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  1. Re:Any pictures? on First Hidden Electric Motor In Cycling World Championship (cxmagazine.com) · · Score: 1

    My client merely found these drugs and was on the police station to turn them in when he was arrested!

    We had the Chewbacca Defense. Now we have the Ashley Roachclip Defense!

  2. Re:What's the deal... on First Hidden Electric Motor In Cycling World Championship (cxmagazine.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    Motorized curling, perhaps.

    I'd actually get up at 3am to watch curling with jet fuel powered stones.

  3. Re:The wall will be built on Why Does Twitter Refuse To Shut Down Donald Trump? (vortex.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    The thing is that Trump isn't really a Republican. He's an artifact of the open door Republicans have. In any other election he'd be the latest Ross Perot, an independent candidate. But because the GOP has spent the last eight years enthralled to a pack of wingnuts, the biggest wingnut of them all now has a chance to win the nomination.

  4. Re:Twitter shouldn't be shutting anyone down.. on Why Does Twitter Refuse To Shut Down Donald Trump? (vortex.com) · · Score: 1

    Perhaps for a physical connection, but it can't refuse to transmit Twitter's packets. It is not the same thing.

  5. Re:The wall will be built on Why Does Twitter Refuse To Shut Down Donald Trump? (vortex.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Trump draws the dots and lets his supporters connect them.

  6. Re:Twitter shouldn't be shutting anyone down.. on Why Does Twitter Refuse To Shut Down Donald Trump? (vortex.com) · · Score: 1

    What kind of simpering moron would mod this down?

  7. Re:I skimmed the list of things he said. on Why Does Twitter Refuse To Shut Down Donald Trump? (vortex.com) · · Score: 0

    I love how Trump supporters always claim he's been taken out of context, even though the chief reason they love him is because he wants to throw out all the Muslims.

  8. Re:Twitter shouldn't be shutting anyone down.. on Why Does Twitter Refuse To Shut Down Donald Trump? (vortex.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    ISPs are common carriers, and are governed by a whole other set of rules precisely because they are essentially backbones.

    Twitter is an endpoint.

    Two different things.

  9. Re:Twitter shouldn't be shutting anyone down.. on Why Does Twitter Refuse To Shut Down Donald Trump? (vortex.com) · · Score: 0

    And if that's all Trump had proposed that would be one thing. But let's remember what he wants to do to AMERICAN CITIZENS who are Muslims.

    I hope he gets elected, because by the time he was done, the Republican Party would be a fucking shambles, and it could finally rid itself of people like Trump and Cruz.

  10. Re:Seriously? on Why Does Twitter Refuse To Shut Down Donald Trump? (vortex.com) · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I don't know, but I see a lot of rightard ACs are crying wolf, even though if Twitter decided to not let trump post any more, that's perfectly within their rights

  11. Re:Because that would be unimaginable CENSORSHIP? on Why Does Twitter Refuse To Shut Down Donald Trump? (vortex.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Indeed, because the Right has been just as guilty of trying to censor as the Left. Both groups show utter contempt for liberties so long as its some group that they view as an opponent who is getting the short end of the stick.

  12. Re:Because that would be unimaginable CENSORSHIP? on Why Does Twitter Refuse To Shut Down Donald Trump? (vortex.com) · · Score: 0

    As is so often pointed out, Twitter, as a private entity, is within its rights to censor anything it wants.

  13. Re:The wall will be built on Why Does Twitter Refuse To Shut Down Donald Trump? (vortex.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Because a guy who is going out of his way to show his complete contempt for everything from the Bill of Rights to basic human decency will just make things so keen.

    What do you suppose would happen if someone like Trump were elected President? Do you think the Supreme Court and Congress would just take a holiday and let him play out his Fascist dictator fantasies? His time in the White House would be horrible for everyone involved. Congress would spend most of its time dispensing with his vetoes, defunding any department he tried to turn to whatever idiotic or evil plan (if you can call what he does "planning") he had in mind. The Oval Office would resemble Nixon on steroids, as it would be the first time in over forty years that a POTUS had almost no friends on the Hill. About the only place there would be activity would be the Federal Courts and SCOTUS as Congress and everyone else that Trump screws takes his Administration to court, likely ending in impeachment for any of a dozen flagrant, even proud high crimes and misdemeanors.

