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  1. Re:Cry me a fucking river... on Man Jailed For Refusing To Reveal USB Password · · Score: 4, Informative

    Since it defines what is and isn't criminal it cannot, by definition, be a criminal organization.

    The Constitution defines what is criminal and what is not.

  2. Re:Cry me a fucking river... on Man Jailed For Refusing To Reveal USB Password · · Score: 1

    No shit. Does that make the founding fathers an invalid counter example to GPs assertion that only "libtards" would be upset about this?

    Why are people with terrible reading comprehension are so quick to criticize others reading comprehension?

  3. Re:Cry me a fucking river... on Man Jailed For Refusing To Reveal USB Password · · Score: 1

    Where did I claim that this case took place in the US? Read my post, the parent post, and think a little harder.

  4. Re:Cry me a fucking river... on Man Jailed For Refusing To Reveal USB Password · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Indeed. As the US government operates outside of its constitutional limits, it can only be considered a criminal organization.

  5. Re:Cry me a fucking river... on Man Jailed For Refusing To Reveal USB Password · · Score: 1, Insightful

    We are constitutionally protected against self-incrimination. While you are correct that in America, he'd probably get charged with obstruction of justice, that would just show how far outside its constutional authority the US government operates.

  6. Re:Cry me a fucking river... on Man Jailed For Refusing To Reveal USB Password · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Yeah, those libtard founding fathers and their prohibition against self-incrimination. What a bunch of moonbats.

  7. Re:Too bad on OpenBSD Looking At Funding Shortfall In 2014 · · Score: 2

    Why were you interacting with Theo about routine matters?

  8. Tracking? on Phil Zimmerman Launching Secure "Blackphone" · · Score: 1

    Does this device provide any protection against location tracking?

  9. Re:Don't go to college, it's clearly not for you on Ask Slashdot: How Can I Improve My Memory For Study? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    That is to say, it was found that people who believe math to be a talent perform worst than people who believe it is a skill that can be mastered with effort.

    Suppose math IS a talent. Then those without that talent would have tried and failed to get good at math. They would correctly believe that math is a talent.

    Those who have the talent would have tried and succeeded, and since people tend to believe that their experience is common experience, they would assume that people who are bad at math didn't try. So they would incorrectly believe that math is a skill instead of a talent.

    Your data is consistent with either conclusion.

  10. Re:Don't go to college, it's clearly not for you on Ask Slashdot: How Can I Improve My Memory For Study? · · Score: 1

    What the OP should do is go see the Accommodated Services department (or equivalent) at his/her university and see what accommodations can be made.

    And what happens when a future employer is unwilling to make accomodations for someone who cannot perform?

  11. Re:It's about time! on Man Shot To Death For Texting During Movie · · Score: 1

    When I hear news like these I always wonder what type of idiot thinks that shooting the texter solves anything

    A retired cop. That's the kind of idiot who thinks shooting solves things.

  12. Re:My wife proposes the theory that it ... on Experiment Shows Caffeine Boosts Long Term Memory · · Score: 1

    I'm going to guess it's between 30 and 36 inches away from you, between 15 and 75 degrees from straight ahead. Clockwise or counterclockwise, depending on your handedness.

  13. Re:Slashdot Beta for the blind? Slashdot Beta for on Hubble Images Become Tactile 3D Experience For the Blind · · Score: 1

    I hope they push the beta on everyone, and suffer a huge backlash for it. MobyGames recently got sold and corporate types took over and put a stylish but useless redesign on the database. Outrage ensued, and a few weeks later the site was sold to someone who actually cares about gaming. I'd really like the same thing to happen to /.

  14. Re:This is getting ridiculous on Smart Toothbrush Aims For Better Brushing Habits · · Score: 1

    Starches are actually worse than sugars. They stick. Sugar dissolves away quickly. Long chains of starch tangle together and stick, and are readily metabolized directly into sugar. Yes, the bread on that sandwich, or your morning bagel, or pasta for lunch is worse for your teeth than candy.

  15. Re:Character size? on 4K Is For Programmers · · Score: 2

    Plus, as I said in another post, arranging windows is easier on multiple monitors

    That's a flaw in your window manager. Tiling window managers work well for this.

  16. Re:Why not just multiple monitors. on 4K Is For Programmers · · Score: 4, Informative

    There's a third way. Try a tiling window manager.

  17. Re:It's bad for all OS's on Many Mac OS Users Not Getting Security Updates · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Indeed. We have a microscope that's hooked up to a G4 powermac running 10.2. The company that made the camera doesn't exist anymore, and the most recent software available for it is for XP. The solution? Firewall the microscope computer except for communication with the department file server.

  18. Calibration? on The True Color of Ancient Sea Creatures · · Score: 1

    In order to know what color corresponds to what reading from their instrument, they'd have to take objects of known color, fossilize them, and then scan them. Obviously they haven't done this, so how do they know?

  19. Re:We could not make them on Weapons Systems That Kill According To Algorithms Are Coming. What To Do? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    No. These things *will* be made, by people who make immoral decisions. The people who get to make those sorts of decisions are already mostly terrible people.

  20. Re:how is this news? on The Quiet Fury of Former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates · · Score: 1

    Make Congress a limited term, but enforce retirement after the fact, with all compensation being pegged to the median income.

  21. Re:Really? on The Quiet Fury of Former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates · · Score: 2

    Here's a news flash for Bob Gates: People in Washington, running the gov. are no better/worse than the general populace.

    They are worse for two reasons. First, because the type of power hungry person who wants elected office is worse than someone content to mind his own business. And second, because the actual process of becoming elected selects for those who have no principles.

  22. Re:Is that suitable? on Dallas PD Uses Twitter To Announce Cop Firings · · Score: 1

    Cops who abuse their power deserve public humiliation, and prison.

  23. Re:Reado (Immutable version of a typo) on The $100 3D-Printed Artificial Limb · · Score: 1

    $100 is too expensive for an artificial lamb.

  24. Not your data on Carmakers Keep Data On Drivers' Locations From Navigation Systems · · Score: 1

    Under long standing case law, information about you is not your data. e.g., the list of phone numbers you called are the business records of the phone company. So the police don't need a warrant to get it, they just have to ask the phone company which has no interest in your privacy.

    It's almost certainly going to be the same in this case. The records the car company keeps are their records, including the tracking data. If the cops want to know where you've been, all they have to do is ask the car company nicely.

  25. Re:Took them long enough... on Federal Judge Rules Chicago's Ban On Licensed Gun Dealers Unconstitutional · · Score: 1

    Guns help people to exert the right to defend themselves from crime.

    Most importantly, it helps The People exert the right to defend themselves from a criminal government. We have the right to bear arms in order to allow a well regulated militia to defend a free state. Today we have neither a free state, nor a well regulated militia. If we wish to have a free state again, we will need a well regulated militia.