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  1. I think the real question is "Who do we send up next?".

  2. x-ray van.. on The NYPD's X-Ray Vans (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 2

    I would totally download that.

  3. Re:This should have been a no brainer on Florida Supreme Court: Police Can't Grab Cell Tower Data Without a Warrant · · Score: 3, Interesting

    What about "secure in their persons"? I'm pretty certain that my person should not be searched. That would include where I've been in order to determine where I'm going and where I am at any moment.. The government having access to this type of information at will does not make me secure from much of anything. As a direct result of my person being then where my person has been, in near totality, should not be a source of information accessible by government without a warrant. I can't see how any reasonable person can interpret that amendment much differently.

  4. Desktop? on Linus Torvalds: 'I Still Want the Desktop' · · Score: 1

    If he wants the desktop he'll need to stop wanting the desktop. It's not a kernel problem, it's an office problem. Communications. Seamless integration has been a pipe dream for far too long from my perch. Without a full package you're tossing rocks at the river and hoping for a damn. KDE? This that or the other wrap that's functional and cool? Nope. Private and secure operations with links to people that will encompass the full work flow, that's the problem. Linux will work all day long on any desktop. It's all of the desktops that are the problem. Isn't there an early adopter that wants to roll their entire country back onto MS? That's not a kernel problem, that's a comms problem, communications with every other mid to large size office on the planet. Linux - not the problem.

  5. Re:Megayears? on CO2 Levels Reach 400ppm at Mauna Loa For First Time On Record · · Score: 1

    without help: 1048576 how many bits is that?

  6. Re:Newer tech yes, Smaller reactors no on Fukushima Nuclear Plant Cleanup May Take More Than 40 Years · · Score: 2

    The article said: "That “decay heat” is what led to the Fukushima meltdowns"

    and it does matter because in the real world the ideal is to learn from the past in order to better prepare for the future. No?

  7. Re:only partially agree on Hands-Free Or Voice-Activated Texting Not Safer · · Score: 2

    Dock it in the pirate bay and ask people to pay if they like it, preferably before it saves their life. Safety first I'd say.

    It sounds like a requisite function for those that might communicate as if they needn't pay attention to driving and very helpful for those that may know driving requires a good degree of concentration but need and want to communicate anyway. Good luck with your app.

  8. OK. No hurries. I can't help but think, given the laws, rulings, nations and people in play here that the possibility of actually discovering whether or not those girls were harmed (apart from "because, money. secrets") that that would, above all, be the paramount question to answer and fuck all in between if those that have questions could have, should have, can but won't ask these questions, in any setting. And, if the accusations turn out to be more than sufficient to arrest him for real crimes committed, the host nation would, I should think, give more credence to the possibility that they're sheltering a potentially (to other women) dangerous person and that person should be tried.

    From a "wow, those law books sure are thick" perspective I perceive a thread of aggression in these events that, on the level of nations, doesn't seem justified. There seems the very real and sufficient threat of extradition to yet a fourth country that is seen as unjust by the third country and the objective here must be to have either the fourth country admit as much and deal with the third country directly or for the second country to regress or seek redress from a world court respective of all four countries, should one exist. Or, more likely, the pieces will simply remain on the board as placed.

  9. Thanks. I'll look for the answer to the fabled question when I can dig for it as the answer wasn't in my top 10 results. But what does an extradition ruling from one nation have to do with facts sought from another nation? Admittedly I'm sort of looking at it rather simply - have questions / seek answers. You know, the center of the onion sort of thing. That and being that he is the guest of yet another country I can't quite see how the first country rulings matter in the slightest. All said and done that is.

  10. I'm not quite sure that I'd call it hiding out like a common criminal. They can, after all, interview him, can they not? They want their terms met more than they seem to want to investigate and piece together truth in order to properly evaluate the accusations. As such I would definitely think that somebody is not on the level. There seems to be a lot of aggressive persecution and prosecution going on in general so why not this? And, for the record, I firmly believe that he had every right to publish everything. He even tried to have it vetted. So what, exactly, is the actual fucking problem?

  11. What? on EFF Urges Court To Protect Privacy of Text Messages · · Score: 1

    Fuck man. This shit is starting to drive me crazy. If you're not the sender and you're not the recipient you're not fucking privileged. My house. My phone. My mail. My text. Get a fucking warrant. Christ.

  12. What? on WA State Bill Would Allow Bosses To Seek Facebook Passwords · · Score: 1

    I don't participate but ... that's fucking insane. My house. Get a warrant.

