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  1. Re:Argument from authority on Carl Sagan, as "Mr. X," Extolled Benefits of Marijuana · · Score: 1

    You act as if that is a trifle that can be waved away. Use of historical lexicology to determine spurious quotations is a standard tool, and has been for centuries, at least as far back as the Donatio Constantini.

    Sure, anachronism is a good way to falsify an attribution. However, the term WAS in use in the 1930's.

  2. Re:Prove him right some more on Carl Sagan, as "Mr. X," Extolled Benefits of Marijuana · · Score: 2

    Is it a false sense of the profound or is it a momentary access to the profound in the ordinary? Some of the great discoveries in science have come from taking a long hard look at something that was thought to be mundane and well understood.

  3. Re:Prove him right some more on Carl Sagan, as "Mr. X," Extolled Benefits of Marijuana · · Score: 2

    Correctness may be hard to show, but we can at least ballpark utility. Sagan had an award winning television series several successful books, many awards for achievements in science and education, and is recognized by practically everyone. The dude that calls it prattle has...

  4. Re:These guys are really stretching... on Ross Ulbricht's Lawyer Says FBI's Hack of Silk Road Was "Criminal" · · Score: 1

    As I said, they know he's American now and they are lying under oath and depriving him of his right to face his accuser.

  5. Re:These guys are really stretching... on Ross Ulbricht's Lawyer Says FBI's Hack of Silk Road Was "Criminal" · · Score: 1

    Actually, since the constitution DID use the word citizen when it meant a citizen, the word people is to be interpreted more broadly.

    Meanwhile, the illegal activities would be going beyond the bounds permitted by the Constitution.

  6. Re:Sounds like he hasn't gotten the message on Lennart Poettering: Open Source Community "Quite a Sick Place To Be In" · · Score: 1

    Perhaps journald should be more careful how it flushes it's buffers.

  7. Re: Monitoring software on Outsourced Tech Jobs Are Increasingly Being Automated · · Score: 1

    Ask the French aristocracy how that worked out.

  8. Re:Technical claims as reported puzzling on Ross Ulbricht's Lawyer Says FBI's Hack of Silk Road Was "Criminal" · · Score: 1

    If it had been found by just scanning the internet, why were the FBI so keen to lie under oath? Surely not just for funsies?!

  9. Re:Sounds like he hasn't gotten the message on Lennart Poettering: Open Source Community "Quite a Sick Place To Be In" · · Score: 1

    And yet there are persistent reports of corrupted log files from journald answered with a wontfix...

  10. Re:Monitoring software on Outsourced Tech Jobs Are Increasingly Being Automated · · Score: 1

    Let's see some numbers! The numbers I have seen show that once you add all of the taxes we pay in the U.S. plus health insurance premiums plus out of pocket medical expenses, the taxes in Europe don't look nearly as bad.

  11. Re:Monitoring software on Outsourced Tech Jobs Are Increasingly Being Automated · · Score: 1

    Some form of socialism will be required. Capitalism is poised to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory by turning the long dreamed of automated utopia where people have 10 hour work weeks into a dystopian nightmare where people starve in the midst of abundance.

    The economy is supposed to serve the people (all of the people), never the other way around.

  12. Re:Technical claims as reported puzzling on Ross Ulbricht's Lawyer Says FBI's Hack of Silk Road Was "Criminal" · · Score: 1

    And refuted in several other places.

  13. You can beat the rap but you can't beat the ride.

    The moment you are sued, you lose. Even when you win in court you have spent way more time and money that you would like.

  14. Re:These guys are really stretching... on Ross Ulbricht's Lawyer Says FBI's Hack of Silk Road Was "Criminal" · · Score: 1

    Read my post again. According to the Constitution, his nationality does not matter. The whole thing about American or not is an ugly bit of unsupportable sophistry from the courts.

    Beyond that, since they are not admitting how they actually obtained the information and who actually obtained it, they are now (knowing very well he is American) violating his right to face his accuser. They are also introducing inadmissable hearsay and lying under oath to make it appear to be admissible testimony.

