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  1. Re:Sounds like a sales pitch on Mint It Yourself With a Browser-Based Bitcoin Miner · · Score: 1

    Do you feel that any time software, games or services are mentioned you're being pitched to? Maybe you're on the wrong site ....

    It's called "getting old". Whether by years or by technology, it will happen to you too.

  2. Re:from the point of view of getting things done on Miguel De Icaza Forms New Mono Company: Xamarin · · Score: 1

    but as a working programmer, i like getting things done. to hell with the ideologues

    I like how your signature contradicts your above argument :)

    intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it

  3. Re:Cloud and Google on Swiped Tokens Expose Android Devices To Data Theft · · Score: 3, Insightful
    You missed this part:

    turn off these activities on a phone that you otherwise want to use for casual traffic on an unsecured network.

    I often connect to unencrypted wireless networks with my laptop, knowing full well that unless I ask it to, it will not be exchanging private info with anything. I set it up that way. How do I do that with my android? I doesn't stop sending bits and pieces of information, afaik, even when you turn off sync. The only thing that comes to mind is using droidwall...

  4. Huh... on NSA CS Man: My Tracking Algorithm Was 'Twisted' By the Government · · Score: 1

    Can you believe they're doing this? They're getting billing records on US citizens!

    Oh, so it's okay to eavesdrop on everyone but it's not okay to do that to US citizens? How nice...

  5. Re:Keywords making all the difference on New Chrome Exploit Bypasses Sandbox, ASLR and DEP · · Score: 2

    So how is it a Chrome problem when the machine itself is vulnerable?

    The answer was in the few words before the ones you highlighted:

    bypass the browser's sandbox ... and run arbitrary code

  6. Re:Electrical tape over the webcam on Aaron Computer Rental Firm Spies On Users · · Score: 1

    Post-it is better, it leaves no traces on the laptop. Yea, I'm serious... Well...

  7. ALF on Rats Breathe Air From Lungs Grown In the Lab · · Score: 1

    I for one would like to see an animal rights group to bring down some of its wisdom down on that lab.

  8. Better later than never on J. P. Barlow — Internet Has Broken the Political System · · Score: 1

    There is a circle of fat around the Beltway that is incredibly thick /blockquote? In everyday language, we call it "white people".

  9. Re:What about the presumption of innocence? on Arizona "Papers, Please" Law May Hit Tech Workers · · Score: 1

    Go read the 14th Amendment. Count the times it says 'citizens'. Then SLAP YOURSELF IN THE GODDAMN FACE THAT NUMBER OF TIMES. Illegal aliens are NOT citizens. The 14th Amendment EXPLICITLY does not apply to them. That is the LAW.

    It's always nice that you don't have to do your own googling. But you could at least go back to the said ammendment and read how it separates "citizens" from "persons" and gives its subjects rights differentially, according to whether they are "person" or "citizen".

    But of course, you are too busy slapping people around to do your own reading, so here it goes :)

    14.1 All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

    The US Code cannot validate the Constitution but fill in the gaps that it leaves open. Title 8 is supposed to do just that. The way it fills that gap is open to (and should be) questioned.

    After all, no law is set in stone and no law is "perfect." Laws need to be continuously questioned to tease out the ways in which they institutionalize ideologies of domination.

    It seems quite clear to me that Title 8, in its entirety, from how it names us as "alien" (non-human), to how it deploys enforcement agencies onto "aliens" simply because they are "aliens" (eg Title 8, 1304) not only institutionalizes racism but also transposes many of the basic tenets of racist thought onto immigrants.

  10. Re:Old News on Millions Continue To Click On Spam · · Score: 3, Funny

    Humans will always be the weak link in society.

  11. giggly on Court Rules Against Vaccine-Autism Claims Again · · Score: 1

    biologically implausible and scientifically unsupported

    When someone says something like this, I don't know whether to giggle or be scared.

  12. Re:False analogy. on Professors Banning Laptops In the Lecture Hall · · Score: 1

    do you get marks just for attending lectures in the US or something?

    profs assign grades to in-class participation. but quite a lot of students do not understand that unless you come to class, you can't participate. so profs end up having to do attendance so that a majority of class won't fail...

  13. Re:As will become more and more apparent... on Zeus Botnet Dealt a Blow As ISPs Troyak, Group 3 Knocked Out · · Score: 1

    When you have a country that willingly harbors criminals - just because they are attacking someone else - the problem ceases to be one of law enforcement or diplomacy. Sure, you can try to send some cops over there and see what can be accomplished. For the most part, not much.

    The key is that if Russia, Bulgaria, Romania or whereever wants to have "Internet freedom" for their citizens where they can do whatever they heck they want without any consequences, the only possible response is for everyone else on the planet to just agree to pull the plug.

