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  1. Re:Well written, and informative, but... on Ogg Format Accusations Refuted · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Where, exactly, is the boundary line between a file format and its documentation/specs?

  2. Re:THIS IS A FARCE on Mass. Data Security Law Says "Thou Shalt Encrypt" · · Score: 1

    But what if you miss a trick? FS encryption won't help you at all since it's transparent to the DB.

  3. Re:Why not break open the Class E block? on What Happens When IPv4 Address Space Is Gone · · Score: 1

    Why does IETF need a /4 ?

  4. Re:Tinhat solution on What Happens When IPv4 Address Space Is Gone · · Score: 1

    ... when you need to look them up.

    I read that as "lock them up".

  5. Re:You don't get why the FCC lost on BitTorrent CEO On Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    What about Title II?

  6. Re:DMCA still makes it illegal on In Defense of Jailbreaking · · Score: 1

    Hardware isn't "a work" by any stretch of the imagination. IANAL.

  7. Re:App Stores Dept. of Corrections? on Bad PR Forces Apple To Reconsider Banning Mark Fiore's App · · Score: 1

    He's not saying Apple has a monopoly on the smartphone market. He's saying that Apple is tying the App Store to the iPhone.

  8. Re:Invalidate on EU Piracy Estimates — Just How Inaccurate? · · Score: 1

    You know, that would also probably make Congress/Parliament/what-have-you too busy looking at old laws to pass pork/raise taxes/etc. That way you kill two birds with one stone.

  9. Re:looks to be $75 to $100 per month on Still Little To Do About a Bad ISP · · Score: 2, Informative

    Keep in mind the US's "First past the post" system gives a huge advantage to the major parties.

  10. Re:if you're in the intersection and it's red on Red-Light Camera Ticket Revenue and Short Yellows · · Score: 1

    What if you're turning left and there's a lot of oncoming traffic?

  11. Re:why might apple be doing this on Steve Jobs Weighs In On iPhone Programming Language Mandate · · Score: 1

    What if you can't efficiently do low level bit-bashing?

  12. Re:your first sentence is technically flawed on Ubuntu on a Dime · · Score: 1

    If the original processors were Turing-complete, why not write a low level (bare metal) hypervisor with memory protection etc.? It would be fucking slow, but it would work.

  13. Re:No conflict of interest there on Larry Sanger Tells FBI Wikipedia Distributes "Child Pornography" · · Score: 1
  14. Re:Don't let go of the wheel.... on "Phone In One Hand, Ticket In the Other" · · Score: 1

    They already know it isn't safe to drive while talking on the phone.

  15. Re:Poor Diebold ATM programming on Bank Employee Plants Malware on ATMs · · Score: 1

    I was under the impression that there are always at least two workers there when they open the envelopes.

  16. Re:If not China, why US? on Google Gives the US Government Access To Gmail · · Score: 1

    That's just because Jefferson wanted State Nullification, which IMAO makes a mess since it allows the equivalent of a circuit split with no overarching resolution (i.e. federal law could be different in different states).

  17. Re:Victimless crimes.. on Mass. Gambling Bill Would Criminalize Online Poker · · Score: 2, Insightful

    No, you got it on the nose.

    The U.S. has one political party, the lobbyists, subdivided into two wings, the Democrats and the Republicans.

    Somehow, we call ourselves a democracy. This is exactly why the health care bill's public option was jettisoned. The whole Dems vs Reps was a farce created by the Lobbyists for the insurance companies (if the Dems had wanted to get the (entire) damn thing passed, they would have done so six months ago when they had the votes).

  18. Re:Enforcement? on Mass. Gambling Bill Would Criminalize Online Poker · · Score: 1

    assuming they wrote their law to skirt around 1st-amendment protections at least. which is a big if.

    Run that by me again. How, exactly, does one define "sedition" while skirting around 1st amendment?

  19. Re:Enforcement? on Mass. Gambling Bill Would Criminalize Online Poker · · Score: 1

    Those are all federal agencies. Why would any of them give a hoot what Mass thinks?

  20. Re:...in USA on Mass. Gambling Bill Would Criminalize Online Poker · · Score: 1

    Not that much is legislated federally

    So why did we elect Obama?

  21. Re:Listen to a 3rd party on Chicago Debates Merits of ShotSpotter Technology · · Score: 1

    A lot of American cities seem to be developed in a criss-cross pattern so that might make the task easier..

    See also: Boston

  22. Re:with the hood welded shut on iPad Launches, FCC Teardown Leaked · · Score: 2, Funny

    Nope, still don't get it. Do you have a car analogy?

  23. Re:Eh? on Federal Appeals Court Says Sex Offender's Computer Ban Unfair · · Score: 1

    Erm... What you get when the copyrights for Windows 1-12 eventually expire?

  24. Re:Companies are easier to regulate than governmen on NJ Court Upholds Privacy of Personal Emails At Work · · Score: 1

    Please read the 14th amendment. SCOTUS didn't do anything.

  25. Re:Companies are easier to regulate than governmen on NJ Court Upholds Privacy of Personal Emails At Work · · Score: 4, Insightful

    First of all there is NOTHING in the Constitution explicitly protecting privacy. Nothing. Everything relating to privacy in the Constitution has been inferred. Go ahead and read it. You won't find the word privacy or anything like it mentioned even once.

    The fourth and ninth amendments taken together. See also the fourteenth.