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  1. Re:The Nine Exemptions on Obama Administration Withholds FoIA Requests More Often Than Bush's · · Score: 1

    Here's some legal speculation

    Perhaps companies might be required to disclose, to their regulators, certain proprietary information with substantial commercial value to their competitors.

  2. The Nine Exemptions on Obama Administration Withholds FoIA Requests More Often Than Bush's · · Score: 4, Informative

    (From the EPA report, though all agencies use the same criteria)


    a. Exemption 1: Classified national defense and foreign relations information
    b. Exemption 2: Internal agency rules and practices
    c. Exemption 3: Information that is prohibited from disclosure by another federal law
    d. Exemption 4: Trade secrets and other confidential business information
    e. Exemption 5: Inter-agency or intra-agency communications that are protected by legal privileges
    f. Exemption 6: Information involving matters of personal privacy
    g. Exemption 7: Records or information compiled for law enforcement purposes, to the extent that the production of those records (A) could reasonably be expected to interfere with enforcement proceedings, (B) would deprive a person of a right to a fair trial or an impartial adjudication, (C) could reasonably be expected to constitute an unwarranted invasion of personal privacy, (D) could reasonably be expected to disclose the identity of a confidential source, (E) would disclose techniques and procedures for law enforcement investigations or prosecutions, or would disclose guidelines for law enforcement investigations or prosecutions, or (F) could reasonably be expected to endanger the life or physical safety of any individual
    h. Exemption 8: Information relating to the supervision of financial institutions
    i. Exemption 9: Geological information on wells

    Some of those exemptions provide for a certain amount of creativity on the part of the denier.

  3. Re:Needs more data on Obama Administration Withholds FoIA Requests More Often Than Bush's · · Score: 1

    What are the exceptions to "nearly every one of the law's nine exemptions"?

  4. Re:How does he know it's unique? on Yale Law Student Wants Government To Have Everybody's DNA · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Are you sure about those odds?

    State crime lab analyst Kathryn Troyer was running tests on Arizona's DNA database when she stumbled across two felons with remarkably similar genetic profiles.
    The men matched at nine of the 13 locations on chromosomes, or loci, commonly used to distinguish people.
    The FBI estimated the odds of unrelated people sharing those genetic markers to be as remote as 1 in 113 billion. But the mug shots of the two felons suggested that they were not related: One was black, the other white.

  5. Re:"I reject notion of separation of church and st on Texas Approves Conservative Curriculum · · Score: 1

    Christianity has got everything to do with Christ, and not much to do with Jesus.

  6. Re:haha hilarious on Texas Approves Conservative Curriculum · · Score: 1

    Last I heard, the conservatives were trying to find an explanation for the separation of powers in John Calvin and original sin-- absurd, as there are many references to Montesquieu in the Federalist Papers. I'm glad that he hasn't been excise completely, but his inclusion is probably part of a larger criticism of Jacobinism and all things French.

  7. Re:Hey Dumbass... on Texas Approves Conservative Curriculum · · Score: 1

    It's time for the republicans to disown Lincoln. Freed the slaves? Pshaw. Lincoln was an autocrat bent on centralizing government power in order to implement his economic utopia. source

  8. Re:Well duh on Security Industry Faces Attacks It Can't Stop · · Score: 1

    You don't fix a software problem with more software. You fix the software.

    I don't run AV, I do run XP, I don't punch the monkey, and I don't get viruses.

    How'd you fix XP?

  9. Re:30 frames in FreeCiv on Intel's Core i7-980X Six-Core Benchmarked · · Score: 1

    Really? Really? You made an html5/javascript version of freeciv?

    It exists.

  10. Re:The irony here is... on Unboxing the Fake Intel Core i7-920 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    If grammatical errors and spelling mistakes did not matter,

    The labels look very good; notice the embossed fake hologram in the left corner. But you can also see that that the word "socket " is spelled wrong. "Sochet"?

    and
    This processor is all set for use "ina Desktop PC.

    would hardly be worth mentioning. I, for one, like living in a world where fakes can be spotted so easily.

  11. Silence on Professors Banning Laptops In the Lecture Hall · · Score: 1

    Most laptops also create quite a bit of noise. Ditch the fan and switch to an SSD.

  12. The question on everyone's mind on Cisco Introduces a 322 Tbit/sec. Router · · Score: 4, Informative

    MSRP starts at $90,000. source

  13. Re:Academics on Edward Tufte Appointed To Help Track and Explain Stimulus Funds · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The intrinsic value of gold is inflated by the arbitrary value that goldbugs like to place on it.

  14. Re:Nuke it! on Herschel Space Observatory Finds Precursors of Life In Orion · · Score: 1

    Hmm. Perhaps, I should of used the preview function.

