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  1. Re:This is Ellsberg-Burglary Bad on Feds Confiscate Investigative Reporter's Confidential Files During Raid · · Score: 1

    No. She has standing because she suffered concrete injury in fact. Her shit was searched without the authority of a warrant.

  2. This is Ellsberg-Burglary Bad on Feds Confiscate Investigative Reporter's Confidential Files During Raid · · Score: 2

    If this is true, law enforcement (a) blatantly exceeded the scope of a lawful search warrant; and (b) used a search warrant as a pretext to seize material that they had no authority to seize.

    This is unusually bad. People need to lose their jobs for this.

  3. Humans are Locusts on Greenland Repeals Radioactive Mining Ban · · Score: 1

    We're locusts. We exhaust the available resources until they are no more.

  4. Route Planning--and Timing--is important. on How Safe Is Cycling? · · Score: 2

    Pick a safe route at an off-peak time, and you'll be all right. And don't be hard when the roads are slick--take the bus.

    I've bike-commuted for about 9 years now and it has worked out beautifully.

    Route planning is everything. I'll ride 25% further just to get the benefit of a lower traffic route or a wide shoulder. Timing is also key. In some places, half an hour can make the difference between peaceful solitude and rush hour madness.

  5. Re:How safe? on How Safe Is Cycling? · · Score: 1

    RTFA. It explains how those statistics likely underreport bicycle accidents.

  6. Re:This is one of the most important missions . . on Nuclear Officers Napped With Blast Door Left Open · · Score: 1

    You're missing my point.

    This commanding general gets officers scraped from the bottom of the barrel. Of course he gets canned, but he's getting shit officers to work with.

    But of course the Air Force won't do anything to change THAT!

  7. This is one of the most important missions . . . on Nuclear Officers Napped With Blast Door Left Open · · Score: 1

    This is one of the most important missions that the Air Force ever will have. I'm sure they put their best officers on it.

    That's DEEP SARCASM.

    This is a command problem.

  8. HP Quality is Crap on Ask Slashdot: Best SOHO Printer Choices? · · Score: 1

    Years ago HP printers used to be very reliable. Those days are over.

  9. Re:Unfriendly Elitists on Wikipedia's Participation Problem · · Score: 5, Insightful

    In my direct experience the majority of hardcore contributors and long-time editors are complete ideologues and giant assholes who are extraordinarily hostile to any outsiders or differing thought.

    Real experts don't want to go to the trouble of battling with presumptuous morons over the Internet.

  10. Genius idea on How To FIx Healthcare.gov: Go Open-Source! · · Score: 0

    If the program had a good administrator, it would really engage some geeks on matters of vital health care policy, and it would work wonders for transparency.

    If it had a fair or poor administrator, it would just be a piece of shit.

  11. Re:Here's the real problem he has on Charlie Stross: Why Microsoft Word Must Die · · Score: 1

    You're right. Few people use styles. It's too bad. But they are really easy to use. I disagree with you there.

    Word should never be used if the beauty of printed output is a primary concern. I agree with you there.

  12. They better watch out . . .. on Grocery Store "Smart Shelves" Will Identify Customers, Show Targeted Ads · · Score: 1

    You throw a targeted ad at me and it just might be an offer to contract with me, and you just might be bound by terms you didn't mean to be bound by.

  13. Who cares? Anybody who wants can still peddle their porn on the internet.

  14. Re:Here's the real problem he has on Charlie Stross: Why Microsoft Word Must Die · · Score: 2

    LyX doesn't do form documents. It's useless for basic lawyer work.

    I haven't found a class or package that does legal pleadings.

    LyX is an absolute non-starter for lawyer work.

  15. Re:Here's the real problem he has on Charlie Stross: Why Microsoft Word Must Die · · Score: 1

    If you save your styles in templates, you'll only have to create them once. Then you can either base your new docs on your template, or import your styles from your templates into the document you happen to be working on.

    Creating styles is pretty easy (except outline numbered styles can be a real pain).

  16. Re:Here's the real problem he has on Charlie Stross: Why Microsoft Word Must Die · · Score: 5, Interesting

    It's easy to format a document in Word. You just need to use styles.

    NEVER try to figure out why a paragraph or couple of paragraphs are behaving the way they are in Word. That is the way to madness . . ..

    Create for yourself a collection of styles that make paragraphs do exactly what you want them to do. Refine them, and use them to impose your will upon the paragraphs that you do not understand.

    Now . . . I'm trying LyX. I want to see if it is even remotely adaptable to doing lawyer work.

  17. I'm glowing with anticipation! on Japan Promises an Ultra-High-Tech 2020 Olympics · · Score: 2

    I'm positively radiant about the next Japanese Olympic Games. When news of the details leaks out, everybody is going to just melt down with excitement!

    Thanks IOC!

  18. We sold out. on US Now Produces More Oil and Gas Than Russia and Saudi Arabia · · Score: 1

    Why in the world would the US tap into its reserves when it could purchase oil abroad? Soon enough, oil is going to become scarce. Wouldn't it have been better for the US to save its reserves for that time. Seems to me like we sold out very cheaply to the oil interests at the expense of our long-term security.

  19. Adobe's Cloud -- In Action on Adobe Hacked: Almost 3 Million Accounts Compromised · · Score: 1

    I am so pissed off about Adobe's business model that I may never buy an Adobe product ever again.

    That company can go to hell.

  20. Re:Credible, unfortunately. on Maryland Indictment Says Silk Road Founder Tried To Arrange Murder of Employee · · Score: 1

    Self-defense? Killing a state's witness as self-defense?

    That's just crazy talk.

  21. Trial? Heck no. He'll plead to whatever the feds want, and he'll like it! And he'll probably have to provide information and testimony as well to get that deal.

    Looks like he'll never make it to the Pablo Escobar level. He'll probably respawn in about twenty years, or so.

  22. Re:Tor compromised on Silk Road Shut Down, Founder Arrested, $3.6 Million Worth of Bitcoin Seized · · Score: 2

    His accomplices are pretty nervous now, I reckon.

  23. Re:Tor compromised on Silk Road Shut Down, Founder Arrested, $3.6 Million Worth of Bitcoin Seized · · Score: 2

    I bet you the investigation cost much less than what the yield of the forfeited assets will be.

  24. Re:The enigma on Frameworks 5: KDE Libraries Reworked Into Portable Qt Modules · · Score: 1

    Hasn't anybody made a cool interface tweaking application?

  25. Because they have an audience. on Why Are Some Hell-Bent On Teaching Intelligent Design? · · Score: 0

    People teach intelligent design because people want to learn it.

    Pandering.