Not in a modern civilization.

We all know we're sending this guy to get fucked up by fellow prisoners. We want to see him tortured and we're too squeamish to do at ourselves so we're going to arrange for other people to do it.

A proper civilization wouldn't be using prisons to inflict torture, especially torture so severe that we are too grossed out by it to do it ourselves directly.

Prison should be about containment. The idea being that you have somebody that if you don't keep them under constant supervision they will do more harm.

It would be child's Play to prevent this kid from doing any more harm. Never mind the point you made that if we cared to be bothered we could have stopped him from doing this in the first place.

People like to see other people get hurt because they've been hurt themselves and it triggers that animal response against unfairness if you don't hurt people in these kind of situations.

A friend of mine is trans (if you play Warhammer you probably know at least one trans girl it's a very accepting community so there's lots of them in it) and before all the moral panic and all the horrible things going on right now they were a little upset with how easy the younger generation of trans girls had it.

The thing is to my friend's credit the y knew feeling that way was wrong. But they couldn't stop themselves from feeling that way.

Trans girls go through a lot of psychological counseling before they start taking hormones let alone doing gender affirmative surgery so ironically trans people are often some of the most mentally well-adjusted people out there because they've had a lot of work done as it were.

Not a lot of people could recognize when they are having a knee-jerk reaction that is pretty fucked up like that. And I can tell you right now that me pointing out how we just kind of do it in society as a whole is going to piss a lot of people off.

But hey I got karma the burn so bring it on. What fun is karma if you're not going to spend it pissing people off with harsh truths.

A single company has 80% of all data concerning education and students.

That seems like a much bigger deal here.

You can send all the 20-year-olds you want to jail for as long as you want and it will never make that okay. But hey security theater is a thing and old people like seeing young people get harmed. I don't know why we just seem to like it a whole hell of a lot.

It would be sad if you repeated all those Fox News talking points yourself. If you're a real person then you need to get some help. I don't think there is any help though so well, sorry man. I'm sorry for whatever it is in your life lead you to write that comment

Maybe that's true, but I'm not getting that from the summary. What I'm getting is:

• OnlyOffice spent a decade developing their office code, distributing code that they authored under a modified AGPL license that requires attribution to be preserved.
• EuroOffice removed the attribution.

If EuroOffice removed attribution requirements only on code that was created by someone else other than OnlyOffice, and did not use the code authored by OnlyOffice, then they're fine. But I think courts have already ruled that the AGPL term about being able to remove conflicting terms applies only to someone other than the author adding those terms, so if they used code authored by OnlyOffice, they may have a problem.

If a massive amount of critical information and system of your business can be held hostage by a child then you are not "taking security very seriously" and you do not "respect the rights of [your] users".

That fact that stuff like this happens is astoundingly stupid. This foolish child isn't innocent but the businesses are all guilty as a hell.

Really? You say you "respect" comedians, but only confuse the issue with your focus. Don't you understand how humor works?

My view is that you can't understand a reality-based joke unless you understand the foundation of the joke in reality. Or another formulation would be to say that not understanding the joke is a clear signal you need to do more research.

But by the success standards of today's Slashdot, that was apparently an excellent FP, spanning roughly half of the discussion. It even has a bare "insightful" moderation and merely needs a second to be officially ranked as offering insight. But by my primary standard of success, I would say it was terrible. No Funny reactions, even though the theme of the story is supposed to be related to humor.

The insightful-level problem is the financial model. Or rather the lack of any good financial models that reward expensive and difficult truths in competition with cheap and easy lies. I did a bunch of searching on related keywords and came up with nothing. Apparently the discussion never went there. I might be surprised if I looked at the moderation by categories, but the trend of Slashdot these years is to rate too many no-insight comments as insightful, sometimes ignoring their humor, with only a smattering in the other categories. Generally a waste of time to go there--though I still check for Funny in the bigger discussions. Feels like a pointless habit. (Another form of OCD?)

So time to appeal to an actual comedian? What did Mark Twain say again? Something about truth putting on its shoes while the lies have gone around the world... (Of course I could look it up, but now I'm trying to minimize my exposures to the brain-damaging AIs--even though it is the kind of research question that usually gets an "honest" response.) But Twain was probably thinking about the speed of the telegraph. The quantitative difference offered by today's Web might astound him. But probably not. He was remarkably cynical and often seemed way ahead of his times... (Just now enjoying the original Huckleberry Finn book. I'm up to the section where they took two con artists aboard the raft. Many notes of similarity with the YOB... The less things change the more they stay the same.)

So anyway, I should just jump back to my conclusion: The root of the problem is that news as entertainment can't possibly compete with entertainment as entertainment. Facebook. I rest my case.

