Skidborg - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Not surprised (Score 4, Insightful) 311

by Skidborg on Thursday February 26, 2015 @02:28AM (#49134727) Attached to: Reddit Imposes Ban On Sexual Content Posted Without Permission

Is slashdot violating a human right by not publishing my cupcake recipes? Isn't that violating my right to free speech? No. Forcing an individual or company to facilitate my speech is not a right, and never has been.

Comment Re:that is like (Score 1) 311

by Skidborg on Thursday February 26, 2015 @02:23AM (#49134701) Attached to: Reddit Imposes Ban On Sexual Content Posted Without Permission

You might want to speak to a lawyer...

Comment Re:Not surprised (Score 1) 311

by Skidborg on Thursday February 26, 2015 @02:21AM (#49134695) Attached to: Reddit Imposes Ban On Sexual Content Posted Without Permission

Online forums/content hosts make their money by hosting content that a particular demographic wants to consume. Wouldn't forcing them to host content for every demographic means that every publisher of content would need to be banned from specializing as well?

Comment Re:It is winter. You insensitive clod. (Score 1) 304

by Skidborg on Wednesday February 25, 2015 @09:49PM (#49133517) Attached to: I ride a bike ...

Safety eventually becomes less of an issue than "walking would be faster at this point".

Comment Re:It is winter. You insensitive clod. (Score 1) 304

by Skidborg on Tuesday February 24, 2015 @05:15PM (#49121899) Attached to: I ride a bike ...

I take it you don't live where ice routinely gets several inches thick on major roads.

Comment Re:Not a fucking chance. (Score 1) 369

by Skidborg on Monday February 16, 2015 @08:12PM (#49070193) Attached to: Two New Male Birth Control Chemicals In Advanced Stages

I'm sure that's what really happened.

Comment Re:What were you expecting? (Score 1) 154

by Skidborg on Friday February 13, 2015 @11:32PM (#49052899) Attached to: Trans-Pacific Partnership Enables Harsh Penalties For Filesharing

It was that way for thousands of years. The idea that music has to come in a file is an invention of the electronic age, born from pure convenience.

Comment Re:"Four boxes" (Score 2) 154

by Skidborg on Friday February 13, 2015 @09:41PM (#49052433) Attached to: Trans-Pacific Partnership Enables Harsh Penalties For Filesharing

Build a tiny pirate ship.

Comment Re:My idea to stop hoarders... (Score 1) 175

by Skidborg on Sunday February 08, 2015 @02:54AM (#49009427) Attached to: The Man Squatting On Millions of Dollars Worth of Domain Names

That doesn't really help things. It's not hard to lie about that,or find people willing to whore out their home address for a fraction of what you'll save from spreading out the addresses between properties.

Comment Re:My idea to stop hoarders... (Score 1) 175

by Skidborg on Saturday February 07, 2015 @06:12PM (#49007613) Attached to: The Man Squatting On Millions of Dollars Worth of Domain Names

That seems wildly unenforceable.

Comment Re:now where will electrical engineers find work? (Score 1) 242

by Skidborg on Tuesday February 03, 2015 @02:35AM (#48966479) Attached to: RadioShack Near Deal To Sell Half of Its Stores, Close the Rest

Work in any of the other cell phone stores across the continent?

Comment Re: Why bother? (Score 1) 56

by Skidborg on Sunday February 01, 2015 @08:55PM (#48954707) Attached to: UK Sets Up Internet-Savvy Army Unit

See, this is what's making them lose. Israel's tactics allow Hamas to create a victimhood narrative and recruit thousands of people to their cause. In reality, Hamas is no more the friend of the Palestinian people than Israel is.

Comment Re:Wait... what? (Score 2) 56

by Skidborg on Saturday January 31, 2015 @03:20PM (#48947855) Attached to: UK Sets Up Internet-Savvy Army Unit

Every war these days depends on public opinion, both local and foreign. Without it, there are no recruits and there is no funding. If you can eliminate those, you've disposed of a lot of potential enemy combatants without bloodshed.

Comment Re:Why bother? (Score 1, Interesting) 56

by Skidborg on Saturday January 31, 2015 @03:15PM (#48947827) Attached to: UK Sets Up Internet-Savvy Army Unit

That strategy is what's losing Israel the fight in Gaza and the West Bank. For every enemy combatant they kill their opponents gain international sympathy as the downtrodden underdogs because every bomb builder is working alongside a guy with a camera and a tale to spin.

Comment Re:first to post Clockwork Orange (Score 1) 81

by Skidborg on Wednesday January 28, 2015 @03:20PM (#48926375) Attached to: Inside the Largest Virtual Psychology Lab In the World

Racist-ranting 12-year-olds aren't the most profitable demographic, and FTP players are the product, not the actual customers.

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