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  1. To be fair, your last example gives a lot of evidence that they could be a flight risk, which is an important reason to deny bail. Really, both of your examples should probably be denied bail.

  2. Re: Really bad security on A Photo Accidentally Revealed a Password For Hawaii's Emergency Agency (qz.com) · · Score: 2

    Write a fake password on the front of the post it attached to the monitor and the real password on the back of the note

  3. Re:Used clothes still useful for those in need on 'No One Wants Your Used Clothes Anymore' (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    I always donate my old clothes to Goodwill. Whenever I'm there I see plenty of people buying what they have out. Not just clothes, but lots of old things. Between Goodwill and another thrift store I sometimes visit that accepts donations I always see tons of stuff being bought, in my area at least the demand sure looks like it is pretty high.

    We paid $30 for a little end table that sells new on Amazon for about $250 at Goodwill. Wife ended up painting it a light blue and stuck it in a corner by our sofa.

  4. Re:Doubt it - desperate people power food delivery on Within Next Five Years Your Pizzas Will Probably Be Delivered by Autonomous Cars, Domino's Pizza CEO Says (thestreet.com) · · Score: 1

    I wonder if someone will take up the banner and provide a food delivery service for many restaurants, so that each store doesn't have to buy their own vehicles. Oh wait... https://www.ubereats.com/

    Or Grubhub and countless other businesses. Hell, we had something like that 25 years ago when I was a little kid. It's not at all a new concept.

  5. Re: I gotta say on The James Webb Space Telescope Has Emerged From the Freezer (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm aware of the correct quote, I was changing it to be more reflective of what a telescope would do. That why I changed the first one from John to the name of the telescope

  6. Claim not backed by evidence on Twitter Hits Back Again at Claims That Its Employees Monitor Direct Messages (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    One engineer seemed to say that Twitter can hand over President Donald Trump's data, including deleted tweets and direct messages, to the Department of Justice.

    All that says is that Twitter stores the data, not that they are reading it. I see no problem there. Also, shouldn't Trump tweets be considered official correspondence and statements from the administration (I believe the White House has even stated this at some points) and therefore be illegal for Trump to delete anyway?

  7. Re:I gotta say on The James Webb Space Telescope Has Emerged From the Freezer (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    “The James Webb Space Telescope has emerged from the freezer” is one of the worst secret recognition codes I’ve heard in a long time. People are going to notice that one!

    Still better than "James Webb Space Telescope has a long mustache" or "Images my heart with a monotonous languor".

  8. Re:All Of The Above on Is Pop Music Becoming Louder, Simpler and More Repetitive? (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    I imagine polling people in the '00s they would say that the pop music from the same decade was the worst ever produced. If anything, pop music since 2000 has had no identity. If the 80s was the decade of New Wave, and the 90s the decade of Alternative Rock, the 00s was an eclectic mix. There was the Nu Metal movement, which turned out to be short-lived; a resurgence in some 90s acts like Green Day/Gwen Stefani; and a growing broader interest in rap/hiphop thanks mostly to Eminem.

    I'd kill to get some nu metal back on the radio. These days almost every song on "alt" stations has to have a banjo or mandolin. Fortunately the alt station I listen to here has started to play some good stuff like Hybrid Theory-era Linkin Park and some Foo Fighters. Can't even remember the last time I heard something like Slipknot, Disturbed, Papa Roach, or even Chevelle or Shinedown on the radio. It's like they've been trying to kill rock music.

  9. Re: Traitor on Chelsea Manning Files to Run for U.S. Senate in Maryland (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1, Funny

    Technically "he" did spend the rest of his life behind bars, because "he" no longer exists. Manning is a "she" now.

  10. Re: Not at all. on Kansas 'Swat' Perpetrator Charged; Faces 11 More Years in Prison (latimes.com) · · Score: 1

    The DoE has SWAT type teams to guard nuclear reactors and shipments of nuclear material. My dad's cousin, a former Marine, used to work for them and ran one of their shooting ranges. I've seen the shipment convoys myself once, you just have to know what to look for.

  11. Re:Core samples on Ice Cliffs Spotted On Mars (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    A single shot device like a railgun cannot launch something into orbit. You need a second impulse to alter the trajectory to achieve orbit. .....What you'd need in this scenario is....a container with a thruster of some sort to force the trajectory into orbit. Either case increases the difficulty considerably.

    You mean like this? The idea is farfetched anyway, but it's safe to assume the core sample would be containerized anyway in the projectile from the rail gun, so you would just have to make the projectile and the thruster strong enough to change the trajectory.

  12. Divide the state up into sections for as equal a percentage of population as possible, grouped along county lines.

    There is a lot of variation in populations between counties.

    Yes, so rural districts might be made up of multiple counties, urban counties might have multiple districts. But each district would have an as equal as possible number of voters in each.

