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  1. Re: burden of proof / implications on free speech on Facebook User Arrested For a Poke · · Score: 1

    If it's the protected person who does it first, then the cops will inform the restrained, if it's the restrained who figures it out first, they have to cease any actions that would violate the order as soon as they are aware of it.

    Like I said, I could certainly imagine how it should happen. But all of your examples were either 0-way or 1-way anonymous encounters (person A sees person B, but person B doesn't notice person A). I'm just having difficulty coming up with 2-way anonymous encounters IRL. And without a 2-way anonymous encounter IRL, why would there be precedent about how to handle a 2-way anonymous encounter on the internet?

    Now I'm not saying a special e-law is required (after all, 0-way and 1-way anonymous encounters are accounted for), just that a 2-way anonymous encounter might need it's own special handling, which would apply equally to the internet as well as IRL (if anyone can come up with a better IRL example than I did).

  2. Re: burden of proof / implications on free speech on Facebook User Arrested For a Poke · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Are they? Forget AC, lets say both people have accounts, but they don't know each other. Through random chance, the person with the restraining order against them happens upon the person they are to avoid contact with, and in various discussions they get into heated arguments. This goes on for a few weeks. Eventually, the second person realizes that the first person is someone that they got a restraining order against, while the first person remains oblivious who the second person is. So now what?

    I can certainly imagine what _should_ probably happen (second person informs the first person, _then_ if contact does not cease, the first person has violated the restraining order), but I'm finding it difficult to match that to a real life situation, so I can't imagine such a situation is already handled.

    Though.. I guess a possible real life analogue may be something like the first person writing a letter that appears in the local newspaper, with the second person writing a letter to the newspaper in response to that, going back and forth using the newspaper as the medium instead of /..

  3. Re:SEXISM! (Re:Refreshment of memory) on FOSS Sexism Claims Met With Ire and Denial · · Score: 1
    Exactly. People forget that -isms go all ways, not just towards minorities in any given field.

    Yea you’ve become a developer and have done nearly nothing except shill your feminist shit and try to turn debian into a woman’s project (you are succeeding, men are leaving debian because of you and your ilk, worthless bitch).

    Having met some "feminazis", I find it not hard to believe that this person's comment may be entirely factual. That's not to say that that comment is automatically not sexist. Simply that you cannot simply supply that comment, without context, and say "ZOMG LOOK AT THIS SEXISM!" It just does not work that way.

    All that said, I do find it hard to imagine how one would turn a Linux distro into a distro aimed at a particular gender.

  4. Re:Captain Obvious on For Some Medical Workers, a Flu Shot Or Possible Job Loss · · Score: 1

    Well... if you get the Chicken Pox for real, you get it once and (typically) are done with it forever. But the Chicken Pox shot, don't you have to get twice in your life to get the same results?

  5. Maybe he doesn't know? on Rupert Murdoch Says Google Is Stealing His Content · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Someone should send an email explaining robot.txt to the poor guy. Maybe he's just ignorant about how to keep the big bad Google from "stealing" his content.

  6. Re:Illusion on In-Game Advertising Makes Games Better? · · Score: 1

    It improves the scifi experience more when player can think "oh McDonalds is still around"

    Um.. I guess that is one way to look at it. Personally, I groaned and thought "could they be any more obvious wtf they're trying to do here?" when Taco Bell was shown in Demolition Man.

  7. Re:That's bright! on Patent Claim Could Block Import of Toyota's Hybrid Cars · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You're happy paying insurance companies whose first priority is to make as much profit as possible, and as a result avoid paying out to it's customers as much as they possibly can? Insurance companies that will only insure the people who statistically will not use even a fraction of what they put in? Personally, I'd rather pay extra in taxes to help some stranger receive the medical care that they need, a stranger I've never met and will never meet, than pay some insurance company that puts healthcare _secondary_ to their primary purpose of making money.

    If you've found an insurance company that isn't like that then I retract my statement (and would love to know who you use). But I highly doubt there is a private insurance company out there who's first priority _isn't_ to make money, with paying its customers second (or third, or fourth, or fifth, or...).

  8. Re:Resigning Issue... on Avatars To Have Business Dress Codes By 2013 · · Score: 1

    Good luck moving up in your company

    As responsibilities go up, freedom tends to go down. Not saying that's a good or a bad thing, but different people have different priorities in life.

  9. Re:Resigning Issue... on Avatars To Have Business Dress Codes By 2013 · · Score: 1

    Says who? Your invisible sky daddy? My invisible sky daddy says it's perfectly ok to "create a religion" and that it isn't lying.

    Now that the requisite invisible sky daddy fight is out of the way, seriously, what makes your point true?

  10. Re:Is piracy the only option? on Why the Sony PSP Had To "Go" · · Score: 1

    Which removable flash memory format were you thinking of that is less proprietary than both?