  13. Re:Intractably horrible. on In Defense of Six Strikes · · Score: 1

    By offering a purchase agreement for the goods noted. If they buy it then the strike is stricken if they don't then when they get six they have a mandatory fee of 60.00 (or 10$ per strike) that is then distributed to the ISPs who in turn give it to those middle-men to keep them off their backs (or off their knees so they can stop biting our dicks). And the customer (media leecher) strike record is set to zero. If the customer does not pay it then the ISP can choose to implement customer behavior corrective actions. Or the customer can simply say "wasn't me." and pay anyway because *proof*.

  14. Re:We Need to Roll Back the PATRIOT Act on Google Releases Data On FBI Spying · · Score: 1

    NOW punctuation exclamation mark

  15. Re:Monsanto takes .. on Monsanto Takes Home $23m From Small Farmers According To Report · · Score: 5, Informative

    Actually I believe that you're wrong. Monsanto authorizes their seed progeny to the elevators. The farmer that sold his seed to the grain elevator was allowed to do so contractually. Another farmer subsequently purchased seed from the grain elevator, with the Monsanto seed mixed in, and planted it. http://www.guardian.co.uk/law/2013/feb/09/soybean-farmer-monsanto-supreme-court

  16. miss you or i, i i i on Missouri Legislation Redefines Science, Pushes Intelligent Design · · Score: 1

    For fucks sake. How about "Welcome class. I am Mr. Smith. This class is Science 101. If you're in the wrong class it was fate, stay seated. What I'm going to try to teach you this year is how to learn about science. Some posit that what you're going to learn and read about and experiment with in this class is by design. Not my design but that of a omnipotent being. A god, the GOD. You may have heard of him before today. Many believe that some one or some thing planned it. All of it. They may be correct or they may not. What you're going to learn here is what human kind has deduced and discovered throughout its recorded history and I trust that some of you will add to those discoveries along your paths through life. As for Intelligent Design we can only wonder and search or wait faithfully by until someone or something tells us what we already knew to begin with. To which I'm sure a few just want nothing more than the ability so say "I told you so.". The same can be said about some of the puzzles that science leaves us with today. So, before you begin the journey that is your life in earnest let me try to teach you some of the things we do know and some of the puzzles you could someday help solve. Please open your textbooks to chapter 42."

    "Class, for homework please try to find a frog or a stray cat or dog, preferably dead, so that we can explore with them during our studies for the rest of the week. Leave the family pets alone children. Until tomorrow. Be prompt. Dismissed."

  17. Re:Use pretty paper on Of the Love of Oldtimers - Dusting Off a Sun Fire V1280 Server · · Score: 1

    I think that you may be confusing the car with the driver.

  18. Re:Nazi America on TSA 'Secured' Metrodome During Recent Football Game · · Score: 1

    What? No. Well not directly anyway. I was referring to my perception of a free society collapsing from within and, the distressing part, those directly responsible for ensuring it endures seem to be saying our safety and security is about two notches more important than our liberty. Combine that with politically influential corporate engines and you're not exactly brewing tea.

    Since you seem a little bent on spanking me because you read revolution and firmly seem to believe that the power of the vote can .. secure our free people their freedoms forever than so be it. Bullet or ballot - I don't really give a fuck as long as mine are not made to succumb to another or bend to an ill formed authority.

    What I was talking about was an accelerated path moving faster by doing little or, worse, nothing. A path that I believe the initial founders both foresaw and tried to prevent. We can either vote our way out of it, somehow, continue to vote our way onto it or not vote and watch. To the point of what you're saying, sure, I don't disagree, necessarily. "The voters" however can only vote until they cannot vote or the effect has been compromised or, en masse, they rebel and attempt change via different means, a different vote. Just because there is a certain path that you would prefer, voting, as would many, it does not mean that that path is secure or effective or will remain to be so indefinitely.

    And to this: "If you disagree you can vote differently, but it doesn't mean your voice should be louder than theirs." - nor does it mean I should be silent. One vote is a whisper. A government seemingly bent on working around many votes and working for and with financially backed whisperers, all seemingly in a direction that is diametrically opposed to some founding principals, then you might be on a path towards trouble. Do not hide behind the concept of a false peace when the security of your person, freedoms and liberties reach a point that demands that its defense be made by blood and life.

    Vote!! By all means. And encourage others to do so because, yes, for now, it is the best and most reasonable means of preventing an armed and direct defense. Run, hide or stand but know that standing on a vote is precarious at best. There are always options. Ensuring that you continue to have them is a good direction. We'll all know when and if the time for voting has run its course in this country. That would be dreadful, indeed. Nonetheless, it can happen and under certain circumstance probably should. Let's try and ensure those circumstances are not realized because if they are then you'll likely be voting with the screams of a collective people that can no longer protect freedom with a pen - results be damned.

