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  1. Re:Since when on US Senators: NSA Lies In Fact Sheets · · Score: 2

    Constitutional law is about arguing the constitution in court. -what arguments tend to succeed, what arguments tend not to. Unless the judge is receptive, it has nothing to do with normative truth.

  2. Lee's summit: Population 92,000 on Google Fiber Adds 14th City: Lee's Summit · · Score: 2

    Not much of a city.

  3. Re:Run coward run!!!!! on Edward Snowden Leaves Hong Kong · · Score: 1

    Its not unconstitutional until the supreme court says so. You don't define unconstitutional. Thats the way we run our government. If you disagree, get voters to change it, but you don't get to redefine the words any more than the government does.

    Considering that the supreme court is part of the government, your distinctions mean little.

  4. Re: **WHO** is the real traitor ? on US Hacked Chinese University Network · · Score: 2

    is by definition traitorous

    That's a rather dangerous political perspective.

    Most political relevant definitions are not cast in stone.

  5. Re:Looks like Moscow ain't the final destination on US Hacked Chinese University Network · · Score: 1

    So much for informational security.

  6. Re:Going to Russia for safety from the US. on Edward Snowden Leaves Hong Kong · · Score: 1

    Both perspectives? How naive. There are very often more than two perspectives, and you can't assume that a dialectic between the Western media and RT will get you any closer to the most interesting one.

  7. Re:Why is it a sealed criminal complaint? on US Charges Edward Snowden With Espionage · · Score: 3, Insightful

    no, the judges aren't secret. The courtroom is one of those faraday cages, though.

    from wikipedia

    Judge[13] Judicial district Date appointed Term expiry
    Reggie Walton (presiding) District of Columbia May 19, 2007 May 18, 2014
    Rosemary M. Collyer District of Columbia March 8, 2013 March 7, 2020
    Raymond J. Dearie Eastern District of New York July 2, 2012 July 1, 2019
    Claire Eagan Northern District of Oklahoma February 13, 2013 May 18, 2019
    Martin L.C. Feldman Eastern District of Louisiana May 19, 2010 May 18, 2017
    Thomas Hogan District of Columbia May 18, 2009 May 18, 2016
    Mary A. McLaughlin Eastern District of Pennsylvania May 18, 2008 May 18, 2015
    Michael W. Mosman District of Oregon May 4, 2013 May 3, 2020
    F. Dennis Saylor IV District of Massachusetts May 19, 2011 May 18, 2018
    Susan Webber Wright Eastern District of Arkansas May 18, 2009 May 18, 2016
    James Zagel Northern District of Illinois May 18, 2008 May 18, 2015

    Roger Vinson, the guy who rubber-stamped the leaked Verizon order, is no longer on the court-- his seven year term expired.

  8. Re:Seriously!!! on Next SurfaceRT To Come With Qualcomm Snapdragon 800, LTE · · Score: 1

    Why would anyone write an app for an unloved platform?

  9. Re:Goddammit. on Altering Text In eBooks To Track Pirates · · Score: 1

    I take it you didn't like Christopher Tolkien's "A History of Middle Earth", then?

  10. Re:The new black on Altering Text In eBooks To Track Pirates · · Score: 1

    Early printers used the letter 'e' to justify lines. Thus "Queen" and "Queene"

  11. Re:Goddammit. on Altering Text In eBooks To Track Pirates · · Score: 1

    It's odd that you would bring up Shakespeare. The Quarto and Folio versions of many of his plays differ. Pericles is in the third folio, but not in the first or second folios. There are "bad quarto" versions of Romeo and Juliet, Henry V, Merry Wives of Windsor, Hamlet, and Henry VI, parts two and three. There's also a false folio. Good fodder for PhD dissertation, bad for a slashdot analogy.

  12. Re:Huh? on Microsoft To Start Dumping Surface RT To Schools For $199 · · Score: 1

    It had a Norton SI of something less than 1.

    But was that really so bad? A PC/XT had a Norton SI score of 1.0.

  13. Re:Uhm Yeah on Google Files First Amendment Challenge Against FISA Gag Order · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately, the suit was not filed in the 9th district, but with the "UNITED STATES FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE SURVEILLANCE COURT
    WASHINGTON, D.C."

