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All We Want Is Whatever's On Your Machine

Posted by timothy on from the sounds-fair-doesn't-it dept.

kubla2000 writes: "A breathless story about how the best defense against [fill in the blank: piracy, virii, hacking] is a good offense at CNet. What struck me most though is that in the midst of the rant from Timothy Mullen (no stranger to hacking the hack as this story from computerworld magazine shows, was a throw-away line justifying the RIAA and MPAA's appeal to Congress to make it legal to do this! It seems the bandwagons have started rolling. Who's next to jump on?"

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  1. Incoherant headline by Stiletto · · Score: 1, Offtopic


    Time to burn some karma...

    Is it me, or is this story's headline totally incoherant? I re-read it twice and still only have a vague clue of what the links are going to be about. He couldn't even take some time to proofread or even close his parenthesis.

    1. Re:Incoherant headline by waspleg · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      didn't you take any time to proofread your post?

      INCOHERENT

      this is slashdot not english class

    2. Re:Incoherant headline by Second_Derivative · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      : Time to burn some karma... ... because, of course, that line is what guarantees you more of it.

      Slashdot story is posted nongrammatically/misspelled, news at ten. One wonders what the moderators are doing these days if they see fit to mod stuff like this up.

  2. Re:OOOOhhhhhhhh. Nevermind. by bryston2 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Gilda Radner

  3. Re:its viruses not virii by teasea · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    It's not its, it's it's.

  4. Karma-dropping by _Sprocket_ · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Is it me, or is every time a post begins by mentioning karma, the actual content is some uninspired drivel supposedly making insightful criticism of some perceived Slashdot sacred cow?

    What is it? Some reverse psycology tactic? Pre-positioning onself for the role of martyr? In any case, it screams "lack of conviction."

    State your argument and let it stand on its own merrits... or lack thereof.

    1. Re:Karma-dropping by screwballicus · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Agreed. I'm inclined to just automatically moderate down any posts that pull that goofy over-dramatic martyrdom stunt. It's more tired than the "beowulf cluster of..." and goatse references at this point. And I cannot believe anyone is dumb enough to fall for it. But, seemingly, they do.

      By the way, I see you got moderated down. This is why you should most certainly have begun your post with 'time to get rid of some of that excess karma.' This would result in, by contrast, being moderated up by the trained-monkey-moderators we find here in their natural habitat.

    2. Re:Karma-dropping by lobsterGun · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Bah! shaddup and go meta-moderate. Here's a shortcut ya slacker.

    3. Re:Karma-dropping by mother_superius · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Do you browse at low scores?

      Because, otherwise, all you'll see are the high-scored ones.

  5. Re:its viruses not virii by glenebob · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    It's not it's not its, its it's, it's it's not its, it's it's.

    If you're going to be a grammer Nazi Nazi, at least get it right right.

    Oh God, I'm confusing myself myself. Easy to do, I know...

  6. Re:its viruses not virii by Fat+Casper · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    If you're going to be a grammer Nazi Nazi, at least get it right right.

    It's spelled grammar. At least get that right.

    --
    I spent a year in Iraq looking for WMD and all I found was this lousy sig.