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  1. Re:Oh, the delicious irony! on Ecuador Grants Asylum To Julian Assange · · Score: 1

    People who think this is "good news" for Assange and/or Ecuador and/or the world at large are certainly showing their true colors

    You what? Ecuador got assaulted by America in the past, yes? So why would they not give asylum to Assange, and why should he not take it? That doesn't make him responsible for everything that happens in that country, nor anyone else who would rather see murderers get hanged, instead of petty thieves being smeared and hunted for poking the eye of power.

    So wtf are you quoting scientists, sophist? Fucking hypocrite.

  2. Re:Oh, the delicious irony! on Ecuador Grants Asylum To Julian Assange · · Score: 1

    nah, power and their deceptive interests play a role, too. you can shill for microsoft, you can't shill for linux.

  3. Re:I still don't get it on How Google+ Punk'd The Oatmeal · · Score: 1

    Not everyone feels the way that you do about some or all of Google's products.

    Who said everybody does?

    if they manage to piss me off in the future, I will make sure to only speak from my own point of view instead of assuming there are a legion of other users who agree with my complaint.

    Blah blah blah strawman strawman strawman.

    We -- the people that applies to -- exist. So what's the point of acting dumb? Unless you're shilling for us, and trying to paint people who don't mind Google's shennanigans as stupid ^_^

  4. Re:"Sounds like the United States" on In Vietnam: Being a Blogger Could Land You In Jail, Cost You Your Life · · Score: 1

    Intentions mean nothing.

    Which is why you claimed then, only to say it doesn't matter when you got refuted?

    the Truth never truly comes out, all wheels within wheels. Turtles all the way down.

    You wish dude, you wish.

  5. Re:I still don't get it on How Google+ Punk'd The Oatmeal · · Score: 1

    "eventually".

    I know that I stay away from google stuff. I use the search, I test in chrome, that's it. I put my heart and soul elsewhere, but not into google products. They asked for that, they got it. So that already makes two people; hence "we" :P

  6. Re:"Since when...." on German Court: ISPs Must Hand Over File Sharer Info · · Score: 1, Troll

    All of that lasted 4 years, while your "started in" implies it's still the case. So unless you offer more, I'm pretty sure you haven't got the faintest fucking clue, just flag flag flag.

  7. Re:"..know who was using an IP address..." ? on German Court: ISPs Must Hand Over File Sharer Info · · Score: 1

    What? You didn't complain when your completely false comment got modded to +5, did you? Then why complain when it reaches equillibrium at -1 where it belongs? You've got it exactly backwards. Speaking of which, don't let the door hit ya where the good lord split ya.

  8. Re:"..know who was using an IP address..." ? on German Court: ISPs Must Hand Over File Sharer Info · · Score: 3, Interesting

    What? That's an odd way of saying "thanks for the correction."

    But instead you just made MORE wrong claims! Great.

    You realize that the United States effectively defined "amendment" and "constitution" in the sense you understand them, right? [..] And that after that small mess, we effectively rewrote your constitution to how it is now?

    Citations needed.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitution#History_and_development

  9. Re:I still don't get it on How Google+ Punk'd The Oatmeal · · Score: 2

    Are you claiming google listens to others, or that nobody is complaining about these things?

    If you think you have a point, make it. Don't mumble around the bush.

  10. Re:Cookies suck on Watchdog "Not Ready" To Probe Cookie Complaints · · Score: 1

    All the essential data can be passed in the URI.

    What? If you pass it in the URL, use HTTP Auth, or use cookies, it doesn't matter.

    GET /url_of_resource/session_id/ HTTP/1.1
    Host: example.com
    Cookie: BLAH=session_id_or_whatever
    Authorization: Basic blah_blah_blah

    And you're seriously saying shuffling it around from one line to the other makes a difference? That's just silly.

    More importantly, you're still simulating state. Just in an ass-backward way, for example making copying & pasting links a pain, for no fucking reason. And of course, if you store it in the cookie, you store it once. If you append it to all internal links, you're just bloating every single page. And you send it either way, wether as cookie, HTTP auth, in the URL or whatever. It IS part of the request.

