132 on this article and not one about Michael Jewson and his criminal behavior. No, ever single one is about how the company was stupid to trust their ISP to have backups.

This shouldn't surprise me as most Slashdotters seem to approve of the kind of act Jewson committed. I have no doubt many are envious that he was able to do it while they themselves are incapable of striking back at their former employers.

Says the person who hates America and Capitalism. Really, if you hate America and Americans so much, why don't you just fucking leave?

If you don't trust it, don't use it.

Stop demanding they make special concessions and comply with your desires so you will condescend to use their products. Don't use it, you stupid fucks, because they don't need you. You are not special and no one is forcing you to use their services. The arrogance of your "request" is appalling.

You are a self-hating fuck. If the U.S. sucks so much, why don't you leave and hate on it from somewhere else?

And you demonstrate you ability to read and then not understand what you have read. You completely fail to understand the letter of the law and the stated intent. Rather, you substitute your own desires and ignore the obvious in favor of you opinion in hopes of getting your own selfish way.

Stated bluntly, you have the morals of a 3 year old child. "I want it so it is MINE!"

We are dealing with American copyright law, not the Statute of Anne. Maybe you weren't aware of that, or maybe you are just an asshole. Either one, the effect is the same. And, just to show you exactly how stupid your comment is, in the time of the Statute of Anne, the Anne in for whom the statute is named overruled a colonial law prohibiting slavery. Therefore, I can only assume that because you wish to use the laws of the 1700s, you also want to bring back slavery.

If you don't like the length of the modern copyright as defined in the laws, you work and change the law. Oh, wait, that would mean doing something besides violating copyright law, complaining about copyright law, and liking things on Facebook.

Until you are actually willing to work to change the law, shut the fuck up, asshole.

She did not recuse herself even though she lobbied on behalf of one side? Sounds to me like she gave them built-in grounds for appeal.

The entire *purpose* of copyrights is to get works into the public domain.

No, that is not the purpose of copyright. The purpose of U.S. copyright law is set forth in the Constitution of the United States of America, Article one, Section 8:

To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;

Now, are you done proving your ignorance?

You only think it is not right because you will no longer be able to use their IP for free. You don't like it because you are a greedy, selfish asshole.

Shades of privacy concerns, to say nothing of jealousy on the part of established payment system companies that would love to collect such valuable information.

What the author doesn't seem to know is that credit card transactions are itemized. Even if one's bill is just a summary transaction statement, one can request and receive an itemized bill from one's credit card service that will show every item purchased. "Established payment system companies" already collect and keep on record this "valuable information". They have been doing it for as long as they have existed to investigate and prevent fraud.

I suggest you look up wire fraud.

Maybe you should use the rest of that quote:

Information Wants To Be Free. Information also wants to be expensive. ... That tension will not go away

And, information doesn't want anything. Information is not sentient; it has no wants, no desires, and no feelings. Stop anthropomorphizing it.

Saying information wants to be free is like saying a dream wants to be real. Dreams do not wish to be real, rather the dreamer wishes the dream to be real or not.

We don't have a manned spaceflight program anymore, so why bother with it? We should just slide into insignificance the way the current plan has us doing?

When you opinion is needed, I am sure someone will beat the shit out of your head to see what it is.

Here is an example of your two-faced hypocrisy: According to you share means to make a copy of something and give the copy away rather than to let someone else use your copy. Then you complain that the other words I listed have two meanings. To you, share has two meanings as well. So stop whining, you little bitch.

So, you don't believe the copyright holder is entitled to anything. So you have no problem if people violate the GPL right? After all, if the copyright holder isn't entitled to anything, then FLOSS supporters are not entitled to anything either.

Gnome has two important faces. From the user's perspective, it is an integrated desktop environment and application suite.
From the announcement of KDEAn integrated Desktop Environment for the Unix Operating SystemYou were saying, asshole?

Actually, it is you and RMS who are claiming to know the truth, specifically the superiority of FLOSS.

Oh, please, do you have to keep lying? Your mind was made up and will never change because you are too busy drinking the koolaid of RMS. Apparently the only thing that constitutes a good case to you is "It is better to use a crappy tool that I consider free rather than a good tool that will do the job better and easier but I don't consider free." RMS' entire philosophy is based on his own selfishness. He wants something under his terms and only his terms and if he can't have it that way, it is evil and must be denigrated and destroyed. He goes around preaching his gospel to the likes of you, who are too stupid to see what it really is. Then you try to argue how much better FLOSS is and when confronted with the truth, try to change the discussion. You make an analogy and when it shown to be false, you say "That is not what I said". You say something, and when proven wrong you say "That is not what I meant." You point to the handful of moderately successful FLOSS projects, which are invariably backed by corporate interests, as proof that all FLOSS is great and wonderful. And, when it is pointed out that the rest of the FLOSS projects are a vast smoking ruin that no average user would want to actually use, you act as though that doesn't matter. Face it, skippy, you are just a brainwashed fool for whom there would never be enough evidence. For you FLOSS is a religion and you have blind faith in it.