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  1. Re:Hyberbole much? on TSA Body Scanner Opt-out No Longer Guaranteed (slashgear.com) · · Score: 1

    That leaves an awful lot of second class citizens who can't afford their Constitutional rights.

  2. Re:Hyberbole much? on TSA Body Scanner Opt-out No Longer Guaranteed (slashgear.com) · · Score: 1

    Actually, I meant By law, but I fat fingered it.

  3. Re:social safety nets WORK, vs cowboy attitudes on Poverty Stunts IQ In the US But Not In Other Developed Countries (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Then why does practically the whole world except for you consider them far right?

  4. Re:Shouldn't this have failed over? on USPTO Power Outage Damages Equipment and Shuts Down IT Systems (uspto.gov) · · Score: 5, Funny

    They thought about failover, but weren't sure it wouldn't infringe on a patent so they skipped it.

  5. Re:Hyberbole much? on TSA Body Scanner Opt-out No Longer Guaranteed (slashgear.com) · · Score: 1

    The professionalism is an improvement, but since they MUST conform to the TSA policies, it's still imposed by the government in defiance of the Constitution. Also, I said airLINES, not airPORTS.

  6. Re:social safety nets WORK, vs cowboy attitudes on Poverty Stunts IQ In the US But Not In Other Developed Countries (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Go re-read your history books. They started out talking the talk, but by the time they became a threat to their neighbors, the Nazi party was far right. The neoNazis are still far right.

    They were socialists in the same way the Democratic People's Republic of Korea is democratic or for the people.

    Like much of the world, today's Germany is a mixed economy and is to the left of the United States.

  7. Re:BTRFS is the future on ZFS Replication To the Cloud Is Finally Here and It's Fast (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    BTRFS is less mature than ZFS, but it has a lot of useful functionality and is in some ways more elegant. For example, the snapshot of a subvolume is a first class filesystem in itself without dependency on it's parent. It's also a lot better about handling replacement of physical volumes underneath it if you have mirroring turned on. In particular, you can arbitrarily increase the size of the filesystem by using a larger replacement or just adding on more drives.

    On the other hand, I'm not touching the raid5/6 with a ten foot pole in it's current state.

  8. Re:social safety nets WORK, vs cowboy attitudes on Poverty Stunts IQ In the US But Not In Other Developed Countries (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Most only needed rescuing from the fascist government in their midst. The country where that all got started is now more left than we are and is essentially the pillar holding up the EU.

  9. The U.S. Constitution applies to the U.S. government. It doesn't matter where or the citizenship of the person, the U.S. government may not do anything not granted by the U.S. Constitution and especially may not do anything forbidden by the Constitution.

  10. Re:social safety nets WORK, vs cowboy attitudes on Poverty Stunts IQ In the US But Not In Other Developed Countries (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    So the vast majority of the civilized world?

  11. Re:Hyberbole much? on TSA Body Scanner Opt-out No Longer Guaranteed (slashgear.com) · · Score: 1

    Sorry, no. Unless you can also end up flying if the conversation goes Passenger:"I would like a ticket to fly". Airline:"Do you consent to a search?", Passenger: "Certainly not!".

    You should note that the TSA is not a private organization that airlines optionally hire. It is a government agency imposed on all airlines. Ny law, there cannot be a no hassle airline that welcomes passengers to bypass the TSA and board the plane without a hassle.

  12. Re:Hyberbole much? on TSA Body Scanner Opt-out No Longer Guaranteed (slashgear.com) · · Score: 1

    The airlines don't get a choice in the matter either. The TSA was imposed on them as well. They cannot opt out and allow people to fly without the search nor can they opt to hire a private party to do the searching for them.

  13. Re:Why do you hate America? on Software Error Releases Up To 3,200 Inmates Early (seattletimes.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Agreed, 100%. Certainly telling them their debt to society is paid and then going back for more is unusual. It has an element of cruelty to it as well.

    If anyone wonders why some people act as if society is their enemy, here's the answer, because it acts like an enemy.

  14. Re:social safety nets WORK, vs cowboy attitudes on Poverty Stunts IQ In the US But Not In Other Developed Countries (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Many here in the U.S. would like to see the U.S. scale back in that department and put it into health care, education, and infrastructure. It's mostly the right that opposes it.

  15. Re:social safety nets WORK, vs cowboy attitudes on Poverty Stunts IQ In the US But Not In Other Developed Countries (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1, Funny

    Sure there is. Once all the differences even out, our "left" looks like everyone else's right and our right looks insane.

  16. Re:Climate Change on Cold Fusion and the Reputation Trap (aeon.co) · · Score: 1, Informative

    Or, we could just make the upgrades we have known for years we need to make and solve it that way.

  17. Re:BTRFS is the future on ZFS Replication To the Cloud Is Finally Here and It's Fast (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I guess you missed the RESOLVED tag on that.

  18. Re:Weed... on Drug Case In Ireland Has Fingerprints of Carnegie Mellon's Attack On Tor · · Score: 1

    That's the crux of the matter. Federal authorities depend on state authorities' cooperation to get most of their work done. They do not want to risk a state defaulting to no cooperation over this.

  19. Re:Weed... on Drug Case In Ireland Has Fingerprints of Carnegie Mellon's Attack On Tor · · Score: 1

    The feds do NOT want to go to war with the states over this. They have been careful not to step on too many toes in states that have legalized marijuana.

  20. Re: Good for CMU. on Drug Case In Ireland Has Fingerprints of Carnegie Mellon's Attack On Tor · · Score: 1

    Not really, no. Those assumptions don't really bear close examination. If not for your faith, you'd see that.

  21. Re:John Oliver on 12-Year-Old Sikh Boy Arrested In Texas After Bringing a Power Bag To School (salon.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Not quite. Let's review, harrkev objects to banning all guns because a few might misuse them to commit crimes and points out that someone already determined to break the law isn't going to be stopped by another law.

    ragefan apparently has a thinko and seems to claim that harrkev said NOBODY should be restricted from anything because they might disobey the law.

    I attempt (apparently too subtly) to cause a rethink by applying the same thinko in reverse (can you call it a thinko if it's on purpose?).

    Then you whooshed.

  22. Re:There is more to this story on 12-Year-Old Sikh Boy Arrested In Texas After Bringing a Power Bag To School (salon.com) · · Score: 1

    When I went to school my backpack was full of books and papers and stuff.

    There are reasons for that. Depending on when you went to school, cellphones either didn't exist, were too big to carry around, or had batteries lasting a week on a charge.

    Batteries in smart phones often don't last that long, and he is nearing his teen years, a time when a dead cellphone is incompatible with life.

  23. Since he said it to one person he was acquainted with, it would be more like walking into my friend's apartment and declaring "I have a bomb". Come to think of it, I did that once. The result: laughter.

  24. Re:Do we need an organized message? on 12-Year-Old Sikh Boy Arrested In Texas After Bringing a Power Bag To School (salon.com) · · Score: 2

    That's hard to do when there are people who apparently think everything looks like a bomb. In this case, it was a backpack with a built-in phone charger.

    No, not a funky looking home-made cellphone charger, we're talking a regular old commercial product you can order on Amazon.

  25. So you're saying the possibility that someone somewhere might drive drunk is reason enough to ban cars?