    You said "the WWW is supposed to be stateless for a reason", and I say citation needed. You're confusing HTTP, which is stateless indeed, with the servers and clients using it.

    Also, state is useful for more than logging in. Think a forum which allows anonymous users to set how many threads / posts per page they want to see, etc. There's plenty of good reasons for it, while you haven't offered anything but unfounded assertions so far.

    Guys, if you've never seen a fucking HTTP header in your life, refrain from modding such stuff in the future. That would help.

  11. Re:TWO WORDS on DOJ Says iPhone Is So Secure They Can't Crack It · · Score: 1

    DOJ will have covert access to the information, under the guise of Apple having overt access to the information.

    How so, considering the jackboots kicking in the door won't have the apple logo printed on them, and the trial isn't likely to take place in an apple store, either?

  12. Re:TWO WORDS on DOJ Says iPhone Is So Secure They Can't Crack It · · Score: 1

    you raise a good point, however, "false flag operation" means something else.

  13. Re:Here's a video released by Anon about surveilla on Leaked Emails Allegedly Tell of Global "Trapwire" Spy Network · · Score: 2
  14. Re:Love fb on Facebook Faces High-Level Staff Exodus · · Score: 1

    I guess in your mind most of the adult population is "feeble-minded". Arrogant much?

    Just because it's a whole lot of people doesn't mean they're not feeble-minded. It's just that fallacy is more likely to employed. Well done on that, but otherwise: yeah, if you're going to say "facebook changed my life"... what friendly reply is there to that? It's not nice to call people idiots, but is it better when idiots insist on their idiocy not being pointed out? It's not about the individual idiots, after all -- not for me, for them maybe -- it's about the proliferation of idiocy. We all have it to some degree, so can't we just stop being fucking sissies about it? Yeah, the way facebook was absorbed is fucking stupid. Just like the way humanity jumped into all sorts of things which we now have to clean up / figure out was stupid. Facebook is exactly as stupid as AOL was, or MSN.

    The rest of what you're talking about is called the internet. It's quite good, which is why so many parties try to pull numbers on it. Good thing most people are feeble-minded, right?

  15. Re:It won't kill FB on Facebook Faces High-Level Staff Exodus · · Score: 1

    Who was talking about the death of FB? Nobody, that's who. So yeah, props for refuting your strawman, but otherwise, wtf.

  16. Re:Hackerspace != Political Correct on Is Sexual Harassment Part of Hacker Culture? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Right.

    So someone who doesn't want women to be harrassed and physically intimidated, and makes a public stand against it, actually secretly wants it to be less obvious.

    While the people who bring out strawman after strawman, and keep talking about jokes and political correctness, instead of the actual stuff at hand, are the ones who want to deal with it.

    And your reasoning is "that it reminds you of this one guy", someone who checks out the territory first, then uses force to take what he likes. You know, that's exactly how politically correct people roll! Everybody knows that. They also poisoned the wells.

    Holy fuck guys, TFA is not even about you and how you personally suck -- it's about that other guy, who you seem to be confusing yourself with -- yet you turn the whole discussion into a giant flare calling yourselves out? All the energy put into strawmen.. you know where it ends up pointing, right? I mean, there's misunderstandings, and there's repeated missing of the point and talking about a conveniently prepared narrative, over and over again.

    I don't mean just you personally, a bunch of guys in this discussion. Maybe you really have such issues with political correctness that you just use this topic as a vehicle for your.. stuff.. even then, pay some fucking attention to what some women have gone through, and how there isn't even an equivalent for that, no likely way for women to do it to men. Also, don't spam, and don't just mindlessly repeat, ignoring counter-arguments and preaching to the choir.

    OR MAYBE this story actually rubs you genuinely the wrong way, with what it is actually about -- in that case I'd say, keep talking fuckers, let the world know. We're cominagetcha, rawr! You had your fun, you left your scars - but I for one am praying there will a day where the only technically correct (TC) way to talk about this is the past tense. Cuz you're all dead and nobody learned your trade. Amen.

