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  1. Re:Shutting down a last bastion ISP on FTC Shuts Down Calif. ISP For Botnets, Child Porn · · Score: 1

    ... because "pornography featuring violence, bestiality, and incest" is very illegal, right?

    Nope, but botnets, illegal pharmacies, child porn, spyware, viruses, trojans, and phishing related sites (you know those other things listed beyond the snippet you posted) are.

    ISPs that don't do the mandatory spying on citizens, storing of logs, keeping tabs on the copyright-protection evading, crippleware-breaking terrorists, they have to be eliminated!

    Actually this was about the ISP being accused of being directly involved in the illegal activities on it's network. Not because of the nonsense you posted.

  2. Re:"including child pornography..." on FTC Shuts Down Calif. ISP For Botnets, Child Porn · · Score: 1

    ISPs don't host porn, they host websites.

    And by hosting those websites they also host the contents of those websites and in the case of it being a porn website they would be hosting porn. Your semantic game fails to work.

  3. Re:OT: Which browser is slashdot supposed to work on FTC Shuts Down Calif. ISP For Botnets, Child Porn · · Score: 1

    That's because you were never able to scroll the bar all the way to the bottom if it was on the left-hand side. You could only do it when it was at the top middle position but since the toggle position button no longer works you can't do it anymore.

  4. Re:OT: Which browser is slashdot supposed to work on FTC Shuts Down Calif. ISP For Botnets, Child Porn · · Score: 1

    Turn off the new crap. Then it works.

    Yes, but then you get all the problems with the bad pagination that comes with the old style discussion.

    I forget how I did that, though. Classic Index in Preferences?

    Classic index, which I am using, doesn't fix the problems I mentioned which happen within the article comments themselves.

  5. Re:Quite a list on FTC Shuts Down Calif. ISP For Botnets, Child Porn · · Score: 2, Insightful

    But what makes it different than any other ISP?

    You mean other than this quote from the second sentence?

    The FTC alleges that 3FN/Pricewert was directly involved in setting up spam-spewing botnets, among other illegal activities

    I'm pretty sure Verizon, Time Warner, AT&T, Comcast, Cablevision, Cox, Suddenlink, just to name a few ISPs, aren't directly involved in any illegal activities on their network.

  6. Re:OT: Which browser is slashdot supposed to work on FTC Shuts Down Calif. ISP For Botnets, Child Porn · · Score: 2, Informative

    Well the commment slider doesn't move when you click the "Toggle window location" button. White bars where the titles are so you can't see anything. Pages taking forever to render. That's just a few.

  7. Re:OT: Which browser is slashdot supposed to work on FTC Shuts Down Calif. ISP For Botnets, Child Porn · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Just try getting that asinine slide-bar to show ALL posts. No can do, because the script kiddies coding it up are too stupid to handle boundary conditions properly.

    You used to be able to scroll the bar all the way over when the button to move it to the top middle also worked properly. Now when you hit that button in the top right it just gives it a border and nothing else.

  8. Re:Bye Hulu! on Hulu May Begin Charging For Video Content · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Except this just an article about a rumor of them charging subscriptions. Nowhere are there actual plans for Hulu to charge anything now or any time in the future. It's amazing how easily people fall for these FUD spreading articles based entirely on second-hand rumors.

  9. Re:Bizarre tags on Hulu May Begin Charging For Video Content · · Score: 1

    Probably a link between News Corp and Rupert Murdoch's well-known Republican affiliation.

  10. Re:Worst Source Ever on Hulu May Begin Charging For Video Content · · Score: 4, Funny

    Don't expect anyone to actually read this (as evidence by the half dozen or more posts already railing against this phoney news story).

  11. Re:Aha, one mode on Palm Pre "iTunes Hack" Detailed By DVD Jon · · Score: 1

    Is *unnecessary*

  12. Re:Aha, one mode on Palm Pre "iTunes Hack" Detailed By DVD Jon · · Score: 1

    Okay point taken. I was just going off someone else's post for that point. Either way, the point still stands that the issue of being USB compliant and having a logo is necessary.

