Where the hell are the mods these days? Wtf?

Upvote parent please.

^very well prepared and sourced comment showing how a lot of the illogocal bullshit we face in modern society is pre-planned on purpose bullshit.

Why is this 2 month old article "news" on slashdot now?

Posted on Euronews in August: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.euronews.com%2F2020%2F...

So, Trump makes non-secret phone calls, eh? Hmm.. next time he should go in the bathroom with a burner phone, doncha think?

Meanwhile check out what Newt Gingrich said back in 2016 when like 6 people trying to investigate Hilary mysteriously died just in August:

"We have these kind of scenes in there where you begin to realize that there are dangerous things going on in the world."

"I think part of what happens to all of us though is there is so much clutter, but it's all about Hillary and the emails," he said. "There are so many different points of sickening corruption between Bill, the foundation, the secretary of state's office, the emails. There's so much of it you can't get it straight."

No one talks about investigating Clinton much do they? Huh. Boy, you guys sure are passionate about Trump... You all seem to think that investigating a crime is a crime.

He's the president you dumbasses... you can't be wiretapping the President. What's wrong with u idiots? From this point on anybody who is against Trump has outted themselves as a brainwashable idiot who can't be bothered to do your own research with the slightest bit of skepticism in for-profit media, orrrr you are an actual, on-purpose shill, with a single agenda, a single message: "Trump Is the Worst."

He is not the worst my friend. Would you rather have the Clintons, again? That's practically unconstitutional. McDonald's won't let family of employees play Monopoly, but you idiots see no problem in letting a former President live in the white house for 8 more years.

ITS ILLEGAL FOR HIM TO LIVE THERE, DUMBASSES! FOR REASONS.

Well it's too bad we're stuck with ol Criminal Trumpypants. I wish Hillary, Bill and Obama could be our president together, since THEY NEVER DID ANYTHING SUSPUCIOUS.

Seth Rich *cough* Hatiain Children's Fund *cough* Midnight Ping Pong Parties *cough cough* Russian Uranium Deals *achoo* "Ohhh, 'hand over the secret email server', I thought you said delete everything and walk away Scot free. -Whoops McClinton

You said "there is no deeper level of corruption than" making a phone call about investigating crimes.

You sure don't want Trump's opponents to have their crimes exposed do you? Yeah.. that's usually a bad idea:

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By Pam Martens and Russ Martens: August 8, 2016
Shawn Lucas, Process Server for One Source Process, Delivering the Lawsuit Against the Democratic National Committee and Debbie Wasserman Schultz on July 1, 2016

Shawn Lucas, Process Server for One Source Process, Who Delivered the Lawsuit Against the Democratic National Committee and Debbie Wasserman Schultz on July 1, 2016

On Friday, July 1, just ahead of the long Fourth of July weekend, a happy, exuberant process server, 38-year old Shawn Lucas of One Source Process, served a lawsuit at the Democratic National Committee headquarters in Washington, D.C. The lawsuit was filed on behalf of Senator Bernie Sandersâ(TM) supporters and named the DNC and its then Chair, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, as defendants. It leveled the following serious charges: fraud, negligent misrepresentation, deceptive conduct, unjust enrichment, breach of fiduciary duty, and negligence.

The suit seeks class action status and was filed in the Federal District Court in the Southern District of Florida. (Wilding et al v DNC Services Corporation and Deborah âDebbieâ(TM) Wasserman Schultz; Case Number 16-cv-61511-WJZ).

A video of the service of process (see embedded video below) shows Shawn Lucas saying he was âoeexcitedâ and âoethrilledâ to be the process server on this lawsuit, later in the video equating it to his âoebirthday and Christmasâ rolled into one. A month later, Lucas was found dead on his bathroom floor.
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Correction: "Isolation and punishment cannot solve crime, because they are crimes."

Pardon me, but I must return the bullshit back apon you, Sir. What if you have no alarm clock and miss your 6AM appointment? Then what are you to do, starve?

How about we just use a different example?: "Sleeping in the park (or your car)." Around here that's punishable by 30 days in jail. And puts you ar risk for missing court and further incarceration. If you've previously missed court for any reason, you're considered a flight risk and might be held in jail for several months awaiting trial, whereby you will likely lose your car and/or all worldly possessions. When finally released, are you then less likely to sleep in the park, after having been "effectively punished"? (By "effectively" I mean "achieved some benefit for society." And it's in quotes to imply that the term questionable.)

The OP suggests that many people being punished in jail did not want to break the law but had no viable alternative at the time, other than perhaps starving or being divested of what little assets they may have had. His point was that, in such cases, punishment does not serve society.

Even if, for the sake of argument, we agree with your point, you've not refuted the OP's statement that there are many other lesser crimes where punishment does not serve society.

IMHO, we citizens must petition our Gov't to use modern technology and scientific understanding to implement more useful alternatives to the current system of broadly applied incarceration. Isolation and punishment cannot crime, because they are crimes.

You need help. If you make a good wage, hire a cheap coder to do your pet projects.

Does anyone know what happened to the HTML5 (non-plugin) based server-side version of cryptocat?

I don't care if it's less secure than the new plugin-required version.. it will still probably defend against an eavesdropper in my college dorm or at Starbucks.

WHAT WE CAN DO: Use the internet to promote government transparency, keep a record of who commits law/ethics/privacy violations, and a collaborative action plan. Use a distributed encrypted anonymous system of credibility ratings tied to individual user accounts to identify and minimize disinformation.

e.g. Example 1: A new user intent on disinformation pops into a slashdot thread, and starts grouping the "truthers" with some maligned group (hippies, racists, homeless, crazies, etc), or brings up off-topic hot-button subjects (abortion, gay rights, etc..) in an effort to derail the the thread. The user is downvoted and disappears similar to slashdot. Mod's high cred rating greatly lowers the shill's already low cred.

Example 2: User uploads tar.gz of 3-Letter-Org leaks info but has a 0 cred score. Moderator sees this and up-votes user. Mod's high cred rating means post quickly surfaces, and the new user gets awarded generous cred points.

Example 3: Someone pays 1000 Vietnamese users to make slashdot accounts and downvote post in Ex. #2. Since they are all new accounts, their 0 cred score does nothing....

Perhaps this "web cred" could be a combination of "Credibility", "Experience" and "Popularity". It should be portable, and follow you across sites (if you wish) and be totally anonymous through the use of encryption. You should be able to expose as much or as little of your own account's webcred as you wish. In this way, you can chose to expose which sites you patron. e.g., when you sign on to a new dating site, you are asked for your webcred identifier. You go to webcred.com and click on the sites where you've generated web cred: "okdate.com, and cupid.com" but omit "slashdot.org" because you have horrible webcred there. This generates a token which you give to your new site, and they give you increased account privileges because you have an established persona.

It's an idea that I've toyed with for a long time. If you have skills in math and cryptography, and would like to collaborate on an OSS solution, please email: i8@8drink.8pe8
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damn... that's fucked up

Sorry you're right. Governments never lie. Thus, our government did not lie about 911, Iraq, or Afghanistan. And you're definitely not engaging in the classic disinformation tactic of associating non-believers with crazies.

"not fighting for truth?" What is fighting for truth then? What you're doing?

"Oh, that is all well and good, but, voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country." H.G. Citation.

You like your GUI for the opposite reason of the parent, so you have not refuted each other.. You use your GUI and be happy, ok?

Doncha think it might have something to do with Flash being dropped (and with it in-browser H.264 decoding)?