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  1. Re:Devils advocate ? on Facebook Nudity Policy Draws Nursing Moms' Ire · · Score: 1

    I don't know of any condition that makes fresh breast milk a dietary requirement for a grownup. I have also never seen a 3-year-old being breast-fed. These are not real issues that anyone has to deal with as far as I know. In any case, it would not be up to me to set an age limit on how strangers nurse their offspring. I think there is both moralism and sexual neuroticism at play here, and we need to rise above that.

  2. Re:Devils advocate ? on Facebook Nudity Policy Draws Nursing Moms' Ire · · Score: 1

    How about we decide it out of basic necessity? Babies have to eat like everyone else, and if I'm allowed to eat in a park, so should a baby. On the other hand, most adults can survive without licking people's butts.

  3. Re:But WHY? on Facebook Nudity Policy Draws Nursing Moms' Ire · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Babies have to eat. You don't have to look at it. If someone is actually forcing you to, you should go to the police.

  4. Re:Not on The Slippery Legal Slope of Cartoon Porn · · Score: 1

    Is asking yourself questions and then answering them a lame trick? Yes, it is.

  5. Re:Censorship exists in the US also on UK Culture Secretary Wants Website Ratings, Censorship · · Score: 1

    Censorship is also becoming America's favorite past-time.

    Hyperbole much? I think baseball is still a more popular pastime than censorship in America.

  6. Re:Usable and monitored on Nation-Wide Internet Censorship Proposed For Australia · · Score: 1

    That guy didn't use Tor. He used a regular 1-hop commercially-driven web proxy service. Such ones are easily traceable because it only takes the cooperation of the proxy company.

    That said, I agree that if you do crime, you should be prepared to do time.

  7. Re:Usable and monitored on Nation-Wide Internet Censorship Proposed For Australia · · Score: 1

    The purpose of all the P2P systems he mentioned (Freenet, Tor, I2P) is anonymity. They can't arrest you if they don't know about you.

  8. Re:Worst Pickup Line Ever on Geneticist Claims Human Evolution Is Over · · Score: 1

    And you'd have to follow up with "You think I'm 'intellectually dishonest'? Why, those are mighty big words for a twelve-year-old."

  9. Re:Oh Jeez on After 3 Years, Rockbox 3.0 Released · · Score: 1

    As a podcast listener, I feel your pain. I am clinging to my three-year-old Creative MuVo 256MB for dear life. It's not great, and the capacity sucks, but it seems like everything else on the market these days is useless. I need a decent display, good Linux support (read: mass-storage support), I need to be able to easily pause, skip, and forward/back without taking it out of my pocket (meaning: keys must feel distinct and be easy to locate blindly), and since I delete each show after listening to it, deleting must be painless as well.

    I only dream of bookmarking support. Man, that would be great.

    Sigh.

  10. Re:Too many domains on RIAA and MPAA Developing Domain-Based DRM · · Score: 1

    Wikipedia lists 34 concepts which applies the word "Domain". It's a very generic word and not a new one, either. Live with it.

  11. Re:hehe. on The London Stock Exchange Goes Down For Whole Day · · Score: 1

    Yes. They do exhibit traits.

  12. Re:Inventor? on MySQL Founder Monty Quits Sun (Or Not) · · Score: 2, Interesting

    How is Linus any more of an inventor? He coded an operating system. Just because it's more work doesn't make it more of an invention. The "inventor" title should be reserved for people who come up with novel solutions of a new category.

  13. Re:Not just the original person but all friends. on The Electronic Bastille · · Score: 1

    Straight people in good health are never worried. Duh.

  14. Re:New JavaScript virtual machine on Google Chrome, the Google Browser · · Score: 1

    The difference now is that both Java & Javascript have been open-sourced by Sun.

    I'm not aware that Sun has a Javascript implementation to open-source, or that they have anything to do with Javascript at all. They open-sourced Java, which is similar to Javascript only in name, which is unfortunate.

  15. Re:Ethics on Reasonable Expectation of Privacy From Web Hosts? · · Score: 1

    By allowing your data to be hosted on another person's server, you gave them the right to snoop.

    I don't think this is a given. If you rent an apartment, the landlord isn't entitled to spy on your private life just because he has ownership of the house. I think the poster has the same kind of expectation on the server space he rents, and that's reasonable.

  16. Re:One username one password? on MySpace Joins OpenID Coalition · · Score: 1

    That's why you make sure nobody gets your password. Since you now (ideally) only have one password to remember, it can be much stronger and you don't have to write it down anywhere.

  17. OpenID is a terrific idea on MySpace Joins OpenID Coalition · · Score: 1

    OpenID is not using the same password for every account. It's having just one account instead of many, and thus only one password to remember (which can then be a better password since you have to remember fewer).

  18. Re:Ironic? on E-gold Owners Plead Guilty To Money Laundering · · Score: 1

    It's alanic.

  19. Re:Non-geek friendly on TrueCrypt 6.0 Released · · Score: 1

    To say that it would take a cracker "many years" to break TrueCrypt's encryption is a gigantic understatement. He would not have enough lifetime to do it (and there probably aren't enough years left on Earth to do it, anyway).

  20. This is sad on LugRadio Decides To Call It Quits · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I've listened to them for years and have had some good laughs. Their style is crude, yes, but authentic and funny. Now we're left with The Linux Action Show, with the glossy, family-friendly, foolsafe "hysterical morning crew"-style humour which is so typical American. I will miss the bullocks that LugRadio was.

  21. Re:10 years? on MPAA Scores First P2P Jury Conviction · · Score: 1

    This 10 year sentence would be called draconian too, if it was made mandatory for all copyright violators. Apples and oranges. Some child sex offenders get life (60 years + without parole) in prison.

  22. Re:Acronyms Parents Should Know on WTF? NC Offers to Replace 10,000 License Plates · · Score: 1

    KFU, my BFF. LMIRL at some ADR? RU MOOS or MOSS? SorG? We could be KPC while you TD2M. Seriously, NALOPKT, but IWSN, I don't care if it's SorG of if I have to be NIFOC. Just GYPO.

    P911, G2G! WYCM?

  23. Re:oh on ICANN Board Approves Wide Expansion of TLDs · · Score: 1

    Nice try, but .localhost is a reserved TLD along with .invalid, .example, and .test.

  24. Re:Stupid Noob Question..... on ICANN Board Approves Wide Expansion of TLDs · · Score: 1

    Yes, you can use any of the available alternative DNS roots, or start your own.

    By the way, "newbie" is spelt "newbie" </geezer>

  25. Re:Well, two things come to mind on Man Selling His Life On eBay · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The modern man is what he owns. He who dies with the most toys wins.