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bycorbettw
8 @06:58PM
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Attached to: Facebook Is Killing Off Trending As It Tries To Revamp Newsfeed
having to see over and over again one of my friends popular post, where I am more interested in what is happening with my more boring friend.
This is one of the things that eventually forced me to shutdown Facebook for good. I got sick and tired of seeing the same posts over and over. Then I'd switch from "most popular" to "newest", and what do know? There were tons of posts that I never saw because Facebook declined to include them in my feed.
Just let me see what I want to see, not what you think I should see.
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bycorbettw
2017 @11:17AM
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Attached to: New Law Bans California Employers From Asking Applicants Their Prior Salary
49 other states didn't want it? And yet the article says this is following Delaware, Massachusetts and Oregon who passed similar laws recently. Do you want to revise your opinion after reading the article or persist in your ignorance?
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bycorbettw
2017 @09:38PM
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Attached to: What device do you use most often for gaming?
Models and dice. "Gaming" comprises more than just mashing buttons on a keyboard or controller.
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bycorbettw
4 @11:45AM
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Attached to: An Army Medal For Coding In Perl
This is nothing, I once got a Navy Achievement Medal (one step down from a Commendation medal) for setting up a mail alias on my own domain for my reserve unit to use for group communications, and for installing and updating anti-virus software on the unit's laptops. It all literally took me half an hour to complete.
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bycorbettw
2014 @04:44PM
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Attached to: Pwn2own 2014 Set To Hunt Unicorns
Here I thought this would be about talking to single ladies at couples clubs.
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bycorbettw
2014 @02:43AM
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Attached to: How the Black Hole Firewall Paradox Was Resolved
And if the super-strong cable also does Ethernet, you wouldn't even have to raise it back, unless gravitational escape velocity also applies to electricity.
Since electrons have mass they're susceptible to gravity. So no, you couldn't get any kind of signal out of a black hole.
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bycorbettw
2014 @02:40AM
(#46132573)
Attached to: How the Black Hole Firewall Paradox Was Resolved
No it doesn't beg the question, it raises it.
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bycorbettw
2014 @01:53AM
(#46088831)
Attached to: Ask Slashdot: What Does Edward Snowden Deserve?
The 4th Amendment says the government can't search our private effects without a warrant. The NSA has been doing just that. If some asshole in a robe says that's legal that says more about just how broken our government is than whether it really is legal or not.
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bycorbettw
2014 @01:52AM
(#46088825)
Attached to: Ask Slashdot: What Does Edward Snowden Deserve?
You have the basic question wrong. Snowden revealed classified information. It isn't a question of true or false, it is a question of who is legally allowed to see it. He compromised American intelligence operations, and those of allied nations. Snowden broke trust, and people are confused about it.
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Snowden alerted the American people to illegal actions that circumvent the Constitution. I don't care how classified it was. The Constitution and our civil rights are far, far more important than what some bureaucrat thinks we ought to know.
Snowden arrogantly undermined democratic principles and acted like a vigilante.
You're fucking high. You should be tarred and feathered along with the assholes who have been shredding our Constitution, you fucking bootlicker.
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bycorbettw
2014 @01:49AM
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Attached to: Ask Slashdot: What Does Edward Snowden Deserve?
No, we don't all know that. Because he didn't pursue his crusade using any of the procedures that would grant him that protection. Not even close.
True, but only because the previous NSA whistleblowers were all silenced and screwed over, too. What's the good of playing by the rules when the powers that be won't do the same?
Snowden, like other government workers (even contractors), took an oath to support and defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic. By revealing the depth of the spying done on American citizens by our own government he upheld that oath. Whether he "went through proper channels" is bullshit and academic. He did the right thing and we should give him a ticker tape parade while tar-and-feathering the real traitors, the people who create the surveillance state and those who still support and defend it today.
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bycorbettw
2014 @01:42AM
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Attached to: Ask Slashdot: What Does Edward Snowden Deserve?
Snowden fulfilled his oath to protect and defend the Constitution from domestic enemies. If doing that is against the law we're even more fucked than any of us have realized.
So yeah, he broke no laws by releasing that data. The people he blew the whistle on are the lawbreakers, they're the ones who belong in Leavenworth.
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bycorbettw
2014 @11:21AM
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Attached to: Thank Goodness For the NSA — A Fable
Hear, hear. If I had points you'd get one.
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bycorbettw
2014 @11:20AM
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Attached to: Thank Goodness For the NSA — A Fable
The actual title should be "thank goodness $SECURITY_THREAT made use realize our security was worse than crap".
Well if they're using Perl in their security software no wonder they got hacked...
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bycorbettw
2014 @11:16AM
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Attached to: US Customs Destroys Virtuoso's Flutes Because They Were "Agricultural Items"
I know, it's crazy. I started hanging out here before my oldest son was born; he'll be 16 next month. I finally got a login around that time. One of my life's regrets is not getting one as soon as I found the site, it probably would've been a five-digit one.
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bycorbettw
2014 @04:24AM
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Attached to: US Federal Judge Rules Suspicionless Border Searches of Laptops Constitutional
My deepest desire is for an party that is a cross between the Tea Party and Occupy.
Such a party already exists; it's called the Libertarian Party.
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