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  1. Re:Serious question to Slashdotters on Do You Know Where Your Privacy Is? · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Wow, a rather insightful post.

  2. Re:I'm willing to give up my privacy on Do You Know Where Your Privacy Is? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    That's nice of you; but what you really
    mean is "I am willing to force everyone
    else to give up their privacy too",
    isn't it?

  3. Re:Tell us what services we can/cant run? on Peer-to-Peer Networks Blocked in NZ · · Score: 1

    (let's say a little site about sharks with a few pics and some info).

    Are those two-legged briefcase-carrying
    sharks?

  4. Re:just preparation... on Georgia Tech Cracks Down on Learning · · Score: 1

    If they did nobody would ever learn how to write a simple linked list, they would just use the STL or java.util interface.

    Why would they? They probably wouldn't know
    what the hell is a linked list to begin with.

  5. Re:So? on Georgia Tech Cracks Down on Learning · · Score: 1

    When you glean concepts from another person's work, you are ethically entirely obligated to indicate as much.

    And on the 943th page of the Acknowledgments
    sections, I would like to point out that my
    ability to count this high is due to Mrs.Smith,
    my elementary school teacher.

  6. Re:what? on Georgia Tech Cracks Down on Learning · · Score: 1

    ...the freshman was accused of similarities on 30 out of hundreds of lines of computer code...

    He used the same curly braces as all other
    students. Obviously they should all
    be expelled.

  7. Re:Undue Restrictions on Connecticut To Store Biometric Information · · Score: 1

    If I'm not rational enough to be dissueded by those factors, I'm probably one of those people who speeds and drives drunk despite the laws against such actions.

    You'll be dissuaded by being kept in jail,
    rational or not rational.

  8. Re:The first sentence on CNN Says Chat Rooms Are a Haven for Hackers · · Score: 1

    Http and https ARE the only protocols available, right?

    Protocols? What the hell are protocols? I don't
    want any http, I just want to surf the Web.
    All my friends can do it, and they don't
    have any HTTPs... One of them has HP, and
    it works fine...

  9. Re:Schools are a haven for anarchists on CNN Says Chat Rooms Are a Haven for Hackers · · Score: 1

    In fact, it is estimated that practically
    all of horrific crimes on humanity have
    been perpetrated by regular users of dihydrogen
    monoxide. How many more must die???

  10. Re:Before you break out the champagne, ... on Tattered Cover v. Thornton Reversed · · Score: 1

    illegal for the media to report on any such seizure

    Heil, fuhrer Ashcroft.

  11. Re:communism on Tattered Cover v. Thornton Reversed · · Score: 1

    In czar russia there were forbidden books

    Yeah. In czarist Russia. It all, of course, changed
    when the Bolsheviks took over.

  12. Re:1st Amendment? Not 4th? on Tattered Cover v. Thornton Reversed · · Score: 1

    It's a bookstore, therefore, it must fall under free press.

    Ouch! Would you like to fall under
    a press, however free?

  13. Re:Universal Translator on Distributed Translation Project · · Score: 1

    Put "type a euphamism for drugs" as one of the questions


    And it will suggest proper spelling for
    the word "euphemism".

  14. Seven words... on Distributed Translation Project · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    All your base are belong to us.

  15. Re:Hey! That's not funny! on Honesty/Ethics In Job Applications? · · Score: 1

    Hint: recruiters are clueless. Try to
    go directly to the employer.

  16. Interesting laissez-faire knee-jerkers on Honesty/Ethics In Job Applications? · · Score: 1
    Does anyone else find it amusing, that those same knee-jerkers who say that whoever owns the property makes the rules, and should be able to fire people as they see fit, looking out for their best interest, will tell employees to act in the company's best interest also. Perhaps you misread Adam Smith - it is not just capitalist's self-interest and everyone else's subservience.

    Take care of yourself first; you damn well know that the company will fire you whenever it is in their best interest of the company - why should your behavior be any different? be

  17. Re:Cyborg?-Risky electronics. on Slashback: Blender, Pictures, Servitude · · Score: 1

    Need I remind you there is know way that they could have known that they were not a bomb.

    Exactly. Because the security personnel is
    so fucking incompetent. But they are real
    men, because the guns and authority are
    on their side, and to keep the guns and authority
    they must keep up the show of working. Meanwhile,
    test cases still show guns and bombs smuggled through security.

    Bleah...

  18. Re:Call the bastards, all of them, at once on CBDTPA Finds A Champion In the House · · Score: 1

    Indeed, even those that believe it can't
    do jack shit, what have you got to lose?
    It'll take less time than writing your next
    /. response saying that it won't work, and
    you can still do your other favorite
    form of protest (write a letter, support
    EFF, throw rotten tomatoes at your Senator,
    whatever).

    It would be nice if EFF issued a call for
    such massive call-in on wednesday.

  19. Re:Repost of "PETITiONS NEVER WORK" on CBDTPA Finds A Champion In the House · · Score: 1


    Why isnt marijuana legal?

    Because it shouldn't be.


    Because some people are so insecure, they
    only feel they're worth something if there's
    someone's lifestyle they can dictate.

  20. Re:Civil rights movement, womens rights, gay right on CBDTPA Finds A Champion In the House · · Score: 1
    Uhh, there are at least as many marching against this one. It's interesting that you refer to it as a 'right'. Since when is the freedom to kill your own offspring a 'right'? It may currently legal, but it will never be 'right'.


    Let's say there is no right to kill your
    child. But let's just say we disagree what
    exactly to call a child?

  21. Re:Sorry to take the corporate side, but... on Intel Puts The Squeeze On ... A Yoga Foundation? · · Score: 1

    but it simply "isn't fair" to piggy-back on the expensive brainwashing Intel's already done


    Read the article. They were not using it
    because of Intel's campaign, so nobody's
    piggy-backing anything.

  22. Re:Billion on 1024-bit RSA keys In Danger Of Compromise? · · Score: 1

    The point is, what's $1B to a major government?

  23. Re:MIT is over-rated... on ACM Programming Contest Results · · Score: 1

    How's von Neumann? How about, say, Rivest, Shamir and Adleman (RSA) -- all studied at MIT. Sussman
    who created Scheme. Stallman and many GNU people
    are affiliated with MIT in some way or another (yeah, I know Stallman studied at that liberal arts
    school up the creek :)

  24. Re:MIT is over-rated... on ACM Programming Contest Results · · Score: 1

    As someone who went to MIT, I agree with this
    somewhat - many A students in CS (Course 6
    in MIT-speak, to prove that I did go there :)
    could not program their way out of the
    proverbial paper bag. However, who cares
    whether one knows if poll() or select()
    is better - if you have a solid foundation
    and a drive, you can learn the intricacies
    of the current tool (OS, language) easier.
    Why should problem-solving abilities count
    for less than practical knowledge which is
    gained by experience? This is that kind of
    a contest; if you want to judge the knowledge
    of C/Unix, make your own contest.

  25. What about copy machines? on SSSCA Introduced in Senate · · Score: 1

    Must they include copy protection too?
    I want to see that :-)