Or of course, they could have just gone to him, showing their own proof that they had indeed fixed the problem. Thanked him again for not exploiting the weakness in their system and understanding that students trying to learn, be constructive and help others access information easier are the kind you want in your University. Everything after whether correct or incorrect, is understandable coming from a colleague student. People make mistakes. When the College did it, they were given a second chance, because of this guy. When he then made a mistake, no such option was granted. He's better off without the college, and at least he will have learnt a few things. It's all just a shame really.

In all seriousness, When I wrote this this morning, I didn't care, after reading the comments.... nothings changed. I guess we can put this one down to a slow news day! Still better than seeing 1000 news stories about how an inch of snow has yet again crippled Britain.

Further to this, the article hints at Cameron making a mandatory, default filter, however in the original article this is never stated. So arguing about the source is kind of a moot point as the original source never mentions any mandatory filtering. Waiting is a great idea here, this should not have made it to submission.

In 2008 (the newest data I could bother finding), in the US alone, 23,000 transplants were done (source) If this stays at a steady rate, in another 93 years another 2 MILLION transplants will have been done. Well played, that man,

I think everyone agrees, that you are both "piece of shit anonymous coward"s. Probably a good time to get over it really.

And those with a /whole/ brain are staying? I'd quite enjoy reading a story where a Slashdotter leaves the community for good after a Hemispherectomy.

It seems a bit silly to use something so insecure that you have to install programs, on top of the OS that will protect what's underneath it. Wouldn't it be better, to create an OS that has security properly, sanely and correctly built in, so one doesn't have to worry about all of this stuff? On another note, I have been using vista, and 7 (and XP) for a few years now, and they all still BSOD occasionally, and I never really know why.

Hmm. It seems you made a sweeping generalisation of an entire community, this makes you look like an idiot.

I updated my "hate machine" this morning. And Last week, I could probably do it again right now. I don't really like the idea of using an OS that has a continuous development process, yet only releases in infrequent discrete points of time.

Close. It's theoretically true. In practice much of what is said on Slashdot is a carbon copy of something somebody else said. So point 1. You can't copyright something that isn't actually yours. Point 2. Copyright law states that one must actively announce that the content is copyrighted, that it is not to be replicated without consent, and any breaches must be actively fought.

Summary: 'All posters here are copyright holders' - Not true in practical terms, just because we all /can/ be, doesn't mean we all are.

Additionally, copyrighting most Slashdot posts would be like trying to patent a simple and obvious feature on a phone, like 'Slide-to-unlock'. We all understand how insane that is... right?

"OpenGL Becoming a Requirement For the Linux Desktop"

Your 'Solution' isn't even close. The 'problem' the OP raised is about /linux/ *desktops*

Perhaps if the problem was "How to troll, look stupid and or generally suck at reading..." then maybe your response would be closer to the mark!

Remember that time where the internet was freedom? Where one could create a website, it was subject to law, like any other act. Remember when the providers of the internet buckled under the pressure from "the powers that be". Sites could be blocked, freedom quashed, because somebody didn't like the content of a site, because somebody thought it aided in crime and law breaking, despite not breaking any laws itself.

When we start forcing ISPs to block sites, based on anything other than law, we open gates that will never be closed. One leads to more, more to many and eventually freedom on the internet will be dead.

This is the key issue we are dealing with. It is getting overlooked because "piracy is bad". We have many other questions to ask: does blocking these sites even /help/ the problem of piracy? this suggests not! Is piracy really the problem, perhaps the intermediate companies between consumer and author's of content are to blame somewhat?

Why do we have to constantly start making much larger problems while trying to fix smaller ones. Fix the music industry, the film industry, the E-book-monolopy that Amazon is building, fix the problem at the root. Provide consumers with a modern, suitable market in which they pay the author's of content for their products, for a price that represents the true worth of that product. Allow the consumer to have freedom with that product to use it in any device, in any form. Provide a good service, that is value-for-money, and people /will/ use it. We've seen it work before

Leave the internet alone, once the gates are open the wars begin....

(This is one army, preparing arms...

You have 0 score. I'm sure if the people with the mod points weren't so 'dumb and dumber', you'd probably have a few more!

Liar.... I mean...um.....I disagree!

These are students. They may be kids, but they are in a computer lab to learn.

Stick a windows OS with IE in-front of them, and you'll get kids browsing the internet. However put a GNU/Linux distribution in front of them, and you could have students that are interested and focused on learning logical and open-source, free Operating systems and software.

With open source we can teach kids that if something isn't there, if something isn't available, we have a few options. One option is to throw money at a corporation like Microsoft. Other options such as creating something yourself, finding multiple technologies or techniques to solve the problem are perhaps a little more constructive. Problem solving, creativity, fairness, team work.... just a few of the many things using and developing free, open-source software teaches us.