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  1. How Convenient on Hacker Barnaby Jack Died of Drug Overdose · · Score: 1

    And his "girlfriend says" he regularly used drugs.
    So convenient, and full of hearsay, to explain it all away...

  2. Re:You are mostly screwing yourself on US Justice Blocks Implementation of ACA Contraceptive Mandate · · Score: 1

    "You cannot buy a plan after the fact because they do not kick in immediately." Not true. Insurance is active the moment the premium is paid. There are caveats however. If information arises during that grace period, which could invalidate the contract, then there is a clause that will invalidate all claims made during that period. There is always a grace period, to reduce the incidence of insurance fraud.

  3. Why are you asking that question on Slashdot? on Caveats In Reselling DSL Bandwidth To Neighbors? · · Score: 1

    That is a business legal question. Go pay a business lawyer to help you figure that out. With so many people spouting bullshit while trying to hide behind "IANAL" I'd think you'd have a clue. No one here knows what the f*** they're talking about when it comes to law. Hell 90% of the population (including lawyers) don't know the freakin' law.

  4. Re:Of course you should pay for it. on Does Your Company Pay For Broadband? · · Score: 1

    Then as an employee I should be paid independant consultant wages for my personal resources used in the furtherance of their business.

  5. This does not help on SCO Group Web Site Attacked Again · · Score: 0

    Open Source advocates will be seen as malicious tyrants
    due to the behavior of a few uneducated malcontents who
    think the best way to fight a propaganda war is to shoot
    people in the head.

    This would be a great tactic by Microsoft (I mention them
    due to their investment into SCO). Open Source must really
    be hurting their bottom line. They want from smirking about
    Linux as a "toy" operating system to showing up at Linuxworld
    and investing in a Linux Company. Hmm.

    The tactic is to create your own enemy and make their behavior
    so atrocious that public opinion sides with you.

    It's a perfect tactic a la "Art of War" or "Book of Five Rings"
    principles. (Principles as opposed to specific tangible instructions
    to do this or that. Principles allow one to determine the proper
    method of action based on the situation and the use of imagination,
    because one is not bound to static instructions. A philosophy derived
    from a good understanding of principle provides an enormous range of intellectual tools to assist one in solving problems. The Philosophy
    in the aforementioned books is based on principles of combat)

    In a propaganda war, appearances matter. The goal is to control public
    opinion rather than some anonymous geographical location.

    Vietnam was a propaganda war. So is Iraq, Bosnia, Grenada, Iran/Iraq,
    etc., etc., etc.

    Even the so called "Great War" (WWII youngsters) was about what we think
    of the Axis powers. We supported Germany for a time based on the advice
    of Ambassador Joe Kennedy, partriarch of the infamous Bostonian clan.

    Anyay, I digress. My point is; if Open Source advocates are responsible
    for this, they are misguided and quite stoopid (more severe than being
    just plain stupid) and it does nothing to reinforce positive public opinion
    regarding open source philosophy. However, there is nothing to suggest that this is not a tactic by an avowed enemy, designed to create negative public
    opinion about the kind of people who advocate open source.

    Remember folks, this is a philosophical war and
    " ... all's fair in love and war" to paraphrase Shakespeare.

    Our freedom to use computers as we see fit is in jeopardy.

  6. Re:Fan reaction on 'Matrix Revolutions' Opens Today · · Score: 1

    I love you man....

  7. Re:Please Don't Hate Me on 'Matrix Revolutions' Opens Today · · Score: 1

    God.

    I wish I was you....

  8. Re:thirteenth floor, few others on 'Matrix Revolutions' Opens Today · · Score: 1

    Of course it's possible to feel the same emotion again.

    If not, why do the majority of people have sex with the same partner?

    I agreed with you until your last paragraph. Are you saying that people
    in Asia and Africa have no desire to feel positive emotions over and over,
    but since Westerners are bent upon that result we are less .... "something"?

    How is it impossible to deel the same emotion again? We do it every day.
    Dealing with a job or people or places that you love or hate. Recurring or
    the hope of recurring postive emotions is a primary motivator.

    I don't think you really meant to express your thought that way. Care to try again?

  9. Re:About the ending--**SPOILER** on 'Matrix Revolutions' Opens Today · · Score: 1

    Thanks for that. You took the words right out of my mouth. ...now put 'em back!

  10. Re:wrongful dismissal on 12/7 and Overtime on a Salary? · · Score: 1

    Bullshit! You were on an improperly informed jury. A wrongful dismissal will also stand if you are (4) fired for expressing a Consitutionally protected right. (political affiliation, labor) Sounds to me that either the person initiating the lawsuit had a bad lawyer or didn't fit into 1-4. This however, does NOT mean you cannot win a wrongful termination case when you are "at-will". Make sure you hire a good lawyer...

  11. So What? on Roswell Declassified · · Score: 1

    After over 50 years of constant denial they finally "de-classify" some documents that supports 50+ years of denials.

    We don't know if they are lying and we probably never will know in our lifetime.

    "We're from the government. We're here to HELP you ....Mr. Koresh..."

  12. Re:GRAMMAR NAZI says: on Roswell Declassified · · Score: 1

    I Love you grammar NAZI...

    Lazy asses should learn proper English....

  13. Re:Sensible position, whether or not claim is true on White Hat Hacker Breaks Silence · · Score: 1

    Better not let them find this out. If you do this kind of backgroud check
    without their knowledge you could suffer a discrimination lawsuit.

    What does being unpopular or made fun of in high school have to do with anything regarding employment?

    What are you a fucking Nazi?

  14. Re:$40.2M? for Caldera? on IBM Denies Charges of Unix Theft · · Score: 1

    The word is SOW not sew.

