Malware arguably (one of the greatest scourges of modern computing) spreads by just that, local root vulnerabilities No, it does not. Most malware doesn't need root to do most of the things it wants to do. Having root opens up some more possibilities, but it is by now means required.
But dropping all of alt.* just because a few have had child porn floating about on them? Get the hint: It's an excuse. Hardly anybody uses alt, it's mostly porn spam and warez, it just eats bandwidth and is a potential legal liability. They're happy to have a reason to drop it.
They just might want to use your product because it caters to their needs. Granted that phone providers are really bad at doing this, but... Really, OSS is now supposed to be user-centric? That's a laugh and a half.
Do you have any evidence to suggest that viewing child porn (or, more specifically, cg child porn) increases crimes against children? Did you not even bother reading the post itself before knee-jerking a response? He specifically said:
The justification for arresting purchasers is that they create the market for it.
Seeing as how you seem to have conceded the point now, can we expect some apologies for being called "retards" and "slow" and so on now? Like an honourable man would give?
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Just what I've always wanted, a Psychosis Helmet!
The kiddie porn is just an excuse. They want to get rid of the expense and liability of carrying the newsgroups. It's that simple.
Websites are not newsgroups. More specifically, no newsserver carries all newsgroups in the first place.
I'm sure their tears run like rivers due to this huge loss.
Care to point to which parts of the law support that that claim?
They are just choosing which newsgroups to carry.
Just like every single NNTP server out there.
But don't let that stop you from overreacting, though.
Somehow, I don't think getting you your warez is high up on the agenda of very many ISPs.
"Clueless"? He is pretty much spot on. Clueless to try and fork in the first place, perhaps?
You should perhaps consider taking the internet less literally.
So the actual ones sometimes don't contain any dosage at all?
Because you are only capable of knowing a set number of languages?
For all the people who think Slashdotters aren't self-righteous enough!
Since when are data breach notification laws meant to reduce data breaches?
Cynicism is no substitute for insight: http://zfacts.com/p/318.html
Sorry, but it is nothing like the old Lucasarts adventure games. What defined those was far, far more than the interface.
You think traffic from SlashDot would even be noticeable on Amazon's servers? You have some delusions of grandeur there.
You don't handle mistakes very gracefully, do you?
Even accounting for that, what you said was plain wrong, and yet you still felt you had to call others "retards".
Seeing as how you seem to have conceded the point now, can we expect some apologies for being called "retards" and "slow" and so on now? Like an honourable man would give?