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  1. Re:Driving is a privilege not a right on The Rapid Rise of License Plate Readers · · Score: 1

    you have the right to primitive mobility

    That's a meaningless standard. Can I ride a donkey around town without police harassment? Or do you mean that only jetpacks need plates since cars are so primitive? Though even when cars where state-of-the-art regulations were much laxer... In fact registration and insurance of motor vehicles is entirely unnecessary, it just seems necessary because they tell you it is.

  2. Re:Censorship on Malaysia Stages Internet Blackout To Protest New Censorship Law · · Score: 1

    That's because Westerners...are infidels. But if you insult some sort of conservative values on the one side, or "political correctness" on the other, there are extreme reactions.

  3. Re:One more time: 1 IP ! = 1 person on German Court: ISPs Must Hand Over File Sharer Info · · Score: 1

    Germany already requires people to carry government IDs and register their address with the police, so an internet ID system would merely be modernizing the law and increasing online safety.

  4. Re:OK, this is senseless on Ecuador To Grant Assange Political Asylum · · Score: 1

    Yeah, the millions of men who didn't agree to sex without hormonal birth control could use some help to realize what happened to them too. Lots of rapists at large... Oh, that's right, your definition of rape is utter bullshit.

  5. Re:US on Ask Slashdot: What's the Best Place To Relocate? · · Score: 1

    Well if you pay me $10 to hold onto $100 for you, and when you come back it I ask for another investment of $100 + $10 fee so I can pay you the $100 you're likely to hit me with your shoe instead

  6. Re:US on Ask Slashdot: What's the Best Place To Relocate? · · Score: 1

    Having to pay interest on a loan is absurd, while free money is normal. Balancing your budget is stupid, while spending money you'll never have is smart. Are you Greek?

  7. Re:Yes. on Is Sexual Harassment Part of Hacker Culture? · · Score: 1

    Wait, is mouth rape a thing, cause we were talking about kissing? There are more bases to go, and plenty of outs possible before home plate can be stolen. Now with someone sliding into home things are really starting to get away from defense, so the catcher better get out there and knock the runner down.

  8. Re:Way to be a girl about it on Is Sexual Harassment Part of Hacker Culture? · · Score: 1

    Logic has nothing to do with. It's a matter of empirical investigation. The sound of "quality women" or "gentleman" may resonate pleasantly through your mind, but that's irrelevant. Though I have no doubt you've encountered many mid-30s baby-crazy-menopausal ladies-of-a-certain-age that are attracted by your mature character.

  9. Re:Way to be a girl about it on Is Sexual Harassment Part of Hacker Culture? · · Score: 1

    Some perverts are into groping. They don't even want to have sex. That this is supposed to represent a "typical" problem in male conferences is ridiculous. Boobs grabs are one thing, but going for the crotch indicates some serious aberrant behavior.

  10. Re:defcon is the workplace or covered under title on Is Sexual Harassment Part of Hacker Culture? · · Score: 1

    Yes, sexual expression can be channeled, by you are suggesting de facto elimination which is a crazy. You know how you express your desire not be sexually advanced upon? By saying "No thanks". Maybe you can even wear a chastity bracelet or something to shield yourself from any social interaction.

  11. Re:Yes. on Is Sexual Harassment Part of Hacker Culture? · · Score: 1

    And I've never met a man who hasn't been thoroughly fucked over by people of both genders. Things are tough all over...

  12. Re:Yes. on Is Sexual Harassment Part of Hacker Culture? · · Score: 1

    When faced with some situation, such as "do I keep going when this girl who was making out with me before says, 'this is going too fast for me, I want to stop'?", a large percent of men will say "of course I stop" while a large minority will say "of course I keep going", but both groups by and large refuse to admit that there are so many people who take the opposite view.

    Maybe because persistence pays off? Coyness is a female seduction technique as much as persuasion is for men, and clarifying statements and actions are necessary for the communication process to reach a conclusion.

  13. Re:how is handing a card "violence"? on Is Sexual Harassment Part of Hacker Culture? · · Score: 1

    Give one to a woman and see how she reacts... You have a different definition of violence when it comes to men.

