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  1. Re:Facebook, provide more parental controls on Court Rules Parents May Be Liable For What Their Kids Post On Facebook · · Score: 1

    Then you run into the problem of verifying age to keep *actual* pedophile predators out...which means you need Real ID.

    Maybe the answer is this thing we used to have called Real Life instead of communicating with their friends online.

  2. Re:Why is the school involved? on Court Rules Parents May Be Liable For What Their Kids Post On Facebook · · Score: 1

    This "third" option is really just the 2nd option.

    While I sympathize with your sentiment, wouldn't that mean that free speech societies exist nowhere on earth? I would imagine every jurisdiction at least has a "fire in a crowded theater" clause. In which case, arguing one toe over the line disqualifies it as free speech means that free speech itself doesn't exist as a concept.

    It's the same problem as "no true communism has ever existed." Maybe technically true, but just makes conversation more difficult.

    If there's one thing I would really like to believe in, it's radically free speech. But as I get older, I have a harder and harder time finding things that I can label with absolutes.

  3. Re:About time...... on Court Rules Parents May Be Liable For What Their Kids Post On Facebook · · Score: 1

    why shouldn't I be liable for wrongdoing of my kid in cyberspace?

    People's crazy-loose definition of what constitutes wrongdoing online.

  4. It's called a metaphor on After Negative User Response, ChromeOS To Re-Introduce Support For Ext{2,3,4} · · Score: 1

    "OtherOS would be OtherOS all over again"

    No!?!

  5. Re:Don't Bullshit Me, Man on After Negative User Response, ChromeOS To Re-Introduce Support For Ext{2,3,4} · · Score: 1

    Yeah, and there are plenty of things people stick in there that are labelled as not-bugs by the developers.

  6. Re:Please explain the outrage?? on After Negative User Response, ChromeOS To Re-Introduce Support For Ext{2,3,4} · · Score: 1

    It's the PS3 OtherOS all over again. If they didn't have the feature in the first place, fine; but having it and then removing it smells bad.

  7. Don't Bullshit Me, Man on After Negative User Response, ChromeOS To Re-Introduce Support For Ext{2,3,4} · · Score: 3, Insightful

    To quote Ben Goodger's comment: "Thanks for all of your feedback on this bug. We've heard you loud and clear. We plan to re-enable ext2/3/4 support in Files.app immediately. It will come back, just like it was before, and we're working to get it into the next stable channel release."

    It's not a bug unless it was an accident.

  8. Re:somebody else's job on Confidence Shaken In Open Source Security Idealism · · Score: 1

    Somebody and Anybody are on trains headed towards each other at 20mph (each). Construct a boolean algebra equation to describe all actors.

  9. Re:Why..... on "Double Irish" Tax Loophole Used By US Companies To Be Closed · · Score: 1

    Or like how that studio told Peter Jackson they didn't have to pay him more than a pittance because Lord of the Rings "didn't turn a profit."

    Unethical weasel bastards.

  10. Arrrrgh on "Double Irish" Tax Loophole Used By US Companies To Be Closed · · Score: 1

    You know, it's like how when more than half of the population uses a word wrong, the meaning changes.

  11. Re: Why..... on "Double Irish" Tax Loophole Used By US Companies To Be Closed · · Score: 1

    the mom staying at home does pay taxes (on X% of $0 is still $0).

    Well, since we're being technical, I wouldn't call it paying them as there's no actual transaction. Satisfy the tax code, sure.

  12. Re:Why..... on "Double Irish" Tax Loophole Used By US Companies To Be Closed · · Score: 1

    If they're not making any profit, why the hell are they doing business there?

  13. Re:Birth control pills? on Birth Control Pills Threaten Fish Stocks · · Score: 1

    Oh. I read the title as "people flushing unused birth control pills threatens," not "the intended cycle of taking birth control pills and their normal chemical output threatens."

  14. Re:Birth control pills? on Birth Control Pills Threaten Fish Stocks · · Score: 1

    I was under the impression one took them orally, not by jamming them up your urethra.

  15. Re:Birth control pills? on Birth Control Pills Threaten Fish Stocks · · Score: 1

    You mean a "swirly"? The heck is "flerzy" supposed to come from?

    Well, it's technically related to my question and we all know that's the best kind of correct.

  16. Re:Birth control pills? on Birth Control Pills Threaten Fish Stocks · · Score: 1

    If you're going to mock me for something you say I've never heard of, at least spell it right so I can google it.

    Thanks for your confusing comment that totally fails to help.

  17. Re:WTF? on The Correct Response To Photo Hack Victim-Blamers · · Score: 1

    If he's doing something that he really doesn't have to, and can easily stop, then yes. Yes, I would say that.

    Can't say I ever expected to see somebody on your side of the issue use that argument.

  18. Re:WTF? on The Correct Response To Photo Hack Victim-Blamers · · Score: 1

    Slapping a label on a viewpoint to glibly dismiss it may work for you, but the issue is hardly so black and white. Congrats on your +5 but I see plenty of people who disagree and aren't modded down.

  19. Re:Mint on What's Been the Best Linux Distro of 2014? · · Score: 1

    They updated SGD for 2? I used it back in the day when it only supported legacy (not that it was "legacy" at the time of course).

    Yeah, don't even get me started about SecureBoot.

  20. Re:Birth control pills? on Birth Control Pills Threaten Fish Stocks · · Score: 1

    Why are people flushing them in the first place instead of throwing them away normally? What other random things are people putting down their toilets?

  21. Re:But if Democracy comes to China... on Pro-Democracy Websites In Hong Kong Targeted With and Serving Malware · · Score: 1

    "You vill have communism...or ve vill give you tank."

  22. Re:Clearly Western Interference on Pro-Democracy Websites In Hong Kong Targeted With and Serving Malware · · Score: 1

    -1 America Is Not A Country

  23. Re:WTF? on The Correct Response To Photo Hack Victim-Blamers · · Score: 2

    This is dumb on the level of 'blame the victim' dumb. Should everything online be a cost-benefit analysis now?

    Yes.

  24. Re:Incredible on BitHammer, the BitTorrent Banhammer · · Score: 1

    If it's an all-you-can-eat buffet and they eat it all before leaving, sounds okay, I guess.

  25. Re:Protection against ARP poisoning on BitHammer, the BitTorrent Banhammer · · Score: 1

    Just set the Evil Bit, yeesh.