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  1. Re:Fourth Path on Ask Slashdot: Going Beyond Comment Threads? · · Score: 1

    Trolls only. I've been trying to post on presstv.ir for a couple of years, but their moderators won't allow any sane or reasonable views to taint their pseudo-islamic purity.

  2. Re:Bandwidth on Netflix CEO Hesitant To Fight Cable · · Score: 1

    If Google rolled out a small fiber-to-the-curb network and charged a REASONABLE price they could expose the chicanery of our non-providers. It sickens me to see the monetary restriction of technology, particularly when we are in the midst of such a financial decline. I reckon our Fearless Leaders will help the monopolists keep us down until all of our third-world competitors have achieved parity, then they can control (bring down) wages with total impunity. I wouldn't say it's a conspiracy, but it's getting harder and harder to say it isn't.

  3. Coward on Netflix CEO Hesitant To Fight Cable · · Score: 1

    I guess maybe you're right, but if he did stand up and force the telecoms hand, it might expose a few more people to the truth of what's really going on.

  4. Re:Objectivity on DHS Wants Mozilla To Disable Mafiaafire Plugin, Mozilla Resists · · Score: 1

    Sorry about that, I'm only personally familiar with three acknowledged Tea Party advocates, and they are (big-time) reactionary assholes, IMHO. They are also big fans of "Michael Savage" and Rush Limbaugh, if those names mean anything to you. Otherwise, I'm just going by what I've seen on television, which has given me the impression that the other Tea Party supporters were also pretty much as ignorant. I suppose I should research their official position on things. I've read a couple books each by Rush Limbaugh, and "Michael Savage", respectively, and offhand I can't think of anything as painful that I can compare that to. Water-boarding? presstv.ir and foxnews.com are pretty brutal, but not quite in the same league. I may just be exhibiting my bias, as we each have our own perception of reality. I work pretty hard trying to keep my reality objective. I know I could be wrong, and these teabaggers I'm referring to won't admit that they could possibly be wrong; make of that what you will, but it tells me that they are not adept at critical thinking. I've hung out with some pretty liberal folks; most of them, e.g. Charlie Brown Artman, Mario Savio, & Steve Soliah* were what I'd call deep thinkers, though as a group I'd say an awful lot of liberals are about as ignorant as anyone- Judy Bari comes to mind, (that LOUD bitch could have had some deep thoughts but it was hard to discern), and all the brain-fried hippies you see when they get on television, so I reckon maybe my source could be tainted. Do you identify with the Tea Party people that have been shown on TV? or is that a misrepresentation? Am I missing something? BTW, I disagree pretty totally with the platforms of both major parties, as well. I'd identify myself more as a classic liberal, think Friedrich Hayek maybe. I suppose I need to put up a website of my own to expose my ideas to some mass criticism, rather than clogging up /. with offtopic shite.

    *We never really talked about that SLA thing, I think he developed more wisdom since those days.

  5. Re:A reasonable stance on DHS Wants Mozilla To Disable Mafiaafire Plugin, Mozilla Resists · · Score: 1

    A revolt in favor of democracy was violently put down here in the '70s. Some superficial concessions were made, but cooler heads have prevailed and our Fearless Leaders have consolidated their power to the point where the majority are now feeling the pinch. It's very complex, but if you actually think free enterprise is working then I can't help you anyway. I don't have the answer but at least I realize we ain't there yet, and we're going the wrong way.

  6. Voting != Democracy on DHS Wants Mozilla To Disable Mafiaafire Plugin, Mozilla Resists · · Score: 1

    We could vote out Tweedledee and elect Tweedledum, it's pretty irrelevant, although I still advocate voting in every election just as if it were important. (I should have gone to Vegas back in the '80s and bet against my slate, as my record was 100% contrary to who won, now I guess the fix is in as it's not QUITE so consistent.) In the olden days, when I was a kid, it seemed normal to watch the evening news and hear about peaceful protesters being gunned down and/or arrested. We used to hear the score in Vietnam like it was a sporting event, I notice we don't ever hear how many "insurgents" (or bystanders) we are slaughtering in other people's countries any more, only about our own righteous warriors who are being murdered by those sneaky cowards. Other than that nothing much has changed in my lifetime, so don't tell me it won't happen again. Democracy is only legal here because the candidates, courts, and television stations are owned by the "right people".
    You just think you're being ironic, the irony is how correct you are.

  7. Re:Yeah right on DHS Wants Mozilla To Disable Mafiaafire Plugin, Mozilla Resists · · Score: 1

    All the bullet-headed teabaggers I know are pretty down on the ACLU, as well. And they REALLY want to end tort law protection, or pretty much any legal help for anyone that can't pay cash for it. (No one ever gets arrested unless they were doing something wrong; It's true! Ah seen it on teevee!)

  8. Re:Ruling Class on DHS Wants Mozilla To Disable Mafiaafire Plugin, Mozilla Resists · · Score: 2

    Once you own a few senators, or a television network, maybe if you sit on the Federal Reserve Board, then I'd consider you "wealthy ruling class".

  9. Re:A reasonable stance on DHS Wants Mozilla To Disable Mafiaafire Plugin, Mozilla Resists · · Score: 1

    Which either makes me a handsome rebel or a completely irrelevant misanthrope.

    I used to be a handsome rebel, then I finally realized that The People are stupid and unworthy; Now I am in fact a completely irrelevant misanthrope, I realized it after Peter Tork pointed out that I was a cynic. I was quite happy-go-lucky as a kid.

