Come on down to Usenet - Eternal September gives free accounts, and comp.misc is the new old Slashdot. Free from Rob!

There are many defense and intelligence nitwits on the board of Yahoo (and Google) so it'll stay around because doubtless there is some national security / Gestapo spy value in the property.

YouTube has all the soaps, within an hour or two of their airing in the eastern time zone.

We moved to a rural mountain area with no broadcast TV and I refuse to pay for what amounts to utter shit. However my wife watches GH and it's practically her only vice so we had to figure something out. Turns out somebody already did.

Easy - open the modem / router thingy and snip the wires leading to the antenna. Solder a big resistor on there instead.

Linus Torvalds might agree with you.

But they didn't "fight," they complained and then caved! Backdoorberry.

Why not the penis from the Little Mermaid box? Females like penises!

They are collecting all our data and sharing it with the NSA though. A few National Security Letters and bam, whatever Google has the NSA has too.

It is also reasonable to expect that the NSA has agents in place at Google as well.

Plus there's the suspiciously strange fact that Google just built a huge datacenter right next door to the NSA as well...

Blind folks have been using "clickers" for what, over a hundred years now. They are inexpensive, need no battery, and do not require any new technology.

Usenet - the new Slashdot. Now with less beta.

Why not just go while hog and say you interviewed "over 9000" of them as long as you're making shit up?

Usenet - the new Slashdot at comp.misc

It was actually the decline of Disco which started the downward trend in murder rates. This downward trend was further accelerated by the appearance of Chuck Lorrie shows, which have a soothing effect.

Not when people start complaining about the shitty battery life. This could be bad for intel. Perhaps the reason why the phones are so huge is that they have a gigantic battery?

I mean how much did these fucks pay Dice to say this hackneyed phrase? Data center thought leaders.

God Slashdot is such a fucking hive of shit these days.

OR, was the intelligence that the NSA was collecting from Russia using the same vulnerability valuable enough that the NSA didn't want the hole closed despite the fact that it was also being exploited by the Russians?

OR, did the NSA discover that the Russians using this attack and decide to use it to feed them some bad intel?

I mean, sure, the NSA has suffered a leak or two lately, and their characteristic odor has been found wafting about certain vulnerabilities such as the OpenSSL hole, but let's not pretend they are just blundering incompetent fools here. Unpopular, Gestapo-esque, Orwellian? Sure. But not stupid.

And this, sir, is why we're fucked and it's also why "science" is becoming a religion. Immune to criticism, repetition of mantras, accusations of insanity toward anybody who disagrees, and all the hallmarks of every fundamentalist ideology.

As I said in the first post, the societal momentum behind this kind of thinking is too powerful to overcome, and you're an exemplification of this thesis.