2nd link in TFS ("use of a fake Google SSL certificates as a means of throttling video") is a self-starting video at PCMag. Because, I guess, we at Slashdot can no longer read for ourselves and must be read to (after the advertising plays).

It used to be customary to warn people of objectionable formats and maybe link to non-crap sources. Kthxbye.

"The Bill includes defences that reverse the onus of proof which limit the right to be presumed innocent until proven guilty"

How could this be? This would be completely counter to one of the most fundamental and commonly-stated protected in any civilized nation's bill of basic rights.

Oh, wait, I see the problem.

Exceptions in Western democracies

Australia is the only Western democratic country with neither a constitutional nor federal legislative bill of rights to protect its citizens, although there is ongoing debate in many of Australia's states.

He isn't an unperson until all his work goes into the memory hole. That is doubleplusungood.

And, quite tellingly, puts forth a suggestion on how to shut them up.

What I'd like to know is "if moderation hasn't silence Slashdot's angry crowd, why would it do so on Twitter?"

I tried tagging the article "not Linda", but since "not" is an exclamation point, it actually reads "bang Linda."

I don't think it helped.

Maybe he's not a fish research. Maybe he's a seal behaviorist. Or maybe he wants the cute seals to stay well fed.

This is not a practical bike. "Even on smooth pavement, your vision goes blurry because you're vibrating so hard," Collin said to an Atlanta Journal-Constitution reporter back in 2012 when he was only 15 -- and already building wooden bicycles. Collin's wooden bikes are far from the first ones. Wikipedia says, "The first bicycles recorded, known variously as velocipedes, dandy horses, or hobby horses, were constructed from wood, starting in 1817."

You know what else those early bicycles were called? "Boneshakers."

This seems like Maker/DIY gone terribly wrong. Why would a nerd be interested in this news?

Media agent says that a professional community not currently in bondage to ^w^w^w parasitized by ^w^w served by agent representation needs vitally to be served by agent representation, and by a completely unrelated stroke of luck, media agent is available to help.

Thanks. I was afraid I wasn't going to get my daily dose of advertising masquerading as news.

You're missing the (unstated) part that anything a "legitimate" politician says will be immune to this. Because, you know, they're legitimate. Just ask 'em.

Do you really think a politician would enact a law restricting what THEY do? Law is for little people.

From the Mel Brooks documentary, History of the Googleplex, Part I:

Count De Money - I have come on the most urgent of business. It is said that the shareholders are revolting!

King Larry - You said it! They stink on ice.

"It is not life as we know or understand it. Yet it is obviously alive, it exists"

--Spock, "Operation -- Annihilate!"

DMCA effectively authorizes disclosure. Problem fucking solved.

Sorry, if it comes to a pissing match between EU law and US law for a US-based company hosting on US-based servers and infrastructure, EU law won't even come in second place.

I suspect that's by design. Sick and sad, but true nonetheless.

If you want your rights to be protected, don't use US-based services. You're just voluntarily surrendering all your rights if you do.