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Comment Re:Regulation, more regulation, only lawyers win (Score 5, Interesting) 224

They need to find a way to keep stupid people from running the plants. Fukushima's problems were severe, but the meltdowns were all preventable. That's the dirty little secret that Japan doesn't talk about. Any competent nuclear plant operator could have shut down Fukushima safely.

Comment Re:Slashdot stance on #gamergate (Score 1) 693

Game journalism has never been and will never be honest. This is because gamers want game porn far more than they want hard hitting game journalism. In order to provide the game porn, the media has to get in bed with the developers and the publishers. This will lead to gamers getting burned from time to time. The old adage "buyer beware" applies especially well to any new release game.

Comment Re:Slashdot stance on #gamergate (Score 1) 693

Timeline:

Indy dev makes chick game.
Indy dev gets favorable mention by a media type.
Rumor spreads that dev slept with media type.
Group of gamers get furious at the alleged corruption.
Some people go on comment sites and call for dev to get raped etc.
Dev plus her friends loudly condemn such behaviour.
Some how this gets gamer group more furious.

You may say that the dev is on the authoritarian side, and gamers gate is on the libertarian side, but that's not how it looks.

Being able to fuck your way to success, that's libertarian. Doing and saying horrible things to people because of perceived minor offense, that's authoritarian. Getting even more pissed because you get called on it, that's also authoritarian.

Comment Re:noooo (Score 1) 560

I have seen people on Slashdot complain that the scientists weren't taking the Sun into account, but maybe that was you, too.

Let's look at a time line.

1. Climate scientists: Discover climate has changed dramatically several times ... You: not born yet

2. Climate scientists: Gather mountains of evidence of such changes ... You: are born

3. Climate scientists: Discover that humans are affecting climate ... You: blissfully unaware that climate even changes

4. Climate scientists: Gather mountains of evidence that humans affect climate .... You: learn in school that the climate has changed dramatically several times. Knowledge transmitted indirectly from climate scientists.

5. Climate scientists: Warn the world that humans are affecting climate ... You: "It is just *assumed* that any change must be our fault, that the Earth is static and doesn't ever change unless we do it."

So yeah, you're probably the only person in the world to take the time to write that sentence, but not take the time to think about it.

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