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  1. Re: Dawn of a new round of space race on Space Updates From Three Countries (indiatimes.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    First off, experiencing homelessness at some point in ones lifetime != habitually shitting where you live.
    Secondly, the homeless in the USA generally use public accessible facilities connected a functional sewer system. In India, even people with homes just dump it out the window.

    That said, I'm not one of those who says "people need to take care of social ill X before spending any money on space.

  2. Re:They were Johns charged as pimps on Amazon and Microsoft Directors Charged in Prostitution Sting (kiro7.com) · · Score: 1

    Again, your poor communication skills are not my problem, Either qualify your statements better or accept the consequences of making blanket statements.

  3. Re:They were Johns charged as pimps on Amazon and Microsoft Directors Charged in Prostitution Sting (kiro7.com) · · Score: 1

    In, essence, yes you did. I posited that some may have known they would be prostitutes and you countered with knowing beforehand != being forced after as if this was the case for all. Either qualify your statements better or accept the consequences of making blanket statements. Your poor communication skills are not my problem.

  4. Re:They were Johns charged as pimps on Amazon and Microsoft Directors Charged in Prostitution Sting (kiro7.com) · · Score: 1

    So you *know* that *none* of these women knowingly engaged themselves to prostitution and immigration to the US? I've travelled to a number of countries where some were desperate to emigrate to the 1st world whatever the cost. I'm not claiming that this is the case for all or a majority knew what they were getting into.

  5. You're correct. France just adopted the swedish model recently.

  6. Re:They were Johns charged as pimps on Amazon and Microsoft Directors Charged in Prostitution Sting (kiro7.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    And if they voluntarily put themselves into the pimp's debt in order to emigrate to the US, that makes them what exactly?

    Personally I've begun to wonder if the war on sex workers is just as lost as the war on Drugs & whether legalising and regulating is not a better approach.

  7. "I don't report vulnerabilities anymore" on Attacker Compromises Pornhub, Sells Shell Access for $1,000, Says Columnist (csoonline.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    "I don't report vulnerabilities anymore, go underground or go home."

    Here's hoping I see a future /. story titled "PornHub Hacker arraigned today". I don't give a rat's ass that it's Pornhub, the sentiment that this guy has deserves the consequences in anti-hacking laws.

  8. Re:Very Interesting Legally Speaking on Hidden FBI Microphones Exposed In California (cbslocal.com) · · Score: 1

    Oh, look! An adult posting on slashdot!

    Clearly, the opinions of a defense attorney are not to be taken as established law as TFA attempts to do. We're clearly in a gray area here that will only be defined as lawful/unlawful in a decade or two when a case makes it up to the USSC. Or who knows, congress may actually come out with a law giving clear guidance... Yeah, I know, I jest, I jest...

  9. Re:No one on call in France? on France's After Work Email Ban Is 1 Step Closer To Reality (huffingtonpost.ca) · · Score: 1

    No you don't. People like me are on call to get woken up in the middle of the night to fix it.

  10. Re:I like doing this at 1 am. on France's After Work Email Ban Is 1 Step Closer To Reality (huffingtonpost.ca) · · Score: 1

    Someone in the current socialist government who has never worked a day their lives in a market economy sees too many people out of work, deems that it is the fault of people working too long hours, dreams up a way to stop it and feels justified that this level of micro management is justified and will work without any pernicious side effects.

    It's the French mindset. In the US, when there is a social problem, people say "WE have to do something". In France, faced with the same problem, people say "The government has to do something".

    The lack of personal responsibility in the mindset means that even when it blows up in their faces, they'll feel no personal responsibility.

  11. Re:Simply penalize the company on France's After Work Email Ban Is 1 Step Closer To Reality (huffingtonpost.ca) · · Score: 1

    I know of no other country where the left claims to protect "all workers rights to have a weekend family life" justifying:
    - Unions forcing electricity to be turned off in offices after working hours (though Dell was happy to replace all the workstations with portables)
    - forcing the closure of stores on Sundays where every single worker was a volunteer getting paid twice the normal rate (and putting some of them out out of work)
    - this new harebrained email idea from politicians who have never worked a single day of their lives in their lives in a competitive market.

    And yet some people (including me) are still forced to work on weekends (Police, Transport, Health care, gas pumps, etc). Egalité my ass, it's "My cushy job is protected because I have the power stop every one else from working" so _YOU_ have to work while _I_ take Sunday off.

  12. Re:Let's collect terrible puns on Obama To Become First US President To Visit Hiroshima Since 1945 Nuclear Attack (independent.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Oh bullshit, you lying AC POS.