(Yeah, I know books are much too passé for today's Slashdot, but I have to recommend Facebook by Steven Levy. Or I could go with the flow and bring AI into it. How about an AI analysis of the devolution of Slashdot discussions over the decades. Maybe the current owners (whoever they are) can make some money by selling the data for training an AI, subject to a clause that they get feedback on the trend analysis. (Oh, wait. Slashdot lacks any financial model to fix anything no matter what problems the trend analyses expose.))

The only options were girls under the age of 16.

If a total collapse of human civilization and organic life is the price then it is a small price to pay.

Without trillionaires who will protect ethics and games journalism and women's sports?

Sure in the past our billionaires have been able to protect us. Spending thousands of hours on 4chan to make sure you knew what was really important.

But no mere billionaire can protect us from the woke mind virus. For that we need trillionaires.

Like a congressional bill. And in the middle of a sentence he suddenly started talking about a imaginary guy named Bill.

I don't think Trump is parroting Fox news, because I don't think his brain works enough anymore for him to do that. Maybe 8 years ago during his first presidency but right now his brain is just gone.

Just recently he went on a rant about how terrible the country was a year ago without realizing he was President a year ago.

The guy has absolutely lost his marbles and if Congress was at all functional he would get 25th amendment'ed, but if we had anything functional Trump wouldn't be president for reasons I'm not going to list out because this post would get too long

They rose to their greatest level of success under that manager. As far as alienating? the wimps who couldn't handle the mild nothing of his don't belong on the internet let alone Mozzila... the really alienating has been done by the predecessors running Firefox into the ground and it's not because their technical staff are bad; it's always been primarily management to blame for Firefox's problems. There is no way it would be worse had he remained in charge.

That's it. That's all you got to do is stop ticket scalping. If you enforce antitrust law then we go back to the days when tickets were sold in all sorts of different places and there were lots of different venues for musicians and comedians and whatnot. As a result ticket scalping becomes impractical because there is just too many different places to buy tickets from and too many different venues to go to. It's only out of control market consolidation that makes scalping practical because you can go to Ticketmaster and just buy an entire run and do that for the handful of remaining venues.

There are lots of problems with our broken capitalist system that need fixing but the quickest, easiest and highest impact is to just start enforcing antitrust law so that the basic mechanism of competition starts to work again. Unless and until we do that everything is going to keep falling apart around us.

So yeah you're going to turn to randos for journalism because a handful of billionaires bought up literally 90% of all the news media and they are in the process of buying up and shutting down what little is left. There are serious efforts to undermine and shut down the associate press and Reuters. And they're basically the last source of Truth left. There used to be a whole bunch of independent journalists who made a living on Twitter but well, you know.

So unless you just want billionaire Epstein class propaganda you've really got to go looking. There are several YouTubers I like. Belle of the ranch, Rebecca Watson, and professor Dave come to mind immediately. Patrick Boyle is pretty good too and so is Adam Something. I like some more news but I'm a pretty staunch Democrat at this point and they like to spend hours and hours crapping on Democrats for no particularly useful reason. I don't say good here because there's plenty of reasons to complain about Democrats but I don't find it useful in 2026..

But getting back on track yeah I'm not going to waste time on CBS or CNN let alone Fox News and news Max and oan because I know they're all owned by billionaires that have heavy control over what is allowed to be said and what isn't allowed to be said. So I can't get reliable information out of them.

I will sometimes settle for CNN if I have to they weren't able to go full Fox News but Lord knows they are trying.

First light of visible comment in the anti-discussion.

Generally appreciate your comments though you don't get as much Funny as you used to (it seems), but can't figure out the context and don't feel like reading more AC gibberish or propagating the vacuous Subject.

So the compromise is to attempt to blend your topic with my raging earworm of the day?

Been speculating on whether or not the pen is mightier than the sword. Seems to depend on circumstances. However the YUGE Orange Buffoon has dedicated his entire life to the proposition that lies are mightier than the truth. I still don't think so, even though the YOB has somehow managed to continue floating above the piles of debris and bankruptcies he's left behind. You [ArchieBunker] suggest legal remedies, but now I'm convinced the YOB has run out the clock on "justice". These days the YOB is merely doodling (and drooling?) on the details of his "non compos mentis" defense.

(Sorry, but an explicit link back to the ostensible story seems a bit too much of a stretch, even for me. Seems it would have to detour via the "son of" nepotism thing...)

(In related meta-news, I just ran another AI test. Gemini won this time, with Copilot coming in second. But it would be interesting to run an AI analysis of the trends in Slashdot comments and discussions over the decades. Some metrics may be trending up, but mostly the trends seem (to me) to be downward. Especially for Funny?)

For whatever it's worth, I think Gemini had the best response, though there was one element of Copilot's response that was also worth considering. The other AIs gave responses that I regarded as inferior...

On balance I'm going to proceed with caution, but that's another old joke.

New bug in Slashdot? So far seems limited to the Journal?