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  1. Re:Since Mozilla decided... on Free Software Foundation Condemns Mozilla's Move To Support DRM In Firefox · · Score: 1

    It wasn't Mozilla. It was the liberal-capitalist community that needed a good witch-burning to take well-meaning minds off real, general quality-of-life issues and onto specific quality-of-life issues. Since the bourgeois LGBT contingent has sold out the queers and other subaltern groups, they can easily be led (as we all can) to play LGBT Moral Majority for some other richie. Why, some day, they might be the richie leading the charge! But that's group dynamics for you: ideologies and religions require belief in some unprovable fact as the price of admission. Otherwise, they'd be all the same, and how would groups differentiate each other if they were all just human without pretense or artifice?

    Anyway... the LGBT-and-allies community consists of a lot of people; they've got a powerful, established institutional infrastructure (see also Dan Savage, nouveau Democratic boss, quacking in time with the Adminstration about Russia in 2013); they believe they are motivated and informed by principles but in fact succumb to hermeneutics and peer pressure as they become insiders; they're broadly perceived as motivated by principle; they've had their morale managed over the past few decades to a just-sufficient level to stay hungry; they desire to be accepted as part of mainstream society; they're ignorant of what, who, where and why power (the ability to achieve planned outcomes) is; and they like all humans are easily led (the ones who think they're too sly for it are among the easiest).

    So they're a natural, powerful and pre-paid covert militia for the business interests of the Democratic Party, playing the mirror role to Protestant Christians are the natural, powerful and cheap covert militia for the business interests of the Republican Party.

  2. Better.... or worse? on Free Software Foundation Condemns Mozilla's Move To Support DRM In Firefox · · Score: 1

    It's not safer, necessarily. The EME module is most likely delivered as a native binary; therefore the syscall interface is still available and the usual errors prevalent in dealing with structured data are still possible. To trust Adobe in any case is clear evidence of peasant desperation and/or paternalistic delusion.

    When they come for the div tags, don't call me for help.

  3. is not freedom." -Teller

    You ate a lot of brightly-colored candies as a child, didn't you?

  4. Someone else would have written some other C compiler in response to some other bureaucratic stunt. Maybe Mark Williams and Coherent would have taken off instead.

    Whig history... you do speak it.

  5. This is America on Free Software Foundation Condemns Mozilla's Move To Support DRM In Firefox · · Score: 1

    Good Americans don't pay attention to larger contexts. They pledge allegiance to princes and content themselves with the battle lines and Nerf bats their princes have conveniently provided for them.

    Perhaps getting "more business-friendly leadership" at Mozilla was, in fact, the motive for ousting Eich. Identity politics, like any other politics, can be cynically exploited in the service of private interests at public expense. Anyone who's ever heard of WWII should understand that isn't just theoretical. Anyone who does not accept the possibility is a quisling for the empire who ought to be treated as an MSM outlet and forcefully excluded from the conversation.

  6. Eich(mann), Eich(mann), Eich(mann)! on Did Mozilla Have No Choice But To Add DRM To Firefox? · · Score: 0

    You know, that identity-politics campaign to get rid of Brendan Eich is starting to take on a sinister note. Made in Hollywood, even.

  7. There is the matter of watermarks on Did Mozilla Have No Choice But To Add DRM To Firefox? · · Score: 1

    Don't some video chips already honor watermarking in the stream? Sure, it can be stripped out well enough to appear unwatermarked, but can it be obscured completely enough for a computer forensics professional to not find your name in lights?

  8. If you want censorship, go to Reddit :) n/t on 70% of U.S. Government Spending Is Writing Checks To Individuals · · Score: 1

    n t

  9. Cool just-so story, bro on 70% of U.S. Government Spending Is Writing Checks To Individuals · · Score: 1

    Clearly that's why voting was restricted only to the landed gentry, and why the vote became even more decoupled from policy as the franchise was opened to more people.

    Read Federalist #10. Do you have any credible evidence that the "minority" they were interested in protecting was any but the aristocracy, other than fairy tales and propaganda? Policies, not pacifiers.

  10. Re:And... on 70% of U.S. Government Spending Is Writing Checks To Individuals · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately, the general welfare consists of the political class, because any means by which recourse can be exerted against the rich or powerful have been systematically foreclosed. Why should an elected official represent any but their new friends if they can just move to Washington after screwing their beard-constitutents?

    Also, rhetoric is meant to persuade, not inform.

