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  1. Re: Sounds like he was enjoying himself! on A Corporate War Against a Scientist, and How He Fought Back · · Score: 1

    pointing them all to Democrats, when it was the Republicans who removed the dischargability

    Both Centrist parties strongly support the indenture of students from working- and middle-class families.

  2. "bad" patents on The Public Patent Foundation Fights for Freedom From Bad Patents (Video) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    All patents are bad patents. The ownership of ideas is immoral. It is an affront to human dignity, and retards social & technological progress. We must work for the abolition of idea property just as our ancestors fought to abolish human property.

  3. Re:Maybe it's because only 300 people know about i on Google Removes "Search Nearby" Function From Updated Google Maps · · Score: 1

    It ain't a "free" lunch - you just pay for it by giving Google all your personal info, rather than by giving them dollars.

  4. Re:Just a guess on Google Removes "Search Nearby" Function From Updated Google Maps · · Score: 1

    Sounds plausible. Any evidence?

  5. Re:Just a guess on Google Removes "Search Nearby" Function From Updated Google Maps · · Score: 1

    Big Brother / Google IS watching your every move. But what does that have to do with "Search Nearby"??

  6. Re:up to 124 years on LulzSec's Sabu To Be Sentenced In New York · · Score: 1

    Right... the threat of a comically-draconian sentence is used to coerce the defendant into a false confession ("plea bargain"). Thus we keep the gulags nice & full, and the citizens entombed therein are expected to show gratitude for being "let off" with a mere year or two in a Federal Torture and Rape Facility.

  7. Re:The best bike helmets on Building a Better Bike Helmet Out of Paper · · Score: 1

    Spoken like a true motorist...

  8. up to 124 years on LulzSec's Sabu To Be Sentenced In New York · · Score: 1

    What crime - any crime - justly deserves 124 years in the gulag? The court apparatus has gotten badly out of control, to the point where it no longer seems interested in maintaining even the appearance of fairness or legitimacy.

  9. Re:Maybe on Senior Managers Are the Worst Information Security Offenders · · Score: 1

    Different experiences, I guess. I've never worked with a company where the CEO worked even a bit longer than the average employee.

    And honestly, your example with the CEO of a well-established company sounds more like an unfortunate example of bad time management and/or a desire to avoid his personal life, than an admirable example of hard work.

  10. Re:Maybe on Senior Managers Are the Worst Information Security Offenders · · Score: 2

    And going to "fancy dinners with clients" is about networking: keeping current clients happy and trying to get new ones. You know, to produce income?

    As said, it may well be quite valuable to the company. But it is nevertheless more similar to leisure than to labor.

  11. Re:Maybe on Senior Managers Are the Worst Information Security Offenders · · Score: 1

    I call BS on the claim that CEOs typically work significantly longer hours than their employees. I've never once observed this first-hand at any company I have worked with. Also some CEO activities such as going to fancy dinners with clients, while perhaps important to the company, are closer to leisure than to work.

  12. Re:Simple Answer... on "Clinical Trials" For Programming Languages? · · Score: 1

    Unless io.WriteString() automatically prepends the appropriate HTTP headers, you've linked to an example of not only having to understand HTTP to write hello world, you've got to write your own webserver, and your example does so incorrectly.

    The example works correctly. From the docs:

    If WriteHeader has not yet been called, Write calls WriteHeader(http.StatusOK) before writing the data.

  13. Re:The car's the thing. on It's Not Just the NSA: Police Are Tracking Your Car · · Score: 1

    left = right = totalitarian

  14. Re:WTF? on Roku Finally Adds YouTube To Its Iconic Media Player · · Score: 1

    Roku removed access to it for new users but those of us who already had the channel kept it on our boxes.

    I love Roku's hardware and simple UI; but I hate being inside their walled garden.

  15. WTF? on Roku Finally Adds YouTube To Its Iconic Media Player · · Score: 1

    WTF - I've had an official-looking YouTube channel on my first-gen Roku for 3 years. Don't recall doing anything special to get it, either. Is this article total BS; or did newer version of the Roku have it removed??

  16. Re:Absolute Defense on Bitcoin Token Maker Suspends Operation After Hearing From Federal Gov't · · Score: 1

    "Vote Ima Krook for Senate!" <-- political message

    Did I just spread that message without spending money? I suppose it did cost something - an infinitesimally small depreciation on this workstation, plus a similarly tiny fraction of electricity, internet, & rent bills.

  17. the president of the NSA could be a cyborg

    We are all cyborgs now.

  18. Re:So we should ditch Ubuntu and then on The Burning Bridges of Ubuntu · · Score: 1

    My mom had a much easier time with Unity than with any other desktop (Gnome, several versions of Windoze) she has used.

  19. Re:Anyone notice the irony ?? on Court: Homeland Security Must Disclose 'Internet Kill Switch' · · Score: 1
  20. Re:Capitalistic Internet Kill Switch on Court: Homeland Security Must Disclose 'Internet Kill Switch' · · Score: 0

    Fascism is a merger of corporate and state power

    That's not historically accurate.

  21. Re:DHS Kill Switch? on Court: Homeland Security Must Disclose 'Internet Kill Switch' · · Score: 1

    I fully expect someone on-high will call for a centrally-controlled electrical grid kill switch.

    If I understand correctly - I'm by no means an electric engineer - there are serious safety issues with suddenly disconnecting a running nuclear power station from the grid.

  22. Re:Paranoid and non insightful on Court: Homeland Security Must Disclose 'Internet Kill Switch' · · Score: 1

    You don't actually control your phone's hardware. Even if you're using a more open-ish Android distro like Cyanogenmod, actual control of the hardware is done by binary blob drivers. I'd be shocked beyond belief if said drivers didn't already, by law, all have remote kill switches. See if you can find a copy of the (non-public) implementation docs for CALEA - they're incredibly creepy.

  23. Why?! on Canonical Targets Ubuntu Privacy Critic · · Score: 1

    Ubuntu, I like you so much. Why did you have to turn to the dark side?

  24. Re:Good geeks? on The NSA Is Looking For a Few Good Geeks · · Score: 1

    And this makes you better than anybody working there, how, exactly?

    He never said he was. Read to me like he was, obliquely, applying for a job. Perhaps the algos that monitor /. will take notice...

  25. Re:What about the PREVIOUS whistleblowers? on Feinstein and Rogers: No Clemency For Snowden · · Score: 1

    nothing but CRIMINAL PERSECUTION out of it.

    FTFY