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  1. Re:8 months in a Swedish prison on Pirate Bay Co-Founder Peter Sunde Arrested In Sweden · · Score: 1

    Sweden doesn't work that way. Like most countries, Sweden has to agree to some extent with the crime/punishment before they'll let you ship you off.

  2. Re:His 'role in the site' on Pirate Bay Co-Founder Peter Sunde Arrested In Sweden · · Score: 1

    Depends on the purpose.

    Manufacturing and distributing guns with the intent of sport, hunting or even self defense, then no. Just like promoting sharing Linux ISOs via bit torrent isn't facilitating infringement.

    However Smith & Wesson coming out with a new ad campaign targeting selling untraceable guns and ammo to known murderers would.

    Even military contractors at least in theory are selling weapons to allow posturing in such a way that prevents wars (I won't try very hard to argue that one though cause its probably not true).

    I understand your point, but hiding behind the good examples of usage while you intentionally make every effort possible to promote the bad uses makes it a different ball game entirely.

    Hell, look at the name. Look at how they would brag about ignoring C&D letters and hide behind Swedish law to do so.

    I'm not a copyright Nazi. When I was younger, I certainly frequented TPB, but I had no delusions about what I was doing there. Now I'm a gainfully employed (actually I'm not at the moment, but thats another story :/) software developer, so I have a different perspective on the issue.

    I don't actually have a problem with kids who don't have a bunch of money to blow on games occasionally pirating a AAA title or copy of the latest Windows/OSX or my software. I do have a problem with making piracy easy for the masses so that everyone can do it with no effort so that it becomes easier for those who are ABLE to pay a fair price don't do so. I spent my time on IRC running bots, and I still have no problem with DCC serves to some extent, but in no way is something like Napster OK since it meant Grandma suddenly could get any and EVERY song she wanted without any contribution what so ever, and worse still it promoted the idea of not paying those who did the work.

    No, its not okay to put the single mom of 3 in jail or fine her hundreds of thousands of dollars because her son wanted to listen to the latest eminem song that she was NEVER going to buy because she had enough of a hard time feeding him in the first place, but it is equally not okay to teach him/her that its okay to steal that work.

  3. Re:His 'role in the site' on Pirate Bay Co-Founder Peter Sunde Arrested In Sweden · · Score: 1

    Being an advocate of a crime is not the same thing as being an accessory to a crime.

    No it isn't, but TPB's founders were both.

  4. Re:His 'role in the site' on Pirate Bay Co-Founder Peter Sunde Arrested In Sweden · · Score: 1

    TPB exists entirely on the premise of facilitating file sharing using the bittorrent protocol.

    If you actually believe that is the only reason, and that copyright infringement wasn't intentional, you're a moron.

  5. Re:Cool Technology on After the Sun (Microsystems) Sets, the Real Stories Come Out · · Score: 2

    SUN created cutting edge hardware. Invented new technologies. Actually added value to society, the economy and science.

    So does McDonalds. It may not be in food quality, but logistics and real estate are McDonalds strong points at this stage of the game.

    Just because you don't have the slightest idea what it takes to make an organization like McDonalds work doesn't mean you're qualified to make silly statements about how worthy their contributions to the world and existence are.

  6. Re:License Java on After the Sun (Microsystems) Sets, the Real Stories Come Out · · Score: 1

    And a $1 fee prevents you from running Java on Linux how? Just because Linux users refuse to pay for anything? Not an actual fact, but most slashdot fanboys won't pay for shit, so I'm guessing thats your life of reasoning?

  7. Re:His 'role in the site' on Pirate Bay Co-Founder Peter Sunde Arrested In Sweden · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Do you have any idea how stupid you sound when you make such statements. You lose all credibility when you act like facilitating crime isn't in and of itself a crime. Google accidentally linking to some files is one thing. TPB exists entirely on the premise of facilitating copyright infringement. Thats different.

    Google linking to information on how to make meth is one thing. Actively selling the chemicals to do so along with an instruction book detailing how to make meth and advertising yourself as the place to go for all your meth making needs is another.

    Continuing to pretend they aren't intentionally facilitating copyright infringement just makes you seem stupid and/or dishonest at best. A flat out liar for any normal person.

