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  1. Re:Slashvertisement on The Cryonics Institute Offers a Chance at Immortality (Video) · · Score: 1

    Maybe in part 2 they will freeze roblimo so we have to no longer suffer his shitty posts?

  2. Re:Slashvertisement on The Cryonics Institute Offers a Chance at Immortality (Video) · · Score: 1

    Well of course the freezing would kill you if you were still alive, but you're already dead at that point anyway.

  3. Re:Slashvertisement on The Cryonics Institute Offers a Chance at Immortality (Video) · · Score: 3, Informative

    FYI: You can't be cryogenically frozen until you are legally dead.

  4. Re:Uh huh on The Steady Decline of Unix · · Score: 5, Informative

    XNU is a Mach 2.5 kernel with the BSD 4.3 userland layered on top. And it is not "reminiscent of Unix" it is certified Unix.

  5. Re:Um.. on "Jekyll" Test Attack Sneaks Through Apple App Store, Wreaks Havoc · · Score: 1

    Actually it really does. Only the researchers installed it before it was pulled.

  6. Re:20-30 ms is massive on Protests Mount In New Zealand Against New Surveillance Laws · · Score: 0

    Massive? 20-30 ms is less than 1/5th the average reaction time of a college age adult to audio stimulus and around 1/6th of that for visual stimulus. So unless Kim Dotcom is a superhuman, it's unlikely he noticed any such thing unless the current latency he was experiencing was already bordering on high to begin with.

  7. Re:Apple review process = a few seconds? on "Jekyll" Test Attack Sneaks Through Apple App Store, Wreaks Havoc · · Score: 0

    Not from any apps sold via the Amazon Appstore for Android.

    You've just changed middlemen. They still take a cut.

    The entire point of Apple's closed system is that they are the only publisher of software for the platform. This means they get a cut of sales no matter what.

    So no different than any other mobile store.

  8. Re:Success on Ubuntu Edge Now Most-Backed Crowdfunding Campaign Ever · · Score: 1

    Yes, the demand is only marginally higher than the demand for the Kin. Which is to say as a retail product it would be an enormous flop.

  9. Re:Superlatives are superlative! on Ubuntu Edge Now Most-Backed Crowdfunding Campaign Ever · · Score: 1

    Not more than 10,000 sales would be a huge flop for any OEM or carrier. The Kin, if you remember sold a bit over 7000.

  10. Re:Obama is a "Constitutional Scholar"??? on FISC Chief Judge: We Can't Effectively Oversee the NSA · · Score: 1

    "Article III federal judges" (as opposed to judges of some courts with special jurisdictions) serve "during good behavior" (often paraphrased as appointed "for life"). Judges hold their seats until they resign, die, or are removed from office. Although the legal orthodoxy is that judges cannot be removed from office except by impeachment by the House of Representatives followed by conviction by the Senate, several legal scholars, including William Rehnquist, Saikrishna Prakash and Steven D. Smith, have argued that the Good Behaviour Clause may, in theory, permit removal by way of a writ of scire facias filed before a federal court, without resort to impeachment.[1]

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_federal_judge#Tenure_and_salary

  11. Re:Two years to go on Forrester: NSA Spying Could Cost Cloud $180B, But Probably Won't · · Score: 1

    Which E-mail service would you rather use? The one from a sleazy convicted criminal, but with impenetrable security? Or the one from a company that always rifles through the contents, but promises to only do it for the better good?

    Neither. That's a classic false dilemma.

  12. Re:Public Domain should be the default on Open Source Licensing Debate Has Positive Effect On GitHub · · Score: 2

    A click through ToS would never be upheld. That's before you get to the fact that the person agreeing to the ToS might not even hold copyright to the code and would have no legal right to even make the agreement. There's no way it would hold up in court.

  13. Re:Public Domain should be the default on Open Source Licensing Debate Has Positive Effect On GitHub · · Score: 1

    I do!

  14. Re:Public Domain should be the default on Open Source Licensing Debate Has Positive Effect On GitHub · · Score: 1

    Doesn't really matter since Github can not make a non-US citizen enter into a contract that violates their local laws.

  15. Re:Public Domain should be the default on Open Source Licensing Debate Has Positive Effect On GitHub · · Score: 1

    Yes, that "someone" being myself, idiot.

  16. Re:Public Domain should be the default on Open Source Licensing Debate Has Positive Effect On GitHub · · Score: 1

    Just a CYA statement in case there was an exception someone could point out.

  17. Re:Public Domain should be the default on Open Source Licensing Debate Has Positive Effect On GitHub · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't be legal.

  18. Re:Public Domain should be the default on Open Source Licensing Debate Has Positive Effect On GitHub · · Score: 1

    Should be "in many countries" not "in the countries".

  19. Re:Public Domain should be the default on Open Source Licensing Debate Has Positive Effect On GitHub · · Score: 3, Informative

    It's also a violation of the Bern Convention. Github cannot legally strip a work of its copyright status just because a license wasn't chosen by the developer. In the countries with public domain it has to be explicitly declared as such by the author.

  20. Re:Public Domain should be the default on Open Source Licensing Debate Has Positive Effect On GitHub · · Score: 2

    It can't be since "public domain" doesn't even exist in many countries.

  21. Re:Happy President on Obama's Privacy Reform Panel Will Report To ... the NSA · · Score: 1

    Ah yes the "But Bill Clinton did it too!!!" defense in reverse. Criticizing Obama for his part in the spying is not saying Repuglicans would be any better. Stop being a partisan shit.

  22. Re:We can't win without eliminating FISA. on Schneier: The NSA Is Commandeering the Internet · · Score: 1

    No, a court like FISA can be compatible with them. As long as it's not allowed to be secretive and above public accountability. FISA was created to stop the abuses that Nixon did of abusing the intelligence services to spy on anyone he wanted. And until the Patriot Act it actually did a decent job of that.

  23. Re:We can't win without eliminating FISA. on Schneier: The NSA Is Commandeering the Internet · · Score: 1

    Never said anyone should give up. But thinking that the FISA infrastructure will just be swept away with without something having to fill the void is just not realistic.

  24. Re:We can't win without eliminating FISA. on Schneier: The NSA Is Commandeering the Internet · · Score: 1

    How is FISA unconstitutional? Congress was imbued with the Constitutional power to "constitute Tribunals inferior to the supreme Court" in article 1, section 8. The FISA court is an inferior court and thus squarely falls under the powers of Congress to create.

  25. Re:We can't win without eliminating FISA. on Schneier: The NSA Is Commandeering the Internet · · Score: 1

    Of course it won't stop them. FISA came about because of Nixon being caught using the intelligence sevices to do spying against his political opponents.