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  1. The kiddie porn is on the darknet. You may have found something of that nature on Megauplaod, but that's not where pedobear hangs out.

  2. Re:Nowhere fast on FBI Asked Megaupload To Preserve Pirated Files, Then Used Them Against Dotcom · · Score: 3, Informative

    It appears that your horizons might be expanded by visiting the New American Century site. www.newamericancentury.org/

    What GP posted, and what you posted, are synonymous. In the past twelve years, the site has softened their sales pitch, sort of almost disguising it, but there is no secret that they represent corporate powers. It's only a thinly veiled secret that they intend to buy out the United States government to make their dream come true. The only secret is, how far they have progressed toward ownership of the government.

    For the past five presidential elections, both candidates were owned by the corporations. If I really dug, I could probably demonstrate the same for elections further back in history.

  3. Re:Nowhere fast on FBI Asked Megaupload To Preserve Pirated Files, Then Used Them Against Dotcom · · Score: 2

    Where do I go to join the Axis?

  4. Re:increasing divorce or honesty? on The Internet Has Transformed Modern Divorce · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Yeah - but -

    In a marriage, both parties are supposed to work to understand the other, and to build each other up. Some of my conduct changed when I got married. More of it changed when I became a parent. And, the other half has made changes for me.

    If you're alive, if you're learning and growing, and if you actually care about the other person, you can expect that you're going to change as life goes on. Those who can't or won't change would do just as well to lie down and die.

    That said, you're right. If either one of you is eaten up with jealousy and insecurities, then it was a mistake.

  5. Re:Good ol' USSA on Cyber Corps Program Trains Spies For the Digital Age, In Oklahoma · · Score: 1

    Scroll up to Shavano's post. The man referenced was a known security risk for quite a long time BEFORE he made headlines.

  6. Re:Its the TLD that was hacked on Google.com.pk and 284 Other .PK Domains Hacked · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I was sitting here scratching my head, wondering why all those sites were hosted by the same servers.

  7. Re:Good ol' USSA on Cyber Corps Program Trains Spies For the Digital Age, In Oklahoma · · Score: 3, Insightful

    What are you rambling about? Nowadays, most background checks are done from an office at the inquiring agency's headquarters. People who would be superb government agents are ruled out because of an arrest record, while complete losers are sometimes welcomed into the agency, because they have a clean record.

    Interviews? A long time ago, when I was a young man, yes. Today, not so much.

  8. Re:Crikey Cheryl thats a Crock! on Another Player In the World of Free, Open Online CS Courseware · · Score: 2

    I had a biology teacher who often got lost, talking about stuff that had nothing to do with biology. The thing is, whatever he was flapping his gums about was INTERESTING. No person in the class was ever bored.

    Funny thing about all that is, we all hung on his every word. He might waste ten of the forty minutes in class on nonsense, but he had our attention for the other 30 minutes as well. The motorheads and jocks passed the course, with little problem. There aren't a lot of teachers who can make a claim like that.

    The funny looking guy from New South Wales seems to understand that.

  9. Re:Richard! on Another Player In the World of Free, Open Online CS Courseware · · Score: 3

    This is rather suspicious - four people post here, claiming to have taken the teacher's classes, in person. All four post anonymously. Hmmmmm. Food for thought . . . .

  10. Re:Remedy probably forthcoming shortly :P on "Anonymous" File-Sharing Darknet Ruled Illegal By German Court · · Score: 1

    Oh yes. Just like Grandma, he has it sitting on a desk so that he can look at his savings account online, and play mindless Java games. He has one, for sure. NOT having one would mark him among his friends as a dinosaur, or at least being a holdover from the dark ages. His police department, his court staff, his prosecutor all do business on computers. So, yes, he has a computer.

    I wouldn't take any bets as to how modern his computer is. Some few of those old fools may still have someone punching cards for them . . . .

  11. Re:The farmer can make a buck on cattle on Ad Blocking – a Coming Legal Battleground? · · Score: 2

    Your proxy may well be plugged into your computer right now:

    http://www.myopenrouter.com/

    I run Toastman's modified Tomato firmware on mine. Startup script checks the internet for a list of adservers, then blocks them. Every 96 hours after bootup, the script runs again.

