Flick off is the universal gesture for sudo.

So that's why that sentence didn't parse... I kept thinking about what that "shiny new one" was and where did they "replace" it for her.

"You simply cannot invent any conspiracy theory so ridiculous and obviously satirical that some people somewhere don't already believe it."

-- Robert Anton Wilson

Keep in mind that those people who casually order you to commit crimes, may also casually order other people to commit crimes against you. I would certainly take this into account when dealing out sentences.

No, it shows how people can be productive programmers with only one limb functioning. Meanwhile, we're reading Slashdot...

Keep in mind that for a long time, Latin (and to some extent, Greek) was the language of information and international communication. If you didn't speak it, you were a nobody.

Kind of like English to a programmer. Imagine where Linux would be if Linus had commented the first tarball in Finnish.

I propose a ban on the words "science" and "scientist". It's so vague that the only time you can use it is when you want to obscure their qualifications.

Besides, if a "non-scientist" had done the same, would it be less newsworthy?

I'm not sure this term has any meaning when applied to information that is instantly, cheaply and undetectably duplicated, especially if this duplication is the whole fucking point. How many servers did that mail pass through while it got to the recipient?

What we really need is to define encryption as a basic human right.

Unless you believe the enemy has way more than you. Then it doesn't matter how much they really have.

They're rich.

Don't bring math into a discussion about math. This is Slashdot.

That's more likely ignorance than an outright lie. Given enough laws, everyone is a criminal.

Alright, here's an idea:

1. Find those rare teachers who can teach in a manner interesting enough to hold everyone's attention
2. Record their lessons
3. Play those everywhere else.

Alternatively, sit the kids down in front of a computer with *only* Wikipedia, and tell them to write a report on any topic they want.

We're living in the age of supercomputers and Internet for god's sake, waaaaay beyond what science fiction writers thought possible even 30 years ago. Why not learn how to use it?

Since everyone in this thread distinguishes between Remocrats and Depublicans, calling doublethink on that particular factoid alone seems kind of pointless to me.