slashdotted it...

BTK had an announcement about TIB on a Turkish newspaper today, saying that they will get the IP addresses of the attackers and will "possibly punish them" for it (1, in Turkish). I posted the link so we all can have a touristic visit to a Turkish jail.

PS. Turkish media are now reporting (most probably upon government directives) that the attacks were not successful despite initial reports.

Judging by their overreaction to what was NOT said, I don't think they are guys.

Someone! Quick! Mod parent up! It has invaluable insight about women's / gays' / aliens' / whatever's secret psychic mechanism! Even better, it does what it says (overreaction to what was not said)... Quick!

Or are there products really as great as they say they are?

I take you mean users when you say products? ;)

I love it when people pull this. My response to them is

"Speaking one's opinion" is a new way to get out of argumentation I guess... I see no problem with being a partisan. Good luck finding a political party to be its partisan though...

Will they be there, listening to Stallman, or will they be carefully segregated from their sexual superiors?

Oww, you wanna save them girls don't you? And while there, perhaps you might wanna visit a few spots?.. I mean, common... who can blame you for saving those poor helpless women from those brown filthy savages, right?..

I'm baffled by this kind of logic.

That's because there's no logic in hate-based politics.

The apps can tell the firewall to open up a port for a period of time and then shut it back down.

Woohoo!

now have switched to kubuntu 11.04

If you don't like Unity, don't use it; Gnome Shell 2 is still in Natty, and it works fine.

-- There's no -1 for "I don't get it."

What part of that did you not get? ;)

One can vote Green, but they have no chance of winning

Green, independent, or whatever. They have no chance of winning exactly because of your own statement: the few people who would vote for them and give them a slight chance at election are not doing it.

And, if you feel like you are put in a position to vote for different/assholes but same-shit, why vote at all and become complicit in their crimes and corruption? Either don't vote or vote for someone whom you support but whom you otherwise think cannot win.

a Flash-based miner.

A bitcoin youtube? And running with the flash plugin? Oh... god...

Do you feel that any time software, games or services are mentioned you're being pitched to? Maybe you're on the wrong site ....

It's called "getting old". Whether by years or by technology, it will happen to you too.

but as a working programmer, i like getting things done. to hell with the ideologues

I like how your signature contradicts your above argument :)

intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it