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Comment oh my old school troll has mod points again (Score 0) 156

The child who mods down three of my posts in a row every time they get mod points has them again.

If the people who run this site wanted to reduce mod abuse they could do it any time, but they don't want to.

They only want us arguing about stupid shit that doesn't matter to increase the page count so they can show ads for shitlords to morons who haven't figured out how to block them yet.

Remember when this site had benevolent management? Those were the days.

Comment Re:Can I pay him not to post? (Score 0, Troll) 156

I agree that decentralization is what's needed. I would argue that we shouldn't even have a president, at least not like we have one now. I don't think that the constitution ever worked well in this area; We just never had a traitor president before, so that part of the constitution didn't have to work so hard.

Comment Re:Reversible Irreversible ? (Score 1) 49

It's likely irreversible in that there wasn't a way to recover it. Chances are the only reason the data still exists is because of... backups. You know, the things companies do.

Recover is literally the opposite of backup. That means by definition it wasn't irreversible. Words have meanings, they matter, and you're ignoring them.

Comment Re:Reversible Irreversible ? (Score 1) 49

As long as there is no request to keep the data yet, they can delete it.

Even GP knows more about this than you do. If you have reason to believe law enforcement may request the data, then it's illegal to delete the data.

But when the NSL arrives, you better already have deleted the data, because if they catch you deleting it afterward you're having a problem.

If an NSL arrives, you've either got other problems, or you've already agreed to assist the feds in spying like Microsoft did long, long ago, and the NSL is a legal cover for your actions which will prevent you from ever having to testify about them in court, with the excuse of national security as a cover. You don't have the slightest clue, which explains why you're commenting cowardly.

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I used to think that it was Faceboot's Javascript causing mobile Firefox to crash. But now I see it's actually Slashdot's, I can not even have the faceboot tab loaded when it happens. This site is trying so hard to track all of us and sell our data that it blows up the browser.

Comment Re:Reversible Irreversible ? (Score 2, Informative) 49

Put aside the personal data for a moment.

This also included all of the customer's Xbox digital "purchases".

Microsoft is literally known for poor security, including in their services. Azure was hacked at least twice where there are literally no logs, so Microsoft has literally no idea what was accessed.

It's unconscionable to permit Microsoft, a corporation known globally for incompetence, to cut off people's access to content they "purchased" because their account was hacked. Sure, it could be the user's fault, but it's at least equally plausible that it's Microsoft's. Remember, this is the company that built literally the only Chromium derivative that loads all of your passwords into memory on launch in plaintext. What if your account got hacked because some attacker who got onto your machine in the first place because of a buffer overflow Microsoft should have fixed twenty years ago read your passwords out of your browser's memory? Who's liable for that? Answer, NOT MICROSOFT! It's your problem, sucker.

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