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Comment Re: But that is Communism!! (Score -1) 138

At last someone is willing to tell off the little people to their faces. It's heartening to see even in this day and age of open nullification of federal power in California and others that someone supports the US government. You tell those deplorables how it is! Speak truth to the powerless!

Comment Re:Mozilla asleep at the wheel (Score 4, Insightful) 41

>"The fact that Mozilla allowing this to happen tells me that they are no longer effective at their mission."

1) They aren't "allowing" anything to happen. There is no setting in Firefox or Thunderbird that says "yeah, please record all my stuff." This is/was a Microsoft decision. No such problem on any other platform.
2) Why should it be up to the APPLICATION to decide to block this privacy raping?
3) How long has this option to ask this specific OS not not record been out? It is a little soon to "condemn" Mozilla for not having this single-platform hackery option yet. Recall, itself, is still just a preview. For all we know, the entire thing might evaporate in a few months.
4) If you are really concerned about privacy, I would first point at the OS this whole thing is about.

Comment Decolonize the curriculum (Score -1) 100

The curriculum no longer teaches these dead white European men. In their place are Ibram X. Kendi and Gloria Steinem. Kids want to study scholars who look like them. Not pale, male and stale. "Sorry submitted by alternative_right. Oh , I see. Slashdot made the jump to full national socialist. Jew rape gangs, am I right? And Israel is racist apartheid state. Anything else to add,natzees? I thought your only book of philosophy besides the Bible was My Struggle by that failed Australian painter.

Comment Re:Ok (Score 2) 63

As a kid I participated in a version of this. Being good at math is not enough to do well in such competition no matter how smart you are (3sigma no idea past that). To do well, you need to study competition-style problems and learn broad array of various moves and shortcuts. This is much closer to chess than to actual logic and reasoning of free-form problem solving.

Comment Re:Great news (Score 1) 99

>"Some people do get married in secret. It is a contract between the people getting married. It is rarely done by proxy."

No, for it to be valid, you have to obtain a license, and it has to be officiated and recorded by a government official. It is then on record. Can't be secret.

Comment Re:Does Anyone Know..? (Score 1) 28

It seems like a lot of effort to support an OS that will barely be used.

This is coming from RISC-V SOC developers, and there are a number of those. They need something to boot and run that has a complete set of packages+infrastructure. It's great that Debian is the go-to distro for much of this, as opposed to a fragmented mess of proprietary dead ends.

There is a lot of new RISC-V silicon appearing or about to arrive. Tenstorrent Ascalon is one I'm looking forward to: by this time next year, Jim Keller intends to have a RV64 chip that is competitive with server grade ARM devices.

Comment Re:Great news (Score 1) 99

>"Redefining, or allowing people to define it themselves? Maybe someone else's marriage isn't any of your fucking business?"

It is everyone's business if everyone is expected to participate in the definition and then acknowledge it. The entire point of marriage is a societal signal. It isn't something secret or personal. Otherwise, literally anything can be marriage.

As an aside, you have some serious anger and civil communication issues. Let's grab some statements from just your posts, so far, in this single article's comments:

* too fucking stupid to understand what they read.
* Are you some kind of puritan piece of shit
* Don't be stupid.
* You fucking morons not understanding how stupid you are will be.
* Bullshit.

And that is indicative of your posting history for a very long time. Nasty personal attacks and comments, one after another. A little introspection would be welcome.

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