Comment Re:That's all? (Score 1) 6
It's another big, happy circle-jerk a la chemtrails.
Comment Re:What can be done? (Score 4, Insightful) 333
98% of the functionality of these apps could have been done in a web page in '98.
Comment Re:I wonder (Score 1) 347
Pretend for just a moment that we're not talking about an argument's logical or ethical impact, or even the effects of charisma.
Pretend instead that we're talking about gaming the system.
Comment Fair enough (Score 1) 347
Why should corporate shills get all the good times? Those in the public sector deserve their fair share.
NSA and GHCQ Employing Shills To Poison Web Forum Discourse 347
Advocatus Diaboli writes with this excerpt from an article by Glenn Greenwald on the pervasiveness of shills poisoning web forums: "One of the many pressing stories that remains to be told from the Snowden archive is how western intelligence agencies are attempting to manipulate and control online discourse with extreme tactics of deception and reputation-destruction. It's time to tell a chunk of that story, complete with the relevant documents.. ... Among the core self-identified purposes of JTRIG are two tactics: (1) to inject all sorts of false material onto the Internet in order to destroy the reputation of its targets; and (2) to use social sciences and other techniques to manipulate online discourse and activism to generate outcomes it considers desirable. To see how extremist these programs are, just consider the tactics they boast of using to achieve those ends: 'false flag operations' (posting material to the Internet and falsely attributing it to someone else), fake victim blog posts (pretending to be a victim of the individual whose reputation they want to destroy), and posting 'negative information' on various forums."
I guess Cryptome was right. Check out the the training materials provided to future forum spies.
Comment Re:R.I.P. Will not be forgotten. (Score 1) 136
Use ——and you'll be golden.
Comment Re:Disingenuous to point of Safari swap (Score 1) 742
Here ya go, buddy.
Comment Re:Change (Score 1) 742
Dingdingdingding... We have a winner. Alas, I'm fresh out of mod points today.
Comment Re:Change (Score 2) 742
Comparing genocide with doing business? Only on the Internet!
You seem to have missed the fact that it was the MS point man who invited the comparisons with the WW2 era to begin with.
Nice try, though.
Comment Re:Change (Score 1, Insightful) 742
With a monopoly everybody know where they stand. You either with them - or against them. And if the monopolist is really bad, then opposition would form in the industry.
Duopoly creates illusion of competition.
Oh, you mean like the REPUBLICANS and the DEMOCRATS? Now I get it---Thanks!
Comment Re:Change (Score 1) 742
The original was just fine. Don't quit your day job.
Comment Re:Change (Score 1) 742
It sure has. Ten years ago, I actually still used Windows. About 6 months after that, I switched to Linux, and since then, I mostly get to ignore Microsoft and its scabby products. And when work obliges me to test something on Windows, it's in a VM.
MY principal beef with Microsoft is their incredible "we already know what's best for you" arrogance and their chronic inability to discern that a computer I've bought and paid for with my own money is MY computer and not theirs. When that attitude changes, you might see mine do so also. In the meantime, I am grateful to FOSS for making it possible mostly just to ignore them.
Comment Zing (Score 1) 3
See $subject.
Comment Likely not (Score 1) 3
Not after the resistance got the informal tour of Disneyland Kiev over the weekend.
Oh, there's some other "resistance" that's worth paying attention to recently?
Comment Re:umm no (Score 1) 267
Good to see that somebody's sarcasm detector is actually functional, I guess.
