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  1. Safe Space to Express Yourself Freely on Twitter Launches Trust and Safety Council To Help Put End To Trolling (thestack.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    These organisations, along with safety experts, academics and security researchers, will work to ensure a safe and secure platform for users to express themselves freely and safely.

    So you are free express yourself, as long as you express yourself in a way approved by these organizations?

    What fucking hypocritical bullshit.

  2. Re:all of that can be fixed on Survey: 2/3 of Public Sector Workers Wouldn't Report a Security Breach · · Score: 1

    It will be fixed when all public bureaucrats are replaced by software running at minimal expenditure and not open to lobbying. Allowing us to provide actual welfare to every citizen like, if you're in the states at least, is promised in the constitution.

  3. Re: Okay on Oculus Rift: 2015 Launch Unlikely, But Not Impossible · · Score: 1

    They have the rightman to implement it. Carmack is known for delivering quality technologies and taking the time to release them when they are finished.

  4. Re:Hasn't been involved with Greenpeace since 1985 on Greenpeace Co-Founder Declares Himself a Climate Change Skeptic · · Score: 5, Informative

    He commented that he had left Greenpeace because it "took a sharp turn to the political left" and "evolved into an organization of extremism and politically motivated agendas"

    From wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  5. Hasn't been involved with Greenpeace since 1985 on Greenpeace Co-Founder Declares Himself a Climate Change Skeptic · · Score: 5, Informative

    But of course that fact won't get people to click on your article.

  6. Re:It's also not that easy on Torvalds: "People Who Start Writing Kernel Code Get Hired Really Quickly" · · Score: 1

    May not be for the average person, but for the person reading a Slashdot thread 4 levels deep, it's probably not too much of a problem.

    Unless you're addicted to Slashdot of course.

  7. Re:"Computer" on Real Steampunk Computer Brought Back To Life · · Score: 1

    While I don't disagree that this is should be classified as a "computer." It is obvious by your comment that you didn't watch the video.

  8. And that matters, how? on Confidence Shaken In Open Source Security Idealism · · Score: 2

    Last time I checked, the general public was pretty ignorant about just about everything related to computers outside of checking their email and viewing the latest cat pictures on reddit.

    I'd rather consult a magic 8 ball than the general public.

  9. Re:DOJ Oaths on National Security Letter Issuance Likely Headed To Supreme Court · · Score: 1

    You can't deny that it is a first amendment right to disagree with the second amendment. And if we are making generalizations a lot of the second amendment people love to use their rights to intimidate people exercising their first amendment rights.

    You can't pretend that either side is totally virtuous.

  10. Re:um on Sons of Anarchy Creator On Google Copyright Anarchy · · Score: 1

    Just because he hasn't been convicted in this current case, doesn't mean he isn't a convicted felon.

    In 1994, he was arrested by German police for trafficking in stolen phone calling card numbers. He was held in custody for a month, released and arrested again on additional hacking charges shortly afterwards. He was eventually convicted of 11 counts of computer fraud, 10 counts of data espionage, and an assortment of other charges. He received a two-year suspended sentence – because he was under age at the time the crimes were committed.[29] The judge in the case said the court viewed his actions as "youthful foolishness."[30]
    In 2001, Schmitz bought €375,000 worth of shares of the nearly bankrupt company Letsbuyit.com (de) and subsequently announced his intention to invest €50 million in the company.[31] The announcement caused the share value of Letsbuyit.com to jump[32] and Schmitz cashed out, making a profit of €1.5 million. One commentator suggested that Schmitz may have been ignorant of the legal ramifications of what he had done, since insider trading was not made a crime in Germany until 1995,[29] and until 2002 prosecutors also had to prove the accused had criminal intent.[33]
    Schmitz moved to Thailand to avoid investigation[12] where he was subsequently arrested on behalf of German authorities.[30] In response, he allegedly pretended to kill himself online, posting a message on his website that from now on he wished to be known as "His Royal Highness King Kimble the First, Ruler of the Kimpire".[30][34] He was deported back to Germany where he pleaded guilty to embezzlement in November 2003 and, after five months in jail awaiting trial, again received a suspended sentence (of 20 months).[33] After avoiding a prison sentence for a second time, he left Germany and moved to Hong Kong in late 2003.[12]

    from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K...

  11. Re:Is Kim Dotcom a Convicted Felon? on Sons of Anarchy Creator On Google Copyright Anarchy · · Score: 4, Informative

    Allow me to post the wikipedia article you were too lazy to search: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K...