  19. Re:Nazi America on TSA 'Secured' Metrodome During Recent Football Game · · Score: 2

    Perhaps by allowing it to accelerate - as clearly we are doing just this. Sure, it could get messy with suffering, pain and death and likely will but, really, is it not the quickest remedy? Maybe on the next go we'll get to 300 years. There is not enough pressure apparently to encourage "normal" people to realize the time to choose approaches quickly. If one ignores it long enough they still might die happy with the thought that their life was mostly free.

    It's sort of funny, in a horrid way, that every time I see a TSA headline, any TSA headline, the very first thing that comes to mind are brown shirts. Something tells me that there is a reason for that though voicing it seems brash and somewhat unjustified - for the moment. And yet I think it.

  20. Re:Considering this is Windows... on Software Uses Almost 1/2 the Storage On 32GB Surface Tablet · · Score: 1

    I'm sorry, are you attempting to justify 16 fucking gigabytes swoofed off of your purchased 32GB for microsoft fucking office? How about: Which android tablet can't run an office application whose installation takes 500MB? None? That's better. Microsoft office. Please, like it's 1995.

  21. Re:There is only one speed: c on Mathematicians Extend Einstein's Special Relativity Beyond Speed of Light · · Score: 1

    Actually, if I'm not mistaken, that was a lot of sense. Why limit yourself to just two? That shit adds up quick.

  22. Re:Flawed assumptions. on Astronomers Search For Dyson Spheres of Alien Civilizations · · Score: 2

    Actually, I've met Santa and he's nice. It's a common misconception that he's lugging a humongous satchel filled with toys and the truth will surprise you. He's got this delightfully nifty contraption that actually uses the same power that you believe, rightfully so, would squish a toy under these same conditions. What happens is that he, this contraption that is, produces what is basically a tiny marble with the tiniest pinpoint of light within it that sort of flits around and such. You can actually fit several thousand in the palm of the average adult hand. Anyway, the weird part, these tiny marbles are "delivered" and it's this delivery process that taps the "heat" of the destined human's spirit so that when combined with the phenomenal forces of velocity and pressure they intrinsically form the resulting toy, gadget, craft or any other "gift" you can think of. The delivery "shapes" the gift solely and wholly for the destined individual and its formation is completed only when the delivery comes to a complete stop. It's quite fascinating, and fast. Now, "What about the wrapping?" you might ask and to this I will only say that it's a clever little trick that one certain little elf discovered during early experimentation with hopper loading of these tiny marbles (they're actually called bullion, if you were wondering, and they make billions a year. They're nicknamed "bb's". Clever, I know.). Essentially it was discovered via a series of unexpected in-flight hopper test failures that when the bullion slows it can "glue together" its surrounding particles of, well, anything and what Santa actually does when he twinkles his nose is "color" the wrapping and bow. The elves call this part "skid marking" in honor of that one elf that released that one fateful hopper load attempt. The elf's name was Zee but that has very little relevance. Zee's skid marked bullion piece still sits prominently at the controls of the hopper station though none are allowed to touch it.

    There, I do hope I've cleared some things up but, as it is, we must have our traditions and stories, I know.

    And to all a good night!

  23. Re:Law Enforcement at Work on Nebraska Sheriff Wardriving, Sending Letters About Unsecured Wi-Fi · · Score: 1

    I agree that this is a more agreeable beat than the fence. I'm still having trouble with what, exactly, is so inherently wrong with an open wi-fi? I would offer that it's a bit like an abortion question - one answers that based on one's requirements and circumstance. One's circumstances should dictate how open they, the gear operator, would like it to be - from locked down through wide open.

    Having said that I am 98% with the 'Your Service is Available' notice for those that may be caught unawares. The objective is to protect your own shit. Warnings are fine. Implications that an available network connection is wrong are not. Fuck businesses and coffee shops. I'm a person too.

    However, that open network connection is not an invitation for law enforcement to review, collect or monitor the information behind it without a warrant. Its purpose is to provide service to the Internet. Abuse is the responsibility of the abuser. Security is the responsibility of the provider. Privacy is the responsibility of the law. The law is the responsibility of the people.

  24. Re:Curious. on Feds Add 9 Felony Charges Against Swartz For JSTOR Hack · · Score: 2

    Information Anarchy!

    Let the future take hold today for tomorrow it may never come.

  25. Re:Can this be retroactively legalized on House Approves Extending the Warrantless Wiretapping Act · · Score: 1

    rather... Roll Call