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  1. Re:Hunger strike... how silly on 'Anonymous' Hacker Indicted As His Hunger Strike Continues (newsweek.com) · · Score: 1

    Considering Russia's negative population growth, I find your assertion to be questionable at best.

  2. Re:The Goldman talks... on WikiLeaks: Ecuador Cut Off Assange's Internet Access (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Let us also not forget that Trump thought it better for the state to execute innocent men who had been railroaded rather than for the state to admit it fucked up. That is also out there, from multiple sources. He's a wannabe Stalin.

  3. Re:I used to think Assange was smart on WikiLeaks: Ecuador Cut Off Assange's Internet Access (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but it isn't it fascinating that he can only seem to only get spoonfed evidence about one person in one country lately?

  4. Re:Droning justification [Re:I'm just surprised... on WikiLeaks: Ecuador Cut Off Assange's Internet Access (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    No, he is no hero, as his actions over the past few months have plainly shown. Just a tool, willing or otherwise. I just hope he realizes that Putin doesn't have a great track record of protecting tools that have outlived their usefulness and not to drink tea he hasn't prepared himself.

  5. Re:Passing the buck? on Cloudflare: We Can't Shut Down Pirate Sites (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    If a computer is temporarily storing data in order to make responses faster, exactly where is the delineation that makes the cached data something illegal?

    Perhaps where the computer in question is owned by an entity that is paid by the infringer to cache said content? I'm no lawyer, but I don't see CloudFlare's arguments holding up real well in front of a judge. Perhaps they are doing this to show that they just won't rollover over takedown requests and that they will require court orders to do so. They may need that to legitimately void the contracts without prejudice.

  6. Re:Like suing McDonald's for hot coffee on Florida Man Sues Samsung, Says Galaxy Note 7 Exploded (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    If I'm willing to pay £700 for a device I expect the fucking thing to work as advertised.

    And you bought a Samsung anyway?

  7. First: The AMA is not a labor union. Also, as the years have gone by it has been gradually morphing into a political group. Most doctors are smart enough not to form/join a labor union and are smart enough to know that political goals can be achieved better by political organizations.

    Second: Contrary to popular opinion, most doctors do not belong to the AMA.

    Particularly if you create the organizations yourselves to give yourself meaningless credentials! Right Dr. Paul?

  8. Re:Finally! on ITT Tech Is Officially Closing (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    Be careful, you just suggested that Trade Unions have some value. The Randroids are probably massing at your door right now.

  9. Re:Normally I'm pro regulation on Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes Banned From Owning a Lab (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    I wonder how you react when it's a poor black man getting walk instead of a Job Creator, Peace Be Upon Them? At one point in its history, the FDA routinely jailed CEOs for violations by their firms. After all, that's why they make the big bucks, right? They have so much more to risk than an average worker!

  10. Re:Normally I'm pro regulation on Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes Banned From Owning a Lab (engadget.com) · · Score: 2

    I am going to suggest that you start buying your mushrooms at the store instead of hunting them up yourself.

  11. Re:Normally I'm pro regulation on Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes Banned From Owning a Lab (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Indeed. And if that random audit goes badly you might just get a followup from the nice ladies and gentlemen in the yellow jackets. In fact, if a few more CEOs were perp walked by OCI, compliance might go a whole lot easier.

  12. Re:Sign 'I don't agree' on all HR paperwork on Bill Guarantees 50% Salary For Workers Laid Off With Non-Compete (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Allow me to repeat: trying to play lawyer without a law degree rarely ends well. And I think I am correct in assuming you don't have one, as 90% of the attorneys I know would not be nearly so flip and the other ten percent could probably successfully get their clients sentenced to death for a parking offense.

  13. Re:Sign 'I don't agree' on all HR paperwork on Bill Guarantees 50% Salary For Workers Laid Off With Non-Compete (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    That's all well and good, but how are you going to do when you are served with a summons? Are you going to try to represent yourself? Remember, if you just ignore it, they're going to get a default judgement against you and at that point all of the various forms of collection, up to and including wage garnishment are on the table. Trying to play lawyer without a law degree rarely ends well.