  14. Re:The elephants in the room on Ask Slashdot: Why Are Major Companies Exiting the Spam Filtering Business? (slashdot.org) · · Score: 1

    I have Postfix with Spamassassin and ClamAV on a gateway server that the passes email on to the Exchange infrastructure. I wouldn't dream of leaving an Exchange MTA listening to the big wide world on Port 25.

  15. Re:Nobody is buying email software anymore on Ask Slashdot: Why Are Major Companies Exiting the Spam Filtering Business? (slashdot.org) · · Score: 1

    I have yet to see a Linux mail server that eats as much RAM and CPU cycles as Exchange. Exchange may be the best at what it does, but that's hardly an argument in favor of its nature as a specifically designed resource hog.

  16. Re:The Meh Phone... on Microsoft's Windows Phone Platform Is Dead (windows10update.com) · · Score: 1

    So Microsoft's inability to build any interest in their smart phone line is the retailers' fault?

    Why would any retailer take up valuable display space for a phone for which there is no interest?

  17. Re:Punditry... on Microsoft's Windows Phone Platform Is Dead (windows10update.com) · · Score: 1

    It's barely even a niche player. If it's not dead, it's pining for the fjords.

    Fanbois gonna fan.

  18. Re:Not just Windows Phone on Microsoft's Windows Phone Platform Is Dead (windows10update.com) · · Score: 1

    Blackberry is going down the shitter, and once the cash reserve built in better days is exhausted, what little of its patent portfolio that's of any use whatsoever will be used to pay for Chen's golden parachute..

  19. Re:Article paid by Apple to boo over it. on Microsoft's Windows Phone Platform Is Dead (windows10update.com) · · Score: 1

    Just how many times are we going to have to witness the "any day now Microsoft will take over the mobile world" before the REdmondites finally realize that Microsoft has almost no chance of ever being any more than a niche player in that market?

  20. Re:In other ness... on Pharma Bro Martin Shkreli Threatens Ghostface Killah · · Score: 1

    I think sociopaths spending every minute of every day in sheer terror and any capacity to effect even the smallest decision upon normal people would make a better world.

  21. Re:In other ness... on Pharma Bro Martin Shkreli Threatens Ghostface Killah · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Shkreli is a good reason why I think once a sociopath has been identified, they are forbidden from any position of management or leadership, even as lowly as a crew chief at McDonalds, and that they are put under constant surveillance and if they cause even the smallest amount of disturbance, they are imprisoned the first time under harsh and awful conditions for six months, the second time for five years, and the third time they are just taking out and shot. Sociopaths, once identified, should have liberties highly curtailed in every way; relationships, work, finances, everything. They are monsters.

  22. Re:Note to self on Pharma Bro Martin Shkreli Threatens Ghostface Killah · · Score: 1

    He's a sociopath. The driving force behind such a subhuman monster is self-aggrandization. They don't care about tomorrow, only about today.

  23. Re:What is a 'Ghostface Killa' and why should i ca on Pharma Bro Martin Shkreli Threatens Ghostface Killah · · Score: 2

    All you need to know is that a disgusting sociopath is going down the shitter, but his ego demands that he keep looking like a winner all the way down.

    At least Charlie Sheen was amusing (though if I were one of the people he'd slept with, I'd probably not be quite so amused). This guy is just a worthless piece of shit that I doubt anyone will ever miss.

    But he'll be back. Once he's out of prison, he'll start some mail order fraud scheme. Short of locking them in a dungeon and melting down the key, or just simply putting a bullet in their head, these kind of disgusting monsters always resurface, and always with some new scheme to steal other peoples' money and self-aggrandize.

  24. Re:Maybe just a tiiiny bit... on Pharma Bro Martin Shkreli Threatens Ghostface Killah · · Score: 1

    Only one copy pressed does not mean only one copy. There will be masters of the songs somewhere, either in the hands of the artist, the studio or the record company.

  25. Re:Maybe just a tiiiny bit... on Pharma Bro Martin Shkreli Threatens Ghostface Killah · · Score: 1

    I can't imagine many people shedding a tear for this sociopath.

    And you can't tell me that any recording artist doesn't keep the masters. This looks like a Herman Goering "the paintings are FAKE????" moment.