  14. Re:Yes. on Is Sexual Harassment Part of Hacker Culture? · · Score: 1

    Be honest, "No" based on a single person's testimony cannot be any kind of legal standard. It might be a fine guideline to follow in the moment, but "rape" under a "consent" law is in fact whatever a woman wants it to be or feels it should be. And the same is true of sexual harassment. This is not to say that these crimes don't exist, it's just that it's often that they can't be proven unless basic legal rights to standards of proof and presumption of innocence are removed. From men, because women "can't rape". Hence, the cynical bitterness.

    An an aside, "dressing like a slut" is actually more like objective sexual harassment. If a dude were walking around in a speedo wiggling his crotch, how fast would he be arrested?

  15. Re:It's brogrammers on Is Sexual Harassment Part of Hacker Culture? · · Score: 1

    You're just jealous because brogrammers do better with women...

  16. Re:I ran across this very problem too on Validating Voters For Open Source Governance, In Person · · Score: 1

    There are still towns run by direct democracy, and they are more characterized by extreme budget restraint than by chaotic looting. In fact to the extent that our "representatives" are anything more than agents of "mobs"--that is to say corporate gangsters --they are demagogues, encouraging and enabling the worst impulses of the people.

  17. Re:The Difference on Data-Fed Monitoring System Will Put New Yorkers Under Police Surveillance · · Score: 1

    Don't see how a "flood of weapons" is guaranteed in times of disturbance--sometimes even governments run out of rifles for their own combat soldiers. Though I'll agree that the populace will likely accept whatever big shot gets his hand on the lever of power, but it's nice to at least retain the right to shoot yourself.

  18. Re:Good on ISPs Throttling BitTorrent Traffic, Study Finds · · Score: 1

    Even if you use your connection for 1 hour per day, you could be degrading your neighbors' service while they are trying to stream a movie. Either the capacity is there or it isn't. The availability of fiber is the time when caps become a reasonable idea, because the cost to the ISP of each household downloading a petabyte could possibility be unsustainable with a rate increase

  19. Re:Good on ISPs Throttling BitTorrent Traffic, Study Finds · · Score: 2

    There is no ISP or book publisher that bills based on cost. This requires auditing by a 3rd party, like the government's regulation of the power company.

  20. Re:Joanna Russ on Ask Slashdot: Most Underappreciated Sci-Fi Writer? · · Score: 1

    Normal people should seek "correction" from a lesbian/"feminist" pervert/nihilist? Out-of-print and forgotten is the correct answer to that.

  21. Re:Socialist science on NASA Scientist: Heat Waves Really Are From Global Warming · · Score: 1

    It's no secret that academia leans left (where else on the planet can you find practicing Marxists?) and that scientific studies can be deliberately falsified. If the layman has no interest in the results one way or another it's easy to give the scientists the benefit of the doubt, but if the scientists are saying something that he doesn't want to hear he obviously will never accept it on faith.

  22. Re:Cables on Best Buy Founder Makes $8.5 Billion Bid To Take Company Private · · Score: 1

    $50 for 10 is still crazy expensive.

  23. Re:Problem? on Why Internet Pirates Always Win · · Score: 1

    Subscribers can already copy the cable feed, the online access just gives them more options. On the hand, online streaming could give non-subscribers who don't want to pay for a bunch of other channels just to get HBO or who can't subscribe a possibility to watch.

  24. Re:The Answer for $5M on University Receives $5 Million Grant To Study Immortality · · Score: 1

    Yet you use the word "revive," i.e. "to restore to life"... It does sound kind of silly when people say "I was dead for 3 minutes", but I don't think we can be very accurate when describing a process. The concept of "clinical death" has a practical utility, though maybe they could use a different word...

  25. Re:Government needs to be slapped down again? on Mathematician Predicts Wave of Violence In 2020 · · Score: 2

    You're assuming guilt, and that a trial would lead to imprisonment. The case against al-Awlaki was thin, and the case against his son didn't exist.