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That qualifies as a cite, perhaps, but hardly one supporting your position. It's an article reporting (and rebutting) admittedly biased John Lott Jr's findings, and after noting the major exception that I previously cited, the article itself identifies another situation (International House of Pancakes restaurant in Carson City, Nevada) where he is shown to be incorrect. Furthermore, the article notes how broad Lott's definition of "gun free zone" is, and it mentions the difficulty in determining if a location fits the gun-free-zone description.

Finally, you selectively quoted your source apparently thinking a casual reader wouldn't click & read. You quoted "On the whole...don’t dispute his findings" but failed to also quote the real meaning of the section "But they do debate Lott’s conclusions..."
' Daniel Webster, director of Center for Gun Policy and Research at Johns Hopkins University. “The shooters in these instances didn’t say, ‘Hey, I’ll find a gun-free zone where I can shoot a lot of people.’ No, they went to a place for reasons wholly unrelated to gun-free zones.”'

John Lott Jr., a former economist at Yale University Law School and noted gun rights activist, also has tracked the matter. In 2000, he published a report along with William M. Landes of the University of Chicago Law School, which analyzed mass killings from 1977-99. The study, “Multiple Victim Public Shootings,” determined that each incident in that period took place in a “gun-free zone.” In the years since, Lott has continued to track mass shooting events and local gun laws. He has published many on his blog, as well as in commentaries for Fox News, among other media outlets. And he has used his findings to update his books, “More Guns, Less Crime” and “The Bias Against Guns.” Once again, Lott’s findings show that each mass shooting, except the Giffords incident, took place in “gun-free zones.” “Killers go where victims can’t defend themselves,” Lott wrote last week in an email to The Telegraph, using this year’s Aurora movie theater shooting as an example. “Out of seven theaters showing the Batman movie premiere within 20 minutes of the suspect’s apartment, only one banned permitted concealed handguns. The suspect didn’t go to the closest nor the largest, but to the one that banned self-defense. Time after time, the story is the same.” On the whole, Lott’s colleagues – both in the media and academia – don’t dispute his findings. “I suspect that most places that mass public shootings could logically occur are ‘gun-free zones’ either determined by the government (schools) or by private businesses and institutions,” David Hemenway, director of the Injury Control Research Center at Harvard University, wrote in an email.

I'm not sure who gave you that reason but it's not the one I heard.

http://www.nashuatelegraph.com/news/969523-196/city-inevitably-must-replace-unique-triangular-manhole.html

The triangular covers were first built by the Nashua Foundry in the 1920s or 1930s at the suggestion of an engineer named Walter Ellis, who thought the triangular shape would rattle less than traditional circles. The triangles are aligned to point in the direction of flow for the underlying sewer line, a valuable piece of information for sewer workers hunting down problems.

epic failure of an IPO? The company's goal is to sell a share of itself for the highest price it can. How did Facebook fail?

By doing just about everything that would have raised its price wrong. Source: Pretty much every major news outlet that's reported on it. http://communities.washingtontimes.com/neighborhood/tygrrrr-express/2012/may/25/why-facebook-ipo-failed/ http://www.theage.com.au/business/world-business/facebook-ipo-fail-may-cost-nasdaq-us100m-20120606-1zuys.html http://rt.com/usa/news/facebook-ipo-globe-internet-644/ http://www.nashuatelegraph.com/business/962290-192/signs-of-facebook-ipo-failure-dots-connecting.html http://www.forbes.com/sites/tykiisel/2012/05/23/facebooks-ipo-dealing-with-a-failed-project/

No fracking will be coming here, due to our geology. But don't let that stop grandstanding politicians from doing something to solve a problem, even one that doesn't exist.

... from the Nashua Telegraph, the local newspaper for Nashua, NH. It's not yet clear how many of the burglaries were related to Facebook status updates - I've seen some news reports saying "all of them," and a few saying "only one."

I think this case could be a very good lever for getting Facebook to change default permissions to "friends only" for everything, as most of the stories are suggesting that, where there's a facebook connection, the profiles were set to the default "everybody can ready my stuff" setting.

