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Trailrunner7 writes "A month after an advisory was published detailing a new vulnerability in Firefox, Mozilla said it has received exploit code for the flaw and is planning to patch the weakness on March 30 in the next release of Firefox. Mozilla officials said Thursday that the vulnerability, which was disclosed February 18 by Secunia, is a critical flaw that could result in remote code execution on a vulnerable machine. The vulnerability is in version 3.6 of Firefox."
I could mark this one down as a troll as well, but what's the point since he is wasting one of my mod points in doing so, and it will just post this hate garbarge in another posting.
Has anyone contacted the police and get IP records and get this bozo charged with hate crimes? We do live in the 21st century; language, culture and humanity has moved waaaaaaay past this, and there are laws that are being broken here. Although I think this behavior shouldn't have been allowed to happen then and definitely not now. I am getting upset that I keep seeing this and have to waste time and points burying it, and have seen people posting that to just "ignore it and it will go away", but it hasn't gone away.
I really don't know why after so many months, we are allowing this clown to continue posting. The wording and language is almost exactly the same. So, why doesn't the filter pick this up and log IP and delete the post? Do the overlords in slashdot secretly agree with this language and choose to let this continue.
I come to slashdot to read and comment on various IT / science topics and may not agree with everyone here, but we can be civilized about it.
Sincerely,
White guy that hates racism in all forms.
P.S. Sorry for the rant, but this has gone on for too far. This will be the last time I will waste any of my time commenting on this or using mod points to deal with it. Mod me into oblivion if you wish to do so, but its your conscience.
With a small amount of work you can post from a different IP address every time.
Or it might be a dozen different losers cutting and pasting the same thing.
BTW, a reaction like yours will keep them motivated and posting, thanks ever so much.
That's why logs are keep at the ISPs. Get the police involved and the time of the post, and they can identify the people or bots behind it.
With the language the same in every single post, why doesn't slashdot just filter this out to the garbage before it gets posted.
Maybe we should have a "-1 hate crime" mod, and the overlords can determine what to do with it. As it is, I only see myself or other mods pushing it down, thus wasting one of my mod points whereas I can be modding someone "+1 interesting" instead.
good - wasting time commenting on this stuff keeps them motivated to post.
that said, after reading your comment, I had to see what the fuss was about.. I found it quite amusing really. Well, no less amusing that "installing boyfriend 2.0" or "upgrading girlfriend to wife", or any Irish, Polish, or random celebrity jokes that no-one seems to have a problem with. (I'm not American so I don't have the same 'horror' of the N word BTW, round here it's the C word that's the 'uh-oh' one).
It obviously falls into the "not meant to be taken seriously" category (except by the author perhaps, but then he didn't care - he just cared to push your buttons).
So - ignore it and although it won't go away, you can stop caring about it. *That* is what will rile the poster.
Posting a rather boring monologue is not a crime. The fact that the monologue is racist just makes it stupid as well as boring. The original poster is exercising his right to free speech by posting as he does. We have the right to ignore him, and can also exercise our free speech rights to tell him to shut the fuck up.
The latter is unlikely to have any effect, because it is quite unlikely that the poster is actually racist - it's more likely that he just posts racist drivel in an attempt to provoke a reaction such as (for example) a hysterical and over-the-top demand to get the police involved.
You say 'laws have been broken,' but you don't give any indication of which laws. Hate crime laws are obviously not applicable here, so what do you think the police should be looking for?
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hate speech is not a hate crime, it is protected by the US constitution regardless of how distasteful it is.
fortunately for you, being an idiot is also completely legal
Snowden and Manning are heroes.
I am definitely not a lawyer. Having said that, if this individual is in the USA, then no crime has been committed as far as I know. We don't really need to use the police power of government to censor such people anyway. Not only would it be quite difficult to catch many of them, but we simply deal with this differently here. Here, being called "racist" is one of the worst things that could happen to your social life. If you identify yourself as having beliefs like this, it's a tremendous stigma. Thus there is little or no open racism here, at least from white people, and no one has to go to jail to arrange that. If anything, the police would have to protect an open racist from others, and not the other way around. This is quite effective.
