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  1. Re:Decisions Decisions on France Could Offer Asylum To Assange, Snowden · · Score: 1

    Allow me to point you in the direction of the URL... It is, likely, near the top of your browser. It has words in there - they begin with HTTP://. When you find those words could you read them aloud for the rest of the class?

    Tip: If you sit still the dunce cap stays on better.

  2. Re:Assange. on France Could Offer Asylum To Assange, Snowden · · Score: 1

    I can't use Uber. They do not service my area.

    I am a patriot, as is Snowden. Snowden has accomplished more than I will ever accomplish - and I served in the military and I am running for office - there is nothing I can do that compare to Snowden.

    Germany had as many patriots as we have, probably more. They were called dissidents and were slain. Advances in travel and technology have enabled Snowden to go further but I suspect the end will be the same.

    How will we know that a threat is legitimate without spying? The two go hand-in-hand. I think we should not be spying on our populace, however. I think it is well within their charter (and is the norm for every country) to spy on the citizens of other countries. The failure, of the NSA, is that they violated US law and that they got caught with their hands in the cookie jar that belongs to other countries. Disbanding and firing will not have any lasting effect. They need to spy on the innocent, from time to time, to find out who is guilty. That should be what they do, they just should not be doing it here or paying other countries to do it for them. It also should not be on the scale that it is on but that genie is out of the bottle and technology has made it possible AND easy enough to do. That genie is not going back into the bottle either.

  3. Re:Assange. on France Could Offer Asylum To Assange, Snowden · · Score: 1

    Diplomatic immunity does not work like what you are thinking. It is a common misconception and not your fault. The host country, can and has, violate that space and can stop it from leaving the embassy. Much like you can, and will, go to jail if you are a bad enough criminal even though you have diplomatic immunity. Source: My training. I served as an embassy guard, from '78 to '80, in Egypt. I do not imagine that things have changed much in these regards.

  4. Re:Great, now how do they get there? on France Could Offer Asylum To Assange, Snowden · · Score: 1

    So, no, you do not have any evidence... You could have just stated that. I, personally, am convinced he is getting dropped out of a C-130, somewhere over the south Pacific, not long after he leaves the embassy and just after his "pleasant" interview with some guys who have a dark sense of fashion. I do not, on the other hand, have any evidence for this other than, well, this is the United States we are talking about. We are governed by assholes in this country. Do not blame me, I waste my vote on third party candidates.

  5. Re:Seriously?!?!? on France Could Offer Asylum To Assange, Snowden · · Score: 1

    Are you sure they do not have just one? I am not a Catholic so I have no idea how this works but it seems logical that ex-popes are not popes and dead popes are not popes. So, well. I can only think of one pope. Are there popes of a different faith?

  6. Re:fully half baked on Students Win Prize For Color-Changing Condoms That Detect STDs · · Score: 1

    I have always wanted a regenerating cow. Just go out to the field and call Bessy over and hack a steak off, three hours later she has regrown the steak, and you can go out and get a roast. I figure it will not be good for the cow but it might be better than death and, well, I am an asshole so I'd go hack a steak off.

  7. Re: Must it be a condom? on Students Win Prize For Color-Changing Condoms That Detect STDs · · Score: 1

    I am no expert at shoving random things into my anus but I suspect one needn't insert them all the way? I am sure there are folks here who can enlighten us though.

  8. Re:Boo hoo... on Google, Apple, and Others Remove Content Related To the Confederate Flag · · Score: 1

    I was not sure where to drop this comment. I also am not sure how to word it.

    As a black man, only in part I suppose, I am disgusted by this. I value my ethnic history and I appreciate knowing where I came from. Removing a flag, a symbol, is not going to be effective and the companies doing so are censoring and such is their right. I have to accept this. I do not have to like it. How would we feel if they censored the rainbow flag that the LGBT community uses? I am not gay but I would still be pissed. Just because I would not hang up a confederate flag does not mean that you can't. Hell, I once thought about having a classic Volvo painted up to look like the General Lee just to piss people off. I sobered up.

  9. Re:Those evil enemy oppressors on Google, Apple, and Others Remove Content Related To the Confederate Flag · · Score: 1

    Hindu, I believe, is where the Swastika comes from first though it is a pretty basic design so you may find it across the globe.

  10. Re:Assholes ... on The Next Java Update Could Make Yahoo Your Default Search Provider · · Score: 1

    Then change the default behavior if you are too much of a simpleton to observe what you are doing when you are installing an application.

  11. Re:This is not news... on The Next Java Update Could Make Yahoo Your Default Search Provider · · Score: 1

    Pretty much. When I boot to Windows I tend to pay a lot of attention to it. Mostly because the OS has screwed me and software for that OS have screwed me. Fortunately I learned a long time ago and I have not been screwed in a long time.

