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  1. Publishing the text of a bill is a no brainer.
    Making meeting be able to be recorded by the public will result in VERY few official meetings. The real meetings will be done behind closed doors, possibly with some of the committee members left out. Then an official meeting to rubber stamp the result.
    Frank, open discussion is rarely done in public. This will drive negotiations into the dark.

  2. Re:Great Idea-works well at the Village level on Why a Theoretical Physicist Wants All State Bills To Be Online Before Final Vote (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    sadly, too few have your understanding of how the world works. and world government can't work like a village, they haven't for 4000 yrs.

  3. "you asked for it, you got it"
    remarkably stupid. and will never result in what the author desires

  4. At some point it comes down to a BUSINESS negotiation. Business negotiations are private. The non-public entity involved demands it. Negotiations are private! even for a pubic contract. Bribes are illegal. With the scrutiny in the US do you think any major company would? Get real!

  5. Re:MIKE PENCE IN PLANE CRASH on Apple's New MacBook Pro Requires a $25 Dongle To Charge Your iOS Device (networkworld.com) · · Score: 0

    LOFLMASO

  6. nope. not how stingray works.

  7. Not really. The stingray, using law enforcement protocol, takes over for the cell.
    Turning on a stingray requires active cooperation with the cell provider. So, there is no back door there.

  8. Just because it's possible, doesn't mean it can be done.
    This attack breaks multiple laws, and regulations.
    As noted in another post. The equipment to do this is expensive.
    It's not a targeted attack. There's no way to pin an individual, they might just get lucky and get through on the real cell.

    Just alarmist ranting, for now.

  9. Re:This is mostly a Red Herring on Feds Walk Into a Building, Demand Everyone's Fingerprints To Open Phones (dailyherald.com) · · Score: 1

    you're right, but in this case, it's my opinion the local cops are a bunch of stooges. they have no clue. the local prosecutor, same.
    It doesn't help when the reason local law enforcement can't deal with it because they're stupid.

    caveat. I know a lot of talented people in the law enforcement side, whom I respect immensely. this is a bad apple problem.

  10. 4th and 5th . just say no

  11. Re:sorry my phone is off on Feds Walk Into a Building, Demand Everyone's Fingerprints To Open Phones (dailyherald.com) · · Score: 1

    correct.

  12. Flight risk on Prosecutors Say NSA Contractor Could Flee To Foreign Power (go.com) · · Score: 1

    One of the conditions of bail being granted is risk of flight.
    Given the example of Snowden, the risk of flight is incredible. No amount of bail could keep him in this country.

  13. Asimoz first wrote about in Foundation close to 50 years ago. Perhaps some should read it. it's still applicable.

  14. Obama chose his vice President carefully.
    He didn't want Biden to be the next President.
    He gave a man he liked a HUGE boost to the end of his career.

    and your right. Trump is only in it to suck us dry!

  15. Re:Turnabout is Fair Play. on Oculus Founder Palmer Luckey Is Secretly Funding Trump's Meme Machine (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 1

    First Amendment rights were recently overruled by the body of the Constitution. By the Supreme Court.
    Trying to sell 3d printer gun parts fails the body of the Constitution. Common Defense.
    The Constitution is a living document, but the body supersedes all. Consider that when the Supreme Court rules based on it.

  16. Typical Republican tatic: LIE on Oculus Founder Palmer Luckey Is Secretly Funding Trump's Meme Machine (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    If they don't have any REAL evidence: LIE
    It's been the Republican MO since Reagan. The man was a lying sack of shit, and some think he's a saint.
    Reagan had the CIA be the middle man for Colombian drug lords to fund insurgents in Iran. All the while claiming there's a war on drugs.
    There's an adage in psychology, if you tell a lie enough times you believe it's true. Nazi Germany is a perfect example.

    as someone else noted. Trump looks a lot like Hitler.

  17. been there and done. Trump is SO stupid. This issue is dead.

  18. The reason the conservatives don't want this is it loses their chance to censor!
    Western companies will run the internet. Google, Apple, Microsoft, dare I say PornHub.
    They only thrive in an open internet, especially the last. And the last is EXACTLY why Cruz is fighting it. He is lying if he says otherwise.
    The corporate states will fight each other, but keeping it open will keep them from being locked out.

  19. WRONG! Meg Whitman is not CEO of HP on Laurene Jobs Awards $10M To Pet Charter School Network of Zuckerberg, Gates · · Score: 1

    Meg Whitman got fired years ago!
    I agree with the other comments, charter schools are parasites.
    Alternatives in education need to be part of the system, not an alternative.
    Of course that means actually funding schools properly.
    that seems to be a real problem for some people. I don't have kids, and I have no problem paying the slightly outrageous school taxes. does help property value.

  20. CATS! on How Cities Are Using Dry Ice To Kill Rats (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    Cats kill rats!
    they are not vermin, they control them.

  21. Re:Hello Wine on New Intel and AMD Chips Will Only Support Windows 10 (pcworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Been there, done that.
    You are SO right.

  22. Re:Happy Birthday! on Linus on Linux's 25th Birthday (zdnet.com) · · Score: 0

    I couldn't copyright. prior art.
    it's not my fault

    google it. there are 20 or so verses

  23. Re:Copyright on Linus on Linux's 25th Birthday (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    See my slightly prior post of the birthday dirge.
    and I believe the copyright status of "Happy Birthday" was deemed invalid, due to prior art. free to use and abuse.

    doesn't it just suck when the old song you acquired rights to happens to be documentably older than the copyright date you have.

  24. Happy Birthday! on Linus on Linux's 25th Birthday (zdnet.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    (sung in a monotone dirge)
    Happy Birthday
    Happy Birthday
    Now you've reached the age you are
    your demise can not be far
    Happy Birthday
    Happy Birthday
    Doom and Gloom and dark despair
    Death and dying everywhere
    Happy Birthday
    Happy Birthday
    cities burning in your wake
    burn like candles on your cake
    Happy Birthday
    Happy Birthday
    ...

  25. Why do activiest want to destroy what helps them? on Group Wants To Shut Down Tor For a Day On September 1 (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    Why?
    I meant it. they're cutting off their hand because someone else bound the other.