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Comment Re:People Are Such Babies (Score 1) 218

I can say with great confidence that the algorithm indeed sucks since the stupid images didn't even load for me - I've tried with different browsers and all I see when I click on "My Year in Review" is a slightly darker viewport.
Facebook didn't apologize to me but chances are that they don't even know that I have a problem since I don't have a blog a lot of people follow, I didn't write on my wall about it and I only tried to inform them through the generic report a problem feature that nobody seemed to read.
Of course, my life won't be at loss because I've never seen what would be on "My Year in Review" (after all, I've seen all the images that are meant to be there before) so I didn't made a big deal out of it and I didn't care enough to try to figure out why the images aren't loading, or inform people who might want to that that.
But regardless, fuck you Facebook for not giving me an apology.

Comment Re:Don't worry guys... (Score 1) 880

Also, I'm not sure how you give credit to Constantine for founding Christianity; I thought that honor went to Jesus, or perhaps Paul or even Peter.

But none of them was a warlord so it kinda ruins the message. Stop ruining the party for anti-theists, parent! You're supposed to correct them by quoting some silly shit from The Old Testament, not by mentioning something they just don't pretend to know!

Comment Re:Once a planet, always a planet (Score 3, Insightful) 91

. Today, hardly anyone has hard of Ceres..

Thank goodness, I would be worried for myself if seeing any celestial object would gave me a hard (unless they looked like a beautiful women which they generally don't, but even in that case, I would rather stare at a beautiful woman instead).

Comment Re:writer doesn't get jeopardy, or much of anythin (Score 1) 455

Skynet begins to learn at a geometric rate. At 1:35 A.M. Eastern time it runs out of disk space and crashes horribly

Better yet, Skynet, in an attempt to gather all human-recorded data and understand our behaviour, visits 4chan and its circuits fry while they are trying to process and interpret the acquired data.

Comment Re:Two thoughts (Score 1) 716

If every online death threat were investigated we'd run out of police in about 10seconds. How about every death threat made in a bar while we're at it?

However, if only one in thousand online death threats were investigated, the amount of online death threats would quickly drop by several factors of scale.

Comment Re:Trolled by Soulskill (Score 1) 834

Why is it socially acceptable to demonize an entire demographic (gamers)?

That's being explained just few posts above yours - discrimination is apparently bad only if it's based on something people don't have a choice in. You can stop being a gamer just like you can stop being a Christian, or stop being an Apple fanboy. I guess that makes throwing all kinds of insults and other derogatory remarks at any of the above groups a fair game.
However, I am also convinced that with today's advancements in the field of medicine you can even stop being gay or stop being a woman (even though a typical far-left atheist liberal will likely disagree)!

Therefore I don't think that the line where discrimination starts is defined by the target group, but rather by the attitude the potential discriminator has towards the said group.
So someone saying that gamers are vile trash is demonizing them, but saying that it's better to study sciences than to play video games is as much discrimination as saying that life can only be formed through contact of male and female cells is homophobia.

Comment Re:Because The Children (Score 1) 171

In the 20th century, people feared that Orwellian state will control people by supressing thinking and limiting information.
But the situation become even worse - we have people who don't want to think and instead rely on The Government to decide what's good for them, and information is so widely available that people became saturated with it and no longer desire it.

Comment Re:Turing test not passed. (Score 1) 285

Many slashdotters have difficulty with reading comprehension and simple logic.

If you think that uneducated or trollish users are a problem on Slashdot, then you've probably never been to 4chan or reddit (I guess that Facebook deserved a mention too). Granted, trolls and haters actually exist on Slashdot (just like with any other site on the Internet), and sometimes they will crawl out and hit you with their ignorance hammer when you least expect them, but their number is remarkably low for a site that allows commenting without an account and I haven't seen them take over a topic in years.
And Slashdot isn't today exactly among the Internet's most popular sites so I think that most of them are just passerbys with sudden "rebruttal" urges.

Comment Re:Well... (Score 1) 493

Well except mutants aren't real and can't doom us all whereas unvaccinated people can.

In case if you haven't figured it out, X-Men is really about gay people, and of course, they can doom us all, since we'll just stop reproducing. So the analogy still says.
Of course I know that gay people won't ever become a majority and the above was just a sarcasm. But the same could probably be said about unvaccinated people.
But of course, *merely* having a registry of unvaccinated people is still way better than having mandatory vaccination like in my country. Until they refuse to give you a medical treatment because you haven't been vaccinated against leprosy, or you don't pass at job test because your parents thought it's not a good idea to let you take some vaccine that has so far been tested only on rats.

Comment Nothing to see here, move along. (Score 4, Insightful) 91

This shouldn't surprise anyone. Wasn't there a case years ago where Yahoo helped Chinese authorities arrest a blogger?
Even the "Don't be evil" company would happily turn you to authorities if you happen to use their search engine to find out how to construct a homemade bomb (their "autocomplete/suggestion" feature isn't really your best friend), and it doesn't matter if you live in a 3rd world country or not, since a suspicion of terrorism is enough to have you detained indefinitely even in a "land of the free".

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