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  1. Re:Are they responsible for the content, then? on Verizon's Plan To Turn the Web Into Pay-Per-View · · Score: 1

    Broadband providers do not have editorial control, and as such are considered common carriers. The lawyer who said they do is an idiot and should be disbarred for criminal stupidity. This act would make them contract carriers, and as such they could be held civilly or criminally liable for any infringing or illegal content passing across their network.

  2. Re:Same old song and dance on Verizon's Plan To Turn the Web Into Pay-Per-View · · Score: 3

    They have common carrier status already; they do not exert editorial control and thus are not liable for crimes or civil infringements that their network carries.. What they need is to lose that status if they get their way, thus becoming liable for all content passing across their network.

  3. Re:Same old song and dance on Verizon's Plan To Turn the Web Into Pay-Per-View · · Score: 1

    I'm fine with them getting their way ... as long as they lose their common carrier status and become liable for all content passing across their network.

  4. Re:3rd parties are viable -- see 1992. on Device Security: How Border Searches Are Really Used · · Score: 1

    And after Perot happened, the parties took complete control of the debates so that they can exclude any third party. No third party will ever be allowed into the debates again.

  5. Re:time to impeach on Device Security: How Border Searches Are Really Used · · Score: 1

    That won't work. The only way voting will make them take notice is if you don't vote for either party.

  6. Re:time to impeach on Device Security: How Border Searches Are Really Used · · Score: 1

    In order to stop stupidity, Congress needs to have a bare majority of the "opposition" party. That way they can't actually do much and anything they do can be blamed squarely on both parties.

  7. Re:Safety takes Precedence over Ethnic concerns on Could Technology Create Modern-Day 'Leper Colonies'? · · Score: 1

    Yes, but that's irrelevant to the point I was making. There is such a thing as "rough neighborhoods or bars in white neighborhoods."

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

    No, such a backdoor could be created at any later time.

  9. Re:Safety takes Precedence over Ethnic concerns on Could Technology Create Modern-Day 'Leper Colonies'? · · Score: 1

    You've apparently never been to certain areas in the deep South if you believe there aren't very dangerous areas that are in areas populated entirely by "whites." I know of places where you need a local escort to avoid being beaten or killed.

  10. Re:no ghettos pre-internet? on Could Technology Create Modern-Day 'Leper Colonies'? · · Score: 1

    Said cop would stick out like a sore thumb, and not of the variety that's simply "this is obviously not you neighborhood." He'd stick out in the manner of "this is obviously a setup by the cops."

  11. Re:Who do people still use PayPal high value accou on PayPal Freezes MailPile's Account · · Score: 1

    Skrill is UK-based and can be used as a payment processor on eBay.

  12. Re:Who do people still use PayPal high value accou on PayPal Freezes MailPile's Account · · Score: 1

    It's too bad such services aren't available in the United States.

  13. Re:return what you don't deserve... on Lenovo CEO Shares $3 Million Bonus With Workers · · Score: 1

    Indeed. I'm a libertarian and believe in the abolition of, or at the very least very strict control over, any entity which provides limited liability to those who control it. Corporations are not people. They exist at the whim of the jurisdiction in which they are incorporated, and should be subject to whatever controls are deemed necessary to keep them in line.

  14. Re:What a victory for Noodly Rights! on Pastafarian Wins Battle To Wear Colander In License Photo · · Score: 1

    You'll accept eggs, ham, or cheese (Carbonara), but meatballs are sinful? Hypocrisy and heresy!

    You are hereby sentenced to death by meatballing!

  15. Re:Hey on Pastafarian Wins Battle To Wear Colander In License Photo · · Score: 1

    "True Christians are the ones who believe in God and mock and attack anyone who says otherwise."

    I would posit that neither the above nor the sentence of which it is a parody are correct. Fundamentalist atheists and theists are definitely the problem, but I wouldn't define either group as "the true group."

  16. Re:Blind Faith on Pastafarian Wins Battle To Wear Colander In License Photo · · Score: 1

    That would be the continued absence of contrary evidence.

  17. Re:Hey on Pastafarian Wins Battle To Wear Colander In License Photo · · Score: 1

    It's an editing convention meant to convey emphasis.

  18. Re:Huh? What? on The Greatest Keyboard Shortcut Ever · · Score: 1

    It may be deprecated (I haven't checked), but they're still releasing new versions of 12.

  19. Re:One more reason that such systems make no sense on 100% Failure Rate On University of Liberia's Admission Exam · · Score: 1

    There's no such thing as "free market".

    Yup, that's pretty much what I said.

    And when one company refuses to play fair, what exactly do you intend to do about it?

    My comment was not limited to commercial interaction. That government is required to do certain things does not immediately invalidate ways of cooperation which don't require government. There are many things which can be done by groups of individuals to make any number of things better.

    An example would be an organization called Project Access, which provides free healthcare to those who are below the poverty level. The only government support is in verifying someone qualifies financially. Physicians and hospitals donate their time to provide services.

  20. Re:One more reason that such systems make no sense on 100% Failure Rate On University of Liberia's Admission Exam · · Score: 1

    In the US, "free market" doesn't mean an actual free market. I cannot think of a single one off the top of my head where it actually applies. The term "free market" in the US is invariably doublespeak. Crony capitalism does not a free market make.

    Government is not the only way to work together in order to improve things. One of the great downfalls in the US is the growing belief that only through government can things be made better.

  21. Re:One more reason that such systems make no sense on 100% Failure Rate On University of Liberia's Admission Exam · · Score: 1

    I hope they don't do that. The US system is thoroughly broken.

  22. Re:One more reason that such systems make no sense on 100% Failure Rate On University of Liberia's Admission Exam · · Score: 1

    In the USA, high school does nothing to prepare most students for higher education. The first year of university mostly entails unlearning the rote structure of previous schooling.

    The exit exams, where they exist, are a joke unless you're talking about private or charter schools. Public education in the US is a mountain of fail.

  23. Re:Huh? What? on The Greatest Keyboard Shortcut Ever · · Score: 1

    You're confusing Opera and Opera Next. They are completely separate build tracks.

  24. Re:Repurcussions for buyer? on Former Lockheed Skunkworks Engineer Auctioning a Prototype "Spy Rock" · · Score: 1

    The company was liquidated, so there's nobody to sue him for misusing the IP from that company.

  25. Re:The dilema ... on NSA Cracked Into Encrypted UN Video Conferences · · Score: 1

    In large part, US an Russian espionage helped prevent the Cold War from turning hot due to how successful each side was in gathering intelligence. I'm not particularly a fan of how US intelligence operates based on publicly available documentation of how it works, but at least in this case the outcome was more positive than negative.