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  1. Re:Stupid people are stupid on 9th-Grader May Face Charges After Homemade Clock Mistaken For Bomb · · Score: 1

    The timer was to remind him to arm the bomb!

  2. Re:They get my Lucy Lu Bot... on Robotics Researcher Starts Campaign To Ban Development of Sexbots · · Score: 1

    Or your cold, dead...

    Never mind..

  3. Re:There were melted cords everywhere! on Northern California Wildfire Destroys American Telephony Museum · · Score: 1

    Oh, the telephony!!!

  4. Re:Well, that doesn't sound moderately sinister on Spy Industry Leaders Befuddled Over 'Deep Cynicism' of American Public · · Score: 1

    Yeah, you can't defend the Constitution by completely ignoring it.

    These guys have been bypassing it, ignoring it, lying about it, and pretty much anything they can think of.

    You don't "protect" something by undermining it.

    "I don't have time to read it, I'm too busy defending it!" - Senator Billboard Rawkins

  5. Re:No surprise... on US-Appointed Egg Lobby Paid Food Blogs and Targeted Chef To Crush Vegan Startup · · Score: 1

    if you fail to watch your amino and mineral balance, you can have really bad things happen, such as blindness.

    I think that mental blindness appears before real blindness, often Vegans are no different from religious fanatics which also are similar to zombies.

    What do vegan zombies eat? Obviously not brains.

    Heads of lettuce, ears of corn, and artichoke hearts.

    And maybe the occasional vegan.

  6. Re:How is this legal? on Ashley Madison Source Code Shows Evidence They Created Bots To Message Men · · Score: 1

    Ah. Well, color me wrong, then. :)

  7. Re:How is this legal? on Ashley Madison Source Code Shows Evidence They Created Bots To Message Men · · Score: 0

    IANAL

    I don't believe there's any requirement to sue in a venue that is convenient for the party being sued. "Venue shopping" isn't unusual here. That's why most patent cases wind up being filed in Texas - Texas is known to be very friendly to the patent holders.

    I don't think I've ever heard of or seen a clause in the US that requires all lawsuits to be settled in a specific venue. (And there's nothing to stop you from suing in your local venue to break that clause, if there is one.)

    Since this crosses state lines, jurisdiction would be a wide open question. It could also shift this into a criminal case in federal court for wire fraud.

  8. Re:Wait until the next step... on French Woman Gets €800/month For Electromagnetic-Field 'Disability' · · Score: 1

    Ta-dah!

    Family sues Fay School in Southboro, claims Wi-Fi made son ill

    Lots of other examples can be found with a quick search.

  9. Re:Sunlight has a large electromgnetic field on French Woman Gets €800/month For Electromagnetic-Field 'Disability' · · Score: 2

    No, you should just move to another universe.

  10. Re:PBS show of cellphone cancer recently on French Woman Gets €800/month For Electromagnetic-Field 'Disability' · · Score: 3, Funny

    I saw a documentary made by the aliens who constructed the Pyramids.

  11. Re:WTF happens in N.Dakota to require such weapons on North Dakota Legalizes "Less Than Lethal" Weapon-Equipped Police Drones · · Score: 1

    Massive outbreaks of cow tipping.

  12. Re:Dropping or firing an object from a plane... on North Dakota Legalizes "Less Than Lethal" Weapon-Equipped Police Drones · · Score: 1

    "We're not firing a projectile. We're just ejecting ballast.. Oh, and those wires? We're just tethering the drone."

  13. My bunker has no windows, you insensitive clod!

  14. Re:Two wrongs don't make a right... on More Ashley Madison Files Published · · Score: 1

    I just read that the source code for the AM website and mobile apps is included in this dump.

    So opening a new site should be easy.

    Additionally, other hackers can now probe the ALM sites for new vulnerabilities.

  15. Re:Freedom does not mean no laws on US No-Fly List Uses 'Predictive Judgement' Instead of Hard Evidence · · Score: 1

    We will post angry rants in online forums! And if we don't get answers, we will post more angry rants!

  16. Re:They just don't want to get sued on US No-Fly List Uses 'Predictive Judgement' Instead of Hard Evidence · · Score: 1

    2) Stop profiling and put everyone on the no-fly list. Then make everyone clear their names before being allowed to fly.

    I've been predicting that they will do exactly that within a decade or so. Then you'll have to apply for travel permits to leave your designated home area..

  17. Re:Capitalism is killing them on Breathing Beijing's Air Is the Equivalent of Smoking Almost 40 Cigarettes a Day · · Score: 1

    He also proposed health care reform that looked a heck of a lot like Obamacare.

  18. I know you're just giving the theory behind the libertarian position on pollution, not necessarily endorsing it, but:

    You vs. Shell Oil

    I wonder who can afford more lawyers and who has a longer lifespan, so if one side can drag the case out long enough, they win by default?

  19. Re:just get a travel trailer on Off-Grid Home Ecocapsule To Hit the Market This Year · · Score: 1

    But those trailers are tornado magnets!

    Having one near you means you'll be hit for sure.

  20. Re:Inside a shipping container??? on Off-Grid Home Ecocapsule To Hit the Market This Year · · Score: 1

    I think you also need to rent a crane (and crane operator) to load it onto that trailer.

  21. Re:Elephant in the room on Clinton Surrendering Email Server/Data To Feds After Top Secret Mail Found · · Score: 1

    You forgot the most important question:

    4. Does she use vi or emacs?

  22. Re:For Unclassified is Fed IT diff from Corp IT? on Clinton Surrendering Email Server/Data To Feds After Top Secret Mail Found · · Score: 1

    I'm not a Federal employee and I work in "Corporate America" and I know that if I told people to not use my bob@corporateemail.com but instead send it to bob@gmail.com or bob@myprivateserver.com, I would be terminated pretty fast.

    I do exactly that and haven't been terminated so far :)

    I work in a defense related company, but I don't handle classified information (no clearance), and it is a terminable offense to conduct business over a personal account.

    Even VPNing in to read your email on a computer not controlled by the company is forbidden. I have to take a company laptop home if I plan to access email.

  23. Re:Security Clearance Revocation on Clinton Surrendering Email Server/Data To Feds After Top Secret Mail Found · · Score: 1

    Unless they've changed things since I had a clearance (which is possible) they don't revoke a clearance because your need-to-know ends, she simply doesn't get information that she doesn't need to know.

    Now that I think of it, that becomes problematic: she had a server with classified information on it, with no need-to-know.

    I don't remember when an active security clearance expires, but mine was active for several years after I left my clearance-required job.

  24. Re:Say Russia did it for the purpose of argument.. on Russian Missile Parts Found At MH17 Crash Site · · Score: 1

    Only Russia agrees.

    The rest of the world doesn't think so.

  25. Re:It's the base assumption that its invalid on Prosecutors Op-Ed: Phone Encryption Blocks Justice · · Score: 1

    Aptly trolled.

    Good government requires transparency. Therefore, government, especially the prosecutors mentioned, should only be allowed to encrypt by XORing every byte with 0xff.

    Joe Sixpack's life, however, is none of anyone's business, so he needs nuclear hardened encryption. If law enforcement needs to access it, they can ask Joe.