  11. We didn't, the banksters of the time did on 70% of U.S. Government Spending Is Writing Checks To Individuals · · Score: 1

    Go follow @WilliamHogeland on Twitter. He'll put paid to your religion.

  12. Re:And... on 70% of U.S. Government Spending Is Writing Checks To Individuals · · Score: 1

    Why shouldn't they get more than they paid in? Why is only Wall Street allowed to be paid for not doing anything?

  13. Same goes for US citizens on 70% of U.S. Government Spending Is Writing Checks To Individuals · · Score: 1

    after the market cultists running either party ship all that cash off to Wall Street.

    Well, actually, it already has been, but the mulligan on repaying it has yet to be given.

  14. Passwords serve two purposes on Top E-commerce Sites Fail To Protect Users From Stupid Passwords · · Score: 1

    1) to control access to data the user cares about
    2) to externalize the costs of controlling access to data the company cares about onto the user

    123456, password, etc. are perfectly valid and rational user responses to the latter situation.

  15. Where do OpenID endpoints come from, the stork? on Top E-commerce Sites Fail To Protect Users From Stupid Passwords · · Score: 1

    Because, of course, it is so much better to sell your users to some social network and let them control how you run your site or business?

    Webmasters do live in and manage their own universes, to the extent that they want to. What next, you're going to complain I have a door on my house or on my bathroom? Go away, you're creepy.

  16. Correct, that's a battery staple on Top E-commerce Sites Fail To Protect Users From Stupid Passwords · · Score: 1

    and a silly suggestion.

    How many bits of entropy are you actually producing? If you don't know, go to the back of the class.

  17. Smells like NTLM passwords n/t on Top E-commerce Sites Fail To Protect Users From Stupid Passwords · · Score: 1

    n/t

  18. Field of use restrictions are not FOSS on Google To Replace GTK+ With Its Own Aura In Chrome · · Score: 1

    "You must pay us upfront before you even start if you even think you might commercialize your software" is the acme of desperate opportunism (aka shark-jumping) and of an inflated sense of self-importance, and probably entirely unenforceable as a matter of copyright.

    A BSD-licensed toolkit of usable quality would, indeed, correct Qt's attitude problem.

    As to quality, have you ever built and ran gimp-1 prereleases? "Interesting" times....

  19. Overspecialization turns minds to mush on Code.org: Give Us More H-1B Visas Or the Kids Get Hurt · · Score: 1

    You're implying that the political act of buying a certificate makes one's bloviations on any particular subject more credible. Which, like all elite outgroup favoritism, is the position of the supplicant and the traitor.

    The marginal value of a degree has nothing to do with education. It's the debt and the acculturation to bourgeois Whig values that employers consider desirable.

  20. IP over DHCPOptions on Airgap-Jumping Malware May Use Ultrasonic Networking To Communicate · · Score: 2

    makes a fine covert channel to get data to or from a compromised router, and NSA has shown interest in mass-pwning routers.

  21. Re:Ken Thompson, Anyone? on Ask Slashdot: Linux Security, In Light of NSA Crypto-Subverting Attacks? · · Score: 1

    Well, good. Religion has no place outside of religion, and certainly not in math.

  22. Re:Pointless Worrying on Ask Slashdot: Linux Security, In Light of NSA Crypto-Subverting Attacks? · · Score: 1

    They have lots and lots of things for every occasion. And remembers, keys do not only encrypt, but authenticate. How does it feel having a copy of one's car keys left with the NSA, especially post-Hastings?

  23. typeof targeting === 'object', not 'boolean'. on Ask Slashdot: Linux Security, In Light of NSA Crypto-Subverting Attacks? · · Score: 1

    Apt Richelieu quote. They are collecting data on every person, but how much is a function of the person (or the data). Consistent sympathizers with incumbent power are uninteresting and not really worth the bandwidth. Sympathizers with any power other than the regime are interesting.

  24. What information would they have gotten by holding a competition that they wouldn't have gotten by developing internally?

    Competitive intelligence, duh. If you want to see what the state of the art in civilian crypto is, of course you want to look at as much as possible.

  25. Religious dogma, or propaganda? on Ask Slashdot: Linux Security, In Light of NSA Crypto-Subverting Attacks? · · Score: 1

    Either way, that's kind of a strange thing to say about an organization that claims to have completed an awesome new cryptanalytic capability in 2011, after which (according to the black budget leaks) CCP's Microelectronics program shrunk by a factor of six over the next two years... and that slide with that little red box...