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  1. An eye for an eye will make the world blind.

  2. I'm all in favor of harassing traveling US officials, but why do that to ordinary people?

  3. Re:Goodbye Tourism Money on 'Extreme Vetting' Would Require Visitors To US To Share Contacts, Passwords (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    he sets up microsoft training conferences all over the world

    Is that allowed by the Sikh religion?
    I thought Sikhism was about "kirat karo", honest work...

  4. Re:Mint on Ask Slashdot: What's The Easiest Linux Distro For A Newbie? · · Score: 1

    True. Better try a Mint LiveCD or LiveUSB before making a decision.

  5. Re:Who will care? on US Congress Votes To Shred ISP Privacy Rules (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    NoScript+RequestPolicy+Disconnect makes one quite difficult to track...
    And what are these "ads" you're talking about? Does it have something to do with adblock?

  6. Well, though dominatrixes may be their own sort of evil (remember Matrix III ?), the female equivalent of a Gorean would be a gynarchist, and yes some of these are reaaaally a problem for those they prey upon.
    Doesn't mean that private life shouldn't stay private nor that such Spanish Inquisition would be expected from an open-source project as respected as Drupal, obviously.

  7. Re:We need communism now! on Comcast Launches New 24/7 Workplace Surveillance Service (philly.com) · · Score: 1

    They did in some part of Russia before the Civil War got too horrendous...

  8. Re:I don't have any you insensitive clod! on US Ordered 'Mandatory Social Media Check' For Visa Applicants Who Visited ISIS Territory (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    What will happen is that good, honest, well-intentioned people will, as always, be the ones that lose out;

    What makes you think that's not the goal?

  9. And if someone invents field-generator shields we can even start having swordfights again!

  10. Simple solution on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Best Protect Client Files From Wireless Hacking? · · Score: 1

    1 - Format PC disk

    2 - Install real OS

  11. Re:Morons are running the USA on US Federal Budget Proposal Cuts Science Funding (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes, because obviously all the non-Trump people - from Kennedy to Obama - clearly funded quality public education for everyone, and that's why every american has learned critical thinking at school and college. So now every american is perfectly able to find the truth amongst the tons of political propaganda coming from everywhere; and the people voting for Trump did it through sheer meanness and out of desire of being stripped of their healthcare!

  12. Re:Leftist regulation run amok. on 20,000 Worldclass University Lectures Made Illegal, So We Irrevocably Mirrored Them (lbry.io) · · Score: 1

    I think that compared to Bannon and Sessions, Bush is pretty far to the left...

  13. Well, we can hope that Slashdot never give you mod points, since you lie shamelessly: Berkeley students organized peaceful protest against professional troll, which one may or may not think is a good thing, but certainly is their right.
    Then during this protest external and masked people came and did violent acts, which again one may consider justified or unjustified, but certainly cannot be blamed at Berkeley U which had nothing to do with that.

  14. Maybe instead of making music, Beyonce should first be working on ensuring that medical breakthroughs cure deafness so *everyone* can enjoy her music, and not just those who can hear. .

    Oh my god, such a good idea!
    Will you file the lawsuit for that? You would be mankind's savior!
    And please add Lady Gaga, Justin Bieber, Rihanna and the likes of them to the list...

  15. Re:Focus on a few key things on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Make Novice Programmers More Professional? · · Score: 1

    How come that you can commandeer their free time?

  16. Re:Does DuckDuckGo have something similar? on Google Tells Army of 'Quality Raters' To Flag Holocaust Denial (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    No it isn't, and no it wouldn't.
    And yes many jews and gypsies and others would have most certainly much, much, much preferred that Hitler ask them to refer themselves as "german semites" than murdering them and their families - I don't even understand why this needs an explanation.
    Nor how one would not understand that there is a huuuuge gap between "not ok" and "genocide".

  17. Re:Does DuckDuckGo have something similar? on Google Tells Army of 'Quality Raters' To Flag Holocaust Denial (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Palestinian holocaust?
    Even the fiercest of the Palestinian nationalists do not pretend there is/was Palestinian holocaust nor genocide (I mean, obviously you could find a crazy nut somewhere, that's not what we are talking about here)...
    All massacres or war crime does not equal genocide!

  18. Re:PasswordSafe on Ask Slashdot: Should You Use Password Managers? · · Score: 1

    OK, thanks.
    Your Dropbox account needs a password, doesn't it?
    How do you manage this one?

  19. Re:If you don't trust Intel you are kinda screwed on Intel Security Releases Detection Tool For EFI Rootkits After CIA Leak (pcworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, they do have a backdoor: IME/AMT...

  20. Re:PasswordSafe on Ask Slashdot: Should You Use Password Managers? · · Score: 1

    Nice, how do you protect from disk failure/stolen phone?
    I don't use any password manager because I don't want to be locked out of all my accounts if I lose the manager config file (if that's how it works, I don't even know), don't know if I can access my accounts from other computers, and because too I don't know which one to use and don't know whether different managers are compatible (i.e, if I start with one and decide to change, will it be easy to do so?)...

  21. Re: Rank reputable sources on Google's Featured Snippets Are Worse Than Fake News (theoutline.com) · · Score: 1

    Better definition of an expert: someone whose knowledge authorizez him to judge what he doesn't know.

  22. Do they need physical access to activate these vulnerabilities, or are all linuxes vulnerable to attacks from the network? That would certainly be a point of concern...

  23. Re:Endorse the ethics of software freedom on WikiLeaks CIA Files: The 6 Biggest Spying Secrets Revealed By the Release of 'Vault 7' (independent.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    You certainly are right about all this, but it's difficult to make that point if Linux too is vulnerable to CIA exploits...
    Wouldn't the first step to make sure that these exploits are fixed on GNU/Linux before making the point about Free Software?

  24. The Catholic Church relied on the Psychological Industry to reform their bad priests. The psychologists collected three figures per hour and the priests still did their nonsense.

    Psychology = pseudoscience when it comes to this. There is no cure for pedophilia and no treatment that is effective.

    Behavioral Psychology = pseudoscience when it comes to this. Behavioral Psychology is no cure for pedophilia and not a treatment that is effective.

    FTFY

  25. Re:Now we know where the moral compass is pointing on FBI Dismisses Child Porn Case Rather Than Reveal Their Tor Browser Exploit (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I saw the footage, and it"s not mocking comment: it's people who just killed children who then try to rationalize their act.

    And as I wrote on an earlier slashdot post, I certainly consider that the people who decided that it was OK to police a city with missile-armed helicopters (after illegally invading a country) should be brought to an international trial, the soldier who appear on the video just did their job (they did ONE mistake - I mean apart than enlisting in the US Army to wage an illegal war - indeed, but a mistake that many psychological studies established people will routinely make).
    "Just doing their job" is not a valid excuse for killing children, I concur, but they should not be portrayed as monsters (apart, again, for accepting to police a city with missiles in a country they invaded illegally).