I'd be a lot more open to this creep's plan to censor everyone else if Google-owned YouTube wasn't the host of most every jihadi recruiting video ever made, many posted by specially designated terrorist entities which Google is forbidden by law to work with, under penalty of an ugly fine which is apparently never applied to the well connected. If a music company doesn't like the background song in a baby's first birthday video, it gets pulled so fast there is a whooshing noise as electrons rush in to fill the digital gap, but if someone complains that YouTube is in violation of the actual damn law against doing business with a specially designated terrorist entity, some YouTube employee will tell you that they have received your complaint, then do nothing.

So I have zero interest in this hypocrite being allowed to limit what I do or type onine while he sucks in ad dollars from scumbags watching innocent people get their heads hacked off.

I'd power my datacenter by killing all the troll posters, selling their organs, and then burning the unwanted remains to heat a boiler. It's both a public service and an endlessly renewable resource - we'll never run out of trolls.

True. It's a simple algorithm, and guessing the next in sequence is entirely trivial. I used to be able to do it in my head, no super-secret gizmo required, but I'm out of practice. Usually they increment the next-to-last digit and then change the final number to whatever is then required for the Mod10 algorithm, a function that is easily found online for use in form validation. (Ever wonder how they can tell you mistyped your number before submitting it to the bank? They're doing a Mod10 check. Most typos will fail, the accidental entry won't be a valid credit card number.) Everyone should be aware of it and reject out of hand a replacement card that has the next number in the sequence because it is exactly as broken as the one that came before. Call your bank and demand that they send you a card not in the immediate order. Yes, that means they'll run out of numbers faster, but the failure is theirs, not yours, so you shouldn't have to deal with a card that is insecure while still in the mail.

The nannystate regulators who ban soda because of the high calories are curiously prone to carve out exceptions for drinks containing dairy. They're very concerned about the health of those other people drinking cokes from large cups, but not about to start interfering with their own consumption of ridiculously high calorie Starbucks coffee-based concoctions. It's a class based prejudice, the wrong sorts of people can't be trusted to organize their own affairs while us enlightened folks need no restrictions whatever. As always with the leftists, it's about control, not about health.

It hasn't caused any problems with my OpenVPN based service. So sad that the corporate guys' software isn't working as well.

Wow, out of sheer mad coincidence I happened to be chatting with Steve in the old Metaverse MOO when the check was delivered. (Don't in any way recall why, he wouldn't know me from Adam despite having a friend in common.) Couldn't have happened to a nicer guy.

My only question is why there has never been a good computer version of Car Wars.

Space: Above And Beyond was a fantastic show that unfortunately ran on Fox and was therefore killed off far too soon.

They're worried about DUPLICATION of effort?!? How about putting in some damn effort first. More than a decade and over 1000 girls in just one damn city. All the software tools in the world won't help if you turn them away at the station or refuse to do any of the work for fear of hurting feelings. Spend less on computers and more on prosecutions for those cops who let those girls suffer.

Any relation to Barney Fife? He shows the same keen understanding of the law and uncanny insight into what police work is all about. He simply will not tolerate online anarchy; he intends to nip it, nip it in the bud.

Now if we can just catch fugitive child rapist Roman Polanski, who was convicted of his heinous crimes but fled the country before sentencing.

I almost went with "It's Mega Maid. She's gone from suck to blow." But that doesn't quite fit the question.

How long before Neil Gaiman has a t-shirt made of it?

I'm just guessing here, but wouldn't a private corporation be exempt from the qualified immunity law enforcement has in carrying out their duties? That's going to hurt.

Hey chuckle head - I'm not an anti-Semite. I was strongly implying that members of the *IOC*, not me, were OK with killing Jews. Picking on Israel is pretty much a competitive activity for most of the member countries. Athletes in international competition can refuse to face Israelis and aren't crushed for it the way a Russian athlete would be if he refused a match with a gay athlete. And the IOC for 40 years has steadfastly refused to allow any commemoration of the murders in Munich whatsoever.

And Russia, no matter their intent and access to tech, does not currently have the cash to pay for the massive numbers of internal informants that China has. Maybe back in the peak Soviet years, but not now, even with current income from supplying energy. And where the f*ck did you get "tin foil hat" and any examination whatsoever about Russian motive in the three sentences I posted?

Face it, the IOC is perfectly OK with corruption, oppression, censorship, and spying, as long as committee members get their payoffs, a pleasant facade is maintained while cameras are rolling, and nobody but Jews get killed. Russia wishes they could have the all encompassing monitoring that Beijing had, but they just don't currently have the resources. Keeping the athletes in segregated housing simply makes it easier to ensure that every single area is bugged, and each and every person there that the participants can possibly come in contact with is engaged in intelligence collecting.