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  1. Re:Can sexual abuse take place in a virtual world on Australian Govt. Proposes Internet "Panic Button" For Kids · · Score: 1

    Besides, when you really break the problem apart, it becomes quite clear that neither I nor the gun killed him, blood loss was the actual killer in this case.

  2. Re:That's... on Australian Govt. Proposes Internet "Panic Button" For Kids · · Score: 1

    Why would an adult WANT to take a cruise on a disney ship WITHOUT their children? Yet people do it all the time.

    My guess is because they learned that it's possible to be an adult, have adult responsibilities, and yet not live a drab, boring life.

  3. Re:Eh on Obama Wants Computer Privacy Ruling Overturned · · Score: 1

    Actually, there's a pretty clear cut difference between the two cases:

    1) The spreadsheet had data on people not named in the investigation.
    2) The rapists (maybe) had evidence of other crimes that they themselves (may have) committed.

    Case 1 incriminates other people not stated on the warrant. Case 2 incriminates the person named on the warrant in additional crimes. [armchair lawyer mode]Even if the judge went into pedantic mode on a pedophile case and prevented them from collecting other evidence on the original warrant, I suspect that for #2, once they executed the warrant and discovered that they had saved the video of the rape on the computer, it would be reasonable suspicion for requesting a second warrant for any other videos, images, etc on the computer. I think it would also be reasonable to request emails and any business data (including spreadsheets) if you think these people could be running a child porn business or ring or whatever. The difference here is that in #1, test results showing that the 10 people you suspected all took steroids, you can't draw any conclusions from that to form a reasonable suspicion of the positiveness of the other people who got steroid tests without some other link.[/armchair lawyer mode]

  4. Re:Problems for anime fans with Linux on Ubuntu Reaching Out To 16,000 Anime Lovers · · Score: 2, Informative

    Doesn't bluray have region coding enforced?

    It does, but they abandoned the DVD regions for "zones", and Japan and the US now share a zone.

  5. Re:Posters here are like the teens in the vid on Police Arrest Man For Refusing To Tweet · · Score: 0

    Ordering him to tweet WAS compeltely reasonable

    I agree that ordering him to fix his shit would be completely reasonable, but what the hell is a tweet going to do? You think all those kids are going to drop everything and look at their twitter account? You think they'd have even heard their phone beep in that mess, assuming that they even get twitter updates on their phone?

  6. Re:Warning! on New York State Testing Emergency Alerts Over Gaming Networks · · Score: 1

    Somebody set us up the bomb!

  7. Re:Some explain the Linux GUI thing? on Samsung Sponsors the Development of Enlightenment · · Score: 4, Informative

    They're different layers.

    X is the graphics system. It provides the video driver and makes pretty pictures show up on your screen.

    Enlightenment is a window manager, it gives those pretty pictures borders so that you can drag them around.

    Gnome is a Desktop Environment, which is a couple hundred programs that are designed to work together and work the same way. This includes a window manager, menus for launching programs and a place to hold minimized programs and icons, a file manager, network configuration tools, a terminal, calculator, scanning software, music player, cd ripper, graphics editors, etc etc.

    X is always there.

    The features that Enlightenment provides works using X.

    The features that Gnome provides works using a window manager and X. Gnome provides Metacity as its window manager by default, but you can use others like Enlightenment.

    This is highly consistent.

  8. Re:Windowmaker and GNUstep on Samsung Sponsors the Development of Enlightenment · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I've been using Window Maker for nearly a decade now, and have to admit that it's very nice that it's stable (not crashing AND not changing). Sure, it'd be really neat to have compiz or whatever support, but honestly it does everything I want from window management: provides window dressing, an application menu (at the pointer, even!), and a place to dock and/or launch apps from.

  9. Multiple Iterations of History on NASA Attempts To Assuage 2012 Fears · · Score: 1

    you could probably get people to believe it in this day and age

    The same concept worked on TV.

  10. Re:How Histery Repeats .... on NASA Attempts To Assuage 2012 Fears · · Score: 4, Informative

    In the case of The War of the Worlds, the radio broadcast WAS designed to sound "real", complete with interrupting musical programs for special announcements and so on. Someone who tuned in in the middle of the show would have missed the announcement that it was just a radio program, and it predated the transistor radio by a decade so most of the people who decided to flee or whatever wouldn't have had a way to keep up with the program and hear any other announcements that they were listening to a fictional story.

    There's no excuse at all for 2012.

  11. Re:Is it now legal to carry large sums of money? on TSA Changes Its Rules, ACLU Lawsuit Dropped · · Score: 4, Informative

    Within the US, yes of course it is. Why wouldn't it be?

    Look up how governments use civil forfeiture, and be enlightened.

  12. Re:New form of taxes! on City Laws Only Available Via $200 License · · Score: 1

    There's still several places that you, as a citizen, can go to view the law

    I wanted to, but the leopard was using the disused lavatory, and I didn't want to interrupt him.

  13. Re:Easily avoidable on Google Under Fire For Calling Their Language "Go" · · Score: 1

    "go debugging", etc would likely return the relevant results once enough Go information accumulates online.

    Relevant? "Simple Click-and-Go debugging functionality for your entire team" (first hit) "Debugging I will go, debugging I will go, hi ho the buggio debugging I will go." (someone's tweet). "How do I go about debugging source code on Windows 7?" (and so on...)

    The only way you'd ever get relevant results out of this would be if google hacked special cases into their search engine to deal with it. They might as well just end the conflict and name it "The", it'd still be just as hard to search for.

  14. Re:The ironing is delicious on Your Opinion Counts At CNN — But Should It? · · Score: 1

    let me know if you find otherwise.

    Found Otherwise.