    You makin' a fuckin jacket out of salt?

  15. Bullsnocky! on Hackers in the Henhouse · · Score: 1

    If a person has ostensibly "paid" for the crime of failing to successfully defend themself from prosecution and sentencing, it is illegal to then discriminate against them for having been punished for the crime.

    The real criminals are the ones who get away with the crap and never pay for it...

  16. SPAM is a good tactic for destroying .... on IBM Researcher Offers an E-Stamp Spam Solution · · Score: 1

    the openess of the internet.

    My points:

    1. Too many people are organizing and banding together, passing on information that disrupts the plans of the elite. Environmental issues, personal freedom, etc. For very little cost or through libraries ANYONE can have a say or pass information.
    a. The elitists need to quash this source of disruption.
    b. Fighting it directly will just feed it.
    c. It must have a weakness.

    2. SPAM appears to be the bane of the internet. Perhaps it would be a good tool of disruption(!)

    3. People can be paid to send SPAM. They don't have to know the ultimate reason.

    4. Who are the elite? Well, who gains the most from having control of the majority of people? Historically (post Moorish/Turkish Empire), Colleges and Universities have been the domain of wealthy European males. Wealth and Knowledge lead to POWER which is all that is needed to control people.

    5. Now that the stage has been set with a problem that is universally despised, how wouldn't give anything to make the problem go away?

    6.Most people are too weak-minded, selfish and short-term thinking to devise a way to solve the problem without giving up certain freedom. (Shades of the World Trade Center). Imposition of measures which began to deteriorate the openness and freedom of the internet begins apace. Everyone is on board because the problem finally goes away.

    7. The easier solution of creating legislation which requires spammers to identify themselves so that they are open to lawsuits is too easy for the masses, will make the courts have more work and will keep the internet open. Why would the elite do that.

    First asshole to mod this down is complicit in the arrangement.

    The first thing that conspirators do is discredit the knowledgable as "conspiracy theorists".

  17. Lexis and Westlaw Deserve to make money... on Democracy in the Dark? · · Score: 1

    However, they should offer something better than LexisOne or whatever they offer to smaller pockets.

    access to 5 years of case law is ridiculous. In the last 60 years so much suspect law has been written nad jammed through Congress that ALL new laws in the last 5 years depend on case law created on suspect legislative intent.

    The core of our legal system is defined during the first 50 years of court cases, up until the courts started allowing attorneys to act on behalf of petitioners.

  18. Re:Trolling as an artform.... on Democracy in the Dark? · · Score: 1

    She didn't suggest it should be free.

    They both refuse to offer a subscription plan similar to what they provide to Schools and Universities.

    It would appear they don't want to offer access to the general public.

    Pro Se litigants are a bane on the existence of lawyers.

    How embarrassed do you think I made the lawyer who couldn't beat me soundly in federal court?

  19. Re:Here.. on Dealing with Employers Who Perform Credit Checks? · · Score: 1

    So Cross out that clause. A contract (under U.S. law) is not a dictum.
    If they sign the edited/crossed out version it is a tacit agreement with the terms of the contract.

    You can cross out anything you don't like in a contract. That's why the process is called "negotiating".

    Anyone who accepts a contract without reading it and without clarifying or removing anything they don't like is a fool who desreves what they get.

    Ask a German over 50 what they think about " do what you're told" or "we have your best interests at heart..."

  20. BULLCRAP! on Is the BSA "Grace Period" a Scam? · · Score: 1

    I own a domain and based on the DNS records the BSA spammed me with this piece of shit. They had no inside information from anyone.

    Furthermore, an acquaintance attempted to get Microsoft itself involved in his ignorant former employers misuse of licensing and they did nothing. In fact they refused to use their rights to check up on the report.

    This letter is meant for BIG companies. There's no money in attacking a small guy, unless that small guy represents a good propaganda opportunity. Use the rule all experienced, knowledgable, shysty, lawyers go by

    Admit nothing.
    Deny everything.
    Make counterclaims.

    Stop fomenting fear with your lies.

  21. Good Excuse.... on DOD vs. 802.11b · · Score: 1

    802.11b would make network communications hard to monitor or pin down, wouldn't it? Depending on your knowledge you could have a mobile WAP, dessiminating information or at the very least propagating access to a WAN...all unregulated (to some degree)

  22. Re:Kinda says something about the US attitude... on Slashback: Panama, Leeches, Comeuppance · · Score: 1

    Would you prefer he used an "assault knife"?

  23. Re:Copyright this! on Talk To a Convicted Warez Guy · · Score: 1

    Where did you see that Congress is considering this? I doubt if such a law is enforceable and/or Constitutional. If the ACLU were really interested in what they claim any such law wouldn't last long.

    Frankly, even though I spent over a month fixing the damage done by some person(s) who cracked my Linux box (update SSL and SSH people!) and I was pissed, at worst they were guilty of multiple counts of trespass (civil not criminal) and last I heard Civil trespass is not a life sentence in the pen.

  24. If you want metric time... on Isn't it Time for Metric Time? · · Score: 1

    Then learn how to convert base-60 to base 10 off the head.

    Why should everyone be forced to accept a new standard because a few people want a change?

    Sounds like a "Tyranny of the crybabies....."

  25. Re:Widespread changes... on Is China's Control of the Internet Slipping? · · Score: 1
    Read the book "Lies My Teacher Told Me"

    http://www.uvm.edu/~jloewen/ and get a better view of American History. After reading this book maybe my fellow Americans will take their collective heads out of their asses, work together to fix our own social, economic, spiritual and mental problems before we start sticking our noses in the business of other Nation states....