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  1. Re:certainly I expect the blowback on FBI Seeks To Legally Hack You If You're Connected To TOR Or a VPN · · Score: 1

    No, this changes a regulation. Contrary to popular belief, POTUS cannot change the law.

  2. Re:Bad idea on FBI Seeks To Legally Hack You If You're Connected To TOR Or a VPN · · Score: 1

    Summary said TOR or VPN not TOR VPN. Companies use encrypted VPN for all manner of reasons, some of which include compliance with data security laws or is it now acceptable for a corporation to pass your CC across the internet in plaintext?

  3. Re:Bad idea on FBI Seeks To Legally Hack You If You're Connected To TOR Or a VPN · · Score: 1

    Way to completely miss the point. Glad AC could help you find it.

  4. Re:Linux support? on Sid Meier's New Game Is About Starships · · Score: 0

    Because they are selling it to make money and you Linux guys are all about the free?

  5. Re:What's wrong with Europe nowdays? on Spanish Judge Cites Use of Secure Email As a Potential Terrorist Indicator · · Score: 1

    Well, we just followed the lead of the British and French politicians and remained out of it until we were directly attacked. I wasn't alive back then but I've never once read about the Brits and French jumping in to protect the Poles and Dutch.

  6. Re: What's wrong with Europe nowdays? on Spanish Judge Cites Use of Secure Email As a Potential Terrorist Indicator · · Score: 1

    Wow, just wow.

  7. Re: What's wrong with Europe nowdays? on Spanish Judge Cites Use of Secure Email As a Potential Terrorist Indicator · · Score: 1

    And russia did all that absolutely no help from the US, right? Please read history again and don't skip all the good parts this time.

  8. Re:What's wrong with Europe nowdays? on Spanish Judge Cites Use of Secure Email As a Potential Terrorist Indicator · · Score: 1

    Of course you are... You laugh at how we prize our freedoms and rights as you happily forget you even have any.

  9. Re:What's wrong with Europe nowdays? on Spanish Judge Cites Use of Secure Email As a Potential Terrorist Indicator · · Score: 1

    Europe is doing what Europe has always done. They believe that rights are something granted by the king so they can be revoked whenever the king wants them revoked. In modern Europe they replace "king" with "government" but the principle remains the same. Only libtards in the US have been unable to recognize that this was the case.

  10. Re:Anthropocene Epoch. on The Anthropocene Epoch Began With 1945 Atomic Bomb Test, Scientists Say · · Score: 0

    but that was the Native Americans, an indigenous population, so that is a good thing because they were so in touch with nature that every descendent they have 'til the end of time will also be totally in touch with nature and they could never harm it.

  11. Re:For the sake of discussion... on Eric Holder Severely Limits Civil Forfeiture · · Score: 1

    Car was found to have 3 pounds of illegal drugs so the proper conclusion of the criminal case should be a conviction of a felony. Returning any kind of firearm would mean giving a firearm to a person not legally allowed to own or possess one so, no, let's not give it back. The money, keep it as it was definitely involved in an illegal activity. Same for the car. How would it not be automatically proved to have been use in a crime if the illegal drugs were found in it. Why did you go so far out of your way to appear neutral?

  12. Re:This was done so Republicans can criticize it.. on Eric Holder Severely Limits Civil Forfeiture · · Score: 1

    and obamacare. A failure to purchase insurance might lead to you not showing up to work which might cause your company to produce and sell less across state lines. We have basically stretched "regulating interstate commerce" to the point that the feds can require anyone to purchase anything on the grounds that not doing so could possibly negatively affect interstate commerce. And Obama is working feverishly to protect our rights.

  13. Re:Waiting for Republicans to come in and defend t on Eric Holder Severely Limits Civil Forfeiture · · Score: 1

    And probably a quarter of them were shot by black officers. Kind of like how black officers were involved in the strangulation death in NYC but it was all just a racial thing

  14. Re:Waiting for Republicans to come in and defend t on Eric Holder Severely Limits Civil Forfeiture · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I was shocked to see Conyers on the list as well.

