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Comment Journalists *should* get shot more often (Score 0) 227

Terrorists are those people who sow fear. Question is: if a terrorist is a fearmonger, who's enabling them? Media. It almost looks like a knee-jerk reaction. B.l.o.o.d.... and in come the vultures, feasting on the prospect of even more misery. I think it's kinda simple. If a goverment actually claims it will not negotiate with terrorists, WHY THE HELL DO WE GIVE THOSE TERRORISTS A PLATFORM TO PERFORM ON?? Blow up as many as you like, but if it isn't relayed to cnn or fox or whatever media-whore, it didn't happen. Sad but true. Media should reform or die. Journalists the first against the wall when the revolution comes.

Comment Babelfish are go. (Score 2) 122

Now, it is such a bizarrely improbable coincidence that anything so mind-bogglingly useful could have evolved purely by chance that some have chosen to see it as the final proof of the NON-existence of God. The argument goes something like this:
"I refuse to prove that I exist," says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing."

"But," says Man, "the Babel fish is a dead giveaway, isn't it? It could not have evolved by chance. It proves that You exist, and so therefore, by Your own arguments, You don't. QED".

"Oh dear," says God, "I hadn't thought of that." and promptly vanishes in a puff of logic.

Comment Re:Not the same use cases (Score 1) 245

"But it does what php can’t: a nodejs application is its own server and runs continuously"

Not true. Because PHP has wrappers to all the underlying C-functions you need to create a socket server. See socket_ functions.

Also, you can fork new processes with the pctnl_ functions and have IPC with the shmop_ functions.

Using this functionality you could build a more advanced webserver than node.js which, btw, has some terrible bugs in its socket reading algorithms.

Comment Re:Oh bullshit on a stick (Score 1) 772

There is no such thing as a terrorist. But it must be nice to see the world in black and white, saves you the trouble of having to actually think about or empathize with other humans.
"Wer mit Ungeheuern kampft, mag zusehen, dass er nicht dabei zum Ungeheuer wird. Und wenn du lange in einen Abgrund blickst, blickt der Abgrund auch in dich hinein."

Comment Re:News? (Score 1) 83

Let me put it simply: We are not allowed to spy on our own citizens. Everybody else is fair game. Nobody ever said we couldn't share data with other (allied) intelligence agencies, so we got around the rule by spying on each others citizens and sharing the data. But now that we have been tasked with near impossible tasks we have turned to spying on our own citizens directly, and this is a new development for foreign intelligence services, whether you are aware of it or not. The fact that these are nationals living abroad is the main loophole.

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