In this "scenario", how is the survival of one sheep morally superior than the survival of two wolves?

No, you're missing the point; Slashdot's most popular post are most often this America-bashing, pseudo-intellectual nonsense rant about how even though eternal September was years ago, you still have no idea how a user base can degenerate over time by being discovered by loud-mouth blowhards who sensationalize everything in hopes of appealing to the now like-minded users who are gifted mod points. It MUST be the corporations and govt messing with us! Do you believe in chemtrails too? Get over your self-deluded fantasy that this website is posted on by anything more than a slowly disintegrating quasi-nerd fallowing who's posts are almost always subject to some type of bias (see any Mac "news" story). I mean you must know about it, you just did it!

Bots don't know if you're being patriotic or just sarcastic yet, so for now the cost still exceeds the reward. Thinking that American intelligence operatives have infiltrated the /. to push their "extremely pro-market, pro-capitalist" agenda is just imagined self-importance. Chinese propaganda agents, on the other hand, are as numerous as they are inexpensive, and love to rant about how evil the West is with their decadent, pro-capitalist agenda...

also, http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/11/10/idUS211494328220111110

The neckbeards created the demand (and supply) for the personal computer in the first place, so I'm sure they can keep it afloat.

You've got it wrong; he's not saying that being rich or poor will make you corrupt or saintly by default, but that corrupt people always seem to gravitate toward jobs that offer disproportionate amounts of money or power and/or aren't well regulated, and that those with ability are able to cause the most damage.

^This. Mod parent up pls.

They are locked down by IP law, just not US IP law. Also, the "if we don't someone else will" has never been a valid argument.

How about we look at the facts for once without this stupid "us vs them" troll-fest mentality OH WAIT I'M ON SLASHDOT; I'LL STFU NOW *holds post up between mirrors*

leave the tea party out of this

^RTFA idiot

And it appears it still isn't, which is somewhat ironic.

Accessories include: String, USB cable, Charger, and Radiation Guard.

The bill has only been passed by the House. If it passes the Senate and is not vetoed by President Obama, ISPs would be required to retain records of all customers' web activities for 12 months.

The Govtrack.us bill overview has the full text of the bill in its current form. Section 4 amends Title 18 Section 2703 and actually states that ISPs must retain the data "for a period of at least 18 months". Part B of the section states that the data "should be stored securely to protect customer privacy and prevent against breaches of the records." while Section 5 amends the same law to remove any liability from the ISPs for storing the data.

+5 for this pro-oppression Chinese propaganda officer? What the hell has happened to you, slashdot? Its a sad day when the statement that upholding intellectual property law is less moral than authorities deleting information from the web to stop information about human suffering from propagating is considered at all "insightful".