If you really need security for some reason, use it to match the person to the badge at the clean room entrance. That will keep someone from using a stolen badge.

Well then you should have kept your wallet on blockchain.info and accessed that website from tor.

Oops...derp...I accidentally rendered TFA's point moot.

Nice to see that even Apu reads /.

Strat

Unwanted to take advantage of this,

Now *that's* a freudian slip typo if I ever saw one!

If Bennett is so completely unwanted on this blog, why don't we do something about it?

In the manner of the fine people at 4chan, suppose we referred to Bennett in the past tense - as if he had passed away. Make all of our responses polite and sincere, but with the assumption that he is no longer with us.

Here's the kicker: the internet works by consensus. If there's an abundance of commentary referring to him in the past tense, it'll get picked up and echoed everywhere, possibly by Wikipedia. I don't know what the full ramifications would be, but hopefully it will play hob with his attempts to get traction on the net. Anyone who googles for him by name or things he has said will get the impression that he's unavailable for comment, interviews, and possibly employment.

Of course, we need to give Bennett fair warning, so I propose the following:

Starting with the next Bennett Haselton article on Slashdot that's more than 2 short paragraphs, we start referring to Bennett in the past tense - as if he had passed away. We're going to start a new internet meme.

Pleading, complaining, and asking has had no effect and we've certainly done due diligence.

It's time to take action.

I don't know if I buy that prosecutors throw *everything* they can at you. I was charged with shoplifting once, and I didn't even get a public defender. Instead had to argue my case with the prosecutor directly, and she herself filed a motion to dismiss, which the judge approved. She said her goal was justice.

Just prior to that (I had to sit in the court room and watch her and other prosecutors argue their case against other defendants until it was my turn) I watched her tell the judge that she wasn't offering any kind of plea deal against the previous defendant and that she wanted to go to trial with him, which I'm guessing in his case she had some pretty clear cut evidence for conviction.

(I went home very relieved that day as I had just gotten done watching the BOOK getting THROWN at people by the judge for similar crimes just prior to the judge smiling at me and telling me my case had been dismissed and I may leave.)

Honestly I fucking hate the term "progressive" in the political sense. Anything you do that works towards changing anything is considered progress, even if its changing it for the worse. Prohibitionists referred to themselves as "progressives" for example. As did the Nazis on a few occasions.

At the end of the day, a "progressive" is just a self-righteous fucktard label that somebody applies to themselves when they're convinced that their opinions are the only correct ones.

To add to that, in Arizona, power outages occur maybe once a year for any given area, and failures are rarely (perhaps never) the result of the grid itself failing. Last time it happened for me, it was because some derp wrecked their car into a transformer (and being able to damage a transformer in such a way with a car is a rather difficult thing to do because they're otherwise pretty well protected.)

I would have to agree with that. Arizona for example has a VERY reliable power grid; so reliable in fact that a lot of companies are building datacenters in Phoenix, in spite of the heat. Yet at the same time Arizona doesn't rely on storage. Phoenix in particular is powered by the Palo Verde Nuclear plant (largest in the US) as well as hydro power from Salt River Project. Arizona has so much power that it actually provides California with 25% of theirs.