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Comment your basic human rights are not a technicality (Score 0) 360

you cant sue someone thousands of miles from where they live just so you can get away with it becuase they cant afford to defend themselves and you cant sue someone for harming you if they --didnt actually harm you--. if they have properly transferred power of attorney or something thats one thing. but there are rules and they need to be followed.

Comment strict constructionist (Score 0) 360

im pretty fucking sure the founding fathers meant 'legal advice' = 'free speech'. especially if our modern SCOTUS thinks corporations donating billions to false campaign ads is 1st amendment. this whole fucking argument is re god damned diculous.

Submission + - DHS seizes domains, tracks visitors, violates GPL? (usaoutlets.nethttp)

hildi writes: Department of Homeland Security has seized several dozen domain names. In place, they put their seizure logo, along with google analytics and piwik tracking code. First off, what right do they have to track visitors to these domains? Second, have they modified their version of piwik? If so, are they violating the GPL by not releasing their source code modifications?

Submission + - Homeland Security Seizing Pirate Site Domains (cnet.com) 2

Nocuous writes: The Department of Homeland Security is now seizing sites, using new powers granted by the Senate. Ironic, given the mission statement on the DHS' website about "preserving our freedoms"

"The U.S. government has launched a major crackdown on online copyright infringement, seizing dozens of sites linked to illegal file sharing and counterfeit goods. Torrent sites that link to illegal copies of music and movie files and sites that sell counterfeit goods were seized this week by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement division of the Department of Homeland Security. Visitors to such sites as Torrent-finder.com, 2009jerseys.com, and Dvdcollects.com found that their usual sites had been replaced by a message that said, "This domain name has been seized by ICE--Homeland Security Investigations, pursuant to a seizure warrant issued by a United States District Court." "My domain has been seized without any previous complaint or notice from any court!" the owner of Torrent-Finder told TorrentFreak, which listed more than 70 domains that were apparently part of the massive seizure. "

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Submission + - Without Fired Googler, Would There Be a Google?

theodp writes: Had Bill Gates not had access to a mainframe computer at a young age, explained Outliers, Microsoft would never have happened. Similarly, had Sergey Brin not been able to program a computer at a young age, Google would never had happened. 'The school had an Apple II,' said Brin (video) of the Montessori school he attended from age 6-11. So one might suppose the folks at Google would cut a lot of slack to Randy Wigginton, who collaborated with Woz on the Apple II, for helping to inspire Sergey to create their $188.67 billion company. But the media is reporting that Wigginton was the Googler fired for letting the world know that Googlers were receiving $1,000 holiday bonuses, which Google itself has reported to the SEC in the past. Some suggest the leaker's real transgression was exposing $1,000 cash-clutching Googlers to mugging, but if Google HR really chose to ignore circa-1982 Direct Deposit advice and instead handed out Benjamins, some might argue that Google fired the wrong guy. Asked for his thoughts on Wigginton's firing, Woz suggested 'this is minor enough that a wrist slap would be more appropriate.' Agreed. Unless there's something more to this story, might be nice if Larry, Sergey or Eric picked up their Nexus S and offered Randy — or whoever the 'perp' is — a second chance.

Comment i also invite you to wake up, person (Score 0) 236

50 million dollars? wall street credit derivatives traders, and management, destroyed their entire companies, and they never had so much as Geraldo knock on their door. they wouldn't wipe their ass with 50 million dollars. they stole --TRILLIONS-- from their own companies, investors, and most of all, the taxpayers of the entire planet, and they got off scott free. they are still working in the same field. and slashdot has not done a story on it.

Comment its hard to true-multitask on 8088 (Score 0) 347

since it is lacking a lot of the CPU code for task switching... i.e. there was no memory protection, any program could write to anywhere in memory. (which spawned a million keyboard-hook malwares) i really wonder how desqview accomplished what it did. did it rewrite the machine code of the programs it loaded into memory?

Comment desqview had windows (Score 0) 347

i ran desqview on an old IBM PC, dos circa 2.1 or 3.3 i had wordstar open in two windows at once. the point was you could copy/paste between them. it was awesome. you could have several windows if you wanted. this was years before DOS 5 and it's "shell" thing. It was a close as you could get to task-switching on an 8088 with MS DOS.

Comment uhm isnt that how microsoft actually started? (Score 0) 395

bill gates sold MSDOS to IBM before he even knew what MSDOS would be? or something like that. then he kept churning out all sorts of shit, windows 2.0, as long as it was 'good enough' , and fixing the problems later? im leaving out the parts about unethical business practices, which can be argued also helped a lot. but can one deny microsofts heritage, as a 'quick and dirty' company?

Comment billions of dollars of taxpayer's money (Score 0) 250

please stop saying that goldman, morgan stanley, boa, jpm chase, etc, somehow have 'their own money'. without TARP, none of those companies would exist. they all took money either directly, or one-degree of separation, from the government to keep themselves alive, and living in nice walled communities, and going to nice restaurants for lunch, and having their nice careers and their nice cars and their nice little lives, while millions of other people are moving back with their parents, learning to love ramen, giving up on college, losing their savings, moving to low-rent ghetto apartments full of drug dealers and criminals, etc etc etc.

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