop this. Once Android has the same functionality as Palm organizers from the 90s, it will be more useful and perhaps even cease to being a mere toy.

Comment Re:Anyone remember "The Manchurian Candidate"? (Score 0) 231

Fuck you and all your fellow conspiracy theory crackpots! It is perfectly well known what happened. Some rebel under the command of Igor Strelkov alias FSB colonel Igor Vsevolodovich Girkin shut down the plane with a BUK missile system. There is no doubt about it because the rebels announced the news themselves to the whole world before they realized their mistake.

Comment Re:News for Nerds, Stuff that matters (Score 1) 400

Nice theory but I very much doubt it's true at all. Hollywood was never known for sophisticated concepts and certainly never made lots of money from them. You probably say that only because you're not acquainted with cinema in other countries very well. My personal theory is that US movie makers have simply become dumber and the only good movies left are made by a few bright author/directors.

Be that as it may, it seems that the art has also declined with the rise of CGI effects and increased greed of movie studios. Hollywood movies nowadays are cut too fast while being too long (!), have lousy scripts focusing on cheap jokes and thrill, one movie is split into three (e.g. the Hobbit), and virtually any blockbuster title ends in a 20-30 minutes orgy of pointless CGI violence. There are severe problems with the plot development, most plots of contemporary thriller/action/sci-fi/spy/detective movies are simply not on a par with similar movies from the 70s. Interesting plots twists are sacrificed for endless action sequences. They want to maximize bucks more often than making good movies, and this used to be different.

Comment Re:The idea or concept of god... (Score 2) 755

For the vast majority of people their religion is merely a contingent by-product of their uprising, created by the mere chance of where they were born and what world views their parents have. If they scrutinize their religious ideas they will quickly find out that there is nothing at all to them, that they are illogical and untenable, not supported by anything besides what religious institutions tell them. In brief, religion is based on bullshit.

However, religious institutions and leaders of all confessions, from the shaman of a local tribe in Papua New Guinea to the Pope, have put and are still putting a lot of hard work in keeping people from scrutinizing their thoughts and world views, and it helps them that many people prefer to stay religious even though they are not really convinced, because they fear the wrath of supernatural beings. Only those very rare people who have been raised in a completely atheist and secular way are free of such fears (but of course that doesn't mean that they have no other fears).

Comment Re:NSA-resistant VPN's were done before... (Score 1) 234

The NSA's Type 1 HAIPE is a modified IPsec that passed their rigorous Type 1 development and evaluation process.

Even nowadays and certainly then the NSA would probably not pass anything in a public competition that they couldn't break in one way ot another. At least there is no indication for it. See e.g. the clipper chip debacle or the NSA's role in the development of bogus mobile phone encryption standards. Moreover, you presumably have no clue about what they use internally (and if you had, you weren't allowed to tell us).

So no, the only agency that can tell whether a given VPN is NSA-reistant is the NSA or another agency that has infiltrated the NSA very thoroughly - the latter being quite possible if not likely, given how easy it was for Snowden to leak so many documents.

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