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Comment Not relevant (Score 1) 396

I recall something like that being the case for the Manning data.

You're right -- I've confused the two. Snowden was the one who took it and leaked it all to the Russians, in addition to leaking several hundred times more than was necessary to prove his point.

Thus... my point stands, although a minor technical error did occur.

I note none of these fanboys admitted that he leaked all of it to the Russians.

Wonder why they "forgot"?

Comment Survey the fanboys (Score 2) 285

It was a random survey, conducted via Google Consumer Surveys.

You evade, which does you no credit. Offering a survey that you know will be answered by fanboys inevitably produces bad results. The rest of the audience isn't bothering to answer this.

You'd also need to ask them at a longer duration from the download to see if they kept using it. There are many ways to cherry-pick data, and the first is to be careful about who you ask.

Comment Kim Philby II (Score -1, Flamebait) 396

Snowden wasn't a whistleblower, he was a spy for the other side.

If he were a whistleblower, we would have seen revelations in the press, not a document dump to the public.

Not to mention a lack of taking several hard drives full of data to the Russians, who as events in Crimea show, haven't changed since the Soviet Era.

Comment That's not Slashdot. It's democracy. (Score 1) 477

I never understand why the most insightful comments about the topic at hand, the one that actually sheds some light on the topic by someone who might know a little about it, is always at the bottom of a thread on /.

Democracy is about popular opinions, not correct ones.

Socializing is about popular opinions and flattery, not reality.

Product sales are about trends, not technical best solutions.

Everywhere we humans go, it's quantity over quality. That's because of how we choose. We pick what lots of people want to believe is true, not what is true.

In defense of Slashdot, it's better here than most places, including off the net. About 5% of the posters here are insightful and will actually consider an opinion other than what their TV says, or friends in the local watering hole think is important.

If anything, it's the fanboys that make it difficult here. Apple, Ron Paul, Google, Obama, gays, Open Office, AR-15s, etc. They form little organized voting blocs who try to destroy any opinion that isn't fawning like their own on their topic of choice.

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