Wow. Beacon Power's flywheels are actually pretty amazing:

The basic unit of Beacon Power approach is the Smart Energy 25, that is basically an enormous steel vacuum bottle holding a 2,800-pound cylinder made of carbon and fiberglass composite that is levitated by magnets.

Beacon's flywheels take in electricity and use a motor to spin the cylinder so fast that the surface hits Mach 2. The spinning cylinder stores most of the electricity's energy for as long as needed (thanks to the near frictionless vacuum and levitation, it spins for a long time). ....with so few moving parts that Beacon Power says they'll last 20 years with no scheduled maintenance.

That's really pretty fucking remarkable. (source)

http://www.nashuatelegraph.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080110/NEWSBLOG/836534599/-1/newsblog

There's comment in the Nashua (N.H.) Telegraph: http://www.nashuatelegraph.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080110/NEWSBLOG/836534599/-1/newsblog/ Note that New Hampshire doesn't use electronic voting machines, it uses optical ballot-reading machines that are made by Diebold. There are paper ballots available for recount, and recounts happen all the time. Also, note that only very small communities count ballots by hand any more, so the difference in results could reflect the fact that rural voters had difference preferences than urban voters.

Also note that New Hampshire was a focus of the 1992 book Votescam (full text) regarding the 1988 election:

Then came a widely reported promise made by Bush to his campaign manager, Gov. Sununu. It happens that Sununu's computer engineering skills approach 'genius' on the tests. If Sununu could "deliver" New Hampshire, and Bush didn't care how and didn't want to know how -- then Sununu would become his chief of staff in the White House.

[...]

Washington Post: [...] For Vice President Bush and his supporters, Tuesday's 9-percentage-point victory over Sen. Robert J. Dole (R-Kan.) in New Hampshire was a delightful surprise; for Andrew Kohut, it was a horror story.

Kohut is president of the Gallup poll, whose final New Hampshire urvey was wrong by 17 points: it had put Dole ahead by 8; Bush won by 9. "I was dismayed," Kohut acknowledged yesterday.

it's entirely possible, even believing the worst-case warming trends, that it may actually save lives (because of fewer cold-related deaths) and make things better overall.

At the least what you'd be doing is exchanging deaths from the cold to heat deaths. However you're actually doing much more, higher temperatures allow disease and virus vectors to travel farther. Take malaria, carried by mosquitoes they don't go too far north or too high in altitude because of the cold. However rising temps allow mosquitoes to go further north and higher in altitude thus spreading malaria further. Then there are other problems as well, for instance science studies have shown that Poison Ivy grows faster and becomes more potent with higher CO2 concentrations in the atmosphere. Or take freshwater, many people depend on seasonal melting of glaciers for fresh water supplies. Normally during winter rain and snowfall would replenish the glacier, however as it warms while the ice melts faster and faster, there's less rain and snow to replenish the water source. This is becoming a problem in Africa as Mount Kilimanjaro's Glacier Is Crumbling. Countries in the Andes of South America are starting to experience the same problems. Bolivia gets a lot of water from glaciers. And in Peru one of the major cities, I don't recall which one right now, gets almost if not all of it's fresh water from a glacier. When those glaciers are gone there goes fresh water supplies for hundreds of millions of not billions of people. Heck melting glacier in the Himalayas threatens to wipeout entire villages.

S/he's referring to cases where people are cited under wiretapping laws for videotaping people with the camera microphone on (the mic violates the wiretap law, not the camera itself). For example, see here and here.

See? This doesn't have anything to do with the police and everything to do with the other people. If you watch any of the police video shows you will always see the "perp" with his face pixelated so they aren't identifiable. Do you think amature videographers are going to do this before uploading their clip to YouTube?

That's a fine argument, but not really applicable to this case. What's at issue is your right to record how the police treat you. Cameras are one was to equalize the power imbalance between the police and the citizenry without putting deadly weapons in everyone's hands. It's already proven effective, with 400 people released after the 2004 Republican National Convention because of amateur video evidence (granted, not their own videotape). Even if the police are recording what goes on, they can't necessarily be trusted.

