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Comment Re:Are there any reasons... (Score 3, Insightful) 174

People fuck up.

Things go unexpectedly wrong as a matter of course in everyday life, let alone in the midst of innovation, since redefining the norm is a process fraught with a high failure rate.

Owning it, and retroactively covering models no longer affected by factory warranty? That's the kind of shit you can easily get behind.

Comment Re:It's tinfoil time! (Score 1) 232

Revolution is a reference to the Network program where the lights go out preceding the obligatory zombie outbreak.

If the power wielded by your overlord devolves into something essentially unlivable for the masses, and his power is concentrated heavily in electronic surveillance, turning out the lights is a way to level the field.

Comment Re:It's tinfoil time! (Score 2, Interesting) 232

Or:

Some of these people were being improperly classified as conspiracy theorists.

I am aware there are some who see conspiracy at every turn, as if no event on the radar could simply be happenstance. Shit does just happen, sometimes.

But, there were many who read Orwell and were convinced government would eventually devolve to this. Whatever they used to be called, it can now be said they appear prophetic.

Comment Re:It's tinfoil time! (Score 1, Insightful) 232

Your point is not without merit. Law enforcement is a sometimes thankless, dirty, ugly job that pays far too little for a vocation in which other folks shoot at you.

OTOH, I assure you the people enforcing the laws already have many, many electronic surveillance tools already at their disposal.

Do those with access to sensitive information routinely abuse that privilege? I would say the evidence is pointing in that direction.

Comment Re:Was he a HOMOSEXUAL paedophile, by any chance? (Score 1) 232

In fact, most pedophiles who prey upon boys are straight...

Mack and John were eating lunch at the truck stop when a man John didn't know strolled by the table and said to Mack, "Hey Cocksucker."

"What's that about, bud?" John asked his friend.

"I've been a truck driver for thirty years and no one ever referred to me as Mack the trucker. But you suck ONE dick!"

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