What are the new international rights for Americans?

Now let's suppose a group of Canadian terrorists bombs a building a China. You couldn't complain if the Chinese consequently invaded the USA because you are harboring Canadians. The Chinese could march up to Washington, catch Bush, Obama and friends from pits in the ground, and execute them after a fake trial. While hunting the terrorists, they could kill innocent civilians with a ratio 5:1. These events, they could hide them actively from the media and from being ever discovered, because it is the patriotic thing to do and to protect the Chinese freedom fighters. If your family was killed at a checkpoint, you could witness people on Chinese internet forums discussing that it is irresponsible to have information about this incident released, that this would be anti-Chinese and evidence of a strong bias and sensationalism of the person of organisation releasing that secret info. There will be much torture, and those who expose it will be branded traitors, while the torturers walk. Many Americans and Canadians will be shipped to a remote prison. The new Chinese ruler who will keep everything the same will get the Nobel Peace Price.

You put a spin on all this crap that just isn't quite right. You work the sensationalism angle pretty hard. I like what you do, I just don't like your angle on things. And, guess what? I can say all that and don't provide the actual evidence of such. Was that an Argumentum ad hominem smoothem? What was the spin? What was the sensationalist part? If you can't provide this, you are the only one spinning.

Was this prior or after Windows Vista?

Let's not be shy.. Like half of the commenters here: http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/10/14/2220209/Wikileaks-Donations-Account-Shut-Down

If you are in there accusing wikileaks of killing people, you have now been officially documented as an idiot and an easy target of propaganda.

This statement brought to you by someone that feels that the post office will always run at a profit, who was extremely happy on how the recovery effort was run for Hurricane Katrina, and had no complaints about how President Obama's administration performed the clean up from the Gulf spill.

The hypocrisy of Slashdot strikes again.

It is not about what it adds to the movie, or not. It is about what it adds to the marketing process. Avatar was a mediocre movie if you take away the 3D and hype surrounding the movie. It was a very well played marketing event, where the masses just felt they had to see this movie. The 3D movies after that did not play this game as well. Jackson, of course, has proved he knows exactly how to play it. So this movie will be a big event, that everybody has to watch, and they will discuss the 3D, whether it is good or bad, and it won't matter, like Avatar, because those people discussing it already payed for the movie. Personally, I'm gutted Guillermo isn't going to make it, but "just" Jackson. The LOTR was excellent, but had its failings, mostly with the characters and story telling. It was a series of rollercoaster events with no depth. Jackson's weak points are Guillermo's strong points. Since the Hobbit is a smaller movie (in the sense of less rollercoasting) it would have been perfect for Guillermo, and at least very interesting considering the movies he had made in the past. I hope the Hobbit turns out well, but frankly I expect a 3D King Kong/Avatar type of movie with little depth, which, of course, will make huge amounts of money nevertheless. The 3D of course suggests Jackson will still not be concentrating on depth. I'll be happy if he manages to avoid jumping the shark. He came close sometimes in LOTR, with Legolas surfing the enormous CGI elephants, and an CGI army of the undead flooding a battle field.

Well, at least he is a guy with his own opinion, unlike some folks here who seem to be parroting a certain source with all kinds of information and opinion about Assange produced after the leak, a certain source which incidentally is the US government and which is of course complete objective and independent. Or was it you, who researched Mr. Assange? If not, you are a parrot.

Than I would just take it back, now wouldn't I. Or die trying. Simple rules. Unlike what assholes like you try to apply.

And he would just put a bullet in your fucking head. Problem solved.

I agree with that. Next time someones house burns down because they didn't pay a 75 dollar fee for the service. I don't want to hear jack shit from people that this should be a right. Even if you don't live in the same town/township as the fire department.

Cut welfare. And cut fire fighting/police protection. I'll buy a gun and up my renters/home insurance.

I wrote a perl script that parse's my auth.log. I have a variable I use for a threashold on number of invalid login attempts. You cross that number, you are added to a firewall table and the table is refreshed. You use known service id's in your login attempt, doesn't matter how many tries you have made. You are added to the firewall table and it is refreshed. Sends out an email to me twice a day.

I store invalid attempts in a internal table which is retained for 24 hours. I have found when the attack is spread out over a large number of ip's, that they still rotate through those ip's for further attempts. And again this drive them over the threshold limit.

Is this a perfect solution? Nope, I still have to manually monitor my auth.log. But not as diligently as I use to.

With password authentication turned off, thats about all you need.

But then again, someone lose's their lap top. Their log in credentials very possibly now is known by the wrong people. Unless, the lap top is encrypted(which it should be at all times).

I read that article and did not read where he offered to pay the complete bill for the fire fighting. But, I have 20/200 vision so I can believe I missed that.

I will be honest. I can understand the fire department saying no to the 75 dollar payment offer. But to turn down full payment I find hard to believe.

Thank you for pointing out something I missed.

Excellent. You start trying to make me look bad because you lack an argument, reverse the argument, and continue with another ad hominem. Meh. Here's mine: Your excellent argument was to call an extremely experienced web developer an inexperienced child. So you are a complete idiot with no class whatsoever and you sound like a baby. I wish you good luck as a target for the publishing business for idiots. (These lame "books" are only written because lame idiots buy them, little boy, a well-known industry "secret")

Pay the fucking bill than. People, companies, and cities do not work for free.