    The Russians starved their prisoners and hundreds of thousands did indeed disappear, never to go home, but the Germans interned as POWs are well accounted for. That many never went back to Germany is because so many chose (and were allowed) to stay in the USA/Canada. The fathers of two of the guys I went to school with way back when were former german POWs.

  13. The Turks say: What Armenian site? That doesn't exist as only Turks have ever lived in the boundaries of modern Turkey.

  14. You're still using hindsight to use modern values to judge when you're picking out minority opinions as correct when they were not at all guaranteed to become so at the time these men were alive. You yourself, while certainly believing yourself to be morally superior to men in history do not hold the values that will predominate in the future. Using your yardstick, lacking in context as I have been saying would be judged poorly in a few decades.

    Mahatma Gandi's are vanishingly rare that can escape from being poorly judged by your yardstick and it is thus of little use when judging the actions of most men.

  15. Re:Cue the millenials... on Obama To Become First US President To Visit Hiroshima Since 1945 Nuclear Attack (independent.co.uk) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    So, no respect for Jefferson or any of the other founding fathers that were slave owners or benefitted from it?

    Attempting to judge a man by modern mores isn't the brightest idea and you need to learn & understand his historical context before judging him.

  16. The Axis' offers to cease hostilities & or surrender on their own terms were irrelevant. The lesson learned from WWI was that a negotiated surrender only meant that they would initiate another WW in a generation and an unconditional surrender was the only way of preventing it.

    People talk about the trauma of 2 nukes yet completely forget that of two successive world wars and the generations killed and mutilated.

  17. Re:Simple question on Aging and Bloated OpenSSL Is Purged of 2 High-Severity Bugs (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Many != all.

  18. How many of those 120k lines were lopped off when LibreSSL purged all the "deemed obsolescent" platforms that would never appear in binaries for LibreSSL's "useful" platforms? 90%? 95%?

    I'm not opposed to replacing OpenSSL with LibreSSL, but the "OpenSSL is dead, everyone must move to LibreSSL" story that some are telling is false. OpenSSL started got a big shot of money & now has the ressources to audit their code, finding bugs like this one. Compare todays LibreSSL to todays OpenSSL, not the OpenSSL from 3 years ago.

  19. Re:Simple question on Aging and Bloated OpenSSL Is Purged of 2 High-Severity Bugs (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    Add to those reasons the knowledge that the "better alternative" had the same undiscovered bugs and that OpenSSL found them first.

  20. Not disagreeing but If you look into the history of vibrators, they were plugged in versions sold to doctors & used for treating hysteresis in women by "artificially provoking a crisis". Yup, back then women could go see the family doctor to get off if hubby didn't have a clue.

  21. She said it's the Vibrator...

  22. Re:California and Oceania on Flexible Floating Football-Field Sized Solar Panels (digitaltrends.com) · · Score: 2

    Open water desalination plants would avoid a two major blocking points that no-one has mentioned up to now:
    - Land based plants in the South Pacific are difficult because they have very little unoccupied horizontal land.
    - Placing the plants near shore would kill the already fragile coral reefs.

  23. Federal intervention at the level you're asking for almost never happens. Only when the excesses on an industry become so flagrantly abusive to the general population does it happen: Standard Oil, AT&T, etc. I agree that the ISP/Content consortiums in the USA are "bad" for customers (quite literally), but not that they have delved far enough that there is anywhere near the public (and political) support necessary to make such an intervention possible.

    So, absent the radical breakup, consumers should support Tom Wheeler's whacks on Comcast et al to eliminate cable box rental fees by making content available over a well defined API subject to competition.

  24. What, so overly complex abortions designed by committee (to fail) like cablecard are the only possible solution to cable access in your opinion? Nothing else can exist?!? Geez, people like you really deserve to continue paying through the nose for cable.

    Comcast has already delivered access to content using Samsung "smart" tv's without any cable box, they need merely document the interfaces that they require and come up with a validation suite so that you can all drop your expensive "rental" boxes.

    I'm fortunate that where I live, I get my tv over a fiber box that is a fixed, relatively inexpensive one time fee & that my ISP published APIs to access content years ago so that I can watch "TV" on just about any device I want, from smartphones to tablets to computers.

  25. Re:Reliability and charging on Intel Wants To Eliminate The Headphone Jack And Replace It With USB-C (9to5mac.com) · · Score: 1

    I assume that the USB consortium continues to design ports with theses fragile central posts because no patent unencombered way is available. Clearly, Lightning is a superiour physical design.