You completely miss the point. Completely and utterly. Everyone has a responsibility to pay taxes. taxes help keep things running. The rich use their wealth to buy tax breaks and other perks, as well as ferreting out any and all loopholes to continue not paying any taxes at all. This is what is not okay. It's not a "tyranny of the majority" (boo fucking hoo, you rich fucks being held responsible, such a crying shame -_- ), it's holding the guilty parties feet to the fire.

Eating Ramen 3 times a day in a bad part of the neighborhood with no car, etc. etc. is not really "living."
If you ran up CC debt, you *didn't* make it through college without borrowing.
Everyone knows what the American Dream is and that it's unobtainable by the majority (at all, or without major financial consequences), stop being a moron.

Are you a moron? Oh, sorry, rhetorical question.

All of you who bleat this stupidity seem to feel we should just continue down the same fucked path. So what if taxing higher "only" amounts to half the deficit. 1/2 is better than nothing, last I checked.

Is that so many sites are so cross scripted/integrated these days that sometimes you have to allow places you otherwise wouldn't in order for content to display. Nobody hosts their own content these days, esp. media.

I am amused by the view that we are the "product", because that is a farce. The viewer is much like the person working at 7-Eleven or McDonald's. Looked down on with ignorant contempt by people in higher station. The reality is if we all gave the collective finger, then where would they be? All the ad placement in the world wouldn't help either of them. They *need* us for the whole retarded system to work. Given that need, I think we should be treated a bit better. A little respect isn't a bad thing.

Of course the real true reality is that only a few people know/believe what I say, the rest are bleating sheep and will do no more than cry a little, then go on with the status quo.

Clearly you haven't tried Google+ or you'd know how it was better than Facebook. But hey, go ahead and jerk your knees and waive your arms and say G+ is crappy all because you heard something on the Internet.

Oh I'm sure they've got weaknesses, everyone has them, but in this sense, they're turning out to be the least dick-ish of companies. I used to hate Sprint back when I sold phones 10 years ago (I started out with my service being Airtouch, before they conglomerated into Verizon). They had lousy reception, the phones sucked, and they paid lower bonuses for selling phones and signing people up for service.

By comparison, they've really turned stuff around it seems.

...is just making Sprint look better and better really. Unless the guy at the Sprint store was lying to me, they don't care if you tether, they don't seem to care if you root, and they still have unlimited data (though apparently you need to root and such to avoid throttling at some point).

As I noted above, the flaw in this is that not all sites use login fields that Firefox can capture. Imageshack is but one example of such a site.

...we should add basic security to the curriculum at schools? I'm sure I'll be parroting what others have said already, but all password systems need to allow letters (case mattering), numbers, and special characters. Further I think they should require them. Length limits are good, and 8 is a decent starting point. Obvious pass words should be blacklisted as being done here. Perhaps implement a check against other user info like birth-date and such to refuse passwords involving 2 and 4 year birth year dates, etc.

Making password management easier for folks without it being a program they have to buy or spend a lot on will go a long way too. Being able to make one really long random strong password and have it applied to all websites would make things easier for the average user. Obviously they could then protect that with only one other password which they would need to memorize. Of course a keylogger could cause a problem there, but that's an issue no matter what.

At least with a central program, if a system was found to be rooted, once cleared the program could be used to push out a new password for all accounts, with a new master password for the program. No idea how feasible this would be though. First have to get all websites on board with decent password systems. Still far too many out there that restrict to text/digits only passwords, which is part of the problem. Especially when some of these sites are banks. Would also need sites to stop using login fields that a browser or other software cannot detect. That doesn't stop a keylogger, and only makes logins more of a PITA for the user.

"For instance, it was originally going to be a game about Popeye, Bluto, and Olive Oyl."

Actually, Nintendo *did* make a Popeye video game: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popeye_(video_game) It was both in the Arcade and on the NES.

If that were the case then why do sheep smell? Hrm? :p

Lots of people have obsessions with things that are quaint, cute, and totally pointless.

...of this? I used to wonder about this as a kid at least 15-ish years ago. Even without the stuff about propellers and pressure and such, it seemed obvious that a plane flying through a cloud would set off a reaction from the larger water drops formed from the condensation buildup on the body of it. Said larger drops fall off and through the cloud further causing a reaction.

Of course I never studied it or took it further, so it is quite possible I am wrong, but the point stands that I thought of it long ago, why is it only news now? Surely I am not the only one to think of it?

Every last one of you spouting your BS against them, calling them weenies for apparently quitting, talking down what they did "oh, they only did this or this, it's nothing."

Well *you* certainly didn't do it. Nobody else was doing it. They made a point to many companies about their lax and/or overestimated security measures, and managed to dump some very useful info exposing a group that continuously abuses their power stepping on our rights. What the hell have you done lately besides run your mouth here on /.? Hmmm? Yeah, not a damn thing besides bend over and take it up the shitter like the sheep you are. Talk tough on the internet, QQ all day every day, and never do a thing.

Try paying attention to and doing something about what "LulzSec" showed, instead of just being so much more useless yammering on the Internet. If people focused more on action than words, we wouldn't have any kind of need for groups like them.