You almost got it right:

. Everyone else gets screwed.

Both Pointy Headed Bosses and Slashdot loooove talking about tools. As the posts generally show, both PHBs and Slashdoters have no clue about what Big Data is used for. It's all about the buzzwords and technology, not about use and utility.

There are no references to any algorithms. Rank ordering? Nope. Social graph analytics? No. Netflix style recommendations? Uh-uh. Statistics? None.

Without talking about data sets, algorithms and expected results, yammering about tools is meaningless. Hot air.

But who cares, because you all get to call each other stupid, and try and prove that you are the biggest baddest tech weenie on the block. From here it seems that you don't even know where the block is. You don't even seem to know which direction you need to go to get to a street. (Like the implied car reference there?)

I'm beyond unimpressed. It's obvious that no one has a clue what they are talking about. Go off and learn something, and then maybe you will be able to write a post that isn't a waste of time. Other then that STFU and get off my lawn.

Rust Never Sleeps.

1. Go to zoo.

2. Go in monkey cage.

3. Start grooming monkeys and picking nits off them.

4. GTFO Slashdot forever and stop posting such stupid crap.

Your disappearance would be the greatest contribution you could ever make here.

You are materially wrong. The Saudi Arabian political establishment is terrified of ISIS. ISIS, like Bin Laden/al-Qadea, wants to depose the current Saudi ruling family because they are considered to be corrupt and westernized. Note that does not mean everyone in Saudi Arabia rejects ISIS, but it is a despotic monarchy, so dissent is brutally repressed.

Thinking that the Saudis deliberately lowering oil prices to hurt US based production is a delusional fantasy. It's just that OPEC cannot currently dictate worldwide oil prices.

This outcome set the stage for a battle for market share between OPEC and non-OPEC countries, as a boom in U.S. shale oil production and weaker economic growth in China and Europe have already sent crude prices down by about a third since June.

"It was a great decision," Saudi Oil Minister Ali al-Naimi said as he emerged smiling after around five hours of talks.

OPEC said in a statement that members had agreed to roll over the ceiling of 30 million barrels per day, at least 1 million above OPEC's own estimates of demand for its oil next year.

"It is a new world for OPEC because they simply cannot manage the market anymore. It is now the market’s turn to dictate prices and they will certainly go lower," said Dr. Gary Ross, chief executive of PIRA Energy Group.

The wealthy Gulf states have made clear they are ready to ride out the weak prices that have hurt the likes of Venezuela and Iran - OPEC members which face big budget pressures, but cannot afford to make cuts themselves. Venezuela and Algeria had calling for output cuts of as much as 2 million bpd.

So Iran and Venezuela are hurting far more then US oil interests, and they are not exactly our friends.

There are plenty of reasons to question the relationship between Saudi Arabia and the West, but so far you have not cited even one of them.

It's has relevance to global warming models, so it must be banned immediately.

We have always been at war with Oceania.

The Koch and Norquist denounced "widely denounced" by conservatives? Horsecrap.

Bobby Jindal, Governor of Louisiana, has let Norquist's organization, Americans for Tax Reform, decide state tax policy:

What gives Norquist and his lieutenants the control they clearly have is that Jindal has simply given it to them.

In defending their role, ATR officials like to point out that the pledge reads as a promise to a politician’s constituents, not to the group.

It’s the interpretation of the pledge that’s the rub. As many people who’ve had conversations with the administration have said, and as Jindal and his aides have pretty much publicly admitted, the governor is not just refusing to raise taxes. He’s hewing to ATR’s highly debatable interpretation of the pledge’s terms.

That means refusing to consider anything that would increase revenue unless it’s paired with an equal, explicit offset. That means eliminating only those tax breaks that exceed a payer’s liability so the action can be counted as a spending cut. A couple of years ago, that meant vetoing a 4-cent cigarette tax renewal — 4 cents! — because refusing to let it expire somehow counted as a tax increase.

The interpretation is almost comically strict. That’s not on Norquist, who has no power to enforce the pledge. It’s on Jindal.

