I never use the PAM libraries, so this is not a problem. I could never understand why people take the time to fight with someone else's code that rarely does exactly what I need instead of writing their own little subroutine.

We have 3 cats, and 1 is overweight. Study confirmed.

I'll be quick here. This is Slashdot, not Sunday School. This is a site for rational people. Thoughts and prayers are an idiotic way to make yourself feel good about yourself, but do nothing for the victims. At the same time, fuck the victims. I hope this is the beginning of the violent revolution we've been hoping for. Considering you have have an FBI record for your prayer, it matters not that I get an entry for my statement. We are all screwed unless someone can reset Franklin's great experiment. This may be a start.

No it doesn't. There's no reason for any movie to cost that. It is assumed that any movie will pull in that kind of profit, so the producers are given that kind of money to compete against all the other high prices movies. Most of that money goes to bidding for top name actors, just like a sports team will bid for top athletes. Some of the best movies were made on a shoe string.

One political revolution will end it pretty quickly. For some reason the US thinks they are immune to such a change, even when they see it happening all around them.

Correct if I am wrong, but as I understand it the patent office just rubber stamps any patent application as long as all the eyes are crossed and tees are dotted. It's up to any other party to prove that the patent should not have been granted. Which is where all the expensive lawyers come in, which is why patents have no purpose except for huge companies to fuck with each other.

No, no they're not. Simple as that. The delay announcements should start around September.

The rational and intelligent states of Illinois, California, and New York are doing what they can to limit the federal insanity. Please give them whatever support you can.

Someone charges by the numbers for those take down notices. Someone at the media conglomerates got fleeced.

As a security expert (since anyone can make that claim), I have discovered that since code is written by people, and no one could possibly take the time and spend the money to absolutely secure any application written for any operating system (moving targets), that X (name your application) could possibly (if any number of random factors are taken into consideration) be compromised! Not that anyone has actually proven that any such hack has been accomplished.

How about give us some news when the exploits actually exist.

"SoftBank is growing frustrated with Sprint's lack of major growth in the U.S. market"

What is wrong is a stable successful profitable company? It seems that everyone thinks that a company that isn't growing every year is not a good company. There's plenty of wealth and resources on this planet for everyone. The end goal is not to have one winner who owns everything.

A haiku is not a poem based on syllables. Karma is not what goes around comes around. And a koan is not a RANDOM FUCKING QUESTION.

"Social media" is more like mass advertising than social interaction. It is a form of instant gratification, that takes advantage of people's inherent insecurities. My best friends are ones that I know will hide me from the cops if I arrive at their door covered in blood, not the ones that spend the most time making superficial replies to my random posts. Build strong relationships with a small number of important people. You will be much happier.

Damn, $50 million for filing some vague patent and not creating or innovating anything. How is this legal again? Oh yeah, the big companies use the patent system to keep out all small competition, so it's not going away any time soon.

I'm becoming more and more convinced of this. Two examples. There is a new season of Mystery Science Theater 3000 coming out in a couple of month, fully crowd funded. This is art that people WANTED, and we PAID for it. It wasn't forced down our throats. Another example is my favorite band Killing Joke. One member is an art restorer. One is an active music producer. One lives a no frills life style in Prague. And the last is composer in residence for the European Union. The band is what they do for the LOVE of art, not the PROFIT. They make some money touring, but almost nothing off their records.

Fuck the MPAA. We will have art and culture, and better art and culture, if they were to disappear tomorrow. They are no longer the distribution system of art to the masses. They are the road block.