That he'll be charged as a terrorist and sequested in a room somewhere to be beaten with a metal pipe or waterboarded until he gives up the password. Has anyone heard from him lately?
Ulbricht appeared in court on Friday, and after a request from his legal team has a bail hearing scheduled for October 9th.
I see Soulskill was kind enough to update with how to turn off images. What about those of us who'd prefer never to see this abomination implemented in the first place?
Once it's up, that's it. Slashdot as we know it is over. Kill it: there can be no compromise with something so shallow, so poorly functioning, and so obnoxious.
That this has even been proposed is a sign of colossal ignorance on the part of the owners and staff. You still do not know what makes readers come here, which is itself dismaying. If you don't have the initiative to actually inspect your own website, I doubt any of you will have the backbone to admit this is a huge mistake and put a stop to it.
The British satirist Chris Morris authored 12 columns in the Observer, a British newspaper. He built up to a spoof suicide under the pseudonym 'Richard Geefe':
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Class_Male/Time_To_Go/
Interesting that his satire has now become a reality for one journalist.
Even the humble home brewer is under scrutiny now.
We are each entitled to our own opinion, but no one is entitled to his own facts. -- Patrick Moynihan
