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  1. Wait a minute on Anonymous Denies Targeting Westboro Baptist Church · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Every time an article comes on here about Anon everybody bashes the news organizations for saying Anonymous has a hierarchy with 'senior' members, leaders, and so forth.

    So why are you so quick to accept this? How can this press release saying 'Its not really us' carry any more weight then one saying "It's us".

  2. Re:Refuse on Employer Demands Facebook Login From Job Applicants · · Score: 1

    I'd say refuse to provide the login, and let them terminate you. Then go after them for wrongful dismissal.

    Unless it's an at-will state and then they can pretty much fire you for anything*.

    * Ignoring the 'protected' statuses.

  3. Re:Well to give credit on Paul Haggis vs. the Church of Scientology · · Score: 1

    Copyrighted work, leaked government documents, PS3 encryption keys and everything else has been posted on Slashdot but only the Church of Scientology has forced comments out of existence

    One of the groups behind each of those bits of information will kill you for doing it. I'll let you guess which one.

    But the whole story is about Scientology, and it even talks about Scientologists killing people, so what's to guess?

    What the definition of a rhetorical question is.

  4. Well to give credit on Paul Haggis vs. the Church of Scientology · · Score: 1

    Copyrighted work, leaked government documents, PS3 encryption keys and everything else has been posted on Slashdot but only the Church of Scientology has forced comments out of existence

    One of the groups behind each of those bits of information will kill you for doing it. I'll let you guess which one.

  5. Re:You pay twice for it on Obama's Goal: 98% of US Covered By 4G · · Score: 1

    That's like complaining that you have to pay money to buy a car, and also pay for the gas to put in it. You are paying for 2 different things.

    I'm going to undo my moderation to reply to this.

    That is *nothing* like complaing about having to buy a car and pay to put gas in it.

    If you want a car, you buy it and pay to use it. If you dont want a car you dont have to pay to not use it.

    If the government builds this, they're using money from everybody regardless of if they'll use it or not.
    It would be if you wanted a car and I had to pay for you to use it.

  6. Re:I was excited on Google Adds Two-Factor Authentication To Gmail · · Score: 1

    Not all of us need or want a smart phone, and not all of us work in places with great reception.

  7. I was excited on Google Adds Two-Factor Authentication To Gmail · · Score: 1

    I was excited till I realized it was just going to be another app for your phone. Call me when I can get an actual hardware token.

  8. Re:Not an YRO on Teacher Suspended Over Blog About Students · · Score: 1

    I don't think this teacher's suspension over the blog is a violation of her rights online. Everyone is free to say what they wish without risk of government censorship. But on the flip side of the coin, everyone must also bear the consequences of their speech. She went online, said something stupid and now she has to deal with the consequences of that.

    If it was the other way around, how many of you would be arguing that it's the student's right to be able to say what they want about their teacher.

  9. Not News on Can World Governments Veto Your Domain Name? · · Score: 4, Informative

    Of course they quote this line:

    “Any GAC member may raise an objection to a proposed string for any reason.”

    Then in order to push their pov they ignore the very next line:

    If it is the consensus position of the GAC not to oppose objection raised by a GAC member or members, ICANN shall reject the application.

    No single country can veto something, it takes a majority to agree to the veto.

  10. Worried on Mozilla Aims To Release Four Firefox Versions In 2011 · · Score: 1

    So they're going to go from 1 a year to 4? Or is it going to be 1 'normal' version chopped up into 4 bits. Each having a different version number to make development look like it isn't glacial.

  11. No on Example.com Has Changed · · Score: 4, Informative

    GET / HTTP/1.1
    Host: www.example.com

    HTTP/1.0 302 Found
    Location: http://www.iana.org/domains/example/
    Server: BigIP
    Connection: Keep-Alive
    Content-Length: 0

    If that breaks your program, you're doing it wrong.

