Myself, I have a feeling they're going to learn a few things about him during the investigation that they'd rather were not true.

His fleshlight in a box of pictures of Angela Merkel?

I have a feeling the thing you desperately wish were not true is the fact that depression alone can drive people to do things like this, and it makes you uncomfortable given your own paranoid metal state.

Here's how foolish this nonsense is. Assume we have two classes, Woman, and Kitchen, which are written by different women. Passing the Bechdel test:

self.sandwich = [woman getSandwichFromKitchen:kitchen];

I learned something about myself writing that. Objective C really is as shitty as Java. I should stop oppressing Java programmers.

Geez, grandpa, when did you become a tightwad? Having a conniption over dongle jokes is for Millennial special snowflakes.

You might remember a time when there were more female programmers (as a percentage) than there are now. You might even be old enough to have worked with them. Did you pitch a hissy fit when they CC'ed you on the dirty jokes?

We still don't know enough to prevent unintended consquences or complications

Yes we do, the "consequences" are every human being without the genetic disease, or every human being who already has the desirable trait you're inserting. It's just like rocket science - smarter people than you understand it more thoroughly than you, and every risk you can possibly conceive of they have already considered.

You people talk like this shit is like fucking magic, as if there is a metaphysical price that must be paid for every boon the technology gives you. Me am play gods!

Please no Gattica-style selection of socially prefered traits to create a dis/u/topia of ubermenchen and untermenchen.

Who are you to tell your hypothetical superiors they should not exist? You're not concerned with the risks, you just envy imaginary people.

The poor will be at a financial AND genetic disadvantage.

Which is precisely why they'll try to outlaw it. It's the only way it will remain expensive.

It's time to resolve the ethics of telling other people what they can and can't do with their own DNA and reproductive choices.

And the resolution is: you can butt right the fuck out. It's none of your god damned business.

Marauder is satire like the original, and justifies its otherwise forgettable existence with this:

It's a Good Day to Die

I love how people on YouTube praise it without realizing it is satirical. It's basically making fun of them and they like it.

Oh my God, I can't believe you morons still believe that.

Verhoeven was fucking with you.

This is the man who made RoboCop and Total Recall. The writer of Starship Troopers, Edward Neumeier, also wrote RoboCop.

Bug Hunt at Outpost Nine is a working title. A lot of movies like that have working titles. It helps keep them secret when they're in production.

Do you honestly think they weren't aware of one of the most famous science fiction novels that bore a striking similarity to the movie they had written, which was itself a satire of fascism and war propaganda?

Verhoeven may not have actually finished the novel, you don't need to, it's pretty boring, all hopping around in power armor and nuking skinnies and bugs after you get past the parts they directly lifted. But Neumeier is a writer who is into science fiction, do you honestly think he had never heard of Starship Troopers? That it was all coincidence? If so, you Heinlein fanboys are as dim-witted as the characters.

The actors were chosen specifically because they were too stupid to recognize that the movie is satire. Much like Slim Pickens in Dr. Strangelove, they played it straight, and their performances were so much better for it.

That you think the script was bad tells me you're very similar to the actors, though probably not as hot as Denise Richards.

We could put Libertarian dogmatism and naivety on the list, but they themselves have little influence, so it isn't like fixing them would fix the problem.

I guess you could call it pathological cynicism, and it expresses itself in many ideologies: government is evil, corporations are evil, America is evil, the West is evil, cisgender heterosexual white men are evil, etc.

The person started off by asking me if it was an excel file, a PDF, etc

That's a reasonable question. Without knowing the level of security required, the encryption facilities that are standard for these file types could be sufficient. The applicant wanted requirements, which is a smart thing to ask.

And why the fuck should everyone know the details of PKI? You didn't say it was a security position. Hell, a little knowledge of encryption can be worse than no knowledge, because then they might try to roll their own.

Something tells me the submitter is inflating his/her own expertise.

Let me know when someone builds a Predictor.

It's hilarious the parent comment got at least two upvotes. Say what you will about geek arrogance, but insecurity at others being smarter than them is a lot more common on Slashdot than its opposite. Or maybe they just prefer to hide in silence and let the mod points do the talking.

I'm perfectly capable of managing my own defense, thank you very much. You crypto-statists with your "police" and "national defense" are nothing more than collectivists pretending to be rugged individualists. You're just as effete as the bleeding heart redistributing liberals.

There are still rats biting children in poor neighborhoods. That money should be spent on them!