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  1. About that White Album on Discogs Turns Record Collectors' Obsessions Into Big Business · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    It sucked. There, I said it. It had exactly one track worth listening to, the rest was mindless junk.

  2. It will fail on Dutch City To Experiment With Paying Citizens a "Basic Income" (theguardian.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Since they admit to not having the people to manage a system where you have to do something in return for the money, you are going to just give it away? No questions asked? And is there a system that requires you to be a resident for a minimum time before you are eligible? If not, you will attract a lot of people who want free money. That can not be sustained. You will run out of "other people's money". Either because people move away because they don't want to keep paying for a perpetual welfare machine, or because you've raised taxes to pay for it to a point that it destroys your local economy. Or a combination of the two.

  3. Tyranny of the minority is easy to control. Fewer people to lynch.

  4. It's awful because the vast majority of the citizens are not much more than slaves, have no actual say in the government operations, their news is censored, and they are punished severely if they bypass the news restrictions. As for that better standard of living. Not by much. Being forced to work long hours for little pay, no days off or vacations, horrid working conditions, and little or no options to change jobs does not sound like a good thing. I'm leaving out lots of other reasons why the Chinese government is awful. Here's a suggestion, try to breath in Bejing.

  5. Do I have to explain why Sony is bad? Here of all places you retarded piece of shit?

    Yes, you do need to explain why Sony is bad. Sony BMG? Different company with no real association with Playstation. OtherOS? An "extra" that was never advertised and was not officially supported. So, yes, please explain you retarded piece of shit.

  6. When 99% of an attack are coming from a single nation's ip addresses, it makes sense to block them, if only temporarily.

  7. I got in trouble at work once when I proposed a solution to deal with the massive number of attacks we were receiving from China. I said, "block China completely and call it a day." It seems I was "culturally insensitive."

  8. Re:Slashdotters live in terror... on Database Leak Exposes 3.3 Million Hello Kitty Fans (csoonline.com) · · Score: 1

    Nah. My Little Pony fanbros have no shame.

  9. Tit for tat on Phantom Squad Hacking Group Claims Credit For Three-Hour Xbox Live Outage · · Score: 1

    Find these fuckers homes and use a sledge hammer to break down the doors and take their stuff. "If you had proper home security, this wouldn't be possible."

  10. Their basic argumetn on LizardSquad Copycats Planning DDoS Attacks On Xbox & PSN For Christmas (softpedia.com) · · Score: 2

    They say they do it "because we can". They argue if you make it in any way possible for them to DDoS you, you deserve it. There is a limit to how much of an attack you can stop, and even the best planned network is going to go down if you hit it hard enough.

    Bunch of pathetic losers who get off on pirated porn and ruining christmas for kids.

  11. Re:Send the prof a shortened link on Go To Jail For Visiting a Web Site? Top Law Prof Talks Up the Idea (slate.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Which, oddly enough, won't let you browse websites that are known as hot-beds of unacceptable activity, like discussing the Constitution.

  12. Re:geohot vs ooxml on Ask Slashdot: Xbox One Or PlayStation 4? · · Score: 1

    OtherOS was never advertised and was never officially supported. And don't bother linking to the image of a PS2 box with the "supports linux" bullet point. That was a 'shop.

  13. Re:PS4 on Ask Slashdot: Xbox One Or PlayStation 4? · · Score: 1

    I guess no one explained how multinational corporations work. Sony BMG is a completely separate entity from Sony Computer Entertainment. They do not share people or policies. They have as much in common as they do with Starbucks. If Starbucks served you a bad coffee, would you boycott the Playstation? Because that's basically what you are advocating.

  14. Seriously? on There Is No .bro In Brotli: Google/Mozilla Engineers Nix File Type As Offensive · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Have the claims of victimhood progressed so far that this is considered offensive? Wow.

    Fuck those shrieking harpies. /yes, I am being offensive on purpose.

  15. Re:Chase cards text and email on When Fraud Detection Shuts Down Credit Cards Inappropriately · · Score: 1

    You don't need to call them when you travel. I used their online banking to set the locations and dates when I would be traveling in Europe. I'm sure the same could be done for other states.

  16. Re:This is why you call your bank before tourism on When Fraud Detection Shuts Down Credit Cards Inappropriately · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Ditto for me on Chase. They've caught real fraud quickly and got me a replacement card within a week. They've also made it very easy to authorize transactions that trigger their system (large purchases somewhere you've never shopped at will do it). You get a text message on your cell phone that you reply to then ask the shop to try again.

  17. Re:Crosswalks! on San Francisco Still Among Most Dangerous For Pedestrians · · Score: 1

    I grew up in Los Angeles and have lived near San Francisco for the past 20 years. LA drivers consider running over jaywalkers a civic duty.

  18. Re:It's the pedestrians on San Francisco Still Among Most Dangerous For Pedestrians · · Score: 2

    Based on your claim, the fastest you could ever drive in San Francisco is about 5 mph, because the pedestrians are simply that stupid. They will step into fast moving traffic no where near a crosswalk and scream obscenities at you when you have to slam on your brakes and swerve around them, narrowly avoiding turning them into a stain.

    If you drive just one time in San Francisco, you'd also accept the insanity or stupidity of the average San Francisco pedestrian.

  19. It's the pedestrians on San Francisco Still Among Most Dangerous For Pedestrians · · Score: 2

    They believe their right to walk into traffic overrules the basic laws of physics. I hate driving in the city, but have to do it on a regular basis.

  20. Re:Silly story... on This Is What a Real Bomb Looks Like · · Score: 1

    Right, a teenager built a biological weapon.

    Have you ever been in a teenager's bedroom? Every parent of a teen on the planet would swear in court their kid was growing biological weapons.

  21. Here's a suggestion on Ask Slashdot: How Do I Recover From Doxxing? · · Score: 0

    Put on your adult pants and grow the fuck up. Your personal information has been out there all along, so get over it.

  22. It's easy to define on When Does Software Start Becoming Malware? · · Score: 1

    If it does something that a reasonable user would not expect, it is malware. I don't care if it's documented because those bastards will bury their evil deeds in twenty pages of legalese.

  23. Re:Yes, they are employees on California Overturns Uber's Appeal: Its Drivers Are Employees, Not Contractors · · Score: 1

    Because it's impossible to be an employee at two companies at the same time? Huh, that's a new one.....

    Many companies have a "no moonlighting" policy, that prohibits second jobs.

    Not in California. Your employer has absolutely no say in what you do outside of their work hours other than you can't do something that would be considered a conflict of interest.

  24. Maybe ... on Researcher: The US Owes the World $4 Trillion For Trashing the Climate · · Score: 1

    Maybe we should bill the rest of the fucking world for saving them from a world war and rebuilding their shattered nations.

  25. Re:Ubuntu _is_ primarily a desktop OS... on Ubuntu Is the Dominant Cloud OS · · Score: 4, Informative

    It's almost as bloated with junk as the desktop version. I've been telling our developers to use debian over ubuntu. A base minimal container with Debian is under a 100 megs. With Ubuntu it's close to 700 megs. There's just too much stuff included by default. That means a whole bunch of things that could be potential security problems. Sure, you have to set up more in the Dockerfile since so little is included, but I consider that a feature, not a bug.