    I see precious few advertisements.

  12. Re:It's not the advertiser's right, but ... on Ad Blocking – a Coming Legal Battleground? · · Score: 1

    That's a fair amount of work, to install all of those on a network of any size. Why not just block ad domains at the router? Netgear makes some really great routers, easily flashed with Tomato, or WRTG, or whatever suits your fancy.

    My own netgear routers have a script that checks for ad sites at boot, then every four days. None of them can get an advertisement onto my network - they don't even see my network.

    Of course, when I see some text on the side of a Google search window that interests me, I find that I'm unable to load the page - but that's no big loss. I can always enter that text into another google search, which generally yields clickable search results.

  13. Re:Nullified on Stratfor Hacker Could Be Sentenced to Life, Says Judge · · Score: 1

    That particular problem is tied to the "War on Drugs". How many millions of men and women since the 1940's have been through the system, facing meaningless charges for drugs? Possession of a damned naturally occurring vegetable matter? Insanity.

    It's the government's fault if the courts are over filled. If they can't do the "speedy trial" thing, then defendants need to be allowed to walk.

  14. Re:Nullified on Stratfor Hacker Could Be Sentenced to Life, Says Judge · · Score: 1

    You seem to be having a slow morning. GP stated quite clearly that politicos at all levels of government, and in all branches of those levels, are routinely bought and sold by corporate entities.

    WTF does criminal or civil court have to do with that statement?

    Your president owes his ass to corporate backing, and your local county judges almost certainly do too. County judges are worth a lot less than a president, so it's a lot easier to hide the money trails, but any place that money is involved, you'll find corporate meddling.

  15. Re:Exit node malware coming soon on "Anonymous" File-Sharing Darknet Ruled Illegal By German Court · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Wait - who said that you get to define "darknet"?

    Seemingly, the most accepted definition of a darknet would be, "I'm actually anonymous, there are no lights shining on me, I can be who and what I want to be, and no worries about the law, or the church, or my kin, or mobs chasing me down!"

    For the most part, the people on the darkwebs I have navigated don't give a damn who sees their material. Their primary concern is that an oppressive government doesn't come kicking their doors down. Their secondary concern is to avoid embarrassment for the stuff being traced back to them. MOST people want other to read, or view, their original material. Whether that material be political in nature, or religious, or even CP, the people who produce it are indeed distributing the stuff as widely as they dare.

    The public can download I2P or any other darknet software, install it, and browse the material published there. The government can do the same. Darknetizens WANT their voices to be heard.

  16. Re:Remedy probably forthcoming shortly :P on "Anonymous" File-Sharing Darknet Ruled Illegal By German Court · · Score: 1

    Some child porn on the judge's computer will remove all his immunity to indictment and prosecution. Install some darknet software, program it to download all the lolita stuff it can find, he's had.

  17. Re:The Internet interprets censorship ... on "Anonymous" File-Sharing Darknet Ruled Illegal By German Court · · Score: 4, Funny

    AC = Anonymous Canadian, eh?

  18. Re:And this is news? on 1976 Polaroids of an Apple-1 Resurface · · Score: 1

    Maybe some early Honda stuff. A 305 Dream would be good. Or, if you want something that was pretty high tech for it's time, check out the CX and GL 500's. Those twisted twins are still roaming the highways of the world, turning admiring heads everywhere they go. While they don't lead the pack while running through the twisties, a lot of young men on more modern bikes find that they can't get away from them either! Early computers? Crap - the wife has been nagging at me to get rid of all this old computer crap that is now almost worthless. Honda's stuff is still valuable!

    http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Honda-Other-1978-Honda-CX500-/200851901404?pt=US_motorcycles&hash=item2ec3b4cbdc

  19. Re:Hey Slashdot Editor! on The World Falls Back In Love With Coal · · Score: 1

    Gotta give you points on that. Hydroelectric is clean and safe - until it isn't.