  10. Re:A reasonable stance on DHS Wants Mozilla To Disable Mafiaafire Plugin, Mozilla Resists · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Homeland Security is just practicing their shutdown technology so that they can control the flow of information, in case the "Arab Spring" spreads to the United States.

  11. Re:Designerware on Aaron Computer Rental Firm Spies On Users · · Score: 1

    There's very good quality vinyl available if you pay good money. The crap you're talking about is plastic-coated cardboard.

  12. Re:that just makes us look bad on Aaron Computer Rental Firm Spies On Users · · Score: 1

    According to the product website, the PC should have locked down with a nagscreen to call Aaron's. None of this shit makes sense now. I'm going to check back on google tomorrow, maybe some new facts will emerge.

  13. Greetings AC! on Aaron Computer Rental Firm Spies On Users · · Score: 1

    Are you still around? On the PC Rental Agent site they don't mention the enhanced spying that you say comes with that product. Is it one package or have you got a custom build? Just askin'.

  14. Re:kinda funny... on Aaron Computer Rental Firm Spies On Users · · Score: 1

    TFA mentions DesignerWare LLC and their product PC Rental Agent, which seems to be for remote disabling a rental PC. It doesn't mention their ShowMyPc product which sounds more like what was being operated here. Very misleading. I suspect that AP's Joe Mandak is passing along a dose of confusion here, and the wand is some hocus-pocus invented by the jackass that let the cat out of the bag in the first place.

  15. Re:TFA on Aaron Computer Rental Firm Spies On Users · · Score: 1

    Congratulations, I was beginning to think I was in an alternate universe since nobody else was noticing this. Maybe we're missing something, or TFA is wrong about the facts. Maybe they're suing the wrong party? DesignerWare LLC has something called ShowMyPc that might actually be the enhanced spyware that was egregiously installed, but TFA doesn't mention it at all. Bueller?... Bueller?

  16. Re:Usury on Aaron Computer Rental Firm Spies On Users · · Score: 1

    This is why we're waging a war on Islam, because Sharia Law proscribes it. It's in Leviticus, BTW, so any good follower of Mosaic Law would shun it. Why do you think we're called "The Great Satan"?

  17. Re:Whoops on Aaron Computer Rental Firm Spies On Users · · Score: 1

    This is why I use an old-old cellphone that doesn't have a camera. BTW when I RTFA, then googled pcrentalagent and DesignerWare LLC, &c. I still couldn't find any information about the enhanced spyware. pcrentalagent just seems to be a remote disabling tool for deadbeat "skips" who quit paying. What am I missing here?

  18. Accretion on Ask Slashdot: How Do You File Paper Documents At Home? · · Score: 1

    If you scoop them into boxes every few months or so, you can stack those up in the garage. It's safer if there's a fire because you're less likely to get trapped. Also I remember in the Northridge Earthquake, some guy got killed by his falling boxes. Safety first!

  19. Re:Charlotte? on Murder Trial May Turn On Missing Router · · Score: 1

    When they found in out in '75 that we'd moved down the road and over the Cabarrus County line, we got the boot from Independence H.S. in Charlotte. My uncle and I went to enroll at the county H.S. but after we up and met the junior cast from Deliverance, {My, my... looks like a couple o' hip-ees} we decided it was better to live through our youth so we stayed home.

  20. Re:F.I.B. on Murder Trial May Turn On Missing Router · · Score: 1

    Being a Federal Judge who's experienced with F.B.I. testimony, I'd guess he knew their M.O., and might have felt insulted that they were trying to pull that shit again. My brother testified at a bank robbery trial once, (long story) and had the audacity to refute some lazy-ass F.B.I. perjury, the D.A. said to the jury "are you going to believe this guy or a sworn officer of the law?" notwithstanding the discharge papers that showed his induction date (in San Francisco) on the day they said he was in Charlotte. The suit and tie goes a long way towards manufacturing credibility.

  21. Re:OJ is hot on the trail buddy! on Murder Trial May Turn On Missing Router · · Score: 1

    Do the felons get to play golf in Lovelock? I know they only have two laws in Nevada, but last I heard they still enforced the hell out of them.

  22. A duck! on Murder Trial May Turn On Missing Router · · Score: 2

    Is the jury gonna believe the Upstanding Officers Of The Law or the Lying Perpetrator? Prejudice and procedure trump the facts, in most cases.
    Aside from that, the husband/boyfriend is almost always factually guilty, so the Police start from there and don't try too hard to look anywhere else.

  23. Reasonable Doubt on Murder Trial May Turn On Missing Router · · Score: 2

    Sounds like some iron-clad conjecture.
    He'll fry.

  24. A duck! on Chinese Intellectual Property Acquisition Tactics Exposed · · Score: 1

    The Ames brothers stole their technology from the English, but then they innovated. That's what put the colonies on the map, so to speak.

  25. Re:Savvy business dealings on Chinese Intellectual Property Acquisition Tactics Exposed · · Score: 1

    I have been blabbing my ill-informed opinion that the Chinese were the only real threat to the U.S. since the early '70s. I'm not particularly nationalistic or xenophobic, but I've always dreaded the efficiencies of the upcoming Chinese global hegemony. I've seen our multi-national overlords using the threat (and execution) of military action to extract bonus tax dollars from us as the dominant modus operandi in my lifetime. When we resume active hostilities on the Korean Peninsula, I'll be reminding my friends how I advised all since the '80s to start learning Mandarin. As far as totalitarianism, we are working towards that also in the U.S. thanks to our various "War on Poverty", "War on Drugs", "War on Terror", and similar programs.