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FBI Confirms Magic Lantern Existence
The_THOMAS (and many others) writes: "A day after major
anti-virus firms waffle on their support for 'Magic Lantern', and nine days
after Thomas C Greene of The Register tried to throw cold
water on it's existence,
the FBI Confirms
the 'Magic Lantern' Project Exist. Welcome to a Brave New World!"
Obviously your grammar does not include the full-stop '.'. Nice try.
I see you have mastered the apostrophe, but you have yet to master the deadly arts of the comma and period, young one.
LOL... glad to see you are as irritated by that as I am. Thanks for the post.
AGAIN: If you can't replace "it's" with "it is" in the sentence you were using, use "its". "it is existence" would not be correct; therefore, the correct form of the word is "its".
I don't want to be a troll, but I'm really sick of seeing this kind of amateurish grammar on Slashdot, and I know I'm not the only one. Taco seems to have given up. He always uses "its", but that's not correct either! Remember the "it is" rule stated above, and you'll be correct every time.
P.S. "Better then" is not correct either. When comparing, use "than."
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1 Unacceptable. posted on Thursday December 13, @01:23AM (Score:2)
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2 You're forgetting something... posted on Wednesday December 05, @11:30AM (Score:4)
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3 Even better... posted on Tuesday December 04, @01:20AM (Score:2 Replies: 1)
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4 To be honest... posted on Saturday December 01, @12:58PM (Score:3)
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9 Re:Huh? posted on Monday November 19, @03:15PM (Score:0)
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10 You just don't get it... posted on Sunday November 18, @10:55PM (Score:2 Replies: 1)
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11 Oh,man, not again... posted on Sunday November 11, @02:29AM (Score:3 Replies: 2)
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20 You know... posted on Friday October 26, @11:55AM (Score:1 Replies: 1)
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21 Well, I just tried it... posted on Thursday October 25, @02:58PM (Score:2)
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23 Not quite... posted on Tuesday October 23, @12:38PM (Score:1 Replies: 1)
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24 Interesting... posted on Tuesday October 23, @11:25AM (Score:3 Replies: 5)
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Hot, sweaty sex with Gillian Anderson!
American style would call for "period." Morons! and not "period". Morons! Interesting that you punctuated in the Brit style that you don't seem to care for.
Language is however the hell we want to use it. next you will be raving that we mispronounce cupboard (used to be pronouced "cup board").
Just because people are starting to spell "it's" the way that makes sense (so it works the same as Mike's, Bob's, the computer's, etc) doesn't make it wrong.
And FYI: most of these "right/wrong" issues come out of old fasioned people trying to convince everyone else that english should follow the same rules latin did, because, of course, latin is the perfect language.
It isn't hard to read. It is available online for free reading. Have a look. I took the time out to read it - and now I know what the parent to this post is on about.
Man who at the FBI fucking thought this stupid shit up. I wonder if the FBI really and truely thinks that 1) this will not catch anybody that is moderately aware of anything about computers 2) that it would actually catch someone doing something wrong? There's far too many ways for knowlegable users to get around stuff like this and somebody somewhere is going to write a little hack that will find and kill the virus. Carnivore is a retarded dragnet intended to make the FBI look less like a giant pile of shit because somehow people will feel secure if they know terrorists can't e-mail each other using hidden messages. Magic Lantern is just an addition to a shitty idea which is only going to cause the FBI more problems. ML will get isolated and someone will use it for their own purposes. It is as fucking simple as that. The first case of the virus being used by a "hacker terrorist" to infect a company and cause them "billions" of dollars in damages the FBI is going to once again look like a big pile of shit. On top of that the damn thing will probably never catch a terrorist. With the proliferation of computers and internet access anywhere it would be hard to catch anybody sending messages to someone. Like the terrorists in Semptember, they used a public library's fucking computer to send e-mails to people. They didn't encrypt anything, they just sent a coded message. This post could be a coded message and nobody would fucking know it unless they knew what to look for. Maybe instead of writing computer virii the FBI should look up the research the CIA did on ESP. That'd probably find them more fucking criminals. Hopefully they start with their directorate and work their way down.