  12. Re:Pity we don't have a court judgement to point t on New Zealand ISPs Back Down On Anti-Geoblocking Support · · Score: 1

    Then no, it probably is not illegal. Else I am guessing the powers that be would have come knocking them down.

  13. Re:Arrest on Anti-Uber Taxi Protest Blocks Access To Airports In France · · Score: 1

    Tipping over cars and setting stuff to fire in the streets is illegal. Throwing rocks at the police is illegal. Are you ignorant willfully or are you just plain stupid?

  14. Re:Fuck you governments of the world .com on ICANN Seeks Comment On Limiting Anonymized Domain Registration · · Score: 1

    What does this have to do with you buying a product or making a donation?

  15. Re:Fuck you governments of the world .com on ICANN Seeks Comment On Limiting Anonymized Domain Registration · · Score: 1

    Who is claiming that? Remember to look at the source of the claims.

  16. Re:hmmm on ICANN Seeks Comment On Limiting Anonymized Domain Registration · · Score: 1

    What I find most amusing is that when the US government takes down a site they then register the domain name and keep it registered to prevent other people from using it. So, to the registrar, this is pretty much guaranteed money. I do not remember the name but just recently the, the US government, failed to renew a domain name and had to steal it back again. It was an amusing article.

  17. Re:Happy Thursday from The Golden Girls! on High-Fat, High-Sugar Diet Can Lead To Cognitive Decline · · Score: 1

    In this case it is just an example of how high sugur sodas have instigated the decline in the qualitty of slashdot discussions.

    Yes, yes it is an example.

  18. Re:Pity we don't have a court judgement to point t on New Zealand ISPs Back Down On Anti-Geoblocking Support · · Score: 1

    They might be considered pirated if they have some sort of mention about only being authorized for use in the United States or similar. They are pretty sneaky bastards. I do not agree with them, at all, but was rather pointing to the legal potentials. I also suspect that US law would apply and NZ would happily comply.

  19. Re:So long, Chrome. on The Next Java Update Could Make Yahoo Your Default Search Provider · · Score: 1

    You mean the Chrome that uses this same exact method to get installs? I am not sure that I understand your logic. The company you are changing to is guilty of BEING the installed malware that was bundled with other application installers. This is not a well-reasoned statement if you ask me, but you didn't. Also, you can easily prevent this from happening to you by telling the program to not do it as its default action or by paying attention when you are installing things which is something you should be doing anyways.

  20. Re:This is not news... on The Next Java Update Could Make Yahoo Your Default Search Provider · · Score: 1

    You mention having to pay attention. Shouldn't you be paying attention when inputting commands to your computer as your default mode of operation? We belittle the average user for not doing so but somehow we are exempt? That is illogical.

  21. Re:Google is too wild . . . on The Next Java Update Could Make Yahoo Your Default Search Provider · · Score: 1

    toke == puff

    Example: Puff on that joint a little harder, there is no reason to worry about the rest of us.
    Example: Take a toke off this joint, it is some killer weed.

    Yes I have smoked weed before - and I inhaled. I do not smoke it now, it just makes me tired, stupid, and hungry.

  22. Re:Assholes ... on The Next Java Update Could Make Yahoo Your Default Search Provider · · Score: 1

    If only there were some way to change that default behavior...

    Okay, so you should not have to and checked by default does not mean you can not opt to not make those changes. Anyhow, this is an easily (unless they change something) fixable so that you never have to worry about it again.

  23. Re: This will do WONDERS for Yahoo's image! on The Next Java Update Could Make Yahoo Your Default Search Provider · · Score: 1

    I was sent to their site to download a driver application (no mirrors aside from them) and it had no added crap with it. I have seen added crap from them before. Maybe there is some sort of agreement going on with them and authors?

  24. Re: This will do WONDERS for Yahoo's image! on The Next Java Update Could Make Yahoo Your Default Search Provider · · Score: 1

    Bookmarks updated - thanks. I do not have use for it so I did not install it, I assume it works as advertised. I am well trained to uncheck the boxes and to do an advanced install where possible. I do, on the other hand, have some not-so-diligent friends. They will, hopefully, utilize something like this as it is almost a ritual for me to have to fix their computers when I visit. Worse, sometimes they bring them to me. I even keep a spare desk with two monitors, keyboards, and mice and only one computer hooked up - the other is for when "friends" drop by with a broken box that needs some TLC.

  25. Re:This will do WONDERS for Yahoo's image! on The Next Java Update Could Make Yahoo Your Default Search Provider · · Score: 1

    Open Control Panel
    Click on the Java applet
    Click on Advanced tab
    Scroll all the way to the bottom
    Select to suppress sponsor offers when installing or updating Java
    Click apply/ok
    *tada.wav*