  15. Re:Dallas is not a backwater on Texas Ebola Patient Dies · · Score: 1

    The elephant in the room is that he was sent home because he was unlikely to pay a big hospital bill. If we had implemented a real single payer system, they probably would have been more willing to admit him.

    If you're not wealthy, we still have the closest thing to a 3rd world healthcare system you can find in the 1st world.

  16. Re:Ebola is airborne on Texas Ebola Patient Dies · · Score: 1

    Correct in part. It doesn't mean ebola is airborne, but that doesn't mean (as many imply) that you would actually have to touch the patient or some noticeable pool of body fluid to catch it.

    That said, I'm not making any plans to stockpile a bunker or anything. It really isn't a big threat here in the U.S.

  17. Re:All well and good on AT&T To Repay $80 Million In Shady Phone Bill Charges · · Score: 1

    They COULD put them away. They actively chose not to.

  18. Re:AT&T on AT&T To Repay $80 Million In Shady Phone Bill Charges · · Score: 1

    The banks laundering money for terrorists comes to mind.

  19. Re:Technical claims as reported puzzling on Ross Ulbricht's Lawyer Says FBI's Hack of Silk Road Was "Criminal" · · Score: 2, Interesting

    You're missing that the server wouldn't respond to any routable IP address. It only communicated through tor. So try them all and get nothing of worth.

    That means they could only have gotten an IP address by hacking a great many innocent 3rd parties using technology only the NSA has.

    In turn, that means the defendant is being denied the right to face his accuser and the FBI is trying to represent inadmissible hearsay as actual testimony by means of a few big lies under oath.

  20. Re:These guys are really stretching... on Ross Ulbricht's Lawyer Says FBI's Hack of Silk Road Was "Criminal" · · Score: 1

    Except that's not the argument. The argument is that they exceeded even those broader powers granted to law enforcement.

    The Constitution offers no exception for non-citizens and certainly not for citizens who might 'reasonably' be thought to be non-citizens. The court's fantasies notwithstanding.

  21. Re:Go Ross, Go! on Ross Ulbricht's Lawyer Says FBI's Hack of Silk Road Was "Criminal" · · Score: 1

    The DOJ is welcome to make their case for attempted murder if they like once the whole silk road thing is tossed for lack of admissible evidence.

  22. Re:So, it has come to this. on Complain About Comcast, Get Fired From Your Job · · Score: 1

    What about adults born with mental disabilities? What about adults that grew up abused?

    How about adults ready willing and able to do something requiring more skill but the work is not available?

    And really, what do you propose if the kids DO heed your advice and literally everyone not mentally challenged can do more than dig ditches?

    For that matter, don't you think it would be preferable if they could afford enough time in their week to go to school (and for that matter, be able to afford school) so they can do better?

  23. Re:Sounds like he hasn't gotten the message on Lennart Poettering: Open Source Community "Quite a Sick Place To Be In" · · Score: 1

    I can look at the logs and see that they aren't corrupt. Naturally, the filesystem journal ends up replaying each time the machines are shut down rough, but that actually takes care of it.

  24. Re:The whole juror system needs to be abandoned on Study Weighs In On the Reliability of Eyewitness Testimony · · Score: 1

    And that needs to be considered when calling people for jury duty. If they are in that category, perhaps they have enough trouble without jury duty.

  25. Re:So, it has come to this. on Complain About Comcast, Get Fired From Your Job · · Score: 1

    To that there are consequences too. What will you do when the kids of the world all take your sage advice?

    Don't even try to tell me the many office workers out there will dig their own ditches, I see them huffing and puffing when they have to go up a single flight of stairs.

    It seems a bit disingenuous to claim that people fulfilling an important role in the economy are victims of their own mistakes when we know very well we'd be up shit creek had they decided any differently.

    It is akin to (but perhaps a lesser offense than) declaring slaves less than human so we could pretend it was OK for the plantation owner to prosper from the sweat of their brows and share nothing in return.