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  1. Re:The plural of anecdote on ISPs Won't Promise To Treat All Traffic Equally After Net Neutrality (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    He's not wrong.

    It was down for a matter of minutes because of a DMCA takedown notice.

  2. Re:It seems utterly foreign to me on Feds Moving Quickly To Cash in on Seized Bitcoin, Now Worth $8.4 Million (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Presidents don't make the law in America. Do you want President Trump to assume that power?

    But they do make Justice Department policy, and the policy in the Trump administration is more civil forfeitures.

  3. Re:The plural of anecdote on ISPs Won't Promise To Treat All Traffic Equally After Net Neutrality (theverge.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    Google was recently caught reading the content of documents stored online

    You mean documents stored on google servers. Did you even read the article?

    Ajit Pai's recent video defending the NN decision was censored by YouTube [breitbart.com].

    You are a lying sack of shit.

    Here is the video of Ajit Pai being a dumbass. On YouTube. Right now.

    https://youtu.be/JqONIPwidQw

  4. Re:Social smoking? Smoking media? Something there on Facebook Admits that Some Social Media Use Can Be Harmful (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    Slashdot is a bit like a wino that thinks he isn't part of the global economy.

    Except even the winos support unicode.

  5. Re:Social smoking? Smoking media? Something there on Facebook Admits that Some Social Media Use Can Be Harmful (axios.com) · · Score: 1, Funny

    You consider Slashdot to be social anything???

    Absolutely. Haven't you been to any of the local Slashdot meetups? They're a blast. We get together and have pitchers of diet coke and talk about how women really aren't suited for the very difficult tech jobs that we do. They tend to be sausage fests for the most part, but a few Slashdot celebs who I won't mention (mi, SuperKendall) are kind of femme and will let us feel them up at the end of the evening.

    Hmm....I dunno....I don't find /. to really be social media...just is a simple forum where people post messages and opinions.

    What is the main difference from social media, where people post messages and opinions? I mean, Slashdot doesn't include the ability to post images or videos, but considering they don't even support unicode, I'm not sure that's a surprise.

    Would you term USENET as being social media?

    Of course it is. You saw many of the same phenomena played out on USENET that you're seeing today on twitter or facebook.

  6. Re:Social smoking? Smoking media? Something there on Facebook Admits that Some Social Media Use Can Be Harmful (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    For starters, both are predominant factors in a large cluster of diseases.

    It's funny that users of Slashdot don't see themselves as partaking of social media.

  7. Re:It seems utterly foreign to me on Feds Moving Quickly To Cash in on Seized Bitcoin, Now Worth $8.4 Million (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 0

    Maybe we just think the people we trust to protect the innocent from criminals and the crimes of false arrest and prosecution shouldn't have a financial incentive to falsely arrest and prosecute people.

    Don't tell me. I'm not seizing anyone's property.

    Tell it to the Trump Administration.

    http://www.foxnews.com/politic...

  8. Re:It seems utterly foreign to me on Feds Moving Quickly To Cash in on Seized Bitcoin, Now Worth $8.4 Million (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 0

    Allowing the entity that can arrest and charge you with something allowing them to seize valuable assets from you, seems quite dangerous if they are to directly benefit from them.

    Of course you're correct. I just find it funny when people who support the Trump administration complain about police seizures. The current administration has made it clear that they want to increase such seizures.

    https://www.washingtonpost.com...

    http://www.foxnews.com/politic...

  9. Don't get too excited on Canadian Cellphone Bills Are Some of the Highest In the World, Says Report (straight.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    If you look at the actual report, you'll find the differences between the prices in the US and Canada are not that dramatic. And they don't take into consideration all the lovely fees and service charges that get added to your cellular bill.

    Here's a direct link to the report, because the article itself gives almost no useful data:

    https://www.ic.gc.ca/eic/site/...

  10. Re:It seems utterly foreign to me on Feds Moving Quickly To Cash in on Seized Bitcoin, Now Worth $8.4 Million (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 0

    Take the drug war. If it were eliminated, violent crime would be significantly reduced, along with 90% of the no-knock raids. Protects the first responders. Literally everyone wins, except drug dealers and the DEA administration.

    Don't tell me, tell all the jackoffs who voted for and support Donald Trump.

    https://www.vox.com/policy-and...

    https://www.theguardian.com/us...

  11. Re: It seems utterly foreign to me on Feds Moving Quickly To Cash in on Seized Bitcoin, Now Worth $8.4 Million (arstechnica.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    I'm not a liberal.

    That's exactly what a liberal would say.

  12. Re:It seems utterly foreign to me on Feds Moving Quickly To Cash in on Seized Bitcoin, Now Worth $8.4 Million (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 0

    I would like to see seized assets either be applied directly to the national debt or donated to charity. I would even be ok with the local police department deciding which 501c3 to donate it to but in no ways should they be allowed to directly benefit from either seized assets or fines.

    Why do you libs all hate the first responders?

  13. Re: They are starting up their own ISPs? on Motherboard and VICE Are Building a Community Internet Network (vice.com) · · Score: 0

    You know, like the way the post office 'juices' it's customers by offering Priorty Mail service at a premium over standard first class mail...

