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  1. Re:Silly people on Texas Sheriffs Crash $250k Drone They're Not Supposed To Be Flying · · Score: 1

    Not as often as they should be.

    Hopefully the Supreme Court will rule the First Amendment applies to government employees.

  2. Re:Texas Sheriffs crash 250K$ drone on Texas Sheriffs Crash $250k Drone They're Not Supposed To Be Flying · · Score: 1

    Considering this is Texas more likely they were shooting while flying.

  3. Re:My biggest gripe on How the USPS Killed Digital Mail · · Score: 3, Informative

    WRONG.

    USPS does have such a service. It's called click-n-ship.

    https://www.usps.com/business/...

  4. Re:Not Intelligent on Are Habitable Exoplanets Bad News For Humanity? · · Score: 1

    It remains to be seen if language outweighs the negatives of intelligence, i.e. nuclear weapons.

  5. Re:Showing pain, not feeling pain on Male Scent Molecules May Be Compromising Biomedical Research · · Score: 1

    You didn't know my last boss.

  6. Re:But the price? on Bill Gates & Twitter Founders Put "Meatless" Meat To the Test · · Score: 1

    Ask Cliven Bundy.....

  7. Re:But the price? on Bill Gates & Twitter Founders Put "Meatless" Meat To the Test · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Recently I bought a 6 lb package of 88% ground beef at Costco for less than $18.

    $5.27 for 12 oz is double what I'm paying for beef.

    I'm all in favor of reducing meat consumption but not at the price of doubling my food budget.

  8. Re:When we let central government metastasize... on DOJ Complains About Getting a Warrant To Search Mobile Phones · · Score: 1

    Nah. That already happened when the previous administration argued the Great Writ was not a right.

    Time to realize this trend has nothing to do with the person in power.

  9. Not Intelligent on Are Habitable Exoplanets Bad News For Humanity? · · Score: 2

    The idea that Homo Sapiens is a form of intelligent life is ludicrous.

    The proof that the Universe is inhabited by intelligent life is that it has not contacted us.

    --Calvin

  10. Re:Scalia Never Met An Unreasonable Search on Supreme Court OKs Stop and Search Based On Anonymous 911 Tips · · Score: 1

    That's preposterous. Scalia wrote the decision in Kyllo v. United States where use of thermal imaging was declared in violation of the 4th Amendment.

    He also dissented in another 4th Amendment case, County of Riverside v. McLaughlin where the majority decision weakened protections.

    No if I was going to inflict lunch choking on someone it would be Clarence Thomas.

  11. Empirical on Supreme Court OKs Stop and Search Based On Anonymous 911 Tips · · Score: 1

    The empirical evidence in this case is that the tip was indeed reliable.

    In some state odor of marijuana is in itself enough to justify a search.

  12. Makes me think of herding cats. on The Limits of Big Data For Social Engineering · · Score: 1

    I don't think people are that simple, static or homogeneous.

    It will be like squeezing down on a watermelon seed. The harder you squeeze the higher the escape velocity.

    I mean holy unintended consequences.

  13. Re:Lanted Ale.. on Why Portland Should Have Kept Its Water, Urine and All · · Score: 1

    Yeah, and half of the population died before age 5.

    But that was safe because everything was organic and there were no vaccines.

  14. Re:Reflexive hatred of carbon on Biofuels From Corn Can Create More Greenhouse Gases Than Gasoline · · Score: 1

    The problem is that It isn't a closed carbon cycle. There are a lot of inputs into the process that release carbon. For example what do you think the basic ingredients for fertilizer are?

  15. Re:NSA is so annoyed right now on Heartbleed Used To Bypass 2-Factor Authentication, Hijack User Sessions · · Score: 1

    Lots of people keep server logs around for a long time. Now that the requests that cough up private keys have been identified I would think that hack attempts would have been identified by now, just like the ones that are the subject of this story.

    They haven't been.

  16. Re:Maybe anti-gun measures are good? on L.A. Science Teacher Suspended Over Student Science Fair Projects · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Gun safety is something every parent owes their children. Along with power tools, basic electrical wiring, plumbing, plant a grape vine, how to build a computer, tune an engine, build a computer and compile a Linux kernel.

  17. High School on L.A. Science Teacher Suspended Over Student Science Fair Projects · · Score: 1

    Fire the administrators immediately and vote the school board out of office.

  18. Re:Still need pipes on Obama Delays Decision On Keystone Pipeline Yet Again · · Score: 1

    Hundreds of billions sounds like a gross overestimate. Most estimates of US proven reserves are around 30B barrels.

  19. Yeah I went through that. on Ask Slashdot: Hungry Students, How Common? · · Score: 1

    It's part of the Tao of graduate school.

    I cheated by marrying while I was a grad student. While my wife didn't have that great of a job we had food. After I finished my PhD I supported her graduate studies, an MLIS.

  20. Re:Call me a rock wielding barbarian on Google's New Camera App Simulates Shallow Depth of Field · · Score: 1

    The human eye has it's own depth of field characteristics plus a much greater dynamic range and resolution than any large flat screen.

    So your large screen is going to fall short of that illusion.

  21. Re:NSA is so annoyed right now on Heartbleed Used To Bypass 2-Factor Authentication, Hijack User Sessions · · Score: 1

    I don't thing NSA knew about it. Somebody would have caught the unusual requests.

  22. Re:Why do these people always have something to hi on VA Supreme Court: Michael Mann Needn't Turn Over All His Email · · Score: 1

    Not so. For example here is the privacy statement from a well-known university:

    Privacy of Information
    Information stored on a computer system or sent electronically over a network is the property of the individual who created it. Examination, collection, or dissemination of that information without authorization from the owner is a violation of the ownerâ(TM)s rights to control his or her own property. Systems administrators, however, may gain access to usersâ(TM) data or programs when it is necessary to maintain or prevent damage to systems or to ensure compliance with other University rules.

  23. Re:All publicly funded research needs public relea on VA Supreme Court: Michael Mann Needn't Turn Over All His Email · · Score: 0

    Universities usually operate under some concept of academic freedom. Total access by the public to every part of your existence is clearly incompatible with this.

  24. Re:All publicly funded research needs public relea on VA Supreme Court: Michael Mann Needn't Turn Over All His Email · · Score: 0

    OK with which part? Trying to repress work of scientists for political ends or trying to preserve their work for future study?

    One is the despicable work of slimeballs trying to supress scientific inquiry or just simply punish people who have ideas they don't like, and the other is the work of archivists and libraries.

    Clearly we have the former going right now. Fortunately the courts came to the right conclusion.

  25. Re:Airbus A320 on Ask Slashdot: What Tech Products Were Built To Last? · · Score: 1

    Lots of DC-3's still in use.

    Next year the Gooney Bird will turn 80.