Eisenhower wasn't responsible for McCarthy and by all accounts didn't like or approve of him. It's not as if the president can just fire a congressman he doesn't like.

Why is the ethical responsibility on the end user? Does YouTube not benefit from the hard work of "content creators?" Keep in mind, there are plenty who YouTube doesn't compensate at all, who don't even have the option to display ads. There are a few ways they could level the playing field.

1. Display ads on every video and give every channel the option to collect a portion of the total revenue based on how many views they generate. This way, YouTube partners who call their ad-blocking viewers "unethical, freeloading scumbags" won't feel like hypocritical assholes when they enjoy non-partner content on YouTube.
2. Make the site paid-only and give every channel the option to collect a portion of the total revenue based on how many views they generate. This also eliminates the "unethical freeloading scumbag" problem. Of course, YouTube wouldn't do this because it would interfere with their oh-so-ethical data-mining operation.

It appears that YouTube has chosen a combination of these options with ad-free subscriptions. So now, they get my money, partners get a portion, and the non-partners I watch with my paid subscription continue to get absolutely nothing. Now that's what I call ethical!

Did you just mansplain mansplaining to me?

Scott Stapp. http://www.rollingstone.com/mu...

Read the emails carefully. You're taking the word out of context.

From the original:

The full quote that you so strategically took out of context is...

So unless 170 of those 8" floppies were sold, it's a good bet the original is not what was being referred to.

Except for the part where it isn't. The manifesto is a lot of things. It's a case study in narcissistic personality disorder, antisocial personality disorder, borderline personality disorder, social anxiety disorder...you name it, it's in there, and you can spin it however you want.

The kid played WoW, so he must be a geek.

Never mind that he didn't excel in academics, that he never showed any interest in science, mathematics or technology, that he took a handful of liberal arts courses that he had to drop because the only thing he could concentrate on were girls. Does that sound like a geek? No, to me it pretty much sounds like everybody who isn't a geek.

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7M71wmwWRo

There was no solicitation, therefore, no entrapment. If you really think that being 10 years old on the internet is in and of itself enticement or solicitation of sex, it's time for some serious self-evaluation.

You can download and host it if you want: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_download. Keeping it in sync is a different story, but I think enough people fetch it that there's no risk of an Alexandria Library senario.

Who's Eric Snowdon?

Because vim users would like to take advantage of nice emacs goodies like Slime without changing the way they edit text.

There are 400K users according to the article. I assume that means active users since they cited a previous figure of 600K.

The fact that they even attempted to DDoS EC2 shows they are nothing more than script kiddies. EC2 is not a PIII in Amazon's broom closest. It's a large scale server infrastructure designed by some of the smartest hackers in the world explicitly to withstand incredibly high traffic. Any legitimate hacker could have explained that to them, but they managed to get well passed the planning stage of their little DDoS with not a single one of them mentioning it?

There were some New York accents in The Last Temptation of Christ which I found amusing. I wonder if Martin Scorsese even noticed.