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  1. Re:So-to-speak legal on Comcast Allegedly Asking Customers to Stop Using Tor · · Score: 2

    Users who try to use anonymity, or cover themselves up on the internet, are usually doing things that aren’t so-to-speak legal.

    They have no evidence of you doing anything illegal, they cannot prove that everyone using Tor is a criminal, but even the hint of suspicion is apparently enough for them to cancel your subscription. I must ask, however, if such behaviour is "so-to-speak legal?"

    I'm surprised they haven't came after me for using a VPN.

  2. Re:I do not understand on Malware Distributed Through Twitch Chat Is Hijacking Steam Accounts · · Score: 2, Informative

    If someone wants me to type in my account and then my password I won't

    I really won't

    Common sense tells me that no one has any right to demand me to type in my account name/number and then my password

    That is why I do not understand why there _are_ people who are simply void of any common sense

    Ain't there enough stories of scams already? Why can't those people learn _anything_ from the mistakes of others?

    No where do they say they are asking for the steam account info. Fake raffle wants a username/email & password to sign up, then it installs a program that access your steam stuff. most people on their home computer either have steam running all the time and are logged in, or auto log in.

    I do don't do twitch.tv and I don't bother signing up for online raffles or anything claiming i will win something, because that is stupid.

    But yes, giving your account info out is very dumb, but I don't think that is the case here from the summary & article.

  3. I've had Steam put promotional stuff in my library automatically on a couple of occasions.

    Yes, but it doesn't download it to your computer automatically.

  4. Fucking Government doesn't care about US on NSA Metadata Collection Gets 90-Day Extension · · Score: 4, Funny

    I mean, seriously, wtf is the problem here. This is against the constitution. You know, the laws you the government is supposed to be holding. In fact, you are being called on it, Congress said Fuck you on this shit, the Senate is being slower on it, so that means it's okay to continue violating our rights for 90 more days?

    Fuck you and fuck no!

    I guess for the next 90 days, American citizens should ignore Federal Laws. I mean, if they want to play this way, we should play back.

  5. Re:Homeland Security FTW! on Drone-Based Businesses: Growing In Canada, Grounded In the US · · Score: 0

    If businesses and individuals can have drones, then the terrorists have already won. Sadly, the terrorists won right after 9/11 when the Federal government ballooned into a never before seen size, with the passage of the unPATRIOTic Act. Any time the government gets more power, the people lose.

    I hope you guys are enjoying the government you've elected. It doesn't matter if you voted for Bush, Gore, Kerry, Obama, McCain or Romney, the result would all be the same. We kept hearing over and over again "Things like this won't happen when Obama is president!". But guess what? They do happen, and they're happening more often.

    That's the end of my libertarian rant. Now start with your straw man attacks.

    I beat the system, I didn't vote.

  6. Yes, develope for the disabled on The Challenges and Threats of Automated Lip Reading · · Score: 1

    I can see how this would be great for deaf people, using something like google glasses to get subtitles of convo's around them. How about making something for people who can't speak, but can form the words with their mouth, Might need something like a mic but with video/lasers for reading the facial movements, that outputs it to a speaker.

    Sure it will get used for bad, but that is going to happen regardless anyways. So how about we do some good with it and help out the disabled people with some nice technology to make their lives more like ours?

  7. Re:What are the bounds of property? on Justice Sotomayor Warns Against Tech-Enabled "Orwellian" World · · Score: 1

    In the fifth dimension (time) your ownership started at some point in the past delineated by your purchase and will end at some point in the future marked by your death or other event. Again, check your deed for the particulars.

    Hmm, according the the book "A Wrinkle in Time" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... Time is the fourth dimension. Plus the Tesseract Concept was I thought a great solution to getting around. I do want to point out it was like 30 years ago when i read this book. But I was down with a red head smarty/nerdy chick being the hero.

  8. Modest Gains for everyone but Apple on Early iPhone 6 Benchmark Results Show Only Modest Gains For A8 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I'm guessing Apple didn't get modest gains, I'm sure they are making money hand over fist.

