Submission + - Slashdot Alum Samzenpus's Fractured Veil Hits Kickstarter
Comment Re:This isn't a victory for Behring-Breivik. (Score 1) 491
>Do you believe rehabilitation is impossible or do you want revenge?
I don't believe that someone who commits mass murder can be rehabilitated, no. It isn't about revenge; it's about public safety.
Comment This isn't a victory for Behring-Breivik. (Score 3, Insightful) 491
Someone once pointed out that hoping a rapist gets raped in prison isn't a victory for his victim(s), because it somehow gives him what he had coming to him, but it's actually a victory for rape and violence. I wish I could remember who said that, because they are right. The score doesn't go Rapist: 1 World: 1. It goes Rape: 2.
What this man did is unspeakable, and he absolutely deserves to spend the rest of his life in prison. If he needs to be kept away from other prisoners as a safety issue, there are ways to do that without keeping him in solitary confinement, which has been shown conclusively to be profoundly cruel and harmful.
Putting him in solitary confinement, as a punitive measure, is not a victory for the good people in the world. It's a victory for inhumane treatment of human beings. This ruling is, in my opinion, very good and very strong for human rights, *precisely* because it was brought by such a despicable and horrible person. It affirms that all of us have basic human rights, even the absolute worst of us on this planet.
Comment Re:Facebook collecting private data unnecessarily? (Score 4, Interesting) 96
This is precisely why I lost all interest in Oculus the instant I heard that it had been acquired by Facebook.
Comment Fun (Score 1) 9
Submission + - EU says Apple's Warranty Advertisements are Unacceptable (tekgoblin.com) 1
Submission + - Man claims cell phone taken by DC police for taking photos (myfoxdc.com)
Submission + - Apple to pay $60 Million over iPad trademark dispute (tekgoblin.com)
In 2006 Apple purchased the Taiwanese rights to the name “iPad” from the company Proview Electronics. In China however, the trademarked name was still owned by Proview Technologies, a Shenzhen based subsidiary of Proview Electronics. Since 2011, Proview Technologies has battled Apple in the Xicheng district court and in 2012 the Santa Clara Superior Court. Both cases are still ongoing."
Submission + - Fredrik Neij fined for 'Continued Involvement' in Pirate Bay (tekgoblin.com)
Submission + - Valve unveils Steam for Schools, Portal in the classroom (tekgoblin.com)
Valve will call this service Steam for Schools, an education version of the Steam client that allows administrators to limit what its users can access. The idea of Steam for Schools is to use the platform as a teaching aid. Valve has already put together a number of educational lesson plans for using Portal 2 and its level editor to teach math and physics."
Submission + - Xfinity 360 App Will Not Count Against Bandwidth Cap (tekgoblin.com)
Submission + - Disaster strikes Norwegian government web portal (icrontic.com)
This year as every year, the site was unable to cope with the traffic generated from everyone wanting to check their taxes at the same time. New this year however was that once people were finally able to log in, a significant amount of people were loggen in as someone else.
Users then had access to all financial data of this unfortunate person over two years back in time, in addition to the financial information of his wife and the company he worked for. Altinn shut down some 15 minutes later, and has been down since.
Submission + - Google is Planning to Penalize Overly Optimized Sites (tekgoblin.com)
Google plans to penalize overly optimized sites because they want to level the playing field for other websites who do not concentrate on such efforts. Basically there are sites out there that completely focus their efforts on SEO and not content and those results would rank higher than sites that don’t focus on SEO."