I really think that's how you deal with this. The problem with "hate crime" laws is that they are actually thought crimes. For example, if a criminal mugs someone in order to get his money, he receives X punishment. But if that criminal specifically mugged that victim because of race, he might receive X+Y punishment, depending on the state. The difference amounts to what the criminal was thinking. If I get mugged because of what I look like, I'm just as mugged as someone who was targeted randomly. My suffering isn't any more important than theirs; the contents of the attacker's brain does not change this. If muggers are not punished enough, then increase the penalties for all of them. I just don't want the government in the thoughtcrime business, not even when the stated reason is noble. To me that's just as dangerous as all of the "protect the children" and "stop terrorism" reasons that are so often given.
With text posted to a Web site, no one was physically harmed. People are going to say things on the Internet all the time that you and I would find absolutely despicable. Even if we released all the violent criminals and drug offenders today, I doubt there would be enough prison space to hold even a fraction of them. Additionally, you have a choice about whether you react emotionally or not to things you can't control.
When I read the post to which you replied, I just shook my head. I didn't get upset about it, I didn't get offended, and I didn't let it ruin my day. I already knew there were assholes in the world, so I'm not shocked or surprised by an example of one. With over 6.5 billion people in the world, I can guarantee that someone, somewhere is saying or doing something right now that I really wouldn't like. Should I be miserable 24/7 because of that? Should I be miserable only when I am reminded by an example of this? Should I allow some rather immature people to control my emotional well-being by taking them seriously? Like Richard S. Bach wrote, if your happiness depends on what other people are doing, then yes you do have a problem. This pathological tendency is exactly what trolls are counting on, what they exploit. It's so widespread that it's very rarely recognized as pathological.
I think they do this just because they want an emotional impact. As I mentioned above, you have 100% control over whether you give them what they want. You're really not ignoring it, and I very rarely see instances of these troll posts that are totally disregarded by everyone (I browse at -1). So I think we have yet to really try that. If that's true, we can't make too many statements about its effectiveness. Meanwh
It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education. - Einstein
Congratulations, you just encourage it. Twice, and with multiple replies. The moderation system is designed to account for this stuff. It's designed so you just need a single person with a single mod point to mark it as troll or flamebait, cleaning up the comments for others.
The only thing you've said that makes sense is filtering multiple copies of things. Everything else is heavy-handed censorship type stuff. Police involved for being racist? That's excessive.
Just ignore it. It's going to be harder than ever, because you just fed the troll. Do not feed the trolls. But just ignore it. I get a kick out of it every time. "Oh that again, silly retard, no one reads that." But I was wrong - you read it. Ignore it.
Maybe its a good thing I am Canadian then. We do have laws that do something about this.
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Crime/2010/03/20/13300256-qmi.html
With the language the same in every single post, why doesn't slashdot just filter this out to the garbage before it gets posted.
Yes, because no-one would change a word or two in their post or do variations on the spelling. Yay, we get to have another lameness-filter style arms race, that'll improve the quality of the posts.
Maybe we should have a "-1 hate crime" mod, and the overlords can determine what to do with it. As it is, I only see myself or other mods pushing it down, thus wasting one of my mod points whereas I can be modding someone "+1 interesting" instead.
Maybe you should grow a skin and realize that you can't win this kind of pissing contest with griefers.
Seriously, just ignore it.
This very moment, some guy in his mom's basement has his pants down fwapping away to your outrage. You've provided motivation for gods know how many more cut'n'paste trolls, because you provided the kind of hysterical reaction they find so entertaining.
Good job, internet tough guy.
I thought rats got in my computer and ate my sdram module, then I discovered it was just FF 3.6. Seriously, anyone one else having a huge memory gobbling problem with this?
There is someone who would fix it and send in a patch. And there's also someone on the other side of bugzilla who will ignore it, decide it's not an issue, or reject the patch because they used 2 spaces for indentation instead of 4.
Do you even lift?
These aren't the 'roids you're looking for.
There are more beetles grubbing in shit, too. Do you have a point?