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  1. Re:Embarrassment on UK Campaign Wants 18-Year-Olds To Be Able To Delete Embarrassing Online Past · · Score: 1

    Heck, his average rating for the whole presidency is only 47%, he isn't very well liked.

    http://www.gallup.com/poll/116...

    Now, if DNS-and-BIND had said racist rants, or sexist rants, sure, that makes sense.

  2. That is playing out in Maryland right now. The parents are mostly winning after two times having their kids taken away. Though one of the kids is 6 years old and female, so there may be some issues there for good reason.

  3. Re:A simple proposition. on Advertising Companies Accused of Deliberately Slowing Page-load Times For Profit · · Score: 1

    Wikipedia sells no product, sells no service and DOES get enough donations to cover its costs, which are far more than Slashdot's costs. I personally believe that Jimmy Wales needs to die in a fire, but Wikipedia can hang around.

    Also, Slashdot could sell products such as shirts and mugs. In fact I believe they actually have some products, they seem to be under the /.Deals button. I have never been to that site, but I have ABP turned off on Slashdot and don't check the "don't advertise me bro" button.

  4. Which is why the TV viewing public always considered advertising time as the time to hit the bathroom or cook the popcorn. Many people don't sit through the ads, and nothing requires them to do so. With Tivo now, I know people who pause the show when they need to go to the bathroom and fast forward through the commercials.

  5. Re:AdBlock+ does less, eats more & 'souled-out on Advertising Companies Accused of Deliberately Slowing Page-load Times For Profit · · Score: 1

    Yeah, it is fun to pick on him, but it gets old. I try to educate him about how he appears to us now.

    I place him somewhere between popover ads and autoplay video ads. I would pay for his product if it blocked his crapflood on Slashdot, but even his hosts files can't block his own ads.

  6. Re:Page loading has always been far slower with ad on Advertising Companies Accused of Deliberately Slowing Page-load Times For Profit · · Score: 1

    Those go right into the recycle bin in my house. I asked the mail women if there was any way I could set "current resident" to "return to sender" which made her chuckle and point out that the ads are likely the only thing keeping the post office afloat.

    I actually told the paper boy I didn't want the paper at all when he first asked. So now it gets thrown into my parking spot for free instead...quite irritating having to clean up the garbage they throw into my spot though.

  7. Re:Ublock = inferior & inefficient vs. hosts on Advertising Companies Accused of Deliberately Slowing Page-load Times For Profit · · Score: 1

    APK, has it ever occurred to you that this repeated posting of the same copy/paste is actually worse than many ads? You are as bad as the pop over ads, and almost as bad as an autoplay video. No one cares how good you think your software is. ABP works, ublock works, your shit just annoys the hell out of people. We are all technical people, if we find the need to run a monolithic hosts file, we will find yours with Google. Constantly spamming your unblockable ad just irritates people and makes them want to blacklist your hosts file instead.

    You are worse than many ads, does your hosts file block your persistent ads?

  8. Re:Everybody List What You Think Went Wrong on DHI Group Inc. Announces Plans to Sell Slashdot Media · · Score: 1

    Slander and harassment to get your point across, but still no links, no fact. Keep defending that lie to the very end.

    The Gamergate philosophy is nothing but ethics in game journalism. A journalist admitting to sleeping with the subject of his article is unethical. You may think it never happened, but the information is out there if you would stop being persistent in your incorrect views.

    So if you view that tolerating harassment overshadows the legitimate concerns, why do you keep being on the side of these women who harass and dox others? Why do you support these women who spout racism, sexism, and hate while claiming they are being harassed?

  9. Re:Everybody List What You Think Went Wrong on DHI Group Inc. Announces Plans to Sell Slashdot Media · · Score: 1

    Proof? Or are you just going to slander a group of people yet again?

    The story of the developer sleeping with the journalist came out as true, who's slanted now? Where is your proof of the falsehood of the statement? After all the journalist is in the by line of the article and came out and admitted to both facts, but I guess you just care about the poor female developer that was sleeping around.

    The anti GG side uses the excuse of mythical misogynistic statements to harass people, so how are they any better in your eyes?

    Trying to say Gamergate is not about ethics in journalism is pretty stupid as that is the only stance they have taken. Sleeping with the subject of an article you are writing is against ethics, therefore it is all about ethics to call it out. You may THINK that it didn't happen, but the proof is out there when you take your blinders off. Considering that Gamergate was able to get many game review sites to improve their ethics statements, it looks like they won the fight. Stupid people trying to claim it is all about sexism without any kind of proof is pretty sad. You need to go out and read all the info there and stop being so damn biased and blinded by your side of the fight.

  10. Re:Everybody List What You Think Went Wrong on DHI Group Inc. Announces Plans to Sell Slashdot Media · · Score: 1

    It was suppressed for like a week, just because they finally posted the stories doesn't indicate that it was not suppressed.

  11. Re:Translation on Two Years Later, White House Responds To 'Pardon Edward Snowden' Petition · · Score: 1

    I think your tin foil hat is getting a little tight, you may want to adjust it.

    If you claim conspiracy over anything they publish, is there anything you would believe?

