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  1. Re:Sauce for the goose ... on France Claims Right To Censor Search Results Globally · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Indeed. The hypocrisy in this thread is unfortunately not surprising.

  2. Re:bullshit on How Much JavaScript Do You Need To Know For an Entry-Level Job? · · Score: 1

    You're still thinking in classic OO and applying that to JavaScript. JavaScript doesn't have inheritance. It has delegation.

    Forcing it to look and feel like a class based language is the idotic part. Yet somehow it is the language's fault that it is subsequently slow and inefficient due to the hoops it is forced to jump through.

  3. Re:bullshit on How Much JavaScript Do You Need To Know For an Entry-Level Job? · · Score: 1

    If they'd known what they were doing they'd have left all that silly class based inheritance to other languages that support it. Instead, they whined so much about how it didn't work "properly" that we've got syntactic sugar to keep the fucking idiots happy.

  4. Re:Yes, but can it launch Waze on Siri, Cortana and Google Have Nothing On SoundHound's Speech Recognition · · Score: 3, Funny

    Yeah, we're called British.

  5. Re:VPNs and proxies on High Court Orders UK ISPs To Block EBook Sites · · Score: 1

    Nope. My DNS is set to OpenDNS. I can then get to TPB. If I use BT DNS I get "domain blocked" redirection.

  6. Re:More than 120 domains are currently blocked on High Court Orders UK ISPs To Block EBook Sites · · Score: 1

    Yes, for sites like TPB and the ones listed in TFA. Others, like child porn sites, are subject to DPI.

  7. Re:VPNs and proxies on High Court Orders UK ISPs To Block EBook Sites · · Score: 2

    BT don't (and I don't think Virgin do either). They just alter their DNS records to point to a different server.

    UK users would be better off using the OpenDNS servers than Velocity's.

  8. Re:Yes to Brexit on Bank of England Accidentally E-mails Top-Secret "Brexit" Plan To the Guardian · · Score: 1

    So only one country is allowed to do that (Italy)? Two is obviously too many...

  9. Re:Yes to Brexit on Bank of England Accidentally E-mails Top-Secret "Brexit" Plan To the Guardian · · Score: 2

    If by "not in the Euro zone" you mean "doesn't have the euro as currency" then you're right. But neither does Poland. They are both in the EEA, though.

  10. Re:Firefox becomes Netscape on Ads Based On Browsing History Are Coming To All Firefox Users · · Score: 1

    Are you sure it won't keep collecting the data? All you are doing is saying you don't want the tiles to display, after all...

  11. Well, duh on Factory Reset On Millions of Android Devices Doesn't Wipe Storage · · Score: 1

    That's why products like Cerberus can tell you where the scumbag who nicked your phone is, even if said scumbag deletes apps and data via factory reset.

  12. Re:It's an accidentally-on-purpose. on Australian Law Could Criminalize the Teaching of Encryption · · Score: 1

    Such is the way the world is changing. See also "innocent until proven guilty" (instead of "unless"), copyright infringement === theft and copyright infringement of electronic media === piracy (or, alternatively, espionage / terrorism, depending on what they think will stick).

  13. Re:Sudafed on Genetically Engineered Yeast Makes It Possible To Brew Morphine · · Score: 1

    Fun fact: what some US dictionary states is of no interest to those from the country the word originated. And we spell it with the "extra" letter

  14. Re:Great News on European Telecoms May Block Mobile Ads, Spelling Trouble For Google · · Score: 3, Informative

    Use classic mode, just like I have for years. I also tick the box that disables ads.

  15. Re:Top Publishers To Post News Stories Directly To on Top Publishers To Post News Stories Directly To Facebook Timelines · · Score: 1

    There are no pictures of me on the internet. Lucky me for being so fugly, I guess.

  16. Re:We need a fucking $50 fine for default logins on Anonymous Accused of Running a Botnet Using Thousands of Hacked Home Routers · · Score: 2

    A bit like hiding SSID. Pointless, and tends to annoy valid users more than malicious outsiders.

  17. Re:Don't Take My Shit on Photobucket Hackers Nabbed, Face Serious Charges From US Authorities · · Score: 1

    Put your shit on a publicly accessible site? Fuck you if you have a problem with people accessing it.

    The web doesn't belong to you. The server your shit is on doesn't belong to you. If you don't want personal stuff being publicly accessible don't have it somewhere that enables that.

    Fuck off with your "mine" schoolyard bullshit. You're like the tossers who think Twitter is a private chatroom with invites for participation who have the nerve to get annoyed that their conversations can be interrupted by anybody with an account.

  18. Re:"Hacking" goes a little far here.. on Photobucket Hackers Nabbed, Face Serious Charges From US Authorities · · Score: 1

    Cars are public? Didn't think so.

    Even if someone else popped the trunk, the car is still private. And this still has nothing to do with accessing a public URL.

  19. Re:Same amount you get for your lax home security on Photobucket Hackers Nabbed, Face Serious Charges From US Authorities · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Your home is by default private. The web is by default public. The assumption that a public page is private just because it has your name on it is risible.

  20. Re:"Hacking" goes a little far here.. on Photobucket Hackers Nabbed, Face Serious Charges From US Authorities · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Enough with this shit about "trespass". Property laws ate irrelevant. If a page is publicly available then it is public. If it isn't meant to be public then the onus is on the provider to make it private as in contrast to your house, the web is default public by design.

  21. Re:That why there are elections on Canadian Town Outlaws Online Insults To Police and Officials · · Score: 2

    No one counts spoiled ballot papers, which is what altering does. If the choices are Idiot A (no) or Idiot B (also no) then spoiling the ballot paper just wasted your time so you may as well have not bothered to travel to the polling station in the first place.

    This is what those "if you don't vote how can you expect to have a say" retards don't understand. There's no "None of the above" box that you can choose. Being forced to pick from undesirable choices isn't having your say. It's "you have a choice of this dick or this dick and fuck you if you don't like it"

  22. Re:Here we go again on Canadian Town Outlaws Online Insults To Police and Officials · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If you think you're a Good Cop but don't do anything about the Bad Cops then you're a Bad Cop.

  23. Re:At the same time on Single Verizon IP Address Used For Hundreds of Windows 7 Activations · · Score: 0

    GEM wasn't that great (it was pig awful, but better then Windows at the time). I got fed up with it and wrote my own GUI that ran at full EGA resolution in Turbo Pascal.

  24. Re:Dressed for success? on Actress Grace Lee Whitney, Star Trek's Yeoman Janice Rand, Has Died · · Score: 1

    She had the Protection of Kirk by being his favourite yeoman, so although she was a minor character who wore red she was never in any real danger.

  25. Re:Assumptions on Hacking the US Prescription System · · Score: 2

    That, plus we have data protection laws that prevent patients from being identified by the companies that make the prescription drugs. For sure there are reports that state how many use drug X, but that's aggregated data.