    Both? Dunno. But less proprietary than the Sony Memory Stick? How about anything that is usable in the products of at least two companies? Because that's what makes the Memory Stick proprietary, the fact that it is usable in _only_ Sony devices.

  11. Re:Seems low on 72% of Banks Say Their Employees Committed Fraud · · Score: 1

    Gold was, is and will universally recognized as something valuable in majority of cultures. Even world of Fallout wouldn't change it because there would be continuity of humanity and there would be no reason for gold to suddenly lose its cultural meaning - gold value is deeply entrenched in people's minds.

    As true as that is, in a post-apocalyptic world, if I had to choose between a gun+ammo and gold, I'd go with the gun, as if you have gold and I have a gun, I now have a gun and gold.

  12. Re:Good find on Aging Discovery Yields Nobel Prize · · Score: 1

    Food is just a subset of resources, there are resources that are not food.

  13. Re:First do no harm on Dissolvable Glass For Bone Repair · · Score: 1

    Better yet, don't even treat the symptoms! Haven't you ever noticed how all those so-called "anti-depressant" commercials state "side affects may include increased depression"?

  14. Re:Maybe it's a start on Executive Order Bars Federal Workers From Texting and Driving · · Score: 1

    exactly what power do they have over a state issuing drivers licenses to school bus drivers?

    They hold the power to withhold funding for roads, schools, etc from any state that does not comply. Much like how speed limits and a national drinking age of 21 were forced upon all states against their wishes.

  15. Re:Science on Fossil Primate Ardipithecus Ramidus Described (Finally) · · Score: 1

    You mean this Voyager episode? I don't remember a TNG episode with a race that refused to admit they were descended from dinosaurs.

  16. Re:How to get around Disc Channel's update require on Wii Update 4.2 Tries (and Fails) To Block Homebrew · · Score: 1

    That counts as "doing something to your Wii".

  17. Re:Two words: Virtual Console on Wii Update 4.2 Tries (and Fails) To Block Homebrew · · Score: 1

    It's actual cost to the company is $0.00US as it's simply a rom dump.

    [citation needed]

  18. Re:Emigration is a Privilege, not a Right on Scientists Decry "Horrifying" UK Border Test Plan · · Score: 1

    But he didn't know he wasn't the father until he tried getting them into the US. All I'm saying is, after 8 years of sending money to support them, what reason could the guy have had to go the green card route instead of just marrying her?

    Or does the green card process take so long that the guy probably started the process of getting them green cards 8 years ago?

  19. Re:If you don't like it... on Wii Update 4.2 Tries (and Fails) To Block Homebrew · · Score: 1

    While thejynxed appears to be exagerating, I suspect you've done something to your Wii if you've never needed to install an update to use your Wii (or you play only launch titles or titles released shortly thereafter). If a game disc contains a more recent version of the Wii software than is currently installed, it will not let you play that game until you update.

  20. Re:Why is that legal? on Wii Update 4.2 Tries (and Fails) To Block Homebrew · · Score: 1

    I would argue that it is legal because you can choose to not install the update.


    (Unless you want to play $RECENTLY_RELEASED_GAME.)

  21. Re:Emigration is a Privilege, not a Right on Scientists Decry "Horrifying" UK Border Test Plan · · Score: 1

    If he'd been sending her money for 8 years, why didn't he just marry her? I'll admit that I have absolutely no experience in this matter, but I've not heard of a spouse of a US citizen being denied citizenship.

  22. Re:Odd name on Hardware Hackers Create a Cheaper Bedazzler · · Score: 1

    Yes.

  23. Re:"if i had a rocket launcher" on Legal Group Says Unlimited Broadband Promotes Piracy · · Score: 1

    Hey now, it's not the child's fault what his mother/father does for a living.

  24. Re:Administrative violations are unconstitutional on CA City Mulls Evading the Law On Red-Light Cameras · · Score: 1

    So then you feel that I should be able to operate out on a major highway an 18-wheeler dragging along 2+ trailers without having received any sort of training?

    As you go from horse-and-buggy, to 15 mph open-air motorized vehicle, to 100+ mph fully-encased motorized vehicle, there's a certain increase in operational danger if you don't know what you're doing. The idea behind the drivers license is that the state is vouching that you understand how to operate the vehicles listed on your license.

    However, this doesn't mean I agree with the tricks being used to subvert the constitution (the vehicle committed the crime, not you, so there's no requirement that you be allowed to face your accuser), only that I do not disagree with the idea of drivers licenses.

  25. Re:Proof once again... on Senate To Reconsider Wiretap Immunity · · Score: 2, Insightful

    No, it really isn't that simple. I'm not saying that the brother is 100% not to blame, but you cannot ignore the fact that the state lied about marijuana. By lying about marijuana, the state loses it's credibility as a trusted source of information of what is good and what is bad, and people lose respect in the state. And when that happens, people will just do whatever they feel is right, because they can no longer trust the state.