...another cargo cultist.

My search show a grand total of 2 other times the word has been used in a slashdot headline.

Please show me another example of its use on slashdot.

...who had no idea what "swatting" meant, until reading the linked article.

Since when do we use unknown/uncommon words in headlines ?

....Is NOT anything like a large project.
It's almost small.

Tell that to any successful comedian.
In comedy, delivery is everything

Home Schooling:
Pros: Your over-indulged child won't be a nuisance to other children at school.
Cons: Your maladjusted teenager/young adult will be (a nuisance) later in life.


Public Schooling:
Pros: Your child will learn about life outside of his over-indulged home.
Cons: Other children will have to put up with him.

So you can see the chips and battery inside of it ?

Good frigging question

...many computing algorithms rely upon randomization for efficiency.

...might just taste good to them.

Yeah, you know, I can construct idiotic examples of cases where the government is over-regulating too.
Unfortunately - and despite what you would like to believe - licensing is just as much about consumer protection as it is about taxation. But, hey, you go ahead and drink the snake oil, see if I care.

No, but doing a job for money makes one a "professional". There is a very distinct difference for a good reason, or perhaps you would be happy trusting your unlicensed gas fitter, or surgeon.

...as antivirus suppliers themselves have admitted, anti-virus software only slows your system down (dramatically)

If the code is well written - I know, Windows ? - then tracking down and fixing a bug should take minutes, not months.