    If you are so quick to doubt the government, why do you so implicently trust Snowden's word on it when he has never given you any reason to believe he is honest. He did after all break an Oath/NDA, which is pretty dishonest.

  12. Re:Jury Nullification on Two Years Later, White House Responds To 'Pardon Edward Snowden' Petition · · Score: 1

    Does it change what I said and somehow make me a shill to have poor spelling?

    You didn't refute anything I said, and what I said is a matter of law, you can disagree with it if you like, but it doesn't make it not true.

  13. Re:Everybody List What You Think Went Wrong on DHI Group Inc. Announces Plans to Sell Slashdot Media · · Score: 0

    Oh? I haven't heard anything but complaints about ethics in game journalism by people in the GG group.

    Can you point to any example of something different? Or are you just trying to smear a group over something completely unrelated to the complaint they are voicing?

  14. Re:Translation on Two Years Later, White House Responds To 'Pardon Edward Snowden' Petition · · Score: 1

    Read it, the email is in the middle of the page. I am not sure where what the NSA released is published, as it was in response to a FOIA request for the emails that Snowden was talking about.

  15. Re:Got e-mail this morning from mail.whitehouse.go on Two Years Later, White House Responds To 'Pardon Edward Snowden' Petition · · Score: 1

    The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects,[a] against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

    What about the warrant portion do you not understand?

  16. Re:Yeah, be a man! on Two Years Later, White House Responds To 'Pardon Edward Snowden' Petition · · Score: 0

    He committed treason/espionage which carries the death penalty in certain circumstances. What don't you get about that?

  17. Re:Everybody List What You Think Went Wrong on DHI Group Inc. Announces Plans to Sell Slashdot Media · · Score: 2

    http://www.wired.com/2014/11/a...

    How is fighting this anything to do with the sex of anyone involved?

    Trying to cast people as misogynistic in order to cast doubt on their position is pretty crappy. What did he say that had anything to do with misogyny? Did you dislike that he tried to respond to all the stories about women in tech that have been studied over and over and found that women don't go into tech because they don't like it rather than anyone hurting their feelings?

    Do you work in tech? Do you work with women? Do you see them treated badly? If you can give examples, then there are things we can fight for, not just nebulously saying that women are discriminated against and that is why, without any proof.

    Why aren't there more men in nursing? Why aren't there more women in construction?

  18. Re:Everybody List What You Think Went Wrong on DHI Group Inc. Announces Plans to Sell Slashdot Media · · Score: 3, Informative

    http://www.wired.com/2014/11/a...

    Bad ethics in game journalism hurts the gamers. This isn't the only example, just a big one that happened recently. Ethical outlets would have released poor reviews that belonged being released in order for the games to get fixed, or allow people to not preorder a game that barely runs on high end hardware.

  19. Re:Everybody List What You Think Went Wrong on DHI Group Inc. Announces Plans to Sell Slashdot Media · · Score: 2

    The suppression of the malware on Sourceforge story?

  20. Re:Can the new buyer be worse than DICE? on DHI Group Inc. Announces Plans to Sell Slashdot Media · · Score: 1

    We could all contribute to a kickstarter or go fund me to buy Slashdot. How cool would it be if we all owned Slashdot.

  21. Re:Yeah, be a man! on Two Years Later, White House Responds To 'Pardon Edward Snowden' Petition · · Score: 1

    If you fire a gun in an unsafe manner, you can be charged with attempted murder, for what you "could have" done. You can also be charged with attempted murder for stabbing someone who actually survives. You could have done many things. Things you do can have many outcomes, and some things you do are illegal. In response to your exact example, if you are driving in an unsafe manner, it is called reckless endangerment, because you "could" have injured someone with your reckless driving.

    Yes, you can be charged for crimes over what could have happened. In any case, that wasn't what I was meaning by that. A reasonable person would see that some of what was released by Snowden could have led to people dying. People in Afghanistan, people in Iraq, people in war zones that are relying on intel collected by the TLAs and disseminated to the solders.

    This however is just a piece of it, no matter how you look at it, he would be charged with treason/espionage, because those are the laws he broke. He also broke a contract (Non Disclosure Agreement), which has pretty strict terms in it.

  22. Re:Got e-mail this morning from mail.whitehouse.go on Two Years Later, White House Responds To 'Pardon Edward Snowden' Petition · · Score: 1

    How does it disagree with the constitution? There are still warrants being sworn out by a court, just not one that is open to the public as the information is mostly classified.

    So, how is it contrary or superseding the constitution?

  23. Re:Translation on Two Years Later, White House Responds To 'Pardon Edward Snowden' Petition · · Score: 0

    Here is a link to an article about the email that Snowden sent:

    http://www.rt.com/usa/187484-n...

    If you think that is raising concerns, you don't get it.

  24. Re:Translation on Two Years Later, White House Responds To 'Pardon Edward Snowden' Petition · · Score: -1, Troll

    The only email that has come out was a request for clarification of a training video. What emails have you seen? The NSA published the emails right here:

    http://www.rt.com/usa/187484-n...

    Educate yourself before trying to call someone else a troll.

  25. Re:Translation on Two Years Later, White House Responds To 'Pardon Edward Snowden' Petition · · Score: 1

    Links? The only emails I have seen were him asking for a clarification of a training video.