  15. Re:Nuke it! on Herschel Space Observatory Finds Precursors of Life In Orion · · Score: 2, Funny

    The orion nebula is (very) roughly spherical, with a radius of 12 ly. It's about 1344ly away. Developing the technology to deliver millions of nukes across hundreds of parsecs might well be the sort of stimulus are planet needs to crawl out of this recession.

  16. Re:Are they including the naked girl in the sauna? on Popular Science Frees Its 137-Year Archives · · Score: 1

    seems tasteful enough Perhaps the archive was retouched.

  17. Re:Breakthroughs on Popular Science Frees Its 137-Year Archives · · Score: 1

    The author attacks Einstein for

    abandon[ing] the hypothesis of an ether without furnishing a satisfactory substitute for this hypothesis. As has been previously stated, the very experiment which the relativity theory seeks to explain depends on interference phenomena which are only satisfactorily accounted for on the the hypothesis of an ether

    source

    For a different perspective, try Ether and the Theory of Relativity

  18. Re:Foresight on Popular Science Frees Its 137-Year Archives · · Score: 1

    I first discovered this archive a few days ago when I was reading about prohibition. A bit dry for my taste.

  19. Re:Google V China on Google Asks US For WTO Block On China Censorship · · Score: 1

    If Wikipedia had reliable information about that torture the government would start arresting people in a heart beat.

    In the United States, conspiracy to torture is a felony. Dick Cheney admitted, on national television that he "was a big supporter of waterboarding", reliably implicating himself in such a conspiracy. Yet the federal government has not, so far, shown any interest in prosecuting him.

  20. Re:Google V China on Google Asks US For WTO Block On China Censorship · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The history of political institutions is a history of the political struggle between those who would govern and those who are governed. While the needs of the people might be most effectively med by an a enlightened despot, most despots have proven themselves to be most unenlightened.

    While China, as a state, is free, the subjects of that state are not free. Confuse the two at your peril.

  21. Re:Religious Neanderthals on The Role of Human Culture In Natural Selection · · Score: 1

    It's within the margin of error.

  22. Re:Missing the point on Court Rules Photo of Memorial Violates Copyright · · Score: 1

    It's never that simple. In this article, "FAIREST OF THEM ALL" AND OTHER FAIRY TALES OF FAIR USE, the author analyses 60 fair use defenses using each of the four factors, and finds no obvious relationship... (The PDF version includes tables, photographs, and is better formatted than the html version).

  23. Re:Guess it was never ours on Court Rules Photo of Memorial Violates Copyright · · Score: 1

    That would violate VARA.

  24. Re:Fair Use on Court Rules Photo of Memorial Violates Copyright · · Score: 4, Informative

    I don't think you understand copyright law. A finding of fair use requires that the derivative work survive the "four factor test". Mere inclusion in the category of "criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching (including multiple copies for classroom use), scholarship, or research" is neither neccessary nor sufficient for a finding of "fair use".

    The task is not to be simplified with bright line rules, for the statute, like the doctrine it recognizes, calls for case by case analysis. Harper & Row, 471 U. S., at 560; Sony, 464 U. S., at 448, and n. 31; House Report, pp. 65-66; Senate Report, p. 62. The text employs the terms "including" and "such as" in the preamble paragraph to indicate the "illustrative and not limitative" function of the examples given, 101; see Harper & Row, supra, at 561, which thus provide only general guidance about the sorts of copying that courts and Congress most commonly had found to be fair uses. Nor may the four statutory factors be treated in isolation, one from another. All are to be explored, and the results weighed together, in light of the purposes of copyright. See Leval 1110-1111; Patry & Perlmutter, Fair Use Misconstrued: Profit, Presumptions, and Parody, 11 Cardozo Arts & Ent. L. J. 667, 685-687 (1993) (hereinafter Patry & Perlmutter).

    Campbell v. Acuff-Rose Music (92-1292), 510 U.S. 569 (1994).

  25. Re:Let me tell you a story. It's called, PARAQUAT on US Government Poisoned Alcohol During Prohibition · · Score: 3, Informative

    The enabling legislation for prohibition, The Volstead Act, was passed by Congress on October 18 1919, and Wilson's veto overridden on 28 October 1919 . The vote in the Senate was 65-20 (38 Republicans and 27 Democrats voted for the measure. 9 Republicans and 11 Democrats voted against it.) and 176-55 in the house. The bill's sponsor, Andrew Volstead, was a Republican.

    The 21st amendment was passed by Congress on February 20,1933. The Cullen Harrison Act, which legalized 3.2 % beer, passed congress in March 21, 1933. It passed the House by a vote of 316-97. Because of copyright restrictions, I can't easily find the roll calls, but congress was overwhelmingly Democratic.

    Members of both parties advocated for and against prohibition-- it was not a "partisan" issue. If you seek a party to blame, however, be aware that the man ultimately responsible for supervising prohibition enforcement., Treasury Secretary Andrew Mellon, was a Republican.