    Even so, I'm fairly certain that OP meant "available to the public for viewing" not "open for anyone to publish in". I assume CNN asserts some editorial control over the tweets that it publishes.

  15. Re:Much more specific than the summary suggests on Microsoft Patents Sudo's Behavior · · Score: 4, Informative

    Yeah, going to have to agree here. Not only is it specifically an interface brought up after you've tried to do something you're not allowed to (which is what makes it "not sudo"), this interface will give you a list of users who ARE allowed to do it (rather than just the admin account), which is what separates it from all the other implementations of this kind of security that I know of (eg cash registers that stop and require manager intervention or Windows's earlier "You look like you're trying to install a program, would you like to be administrator?" popup).

  16. Re:A question on Justice Dept. Asked For Broad Swath of IndyMedia's Visitor Records · · Score: 1

    The subpoena asked for all information that might be available, not knowing exactly what information was available.

    As long as they didn't think they were actually going to get any SSNs, fine.

    The gag order was not against a journalist. It was against a service provider. If IndyMeida is not a service provider, what exactly is it?

    That's a really good question. What makes IndyMedia a "service provider" and, say, The New York Times not?

    That line of argument is not pointless and if you had read the previous posts you would know that.

    I'm assuming that you're talking my reply to "The subscriber, commenter, etc. has no standing under the Fourth Amendment". Whoever had the data did have standing, and they used it to object, the government responded to the objection by withdrawing the subpoena, and that's all that mattered in this case.

  17. Re:retitled "Court pitches first amendment" on Judge Rules Web Commenter Will Be Unmasked To Mom · · Score: 1

    I'm pretty sure Thomas Jefferson would deliver the back of his hand to any punk trying to hide behind the First Amendment to bully a child anonymously.

    I hear he bloodied Publius's nose.

  18. Re:A question on Justice Dept. Asked For Broad Swath of IndyMedia's Visitor Records · · Score: 1

    The identity of the journalist may possibly be considered protected if the journalist is anonymous, but I highly doubt it.

    With regards to defamation, courts generally hold that anonymous people remain anonymous until the plaintiff can prove that defamation occurred, ie the identity of the messenger has nothing to do with the truth or falsehood of the message (for a randomly selected example see this which itself cites other cases on page 8 (lol scanned pdf)).

    In the general case, anonymity has existed since before Publius, who the Supreme Court is generally fond of referencing when upholding anonymity.

    The information requested in the subpoena is the same data listed in the statute listed.

    Going back to my other post, if the law said that you can subpoena for my unicorns, would you look any less stupid if you went to court to demand my unicorns? Absent mod_psychicpowers, unicorns are as likely as SSNs and bank account numbers to be in the webserver logs.

    Please explain what part of the First Amendment is being violated.

    The other half of the right to speak without government interference: the right to listen without government interference. Upheld multiple times.

    Please explain how the gag order is unconstitutional, including the relevant sections of the Constitution and other law.

    Generally speaking, issuing a gag order directly against a journalist is not permissible. This is why gag orders are generally restricted to parties involved, to keep them from talking to the press. Other cases cited at the EFF link above.

    The subscriber, commenter, etc. has no standing under the Fourth Amendment because the property of the subscriber, commenter, etc. is not being searched.

    Well, good thing IndyMedia was the one objecting to the search, making this line of argument pointless.

  19. A better question on Justice Dept. Asked For Broad Swath of IndyMedia's Visitor Records · · Score: 1

    Since when do webservers log your SSN and bank account or credit card numbers?

  20. Re:Hmm, how safe is safe enough? on Researchers Neutralize Parkinson's Dopamine Killers · · Score: 2, Insightful

    if you are talking about eliminating Parkinsons or non-Hodgkin's lymphoma then the bar should probably be lower

    The problem with this approach is that the worse the disease, the more snake-oil you can find out there, promising to cure you and your wallet of all of your ills.

  21. Re:What's in it? on Landmark Health Insurance Bill Passes House · · Score: 1

    and last year it was only 2%.

    Wonder why that was. Couldn't have been because of the implosion of the stock market and the investments insurance companies use to offset their costs, could it? Insurance company profits haven't been merely "premiums paid in" - "benefits paid out" for decades.

  22. Re:Socialized insurance on Landmark Health Insurance Bill Passes House · · Score: 1

    He's likely talking about the whole "you have to go to medical school and learn how to treat people in order to call yourself a MD" thing. Same barrier to entry as lawyers, plumbers and so on.

  23. Re:BS: "tip of the iceberg" on Ryan Gordon Ends FatELF Universal Binary Effort · · Score: 3, Funny

    all from the dame binary file

    This is an abbreviation for "same damn binary file", isn't it?

    I was waiting for the gritty exposition to begin.

    This dame's binary file is trouble, and I could smell it from a mile away.

  24. Re:All-green probably an urban legend on Computer Failure Causes Gridlock In MD County · · Score: 3, Funny

    After hurricane Ike blew through Houston, I ended up parking at a light that was stuck, showing green for traffic in one direction only for at least 15 minutes.

    Every time someone was brave enough to try to run the red light, someone else would drive through the green light and spook everyone. Eventually I turned right, U-turned, and turned right again.

  25. Re:I'm going to get a lot of flak for this, but. . on Secret Copyright Treaty Leaks. It's Bad. Very Bad. · · Score: 1

    I'm a business owner, and my company offers various web applications.

    I'd kind of like to keep the web working, thank you very much. Having my competitors able to shut me down by claiming that I'm serving up Disney classics over my encrypted web application is a strong deterrent against me inventing more. You may feel that opening Pandora's Box is what will convince you to "invent" more, but it will do far more damage to everyone else than good to you.

    By the way, that last tune you made? Sounds an awful lot like Under Pressure. I think I better report it.