  20. Re:I don't think there is a greater hell on Pakistan To Cut Phone Services To Prevent Muharram Attacks · · Score: 1

    Intolerance is intolerance, no matter what you believe or don't believe. An asshole is an asshole, no matter what he believes. Consider circletimessquare's post to be ditto'd here.

  21. Re:Stupid to ask this on LiMux Project Has Saved Munich €10m So Far · · Score: 2

    The report made no such claim. The report specifically states that they made the report as realistic and as fair as possible by assuming that the city would have reached the same degree of modernization, had they stayed with Microsoft products.

    See, they aren't running ten year old kernels, or six year old office suites. They are running the latest and the greatest of Linux offerings, in today's real world. Fully updated, upgraded, and patched for stability and security.

    I'm a bit curious what desktop environments they are running - maybe I'll go do some searches!

  22. Re:Hard to ask this... on LiMux Project Has Saved Munich €10m So Far · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The report seems to address that added cost for switching to systems the people were unfamiliar with. And, as already has been mentioned - people who stayed with Microsoft products have had their own training expenses!

    Remember too, that the report addresses relatively short-term savings. Over the course of the next decade, the saving will increase dramatically. The people are going to need less and less training and retraining as time goes on. IT expenses will decrease, probably dramatically, for that reason. Retraining for upgrades will probably remain. You can only estimate those costs if you have a crystal ball or something to predict how Linux and Windows updates/upgrades are going to work out in the years ahead. But - there will be NO LICENSING fees associated with any of those upgrade.

    And, if you scroll up to my earlier post, you'll have to consider the savings in virus infections and recovery, as well as the costs involved with leaking protected data, liability, etc. No, Linux isn't the end-all and be-all in computer security, but it's track record is superior to Windows, which should translate into tremendous savings.

  23. Re:hope it's true on LiMux Project Has Saved Munich €10m So Far · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I see several possibilities here.

    1: AC is just retarded.
    2: AC is a Microsoft troll
    3: AC is a racist bitch who needed only the flimsiest excuse to slam Jews.
    4: AC is a software salesman in Munich who lost a lot of money to LiMux
    5: AC is simply so small minded that he doesn't understand what ten million Euros are worth

    Anyway, moving past AC's tantrum, I wonder if the full saving are being reported? What does it cost for anti-virus protection, in an organization that size? Kaspersky, or Symantec, or whoever, doesn't just give away their software to big cities, do they? Other malware protections, like Spybot S&D have to be purchased, unless they are for personal home use. Not to mention that it takes a lot of IT time to cleanse and restore systems that have been FUBAR'd by malware.

    The report seems to just skirt around that little issue. It's possible that they are assuming that all of the updated/upgraded Windows computers would have been running Microsoft's own Security Essentials, instead of a third party application.

  24. Re:Hey Slashdot Editor! on The World Falls Back In Love With Coal · · Score: 0, Troll

    /sarcasm Yeah, that radiation. The coal plants around Pittsburgh's 3-Rivers have left a nuclear wasteland stretching to long Island.

    We all hate moronic talking points - how about we agree to drop them? Chernobyl is an example of radiation problems. 3 Mile Island was a tamer example. And, now, Fukushima. The Greenies talk about all that radiation from coal, but they can't point to one example of a population center depopulated due to radiation from coal.

    Try sticking to the REAL drawbacks of using coal.

  25. Re:What's the big deal? on Judge Issues Temporary Order Blocking Expulsion For Refusing To Wear RFID Tag · · Score: 1, Insightful

    The lawyer taught you wrong. You cannot sign away your rights. Tone? Did you say tone? Try this: do some loan sharking. Get some chump to agree that if he doesn't pay you back, you can break his knees. Get it in writing. Get a nice, legal contract, get it notarized, witnessed, get all the trimmings for your contract.

    When he fails to make a payment or two, go visit him. Bring your ball bat, or whatever, and inform the police that you may need some protection while enforcing your rights under the contract. Tell the cops that you expect your client may resist having his knees broken.

    Try it. The contract supersedes his rights, isn't that what you just said?

    If your claim about a lawyer teaching you that shit is true, you need to get your tuition back. The rat bastard LIED TO YOU!!