    In 1994, he was arrested by German police for trafficking in stolen phone calling card numbers. He was held in custody for a month, released and arrested again on additional hacking charges shortly afterwards. He was eventually convicted of 11 counts of computer fraud, 10 counts of data espionage, and an assortment of other charges. He received a two-year suspended sentence – because he was under age at the time the crimes were committed.[29] The judge in the case said the court viewed his actions as "youthful foolishness."[30]
    In 2001, Schmitz bought €375,000 worth of shares of the nearly bankrupt company Letsbuyit.com (de) and subsequently announced his intention to invest €50 million in the company.[31] The announcement caused the share value of Letsbuyit.com to jump[32] and Schmitz cashed out, making a profit of €1.5 million. One commentator suggested that Schmitz may have been ignorant of the legal ramifications of what he had done, since insider trading was not made a crime in Germany until 1995,[29] and until 2002 prosecutors also had to prove the accused had criminal intent.[33]
    Schmitz moved to Thailand to avoid investigation[12] where he was subsequently arrested on behalf of German authorities.[30] In response, he allegedly pretended to kill himself online, posting a message on his website that from now on he wished to be known as "His Royal Highness King Kimble the First, Ruler of the Kimpire".[30][34] He was deported back to Germany where he pleaded guilty to embezzlement in November 2003 and, after five months in jail awaiting trial, again received a suspended sentence (of 20 months).[33] After avoiding a prison sentence for a second time, he left Germany and moved to Hong Kong in late 2003.[12]

  12. Re:Tough luck.. on Thieves Who Stole Cobalt-60 Will Soon Be Dead · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I completely and utterly disagree.

    You clearly haven't been the victim of any robberies at gunpoint. It is terrifying and life-changing and most victims usually end up with some sort of PTSD. It takes a sick and depraved mind to commit such acts, and those responsible fully deserve death. There are far too many people in this world to allow people who are willing to kill to continue to breathe the same air as the rest of the population.

  13. Re:Missing the point on Head of Silk Road 2.0 Says It Will Be Back In Minutes If Shut Down · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Quite a bold statement that has no real basis in reality:

    http://thechart.blogs.cnn.com/2011/11/14/high-iq-linked-to-drug-use/

  14. Re:Big deal on Infosys Fined $35M For Illegally Bringing Programmers Into US On Visitor Visas · · Score: 4, Informative

    Whats worse is they even probably had a strategic team analyze how much they would get fined if they were caught, and decided it was worth the risk.

    As long the US government gets their cut, the people who get screwed are the people who play by the rules. Fuck everything about big business and their collusion with the government.

  15. And lithium extraction pollutes the earth on Tesla CEO Elon Musk: Fuel Cells Are 'So Bull@%!#' · · Score: 4, Insightful

    They all have their drawbacks, Elon.

  16. Re:Fourth Amendment Rights? on Call Yourself a Hacker, Lose Your 4th Amendment Rights · · Score: 1

    There is a difference between written and spoken word. Learn it. Live it. Love it. Or get the fuck out.

  17. Re:Except He's Wrong on Doctorow: Rivalry Keeps Google From Doing Evil · · Score: 2

    Cory's service to the community is not in providing nuanced analysis of issues. It's using his fame to bring issues to light that would simply be ignored by the more mainstream community.

    And how exactly is that relevant here? You think the community needs another Google circlejerk?

  18. Re: And what the hell does on Could Technology Create Modern-Day 'Leper Colonies'? · · Score: -1, Troll

    Kill yourself, you fucking anonymous faggot.

  19. Re:Works for me on NSA Foils Much Internet Encryption · · Score: 1

    Your whole post is fucking retarded:

    1. Encryption isn't a weapon. Period. Comparing the two is fucking stupid.

    2. The president didn't ask the IRS to hurt opposition's finances. You were lied to by Darrell Issa who had no evidence but a heavily modified report which when taken as whole actually painted the IRS as anti-liberal rather than anti-conservative. But please keep spouting your ignorance on the subject, you really deserve those moderation points!

  20. Re:linus is a narcasistic dick on Kernel Dev Tells Linus Torvalds To Stop Using Abusive Language · · Score: 1

    He's always been that way, but no one on the internet during those times cared about feelings over getting the job done.

  21. Re:Sign of personal limitations? on Kernel Dev Tells Linus Torvalds To Stop Using Abusive Language · · Score: 1

    How many miles have you walked in Linus's shoes? Have you ever had to maintain a project as large as the linux kernel with a group of developers who were not being paid by you?

    If not, then please report back when you have and tell us how you made it all work without having to shout.

  22. Re:Abuse never helps on Kernel Dev Tells Linus Torvalds To Stop Using Abusive Language · · Score: 1

    I love when people like you compare your small project to the linux kernel. You have absolutely no idea what you are talking about. Period.

  23. Re:Ethical Duty on Kernel Dev Tells Linus Torvalds To Stop Using Abusive Language · · Score: 1

    Despite your best efforts, there is no universal ethical code. So while you may not feel he is acting ethically, he is. He has his own set of ethics which he is living by. If he violates his own ethics, then he wouldn't be acting ethically. Period.

  24. Re:Linux's new slogan on Kernel Dev Tells Linus Torvalds To Stop Using Abusive Language · · Score: 1

    I would buy the t-shirt.

  25. Re:Attacking ideas versus people. on Kernel Dev Tells Linus Torvalds To Stop Using Abusive Language · · Score: 1

    It would have been a bastardized pile of junk because of all the proprietary nonsense that would have been added because someone as strong as Linus wouldn't be at the helm.

    Feel free to speculate about how the project would or wouldn't turn out, but realize that what you are doing is pure speculation, and matter of fact the project itself is doing pretty fucking well, so asking it how much better just feels insulting. Like it already didn't accomplish some revolutionary things that it has.