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  1. Re:What Disgusting Moderation on DHS Sends Tourists Home Over Twitter Jokes · · Score: 1

    The immigration issue is like a canvas on which you can paint simple sounding solutions to exerting control (like building a wall -- excuse me, *fence -- along the border).

    That's not an immigration issue. That's an illegal immigration issue. One would think that the difference would be pretty obvious.

    Racism is alive in this country, yet it's hobbled, forced to take bizarre forms like birtherism

    It's nice to see that the more recent practice of attempting to silence dissent with accusations of racism is alive and well.

  2. Re:Hmmm on Amateur UAV Pilot Exposes Texas River of Blood · · Score: 3, Informative

    Perhaps this link is what you were thinking of (mentioned by another poster above you - credit goes to him).

  3. Re:SOPA in MY Great White North? on The Behind-the-Scenes Campaign To Bring SOPA To Canada · · Score: 1

    God, I hope they can. The Harper government needs to be brought down at any cost. I just have my doubts that it can be, in time. Why do they have to be so evil? I don't understand their crazy desire to do everything the US tells them to, completely against the self-interest of the Canadian people. How can that possibly be good for our country? What is going on in their minds?

  4. Re:The Joke's on Them on Sir Tim Berners-Lee Speaks Out On SOPA · · Score: 1

    If you think that people operating a website that runs afoul of US law in some way committed a crime on US territory themselves, then you deserve to spend some time in a US prison so you can see what it's like.

  5. Re:Republicans love Big Government when it suits t on DNS Provision Pulled From SOPA · · Score: 1

    Nope, they just vote up laws that make the government bigger and more intrusive without yelling about small government at all. That's much better.

  6. Re:How about going back to flat-rate data? on Comcast DNSSEC Goes Live · · Score: 2

    From what I've read, SOPA would indeed outlaw programs that circumvent its domain theft. It seems like SOPA is going to do nothing but destroy.

    The best possible outcome to hope for is for the rest of the world to develop and use DNSSEC and other technologies, and leave the US behind its great firewall. I'd say that I'm glad that I live in Canada, but our ruling Conservatives are pure evil and do whatever the US Government tells them to (and I say this as a semi-conservative myself), so eventually Canada will be just as bad off.

    Know of any countries where the politicians aren't bought by special interests and where the country values freedom? Maybe Switzerland. I wonder if they take in immigrants.

  7. Re:Hopeless... on Tech Industry Reps To Speak Before Congress About SOPA · · Score: 1

    I wish there was a party that supports gun rights in Canada that was not also complete, total, and utter evil, as the Conservatives are.

  8. Re:Hopeless... on Tech Industry Reps To Speak Before Congress About SOPA · · Score: 1

    There's actually no way to implement it at all, as others have already pointed out. The existing corrupt politicians will simply never let it pass.

    It's too late. The American public has completely lost all power over its federal government.

  9. Re:How about going back to flat-rate data? on Comcast DNSSEC Goes Live · · Score: 2

    That doesn't seem like it breaks DNSSEC so much as DNSSEC exposes such attacks for what they are.

  10. Re:Zeno on The Doomsday Clock Is Moved Closer To Midnight · · Score: 1

    Or, you could have a radar system that can detect the incoming warheads with several minutes of warning time AND long-range missiles that can launch in that timeframe. The US has both. I'm pretty sure Iran has neither, though, so... I guess you're right.

  11. Re:Doublespeak on Adblock Plus Developers To Allow 'Acceptable' Ads · · Score: 1

    . . . we will start seeing software that tries to thwart SEO (e.g. by filtering the results returned by Google).

    Such software is long overdue.

  12. Re:Look at the credits for Adobe Reader. on Adobe Warns of Critical Zero Day Vulnerability · · Score: 3, Insightful

    What's more likely, a large number of Indian names referring to Adobe's US center which is largely Indian-Americans for no reason, or a large number of Indian names referring to Indians, in India? Furthermore, what is the primary reason American companies hire Indian programmers in India? Quality? Or is there some other reason, perhaps relating to their cost?

