Comment: Re:Wasn't the point... (Score 1) 308
There's a difference between expressing what you want done with your "property" and demanding someone give you "property".
Comment: Re:Wasn't the point... (Score 1) 308
Good thing I'm not extremely stupid then.
Comment: Wasn't the point... (Score 5, Informative) 308
Wasn't the whole point of this to encourage advertisers to not track and if they do you have a leg to stand on in a court because you specifically made it clear you did not want to be tracked?
Comment: Re:The wheel (Score 1) 324
Pretty sure they're just copying it not reinventing it.
Comment: The wheel (Score 1) 324
Thank god it's gone I get SO SICK of people reinventing the wheel.
Comment: I have it (Score 5, Interesting) 382
Department of Unnecessary Services, I think it sums them up quite well.
Comment: I know where I will be for awhile... (Score 0) 161
In rural Australia there is no NBN for you. Enjoy your congestion, I wouldn't be surprised if 50% of the exchanges in Australia have backhaul problems it's pretty appalling. NBN change it? I hope so but I am not exactly expecting a positive result.
Comment: No script to the rescue? (Score 1) 352
Been using this for awhile now:
No script Options, Advanced,ABE.
># Block facebook on third party sites
>Site .facebook.com .facebook.net .fbcdn.com .fbcdn.net
>Accept from .facebook.com .facebook.net .fbcdn.com .fbcdn.net
>Deny ALL
Works like a charm, might need to make one for google+ soon. Of course slashdot is going to mash it into one big line > denotes a new line.
Comment: I can't help but notice (Score 1) 389
A lot of the people commenting here are not really getting the issue, as far as I can tell. The point of worry is control creep, much like the creep that is worried about when they start censoring the "bad things" off the Internet, I'd be all for it if it wasn't so easy to abuse. The problem is in fact, it is easy for the powers that be/status quo to abuse these systems and they have done so before. I've had laptops where I couldn't even switch the SATA mode, there's nothing to stop them making this into the worst possible situation for those who use OSes besides Windows.
Comment: Better things... (Score 0) 130
1. God it's loud.
2. What is with the bar?
3. We have so much better things to spend money on.
4. God it's loud.
Comment: Lines of.... (Score 1) 391
perl! Just wrote 160 lines of perl for irssi :3
Comment: Re:Oh, they can fuck right off. (Score 1) 258
Once you enter an area that requires a ticket or that is private property, you are no longer in a public venue for free unhampered expression; you are in an area for paying customers.
And when the goverment has finished selling just about all of the public land, train stations, bus stations you'll get to enjoy your lack of freedom to speak in those oh so not public places, you know, the ones where the public walk around and you have to use to access "public transport" yet it is private property...
Comment: Re:You have that backwards (Score 1) 318
Another recent thing is the ability to find out people's information just from their name and country, in the past without all these linked networks it took a lot longer to find someone if you could even find them at all... So we had anonminity in a form then the Internet and other various data retention events came along and we lost anonminity, then we got it back in the form of posting Anonymously or with a name we have made up. Like I am doing right now.
Comment: Re:Common Sense, anyone? (Score 5, Insightful) 788
It may be "common sense" to you, but I don't see how you don't realize what you just said is impossible - at least in the sense of providing the "best" healthcare for everyone. There are documented horrible failures of British and Canadian healthcare for instance - you are at the mercy of a bureaucracy in order to get treatment. Often the wait times are measured in months. There is a reason so many wealthy foreigners come to America for major procedures.
Just as with your ideas about taxing the rich, there are unintended consequences. Many doctors are quitting the profession because of 0bamacare.
Yeah cause I am sure some lapses in health care are much better than having no chance of having it all, give me a break.
Comment: Food DVD (Score 1) 140
I'm sorry RIAA, MPAA ,whateverAA no one can afford your shit anymore, if you haven't looked out front your door lately a lot of people are barely able to afford their food let alone some shiney discs you sell. I mean the USA is in big trouble right now so is half of europe, if we have a choice we're going with dinner > DVD thank you very much, please just go and fade away you're no longer relevant anymore.