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I think your aside is responsible for more than a few of your upvotes.

For those not paying attention, this panel was the culmination of the Sarah Sharp/Linus Torvalds "abusive language" thread on the kernel developer mailing list. [1] The thread, or any abusive langauge situations, were not discussed in the panel.

Fun info nugget: Sarah was supposed to bring (THC-laced) brownies to this panel, with Linus' approval.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6069952

buried in the article: Linus confirms that US Government has approached him to put a backdoor in the linux kernel.

> You just (unintentionally) said that capitalism is the problem.

That's a strawman fallacy [1].

> If people were willing to pay for antibiotic-free meat, then farmers would produce it.

Seeing as most farming in the United States is done on megafarms owned by large corporations [2] that have historically shown to be (to put it mildly) lax on their focus on serving healthy and nutritious products to their customers [3], and that "farmers" in the traditional colloquial sense are now only 2% of the population [4], you'll hopefully understand if I say that your statement has little relevance in the United States in 2013.

[1] https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/strawman

[2] http://thecabin.net/stories/091001/wor_0910010048.shtml

[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smithfield_Foods#Environmental_...

[4] http://www.epa.gov/agriculture/ag101/demographics.html

whoa whoa, why the character assasination on the Cato Institute? do you have any references to support your position on their motives?

http://edramalpl7oq5npk.onion/Sabu is a good explanation

this is fantastic. now I know who I can sue for destroying the tormail accounts I was using for (legal) business purposes. Probably the best news I've had since Tormail went down.

> "Will I be sentenced to death or torture if this document is discovered?"

The fact that one now has to ask themselves this question is disturbing. Torture is now a part of the american thinking.

do I need to pay you royalties when I incorporate those concepts into my own contracts from now on?

It seems that you agree with Scalia and Stevens [1], who also ignore the 10th Amendment of the bill of rights [2].

[1] http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/03-1454.ZD1.html (control-F "Tenth Amendment")

[2] The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.

So, because it had the same name of a popular PSY song, it was near-impossible to find in searches, and sold 114 copies.

But let's not focus on the fact that it was marketed poorly, nobody reviewed it on any game blogs, or the fact that there actually _is_ a market for this game (remember that Gabe Newell said that "Pirates are just Underserved Customers"). No. Let's focus on how 50,000 chinese and russian pirates, who can't use the Apple App Store, have somehow destroyed this developer.

How about the truth? A poorly-marketed and budgeted game with a forgettable name found an untapped/blue-ocean market in China and Russia. Kotaku probably can't get as many clicks with that tagline, though.

the last thing any startup needs is 4chan's wrath.

[citation needed]

> There is an extremely simple solution: leave.

I did exactly that during the second term of Bush Jr. Left for Canada, and haven't been back since. The longer I'm gone, the more I don't want to go back. I miss my guns, but I'd miss my rights more.

My relatives have to experience egregious security checks while coming to visit me, but once they're here, their human rights are respected. Many of them (NRA members, even) are thinking of moving here for good.

veering offtopic, but how the hell do you remember a conversation you have with a guy two years ago on a website? Can you give me some tips on getting my mind to that steel-trap state?

> And really, the thing that got him most in trouble were the hundreds of thousands of diplomatic cables that exposed no wrongdoing

You've clearly not read the cables. they were responsible for at least two revolutions [1][2], and we're still learning from them.

[1] http://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/may/13/amnesty-interna...

[2] http://www.worldaffairsjournal.org/article/wikihistory-did-l...

I bet your use of passive-aggressive condescension wins all your arguments for you, and wins you the respect of all your peers.

Now, if you said that 35 isn't half a lifetime, and that he'll be about 60 when he gets out, how doesn't that minimize the focus on the effect those 35 years of incarceration actually have on Manning? Were you just so insensitive an engineer that you felt the cold, literal correction was somehow benefiting the conversation?

I've found that people use the "stop putting words in my mouth" line when someone follows their words to a logical conclusion. This leads me to believe that the sentence really means "quit pointing out flaws in my reasoning."

the Swedes have adopted the pronoun "Hen" [1] for exactly these purposes, to much global controversy.

[1] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/11/swedish-gender-neut...

Title 28 of United States Code, Section 3002, subsection 15 (A) states that United States is a Federal Corporation [1]

So yes, corporations can indeed put you in jail.

[1] http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/28/3002

Disgusting. This is the first post on HN that actually offended me. I bet this is how the Homebrew Computer Club felt after reading Bill Gates' Open Letter to Hobbyists [1] back in '75.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Letter_to_Hobbyists

I think you're misrepresenting RMS. In that article, he is mostly saying that hardware cannot be properly copyrighted/copylefted, and then pushes for open access to hardware interface specifications.

The closest to "not advocat[ing] free hardware" I can see in the article is where RMS states that there is (at that time) no way to download hardware the way we download software. correct me if I'm wrong.

> there are situations where they would like the government to interfere

> Could we maintain a society like this without any enforcement of law?

> I think the government should prevent people being harmed by predictable irrational behavior

So it seems you believe that a government is a monopoly on force, but think it's a good thing. a very interesting viewpoint.

How is that different from the famous quote [1] from 1984 about the picture of the future? I appreciate that this might be considered a slippery slope argument, but have you seen a benevolent monopoly before? I'm not sure I have.

[1] http://www.quotedb.com/quotes/3041

Please, pontificate further on your beliefs about the dangers of marijuana use, while simultaneously avoiding sounding ignorant or dull.

It doesn't make you a hypocrite, but using your example, it would make you an idiot armchair pundit, unaware of your surroundings, or the comedic irony in which your statements are now grounded. Which is more in-line with the original point, I think.

Not that I'm saying you're any of those things, mind you, but your analogy was fairly flawed. :)

Normally I disagree with the invocation of Scumbag Steve, but you, sir, are doing it right.

After reading the article on Crowdturfing [1], I can no longer assume that everyone posting here is acting in good faith.

[1] http://sdt.bz/61989

> Do all cases simply become civil cases? Murder is now OK again?

Section 11 of the Canadian Criminal Code says exactly that [1], and I have personally exploited that loophole multiple times. Even more frightening, I have personally seen lawyers (and pro se litigants) in the United States settle criminal cases (including 25 years in the state pen) using a set-off [2]. Vince Neil of Motley Crue avoided a prison sentence for vehicular manslaughter by doing exactly that [3].

TL;DR - In Canada and the United States (if not NZ, AU, UK as well), it is possible to settle murder charges by paying a fine.

[1] http://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/C-46/page-5.html#doc...

[2] http://openjurist.org/636/f2d/714/magno-v-united-states

[3] http://www.opposingviews.com/i/vince-neil-served-20-days-for...

Right, but Murkins are special. There's this very real culture of "you can take my guns from my cold dead hands" that the rest of the world doesn't quite grok. While the 2nd Amendment argument wouldn't hold much water in, say, Denmark, You could probably get a bunch of NRA members to champion the cause of your friendly neighborhood script kiddie if you sold it to them correctly. And americans only support what's been sold to them.

Now, would the world be a better or worse place if someone got SCOTUS to agree that DC v Heller applied to 0-day exploits? Personally, I don't know if I could answer that.

I have an omegle exploit that exists entirely in javascript. it was written for Chrome (Windows/Mac specifically), but still 100% javascript. I'd be happy to email a copy of it (in .zip form) to anyone interested.

Also, the recent Tor Browser Bundle exploit (RIP Tormail) was javascript-based.

How are you finding the Aurora channel to be, stability-wise?