In the case of food irradiation, it's not the radiation most people are afraid of. That's propaganda spread by the party the people really are afraid of: the food (especially meat) industry, who wants to use irradiation as a patch on their unsanitary practices.

He is also right.

The proof? Read any Slashdot thread on a scientific topic.

So you are using their chat app to talk about how to infringe their copyright, and you think they are in the wrong?

Entitled little bitch much?

Since corporate-owned Internet was provably no obstacle to government surveillance, your question is irrelevant.

Anybody that has driven a manual shifter knows that engine noise is a useful feedback mechanism to the driver.

I ride a motorcycle. Since the engine is out in the open, you can always hear the engine. And yet I find myself relying more on the throttle response and the tachometer to tell me when to shift. They could be entirely silent and I still would shift at the same points.

In fact, I did my final test on a Suzuki LS650 Savage, which does not have a tacho, and I hated it. I had to shift entirely on intuition.

Oh look, another Dunning-Kruger sufferer who knows big words but not their meaning.

I keep trying to parse your post and trying to find a coherent thought in it, but I can't find nothing beyond "waaah, you're calling me bad names!".

Is there a way to reclaim Slashdot from this constant barrage of psychological assault on IT professionals by outsiders?

Yes, it is called "stop being misogynistic whiny manbabies if you're called on some of your misbehaviour".

The other way is of course time. There is a movement for more diversity, and it will win eventually when said manbabies die out. Given their obnoxious whinging, they are not recruiting faster than they are dying out, and every flare-up into uglyness like GamerGhazi throws off more moderates.

And then BSD will switch to a systemd-like framework, and all of us who are a little less emotional about our choices of system software will die laughing.

Jordan Hubbard, you know, that guy that has a little influence in the FreeBSD project, seems to think that systemd is a pretty good idea (Slideshare transcript).

The way I understand it is that if an ISP hosts $BAR, and I file a takedown request asserting the ownership of $BAZ, in the mistaken impression (intentionally or not) that you are hosting $BAZ, the takedown request is valid, even though the actual content does not match $BAZ.

Yep.

there is no such thing as "clickbait fallacy".

Yes there is. 'Clickbait fallacy' is a dog whistle phrase in the same vein as 'Social Justice Warrior' or 'political correctness'. It signifies that the poster is a reactionary white manchild who thinks the person harrassed by the 'doxing' "had it coming".

<Looks at OP UID> Oh look, it's epyT-R. QED.

Riggght. One succesful black scientist means race is not an issue.

Somehow I think the irony of your own statement will be lost on you.

If the cost of programming comes down, there will be less incentive to do it

Really? There are plenty of programmers out there that do it because they want to, even for free.

The existence of Free and Open Source Software alone proves that as long as the material needs in Maslow's hierarchy are provided for, people will program because it satisfies a non-material need.