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Remember the Blaster worm? This is its younger cousin.

And let's not forget, this is one of the first! Legal investigation is quite difficult when you're dealing with international agreements, changing laws, lack of precedents, SSL connections, privacy issues, etc. Let me see you, from the US, asking a judge in Slovenia to give you a search warrant for a person that seems to behave (well their Internet connection did) like someone who might be in control of one of the largest botnets in the world.

You should realize that atheists bring actual arguments and use logic, not a bunch of stupid excuses that have no chance of being considered logical arguments.

No, but you haven't done your homework at all. Google Chrome comes with an integrated version similar (yes, it's got a long way to go, but it's still pretty good) to Web Developer. And then there's Switchy! instead of FoxyProxy. And I wrote my own version of Redirector for Chrome. Oh, Xmarks? What's that? Google Chrome has that integrated into it, logging you in to your Google account, storing yout bookmarks on Google, etc.
Thank you for trolling Slashdot, have a nice day!

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But Walmart, Sony and Amazon already have competition: torrent files and magnet links already provide you with the same content and quality for free.

That's still too much! How the fuck can they justify those costs? That's five thousand times more than what the songs are actually worth. Why are they getting paid more than they can prove? They can't possibly prove that Tenenbaum spread each song to five thousand people that never paid for it! Remember, $2,25k is the cost of each song he shared, so it does not include legal fees.

That's too bad... and I really wanted to get a Blizzard account just for Starcraft. Pirated SC2 game from torrents, here I come!

Yes, it does.

That's not really a rumor. It has been previously covered by the news. I don't remember where it happened, but I am sure that it's also been linked by Slashdot a few years ago. There was a guy that failed an intelligence test because his score was too high and the police said that he was "overqualified" to be part of the force. The article also said that this was not a one-time issue, it had happened previously and nobody seems to be doing anything about it. So it's not a rumor and I won't bother to search for the articles, but if you don't believe it you can always ask Google about it.

Unfortunately, you're right. This new TLD is an ICANN scheme to bring in more money from their existing customers; to be more precise, they just decided that ICM Registry should get 10% of the porn market investment in domain names.

But... there are no ads on that page. It must be a fake!

Maybe you should focus more on an outside-in architecture. You start with what the user wants and end doing what you need to achieve that. Otherwise, you might start with what you think the user wants and end up with an interface for controlling that, instead of an interface dedicated to the needs of the end-user. Having a well designed back-end is very important, but not as important as a well designed front-end, because the user will care that something isn't work properly, but he will care about it a lot less than he will care about the fact that the option isn't even there! You just teach the user that bugs will always be fixed and he'll be happy to know that the next iteration will include the option he wants. If he doesn't even see the option on the screen, he just can't imagine it and he will think that you don't care about his needs. Users need slick front-ends and they don't give a shit about OOP, layering and all the other "details" involved in the process of programming quality applications. Maybe the company which wanted to pay for that project knew this and they knew that there would be time and money to re-factor the back-end as soon as the users saw a shiny interface and started paying for what they got.

In other words: Computer programming is very difficult, but that (unfortunately) doesn't work as an excuse for not packaging your product properly. Packaging is the only indicator that the user has to judge if your product is well done or not, because regular people just don't give a shit about any kind of abstract notion such as "performance."

The only performance the user cares about is how much faster he will be able to do his work using your product.

So what if they get lower test scores? Have you ever stopped to think that maybe your tests suck? You know, maybe they've adapted to new ways of thinking and you're still following the old ways. Maybe their ways are better, maybe not, but as long as we consider that "test scores" tell how good you are at doing something in life, we have no chance of improving our way of thinking. Maybe they are smarter than everyone else and the tests were designed for stupid people. That's what happened in my country: the tests were so fucking dumb that you just had to learn stuff instead of learning to figure that stuff out on your own. The quantity of information flowing through our world has increased drastically since the appearance of the Internet and it is a very convenient way to find information. Why the fuck would anyone bother to learn whole novels word by word (including punctuation) is beyond me. It took my country decades to realize that making people learn whole books word by word was a stupid idea, when they realized that a person could just not learn enough books they needed in a lifetime. I suspect something similar is happening here: those kids have gotten lazy (not that it's always a bad thing) and they're using their computers to research stuff and they just present other people's ideas. The old tests don't fit with this way of working/thinking and I personally consider that in this case the tests suck. Why learn all the resources when you just have to learn how to find them?

I am currently renovating my whole house (five rooms, two bathrooms, one kitchen and other stuff). I had no idea how to do this when I started and I wasn't afraid. Thanks to YouTube, I'm moving even faster than I expected and thanks to forums and reviews I've learned what the best products are in the price range I am looking for. Things come out a lot better than I initially hoped and I had no clue about renovating. Thank you technology and fuck you, technology teacher in middle school that taught me how to bake cookies - yes, I am a man and the teachers suddenly decided that women should learn how to cut wood with a saw (they learned that for weeks) and men should learn how to bake a single kind of cookies (we did that for weeks).