  9. Re:How do we actually know? on 5 Million Gmail Passwords Leaked, Google Says No Evidence Of Compromise · · Score: 1

    I could harvest 5m gmail names from google searches, and then publish them with bogus passwords and create panic. Is there some statistic that says how many of these were real passwords? Because wouldn't it be illegal to use them (accessing another person's account w/o their permission is a crime in the USA).

    Seems like it would be easy to manufacture a lot of FUD by making these claims w/o really having any passwords at all, and no one could verify it?

    They had my email and an old password I used on it.

    So while I am no one important, the list seems legit.

  10. Re:She deserved it. on Researcher Fired At NSF After Government Questions Her Role As 1980s Activist · · Score: 2

    Read the article. The terrorist group wasn't tangentially related to the organizations she belonged too, they were "affiliated." As in, "officially attached to or connected." Not "oh a few people were in both groups," like many people are suggesting. The article doesn't explain the connection, but presumably they were all of the same blanket organization. She visited a convicted terrorist from the group in prison, suggesting that she knew the terrorists and was in an organization that she knew was connected to terrorism, even if she herself did not assist with any terrorist acts.

    Knowing terrorists and having been tangentially involved in a terrorist organization is not in itself a crime, but yes without a doubt that is something she should have disclosed. Essentially, she lied on her background check and got fired. Good.

    Of course not everything should be asked on background checks. I think it's fair to say, sexuality shouldn't be asked, or political affiliation, or a number of other things. The potential for abuse is too high. But if you can't ask employees if they have a connection to terrorism, what are background checks for at all?

    I read the article and I came up with the opposite conclusion. Did she know that the activist group she was working with/for had ties with a violent organization? Nope, why would she?. She was about women's rights mostly, and the organization dealt with that. She moved on, and probably didn't think much about it. I don't dwell on the stupid shit I did in the 80's.

    This clearly is someone using the letter of the law to get rid of her, not sure of the motives, but she is purposely being targeted.

  11. Smart move by notch on Report: Microsoft To Buy Minecraft Studio For $2bn+ · · Score: 1

    Okay, look, Minecraft is at the end of it's life. Sure it's still popular now, but it won't be in a year or so. Notch is smart to sell for so much money.

    But will all the minecraft clones and crappy versions out now, it doesn't matter. Notch will have a bunch of money, and hopefully move onto the next big thing he wants to make. Still waiting on the Space Game he teased us with...

  12. No savings at all on Under the Apple Hype Machine, Amazon Drops Fire Phone Price To 99 Cents · · Score: 1

    The phone isn't being given away for free or even cheap. If you go with the phone cost .99 and a 2 year contract, you pay $60 for the 300 minutes contract monthly.
    If you go with no down payment and $18 a month for the phone, you can get that 300 minutes plan for $45. $3 difference.

    Still paying for the phone with the 2 year contract, pretty much the same amount as if you subsidized it.

  13. Re:Don't really care on Responding to Celeb Photo Leaks, Reddit Scotches "Fappening" Subreddit · · Score: 2

    Don't care how many celebrities got their nude selfies exposed, nor various websites' responses, nor that at least 1 celebretard was underage when she took her pix.

    If the person who coined 'fappening' comes to San Diego and drops me a line, you get 1 free beer.

    That one that might of been underage when the pic was taken, claimed that it wasn't a picture of her. So if that is not a pic of her, and thus could not of been when she was under 18, how is that child pornography?

  14. Re:related to 2014RC? on Apparent Meteorite Hits Managua, Nicaragua, Leaving Crater But No Injuries · · Score: 1

    Any relation to the asteroid that got well up into our pearthonal space earlier today?

    ya, the asteroid was hired to make a bunch of noise in the space watching community, so while all eyes were focused on it, some of it's buddies decided to sneak in the back door.

    Granted I know they can't see everything, but it's funny how they make a big deal about how asteroids can hit us, and watching one that won't hit us, while smaller ones don't get seen at all.

    Had that hit a populated area, I imagine a lot of peeps would be say, um, oops!

