Last I heard a lot of companies side with drug dealers, hookers and other shady subjects. All of them accept cash, ya know?

The freedom to speak is worthless if there is nobody to listen to you. In other words, nobody hears you scream on the internet, unless you're screaming where everyone is listening.

Bad bot. Bad bot. No cookie!

They trades socialist for fascist. In other words, now we don't need to hate them for being so different, we can hate them for showing us the ugly side of ourselves.

Talking about RT, if you really want to have a laugh, watch RT back to back with your favorite European/US news network. It's amazing how the same pictures with different commentary tell exactly the opposite story.

Fuck news. Everyone lies.

I think you give the average FB user far too much credit. It's going to be as usual. Everyone will complain just what kind of un-American asshole or whatever other negative attribute can be mustered FB in general and Zuckerberg in particular is, and the indignation will last exactly until whatever browser game is currently all the craze on FB and their plants need watering, their zombies need feeding or their castles need building.

Face it. People don't give a shit as long as it doesn't cut into their entertainment. Actually, if giving shit cuts into entertainment, they'd rather not give any.

Where's the problem? For the Ukraine, of course, but for FB?

Whether I can say with 100% certainty that she's talking out of her ass when she's claiming that women are "objectified" in games? Yeah, I can say that with some degree of certainty. Unless something changed big time in the game industry in the last decade, game makers don't give a shit about making misogynist statements, they care about making a game that sells.

Probably FB's.

Where's the problem? I mean, for FB. Why should FB care whether Ukraine or Russia is winning the media war? As long as people follow it on FB, FB is winning.

Right. NASA also still has way too many "centers". Ames (except for the big wind tunnel) and Glenn (except for the test facilities at Sandusky) ought to go.

The problem is that no matter what happens we'll lose.

Either Putin responds in kind and we got WW3.

Or he does not, which will most likely be the start of his downfall, which makes it quite likely to get an even bigger bastard in power. And then we get WW3, with an opponent that's even worse than Stalin, I mean Putin.

We're playing with fire here. It seems we want to "reign in" Putin, without considering what would happen if we actually succeeded.

No, she's not.

A feminist is someone who fights to eradicate gender disparity. Maybe to the point of wanting to put the female ahead of the male, but always with the goal of changing the status quo to the betterment of the female sex.

A troll is someone who seeks or makes up "problems" for the sake of an argument without the actual intent to solve or change anything.

Sorry, but I cannot see the former. I see plenty of the latter, though.

My conscience rests easy. Breaking laws that do neither create a balance nor defend the weak is easy on my conscience.

The reason I don't copy content isn't my conscience. It's the fact that the crap produced today ain't worth the bandwidth wasted.

Funny. Not three quarters of a century ago, it was the big marxist-judaist conspiracy that was going to bring the world to its knees with war and strife. Today it's the marxist-islamist conspiracy.

My money is still going to be on the nationalists again when it comes to the reason for war. Then again, once the bombs fall it doesn't really matter anymore who is right.

Only who is left.

I take it a step further, I buy appliances with exactly the feature set that I need. I admit it gets harder and harder. The usual dialogue in the store:

"I want to buy a $device without $feature"
"Sir, we'd have $device here, you can disable $feature in it"
"Where? I don't see the switch to turn it off."
"You can disable it in the configuration"
"So... I can turn it off in the config and anyone who can get into the configuration page of the device can turn it back on?"
"Umm... yeah, but you'd be the only one who can"
"Says who?"
"You need a password to access it"
"Want to bet that I do?"

Chances are that I have an exploit for the device in question ready. It's kinda scary what amount of information you can get as part of a CERT. There is virtually no router/ap in existence that is actually bulletproof (and no, price is BY NO STRETCH any way to measure security here), with no exploits and no leaks that allow an attacker access to some, or maybe even all, of its functions.

At the same time, featuritis creeps into our appliances. Everything needs to have all sort of "features", whether they make any sense or whether they don't. I can see where that comes from, on one hand it doesn't really cost anything extra to give the router UPnP capability, on the other hand it's something you can write on the feature card. And that card is what the clueless home user takes to pick his router. "This one has 5 features, that other one has 7, they cost the same, I take the one with 7 features". Does he need them? Heck, he doesn't even know what those features are!

It's ok if the device has a hardware switch that turns such features off. Of course only if that "turn off" really means that the switch enables and disables the power flow to the key component for the feature, not that this switch sends a signal to the CPU that the user wants to disable something. That's easy to ignore.

But of course, that would cost a few cents. So you won't find it on too many devices...