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Comment Re:Open Source information? (Score 1) 346

On a lot of email providers have security questions. Click the handy "I forgot my password" link and they ask

1) Mother's Maiden Name
2) FIrst Pet
3) Name of your high school

or whatever other type of information that would be reasonably difficult to find out WITHOUT the internet but is trivial with it, even for non celebrities. For celebrities...

Comment Re:Ugh (Score 3, Insightful) 597

Right. The freedom to modify. The freedom to have the code so you can change the software to do things you want and to stop doing the things you don't want. As long as THAT freedom is there, this is a side issue.

Do I want my local searches going to the net? Nope. Still isn't a free software issue. RMS is arguing from an ideological point of view...but its not the FSF's main ideological point of view.

Comment Re:Sounds like American textbooks (Score 2) 409

This is 2012, not the early 1970s. I don't know a single racist person that is not over 70 years old and retired. Those men don't make decisions anymore anyways, and their ideals are marginalized. Everybody else I know is actually quite progressive to use that ridiculous term, and does not make decisions like that. I operate in diverse environments, where in fact, I am the only person that does not speak multiple languages.

Well, there is your disconnect right there. The people you hang around with...the diverse ones who speak multiple languages...those are the people the racists are racist against. They're probably not so hot on you, either, the racists. Association, and all...

Comment Re:India (Score 1) 409

Those who speak something other than English as a second language are all-too-well aware of the challenge. Just imagine how you would sound trying to order a meal in a foreign land.

I would sound inexplicably slow and unreasonably loud. Probably mostly in English. I guess it is not inexplicable, I'm American.

Comment Re:PETA agrees! (Score 1) 409

PETA doesn't believe in people period, hell they labeled fish as "sea kittens" to try to get people not to eat them, and I have even seen a PETA person arguing against FLU shots because the flu is "alive".

The Jains would likely agree. Beliefs in the 'sanctity of life', for lack of a better term, typically have a level of life they respect. For a lot of religions, its a fetus. For a lot of PETA followers its animal life. The problem is you usually end up having to defend where you decide to draw the line and there don't seem to be any scientific arguments for a particular view, it comes down to whatever your faith or your gut or your conditioning tells you. Unless you refuse to draw the line...and then you get a virus with a right to life. One way off of a slippery slope is to slide all the way to the bottom. On a toboggan. With bells on.

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