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  1. Common Carrier on An Algorithm To Facilitate Uber-Style Dynamic Phone Tariffs (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    Any network implementing this can say goodbye to Common Carrier status and would likely lose all Universal Service Funds.

  2. www.homedepot.com/p/Phifer-96-in-x-100-ft-Black-Pet-Screen-3004131/204187914

    Lets light in and keeps the bugs out
    96" x 100 ft

  3. Constitution Party of South Carolina on Anonymous Begins Publishing Ku Klux Klan Member Details Online · · Score: 1

    One of the emails in the dump is the same as the registered contact for the Constitution Party of South Carolina...

  4. Re:Pre-emption on California Bill Would Dramatically Limit Commercial Drones · · Score: 1

    There is a difference and that is the law states that the FAA is the exclusive authority. The same is not true for medical issues, a lot of federal authority has been delegated to the states.

    When state law and federal law conflict, federal law displaces, or preempts, state law, due to the Supremacy Clause of the Constitution. U.S. Const. art. VI., Â 2. Preemption applies regardless of whether the conflicting laws come from legislatures, courts, administrative agencies, or constitutions.

    For example, the Voting Rights Act, an act of Congress, preempts state constitutions, and FDA regulations may preempt state court judgments in cases involving prescription drugs.

    Congress has preempted state regulation in many areas. In some cases, such as medical devices, Congress preempted all state regulation. In others, such as labels on prescription drugs, Congress allowed federal regulatory agencies to set national minimum standards, but did not preempt state regulations imposing more stringent standards than those imposed by federal regulators. Where rules or regulations do not clearly state whether or not preemption should apply, the Supreme Court tries to follow lawmakersâ(TM) intent, and prefers interpretations that avoid preempting state laws.

  5. Pre-emption on California Bill Would Dramatically Limit Commercial Drones · · Score: 2

    The FAA should simply preempt California's unauthorized attempt, as they have the exclusive control of the air space of the United States from ground level to space; and are the only agency to establish the policies for its use.

  6. Total Information Awareness on US No-Fly List Uses 'Predictive Judgement' Instead of Hard Evidence · · Score: 3, Interesting

    It's John Poindexter's Total Information Awareness. Even though it was blocked by congress it was quietly renamed. The entire Air Screening program is unconstitutional, but the judges just don't have the balls to rule that way in court.

    Total Information Awareness (TIA) was a program of the US Information Awareness Office. It was operated from February until May 2003, before being renamed as the Terrorism Information Awareness Program.[4][5]

    Based on the concept of predictive policing, TIA aimed to gather detailed information about individuals in order to anticipate and prevent crimes before they are committed.[6] As part of efforts to win the War on Terror, the program searched for all sorts of personal information in the hunt for terrorists around the globe.[7] According to Senator Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), TIA was the "biggest surveillance program in the history of the United States".[8]

    The program was suspended in late 2003 by the United States Congress after media reports criticized the government for attempting to establish "Total Information Awareness" over all citizens.[9][10][11]

    Although the program was formally suspended, its data mining software was later adopted by other government agencies, with only superficial changes being made. According to a 2012 New York Times article, the legacy of Total Information Awareness is "quietly thriving" at the National Security Agency (NSA).[12]

  7. Cellphones responsible not Apple watch. on Fossil CEO: Wearables Smothering Swiss Watch Business · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Sorry I don't buy it. I think the fact that everyone carries cellphones and every cellphone displays the time on the face is what is behind his watch slump. I haven't worn a watch in years and it has nothing to do with apple's product.

  8. Re:Hovered over property for only 22 seconds .. on New Video Shows Shot Down Drone Hovered For Only 22 Seconds · · Score: 2

    You do not have the rights to air above your max usage of the property a court case decided by the supreme court stated a farmer could control the air above his property to 83' Which was the height of his barn. He had no rights above that point. This mans house was no more than 20-30' high. the drone crossed the property at arund 250' and got higher as it crossed the property in question.

    The man who shot it down is guilty of a felony, and should be charged as such.

  9. Re:Yeah 22 seconds? on New Video Shows Shot Down Drone Hovered For Only 22 Seconds · · Score: 1

    Try this scenario. Daughter, "Dad there's a drone coming this way, I can see it a few houses down."

    Dad grabs shotgun, "If that thing come on my property I am shooting it down."

    Runs outside and shoots it almost as soon as it comes over property. The drone did not stop over this mans property as shown in the data recording. It crossed his property in 3 seconds. It did stop for about 20 seconds over his neighbor's property.

    The legally right to control your property stops at your highest usage of the property. So Lets say his house was 20-30 feet high. That's the extent of his control. The drone crossed his property at nearly 300' above the ground. Well outside of his area of control. He's guilty and should be charged to the fullest extent of the law.

  10. Re:Hardly devastating, but a waste of several hour on Lessons From Your Toughest Software Bugs · · Score: 1

    Been there done that!

  11. Serviio on Ask Slashdot: Best Wireless PC-to-TV Solution? · · Score: 1

    I use Serviio (Free/25$) and while it's not perfect it's pretty damn good.

  12. taking out drones on California Legislation May Allow First Responders To Take Out Drones · · Score: 1

    You mean fire shots into the air which they can't be certain where they will land...