I'm a loner Dottie, a Rebel.
While you are at it mod this up. I really hate people who use loose instead of lose. What a bunch of loosers (see I hate it!)
OMFG!!GODDFUCKINGDAMMIT!!THATS IT,ONCE I HIT 18 IM LEAVING THIS P.O.S. COUNTRY!!MY GOD!! WTF IS THEIR PROBLEM?? ANYONE WHO SUPPORTS THE FBI IS A GODDAMN FUCKING FASCIST BASTARD WHO WILL TRADE THE FEW FREEDOMS HE HAS LEFT FOR A BIT OF SMOKE-N-MIRRORS SAFETFY.
This won't protect us.You are all fools, this wont protect us.The only way you can be free in this place is to do things yourself, the EVIL EMPIRE (Microsoft) cannot be trusted.For if the FBI gets them to do this, they have no obligation to let you know about it.As for the Linux problems, they would gladly trade their customers' privacy for the right to continue to operate in the US no?
"Fight The Power"
sure its wrong, but if youre not doing anything illegal (::cough cough::) then you have nothing to worry about.
that's gotta be one of the best trolls i've ever read...i almost fell out of my chair laughing when i got to the windows update part, and the shared cable connection is a nice touch :-D
It's not funny till someone gets hurt.
Stupid moderators. "Informative"?? what are you drunk?
This guy's logic is flawed, I suspect a troll.
He says you can't trust deb/rpm packages because the US feds could alter them in transit. Fine, quite right as long as you don't bother with the gpg signatures. But then he tries to tell us that microsoft software is not vulerable because it is signed by microsoft!?!? That makes no sense! If the company running your Internet service can be ordered to let the FBI hack your system then Microsoft can be ordered to let the FBI hack your system. Microsoft's update signatures are exactly as trustworthy as your ISP's implicit promise to not intercept and modify your downloads.
How exactly does he figure that Microsoft is more trustworthy than my ISP?
Man, decaf next time, ok?
I've had enough abrasive sigs. Kittens are cute and fuzzy.
The word "it's" means "it is". If you want to
mean "belonging to it", don't use an apostrophe
("its").
Grammar. It's important.
Thank you, thank you, thank you!
You coke smuggling, porn addicted, homosexual industry spy!
roll on the money!
Good luck trying to collect.
There were 5 instances of the f-word and 4 instances of the s-word. Just what were you trying to tell somebody.
1 s 1 f - Buy booze
1 s 2 f - Fly plane into building......
Dumb shit scenario: ." etc etc
First AAEP(Anti American Evil Person):Holding cup of anti american coffee,says to second AAEP,"Why don't we just make our own little personal code?".
AAEP2:"Great idea, Hassan, uhm I mean AAEP1"
AAEP1:"So...here goes:You'll be Britney and I'll be Pamela. Hacking will be called "posing naked" and AOL will be called "George Bush"
Coupla weeks later MIB(Men in Black ) intercept email from AAEP1 to AAEP2. Contents: Cool, Britney you wanna pose naked for george Bush tonight?
Being the ever vigilant MIB's that they are, they also intercepted the answer.
Contents:Yo, Pam, and after posing naked for GeorgeB I'm gonna suck his dick.
Get the picture? You don't need PGP or AV tools or whatever if you really want to hide whatever it is that you want to hide. I think those who are mostly innocent will be those who suffer the most as per usual whenever some or other government decides it has to spy on and control the general populace.
the FBI are saying: All your keystrokes are belong to us
*** Where are we going? And what's with this handbasket?
"Its" (no apostrophe) is an utterly pointless exception to the more widely-understood rule that possesion is indicated by "'s", and it should be abolished. It accomplishes nothing except to make a difficult language more difficult. I make the same mistake all the time, and it isn't because I'm a stupid person; it's because English, quite frankly, has a lot of stupid rules.
After a couple of years of reading slashdot, I think I have built up a resistance to bad grammar. I don't even notice these anymore. Sometimes I even forget that you don't spell hacker with a 4 and an x.
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Don't cha think preventitive warfare is in order.
You know, like preventitive healthcare.
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