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Comment Re:secure you say? (Score 1) 175

"It is the most secure option among the existing desktop operating systems"

what about OpenBSD?

As someone who is paranoid enough that all my personal financial online transactions are done on a live cd, I love the consept of OpenBSD. In the past I have installed it on both a pc and a laptop. Not even after, or during, a week long Hunter S Thompsonesque drug and alchohol binge would I consider OpenBSD a desktop os.

Comment Re:Fucking idiots (Score 1) 264

Who (name) said what (quote) where (place) when (date)?

"Scepticism regarding the need for immediate and massive action against carbon emissions is a sickness of societies and individuals which needs to be "treated", according to an Oregon-based professor of "sociology and environmental studies". Professor Kari Norgaard compares the struggle against climate scepticism to that against racism and slavery in the US South."

At the Planet Under Pressure conference

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Comment Full page ad in The Wall Street Jounal (Score 5, Informative) 206

Full page ad in The Wall Street Journal for the passage of PROTECT IP and SOPA to "protect American jobs" signed by

ABC, AFTRA - American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, AFM - American Federation of Musicians, AAP - American Association of Publishers, ASCAP, BMG Chrysalis, BMI, CBS Corporation, Cengage Learning, DGA - Directors guild of America, Disney Publishing Worldwide, EMI Music Publishing, ESPN, Graphic Artists Guild, Hachette Book Group, HarperCollins Publishers LLC, Hyperion, IATSE - International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, Moving Picture Technicians, Artists and Allied Crafts of the United States its Territories and Canada International Brotherhood of Teamsters (WTF), Kaufman Astoria Studios, Macmillan, Major League Baseball, Marvel Entertainment LLC, Mcgraw-Hill Education, MPA - The Association of Magazine Media, NFL - National Football League, National Music Publishers' Association, NBCUniversal, News Corporation, New York Production Alliance, New York State AFL-CIO, Pearson Education, Penguin Group (USA) Inc., The Perseus Books Group, Producers Guild of America East, Random House, Reed Elsevier, SAG - Screen Actors Guild, Scholastic, Inc., Silvercup Studios, Simon & Schuster, Inc., Sony Music Entertainment, Sony/ATV Music Publishing, Time Warner Inc., United States Tennis Association, Universal Music Group, Universal Music Publishing Group, Viacom, Warner Music Group, W.W. Norton & Company, Wolters Kluwer.

 

Comment Re:Enough sensationalism already. (Score 1) 364

Parent: Where did this photo come from?
School: Your son took it and put on the computer.
Parent: ... that webcam ... what is it for anyhow? (not a relevant question, actually)
School: All Apple notebooks have them.

Not relevant to who? I'm not assuming the parents are techies who know all this stuff. Even a mildly techie parent might ask why the computer supplied by the school has something not obviously related to the purported purpose of the laptop.
 

You see, if the school got the photo from the computer, or from the email, or through other common channels like that, it wouldn't even occur to anyone to pursue this highly improbable theory that a webcam may be turned on by the school.

Maybe you should read the suit. The school told the parent about the security when the parent inquired about the webcam and the picture the school has (according to his son) possession of.
 

Also, if webcams are used only for security, a vice-principal of the school would never even remember that little detail.

An assumption, and a particularly shaky one. Why would a vice principal of a school not know about the security system that was such a large feature?

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