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  1. Re:Border crossing and the fourth on Challenge To US Government Over Seized Laptops · · Score: 1

    Citizens are indeed a subset of people. However, it's dangerous to narrow the accepted reading of the fourth amendment by paraphrase.

  2. Re:Get rid of unnecessary one and zero keys on Does Your PC Really Need a SysRq Button Anymore? · · Score: 1

    Here's a picture of a german typewriter keyboard Notice that the number keys begin at '2'.

  3. Re:Policy document on Challenge To US Government Over Seized Laptops · · Score: 4, Informative

    Mincey quotes Katz v. United States 389 U.S. 347 (1967)

    Over and again, this Court has emphasized that the mandate of the [Fourth] Amendment requires adherence to judicial processes," United States v. Jeffers, 342 U.S. 48, 51, and that searches conducted outside the judicial process, without prior approval by judge or magistrate, are per se unreasonable under the Fourth Amendment [n18] -- subject only to a few specifically established and well delineated exceptions. [n19]

    18. See, e.g., Jones v. United States, 357 U.S. 493, 497-499; Rios v. United States, 364 U.S. 253, 261; Chapman v. United States, 365 U.S. 610, 613-615; Stoner v. California, 376 U.S. 483, 486-487.

    19. See, e.g., Carroll v. United States, 267 U.S. 132, 153, 156; McDonald v. United States, 335 U.S. 451, 454-456; Brinegar v. United States, 338 U.S. 160, 174-177; Cooper v. California, 386 U.S. 58; Warden v. Hayden, 387 U.S. 294, 298-300.

    You can look up the well defined exceptions yourself. More importantly, both Mincey and Katz predate the Rehnquist court, so best Shepardize those citations.

  4. Re:Border crossing and the fourth on Challenge To US Government Over Seized Laptops · · Score: 3, Informative

    It says nothing about the rights of Citizens, either. If you want to make a "plain and clear text" argument, don't alter the text.

    The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

  5. Re:Bad Idea on India Developing Vehicle To Knock Enemy Satellites · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Quick reminder: The US has interests. Pakistan has interests. Sometimes those interests converge. Sometimes they don't.

  6. Re:I have one. on The Worst Products of CES 2010 · · Score: 1

    I stick to a french press with hand grinder. Easy to clean--dishwasher for the maker and uncooked rice for the grinder, hard to break-- except for the carafe, and that could be made from a different glass. It's very time consuming though, and not at all automatic.

  7. Re:Megacorps on Google.cn Has Already Lifted Censorship · · Score: 1

    Many corporations are led by boards of governors. Many universities are led by boards of regents. Such names, while perhaps sounding imperious to the naive, imply nothing more than "directors" or "trustees/visitors".

  8. Re:Megacorps on Google.cn Has Already Lifted Censorship · · Score: 1

    That's usually known as "nation building" and we do it all the time.

    Silly programmer! Natural language is more subtle than that.

  9. Re:A matter of opinion on The Worst Products of CES 2010 · · Score: 1

    A toilet/bidet that analyses the physiological state of the user and sends an appropriate tweet to the user's significant other....

  10. Re:I have one. on The Worst Products of CES 2010 · · Score: 1

    I'm mostly mocking the prospect of having ground coffee sit in a basket all weekend.

  11. Re:Germany still censored on Google.cn Has Already Lifted Censorship · · Score: 1

    In certain german jurisdictions, (perhaps all of them, by now) verifiable proof of age is required.

  12. Re:I have one. on The Worst Products of CES 2010 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It would, of course, have to have a built in grinder, a way to keep the unground beans reasonably fresh, and a way of drawing and possibly filtering the water (so you don't get stale, flat water). Most importantly, it would have to be easy to keep clean. And, of course, the coffee should finish brewing as you walk in the door, regardless of whether your commute was expeditious, or unreasonably delayed.

  13. A matter of opinion on The Worst Products of CES 2010 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I think the reviewer compiler just has issues with bidets. The Japanese have had robotic bidets for some time now. Chalk it up to "weird Japan" if you must. The android powered microwave is flawed because it's in a microwave, not in a stove. I love to cook, but there are occasions when I want, or need to consult my computer-- email, recipes, perhaps a podcast. But I don't want to get spattering spaghetti sauce on my electronics. A computer, built for the kitchen environment would be valuable.

