by Anonymous Coward writes:
on Thursday March 27, 2014 @12:49PM (#46593831)
Everywhere this psychopath goes, something bad happens- someone always ends up dying, whether he's messing with ultralights in the Southwest US or antibiotics in Costa Rico- but it's never his fault, things just "happen".
Most of his ideas are bullshit and vapor that, for some reasons (always "legitimate", of course) never make it into production.
Why is Slashdot giving this guy a forum?
This topic belongs on TMZ or the National Enquirer. What Tripe.
This topic belongs on TMZ or the National Enquirer. What Tripe.
Controversy brings more activity / page views. The more controversial, the better, no? It wouldn't surprise me to see a post about feeding dead puppies to orphans next week on Slashdice.
I remember back in the 80s making my first FTP connection, on an Apple ][ at school. You could login with some silly username like "customer" (it was something different but I forget what, where are my meds?) and the password was 12345 or something. You could then download the whole (commercial) software package for free. In a time before most open source, when most of my software was "Cracked by The Nibbler," McAfee ("or however you spell it") would just give it away to anybody
Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
-- Epigrams in Programming, ACM SIGPLAN Sept. 1982
Why? (Score:2, Insightful)
Everywhere this psychopath goes, something bad happens- someone always ends up dying, whether he's messing with ultralights in the Southwest US or antibiotics in Costa Rico- but it's never his fault, things just "happen".
Most of his ideas are bullshit and vapor that, for some reasons (always "legitimate", of course) never make it into production.
Why is Slashdot giving this guy a forum?
This topic belongs on TMZ or the National Enquirer. What Tripe.
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Costa Rico, on the other hand, is best known for having a football thrown over it.
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This topic belongs on TMZ or the National Enquirer. What Tripe.
Controversy brings more activity / page views. The more controversial, the better, no? It wouldn't surprise me to see a post about feeding dead puppies to orphans next week on Slashdice.
Because ... (Score:3)
Everywhere this psychopath goes, ...
Why is Slashdot giving this guy a forum?
Because they can?
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(For those not familiar with psychopathy, that's a psychopath joke. It's funny, laugh.)
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"Why is Slashdot giving this guy a forum?"
He's /.s Joe Biden
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Why is he eternally relevant?
I remember back in the 80s making my first FTP connection, on an Apple ][ at school. You could login with some silly username like "customer" (it was something different but I forget what, where are my meds?) and the password was 12345 or something. You could then download the whole (commercial) software package for free. In a time before most open source, when most of my software was "Cracked by The Nibbler," McAfee ("or however you spell it") would just give it away to anybody