  8. No one cares about your shitty dissertation on Terran Computational Calendar Introduces Minimonths, Year Bases, and Datemods · · Score: 1

    This wreaks of silly dissertation for a PhD student who didn't have anything actually useful to write about. Either way, just keep it, you've provided nothing useful other than change 'because you think we should all change'

  9. Re:Could the soul survive? on Scientists Find Method To Reliably Teleport Data · · Score: 1

    Theres strong evidence to indicate that your mind works with and has a sizable bit of quantum state information ... your soul in effect.

    Just because you don't believe in a God doesn't mean you don't have a soul, according to the modern dictionary definition anyway.

    http://dictionary.reference.co...

  10. Re:all i really want from IE on Next IE Version Will Feature Web Audio, Media Capture, ES6 Promises, and HTTP/2 · · Score: 1

    Yes, good for your little journal that no one cares about. For those of use that like to reach the widest audience and have a clue, IE still matters.

    When you make statements like yours you make it clear you've never ran a website that matters. Older IEs are still a significant percentage of users and no company of any size allows the auto-updating bullshit on their network, Chrome or Firefox.

    Basically you just told us you know nothing about making websites.

  11. Re:What a punishment on Former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer Buys the LA Clippers For $2 Billion · · Score: 1

    I'd agree with you, you don't seem to be much of a sports person yourself ... since we're talking about basketball ... not baseball.

    Pau Gasol is a basketball player (though not for the Clippers) , and a high screen is a specific offensive tactic

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

  12. Re:What a punishment on Former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer Buys the LA Clippers For $2 Billion · · Score: 1

    What about the ones court side?

  13. Re:Namecoin in client-server mode on OpenSSL To Undergo Security Audit, Gets Cash For 2 Developers · · Score: 1

    Yea, running your PKI infrastructure on a VPS is always the way to go, makes total sense since you're not trusting other third parties to verify things that you would trust a third party to provide you with a virtual instance to run it on ...

    Do you even understand how a VPS or VM work?

  14. Re:Sigh on Virtual DVDs, Revisited · · Score: 2

    Just because you register a domain and stumble through posting some pages, doesn't make you a 'columnist'. Nor does proxy editing a wikipedia page about yourself. Seriously, its a bunch of tripe and bullshit.

    He's been established as a fucking moron who thinks he has a clue. His ignorant rants about why his peacefire.org and circumventor.org mailing lists get blocked by large number of organizations are prime examples of why he is entirely unqualified to be posting anything that can be considered front page worthy.

  15. False assumptions on Parenting Rewires the Male Brain · · Score: 5, Insightful

    One assumption of this study is that because homosexual men have a specific reaction in their brains, that all men have it. It ignores the possibility that homosexual men's brains are different from the start. It doesn't consider/ignores the fact that homosexual men are wired differently from the start which means they may have the same ability as women from the start as well. The wiring that makes a man homosexual may be the same wiring that makes them more nurturing/worrying/ect like mothers.

    There isn't enough evidence to draw the conclusions they are drawing. This is a simple matter of someone deciding correlation is causation. It may be true, it may not, but this study is pretty inconclusive and jumps to conclusions that it shouldn't

    I see nothing referencing heterosexual single fathers and how they compare/contrast to all this, which would be much more telling as far as the conclusions they've drawn.

  16. Re:Are you kidding me? on Registry Hack Enables Continued Updates For Windows XP · · Score: 1

    Yes, its pretty easy actually. It does require physical access for a couple minutes, but if they run in the plenum its trivial to do it without getting caught. Take me less than 5 minutes to put your ethernet cable on a nicely hidden wireless link for sniffing, though the wireless link wouldn't keep up if you were burning data at a high rate of speed constantly. I could also just break your data off to another ethernet cable as well. I can add a tap in less than 5 minutes. If it has to work for an extended period of time and power isn't readily available (which it generally isn't available as an outlet in the plenum or subfloor/basement, then I might need a half an hour to wire up an outlet.

    Tapping ethernet is trivial to say the least.

    Unless you're using 802.1x, but lets face it, if you're not aware of how easy it is to tap an ethernet connection in almost every building on the planet, 802.1x isn't going to be something you know much about either.