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  13. Amazon Instant Video on Class Action Filed Against Sling Media · · Score: 3, Informative

    Amazon tried doing that to me with prime instant video on my Kindle, until I pointed out that I paid good money for the option of not having advertising on my Kindle, and that in my opinion that included while watching prime instant video. They quickly modified my account so I no longer see those ads.

  14. Re:Sad on "We Screwed Up," Says Reddit CEO In Formal Apology · · Score: 1

    But the point is volunteer moderators can easily be replaced.

    While I don't run a site the size of reddit, I do have 18,000 members, 250k unique visitors per month, 100+ volunteer moderators, and 7.5 million page views a month. I know what I am talking about.

    I don't have any of the problems reddit does, because I wouldn't put up with them.

  15. Reddit should on "We Screwed Up," Says Reddit CEO In Formal Apology · · Score: 0

    1. Establish their ownship of all reddits.
    2. Remove the ability to have private reddits.
    3. Establish a code of conduct for reddits, moderators, and members.
    4. They should enforce said code of conduct.

    Their members think they have reddit by the short hairs, but they don't. Reddit is the source of their traffic and reddit can take it away from them at any time. Yes some members may go elsewhere but they will be back.

  16. Re:Typical Slashdot... on Rumblefish Claims It Owns 'America the Beautiful' By United States Navy Band · · Score: 4, Informative

    Except for the fact that all works by U.S. Government employees in the line of duty are by default public domain, and not eligible for any copyright protection at all.

    So I seriously doubt that the US Navy has an agreements with Rumblefish or any other organizations to collect royalties for their performance. It wouldn't be legal if they did.

  17. Hold them liable on Rumblefish Claims It Owns 'America the Beautiful' By United States Navy Band · · Score: 3, Informative

    Reuters claimed to own Nasa's video of the 1969 Moon Landings

    CD Baby claimed ownership of music by an artist sang by the artist and used with their permission.

    I have frequent claims on classical music especially military marches that are clearly out of copyright and are live performances.

    The organization should lose all rights to claim copyright via youtube's content id after one false claim of copyright.

    Youtube should also be liable for allowing blatantly false claims once they have received notification of the copyright status of public domain works.

  18. Utilization on North America Runs Out of IPv4 Addresses · · Score: 1

    I would suggest that a better first step would be to require that organizations prove that their allocations are in reasonable use. That the use is justifiable in light of the availability technologies like NAT and named based virtual hosting.

  19. FAA Mimimum Safe Altitude on Why We Need Certain Consumer Drone Regulations · · Score: 1

    The FAA Mimimum Safe Altitude is 1000' so we limit consumer drones to 500'. This solves 90% of the problems. We prohibit use of any drones within 3 miles of controlled airspace at airports.

    At wildfires simplly allow police and firefighters involved aircraft operations only, to use highpower frequency jammers when the aircraft are within 3 miles of their position. Then you require any drones that lose control signals to automatically land safely.

    If their drone was over the fire and they lose it then that is the operators fault.

    When the air operations are complete the jammer is turned off and the drone operator can recover their drone by simply taking off.

    Have federal penalties that would apply for the improper use of these jammers at any non-aircraft involved operations.

  20. Google Translate on Swedish Investigators Attempt Assange Interview; Wikileaks Makes Major Release · · Score: 2

    It works just fine on the docs. Copy and paste the text from most of them and happy reading!

  21. It's simple. on Ask Slashdot: Dealing With Service Providers When You're an IT Pro? · · Score: 1

    When you call walk them through the process, list every thing you have tried and the results, When you get through ask them to escalate it.

    As a 20 year IT Pro, I have on occasion found that I too have missed something simple that fixed the problem during this process. But normally I don't miss anything.

    It also doesn't hurt that I have the direct phone number of the head network engineer for my ISP.

  22. Proof on Report: Russia and China Crack Encrypted Snowden Files · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I will withhold my judgement on this until they release verifiable proof. It seems like their even disclosing the fact they know if the Russians and Chinese had access would be considered a state secret.

  23. The engineer's answer on The Brainteaser Elon Musk Asks New SpaceX Engineers · · Score: 1

    Standing on a Virtuix Omni. :P http://www.virtuix.com/ (No I don't work for them in any capacity.)

  24. No expectation of Privacy say what? on Police Can Obtain Cellphone Location Records Without a Warrant · · Score: 1

    http://wiki.radioreference.com...

    I very well do have a legal expectation of privacy. cell blocked (or cellular blocked) is a phrase applied to scanners and wideband receivers manufactured for sale in the US which denotes that they comply with the provisions of PL 102-556, which amended Section 302 of the Communications Act (47USC302) to prohibit manufacture, importation, or certification of scanners which could receive the frequency band allocated for analog AMPS cellular telephony, "the frequencies allocated to the domestic cellular radio telecommunications service":

            824-849MHz
            869-894MHz

  25. Re:too bad all these sites are run by morons on Facebook Wants to Skip the Off-Site Links, Host News Content Directly · · Score: 1

    I would be happy if twitter simply did not count links and hashtags against the submission text character limit.