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  1. Re:A simple proposition. on Advertising Companies Accused of Deliberately Slowing Page-load Times For Profit · · Score: 1

    You left out the third option that will become a standard and that's to stall you out if you are using any kind of ad blocker.

  2. Re:Hackers on FBI, International Law Units Smash Infamous Hacker Bazaar Darkode · · Score: 2

    Not any remote controlled toy airplanes are drones, but put that one in the dictionary with hackers and move on.

  3. Fuck separation of church and state ... on Scientology Group Urged Veto of Mental Health Bill · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    ... and fuck Scientology for being a tax shelter for rich wing-nuts.

    The LGBTQ community should go this route so they can have religious freedoms like marriage, tax-free property, sanctuaries, ordained Christian pastors ... the whole nine yards.

    But I digress ...

    Fuck Scientology.

  4. Let's discuss privacy on ... on Encryption Rights Community: Protecting Our Rights To Strongly Encrypt · · Score: 2

    ... fucking G+.

  5. Brazillian evangelicals ... on Brazilian Evangelicals Set Up a "Sin Free" Version of Facebook · · Score: 1

    ... how many is that?

  6. Re:No Organizations on Ask Slashdot: Making Donations Count · · Score: 1

    First off, it's got to be a slow news day for this crap to show up like this.

    But, anyway, this and stuff.

    No one needs advice on how to help people by giving them money. You gotta be living in a fucking vacuum if you don't hear about people you know who need help.

    Know anybody, personally, who's fighting cancer?

    If they are traveling to/from treatments and have to take time off work with reduced or no pay, give to them directly.

    Always give directly.

    yw and stuff.

  7. Re:This is not difficult ... on Facebook's Absurd Pseudonym Purgatory · · Score: 1

    There is no deletion.

    In the world of Facebook, "delete." means, "not easily visible by the casual observer."

    You and I are the casual observers.

    We can deactivate our entire account.

    Not the verb, "deactivate."

    That means the entire account becomes invisible to the casual observer.

    --

    Facebook is clear, and I have verified, that things people have shared out are not necessarily removed from observation by others due to deletion or deactivation.

    I have seventeen (17) Facebook accounts.

    One is useful for communicating with family and friends.

    The others are simply part of my toolkit.

    Should you ever want to thump, pull, push, mash and stretch Facebook (like come at an account with the Tor browser and get killed), create some freemails and jump in.

  8. Sprint can do what ir wants ... on Sprint Begins Punishing Customers For FCC's Net Neutrality Rules · · Score: 1

    ... as long as it meets or exceeds its mission statement:

    "Our mission is to get you to pay us money and feel good about doing so."

    If Sprint fails in that, it doesn't turn out well.

  9. This is not difficult ... on Facebook's Absurd Pseudonym Purgatory · · Score: 1

    ... because Facebook's members waive damned near every right that is on any books anywhere.

    The only right we have is to leave.

  10. Re:ATT Techs on FCC To Fine AT&T $100M For Throttling Unlimited Data Customers · · Score: 1

    I apologize for any and all remarks that I have made that have contributed to your discomfort and I am very sorry that you have father issues that have shaped your world view beyond any hope of meaningful dialog.

    Be well.

  11. Re:ATT Techs on FCC To Fine AT&T $100M For Throttling Unlimited Data Customers · · Score: 1

    You don't know the difference between bullshit and wild honey.

    I actually spent a long time in Uncle Sam's Yacht Club, out on the Big Pond.

    State your experience and then we can discuss.

    Until then, get off my pasture.

  12. Re:ATT Techs on FCC To Fine AT&T $100M For Throttling Unlimited Data Customers · · Score: 1

    Halliburton's business practices are not the concern of the employee any more than the military's is the concern of, say, the enlisted men.

    In both cases, there are protections afforded employees who refuse to conduct illegal activities, but, in both cases, an individual can appeal to authority and are not liable for their employer's actions.

    Your agenda aside, we return to the reality that people who want a paycheck work where they can get one.

  13. Re:ATT Techs on FCC To Fine AT&T $100M For Throttling Unlimited Data Customers · · Score: 1

    I agree with you on all points.

    Consider the restrictions we're imposing on a person trying to make a living:

    1.) The person has choices about where to work

    2.) They choose to work there anyway (assumes they even know about the place)

    3.) Boom. They are an asshole.