    That particular court is packed with judges chosen by the chief justice--so expect deference to the NSA.

  14. Re:SCOTUS is final on Google Files First Amendment Challenge Against FISA Gag Order · · Score: 1

    If that's germane to the case at hand, yes.Otherwise it's simply a venue for resolving legal disputes.

  15. Re:Because that worked so well for Apple? on Microsoft To Start Dumping Surface RT To Schools For $199 · · Score: 1

    Unless it was a IIgs, that one was actually kind of OK.

    Not quite an Amiga. Not quite a Macintosh.

  16. Re:Huh? on Microsoft To Start Dumping Surface RT To Schools For $199 · · Score: 1

    While the Apple II was certainly a dud by that time,

    By what time?

    1979?
    1983?
    1986?
    1991?

    The Apple II line was an extraordinarily long lived computer. Towards the end of its life, it was laughably obsolete. Towards the beginning, it was fairly advanced.

  17. Re:Tripod on Helicopter Parts Make For Amazing DIY Camera Stabilization · · Score: 1

    Exactly. the clips I showed were steadicam shots, but the important thing wasn't that they were done with a particular rig, it's that smooth moving camera shots are an important part of a film's vocabulary. There's a sequence in Joe Wright's Pride and Prejudice where the Netherfield ball is shown from the perspective of another party goer, another dancer--moving from room to room, listening in on conversations, and so on.

    You can't do that with a tripod, where the camera is fixed in one position-- unless you use lots of tripods and lots of cuts, but then, the scene would lose some of its seamless qualities.

    You can't really do that with a non-stabilized handheld rig-- as the attendant jerkiness would detract from the atmosphere.

  18. The cynical view on Snowden NSA Claims Partially Confirmed, Says Rep. Jerrold Nadler · · Score: 1

    I've heard inklings of the following ultra cynical argument.

    Snowden went to Hong Kong not because of the city's "spirited commitment to free speech and the right of political dissent.”, but because the other secrets he knows would have the greatest value, should he need to barter them for protection and other expenses

    Is it true? It doesn't need to be true. It only needs to be plausible.

  19. Re:Tripod on Helicopter Parts Make For Amazing DIY Camera Stabilization · · Score: 3, Interesting

    You can't make these sorts of shots with a tripod.

  20. Re:How is this newsworthy? on EA Takes Over Scrabble App, Wipes Player Histories and Switches Dictionary · · Score: 4, Informative

    From 2003

    STATEMENT FROM PHILIP NELKON (MATTEL) AS ISSUED IN DECEMBER SCRABBLE CLUB NEWS

    After a great deal of heart-searching, Mattel have decided to end their 20-year relationship with Chambers. The decision was not taken lightly and we all have the utmost respect for the continual development of OSW that Chambers have masterminded over the years.

    Our new partner is Harper Collins, publishers of the number one selling dictionary in the UK - Collins English Dictionary.

    Sounds like old news-- though my ipad's scrabble app did update its dictionary options fairly recently. Since I'm a novice and have not yet memorized the dictionary,, I took little notice of the change.

  21. Re:His watch? on Woz Compares the Cloud and PRISM To Communist Russia · · Score: 1

    What's in Woz's backpack He does not travel light.

  22. Re:Juxtaposed store signs? on Best Buy To Carve Out Space For Microsoft Stores · · Score: 1

    At my local store, the durable goods are doing most of the crowding out. I suppose Amazon can't compete on gas ovens. They've gotten rid of a lot of the bluray/dvd backstock, it's comparable to what the Target next door has.

  23. Re:Impressive but the market does not demand it. on World's Smallest Dual-Core ARM Cortex-A9 Module? · · Score: 1

    A server doesn't need to be a large as a touchscreen, or a keypad.

  24. Holy shit! We're doomed. on 26 New Black Hole Candidates Found In Andromeda · · Score: 1

    The miky way, our galaxy, is scheduled to collide with the andromeda galaxy in 4 billion years. What if we hit a black hole? This universe is getting more and more dangerous all the time.

  25. Re:His watch? on Woz Compares the Cloud and PRISM To Communist Russia · · Score: 1

    It's an iPod nano watch.