  14. Re:Good on Ecuador To Grant Assange Political Asylum · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Drones? More like hand over some unmarked Benjamins for a quick car accident and some planted cocaine.

  15. Re:It's called "Get A Grip!" on Ask Slashdot: Preempting Sexual Harassment In the Workplace? · · Score: 3, Funny

    You know how I know that ypu don't know any modern feminists?

  16. Re:laws on Ask Slashdot: Preempting Sexual Harassment In the Workplace? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Indeed. Simply put anything other than formal discipline leaves you open to huge legal penalties. For more details see a lawyer, because navigating harassment law without one is like asking the night janitor to fix bugs in your code.

  17. Re:Standard ./ line on Khan Academy: the Teachers Strike Back · · Score: 1

    I have found repeatedly through my life that the single best way to master a new concept is to learn it with the intention of teaching it to someone else. I got the idea from reading one of Feynman's books.

  18. Re:For the two people who don't already know on FunnyJunk v. the Oatmeal: Copyright Infringement Complaints As Defamation · · Score: 1

    Er 2112. Man, do they piss me off. So much that I don't use the preview button!

  19. Re:For the two people who don't already know on FunnyJunk v. the Oatmeal: Copyright Infringement Complaints As Defamation · · Score: 2

    Fucking Randroids. I wish they'd all go Galt already and get shanked by a Somali warlord while masturbating to 2011.

  20. Re:I'm confused on Supreme Court Rules Julian Assange May Be Extradited · · Score: -1
    Here is the problem: the people who built him up to be a hero cannot believe that he might also be a rapist. It's kind of like the persistent denial hardcore Clinton backers had over the Lewinski matter, or that hardcore conservatives have with accepting the reality of global warming. Uncomfortable facts are ignored when they hurt "our" side and emphasized when they hurt "their" side.

    My personal feeling is that the USA wanted to neutralize him in such a way that they didn't have to actually ever take custody of him and the negative publicity that would entail, and that Mr. Assange's sense of privilege handed the CIA an opportunity on a silver platter. Whether they set him up, or just dug up existing dirt on him and made sure it became public knowledge is an open question, but the second case requires far fewer assumptions to hold based on what we know now, and is therefore the more likely one.

    The spy game isn't like the movies kids: it's a results oriented business, and sometimes your targets personal failings are actually your biggest assets.

  21. Re:To unload more than 1,000 pounds of cargo on Astronauts Open Dragon Capsule Hatch · · Score: 3, Funny

    Actually, it's a non-union shop, so they are waiting for immigrant workers that they will immediately throw out the airlock instead of paying when they are done.

  22. Re:Facebook on Golden Age of Silicon Valley Is Over With Facebook IPO · · Score: 1

    Apparently we don't exist, as we would make the argument invalid.

  23. Re:Facebook on Golden Age of Silicon Valley Is Over With Facebook IPO · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Must have stung pretty hard to get that kind of rise out of you. It might be hard to accept, but there are fully functional adults who use FB to keep in touch with old friends and extended family while also leading productive lives out in "the real world" as we called it back in the 80s. I remember how self-righteous people were back then about not watching TV, as if watching a little bit meant that you suddenly turned into a couch potato who never left the house. Those people turned out to be the ones who had the most problems with life balance at the 20 year reunion, in my experience. But carry on. We older folk are laughing with you, as we see our own hangups echoed in new technology, at least most of the time. Now get off my damn lawn.

  24. Re:Facebook on Golden Age of Silicon Valley Is Over With Facebook IPO · · Score: 5, Insightful

    So kids, how does it feel to be your parents talking about how this e-mail thing is a waste of time and when you want to talk to someone you should pick up the phone or write a letter?

  25. Re:Wasn't Chrome supposed to drop H264 support!? on Mozilla Debates Supporting H.264 In Firefox Via System Codecs · · Score: 1

    You mean you believed that "don't be evil" shit? How cute.