  14. Re:You mean they are gonna fuck it up .... on Spider-Man 4 Scrapped, Franchise Reboot Planned · · Score: 1

    Are you familiar with Tarkovsky or Eisenstein?

  15. Re:Reboot how? on Spider-Man 4 Scrapped, Franchise Reboot Planned · · Score: 1

    Taking away one of the most defining characteristics of vampires is sort of like castrating them.

    But Twilight is supposed to be about abstinence!

  16. Re:Peanut Hysteria is more of a psychological issu on Air Canada Ordered To Provide Nut-Free Zone · · Score: 1

    Slashdot strips out the greek Mu, so "mu"gram becomes gram-- a million times larger And some sources have managed to confuse milligrams with micrograms. When someone quotes a scientific source, it's a good idea to go to the original-- even the original abstract helps.

    In this case, the maximum dose tested was 50 milligrams. Short lived, subjective reactions were induced with as little as 100 micrograms, and systemic reactions were induced with as little as 5 milligrams.
     

  17. Re:Pirating on DVD-CSS's Encryption Not Enough? Here Comes DECE · · Score: 1

    see amendment #14.

  18. Re:Peanut Hysteria is more of a psychological issu on Air Canada Ordered To Provide Nut-Free Zone · · Score: 1

    Food! They baked the peanut flour into food and fed it too them. Also, the quantity should have been a clue. Try inhaling 100mg of peanut protein.

    READ THE FUCKING PAPER. It says nothing about 100 milligrams.

    "We used a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled food challenge of 14 subjects allergic to peanuts with doses of peanut ranging from 10 micrograms to 50 milligrams, administered in the form of a commercially available peanut flour" source

    If you can't tell the difference between a milligram and a microgram, you have no business in a lab.

  19. Video of it in Action on Live Intel WiDi Demonstration At CES 2010 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    So instead of getting a crisp clean video feed from my PC, I can make it look like a youtube video? How exciting!

  20. Re:Hardly on Psystar Activation Servers Down? · · Score: 1

    Drive letters? EWWW.

  21. Re:Lie on social networking sites on The Gradual Erosion of the Right To Privacy · · Score: 1

    If you want you can even provide false status updates, its not like anyone will ever notice except those who deserve to be lead astray anyway. Say you are in Starbucks sipping a caramellate when really you are out hunting with a high-powered rifle or doing some other activity others might not be comfortable with

    I didn't want to be a computer programmer, you know. I wanted to be a Lumberjack! Leaping from tree to tree, as they float down the mighty rivers of British Columbia....

  22. Re:probably still makes sense on China Luring Scientists Back Home · · Score: 1

    (Other grad students earn their salary via their teaching.)

    For the undergraduates' sake, let's hope that your foreign grad students are fluent.

  23. Re:Funny on Air Canada Ordered To Provide Nut-Free Zone · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately, even if that avoids the allergen (it doesn't always... people who are allergic to a a certain sort of legume are sometimes also hypersensitive to tree nuts, or seeds), almond butter is at least three or four times as expensive. Peanut butter is dirt cheap for the nutrition it provides.

  24. Re:Peanut Hysteria is more of a psychological issu on Air Canada Ordered To Provide Nut-Free Zone · · Score: 1

    Nice. Now please explain what in that study had to do with peanut dust

    Peanut dust, Peanut flour... what's the difference?

  25. Re:Peanut Hysteria is more of a psychological issu on Air Canada Ordered To Provide Nut-Free Zone · · Score: 1

    Hint: Slashdot does not handle non-US characters very well, especially the mu character. A direct cut and paste of a scientific abstract will rarely render as intended. Here's a link to the abstract
    And here's the salient bit, corrected for typos.

    Conclusion: Even in a group of well-characterized, highly sensitive subjects with peanut allergy, the threshold dose of peanut protein varies. As little as 100 micrograms of peanut protein provokes symptoms in some subjects with peanut allergy. (J Allergy Clin Immunol 1997;100:596-600.)