  13. Re:You can thank the corporate Dems for this too on North Carolina Congressional Map Ruled Unconstitutionally Gerrymandered (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    I know in the last two presidential elections there were armed police stationed outside predominately black precincts...

    It's a lot less scary and ominous when you say what they were most likely there for, which was to direct traffic. We had "armed police" outside my polling station, and I live in a district that has $500k new construction going up.

  14. Short of a simple geometric algorithm, any attempt to redraw districts will generate objections. Both parties will seek to alter the result to benefit them.

    Divide the state up into sections for as equal a percentage of population as possible, grouped along county lines. If a county holds a large city or in some other way is unbalanced relative to other counties, then that county is split to equal out the numbers. This also has the benefit of equally weighing each person's vote.

  15. Re:I probably would have done the autism angle on James Damore Sues Google For Allegedly Discriminating Against Conservative White Men (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Autistic isn't a protected class.

    "Disabled" is, but to be considered disabled via autism you have to be so non-functional that you couldn't possibly have a job to sue over.

    California law prevents discrimination over medical conditions. And in a lot of states you can get in trouble for firing someone that misses significant time due to medical issues.

  16. Protected classes. Race and gender are protected classes everywhere in the US, and political affiliation (and activities) are a protected class in California. I remember people claiming that DaMore was a liberal or democrat, but I guess that's clarified now.

    Is "conservative" considered a political affiliation though? Registering as a Republican would be political affiliation (and firing someone for affiliating with a legitimate political party is and should be illegal), but simply having conservative beliefs would a be a stretch for "political affiliation" unless the wording of California's laws is pretty specific. Calling his statement a "political activity" might be less of a stretch, but then that would negate much of the purported reasoning for the statement to begin with (didn't he claim he wasn't trying to be political?)

  17. Re:We don't actually know why he was fired on James Damore Sues Google For Allegedly Discriminating Against Conservative White Men (theverge.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    California explicitly protects based on political affiliation.

    https://www.employmentattorneyla.com/blog/2017/06/what-are-californias-protected-classes-in-employment.shtml

    Conservative isn't a political affiliation though, it's a political belief. He's not claiming that Google fired him for being a registered Republican (I think he actually claimed to be Independent?), but that they fired him because of his conservative beliefs.

  18. I went to college in North Carolina, a small school named Wingate University. We happened to have a building there called the Helms Center, named after US Senator for North Carolina Jesse Helms. The guy who happened to lead the conservative switch from the Democrat to Republican Party during the 60's and 70's. Or did he not happen either?

  19. Re:There *is* a need on Apple Should Address Youth Phone Addiction, Say Two Large Investors (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    There is a need - or if you prefer, a market - for phones with limited capabilities....

    They have these phones with limited capabilities called flip phones, but I think buying one for a child is considered grounds for calling Child Services in some states these days.

  20. Re:I think there's something to this on Apple Should Address Youth Phone Addiction, Say Two Large Investors (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Then you run into a situation where you're going out and you want them to have their phone in some capacity so you can reach them.

    So...your children are old enough, mature enough, and trusted enough to be left home alone but not old enough, mature enough, and trusted enough to use a phone responsibly?

  21. Re:I think there's something to this on Apple Should Address Youth Phone Addiction, Say Two Large Investors (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    There needs to be better ways for parents to limit *what* they can do on a device at any given time of the day. Being able to specifically lock down Instagram unless all homework and chores are done would be most welcome.

    I think that's called "putting the phone in a drawer and not taking it out until the child finishes their homework".

  22. Re:ghtiugupr,ujrciugdriuhdnichneiu _"rzehfr on White Noise Video on YouTube Hit By Five Copyright Claims (bbc.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    z"'juy-tç_'eyctèçeqytvèe_tyqzç"èedjçtceyjtqzoy"rq_çazé'fyaé_t'béacgrbuserfgsqefcqaxwjàà&çéu"

    I'm pretty sure you just insulted some alien's mother and started an interstellar war.

  23. Re:Someone needs to shoot some CEOs on Intel Says CEO Dumping Tons of Stock Last Year 'Unrelated' To Big Security Exploit (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The class war is in full effect. Time you picked a side.

    CEOs and their obscene salary and bonus schedules are put in place by board members.

    Ah, yes. The board members who themselves are CEOs for other companies and who get paid salaries and get benefits that are comparable to other CEOs. The whole thing is more incestuous than a medieval French court.

  24. Re:wrong on China's WeChat Denies Storing User Chats (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Complete fabrication

    I don't see how anyone could argue with such a thoughtful, well-reasoned, and comprehensively cited rebuttal as this.

  25. Re:The 'Money' Version of Zootopia on People Are Using PornHub To Stream 'Hamilton' and 'Zootopia' (qz.com) · · Score: 2

    Actually I'd be impressed if someone did. It would mean they had the same resources, money, and time as the original to create it.

    Or it's just being re-enacted by furries.