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  1. Re:The Stupid. It Burns on The Reporter's Fifth Amendment Paradox · · Score: 1

    Defendants enter a plea of guilty or not guilty. Saying nothing is interpretted as "not guilty". There is no paradox.

  2. Re:Witnesses can also be suspects on The Reporter's Fifth Amendment Paradox · · Score: 1

    Bob has to enter a plea of guilty or not guilty. When his plea is not guilty he has told the judge and the world "I didn't do it". If Bob refuses to enter a plea then he will be held in contempt and faces the same problems Alice faces.

  3. What is your plea on The Reporter's Fifth Amendment Paradox · · Score: 1

    and I didn't see why the state shouldn't be able to make you choose between saying "Yes, I committed the murder," or "No, I didn't."

    Every defendent has to enter a plea of guilty or not guilty. They do this at the start of the trial in front of the judge. 5th admendment is about going beyond that.

  4. Re:No shocker there on What Works In Education: Scientific Evidence Gets Ignored · · Score: 1

    I switched schools in elementry school. The school in Ohio was teaching a different handwriting system than the school in Kentucky. I was halfway throough learning D'Nealian when I had throw it all away and learn standard letters in Kentucky. Teacher thought I was an idiot till I showed her my old workbooks.

  5. Re:Not seeing a problem with that. on Indian Government To Ban Use of US Email Services For Official Communications · · Score: 5, Informative

    American politicians use GMail because goverement accounts are archived and the contents are considered public property and not private communication.

  6. Re:why leave the house on Technologies Like Google's Self-Driving Car: Destroying Jobs? · · Score: 1

    You could not live alone. Live with family. Get to know the neighborhood. Watch local sports, eat local food, listen to the local band. VR is getting to the point where people get the sense of actually being in another place.

  7. Re:Hopefully on Technologies Like Google's Self-Driving Car: Destroying Jobs? · · Score: 1

    Those people can play video games. They can go dancing. They can do inefficeint work for fun/sanity. The lack of employement only matters if your a hard core capitalist. If goods and services become free as in air people are not going to suffer.

  8. Re:Yes on Technologies Like Google's Self-Driving Car: Destroying Jobs? · · Score: 1

    With today's technology most Americans don't need to work. We produce enough food to feed everyone. A small percentage of the population can cloth the rest. We have enough buildings to house people for the next 100 years. The lack of jobs only matters if your hung up on people earning their food by working.

  9. why leave the house on Technologies Like Google's Self-Driving Car: Destroying Jobs? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The things these articles miss is that in the future you won't ever need to leave your house. People won't own a car much less a self driving one. You won't need a hyper loop because there will be no traffic on the empty freeways. There will still exist a need to move food, water, and air around. But people can stay home. Not like they have jobs to go to. :)

  10. Re:Zipping around? on Nissan's Crash-Free R&D: 7 Cute Robots Mimicking Bees and Fish · · Score: 1

    Smart car would need to deal with hazards such as cars drivin by humans, dear, ice, pedestrians, emergency vehicles, sudden stops, and blown tires. How the car behaves when radom stuff happens is important. It makes sense to test if a smart car can navigate through a field with randomly moving objects without a collision.

  11. Re:Wouldn't that same logic apply to calling them? on NJ Court: Sending a Text Message To a Driver Could Make You Liable For Crash · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It would apply. If your running a trucking company then you will have procedures for calling your truckers. If those procedures don't involve hands free equipment then the trucking company would be liable. The judge just left wiggle room so a different judge can use common sense.

  12. Ad hominem on Silicon Valley's Loony Cheerleading Culture Is Out of Control · · Score: 1
    The writer spends several paragraphs disparaging people's taste in music, culture, and furnature.

    They are fake: their clothes are fake, the music they listen to is fake, their sneaker brands are fake.

    There is one or two points of truth in the rant. But in general it is designed to make the reader feal superior to other people.

  13. Tuition on Students At Lynn University Get iPad Minis Instead of Textbooks · · Score: 1

    tuition is $32K a year

    For 32K a year they should hand out free motercycles to drive from class to class.

  14. Ebook, Audiobook, Comicbook on Single Developer Responsible For Over 47k Apps In BlackBerry World · · Score: 1

    Doesn't Apple and Android also allow selling books as apps? Then you have all the apps that are little more than portals to websites. All of these are legit. Looking at counts is pretty silly.

  15. Re:No thanks on PS4 Launch Date: November 15th · · Score: 1

    I think the Wii-U launch was like that. They had a day one patch that took a long time to download. So it is possible.

  16. Re:Store Ban on Company Using Proxy To Evade Craigslist Block Violated CFAA · · Score: 1

    since there is no law in place which correctly addresses it. Since the laws were written by the ignorant they have zero applicability.

    Is there a law or not? Make up your mind. The article says he was prosecuted under the "Computer Fraud and Abuse Act." Maybe only "non-morons" understand what laws were written by the "ignorant". .... sarcasm

  17. Re:Given Sony's Track Record on PS4 Launch Date: November 15th · · Score: 1

    Yes I preorded one after E3. I have purchased a playstation, ps3, and a ps3. I got my moneys worth out of all of them. The consoles worked and lasted a long time. Handed down my playstation and ps2 to my younger brother. Plenty of fun and wierd games. I have regretted several PC's that I purchased. I had a couple break just after warrenty went up. Killed a PC trying to install a new graphics card. Have purchased games that ran like crap for PC. I was sort of hoping Valve would announce a date for the Steam Box.

  18. Re:No thanks on PS4 Launch Date: November 15th · · Score: 3, Interesting

    PS4 has dedicated hardware to download updates when its sleeping. XBox One also has this. They also added support to play games while they download. Of course their servers could suck.

  19. Re:1 EUR == 1 USD?!?! on PS4 Launch Date: November 15th · · Score: 2

    You don't get it. In the US sales tax isn't included in the advertised price. VAT is included in the advertised price.
    Europe Base Price = Advertised Price - VAT
    American Base Price = Advertised Price
    The fact that some states have no sales tax is irrelavant because $399 doesn't include sales tax.

  20. Re:In a way on Can There Be Open Source Music? · · Score: 1

    Thats like saying all software is open source as long as you have the binary.

  21. Re:Of course there can. on Can There Be Open Source Music? · · Score: 1

    Open Source = having the documents needed to reproduce the music.
    Composers have not been publishing their sheet music for everyone to see. Instead people reverse engineer the sheet music by listening to recordings.

  22. Re:Store Ban on Company Using Proxy To Evade Craigslist Block Violated CFAA · · Score: 1

    Computer Fraud and Abuse Act is the trespassing charge. Perhaps website trespassing needs to be seperated out into its own thing. Lumping it in with theft of data and corporate sabotage is a bit unfair.

  23. Store Ban on Company Using Proxy To Evade Craigslist Block Violated CFAA · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Being banned from a site is no different from being banned from a physical location. The security is week. You can come up with hypothetical around wearing a mask into the store. Someone comes into a store wearing a mask and is confused for a criminal. But at the end of the day, if a person tells you go away and you don't, judges are not going to be sympathetic.

  24. Re:Dude... on The Death of the American Drive-in · · Score: 1

    What scholars believed and what the public believes were not always the same. It is quite possible for Pythagoras to believe the world is round and 99% of his fellow greeks to believe it was flat.

  25. We should not focus money on better ways to travel long distances. Instead focus on locating work closer to where people live. The guy who has a 15min walk to work doesn't need billion dollar trains. People who live close to their family don't need billion dollar trains. We have cheap housing and utilities all over the country. These billion dollar trains are just a way of stuffing more people into Los Angeles.