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  1. Re:Bets on first use on California Passes Law Mandating Smartphone Kill Switch · · Score: 2

    Yes, but the problem with these apps is that they give control only to owner of the phone, not to police.

  2. Re: The worrisome part on California Passes Law Mandating Smartphone Kill Switch · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Exactly. Does anyone know of an audio recording app for android which *immediately* (while it is still recording) uploads to remote server? Even better if it is possible to start it in unobtrusive way.

  3. Re:The worrisome part on California Passes Law Mandating Smartphone Kill Switch · · Score: 5, Insightful

    So you live in a world where almost every single person accused of a crime in US gets a trial by jury of their peers? What colour is sky in your world? Because here, in real world jury trial is a very rare thing - 97% prosecutions end with plea bargain ( http://www.thecrimereport.org/... ) . This is a real problem, because plea bargain has nothing to do with justice.

  4. Re:Never talk to US law enforcement on Early Bitcoin User Interviewed By Federal Officers · · Score: 2

    Ok, but how does it help me? Again, if they are willing to lie, then trusting or not trusting, talking or not talking does not matter any more - they can just write down whatever story they please without even bothering with question and you are fucked.

  5. Re:Never talk to US law enforcement on Early Bitcoin User Interviewed By Federal Officers · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Really? If as you suggest they are willing to lie in their notes, what exactly is stopping them from turning "I have nothing to say to you" into long and detailed confession?

  6. Re:I don't care about Java on If Java Wasn't Cool 10 Years Ago, What About Now? · · Score: 1

    It is interesting how badly C# has been doing in TIOBE recently. It had been rising to become 'new java' until 2012, but then it went into decline steep enough to leave it behind BASIC.

  7. Re:Wonder if... on Major Delays, Revamped Beta For Credit-Card Consolidating Gadget Coin · · Score: 1

    You can't copy data from chip, so Coin won't be able to deal with it.

  8. Re:LOL on South Carolina Student Arrested For "Killing Pet Dinosaur" · · Score: 1

    Come on, show me link to story that got French or Chinese kid arrested over writing school assignment about shooting something.

  9. Re:Land of insanity on South Carolina Student Arrested For "Killing Pet Dinosaur" · · Score: 1

    And how many years ago it was? Besides giant oven is ok - you did not use any of the magic words like 'gun', 'bomb', etc.

  10. Land of insanity on South Carolina Student Arrested For "Killing Pet Dinosaur" · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Only in America ...

  11. Re:We're heading in the right direction on Eruption Of Iceland's Bardarbunga Raises Travel Alert to Red · · Score: 3, Funny

    They really should not name things by letting a cat walk on a keyboard.

  12. Re:I'm looking now on Finding an ISIS Training Camp Using Google Earth · · Score: 1

    Yes, by all means nuke Russia. Most of USA would end up as irradiated rubble as well, but you would sure show Putin who is the boss!

  13. Re:Not entirely surprising on NSA Agents Leak Tor Bugs To Developers · · Score: 2

    And to make it even worse - 'friendly' and 'enemy' categories frequently overlap.

  14. Re:Oversight and regulation on Berlin Bans Car Service Uber · · Score: 1, Insightful

    So what you are saying is that if the vehicle is clean, has a working AC, and is very cheap.. then its 100% certain to be an official taxi?

    Pretty much yes. Official taxis charge regulated, metered rate, which ends up being very cheap. 'Private' taxi drivers live off ignorant tourists that don't even know they are getting fleeced unless driver gets really greedy and charges something like 5x rate.

    Have you actually learned to read, or are you just spouting Statist defenses?

    Grow up kid and maybe visit the place before you start spouting off crap and make an idiot of yourself.

  15. Re:There's more to EU transport than cheapness on Berlin Bans Car Service Uber · · Score: 1

    Ha! It means that US invented time travel too.

  16. Re:Oversight and regulation on Berlin Bans Car Service Uber · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Have you actually been to Thailand or you are just spouting prejudice? Official taxis there (especially in Bangkok) are great - clean, working AC, _very_ cheap (on meter with official rate).

  17. Re:What about Oregon and Washington? on Comcast Drops Spurious Fees When Customer Reveals Recording · · Score: 1

    At some point, some of their states will decide they don't like the federal government and want to secede. At that time, the EU will be faced with the same decision that the USA was faced with when the southern states decided to secede from the US. Either lose a large chunk of their political and economic power or conquer the seceding states.

    UK is halfway to seceding already (there is supposed to be referendum in 2 or 3 years). However other EU countries trying to keep UK by force is simply unimaginable.

  18. Re:CLASS ACTION TIME! on DEA Paid Amtrak Employee To Pilfer Passenger Lists · · Score: 1

    Executive privilege bitches!

  19. Re:Legal pemission? THEY GIVE IT! on Comcast Drops Spurious Fees When Customer Reveals Recording · · Score: 1

    Wait, if they just need provide *notice* (not ask you) and that's enough to make their recording legal, then you should be able to do the same. Just notify them that you are recording and that's it. Both parties are notified, both can record as they please.

  20. Re:What about Oregon and Washington? on Comcast Drops Spurious Fees When Customer Reveals Recording · · Score: 4, Informative

    At this point EU is probably closer to original intent of United States than modern USA.

  21. Re:Cmmon bubble, Just pop already. on Silicon Valley Doesn't Have an Attitude Problem, OK? · · Score: 1

    Do your part in bubble popping and start short selling.

  22. Ingrates on Silicon Valley Doesn't Have an Attitude Problem, OK? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    There is just no pleasing this people: 'undesirable element' moves in - they complain about falling property value, 'highly paid tech professionals' move in - they complain about increasing property value.

  23. Re:Patent US 99063520 A on Every Day Is Goof-Off-At-Work Day At the US Patent and Trademark Office · · Score: 2

    Patent US 9063520 C: The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
    A method and system for under-performing approval of patents using a computer.

    How about cross-licensing deal? Or we could just go straight to full patent war.

  24. Re:Blackphone on F-Secure: Xiaomi Smartphones Do Secretly Steal Your Data · · Score: 1

    Especially funny is implying that it is Swiss product while it was in fact created by US-based company. Which means that NSA owns their asses and I expect that users buying phone *specifically* for security would be extra-juicy target. In short: honeypot.

  25. Re:JAVA EE is not dead. on Oracle Hasn't Killed Java -- But There's Still Time · · Score: 2

    Ooooh, they bought themselves an ISO standard. Quick, everybody switch to OOXML.