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Comment Re:Great (Score 1) 133

DailyKos? Seriously? You should've used "Pravda" newspaper... Sorry, I don't take any of that seriously — not that there is much to take. Not accepting Obama's birthplace at facevalue is not racist, no sir — the whole thing about his birth certificate was fishy. And that he ended up posting a scan of notarized copy — rather than original keeps it suspect.

And where Kos claim, that National Review provides "bullhorn to racists" — that is simply an empty accusation.

links within them pointing out these very prominent Republicans doing this stuff.

Doing what stuff? Instead of posting a link to some links to empty accusations, why don't you pick two or three, that you can defend?

Or are you going to try to redefine racism again?

"Again"? I've always defined it as sincerely held belief, that certain race(s) is (are) superior to other(s).

Comment Re:skin it (Score 1) 681

They tried that with Vista and pre-SP1 Win7. They had to nuke it because there was a serious vulnerability found in the stack that they couldn't fix, so they disabled the entire functionality for both OSes in a patch. Their "new solution" to this was Live Tiles, etc in Win8.

As for changing Aero, etc, you could do that too - although next to nobody wanted to pay the license fee to MS to create those things, so it lead to some developers creating ways to bypass the signing requirements.

Comment Re:Great (Score 1) 133

None of these quotes are signs, Republicans believe Blacks — or any other race — are inherently inferior. Every party would rather a constituent group, that overwhelmingly favors their opponents, didn't vote at all — be they seniors, White men, or pregnant Jews. That's just political calculus — not racism.

Ann Coulter was making a statement against affirmative action, even if it may have hurt the particular pilot's feelings. Affirmative action is racism — bigotry of lower expectations. Its proponents claim, that Blacks are inferior — because they can not succeed without special privileged treatment from the rest of the society. Ann's opposition to that makes her non-racist.

And, for a little variety, David Duke switched from being a Democrat to a Republican.

Mr. Duke may be a prominent racist, but he is not a prominent Republican...

And this is what I turned up from Google in under 2 minutes.

Yeah, keep trying.

Comment Were Denisovans really a DIFFERENT SPECIES? (Score 2) 133

inherited from an ancient species of human

One of the definitions of "species" states, that if two can breed and produce viable offspring (unlike, say, donkey and horse or lion and tiger, which produce sterile hybrids), then they are the same species...

Why are Denisovans considered different species, rather than simply a different race (or breed?) of the same Homo Sapiens?

Submission + - Judge Throws Out Thoughtcrime Conviction and Frees "Cannibal Cop" 1

AthanasiusKircher writes: The story is classic: Boy meets Girl. Boy likes Girl. Boy goes on the internet and writes about his fantasies that involve killing and eating Girl. Boy goes to jail. In this case, the man in question, NYC police officer Gilberto Valle, didn't act on his fantasies — he just shared them in a like-minded internet forum. Yesterday, Valle was released from jail after a judge overturned his conviction on appeal. U.S. District Judge Paul Gardephe wrote that Valle was "guilty of nothing more than very unconventional thoughts... We don't put people in jail for their thoughts. We are not the thought police and the court system is not the deputy of the thought police." The judge concluded that there was insufficient evidence, since "this is a conspiracy that existed solely in cyberspace" and "no reasonable juror could have found that Valle actually intended to kidnap a woman... the point of the chats was mutual fantasizing about committing acts of sexual violence on certain women." (A New York magazine article covered the details of the case and the implications of the original conviction earlier this year.)

Comment Why close? (Score 1) 1

Time to close that PayPal account?

No need to close — just stop using it until an absolutely unavoidable need to.

That said, the submission refers to RT.com, which is one of Putin's many propaganda arms — helping the enemy reach wider audiences (even with benign information) is wrong. The same news is carried on many other sources, such as ZDNet, for example.

Comment Ok, human beings next? (Score 3, Funny) 239

Supposedly, a way is discovered to make people forget certain things. Not far-fetched — we can already plant false memories...

I am asking the proponents of this wonderful "right to be forgotten" legislation, whether they would approve of a law, that would allow people to demand, their ex-partners be forced to undergo a procedure to make them forget of the good time the have once shared, for example.

Submission + - PayPal shuts out ProtonMail (rt.com) 1

Bodhammer writes: PayPal is restricting payments to and from Geneva based ProtonMail. ProtonMail offers end-to-end encryption of email.

“When we pressed the PayPal representative on the phone for further details, he questioned whether ProtonMail is legal and if we have government approval to encrypt emails, the statement read.

“We are not sure which government PayPal is referring to, but even the 4th Amendment of the US constitution guarantees: ‘The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures.’ It seems PayPal is trying to come up with ANY excuse they can to prevent us from receiving funds,” ProtonMail said.
Time to close that PayPal account?

Submission + - CosmicDuke: The Bastard Son of MiniDuke and Cosmu Malware (ibtimes.co.uk)

DavidGilbert99 writes: A Frankenstein's monster piece of malware called CosmicDuke has been uncovered using code from both MiniDuke and the Cosmu family of malware in what it the latest cyber-espionage threat to emerge from Russia, which looks to be targeting victims in Ukraine.

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