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  1. Re:Pope Ratzo the Idiot on What's Up With ProtonMail Outages? (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 0

    His Whollyness doesn't care for the fact the the American people were lied to and manipulated by corrupt politicians who sold themselves out to a foreign power, in order to achieve that vote. And I don't, either.

    But the truth is coming out as more of their activities and connections are being brought out and exposed under the bright light of day.

    #TICKTOCK

  2. Re:I see on What's Up With ProtonMail Outages? (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    Wondering whether they have anything to do with Slack being DOA world wide for a good part of yesterday?

  3. Re:The US House of Representatives on Bill To Save Net Neutrality Is 46 Votes Short In US House (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    By your reasoning, the Senate is also irrelevant. Or did you forget that *both* houses must pass a bill in order for it to become law?

  4. Re:Save the wireline? on Bill To Save Net Neutrality Is 46 Votes Short In US House (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    If you were really in favour of freedom, you'd be in favour of Net Neutrality. All your talk of "federal NN monopoly telco rules" makes it plain that you're nothing more than a sycophant, and anyone with a speck of intelligence ought to be able to see right through you.

  5. Re:Save the wireline? on Bill To Save Net Neutrality Is 46 Votes Short In US House (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    It's not at all unique to Slashdot. In case you've not noticed, over the last year or two, there's been a concerted effort by the telcos and their lackeys to poison the well by claiming that Net Neutrality is something that it's not, pure and simple.

  6. Re: Wait for the midterm. on Bill To Save Net Neutrality Is 46 Votes Short In US House (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Now that we've heard from the telcos, does anyone else have an opinion they'd like to share?

  7. Re: Wait for the midterm. on Bill To Save Net Neutrality Is 46 Votes Short In US House (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Asters certainly can't do any worse than the folks currently in charge. Bring 'em on, I say.

  8. Re:what about the knowledge test? on Uber Granted Short-Term License To Operate In London (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    I stand corrected.

    I wasn't aware of the distinction (I don't live in London, obviously). Thank you (and jeremyp) for the info.

  9. Re:Microsoft on Google Doubles Down on Linux and Open Source (zdnet.com) · · Score: 2

    "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence."

    The burden of proof lies on the one making the claim.

    And you can fuck right off. We're done here.

  10. Re:You always get it backwards on Ocean Spray On Saturn Moon Contains Crucial Constituents For Life (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    If you want to get pedantic, it's "Saturn's moon Enceladus", "Enceladus, one of Saturn's moons", or "Enceladus, a moon of Saturn".

  11. Re: For life LIKE US. on Ocean Spray On Saturn Moon Contains Crucial Constituents For Life (theguardian.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    Yes, and it looks like we just found our first volunteer! Do you prefer quick & painless, or slow & horrible?

  12. Re:And if you optout it just makes you even more o on Facebook, Google, and Microsoft Use Design To Trick You Into Handing Over Your Data, Report Warns (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    You can split hairs all you want, but a difference that makes no difference is no difference.

  13. Re:How Could This Happen... on Blogger Stabbed To Death After Internet Abuse Seminar (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    In your fantasy, would they also take control of all of the tanks, planes and drones?

    I'd really like to know how they plan to deal with nukes.

  14. Re:seminar on resolving internet issues? on Blogger Stabbed To Death After Internet Abuse Seminar (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    How large a payment would be required for you to take someone's place for life in prison, or even on the gallows?

  15. Re:And if you optout it just makes you even more o on Facebook, Google, and Microsoft Use Design To Trick You Into Handing Over Your Data, Report Warns (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    Lots of things that you're not seeing are capable of tracking you.

  16. Re:Ohhh, that sounds like Rassah's alley! on Feds Ran a Bitcoin-Laundering Sting For Over a Year (theverge.com) · · Score: 2
  17. Re:Ohhh, that sounds like Rassah's alley! on Feds Ran a Bitcoin-Laundering Sting For Over a Year (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    In case anyone else didn't know who Rassah is (emphasis is mine)...

    Dmitry Murashchik, who goes under the name Rassah, runs Bitcoin 100, which exists to persuade existing charities to accept donations using virtual cash. In January last year, an anonymous donor gave Rassah's organization a donation worth about 180 BTC. At the time, this was worth about $2,600, but with the cryptocurrency's appreciation since then, it is worth approximately $150,000.

    With no way of tracking the money or the donor, Rassah had no choice but to accept it to help finance his fledgling non-profit, which offers charities a $1,000 prize if they begin accepting online donations using bitcoin.

    “We received a sizable donation of about 180BTC at around the same time as a few exchanges were hacked and robbed,” Rassah said in an email. “I suspect the money was stolen. Since there was nothing I could do to figure out where the money came from, we ended up keeping it.”

    Not only does he want to bribe charities to accept donations in BitCoin, he wants them to accept donations whose provenance he himself admits (a) cannot be shown to be legitimate and (b) is very likely directly connected to criminal activity. No charity with at least the good sense that God granted a goat is going to go for any of that.

    Not merely scum, but very stupid scum.

  18. Re:And if you optout it just makes you even more o on Facebook, Google, and Microsoft Use Design To Trick You Into Handing Over Your Data, Report Warns (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    Doesn't one imply the other?

    (Let's not forget that, if you don't have a Facebook account, once FB becomes aware of your existence, they create one for you anyway.)

  19. Re:And if you optout it just makes you even more o on Facebook, Google, and Microsoft Use Design To Trick You Into Handing Over Your Data, Report Warns (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 2

    Say what? You're hitting an if-I-stick-my-head-in-the-sand-nobody-can-see-me level of stupid yourself, friend.

    Think you can't be tracked if you don't allow ads (or cookies, for that matter)? Guess again.

  20. Not a valid comparison: Many people are not really aware that there are alternatives to FB/MS/G. Many people have their choices dictated by their circumstances or by their employers.

    And perhaps you really don't know that smokers generally pay higher insurance premiums?

  21. Re:Microsoft on Google Doubles Down on Linux and Open Source (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    I have not been informed of anything, because you have provided no relevant information.

    It is not my responsibility to find proof for your claim; it's yours. Provide said proof or STFU.

  22. Re:WTF Tramadol? on Feds Ran a Bitcoin-Laundering Sting For Over a Year (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    It's an addictive opioid that can cause hallucinations.

  23. Re:Microsoft on Google Doubles Down on Linux and Open Source (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Only APK thinks that $random_link = $proof.

    Please provide actual evidence, or go home.

  24. Re:I must have read this right when it came out. on Blogger Stabbed To Death After Internet Abuse Seminar (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    You may be to young to remember signs like this.

    You're defending people that have made it very clear that this is the sort of thing they want to bring back.

  25. Re:take note on Blogger Stabbed To Death After Internet Abuse Seminar (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    I'll just leave this here. No registration required.