    That sounds quite familiar but I cannot... Oh, wait!

  14. Re:oh for the love of ____! on Aurora Attack — Resistance Is Futile, Pretty Much · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Okay, I know an ex-pat who has moved to China and married. I have a much better understanding

    Hey, nice to hear. I have this Black friend so I know Blacks. /yay

  15. Re:Remember folks, it's a NETbook. on Google Docs Replaces OpenOffice In Ubuntu Netbook Edition · · Score: 3, Funny

    on your already small disk to do other things.

    Hi there 2007,

    The netbooks in the future (2010, welcome) have 160GB+ space... Oh, also

    This is a net-oriented device, afterall.

    No, it's not.

    When are you going back home, by the way?

    Sincerely.

  16. Does it run on Linux? on Asus Promises 12-Hour Battery Life In New High-End Laptop · · Score: 1
    No, I'm serious! Does it? As advertised? Unless so, to me, the article starts up with an outright lie from Asus:

    even a novice user will get the fullest possible benefit because the laptop itself is deciding when to switch.

  17. Re:How about a couple of.... on Fixing Security Issue Isn't Always the Right Answer · · Score: 1

    An adaptation from a vagina dentata would be much more effective!

  18. Re: Thus spoke the empire on Sci-Fi Author Peter Watts Beaten, Charged During Border Crossing · · Score: 1

    I think you citizens of other countries need to take responsibility for your own governments' actions and stop blaming ours. Just because our crappy government is asking yours to pass these stupid laws doesn't mean you have to; you are all sovereign nations, and you can pass or not pass any laws you choose.

    Though I'm as much against stupid governments following the policies of other stupid governments, I think you citizens of the US need to take responsibility for your own privileges of citizenship, such as the casual way in which you can provide arguments such as the above. Sometimes, our crappy governments dare to oppose your crappy government, and we end up having to experience certain problems such as "foreign"-funded assassinations, military coups, "sanctions", economic interferences (eg IMF, WB), covert "operations," or even "civil" wars or pretty much outright military attacks, wars, and invasions...

    Taking the meaning and practice of "sovereignty" for granted is a luxury some of us cannot afford.

    Honestly, if I make a choice and do something stupid, it's my own fault.

    Oh, and, please shove your American Dream (TM) and blame-the-victim (R) rhetoric up your arse. Thanks.

  19. Pain on Texas Makes Zombie Fire Ants · · Score: 1

    The maggot hatches and eats away juicy tender delicious ant brain until the ant is nothing more than a zombie that wanders around for two weeks before the head falls off and the ant dies.

    I'm sure the ant loves to die like this simply because humans entered his environment and don't want him there. Excellent work, keep it up.

  20. Re:Cry me a river on Amazon Culls "Offensive" Books From Search System · · Score: 1

    It's a corporate website that can do anything within the law. FTA;

    Evidently, Amazon's starting to stick their "adult" shit in a virtual back room behind a virtual curtain, and his book got fingered in the first wave.

    But the books are still available even. It's just that Amazon decided to cordon off adult material into a different section, like many brick and mortar stores. This article should have never been on Slashdot in the first place.

    this apologetic corporate-smelling reply --a minion of sorts-- should have never been on my screen, but... evidently... shit happens... and life goes on.

  21. The subaltern on Konami Announces a Game Based On a 2004 Battle In Fallujah · · Score: 0, Troll

    The Marines reappear in the game itself, doing pretty much what they did during the war. One tells the story of how he furiously wrote a letter to his wife and begged a chaplain to give it to her if he died. Another, Eddie Garcia, talks about how his right leg was shredded in a mortar attack, and how he suffered survivor's guilt after he was taken out of combat.

    Are we going to from the people they "fought" against (both the militia and the civilians that they massacred as well as their families and friends); will they be allowed to tell their own versions of the story; what will be sacrificed in order to present us with a coherent story that makes sense; is the game sponsored by the US, Iraq, or other states or their armies?

    In other words, who and what will be transformed into subalterns and who will be playing what role in this transformation?

  22. Re:forget it on How Do I Provide a Workstation To Last 15 Years? · · Score: 5, Funny

    lol, it's her father, not her client.

  23. Re:12+4/577... on Trick Used To Pass French "Three Strikes" · · Score: 1
  24. y'all on Dell's Adamo Goes After MacBook Air · · Score: 1

    y'all have too much money.

  25. Re:Mediawiki with LaTeX support on Collaborative Academic Writing Software? · · Score: 1

    What about Mediawiki with LaTeX formula support for writing? After completion the text could be converted to a LaTeX document.

    But what about the bibliography?