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  1. Re:In a school, yes. on Schools, Filtering Companies Blocking Google SSL · · Score: 1

    Troll, but I'll bite:

    Many of those kids will go home and browse porn there instead. Though I doubt porn "causes harm" to young bucks, it serves to reinforce the message of when it is not appropriate to view porn.

    Apparently the National Science Foundation never got the memo, or even the gene for common sense.

  2. Snooping? on Schools, Filtering Companies Blocking Google SSL · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The questions at the heart of this situation are: Does a company (school, government) have a right to restrict SSL traffic so it can snoop your data

    It's not about snooping as much as it is about being able to bypass the filtering function. The fact that a student could use the secure search to access www.porn.com[NSFW!] does not mean that the sysadmin is watching their every move online.

  3. Re:Doesn't really matter. on In NJ, Higher Tech Lowers Crime · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Those of African descent get the last laugh: They constitute the majority of athletes playing for the NFL and the NBA, and even the second-string bench-warmer makes ten times as much as the average Caucasian or Chinese systems administrator or programmer.

    Additionally, they have huge penises. No problems with the ladies there.

    Howya feel now, Whitey?!

  4. Re:Crime rate is lower in facilities... on In NJ, Higher Tech Lowers Crime · · Score: 0

    As I recall(sorry, can't find the link), a guy sued a jail because the other guy in his holding cell beat the shit out of him, despite the presence of the camera, which nobody was monitoring. At least people in public have the option of running away.

    In a past Slashdot article, there was the suggestion of crowdwourcing public surveillance cameras. So, if I don't like you, you get thrown in a holding cell. You can only hope that somebody is monitoring the camera there, too.

  5. Re:Doesn't really matter. on In NJ, Higher Tech Lowers Crime · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Agreed, black people(those of African descent) are not the problem...

    Religion is the problem. Imaginary men in the sky? what the fuck is this, the 13th century? And some of the motherfuckers even have the nerve to post on this science and technology website. After you're done apologizing for Galileo and Copernicus, and stem cell research, and being related to just about every ill on the planet, you can collectively off yourselves.

    Take a cue from the Heaven's Gate cult and Just Do it(TM).

  6. Re:How Much Cocaine? on Windows Phone 7 Lacks Copy-and-Paste · · Score: 1

    Not much.

    The whole industry took a creative nosedive since it switched to Oxycontin in the mid '90's.

  7. Re:Windows Phone 7 is great on Windows Phone 7 Lacks Copy-and-Paste · · Score: 4, Funny

    given that you could've copied and pasted it from numerous other missed jokes

    Looks like he was using one of the Win Mobile 7 prototypes...

  8. Re:So ... on Utah Attorney General Tweets Execution Order · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I don't mind as long as he has the balls to also announce it himself in press conferences and/or interviews.

    What worries me is the notion that politicians might begin to use twitter and other internet communication as a way to avoid interacting with the public(and the risk of being heckled or having a shoe or two thrown at 'em).

  9. Re:You have to wonder? on Apple Quietly Goes After Mac Trojan With Update · · Score: 2, Informative

    Every pedant in this thread likes to say that trojans are technically different than viruses.

    The kind of person who would buy a mac because they "don't get viruses" would be very pissed after stumbling upon this article and especially this condescending, duplicitous thread.

    People from the Windows world know this - the average user dosen't give a shit about the differences between viruses and trojans. If it makes their AV software blink red, it's bad.

  10. Re:Has anyone considered... on Struggling To Bridge the Casual-Hardcore Game Gap · · Score: 1

    I would argue that those two series are pretty much the antithesis of casual gaming.

    But the beauty of 'em, like books, is that you choose how much time you dedicate to each sitting. Saving allows us to casually play hardcore games. Hell, today I'm going to fight The Fury after a monthlong hiatus.

  11. Re:Has anyone considered... on Struggling To Bridge the Casual-Hardcore Game Gap · · Score: 1

    I'm a former hardcore gamer(NES and SNES) who's looking to get back into casual gaming. The current generation of consoles and games are too expensive for my budget and mobile games suck because I don't want to squint at a small screen.

    Solution? Playstation 2's and their games are now dirt-cheap and there are a lot of good ones, the Final Fantasy and Metal Gear Solid series being two examples.

  12. Re:Aim for the real problem. on Stem Cell Tourist Dies From Treatment In Thailand · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Ethics and morals are obsolete at best and fairy tales at worst. Only the threat of force keeps us from taking whatever we want. White-collar big-money grabbers are encouraged and enabled, in part because they don't face the same razor-necklace prison that the rest of us would.

    For every man who was Madoff an example, there are a million other CEOs and other suited crooks working for the financial industry, with 30 million dollar bonuses. You'd kill your first-born son if it meant 50 million bucks and nobody ever finding out about it. With regards to scientific exploration, internal and external -- fuck it, do it. That's how we learn, for better or worse.

