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  1. Re:Court order served against fictional characters on UK Court Order Served Over Twitter, To Anonymous User Posing As Another · · Score: 1

    It's not technically anonymous - your name is stored alongside every moderation you make, this is why when you post all your mods in that thread are undone - it's just hidden from everyone.

  2. Re:Thats about it for me on UK Court Order Served Over Twitter, To Anonymous User Posing As Another · · Score: 1

    Information that's out there is out there, you can't change that. But you can do stop putting new things on there.

  3. Re:Allrightium on Communicator Clothing · · Score: 1

    And if you're not paranoid, you don't care about your position being revealed so the point is moot. If you are paranoid, the overhead doesn't matter - even 100x overhead on 1000 words of plaintext would these days transfer within seconds.

  4. Re:Might as well sue himself on Jack Thompson Sues Facebook For $40M · · Score: 1

    How do we know that he's genuinely crazy? They could have been paying him all these years to fake his moral imperative.

  5. Re:Allrightium on Communicator Clothing · · Score: 2, Interesting

    You don't have to send the message directly to your target. You send it through a wire (or over a wireless system with a 1m range) to a node which then sends it to a major node and so on, with 256 bit encryption and dummy messages constantly being sent so a wiretapper wouldn't know when someone was actually sending something. It's conceivable.

  6. I think he's trying to beat this guy on Jack Thompson Sues Facebook For $40M · · Score: 1
  7. Re:Might as well sue himself on Jack Thompson Sues Facebook For $40M · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I wouldn't be surprised if the video game companies are paying him to make the anti-video-game movement look (even more) like a bunch of fools.

  8. Re:Why is that legal? on Wii Update 4.2 Tries (and Fails) To Block Homebrew · · Score: 2, Insightful

    You can already sue if your house gets blown up because of your neighbor. But modding Wii consoles harms nobody.

  9. Re:Why is that legal? on Wii Update 4.2 Tries (and Fails) To Block Homebrew · · Score: 5, Insightful

    First, we should kick out the laws that fine the CONSUMER for daring to mess around with his own legally-bought electronics.

  10. Re:Agriculture on What To Cover In a Short "DIY Tech" Course? · · Score: 1

    You forgot non-pain-dependent crowd control tactics and shooting between the eyeballs, cause no other hit can kill them.

  11. Re:Allrightium on Communicator Clothing · · Score: 1

    Communicating without revealing anything about yourself is not at all inconceivable.

  12. Re:Get Microsoft out of the free OS market. on Microsoft Blocks Pirates From Security Essentials Software · · Score: 1

    Which happens to have a port for pretty much every OS in existence.

  13. Re:*Takes stolen car to dealership for a repair* on Microsoft Blocks Pirates From Security Essentials Software · · Score: 1

    Or Joe's Cheap Computer Shop pre-installed it with a cracked version of Windows, so the purchaser doesn't even know his Windows is non-legitimate.

  14. Re:OH NO! on Microsoft Blocks Pirates From Security Essentials Software · · Score: 1, Redundant

    I think you missed a critical update.

    http://www.linuxgenuineadvantage.org

  15. Re:*Takes stolen car to dealership for a repair* on Microsoft Blocks Pirates From Security Essentials Software · · Score: 1

    When damaged cars can spread their damage to other cars just by being on the same highway, then your analogy might work.

  16. Re:Piracy love/hate on Microsoft Blocks Pirates From Security Essentials Software · · Score: 1

    And they don't want to give Linux a 300 dollar competitive advantage.

  17. Re:Get Microsoft out of the free OS market. on Microsoft Blocks Pirates From Security Essentials Software · · Score: 1

    I'm pretty sure Linux is 100% capable of playing all standard movie formats. As for games, maybe they'll realize that there's more to gaming than top of the line multimillion dollar physics engines.

  18. Re:I am almost certain ... on Oracle Fined For Benchmark Claims · · Score: 1

    Sparta? THIS IS THE US JUDICIAL SYSTEM.

    Wait, let me check my thesaurus for that second one. Ok, looks like I switched their places.

  19. Re:Coincidence? on IT Security Breaches Soar In 2009 · · Score: 1

    It's also the year in which Kirill I became the patriarch in Russia. Clearly the Russian Orthodox Church is responsible for this.

  20. Re:Linux installation on What To Cover In a Short "DIY Tech" Course? · · Score: 1

    Some, like Gentoo, let you go through a lengthy, arduous (but very powerful and customizable) installation process.

  21. Re:"cheaper" judge on $338M Patent Ruling Against Microsoft Overturned · · Score: 1

    The law that makes illegally obtained evidence invalid applies only to the police AFAIK, so you'd be sacrificing yourself for the greater good.

  22. Re: Licensed books on Company Uses DMCA To Take Down Second-Hand Software · · Score: 1

    The point is, you can ignore the companies that do mandatory-binding-arbitration contracts. In effect, you have 100% power over a corporation in terms of how it affects YOU. You can't ignore the government.

  23. Re:Autodesk will lose on Company Uses DMCA To Take Down Second-Hand Software · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    You either write the page, copy his comment onto the existing false dichotomy page, or jump out the window. There is no other option.

  24. Re:Wow on Obama Makes a Push To Add Time To the School Year · · Score: 1

    It might be preferential blindness, but I see much more people decrying job factories and talking about how to actually educate people.

  25. Re:Wow on Obama Makes a Push To Add Time To the School Year · · Score: 1

    I don't see any such posts.