  17. Re:IMPOSSIBLE on Google Releases VirusTotal Uploader For OS X · · Score: 2

    ...

    What mac user runs as root? OSX never has by default allowed root to login, and Classic Mac OS didn't really have a concept of users. It most certainly does require you to provide your password to do administrative tasks just like SUDO. To access a root shell you must tweak some preferences so you can login as root directly or sudo bash to get a root shell.

    OSX doesn't come with MySQL, so if you installed it with no password, thats because you're a moron like your other posts imply. My machine shows postgresql listening and 2 other ports. PostgreSQL I installed the other 2 are CUPS and Xsan management ports, neither are on by default. So what exactly you're trying to refer too is beyond me.

    PHP shows version 5.4.24, but Apache isn't running by default. If you're playing with scripting languages and do stupid shit like using user input in ad-hoc SQL statements, again, thats your problem.

    Do you ever post anything that doesn't look retarded? You're not even trolling, you're just that stupid.

  18. Re:A lose/lose/lose situation on Has the Ethanol Threat Manifested In the US? · · Score: 1, Informative

    The person you're responding too is one of those people who knows a little about engines, but not enough to know what they are doing ... just enough to sound like it.

    He thinks he knows all about it but then makes silly statements where he's confusing two different things and doesn't even realize that cause A does not result in effect B.

  19. Re:Ethanol threat??!!! on Has the Ethanol Threat Manifested In the US? · · Score: 1, Troll

    Yea, we need to keep our booze, slashdot has devolved to the point where timothy posts his own tripe to the front page. Doesn't even bother with faking it through other editors anymore. There isn't enough booze to deal with this problem :(

  20. Re:Never used this keystroke on Goodbye, Ctrl-S · · Score: 1

    Save As is now 'Duplicate' and then you rename it, not aware of any apps that removed Save As that didn't add Duplicate

  21. Re:terminology on Google Fiber: No Charge For Peering, No Fast Lanes · · Score: 4, Informative

    The price of a T1 hasn't really changed all that much. Due to LEGAL requirements for the SLA associated with a T1, its unlikely to change for the foreseeable future.

    Now getting far more than a T1's worth of bandwidth for far less is easy, but thats not a T1 nor does it come with the SLA that will have the provider working at 3am on a Sunday morning to get it back on line as required BY LAW.

    Just because you get 1.5mbit of data doesn't mean you're getting an actual T1.

    LECs are still the only ones who can offer a T1 for the most part.

    If you knew what the terminology you are using actually meant you wouldn't have made such statements.

  22. Re:Why? on Silicon Valley To Get a Cellular Network Just For Things · · Score: 1

    Why would your meter be inside your home? In America, they are outside of your home, not sure what idiot thought putting them on the inside was a good idea.

    Why doesn't your power meter use the power lines its connected to for data transmission? Data over transmission lines was going to be the next cable competition, remember?

    Why doesn't your water and gas use the pipe its connected to for data transmission? Yes, its trivial to send data down a 'pipe in the ground'

    How is reading my meter over cellular going to help them find leaks versus any other method of reading it? If you mean they can add sensors to more spots on the lines and get more data back, then sure but you don't need cellular to do that.

    Using cellular for something thats already wired is pretty stupid and reeks of payoffs and bribes.

  23. Re:Hypocritical on Cisco Complains To Obama About NSA Adding Spyware To Routers · · Score: 1

    ... What?

    They most certainly have, its been documented, hell regular researchers have found the back doors and published about them.

    And thats not to mention directly ripping off Cisco IOS and using it on their own hardware.

  24. Re:Not heroes on Swedish Fare Dodgers Organize Against Transportation Authorities · · Score: 1

    Yea, but teaching a 16 year old that breaking the law is perfectly acceptable because 'he doesn't want to pay' is a pretty dick thing to do.

    If you don't like the fairs, stealing a ride isn't the solution. Don't ride. Surely if the fees are ridiculous, someone else can provide you with transportation for a lower price while providing the same level of service ... RIGHT?

  25. Re: Energy-matter synthesis on Scientists Propose Collider That Could Turn Light Into Matter · · Score: 1

    But you couldn't be bothered to capitalize Earth ...