Dude, I'm on Linux. I don't have any malware on my machine. If you look at the previous Slashdot article, you'll see other people having the same problem. Also I had my wife check this on a completely separate computer (ALSO running Linux) and got the same result.

I load Slashdot, and suddenly I have all these goddamn ads despite having AdBlock Plus enabled. I had my wife try to load the site, as she has uBlock Origin and she was seeing the fucking ads, too.

I'm not sure what you think you're making fun of here. You're right in that SETI has yet to find anything. There's nothing wrong with this. No one in that field is seriously stating that we will find evidence of intelligent life in X number of years. They are simply continuing to test the hypothesis that intelligent life exists. Nothing more, nothing less.

While I am in favor of reasonable gun control laws, this is not going to solve the entire issue. The root cause for these shootings needs to be determined, or they'll just find another way to cause more death. But where in this country we're more concerned with incarceration than reform and prevention, that will not happen anytime soon.

And the point of everyone else that has posted in response is that you keep using that link to justify an alarmist view that EVERY man who donates is in danger of being called on to pay child support. This is not happening. The article lists very specific cases where this happened, and none of them were of men who got called out by a woman who was a complete stranger to him. Now, if you want to argue that these cases listed were unfair, that's a valid viewpoint. Go ahead and argue that. But stop generalizing it.

Now if there ARE a significant number of cases where this DID happen, then, yes, that is cause for concern. But I'm not seeing this.

My intent was to point out that your initial post, as it was worded, sounded alarmist. It implied that EVERY man who donates is at some high risk. I never stated an opinion either way whether I thought the few cases that did come before a judge were justified.

Did you even bother to read the article you linked? In all the cases that were cited, the donor had an established relationship with the woman who received his sperm. It even states this right at the top of the damn article: "Concerned sperm donors should note that these cases are probably considered outside the norm. The child support-paying sperm donors usually have a closer than normal relationship with the children and the family."

That must be a record: complaining about whitespace in python by the second post (and as a bonus, it's totally irrelevant to the topic at hand).

The control group was likely the result of a placebo effect. The small amount of money they got -- or perhaps just the idea that someone gave a shit -- was enough to boost their confidence and let them pull themselves out of their situation. Either way, it worked.

On a previous job, I had a colleague who was openly gay, One day, I'm in the bathroom taking a piss. He walks in and starts doing his business in the urinal next to me. I thought nothing of it. Why? Because he's not there to hit on other men or sneak peeks at guys' wieners. He was there same as me, to take a piss, and that's it. Ever since then, I realized all the talk about being the bathroom police to be utterly stupid.

NEWS FLASH! If someone is going into the "wrong" bathroom for illicit purposes, no law is going to stop that.

Well, whether they bother us or not will depend on how they detect a paused game. One of the proposals is to compare frames to see if any movement occurred. This is a terrible means to detect a paused game. What if someone is playing a visual novel? A lot of time in those games is spent reading text while a static image is on the screen.

One of the reasons people do this is because users keep posting links to paywalled or adwalled sites. I'm not going to read an article that I need to register an account for the privilege of reading it or turn off my ad-blocker so they can shove a hundred irrelevant ads in my face. The fact that this article lead to something I could actually READ was a breath of fresh air.

Yeah, the websites are out there. Just sign up for a free account today! Support us by turning off ad-blocker!

No thanks.

What I find is very useful is to filter on the negative reviews, even if the overall rating is "overwhelmingly positive". What I look for are trends. For example, are there a lot of people complaining about a specific bug? I've passed up on a few games that otherwise had largely positive reviews but had trends in the negative reviews that I didn't like. Conversely, I've had a few that were borderline and the primary complaint was "too much dialog!" which to me was a positive (it was a visual novel; seriously, what were they expecting?)

I'm rather surprised (pleasantly so, though) that your post was modded up as high as it was. At least there are some people on Slashdot who maybe come here to learn something and not just look for an echo chamber for their own beliefs.

I have to wonder how many people here bashing Kissinger are even old enough to have lived during the period when Kissinger was most active, or are they just repeating back rhetoric they heard from other people (spoiler alert: I am old enough).

Were some of Kissinger's actions questionable? Absolutely. But the man was not doing it for the lulz.

So he's just as evil as Kissinger for stating a historic fact?

Seriously, grow up.