  15. We have privacy rights? on Should Cyborgs Have the Same Privacy Rights As Humans? · · Score: 2

    I think this is a joke because we really don't have privacy rights. The NSA doesn't think so, most government don't think so.

    So what privacy rights are we talking about again?

  16. Re:The biggest risk to the pyramids is Islam on Egypt's Oldest Pyramid Is Being Destroyed By Its Own Restoration Team · · Score: 1, Insightful

    More like 2.1B Crhistians and 1.6B Muslims.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

    Either way, lots of deluded people IMO.

  17. Re:At the risk of blaming the victim... on Apple Denies Systems Breach In Photo Leak · · Score: 1

    what the heck are these people thinking? Putting nude photos of yourself on a phone and synching it every which way? It's one thing if you are Joe-nobody but being a celebriry is entirely different. That's just plain stupid.

    I as Joe-nobody thinks it's brilliant. Keep being stupid, keep giving me photo's and movies to check out.

  18. Re:Yawn, already debunked on MetaFilter Founder Says Vacation Firm Forged Court Docs To Scotch Review · · Score: 4, Funny

    This whole thing was just a big prank, and there was no crime involved.

    Sincerely,
    Sundance Vacations

    Are you sure? I have this time sharing lawyer I can let you in on. Yep, your very own lawyer* to use.

    Sincerely, Sundance Lawfirm.

    * Lawyer is only good for 1 week out of the year. That week will be assigned to you. Lawyer isn't certified in the state you live in. Chances are, it's still a law student. No refunds.

  19. Re:or... on E-Books On a $20 Cell Phone · · Score: 1

    ...>

    Those librarians need to kick the hobos browsing porn off the library computers so they can get on ebay.

    Great idea, pick on the homeless.

  20. Re:LOL SteamOS on Ask Slashdot: Linux-Friendly Desktop x86 Motherboard Manufacturers? · · Score: 1, Troll

    Look, SteamOS isn't going anywhere or doing anything. Valve isn't going to make a fourth Console work, even by outsourcing the hardware work to a bunch of volunteers.

    How much do you get paid to make these posts?

  21. Re:Awesome on Raspberry Pi Gets a Brand New Browser · · Score: 5, Insightful

    So because they insisted on using a crappy 12-year-old design ARM11 CPU, they need a custom browser to compensate.

    Why not make a Raspberry Pi model C, with a Cortex based CPU? If they used a modern A17 at 1.4Ghz, it would be just as low-power and have ~8x more performance.

    Because they like to sell their the Pi's at or below $35?

  22. Re:Where are these photos? on Reported iCloud Hack Leaks Hundreds of Private Celebrity Photos · · Score: 1
  23. Re:Assange to help Kim Dotcom drop bombshell on PM on Hacker Disrupts New Zealand Election Campaign · · Score: 1

    Stop giving Kim 'Dotcom' attention. He is a crook and not the face we want any movement to have.

    Hello Mr. Government worker. Guess what? Kim Dotcom is less of a criminal then you and the rest of you US government bitches. Start obeying our fucking constitution again before we have to kill you all and start over.

  24. Re:Where are these photos? on Reported iCloud Hack Leaks Hundreds of Private Celebrity Photos · · Score: 1

    Where are these photos you speak of?

    I guess the internets are dead.

    https://kickass.to/the-fappeni...

  25. Re:If the Grand Ayatollah's against it.... on Grand Ayatollah Says High Speed Internet Is "Against Moral Standards" · · Score: 4, Interesting

    About as well as it did the last time..

    You see, letters in the hebrew language are also numbers. There is no W so V is used in it's place or in other words, V and W are interchangeable. It so happens that V is also 6 so when you type www, you are typing 666. That's right, every time to go on the World Wide Web, you are paying homage to the beast.

    That was the early rallying cry to why the internet was evil and should be removed. Of course some people who actually knew better checked up on those facts and it turns out a little different.

    Except that 666 isn't the number of the beast, it's actually 616. Google it, number of sources other then the one I put down.

    http://theologica.ning.com/pro...