Comment Re:Can the new buyer be worse than DICE? (Score 3, Funny) 552
The cure is worse than the disease!
Comment Re:Got e-mail this morning from mail.whitehouse.go (Score 5, Informative) 608
He wasn't kicked out. He resigned before he could be impeached. He was then pardoned shortly afterwards.
Comment Re:Translation (Score 2) 608
We haven't applied enough pressure on our government, and as such it is not responding favorably to our polite request.
That's because most of us aren't billionaires and/or have a Super PAC.
Comment Re:I'd be more sympathetic if he weren't a doucheb (Score 5, Informative) 608
Instead, he indiscriminately handed sensitive national secrets over to a foreigner,
Glenn Greenwald is a "foreigner"? Since when?
Comment Re:By that logic (Score 4, Informative) 608
Silly plebe. Laws only apply to the little people. Not those with wealth and power.
Comment Re:Civil Disobedience (Score 4, Informative) 608
"and — importantly — accept the consequences of his actions." Isn't whistle blowing legally protected from retaliation?
On paper, but they've already wiped their ass with it so they don't care much.
Two Years Later, White House Responds To 'Pardon Edward Snowden' Petition 608
An anonymous reader writes: In June of 2013, a petition was posted to Whitehouse.gov demanding that Edward Snowden receive a full pardon for his leaks about the NSA and U.S. surveillance practices. The petition swiftly passed 100,000 signatures — the point at which the White House said it would officially respond to such petitions. For two years, the administration was silent, but now they've finally responded. In short: No, Edward Snowden won't be receiving a pardon.
Lisa Monaco, the President's Advisor on Homeland Security and Counterterrorism, said, "Mr. Snowden's dangerous decision to steal and disclose classified information had severe consequences for the security of our country and the people who work day in and day out to protect it. If he felt his actions were consistent with civil disobedience, then he should do what those who have taken issue with their own government do: Challenge it, speak out, engage in a constructive act of protest, and — importantly — accept the consequences of his actions. He should come home to the United States, and be judged by a jury of his peers — not hide behind the cover of an authoritarian regime. Right now, he's running away from the consequences of his actions."
Lisa Monaco, the President's Advisor on Homeland Security and Counterterrorism, said, "Mr. Snowden's dangerous decision to steal and disclose classified information had severe consequences for the security of our country and the people who work day in and day out to protect it. If he felt his actions were consistent with civil disobedience, then he should do what those who have taken issue with their own government do: Challenge it, speak out, engage in a constructive act of protest, and — importantly — accept the consequences of his actions. He should come home to the United States, and be judged by a jury of his peers — not hide behind the cover of an authoritarian regime. Right now, he's running away from the consequences of his actions."
Submission + - Dice plans to liberate Slashdot and Sourceforge (arstechnica.com)
An anonymous reader writes: The current corporate overlords of both Slashdot and Sourceforge plan to sell off the properties:
The Company acquired Slashdot Media in 2012 both to provide the Dice business with broader reach into Slashdot's user community base and to extend the Dice business outside North America by engaging with SourceForge's significant international technology user community. The Company, however, has not successfully leveraged the Slashdot user base to further Dice's digital recruitment business; and with the acquisition of The IT Job Board and success of Open Web, the anticipated value to the Company of the SourceForge traffic outside North America has not materialized. The Company now plans to divest the business, as it does not fit within the Company's strategic initiatives and believes the Slashdot Media business will have the opportunity to improve its financial performance under different ownership.
Submission + - Dice announces plans to sell Slashdot Media (arstechnica.com)
cjm571 writes: DHI Group—formerly known as Dice Holdings Incorporated prior to this April—announced plans this morning to sell the combination of Slashdot and SourceForge. The announcement was made as part of DHI’s 2Q15 financial results.
Comment Re:More Bias. More experimental error. (Score 1) 518
forewarning: IDCWYDWOAITD (I Don't Care What You Do With Other Adults In The Dark)
If it wasn't genetic, that would make it their decision.
Would that make them "Pro-Choice"?
If it wasn't genetic it'd make 'gay pride' make a lot more sense, you know, taking pride in having made the life choice to be gay (being proud of an accident of birth is just dumb, may as well be proud of... having blue eyes).
As it is it really should be termed 'gay shamelessness'
Comment Re:More Bias. More experimental error. (Score 1) 518
Not just Western science. Every culture on earth has some taboo on examining human psychology and physiology because of sensitivities, especially in the areas of sex and race. However this is constrained solely to homo sapiens studies. But I love how you somehow extrapolate this to troll physics research. Is the watercooler on the third floor still broken, Sergey?
Actually not every culture. I'd be more inclined to faith in Asian scientists when it comes to gender issues. Climate change though, thats just not an area for science anywhere really.
Comment Re: Looking more and more likely all the time... (Score 1) 518
> IMO, as someone with a background in science, scepticism is the only logical option for science. I'm sceptical of all scientific results. Thats how progress is made, by not taking things at face value.
As anything in this life, scepticism is very useful during a phase when proofs are sought. If such proofs are examined and deemed valid, it would be foolish to continue using scepticism. Though, that is exactly what we observe -- even if just as trolling.
Of course, if one thinks like the original Skeptics, which seemed to believe "no real knowledge is ever possible", then it would be alright to doubt everything all the time.
(I was about to blast English for being different from my language and cripple words, but for once it seems "skeptics" is a more correct derivation from Greek roots... well, one cannot always win, I suppose).
Even when the results are examined and deemed valid one must always be sceptical otherwise theres the risk that some discovery that would find the flaw in these results might be ignored.
Comment Re:More Bias. More experimental error. (Score 1, Insightful) 518
It's amazing how little science exists within science these days. Everyone has lost touch with reality.
Western science is very unreliable. Take sexuality for example. It would be impossible these days, in the western world, for a scientist to announce a result that showed that homosexuality is, in some cases, not something that someone is born with. They'd never work in science again no matter how valid their results. There are certain areas in which western science is just not allowed to meddle. Our understanding of climate change is hopelessly fucked up and its doubtful there will ever be any useful scientific results on this from the west. Its all confirmation bias and covering up/ignoring unfavourable results.
Comment Re:extracting "fuel" from the very fabric of space (Score 2) 518
I thought that was the Q thruster, it's this the one that bounces photons around in an asymmetric cavity?
The Q's thruster got Janeway all excited...
Comment Re: Looking more and more likely all the time... (Score 2) 518
The physics are most certainly NOT uncontroversial.
If this thing were to truly work, it would have insane implications to some basic assumptions about the universe - namely about the very laws of physics themselves.
This device working means that the laws of physics do vary by translation, which goes against every single other observation ever made. The science behind it is most certainly not clearly sound. Skepticism is the only logical option for this thing.
IMO, as someone with a background in science, scepticism is the only logical option for science. I'm sceptical of all scientific results. Thats how progress is made, by not taking things at face value.