From the NY Times article:

Last week, he discovered that there were two versions of the same police tape: the one that was to be used as evidence in his trial had been edited at two spots, removing images that showed Mr. Dunlop behaving peacefully. When a volunteer film archivist found a more complete version of the tape and gave it to Mr. Dunlop's lawyer, prosecutors immediately dropped the charges and said that a technician had cut the material by mistake.

[...]

That was a problem in the case of Mr. Dunlop, who learned that his tape had been altered only after Ms. Clancy found another version of the same tape. Mr. Dunlop had been accused of pushing his bicycle into a line of police officers on the Lower East Side and of resisting arrest, but the deleted parts of the tape show him calmly approaching the police line, and later submitting to arrest without apparent incident.

A spokeswoman for the district attorney, Barbara Thompson, said the material had been cut by a technician in the prosecutor's office. "It was our mistake," she said. "The assistant district attorney wanted to include that portion" because she initially believed that it supported the charges against Mr. Dunlop. Later, however, the arresting officer, who does not appear on the video, was no longer sure of the specifics in the complaint against Mr. Dunlop.

The defendant in TFA was a passenger in the vehicle that was pulled over, not some random passer-by. Similarly, a man in New Hampshire was arrested a year ago for wiretapping when he recorded police coming to his door and treating him "rudely". When he brought the tape the police dept. to complain, they arrested him on the charge, which was later dropped, just like in this case.

We don't take away that right from ordinary citizens

The police do not like citizens taking pictures of them and will take you down even if the law is on your side. Just ask these guys:

http://www.nbc10.com/news/9574663/detail.html
http://www.nashuatelegraph.com/apps/pbcs.dll/artic le?AID=/20060629/NEWS01/106290121

You posted a report, and cite it again above, about a Mr. Gannon arrested in New Hampshire for recording police abuse without their permission, being apparently unaware of the law against it at the time--which is, of course, no excuse. But first the Nashua Telegraph in its article http://www.nashuatelegraph.com/apps/pbcs.dll/artic le?AID=/20060629/NEWS01/106290121 and then /. also committed felonies under that same statute by publishing and republishing that article. Specifically, 570-A:2, 1(c) states that a person is guilty of a class B felony who:

"(c) Wilfully discloses, or endeavors to disclose, to any other person the contents of any telecommunication or oral communication, knowing or having reason to know that the information was obtained through the interception of a telecommunication or oral communication in violation of this paragraph" --See http://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/RSA/html/LVIII/570 -A/570-A-2.htm Such is our national descent into a police state. I hope you have better resources to deal with the fallout than the unfortunate Mr. Gannon.

"Don't be surprised if the police department is forced to apologize. "

If I were arrested and jailed unjustly, I would want a lot more than an apology.
Especially since the case is all about citizen attempting to report police abuse.

At a minimum .. dismissal of the police detective in question, official reprimands for the other officers who co-operated conspiracy to cover the detective's misdeeds, and compensation for the victims.

The Nasuha police department offered up a Plea Bargain, but the victim wisely refused..

"After Gannon turned down that deal, a police prosecutor, attorney Kathleen Brown, dropped all charges against Gannon on Wednesday, but said his case will be sent to the Hillsborough County Attorney’s office for further prosecution. "

“It’s going to be presented to a grand jury,” Brown said.

That would be a very dumb move.. on Ms. Browns part..

Hopefully, the presiding judge would set her straight. That police activities in public (with other witnesses present) are not covered..
I.E. Police officers acting in concert have no right to privacy. Each is sworn to tell the whole truth and testifiy agains't each other if need be.

I would petition the court to allow a special appearance before the grand jury. And ask them to consider charging the detective and all associated police officers with conspiracy to commit (trespass, unlawful entry, unlawful detention, B&E, and theft property more than $500) under color of law(authority). All transgressions become federal felonies.

"Thus, “under ‘color’ of law” means “under ‘pretense’ of law,” and “[a]cts of officers who undertake to perform their official duties are included whether they hew to the line of their authority or overstep it.”

From first link..