    How many people dig through years and years of stories that are in the public domain to see if they have to become an asshole to be gainfully employed?

    How many "techs" do you think are going to bail from AT&T, now that this story is out, because they don't want to become an asshole?

    Thanks.

  14. Re:ATT Techs on FCC To Fine AT&T $100M For Throttling Unlimited Data Customers · · Score: 1

    Lots of people work for shitty management. So what? It's a case of blaming the victim.

    People just want a goddam job.

    Look at Chick fil A. The owner is homophobic. Let's you and me go beat the shit out of his employees over it.

    As for the remark you mention, I find it to be offensive, irrelevant, and not mine.

  15. Re:ATT Techs on FCC To Fine AT&T $100M For Throttling Unlimited Data Customers · · Score: 1

    And, in your world, management = tech ...

  16. Re:ATT Techs on FCC To Fine AT&T $100M For Throttling Unlimited Data Customers · · Score: 0

    How in-fucking-sane are you?

    Do you even know what the fuck a tech does?

    Shithead.

    That's like Dish@ having to pony up for something and you want to bitch-slap the person who puts up the satellite dishes.

    Jerk.

  17. Whoa, call Starfish® ... on Should Edward Snowden Trust Apple To Do the Right Thing? · · Score: 1

    ... feed the tuna mayo.

    Why the hell don't we all just give it up and sign off on FOIA to each other?

    I mean, all the people on the planet.

    I'll know your shit; mine; theirs and everybody can have mine and stuff.

    --

    You may say I'm a dreamer
    But I'm not the only one
    I hope someday you'll join us
    And the world will be as one

    ~ John Lennon

  18. Re:Behaviour in the past? on Should Edward Snowden Trust Apple To Do the Right Thing? · · Score: 1

    Right, and, I'll tell you what's a bitch:

    American companies are subject to attack by people just like you and me, if we felt like it.

    They aren't running stuff that's much better than we have.

    The whole goddam Internet is porous.

  19. Re:As polite as I can be... on Facebook Has a New Private Mobile Photo-Sharing App, and They Built It In C++ · · Score: 1

    This.

    But, politely of course and stuff.

  20. Re:I enjoyed the article ... on Hacks To Be Truly Paranoid About · · Score: 1

    I'm an old man retired from the business about six months ago.

    Systems people tend to piss me off, from college professors, through IT departments, all the way up to management.

    It's mostly ego, insecurity, paranoia, and pockets of silos.

    I won't blather on, but, simply put, I mentor that the word "user" is for manuals and should be referred to the "U" word elsewhere. People are our coworkers. We all show up to support the same mission statement: "To get people to give our Firm money and feel good about it."

    When I buy equipment, my whole Firm has to swim harder against the expense side of the ledger to keep up.

    And that's all I have to say about that. ~ Forrest Gump

  21. Re:Ask the NSA on US Navy Solicits Zero Days · · Score: 1

    Ask China.

  22. I enjoyed the article ... on Hacks To Be Truly Paranoid About · · Score: 3, Insightful

    ... I have heard of these before, but it's good to get a run-down.

    Stuxnet is my fav. It reminds me of the "drunk walk" algorithm I entered into a TRS-80 using BASIC, back in 1978 and stuff.

    As an IT person, reading the article was like looking up symptoms for an illness: I think I have every fatal disease and hackers are crawling all over my system.

  23. Re: Summary plz on How Facebook Is Eating the $140 Billion Hardware Market · · Score: 1

    This.

    If I had mod, I'd bump you +1, Informative.

    It's really a fucked up situation where some brilliant women used their brains to figure shit out and some goddam man was pushed front and center to take the credit.

    Humanity is retarded in development by a factor of the percent of women it has disrespected.

  24. Karma's a bitch ... on LastPass Reporting a Security Breach, Including Authentication Hashes and Salts · · Score: 1
  25. Re:Not relevant? on How Facebook Is Eating the $140 Billion Hardware Market · · Score: 1

    Good question.

    We more than comply with reasonable request.

    Similar circumstances apply to physical break-in.

    Did we have locks? Were the windows sealed? Do we have physical intrusion detection, etc?

    Is the phone room sealed? Are the servers and backup tapes and paper files in a secure area?

    Your point is valid and the answer is "due diligence."