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Comment Re:Useful Idiot (Score 1) 396

Remember that reputation isn't an on/off switch. He's gained a lot of reputation with the NSA revelations. How much of that does "this could be useful to putin" reduce it? 1%?

Perhaps he thought it would start a debate. Does it reduce his reputation if he honestly thought he could start another change in his host country?

Comment Re:Good. (Score 1) 104

by interkin3tic (#46780311) Attached to: RCMP Arrest Canadian Teen For Heartbleed Exploit
Boredom and isolation often leads to deviant behavior. How many of us got into nerd stuff because we were bored and wanted to know if we could "hack" something we weren't supposed to? I started reading 2600 before I got my drivers license. It was, fortunately, far over my head, and thanks to dialup, even if it weren't, that would be almost as boring as homework, so I never actually did anything.

I wonder what the solution is. My kid isn't going to have those limitations, even comcast is vastly superior to dialup, and he's getting a head start on using computers.

Maybe I'll have to stick with apple products, make sure he stays in the walled garden and out of the CRA website.

Comment Re:Government picking favorites (Score 1) 91

And tell me this... Where can you find daily national/world news with the same quality as the approx. 4am newscasts on CBS/NBC/ABC? BBC World Service looks like crap by comparison, though easily better than CNN/MSNBC/FauxNews of course.

If I'm up at 4AM, the TV guide channel is about the level of journalism I'm capable of appreciating.

Also, does the BBC website not work at 4AM? Because one could just browse that. What's so bad about the BBC world service? I'm asking honestly, I've never been a fan of video news, and never been a fan of anything that early in the morning.

Comment Re:Parents fault (Score 1) 355

by interkin3tic (#46772713) Attached to: Kids Can Swipe a Screen But Can't Use LEGOs
No no no! You're totally selling it wrong! You've got to say it's building up! Lemme give you an example:

"Studies show that the CRACK BABIES OF THE 80'S are now having crack babies of their own who are EVEN WORSE and UNABLE TO PLAY WITH LEGOS AND INSTEAD HAVE EVIL HACKING SKILLS!!!"

See? Three offers of employment in my inbox from Huffington Post already!

Comment Re:Information = Wealth = Power (Score 1) 98

by interkin3tic (#46767297) Attached to: Google Looked Into Space Elevator, Hoverboards, and Teleportation
I'm always hearing about google being the target of Steve Jobs' ego-driven "thermonuclear war" with patents. What are some examples of google patent trolling as you've suggested? I'm not saying I think google is actually behaving unlike a corporation, just that I don't know of any examples of them doing what you're saying they're doing.

Comment Re:Rewarding the bullies... (Score 2) 798

High profile murderers who make no attempt to conceal their crime usually do it more for attention. They might tell themselves it's for higher reasons, like they hate that politician or that race, but really it's that their egos aren't satisfied. Same with school shootings. They shoot up their schools because they want attention from their classmates. With columbine and other school shootings, we like to tell ourselves they're going rambo because they were bullied, and the shooters did too. We tell ourselves the lie because it's easier to think kids only do this when put under extreme pressure by bullying, we don't like to think that some kids are just psychopaths who are evil. They told themselves it was because of bullying because that sounds better than "We're bored and want attention."

Although early media reports attributed the shootings to a desire for revenge on the part of Harris and Klebold for bullying that they received, subsequent psychological analysis indicated Harris and Klebold harbored serious psychological problems. According to Dave Cullen, Harris, who conceived the attacks, was a "cold-blooded, predatory psychopath" and an intelligent, charming liar with "a preposterously grand superiority complex, a revulsion for authority and an excruciating need for control". In Cullen's assessment, Harris lacked remorse or empathy for others, and sought to punish them for their perceived inferiority.

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Comment Re:Not even much money (Score 1) 423

To be fair, that number is probably a lot lower than it would be in sane political climates. Mention taxes and the voters go insane. Mention much of anything besides jobs and yay USA and they'll go insane. "They're trying to take away your refund!" will get a lot more traction than "death panels" did.

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