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  1. Re:Time to shut down the WTO on Antigua Looks Closer To Legal "Piracy" of US-Copyrighted Works · · Score: 1

    So sovereignty is pretty much admitting that at the international level the only law that really matters is the law of the jungle.

  2. Re:Time to shut down the WTO on Antigua Looks Closer To Legal "Piracy" of US-Copyrighted Works · · Score: 1

    Let me introduce you to a thing called the federal reserve.

  3. Re:The best defense... on Feds Confiscate Investigative Reporter's Confidential Files During Raid · · Score: 1

    You mean the same media that the feds just intimidated by taking the files in the first place?

  4. we're officially fucked on Feds Confiscate Investigative Reporter's Confidential Files During Raid · · Score: 1

    The powers that be don't even seem to care about even a pretense of constitutionality.

  5. guns != paper on Feds Confiscate Investigative Reporter's Confidential Files During Raid · · Score: 1

    Why the hell are they using a gun warrant to seize papers?

    Don't they have to go back and get a new warrant?

  6. Re:Izon on IZON IP Cameras Riddled With Security Flaws · · Score: 1

    No cookie for you.

    You completely missed my reference to Cube 2.

  7. Izon on IZON IP Cameras Riddled With Security Flaws · · Score: 1

    Who cares about izon?

    You really need to worry more about dogs named Skippy.

  8. Re:$400 billion / year is "essentially zero"? on How To Lose $172,222 a Second For 45 Minutes · · Score: 1

    The problem is that the federal reserve is specifically designed to siphon capital out of america, and also force the government to borrow to issue new money.

    Banks have shares in the federal reserve, and those banks, even if they are foreign owned, are entitled to a statutory dividend.

  9. Re:This is what I like best about /. on How To Lose $172,222 a Second For 45 Minutes · · Score: 1

    It's both ways.

    Letting the market punish the screwups is part of the overall efficiency.

  10. Re:How can BusinessInsider say that???? on How To FIx Healthcare.gov: Go Open-Source! · · Score: 1

    Sadly the feds are probably more likely to listen to oracle.

  11. Re:What purpose does HFT serve? on Barbarians At the Gateways · · Score: 1

    Not to mention taking advantage of preferential treatment.

  12. Re:Liquidity on Barbarians At the Gateways · · Score: 1

    +1 Funny

  13. Re:China on Why Bitcoin Boomed During the Government Shutdown · · Score: 0

    +1 informative.

    And mods? This is friggin slashdot!

    Grammar nazis are more than welcome here, you should know that.

  14. Re:China on Why Bitcoin Boomed During the Government Shutdown · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Just because your biased doesn't mean your wrong.

  15. Re: Nobody cares about bitcoin on Why Bitcoin Boomed During the Government Shutdown · · Score: 1

    Part of the incentive for mining is also in earning transaction fees for confirming transactions.

  16. collateral damage on IsoHunt Settles With MPAA, Will Shut Down And Pay Up to $110 Million · · Score: 1

    I bet part of the insane figure is to punish anyone who they owe money to for daring to give credit to them.

    That and the whole thing about making an example out of them.

  17. Re:Thank goodness on US Government Shutdown Ends · · Score: 2

    If an idea is going to piss off the special interests that got our congress critters elected, it's probably not going to fly.

  18. Re: We beat them because the EU has no DMCA on Blizzard Wins Legal Battle Against WoW Bot Company · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Probably because Blizzard's ToS is written specifically to make such software difficult to write.

    To be blunt, they don't like competition.

  19. Re:The real subtle reason. on Ed Felten: Why Email Services Should Be Court-Order Resistant · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Even if you make something impossible, you still have to convince the court that it's impossible in order to avoid being locked up for 13 years on a contempt charge.

    Which means the court can use the mere threat of a perpetual contempt sentence to coerce you to make things easier for them ahead of time...just in case.

  20. Re:I love the comparison on Ed Felten: Why Email Services Should Be Court-Order Resistant · · Score: 1

    Wow.

    The fact that the state would be embarrassed was actually used as evidence to keep things hush hush?

    Not too far from getting hanged for insulting the king.

    I have a much better idea:

    Anyone knowingly provoking a false execution is guilty of murder. Gives an incentive to people not to botch a capital case, and as a face saving measure the state can shift the blame off of itself and retain its dignity.

  21. Re:Scary on DOJ: Defendant Has No Standing To Oppose Use of Phone Records · · Score: 1

    The government is driving us crazy and we need to put the brakes on it.

  22. Re:Scary on DOJ: Defendant Has No Standing To Oppose Use of Phone Records · · Score: 1

    Interstate Commerce

  23. Re:POLICE STATE AMERICA on DOJ: Defendant Has No Standing To Oppose Use of Phone Records · · Score: 1

    Even worse, the government says that by having the evidence in the hands of a third party you no longer have an expectation of privacy requiring a warrant in the first place.

  24. easy way out on Ask Slashdot: Mitigating DoS Attacks On Home Network? · · Score: 1

    If you managed to piss someone off that is now DoS'ing you like this chances are you're screwed and the attacks are only going to stop when your ISP gets fed up with it and pulls the plug on you.

  25. Re:NTT in Japan on Broadcasters Petition US Supreme Court In Fight Against Aereo · · Score: 1

    eliminate the commercials

    HA!