  13. Re:Aha, one mode on Palm Pre "iTunes Hack" Detailed By DVD Jon · · Score: 2, Insightful

    But since this isn't a USB device, or being marked as one, they neither need a logo or a license. This is just a hack to make it seem like one and there is nothing illegal in that.

  14. Re:Apple cannot block and it's not illegal on Palm Pre "iTunes Hack" Detailed By DVD Jon · · Score: 3, Funny
  15. Re:Apple cannot block and it's not illegal on Palm Pre "iTunes Hack" Detailed By DVD Jon · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Have any laws or court rulings to show this? How would this be any more illegal than having Opera show that it's Internet Explorer?

  16. Re:In Other News on Russia Launches Anti-trust Probe of Microsoft · · Score: 1

    Well they'd have to find better ways because any money they'd get from Microsoft would be a negligible drop in the bucket.

  17. Re:Unfortunate on Buying a Domain From a Cybersquatter · · Score: 1

    By that reasoning, investing in stocks and commodities is a bad thing.

    Considering the current history of the stock market that sounds about right. I wouldn't consider a vehicle that has cost people multiple trillions of dollars in assets to be a good thing.

  18. Re:And now where does mikerowesoft lead? on Buying a Domain From a Cybersquatter · · Score: 1

    Bing.com?

  19. Re:Nurse != Secretary on Hospital Turns Away Ambulances When Computers Go Down · · Score: 1

    The GP didn't say they shouldn't be able to treat patients without computers. He was saying that it isn't a good idea to be treated and have no records on what was previously done to you and what medications and there doses were given to you.

  20. Re:nice mockups... on Arrington's Web Tablet Nearly Ready For Launch? · · Score: 5, Informative

    The resolution looks about what the mockups show. You can find a shot of the actual thing here.

  21. Re:Phenomenal browser on Opera 10 Benchmarked and Evaluated · · Score: 1

    Chrome and IE8 are multiprocess, don't know about IE7.

    IE7 is multiprocess.

    Firefox OTOH...does practically everything in one thread.

    Your knowledge of Firefox is pretty outdated since it's used multiple processes for tabs for ages now.

  22. Re:Open vs Closed on Google's Android To Challenge Windows? · · Score: 1

    I do remember Google and their shills saying exactly that, to the public, not developers.

    Except if you read the Android site all of the talks of openness only talk about it in context of developers of apps and the phone companies. Again, any notion that Google was making this OS for anything other than the phone companies and app developers was freetard bullshit.

  23. Re:Phenomenal browser on Opera 10 Benchmarked and Evaluated · · Score: 1

    Opera is quite multithreaded AFAIK

    And so is Chrome, Firefox and IE7 and 8.

  24. Re:No different from sales tax evasion on Download Taxes As a Weapon Against File-Sharing · · Score: 1
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Use_tax

    It is assessed upon otherwise "tax free" tangible personal property purchased by a resident of the assessing state for use, storage or consumption of goods in that state (not for resale), regardless of where the purchase took place. The use tax is typically assessed at the same rate as the sales tax that would have been owed (if any) had the same goods been purchased in the state of residence. Use tax applies when sales tax has not been charged. Purchases made over the internet and out-of-state are the most common type of transactions subject to a use tax.

  25. Re:Symbian? on Google's Android To Challenge Windows? · · Score: 1

    I'm telling you that it'll be funny to read your comment again if it does.

    Yeah, well we will both be dead and this won't have happened.

    Besides, keep in mind the speed at which iPod, Google/GMail, Flash etc gained market dominance though they started late, had initially reached 1% of their markets in the first year of their existence and and were competing against well-entrenched companies with mountains of money.

    And I can point out countless counterexamples. That a few products gained market dominance out of nowhere in no way implies that the same will happen with this. Especially when it's uptake by the phone companies has actually decreased since it's initial bump while Symbian has done nothing but gain marketshare.