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Comment Re:Pandora's Box (Score 1) 467

you can't get what you ask for

low grade twitter harassment is not going to be dealt with by the police

not all justice rises to the level of police and court involvement. it's not "vigilantism" if the stakes and consequences are low

you have standards which are unrealistic and will never be met, therefore you should read my words again and understand what schilling did is 100% appropriate and responsible

Comment Re:Pandora's Box (Score 0, Troll) 467

Just because this case is pretty black and white doesn't mean they all will be. The next time, some jackass will create social networking profiles with breadcrumbs leading back to their real target, and with minimal effort will get a Curt Schilling to do the dirty work, and bear the legal liability, for them.

did you hear that folks?

because someone might get framed for murder, we can't go after real murderers

because someone might get falsely accused of rape, no rapist can ever be punished

because someone might get lynched by a hysterical mob, all acts of actual justice are invalid

genius

Comment Re:The thing about witch hunts... (Score 2, Insightful) 467

we're talking about targeted low grade comeuppance for bad behavior, directed at the actual douchebags who committed the bad behavior

we're not talking about targeting waves of completely innocent teenage girls for hysterical spasms of imagined delusional fantastic crimes, and then murdering them brutally

so no, sorry, your analogy sucks and you don't know what you're talking about

Comment Re:Don't poke the internet (Score 3, Insightful) 467

trolls are common pathetic cowards. they're middle school bullies in adult bodies if they aren't in fact actual middle school bullies. any effective defense against their lame efforts immediately chases them away like shining a light on a bunch of cockroaches

you're talking about another kind of douchebag: the stalker

but what gets the kind of person who becomes a celebrity stalker excited isn't avenging trolls

if curt schilling or his daughter attract an actual griefing stalker, it won't be because of this episode

and even then, the proper defense is the response he's already engaged in: a good offense. shut the shitbag down, hard, immediately. schilling sounds like he has his act together. his daughter will be protected and taken care of from the slime out there

Comment Re:FDE on Android doesn't work as of yet (Score 1) 124

I bet virtually every SoC has the hardware. Whether it exposes this hardware to the kernel in a stable manner through a driver is another matter.

I bet the performance hit on battery or IO would be neglible if it were functioning properly. Maybe Google has had problems with some chipsets.

Comment Re:Compiz is the bug. It needs to die. (Score 1) 51

X is arcane. There is a strong desire to get rid of it because it's inefficient (network, CPU, GPU), filled with obsolete APIs that nobody uses and an increasing number of extensions designed to work around this brain damage.

Hence the drive to replace it with Wayland. People who still need X can run X over Wayland.

Comment I should think the choice is obvious (Score 1) 407

I'm not even sure what a "classic object oriented compiled language" is meant to mean or why it should be the criteria for programming something, but given the choice of C++ or Obj-C then C++ is the answer in virtually every case. Obj-C only makes sense when targetting iOS / OS X or some niche like OpenStep and whatever merits Obj-C might have as a language it would be insane to use it anywhere else.

Comment Re:FDE on Android doesn't work as of yet (Score 3, Interesting) 124

Most SoCs have encryption circuitry so I doubt it has any appreciable effect on performance or battery providing its done through hardware. In Linux disk encryption is via dm-crypt which in turn is via the crypto api so Android could probably use that to provide blanket crypto in addition to whatever crypto is done higher up by apps or user storage.

Comment Re:Good question (Score 1) 199

because wires don't follow political boundaries

your fiber is our fiber and visa versa. it's all bound up. a message you send from Vancouver to Halifax may/ probably crosses the border into the USA

and If i am in Chicago and i send a message to Anchorage, that goes through Canada

Canadian and American data is intertwined

and our authorities coordinate and cooperate in managing that in ways that would make both Americans and Canadians uncomfortable if you don't want eyes from another jurisdiction seeing our data

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