  17. Re:Or... on Nathan Myhrvold, Do-Gooder · · Score: 1

    I think the truth is to be found somewhere in between these two statements..

    Let us not forget that human knowledge and skills alone cannot lead humanity to a happy and dignified life. Humanity has every reason to place the proclaimers of high moral standards and values above the discoverers of objective truth. What humanity owes to personalities like Buddha, Moses, and Jesus ranks for me higher than all the achievements of the enquiring and constructive mind.

    What these blessed men have given us we must guard and try to keep alive with all our strength if humanity is not to lose its dignity, the security of its existence, and its joy in living.

    -- Albert Einstein

    Since no one really knows anything about God, those who think they do are just troublemakers.

    -- Rabia

  18. Re:What a marketing tool on You Can't Bypass the UI Formerly Known As Metro On Windows 8 · · Score: 1

    Duopoly! So we meet again!

  19. Re:New State-Sponsored WINDOWS Malware. on New State-Sponsored Malware "Gauss" Making the Rounds · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Actually, it doesn't. Had those plants been running Linux workstations, the malware would target Linux. Likely without breaking a sweat.

  20. Re:No, you are not on US Is Finally Cleaning Up Agent Orange In Vietnam · · Score: 1

    Uncle Sam must be man enough to acknowledge what they had done, and to amend the damages that they had caused

    http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=4334
    http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=4335

  21. Re:That's nice on US Is Finally Cleaning Up Agent Orange In Vietnam · · Score: 1

    If there was no consequences for peoples actions (and I don't believe there are enough consequences) then where the fuck would we all be?

    Prosecute the ones who planned it. THAT would be consequences. But petty Schadenfreude just sucks.

    Here's a radical thought: in most, if not all wars, the ones *actually* fighting in them have more in common than they do with their respective leaders.

    That's why this whole armband stuff pisses me off so much. The child of an American soldier had birth defects, and you just file it under "Yanks suffering from their actions in Vietnam". Yet by your logic (of one follows it and doesn't just stop at convenient cutoff point), one could simply say the horrible, inexcusable things that were inflicted on the Vietnamese, are "humans suffering for their actions." Hitler, Stalin, Mao? Those were all humans, so isn't it great that at least *some* humans finally got what was coming to them, right? See how that works, or rather, how this doesn't work at all?

  22. Re:That's nice on US Is Finally Cleaning Up Agent Orange In Vietnam · · Score: 2

    Fuck you. You are displaying the bullshit armband attitude that makes this stuff possible in the first place. Just because soldiers (or truck drivers, for that matter) have "American" in their passport, doesn't exactly they're the ones who profit from the wars they're used as cannon fodder in.

    And even if it did: punishing children for what their fathers did? Fuck you.

  23. Re:Tough luck on US Is Finally Cleaning Up Agent Orange In Vietnam · · Score: 1

    The whole world owes it to its own continued survival to rid itself of callous greed and forked tongues; and the blind obedience to them, which you so aptly expressed.

  24. Re:Slashvertisement on Ask Slashdot: Most Underappreciated Sci-Fi Writer? · · Score: 1

    While you're shilling for the "Author's Guild of People Who Are Not John Brunner", am I right?

  25. Re:Ursula K. LeGuin on Ask Slashdot: Most Underappreciated Sci-Fi Writer? · · Score: 1

    same reason:

    [..]

    These aliens, these made-up worlds
    of ours, are ways of making
    mysteries mundane.
    We see beauty and think
    it truth.
    Man's measure grips the world,
    chokes meaning from it.

    But you can't escape cages by studying their bars.
    Laws prison licence
    in slow spaces, snagged time.
    So the best of science or of crafty fictive lies
    presses us into true darkness,
    away from the lamppost.
    Beware of the snaky swoop of integrals.
    Math's mad arabesques can conceal far
    more than they reveal.
    It's strangeness we must seek, not
    more urns so Greek,
    with their Pythagorean certainties.
    We must live in the jagged outlands,
    knowing truth may not fit snugly,
    can be ugly,
    and all our own.

    -- Greggory Benford, "Bleak Velocities"