Comment Revolt against changes? (Score 5, Insightful) 503
I don't see it as a "revolt against change" but a revolt to changes for the sake of change (enter gnome 3 and windows 8 as exhibit A and B).
I don't see it as a "revolt against change" but a revolt to changes for the sake of change (enter gnome 3 and windows 8 as exhibit A and B).
Geysers vs Extinction Event.... Hmmmm tough decision.
Actually the geyser represent a tiny amount of energy... we could always create fake geysers though
Maybe from the US citizens not the the US gov't. Only 10% of funds can come from a government source to eligible for the Lunar X prize.
We need a few hundred of these around the North American Hot Spot before the next time it blows its top.
It appears that if anyone posts negative comments and valid points concerning Snowden you better do it as Anonymous or the slashdot hive mind will mod you into the oblivion - as I fully suspect this post will be.
The point is right on, Snowden did reveal information on foreign data collection methods and means. What's up with that? If one thinks the US should dismantle all spying operations your bleeding nuts...
I was a young engineer working for Rockedyne on the SSME at the time and we were the last to know. The announcement over the intercom was that there was a "system failure" on flight 51 and incoming calls were blocked (pre internet day youngsters). I guess they didn't want anyone to panic and go back and edit the turbopump or engine build books that would impede any investigation. We didn't know about the catastrophic failure until people went out for lunch that day.
You are able to express this opinion openly because military force has in the past protected your right to speak freely.
OK I rtfa
mankind will suffer badly from the disease of boredom, a disease spreading more widely each year and growing in intensity. This will have serious mental, emotional and sociological consequences, and I dare say that psychiatry will be far and away the most important medical specialty in 2014. The lucky few who can be involved in creative work of any sort will be the true elite of mankind, for they alone will do more than serve a machine - Asimov
I think he is wrong as tools and automation do not limit the ability to do creative work but open up new ways of being creative. If not having tools enhance ones happiness and well being then the stone age would have been the most spiritual era of mankind.
What is Spiritual Malaise to you?
What exactly is spiritual malaise? Not a very precise term. To a fundamentalist Theist it might mean not accepting [insert humanlike god] as your personal Lord and Savior to another it might mean not accepting a human invented god to another it might mean not being materialistic.
Spiritual Malaise is a humpty dumpty phrase.
I respectfully disagree.
Obama has the luxury of not seeking another term to guide whatever moral compass might remain within him.
He has an opportunity to make the reform of government surveillance an even greater legacy for his presidency than his ACA program.
Will he? Possibly not, but a newly elected POTUS will have even less incentive: any terrorist incident that occurs after a restructuring of the quasi-governmental snooping agencies will land at the feet of it's sponsor.
Not sure why this is modded "Troll"... the hive mind is buzzing in full force.
Any future terror attack will be exploited by the opposition against any politician that moved to restructure or restrict government spying... that is insightful not trollish.
So sad that a criminal is listed as an influential person. Especially one so cowardly and spineless as to flee instead of actually staying and working towards what he believed in. I hope he lives to a ripe old age and has to spend his life constantly hiding in the shadows in fear. In countries with worse personal liberties and freedoms than the one he fled from.
I'm sorry you feel this way. Very few people here feel that way, in fact, the only people here that feel that way you do usually work for the NSA.
Right even one who has a different opinion than yourself is obviously in the employ of the Satan.
It seems all one has to do here to get their post moderated as "insightful" is ejaculate some pro-Snowden commentary even as dumb, trollish, dismissive and broad brushed as the one above.
Because Slashdot has become a temple of the first Church of Snowden
Sure but can you mention any specifics?
I applaud the fact that Snowden let the American people in on the specifics.
Can you identify the specifics that weren't known before? (excluding revelations concerning spying on other countries).
You knew the job was dangerous when you took it, Fred. -- Superchicken
