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Senator Orrin Hatch a Pirate?
Stigmata669 writes "Remember a few days ago when Senator Orrin Hatch decided that software piracy was punishable by destruction of computers? Well a bored and unemployed Sys. Admin in Houston smelled a rat when he was rooting through Hatch's website source. As it turns out Sen. Hatch is a common software pirate himself."
bo ahead, try and hack me. all the microsoft backdoors will be of no use. all my base are belong to me!!!!
My problem? I was perfectly gruntled, until some numbnuts came by and dissed me.
Thank you, you are very kind. After all of the insults I got here on Slashdot just because I am a woman, your complement was a very nice surprise indeed.
Karma: Positive (probably because of superiour intellect)
Software piracy is so wide-spread that it could seriously destroy the U.S.'s economic backbone.
I wonder what % of WinXP users are using a pirated copy? I do not know a single person who has a purchased copy of this OS.
Maybe someone could figure it out using available figures.
According to google (http://www.google.com/press/zeitgeist.html)
32% - WinXP
33% - Win98
Has MS sold enough copies of WinXP to account for that #?
A certain site Torrentse_visitor_stats that a lot of "pirates" visit has WinXP use at 65% and Win98 at 5% among 70,000 unique visitors.
All very interesting.
Whenever the offence inspires less horror than the punishment, the rigour of penal law is obliged to give way...
Holy crap:
The "My Utah Search" graphic here links to a porn site. This is beautiful.
Of course! It's the GOP we're talking about! I wouldn't be surprised if it's kiddie porn.
It's only considered flamebait because there's no "-1; Idiot" moderation available. Denouncing any politician as one of the ten worst anything because of a single remark is beyond stupid. Yeah, it was an idiotic comment by Hatch. The problem here is that people can't handle politicians speaking unless their statements have been filtered by their PR staff. It's people like you (including much of /.) that turn our political system into the bland wasteland of nonsensical terms it is today. If you want to rally against Sen. Hatch, more power to you. But go look at his voting record and platform before making your decision. Don't get angry because somebody stated a strong opinion that doesn't mesh with the rest of the country's watered-down political speech.
"God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh." -Voltaire