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Comment Re:In before... (Score 1) 321

by otc-lame on Thursday February 27, 2014 @03:38PM (#46361171) Attached to: Google Ordered To Remove Anti-Islamic Film From YouTube

However this opens the door to Christians taking down Atheist videos, Atheist taking down Christian videos, Islamic taking down Jewish videos, Jews taking down Islamic videos, $cientologists taking down Subgenius videos, Subgenii taking down $cientology videos and Anonymous taking down any server that displeases them.

No, it doesn't. Did you even read the summary? I mean no one reads the article, but at least read the summary ffs. The actress was duped, it's being taken down on the basis that it's a misuse of her image. That doesn't open the door for any damn thing. Sickening that the post got modded insightful.

Comment Re:What I get from this (Score 1) 62

by otc-lame on Thursday February 27, 2014 @01:58PM (#46359855) Attached to: The Phone Dragnet That Caught the World's Top Drug Lord

is that traditional investigative work functions to capture people, and not indiscriminate collection of meta data.

But just think of how quickly they could've caught teh evil turrrists if they had everyone's phone info! Then they wouldn't have had to go through all of those steps to get the one guy they wanted! See, it's a budget-saver too, and we all know the budget is out of control. Problem solved.

Comment this is how I know we have equality already (Score 1) 333

by otc-lame on Wednesday February 26, 2014 @10:15PM (#46353697) Attached to: Will Peggy the Programmer Be the New Rosie the Riveter?

Everything in the summary is just as true for men/boys as it is for women/girls. We all know the shortage is a farce. At the same time, we actually would benefit from STEAM education, in the olden days they just used to call it education.

Comment You wouldn't want to join them would you? (Score 1) 500

by otc-lame on Wednesday February 26, 2014 @04:11PM (#46349845) Attached to: Supreme Court Ruling Relaxes Warrant Requirements For Home Searches

So if a cop wants to search without a warrant, just arrest one person, then tell the remaining one, "well we could haul you downtown too, or you can give us consent, and we'll leave you out of it"...yeah that's an awesome precedent.

Comment Re:Rabbits were used first (Score 1) 159

by otc-lame on Wednesday February 26, 2014 @04:00PM (#46349701) Attached to: Horseshoe Crabs Are Bled Alive To Create an Unparalleled Biomedical Technology

One last bit of trivia: this isn't really news. I mean, I obviously find it cool, but seriously, 1960 was the discovery. Beta isn't bad enough, now they're altering the content too?

Perhaps they're trying to steal this awesome column from hackaday. I really wish they'd quite trying to make slashdot into something it's not...

Comment Re:Internet access should be a socialized service (Score 1) 520

by otc-lame on Sunday February 23, 2014 @06:31PM (#46318709) Attached to: Netflix Blinks, Will Pay Comcast For Network Access

Communications is so critical that the US Constitution writes in the Postal service as part of it.

and interestingly 225 years later we are still arguing about the very same implementation details For example:

Col: Mason was for limiting the power to the single case of Canals. He was afraid of monopolies of every sort, which he did not think were by any means already implied by the Constitution as supposed by Mr. Wilson.

Sounds like exactly what happened when we began to "grant charters of incorporation where the interest of the U.S. might require" anyway...

Comment Re:Programming is a form of writing (Score 1) 161

by otc-lame on Sunday February 23, 2014 @05:13PM (#46318141) Attached to: The Neuroscience of Computer Programming

I agree with this whole-heartedly. Interestingy, what is my process for writing a research paper, while the same as my process for writing a coding project, is not at all what my English teacher would've liked.

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