  13. Re:So what? on Stem Cell Tourist Dies From Treatment In Thailand · · Score: 2, Insightful
    Thailand isn't exactly known for health and quality medicine. Dr. Nick Riviera would've done a better job than they did:

    However, the Thai clinic didn't inject the stem cells into the patient's blood stream [ Which TFA says is the proper way to do it, with good results -- E.f. ], instead they injected them directly into her kidneys. That means the stem cells did nothing to stop the immune system's attack on the organs-and they instead produced never-before-seen side effects

    Hmm, Perhaps I should hold off on that sex-change operation and save up for Johns Hopkins instead.

  14. Re:I'm not sure,, on FEMA and DHS Fund Disaster Hero Game · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    It won't happen because of aliens or zombies, it'll happen because disaster capitalism is America's future.

  15. Re:First rule of breaking the law on Wikileaks Source Outed To Stroke Hacker's Own Ego · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but which snitch are you talking about? Manning or Lamo?

    Personally, I'm rooting for Manning even if he is a complacent self-righteous twat, simply because it takes massive balls to sucessfully leak a bunch of damning TOP SECRET information much less get caught doing it.

    Lamo is the worst kind of snitch, the pussy snitch. The kid who tattle-taled on his classmate for cheating on the test. The E-1 who runs to OSI or CID when they see somebody from another unit drinking underage. The corporate lackey who sits in front of the timeclock and reports any late-comers to the boss. The pussy snitches deserve to be tossed in a Los Angeles prison -- those on the inside know how to handle pussy snitches.

  16. Re:I dont give a flock on Flock Switches To Chromium For New Beta · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    The people who modded you "funny" deserve to have the shit beat out of them.

  17. Re:Filtering is called for on Digitally Filtering Out the Drone of the World Cup · · Score: 2, Funny

    All other countries should create a tradition of randomly setting explosive charges off in their stadiums whenever the South African team is there.

    Or apartheid. Beat them at their own game and make 'em sit on the grass a mile away from the stadiums.

  18. Re:Am I the only... on Digitally Filtering Out the Drone of the World Cup · · Score: 1

    Because there are no more bees to sting you...

  19. Re:Trolling, trolling on FBI's Facebook Monitoring Leads To Arrest In England · · Score: 5, Funny

    Anybody who know, or knows, how to use a BBS should be considered a criminal because that's where the hackers get their anarchist cookbooks and pixellated bitmaps of Heather Lochlear nude and phone-phreak boxes and Jolly Roger Cap'n Crunch whistles to illegally steal long-distance phone calls.

  20. Re:Surveillance laws on FBI's Facebook Monitoring Leads To Arrest In England · · Score: 1

    Sounds like the "special relationship" means that passing laws against excessive surveillance by our own police will never achieve anything - they can just have the FBI spy on us instead.

    And, failing that, they can have Facebook or AT&T or private investigators other security firms do it for them. Failing that, there are a lot of good citizens in "neighborhood watch" groups, liazons to the Police Departments and the DHS, who hold meetings closed to the public and illegally shoo out reporters.

    FBI are known for having huge pools of informant money and the zeal to displace the rage which comes with informants being better paid than they are.

    The motto of America's FBI: "Pusillanimity by Proxy."

  21. Re:sure. on Starbucks Frees Wi-Fi · · Score: 2, Interesting

    As I pointed out above, many sponsorless mom-and-pop style places whose prices are less than or equal to(and food and drink quality is much greater than) Starbucks have been providing free wifi for years, even on the beach in tourist-gouging San Diego -- where a mandadory 12% tourist tax is slapped on top of all hotel stays.

  22. Re:Yay! on Starbucks Frees Wi-Fi · · Score: 1

    For San Diegans, I recommend The Living Room. The food's a total ripoff but you can get an Iced Vietnamese with four whopping shots of espresso, for four bucks and free wi-fi with no purchase necessary for the wardrivers and mooches.

    There's nothing like hours of hard study with the jitters and the screaming shits and the sight of spiders crawling out of your pores.

  23. Re:Next on the list... on Ubuntu Replaces F-Spot With Shotwell · · Score: 1

    GIMP is awesome, but it dosen't really fit into the "lightweight" niche.

  24. Next on the list... on Ubuntu Replaces F-Spot With Shotwell · · Score: 1

    A lightweight equivalent of MS Paint. GPaint for example has all kinds of flashy transformations, yet lacks something as basically necessary as edit "undo" and "redo" functions.

  25. Re:NEAR threshold tends to be lower energy on Can Transistors Be Made To Work When They're Off? · · Score: 5, Funny

    Now these are the kind of Slashdot posts that make my dick hard.