When you announce that you are planning on spending $889 billion on the next election politicians stand in line to meet you. The Koch brothers have already held the first audition for their candidate:

A large group of Republican presidential hopefuls will gather for lunch at billionaire conservative David Koch's oceanfront mansion in Palm Beach, Florida, on Sunday and meet face-to-face with some of the party's most influential contributors.

The event at Koch's 30,050-square foot home is being sponsored as a fundraiser for the Republican Governor's Association, one of the many conservative interests Koch supports, reports The Washington Post. It is attracting prospective candidates such as Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, and Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal.

On Slashdot, it's not about the technology, it about the whining and complaining. A quick scan of all the comments reveals that no one has anything good to say about a $9 card size computer that runs Linux.

Are you all nuts? This is an incredible price performance point. Yet all I see is nit picking: it can't do this, it doesn't run that, the "real' price is X (what about SHIPPING!!!), the Raspberry Pi is the same only better, etc. What the hell do you expect for $9? A cold six pack and a back massage?

Speaking of the R Pi, if you go back and look at the responses to those announcements, you see the same kind of mindless bitching. The complaints are similar: t doesn't do enough, It's overpriced for what it does, it should be cheaper, more things should be optional, etc. Pretty much the same crap. Yet here the R Pi is the gold standard, and this board sucks. Make up you damned minds.

No matter what anybody comes up with, it's wrong. Have any of the legions of critics done anything even remotely like this? Of course not. They're all just sitting in their parents basement sniping at people who get stuff done. It sounds bunch of pathetic losers who knock everyone else down so they can try and feel superior. It's a disgusting display.

Got to Photograhpy is Not a Crime and you will see a huge collection of videos showing cops acting like thugs. In very few of these cases are they ever held accountable. The more that the public gets involved in monitoring the police the more people are finding out that the police are lawless.

If you want to live as a citizen in a democracy, you have to hold officials responsible. When the police decide that they are above the law, it is up to us to show them that the law applies to everyone.

On the other hand, if you want to be a peon in a police state, just go ahead and support the status quo. Let the TSA steal you stuff when you fly. Let the NSA put you on a watch list based on a mass surveillance algorithm that no one will ever review. Or get on a list by posting something on Slashdot. It's your choice.

Wow, both illogical and a paranoid fantasy. Two birds with one stone.

No one except you has said anything about a national police force. Where the hell did that come from?

The post is about how the Feds are not doing their job and letting the cops get away with bad behavior. How would a national police force, which you imply would be unaccountable, be any different then a local police force that doesn't obey the law?

Do you have any point to make except flaunting your delusional conspiracy theory? Off you meds? WTF?

The world is flat and you stand at the exact center of the universe. How nice for you.

You are absolutely correct. The world has no ambiguity, your opinions are fundamental truths of the universe, and you shit doesn't stink.

Self righteous much?

Just wondering.

Yes, just like a little kid, every Republican knows that you see space when you look up. You can't see space when you look down. All you see is dirt, i.e. the Earth. So it can't be in space.

So let's just ignore the fact that the Earth is just one of the many things that are in space, and that it s the easiest thing in space we can get to. We're already here. It just doesn't count.

Also ignore that the Earth is the planet that we know the most about. So if we want to study other planets, we shouldn't study the Earth from space. There is no way that the things that we learn from Earth observation could be a baseline so that we know how to examine other thing that are in space, like say Mercury, Venus, the Moon, Mars, Jupiter and it's moons, Saturn and it's moons and rings, and the same for Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto (planet or not).

I hope this gives the Republicans amongst you a slight clue how stupid you sound. And how much you've substituted ideology for rational thought. But I warn you, don't let your vision of the US flag over every rock and planet in the solar system go to your head. It's only a mater of time until the christian fanatic wing of the party decides that the Earth is flat, the space program is a front for the devil, and the money needs to be spent on proving that the Earth is 6000 years old.

Wall Street gets to steal from everybody.

Nobody gets to steal from Wall Street