I don't have enough field knowledge to combat every ridiculous claim, coming from either side.

I'd be interested in hearing an example of a "ridiculous" claim from the side which thinks global warming is real.

C'mon, now. C++ needed the relatively recent "move constructor" to solve a serious inefficiency when doing, say for example, complicated matrix arithmetic using classes (created in the most obvious way). Before this, there were hacks, like template metaprogramming. The reputation of C++ is well-deserved, even if all of that stuff is fixed now.

Incorrect. The variable "a" is a pointer. The problem above is that "a" and "b" have different types-- "a" is a const pointer, while "b" is not.

I read your long essay. You can only make inferences about the population you survey here ("Mechanical Turk"), not the general population. (Are people on "Mechanical Turk" representative of the general population?) So the best you can do here is draw conclusions about people using "Mechanical Turk", but alas, your sample wasn't random. It takes hard work to do a statistical study well, especially if taking random samples is too hard or too expensive. Unfortunately, nobody believes this.

I am so tired of this simple-minded shit getting modded +5 Insightful. Please stop psychoanalyzing an entire race if your primary experience with members of that race are just one real-life person (who will never get invited to your home), and a bunch of fools on television. You don't know what the hell you're talking about. You're not that amazing. Get over it.

This is an obvious troll, but not from the OP. This is a troll by the editor, Timothy, to encourage discussion of the PulseAudio author, Lennart Poettering, and systemd.

How can a databse of 1.5 million people be created by such a small organization in such a short time based on credible evidence? I've figured it out!

grep -e Abad -e Abdallah -e Abdul ... -e Mohammed ... NSA_list_of_Muslim_names.txt

That price probably included late fees/fines, "paying over the phone" fees, and probably other crap you'd never think of if you aren't poor. Also, women with children, in my personal experience, are much less likely to buy older, used cars.

Mod parent up!

Demand for computers was not historically inelastic. Demand for cell phone plans was inelastic, hence the absurdly high prices in the U.S. and the ridiculous term lengths (2 years). Not everything works the same, unless you have propaganda to sell.

In the absence of a government-protected monopoly, if all sellers' costs decrease, competition will drive the price down over time.

How true! Gasoline here in southern California costs just $1/gallon now, when just last year I paid $4.50/gallon. Amazing how those cost savings are passed on to the consumer!

This is good to know. Can you give an example of a shell which, in your opinion, feels less dangerous?

Given a choice between "do a Google search" and "ask an expert (Slashdot?)", any reasonable person would choose...both. Is that really so bad?

Do you regularly remote in to your home network? Do you connect out to a server somewhere?

Have you ever met anyone considering a VPN who does neither? But anyway, there are many other good reasons for using a VPN.

It sounds like you've been trolled by Slashdot editors.

Problem: how to increase traffic to the website.

Solution: Post self-contradictory submissions so people are more likely to reply.