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  1. Re:Current use != Original intent w/proof on Federal Bill Could Override State-Level Encryption Bans (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    It is not a problem with encrypted data. It is a good analogy with a safe or a diary written in some given code..

    The police can get a warrant for the contents of your safe, but they can't force you to open it. They can hire a safe-cracker, but if they can't find one that can break in to your safe, you still don't have to give up the combination and the cops are out of luck.

    Encrypted data is the same. They can't force you to give them the passphrase but they can hire someone to try and crack it. If no one can, the cops are out of luck.

    What if I had a paper diary and I wrote it in my own language(encryption)? The cops can get a warrant for it and hire analysts to try to decipher my language and if no one can, the cops are out of luck. They can't compel me to translate it to English.

    I don't see how you have a problem with any of this.

  2. Re:State doing the CYA thing on State Dept. Releases 5,500 Hillary Clinton Emails, 275 Retroactively Classified (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Not if it wasn't classified at the time.

  3. Apparently, Windows phone having few useful apps is a plus.

    That way, the battery lasts longer and since nothing needs to load, load times are amazing!

    I miss my blackberry. I hate virtual keyboards.

  4. Re:Both of them will be pissed on Microsoft Fails Windows Phone Fans Again By Delaying Windows 10 Mobile (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    I went with Virgin.

    Bought the Phone outright on sale so no contract.

    $35 a month for unlimited calls, text 2.5 GB 4G data and after that throttles down to 3G.

    Impossible to get overage charges.

    The downside is the network. I don't travel much but if a person does Virgin would be awful as its coverage is really bad outside metro areas.

  5. Re:Why is this a problem? on Montana Newspaper Plans To Out Anonymous Commenters Retroactively (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    How would anyone think that signing up to comment on a website with a fake name is illegal? It is not like they were trying to sign up for a credit card or something that could trigger fraud.

    If they used their real name, well they needed the lesson.

  6. Re:Coren22's "APKolypse"... apk on Neil deGrasse Tyson Touches Off Debate With Remarks On Commercial Space (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Does anyone believe that this is not APK shilling for his fucktarded self?

  7. Re:More than just money on Neil deGrasse Tyson Touches Off Debate With Remarks On Commercial Space (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Put an amusement park on the moon, and don't forget the hookers and blackjack.

  8. Re:Cost of access is key. on Neil deGrasse Tyson Touches Off Debate With Remarks On Commercial Space (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    When you put it that way, down with oppressive regulations!

  9. Re:Cost of access is key. on Neil deGrasse Tyson Touches Off Debate With Remarks On Commercial Space (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Are you proposing that just anyone should be allowed to build and launch a rocket with no oversight?

  10. Re:More than just money on Neil deGrasse Tyson Touches Off Debate With Remarks On Commercial Space (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    He was commenting on the commercialization of space travel.

    By definition, that is a profit-seeking proposition and there is no profit to be had now and probably 100 years from now.

    That is why NASA is doing the exploring in the past and now.

  11. Re:Bringing a hoax bomb to school is illegal ... on "Clock Boy" Ahmed Mohamed Seeking $15 Million In Damages · · Score: 1

    You are having difficulty understanding that there is no evidence that he was trying to trick people into thinking it was a bomb.

    Where is your proof?

    Anyone who thinks that a clock in a empty case is a bomb has no business being an educator.

  12. Re:Bringing a hoax bomb to school is illegal ... on "Clock Boy" Ahmed Mohamed Seeking $15 Million In Damages · · Score: 1

    Not when they are not attached to explosives.

  13. Re:Bullshit. on "Clock Boy" Ahmed Mohamed Seeking $15 Million In Damages · · Score: 1

    Of course it is a toy.

    Are you saying that HS and University digital labs are full of dangerous objects?

    If there was explosive attached to it you would have a point, but it was a power source and a small amount of electronics and nothing else.

  14. Re:Litigious Much on "Clock Boy" Ahmed Mohamed Seeking $15 Million In Damages · · Score: 1

    That coffee was served at least 50 degrees hotter than it should have been.

    That is not a good example of a frivolous lawsuit, because it was anything but frivolous.

    As for this kid, I agree it is excessive but the school and cops need to be smacked down hard over their stupidity. Maybe it will force the teacher and cops into getting fired which is what should have happened the day of the incident.

  15. "Freetards" wouldn't use Steam.

    Linux is a fully capable desktop OS and has been for a quite a while.

  16. Re:Plausible speculation ... Dyslexia at work? on Apple Bans iFixit Repair App From App Store After Apple TV Teardown · · Score: 1

    Those terms are not a valid contract and not legally binding on anyone.

  17. Re:Once again, the only thing worse than eclipse.. on JetBrains Reconsiders Subscription Licensing Changes · · Score: 1

    CE is gimped.

  18. Re:Terrorists everywhere on Obama Invites Texas Teen To White House After "Bomb" Clock Incident At School · · Score: 1

    Anyone stupid enough to question this kid over this pretty much deserves to be sued into poverty and never again be allowed in a position of power or education.

  19. Does it matter? on Survey: More Women Are Going Into Programming · · Score: 1

    All this hemming and hawing and yet no one has asked why it is important to force, yes force, women into programming.

    What do they offer that is unique?

  20. Re:Why are people going to jail for this? on New Video Shows Shot Down Drone Hovered For Only 22 Seconds · · Score: 1

    Shooting a drone that was operating legally, in a residential area, is common sense to you?

  21. Re:Why are people going to jail for this? on New Video Shows Shot Down Drone Hovered For Only 22 Seconds · · Score: 1

    Watch Alaska State Troppers sometime.

    They get calls from people 30 miles outside Fairbanks over gunshots.

  22. Re:Good on Newegg Beats Patent Troll Over SSL and RC4 Encryption · · Score: 1

    This also has the effect of making pure IP companies a high-risk business.

    It should be illegal.

  23. Re:Is it really bad to reduce aggressive treatment on Giving Doctors Grades Has Backfired · · Score: 1

    I agree that in some cases it is cruel to provide treatment beyond pain management.

    Where do we draw the line between little to no hope and a "fair chance"?

    I am curious to see how many people who would support not treating hopeless cases, especially for monetary reasons, also support doctor-assisted suicide laws like Oregon has.

  24. Re:Still A Good Idea on Giving Doctors Grades Has Backfired · · Score: 1

    One surgeon sees mostly patients with near guaranteed death like aortic dissection and another only performs appendectomies and tonsil removal.

    Is there any reasonable metric to say one is better than the other or even a reason to do so?

  25. Re: No Foul play... on Grooveshark Co-founder Josh Greenberg Dead At 28 · · Score: 1

    Or are you talking about artists who sign an ill-considered contract because they've chosen poorly in their selection of business partners, and couldn't be bothered to get some expert help to look over the contract? You're not being "ripped off" when you choose to enter into an agreement.

    Are you claiming that the record labels who offer these bad contracts are innocent?