    Wait, are you suggesting that internet providers should be run more like the government?

  14. Re: Motherboard/Vice are shills on Motherboard and VICE Are Building a Community Internet Network (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    That reminds me... I need to get back to calculating my upcoming tax rebates

    You understand that there are no "tax rebates" in the GOP tax bill, don't you?

  15. Re:if by "socialism" you mean free market competit on Motherboard and VICE Are Building a Community Internet Network (vice.com) · · Score: 0

    On subject: This exact thing happend years ago in our country (Eastern Eu), which led to very good connection speeds. Unfortunately the big ISPs bought the smaller networks but the net effect is that the high speeds became standard as consumers were demanding them. This is real world what happend, not some theory.

    We've known for a while now that socialist European countries do free markets better than the late-stage capitalism in the US.

  16. Re:"Restore Internet Freedom" You Stupid Fucks on The Trump Administration Just Voted To Repeal the US Government's Net Neutrality Rules (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    Yet you're here mad he's not regulating the Internet. How do you reconcile that position ?

    He's letting Comcast regulate the internet.

  17. Yes, keep asserting that R voters are all basement-dwelling Nazis.

    I assert no such thing. Many Republicans live above-ground in garages or in Chevy vans up on blocks. I'm big enough to admit that freely.

  18. Re:Don't be mistaken on Almost 100 Million People a Year 'Forced To Choose Between Food and Healthcare' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    Try a real citation next time. Random local news and blogs have no place other than for low information 10 second googlers.

    https://www.washingtonpost.com...

    https://www.cbsnews.com/news/s...

    https://www.nytimes.com/2017/0...

    https://www.indystar.com/story...

  19. Re:No, Not Trump Administration on The Trump Administration Just Voted To Repeal the US Government's Net Neutrality Rules (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    Except Trump didn't nominate him Obama did.

    Obama didn't nominate Pai as FCC chairman, he nominated him as an FCC commissioner, one of two minority-party members traditionally appointed. Trump nominated Pai to be FCC chairman with the understanding that Pai would eliminate the Net Neutrality rules. As long as you're so concerned about facts, you should try to at least get them right.

    Trump nominated Pai as chairman on the day after he was inaugurated. He nominated him to a second five-year term in March of 2017.

    https://www.theverge.com/2017/...

  20. Re:Misleading Title Totally on The Trump Administration Just Voted To Repeal the US Government's Net Neutrality Rules (recode.net) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Because I heard lots of conservative critics claiming Obama had overstepped his authority in introducing Network Neutrality.

    Conservatives also claimed that Obama was born in Kenya and there's a secret pedophilia ring under a pizza parlor.

    I wouldn't put much stock in what conservatives claim.

  21. Re:Misleading Title Totally on The Trump Administration Just Voted To Repeal the US Government's Net Neutrality Rules (recode.net) · · Score: 5, Informative

    He was appointed by Obama in 2012.

    He was appointed to the FCC by Obama because Obama was required to appoint a certain number of Republicans.

    Trump made Ajit Pai chairman of the FCC. In fact, it was one of the very first things he did after getting sworn in, and Trump did it with an explicit understanding that the Net Neutrality rules would be thrown out by Ajit Pai's FCC.

    http://www.businessinsider.com...

  22. "Restore Internet Freedom" You Stupid Fucks on The Trump Administration Just Voted To Repeal the US Government's Net Neutrality Rules (recode.net) · · Score: 5, Informative

    You wanna see what FCC chairman Ajit Pai thinks of you? Here is a video he posted yesterday to tell you why you should not worry about losing Net Neutrality.; He posted it on the right-wing website Daily Caller. (for real, you should watch this 1.5 minute video from Trump's FCC chairman, as he reveals he has no idea what Net Neutrality is, and also that he is a massive fuckwit.)

    https://youtu.be/JeKK637IYAg

    He's telling you all the things you'll still be able to do on the Internet after he signs over control to Comcast. Oh, and by the way, in the part of the video where he does the "Harlem Shake", one of the girls he's dancing with is a blogger who promoted the "Pizzagate" pedophilia controversy.

    https://gizmodo.com/ajit-pai-t...

    http://www.slate.com/blogs/fut...

  23. purple drank on Wine Glasses Are Seven Times Larger Than They Used To Be (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    My sippy cup is also much bigger today than in the past.

  24. Re:People drink alcohol to cope with life on Wine Glasses Are Seven Times Larger Than They Used To Be (theguardian.com) · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Must we take it there? Politics in this place have already encroached into every discussion, relevant or not.

    That reminds me, I have another Roy Moore joke:

    "So, the Alabama Republican senate candidate ran a good campaign, but he came in a little behind."

  25. Re:Don't be mistaken on Almost 100 Million People a Year 'Forced To Choose Between Food and Healthcare' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    Huh? Citation required on that comment. Show me where people can't get insulin in the country that supplies it to most of the world.

    You could have googled it pretty easily.

    https://tonic.vice.com/en_us/a...

    http://www.kaaltv.com/news/mot...