Comment Re:Mint is the future. (Score 1) 81
Soon, every desktop in the world will be running it!
Next year, actually.
Soon, every desktop in the world will be running it!
Next year, actually.
I assumed it was a joke. Nobody who has ever spent time in a US prison or spoken with someone who has would refer to the problem as 'an urban legend'.
Now how is Michio Kaku going to portray black holes as marauding monsters that travel around like itinerant serial killers, gobbling up everything in their path?
I suggest bringing in a robot sidekick named Maximillian to improve ratings.
..the sale is criminalized in The Netherlands.
My point is that the court's recent decision suggests the above is an outdated, quaint law which no longer reflects the society that The People wish to have, nor which reflects the new way of thinking about reponsibility and the relationship between demand and the victimizing acts which serve that demand.
Thus, I'm sure the Dutch people will soon be revising their kiddie porn laws. Huh? Whaddya mean, "no?" Why not?
Look, just install the telescreens in our homes already.
Be patient. We're still in the voluntary phase of that, right now. If enough people say no to the unauditable smartphones and smart TVs, we can eventually get to compulsory installation, but for right now, what's the hurry? People are doing it without even being told to.
Though we'll face some risks from our own governments, it's a relief to know at the Dutch government would have no problem with me selling kiddie porn (as long as it was made in America) to Dutch citizens. "No crime happened here, within our jurisdiction," they'd say.
In fact, the Dutch government should tolerate our new businesses even more than this NSA thing, since the victims (whereever their rights were violated) won't even be Dutch citizens. No Netherlander will have any reason to say their government let them down.
That's cute...
Feminist hypocrites? First time for everything I suppose.
We all know prison rapes don't count. After all, only evil people are in prison to begin with.
Not all sexual assaults are rape. Way to move the goalposts. You work for the FBI?
/golfclap
I didn't expect the Ninjas.
Nobody expects the....
Wait. Wrong meme.
While all that is true, Pages is much better for layout than MS word or LibreOffice's Word processor. Sometimes people like good tools
Looking for tools? Slashdot is the right place.
Thanks for the insult. It hardly stung.
Unless you worked at Netscape in the mid-1990s, no insult was intended.
All I meant is that by the very early 1990s, we (and by "we" I mean people smarter than me; I was clueless at the time) had a pretty good idea that CAs wouldn't work well outside of real power hierarchies (e.g. corporate intranets). But then a few years later the web browser people came along and adopted X.509's crap, blowing off the more recent PKI improvements, in spite of the fact that it looked like it wouldn't work well for situations like the WWW.
Unsurprisingly, it didn't work well. Organizing certificate trust differently than how real people handle trust, 1) allows bad CAs to do real damage, and 2) undermines peoples' confidence in the system.
A very nice way of saying this, is that in hindsight, the predicted problems are turning out to be more important than we thought most people would care about.
Keeping the same organization but with new faceless unaccountable trust-em-completely-or-not-at-all root CAs won't fix the problem. Having "root CAs" is the problem, and PRZ solved it, over 20 years ago.
I expect you to start the project shortly.
It's a little late to start, but I do happen to still be running an awful lot of applications (web browser being the most important one) which aren't using it yet.
The rent is too damned high!
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