  13. Re:Agree w/Anne Thwacks on Half Life of a Tech Worker: 15 Years · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I don't understand this. Killing yourself because you can't find a job, and NOT taking out the evil motherfucker who put you in that position? Before shooting himself, why didn't he go to the manager who did this and shoot him point blank in his kneecaps and elbows? Use a powerful gun so they can never fix it and he's a cripple for life. THEN kill yourself. That manager will never, ever forget that day, and he's gotten what he deserves.

  14. Re:Politicians on Senator Wants 'Terrorist' Label On Blogs · · Score: 1

    Laws and morality have nothing to do with each other? Do you really think so?

    Given that everything you've said argues in favor of that, it makes no sense whatsoever for you to be asking that as though you think it isn't true.

  15. Re:Old news... on Study Finds Frequent Gaming Changes Your Brain · · Score: 1

    I assumed he said that because it's an Adam Sandler movie...

  16. Re:Human civilization fail on Patent Issue Delays Doom 3 Source Code Release · · Score: 1

    I wish somebody would murder you, and everybody like you who is turning Western civilization into an absolute shithole. Die.

  17. Re:Definition of Linux is...muddled on Linux Mint: the New Ubuntu? · · Score: 1

    Want to install it quick? pkg_add -rv

    Problem there is that the package will be ludicrously out of date unless you're on a recent release or you're running STABLE, which, despite its name, is a branch of active development.

  18. Re:Mafia on Zynga To Employees: Surrender Pre-IPO Shares Or You're Fired · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Management at companies like that need to do hard time. 20 years in prison would be nice. That's the only thing that will stop this.

  19. Re:Nothing to see here on Solaris 11 Released · · Score: 2

    This comment STILL hasn't been modded down? Are there no moderators anymore?

  20. Re:True to every corporation on End Bonuses For Bankers · · Score: 1

    It seems like a really easy fix would be for the government to insure the deposits, but not the banks: if the bank goes bankrupt, the customers get their money back, and the bank itself gets to go broke.

  21. Re:16GB RAM and GCC optimization on Android ICS Will Require 16GB RAM To Compile · · Score: 1

    A few projects do just that, actually. The FreeBSD hackers, for instance, warn users off of using -O3 for compiling the system (which compiles fine with -O2). Anecdotally, I've heard from other sources of problems from using it, and also that it's not necessarily even faster than -O2: it depends on the code itself. Seems to be not worth the bother of using it unless the makers of the individual piece of software have tested it that way.

  22. Re:16GB RAM and GCC optimization on Android ICS Will Require 16GB RAM To Compile · · Score: 0

    Sir, compiler optimizations can introduce bugs if the compiler itself has bugs. I think gcc sometime runs into this with -O3. By your "definition", those wouldn't be compiler optimizations anymore, but that is not how the term is defined. No true Scottish compiler optimization, and all that.

  23. Re:Crap... on R7RS Scheme Progress Report · · Score: 1

    You're an idiot. Don't comment on stories about lisp if you're too dumb to have even heard of it.

  24. Re:Assange condemns greed? on Occupy Wall Street Protests Go Global · · Score: 2

    I don't know if you've noticed this, but neither of those things involve the government forcibly spending your money on things you don't want or approve of, and as such, they aren't evil (not that a society can really exist without some measure of that, but people should be aware that while it's a necessary evil, it's still evil), whereas the kind of socialism which pundits are talking about do involve government coercion. Limbaugh might not make the distinction, but I do, and you should. Food for thought.

  25. Re:Good Samaritan Laws on Security Researcher Threatened With Vulnerability Repair Bill · · Score: 0

    Below, someone pointed out:

    "Ironically, Good Samaritan laws in Ohio don't apply to health care professionals because they're supposed to know what to do."

    Who's the idiot? You are. Fuck off and die.