"Gannon had set up cameras outside his home, a four-unit apartment building, to record video and audio in response to threats from a former tenant and incidents of vandalism, his wife said. A sticker on the outside of the building warns of the recording system."

"Karlis and other officers went to Gannon’s home repeatedly last month while looking for the Gannon’s 15-year-old son, who was implicated in a late-night mugging downtown. "

Second strike.. note the word "repeatedly".. I.E. The detective was well aware of the security cameras, BEFORE they entered the property. That is called implied consent..

You are just 70 years behind Europe. What took you so long?

Nice leap. A man in New Hampshire is *charged* with violating a wiretapping and eavesdropping law. Another man in Philly gets busted by the cops for taking a photograph, which raises a big stink and likely will backfire on the police department.

The NH case is being reviewed. The man arrested in Philly was released, and the family has requested an inquiry. Don't be surprised if the police department is forced to apologize.

Maybe I'm missing something, but how do these two cases lead to the assumption that America is in the grip of jackbooted thugs?

Hey Baldur!

Isn't interesting how some people think just by naming us Paedophiles we should have no voices whatsoever? There is none so blind nor deaf as those who will not listen or look because they need no distractions from what they've already decided the truth to be! One of the biggest benefits of anonymity is the ability to speak what one has to say without worrying that someone will attempt to silence you permanently...

Too bad the Rind report could have been released anonymously, perhaps if it had been the Congress who did not actually READ the report would have wasted their time searching for the author's idenities rather than censuring the report for discovering politically unpalatable truths? Perhaps while the hunt was on in search of anonymous scientists, people would have actually decided to read and test the science of the work submitted instead of condemning the study for not having already predetermined its outcome? Maybe we'd be discussing ways to help each other and children instead of simply feuling the Paedophile hysteria?

Nah...that'd be too easy! Why waste your time attempting to combat the 78.5% of all child sex abusers when we can instead target only the 3.9% stranger danger cases? In fact, despite knowing since-- like forever --the real abuse is almost predominately coming from dear old Dad and Mummy, let's focus entirely on people who look at pictures over the internet. Or those who like to read sexy stories.... after all "the potential that the written word may encourage someone to act out what they've read" is there! Or we could perhaps focus our attentions on those sick sick people who like to make pseudo-photographs, and put them away for up to 15 years for what ammounts to a thoughtcrime?!? Or how about those who'd like to push for a constitutional amendment taking away the fundamental right of being able to confront one's accusers?

Nope, I don't see any reason why people like us would want to be anonymous. Even those who break no laws but have 'come out of the toy box' as being Paederotic in orientation face all kinds of death threats by people who assume the worst sight unseen! What's worse is they feel no need to do even the most basic of research either, because they already know they're right....

--I*LoveGreen*Olives

PS: I too am a Paedosexual. This should come as no surprise to anyone who clicks on my webpage link to read my blog. Being Paedosexual does not in any way negate any of what I've said above. Nor should anyone see my sexual orientation as being an excuse to attack, defame or otherwise limit my right to exist as a human being-- the laws they create to 'deal' with me and other Paedophiles are the same laws they'll use on you later....

NASHUA - Police have asked the Hillsborough County attorney's office for a second opinion on wiretapping charges against a Nashua man, and police also will review the man's videotape to investigate his complaint that a detective was rude, Police Chief Timothy Hefferan said Friday.

What would happen if I took all the interesting comments off Slashdot, the ones that are opinionated enough to be motivational without being inflammatory, and compiled them on my own website? Or better yet, printed a book, a technology toilet reader?

One thing I know is that it is totally doable. One step beyond comprehension, editing is the process of reading for other people. Editing is fun because most of it is deletion. All you need is a few gems and you have a product. The second thing I know is that with a dozen stories a day averaging 300 comments each, it would take all day, every day to keep up with the flow.

The final thing, is that unlike the garbage-strewn service offered by Slob Malda, mine would offer intelligent commentary by thoughtful people. Since my service would have *gasp* actual content, I could actually charge money for it. You're not the first person to point out that IPO=AFK, but with most of the country trying to get rich and famous playing Texas Hold'em, there's probably a lot of people who could use a refresher course on betting money.