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  1. Re:Rewarding the bullies... on Student Records Kids Who Bully Him, Then Gets Threatened With Wiretapping Charge · · Score: 1

    That's exactly my point. Deciding to retaliate violently is your own choice and you can't blame the victim of that round of violence either. It doesn't matter if they "deserved it."

  2. Re:Rewarding the bullies... on Student Records Kids Who Bully Him, Then Gets Threatened With Wiretapping Charge · · Score: 1

    zero tolerance is just a way to keep the victims silent, thereby improving the statistics reported on the things that happen to them.

  3. Re:Rewarding the bullies... on Student Records Kids Who Bully Him, Then Gets Threatened With Wiretapping Charge · · Score: 2

    And what's the teacher going to do if the administration leaves them powerless to do anything meaningful in the situation?

  4. Re:Rewarding the bullies... on Student Records Kids Who Bully Him, Then Gets Threatened With Wiretapping Charge · · Score: 1

    Doesn't really matter - it was a public conversation and should not be subject to that anyway.

  5. Re:Rewarding the bullies... on Student Records Kids Who Bully Him, Then Gets Threatened With Wiretapping Charge · · Score: 1

    And it would have been worth taking that punishment if they weren't the only one getting punished.

  6. Re:Rewarding the bullies... on Student Records Kids Who Bully Him, Then Gets Threatened With Wiretapping Charge · · Score: 1

    That's not the point. You can't blame anyone else for your own actions. If you follow that kind of logic nothing will ever be your own fault. Which really makes you as bad as those you're seeking revenge against.

  7. Re:Rewarding the bullies... on Student Records Kids Who Bully Him, Then Gets Threatened With Wiretapping Charge · · Score: 1

    Because the ones guilty of the shooting are usually the ones being shot. It's kinda hard to blame teenagers who just got their head blown away and get reelected

    No. Personal responsibility exists. Even in kids. They choose to do what they do. And while they may be scarred for life in some way, they're not dead. So it's certainly not justified.

  8. Re:fake website on Stung By File-Encrypting Malware, Researchers Fight Back · · Score: 1

    While personal preference lets you do what you want, I'm fine with having that control with Javascript. The browser balances out the bad with user control. For pop-up dialogs, there is the checkbox to stop more. For right-click - well - there's always the inspector.

    Dialog boxes that are too long need to be modal only to the tab and size limited, with scrolling enabled for long content.

  9. Re:It happened one time in a spree. Trending? on Smart Car Tipping Trending In San Francisco · · Score: 0

    Is this an appeal to the mods? Because you're certainly not winning favor yet. Perhaps you're just mad that you didn't think to link to that great comic?

  10. Re:Im all for human rights... on OKCupid Warns Off Mozilla Firefox Users Over Gay Rights · · Score: 1

    How about knowing the history of the flagship product? Seeing the success or failure of ideas over time? And all of that in the domain of actually being involved with the company/product most of that time? You have to know business AND you have to know products.

    biased strongly against a group of people

    You really need to make some separation here, at least in the Firefox case. On the one hand, you have a donation made years ago toward a specific legal cause. There are a lot of ideological reasons behind that, and not all of them involve marginalizing the individual (e.g. You can be against making it marriage, but be *for* increasing the rights of civil unions). On the other, you're saying he is against the people themselves. I'd argue that's a wider valley than you think it is.

  11. Re:Cynical and Shameful on OKCupid Warns Off Mozilla Firefox Users Over Gay Rights · · Score: 1

    And he wasn't even CEO when he made the one-time donation.

  12. Re:McCarthy Jr. on OKCupid Warns Off Mozilla Firefox Users Over Gay Rights · · Score: 1

    Acceptance of same-sex marriages is something that should flow naturally out of tolerance,

    Or maybe you should tolerate the non-acceptance.

  13. Re:Can't Beat NoScript on OKCupid Warns Off Mozilla Firefox Users Over Gay Rights · · Score: 1

    required standards for secure browsing.

    Isn't sandboxing the process that runs the javascript enough? Sounds fine to me. You just don't want to run Javascript. Nothing to do with security.

  14. Re:Irony on OKCupid Warns Off Mozilla Firefox Users Over Gay Rights · · Score: 1

    He wasn't even CEO at the time.

  15. Re:it is NOT a sin to be homosexual on OKCupid Warns Off Mozilla Firefox Users Over Gay Rights · · Score: 1

    Except that's completely without context. The same Bible says that telling a white lie once is equivalent and deserving of the same punishment. There's a whole lot more to the message than that.

  16. Re:Are people not allowed to have opinions? on OKCupid Warns Off Mozilla Firefox Users Over Gay Rights · · Score: 1

    one that isn't anyone else's problem (as opposed to something like psychopathy).

    And yet most CEO's are literal psychopaths (medically speaking), and nobody objects much to that.

  17. Re:Im all for human rights... on OKCupid Warns Off Mozilla Firefox Users Over Gay Rights · · Score: 1

    So what you're saying, is that knowledge, wisdom, skill and ability are less important to the job... He created JavaScript, but because he's not the greatest at everything, then clearly he's not suited for CEO. Considering that psychopaths, medically speaking, are the ones most likely to become CEO. And nobody seems to object to that....which is worse.

  18. Re:Im all for human rights... on OKCupid Warns Off Mozilla Firefox Users Over Gay Rights · · Score: 1

    So...let's boycott an entire company over what one employee does in their spare time? Still doesn't sound very logical.

  19. Re:That's it on Dropbox's New Policy of Scanning Files For DMCA Issues · · Score: 1

    Thankfully, no one goes after "possession" for illicit content. It's only attempts to share that have been prosecuted. With P2P, downloading means sharing - but not with Dropbox.

  20. Re:That's it on Dropbox's New Policy of Scanning Files For DMCA Issues · · Score: 1

    I think the bigger problem if that happened would be the havoc on their de-duplication system. If you manage to create a collision, could download a copy of someone else's file.

  21. Re:Free market on If Ridesharing Is Banned, What About Ride-Trading? · · Score: 1

    Is your Google broken?

  22. Re:Yep. on If Ridesharing Is Banned, What About Ride-Trading? · · Score: 1

    Who would you give the first ride to if everyone had 0 miles?

  23. Re:It Won't Work on If Ridesharing Is Banned, What About Ride-Trading? · · Score: 1

    5 to 10 times the markup, not price. Unless you want to just stop making money at all.

  24. Re:Um no on Introducing a Calendar System For the Information Age · · Score: 1

    so that the digits represent integers

    No. In that case, the integers represent non-integer "digits." And if you're going to have a standard positional representation for your base-pi system, pi would be the 2nd digit from the right. In integer bases (n), the rightmost digit is n^0, next is n^1, n^2, and so on. The rightmost digit in a base pi system would similarly be units of pi^0 - which doesn't really make sense. Maybe you'd have to come up with a different positional notation to work in base-pi. But the rightmost digit in that system would actually be a baseless rational integer. And really, I'd argue that all integers are baseless (that is, in the inherent quantity in distance from zero) - but they can be represented in any rational base.

    Just because you decide to use an integer to represent the number, means nothing. No matter what base -- even in base pi -- pi or its base pi representation is not rational.

    Not sure where your metric rant comes from. Just because you wanted to double the size of your post?

  25. Re:Um no on Introducing a Calendar System For the Information Age · · Score: 0

    On the shortest day of the year, sunset is just after 4:30 PM here. Sunrise is 7:15. I see maybe 30 minutes of sunlight in a given day during that time of the year. I work in a basement office with no windows.