That's the opposite of competent.

1) Instead of getting access to $7 million (or $14 million if you want to try and screw the guy), you're going for $1 million.

2) Made it harder for the guy to get his money in the first place in order to get paid that $1 million.

3) You've offered the guy a motive to kill you to silence you for trying to blackmail him. You made an enemy out of somebody you had a relation of trust with.

I think you've watched too much Breaking Bad.

And how long before Microsoft decides that this behavior is indicative of a broken/misconfigured system and disallows it? They've shown how they feel about Home users having control over their machines.

You'd think once would be enough, but anyways...

Brianna "Stayed Home" Wu got national media attention after being "forced" to "flee home" by GamerGate threats. Yet it turns out that was complete bullshit, because:

1) They were already scheduled to be at a con for the weekend they were forced to flee and go into hiding.

2) They tweeted they would be at the con and at what booth after the "threat". Really afraid for their life there, aren't they?

3) Subsequent interviews after they had supposedly gone into hiding were found out to be done from their home.

Brianna "Stayed Home" Wu injected themselves into GamerGate by poking the hornets nest and used the subsequent "threat" to promote themselves ever since. Brianna "Stayed Home" Wu, when responding to a fellow trans asking for help, admitted in private chat (but leaked by the other party): "Listen, I am good at political stuff. This is what I do. I'm telling you, taking on Paypal publicly is a suicide mission."

So trolling gamers over feminist bullshit is ok while pretending to be afraid for your life, but standing up to PayPal is suicide. Brianna "Stayed Home" Wu is a political operator and a professional victim.

*snort*

http://thoughtcatalog.com/andr... :

Reddit used to have a policy that allowed sub-Reddits to talk about all kind of shit, as long as it was legal. They changed that policy to a more restrictive one. That is a form of censorship -- totally within their rights, and you can try to spread your message elsewhere, but Reddit has become a less free place. It really isn't that hard to understand unless you insist on a very narrow view of what censorship is.

You must be new here.

No, Ruby was a fad for hipsters. Python is the true heir.

Fifteen years in the oven, that better be one tasty cake!

There's a lot to be said for not having to completely replace the API and backwards compatibility. That's a pragmatic choice, not a "computer scientists screw up a pragmatic language" choice. Your initial assertion is unfair.

Type erasure was the pragmatic way to add generics to Java by ensuring backwards compatibility in the byte code. You'll find that computer language academics almost universally despise type erasure.

Yes, I read what you wrote, and your comparison is still stupid. The fact is that there is no religion as militant and abhorrently violent as Islam in the modern era.

So go ahead then, because I think it's really silly whenever a new Muslim atrocity occurs, especially when it comes to women, that some apologist comes along and talks about things Christians did centuries ago.

More specifically for Slashdot, a Republican right-winger who cost the taxpayers of Rhode Island millions when he got a sweetheart loan to move his company, 38 Studios, there, at the urging of the then Republican governor: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04...

Fucking hypocrites.

I'm willing to bet if you polled all the people that use email, a significant majority would prefer that their email couldn't be spied on by governments or other snoops. If it was an easy default hardly anybody would turn it off. The problem is that while people care, they don't care enough to make an effort, especially when it requires effort on the people you are communicating with.