  12. So in other words . . . on Russian Media Link Moscow Bombing With Modern Warfare 2 Scene · · Score: 1

    . . . they're admitting incompetence? If the game truly influenced this action, then shouldn't they have taken precautions?

    Since they didn't, isn't it their fault then?

  13. Re:Something doesn't add up. on Spam Levels Lowest Since 2009 · · Score: 1

    The volume of spam in circulation this month was 65.9% lower than for the same period one year ago, in January 2010, when the spam rate was 83.9%

  14. Re:Not just bittorrent - alt.binaries too on Third of Content On Popular BT Portals Are Fake · · Score: 1

    I've become so used to the alt.binaries being polluted with either passworded inner-rars or corrupt/scrambled files that I'm now used to just grabbing the first couple of rar's and extracting them just to make sure.

    Most decent nzb indexers include flags for if there's passwords, or exe's inside.

  15. Not just .gov on Compromised Government and Military Sites For Sale · · Score: 1

    More then half of those listed are from other countries are not not all US .gov and .mil sites.

  16. Re:But you still can't uninstall it... on Mozilla Flips Kill-Switch On Skype Toolbar · · Score: 2

    WHY is it grayed out? WHY MOZILLA? Tell us?

    Because it's installed globally, IE for all profiles. Why should user a be able to remove it for user b?

  17. Re:O_EXCL Microphone. on Soundminder Android Trojan Hears Credit Cards · · Score: 1

    If the phone is using the microphone for an ongoing conversation, then apps shouldn't be able to use it at the same time.

    But how else can you get the completely awesome t-pain autotune app!

  18. P=NP on Polynomial Time Code For 3-SAT Released, P==NP · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    P=NP IFF N is equal to 1.
    QED

    Next problem?

  19. Great logic there Lou on Yahoo IPv6 Upgrade Could Shut Out 1M Users · · Score: 4, Insightful

    From

    IPv6 experts say some Internet users will experience slowdowns or have trouble connecting to IPv6-enabled Web sites because they have misconfigured or misbehaving network equipment

    to

    "IPv6 brokenness."

    So I should blame the water company if I install my plumbing wrong?

  20. Re:In the spirit of more "freedom" for their users on Firefox 4, A Huge Pile of Bugs · · Score: 1

    No they didn't.

    Yes they did.

    To get the old status bar back, install Status-4-Evar.

    Having to install an extra extension doesn't count.

  21. Re:Criticism is easy on Stuxnet Authors Made Key Errors · · Score: 3, Interesting

    but the notion that you have to be at least as good at your game as is a public-ally known strain of criminal in order to be considered for "super-spy" status seems like a very fair rule of thumb.

    How about good enough to make people think you're not good enough so they underestimate you?

  22. Re:Dating sites with phony ads on Dating Site Creates Profiles From Public Records · · Score: 1

    Could be worse. It could be Friendfinder, which was so successful with phony ads and spam that they now own Penthouse.

    You got that backwards, Penthouse bought Friendfinder then changed their name.

  23. Re:biggest hoax ever on The Biggest Hoaxes In Wikipedia's First Decade · · Score: 2

    So really, the biggest wikipedia hoax was wikipedia convincing everyone from Rush Limbaugh to prosecutors in court cases and thousands of others that it was a bulletproof source for information. They make it look sooo clean and nice and professional and don't have any visible warning about the inaccuracy in most cases

    And that is the problem, it shouldn't require a warning. Wikipedia has never passed itself or claimed to be a primary source, they've never encouraged people using them as one. They shouldn't be blamed for people misusing it.

  24. Re:Is there a Wikipedia page for this? on The Biggest Hoaxes In Wikipedia's First Decade · · Score: 5, Informative

    Yes

  25. Re:Where? on US Twitter Spying May Have Broken EU Privacy Law · · Score: 1

    I dont know why this is marked as a troll (well I do), the EU has no problem with this when the shoe is on the other foot.