  15. Re:Waiting for Republicans to come in and defend t on Eric Holder Severely Limits Civil Forfeiture · · Score: 1

    Yup, cause all those southern governors that had a "D" behind their name were what party? And the highly revered old dude that had been deeply involved in the KKK had to change his name to Byrd and always had "D" behind his name because he was a member of which party?

  16. Re:Waiting for Republicans to come in and defend t on Eric Holder Severely Limits Civil Forfeiture · · Score: 1

    No, romneycare proved it couldn't work and the guy who mainly wrote it and also mainly wrote obamacare has admitted that the only way romneycare could work was to fleece the feds. So obamacare will work by fleecing the next higher level of government which is...?

  17. Re:Waiting for Republicans to come in and defend t on Eric Holder Severely Limits Civil Forfeiture · · Score: 1

    Now, now. Just because they actually said that doesn't mean they really meant it.

  18. Re:Given the administration's assaults on civil ri on Eric Holder Severely Limits Civil Forfeiture · · Score: 1

    continue and expand

  19. Re:Waiting for Republicans to come in and defend t on Eric Holder Severely Limits Civil Forfeiture · · Score: 1

    Actually, the only thing Eric Holder did was to say that local jurisdictions will no longer turn seized assets over to the federal government and then the federal government will give a portion of the value back to local jurisdictions.

    What will now happen is that local jurisdictions will keep the seized assets all to themselves and will be expected to dispose (auction or sell) the assets themselves.

    The reasoning: All the states now have their own forfeiture laws so states don't need the feds to help out. What exactly will change? Probably not much, but hey, it sure sounds good 'cause Obama can pretend to be doing something. Not quite as bad as how Obama has done everything in his power to slow down the pace of oil drilling (production has fallen on federal land) and then try to claim responsibility for the increase in US production because he was not able to slow down production on state and private lands.

  20. Re:Interesting to note... on NASA, NOAA: 2014 Was the Warmest Year In the Modern Record · · Score: 1

    But you are using weather (local temps) to claim climate change. How about telling us exactly how the average temp is calculated? Average temp in a single US state is a pretty iffy value so how does expanding to a larger area make it a more concrete number?

  21. Re:Do you really buy your own BS? on NASA, NOAA: 2014 Was the Warmest Year In the Modern Record · · Score: 1

    And all this shows is that we can very carefully pick any point we want when we decide that the starting point is arbitrary as long as it fits my personal picture. Why not just pick 10 or so thousand years ago and show how the temp is up over 10 degrees already?

    We have very clear geographical and historical evidence that the earth has been colder and warmer. Exactly what proof do we have that we have chosen the correct starting point and exactly why do we expect any part of the environment to remain in stasis?

  22. Re: So they are doing what? on Anonymous Declares War Over Charlie Hebdo Attack · · Score: 1

    but the first amendment pretty much implies that any window is too large.

  23. Re:Secret Ballot? on How Bitcoin Could Be Key To Online Voting · · Score: 1

    But having little punch holes that allow elected officials to "divine" what you really intended when you punched out 3 of the 5 holes when the instructions say to only punch 1 is totally auditable. How could anyone claim otherwise when we all watched them doing just that on live TV?

  24. Re:Secret Ballot? on How Bitcoin Could Be Key To Online Voting · · Score: 1

    That is also the case in most US jurisdictions as well but /.ers tend to ignore the laws that have been written because they read somewhere on the internet that somebody might have not followed the law so that is total proof that the law is so ineffective it may as well not exist and we need another, stronger law to supplement that weak one, usually at the expense of one or more freedoms.

  25. Re:Secret Ballot? on How Bitcoin Could Be Key To Online Voting · · Score: 2

    And any employer willing to violate the law in that manner in the future will find no problem doing so today so nothing will have changed. Why don't we all take a step back and admit that the evil employer is a very small (microscopic amounts) segment of the employer population.

    To hear (or read) most of /., one would think that 99.99% of the US population is starving to death and working 22 hours a day as a slave and the other 2 hours are spent getting whipped to death.