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  1. Re:Is that admissible in court????? on US To Employ Overhead Spying Domestically · · Score: 1

    You might want to go back to high school civics.

    No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

  2. -1 : redundant on Sun Turns to Lasers to Speed Up Computer Chips · · Score: 5, Funny

    To quote Scott McNealy:

    You know, I have one simple request. And that is to have SPARCS with frickin' laser beams attached to their heads!

  3. Re:Hillary, anyone? on IT Workers Split For McCain, Obama · · Score: 2, Informative

    It was the Texas Rangers in Dallas (well, Arlington). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professional_life_of_George_W._Bush

  4. Re:Summary is very wrong on Ohio Investigating Possible Vote Machine Tampering Last Year · · Score: 1

    That appears to be born out here: http://www.ashbrook.org/publicat/monos/bushdef/nichols.html

    Ross Perot, for example, won 30% of the votes of independents, while attracting only 17% of Republican voters and 13% of Democratic voters.

    Reagan's mishandling of the economy, that Bush inherited, is what lost Bush the election.

  5. Re:Universal Health Care on Talk to This Year's Quirkiest Senatorial Candidate · · Score: 2, Funny

    Oooh! I got a troll mod too!

    I guess this Mr Novick must have the Republicunts running scared if they're having to silence any opposing views.

  6. Re:Universal Health Care on Talk to This Year's Quirkiest Senatorial Candidate · · Score: 0, Troll

    Yeah, there are a lot of posters presenting false oppositions that are getting modded as insightful. Looks like the Faux News mouth-breathers are out in force today.

  7. Re:Not by delegate count on Clinton Takes Ohio, Texas; McCain Seals The Deal · · Score: 1

    Oh, and a multi-trillion dollar war that destabilized the region and created more terrorists

    Don't forget it also created the sky-high oil price that benefits his former (and presumably future) business associates. That in turn created the high rate of inflation that we're about to enjoy which will further tank the economy.

    I don't know about you, but I wouldn't want any of those neocons on my side during a game of Risk.

  8. Re:I call B.S. on White House Says Phone Wiretaps Will Resume For Now · · Score: 1

    Because the wiretaps have absolutely nothing to do with national security?

    Maybe they're tapping the phones of the DNC for political advantage.

  9. Re:Expected answer on White House Must Answer For Missing Emails · · Score: 1

    Here.

    No evidence whatsoever of vandalism. Bush was lying (again).

  10. Re:Don't agree with the move.. but.. on US Senate Votes Immunity For Telecoms · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The government and corporations should not be "friends", and should not be in the habit of "helping" one another out.

  11. Re:Presidential Candidates Votes on US Senate Votes Immunity For Telecoms · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I suspect she did this deliberately. She can now still claim to be "tough" on terrorism and pro-freedom.

  12. Re:That was a rhetorical question, right? on ISP Block on Pirate Bay Not Having Desired Effect · · Score: 1

    Don't knock it. I like your writing.

  13. Re:For Reps: McCain on Best Presidential Candidate, Republicans · · Score: 1

    To bad you think the only people being killed by US forces in Iraq are terrorists.

  14. Re:Enough already on Speculation On the Doomed Satellite · · Score: 1

    Yes, those people are called suspects. There are laws governing how long suspects can be held before they have to be charged or released. It's called habeas corpus.

    You and your republicunt friends might want to start following the rule of law some time.

  15. Re:Sue MIT on MIT Student Plans to Take on RIAA · · Score: 1

    OK, so you've made things up, referenced some guy on the internet, and not cited any relevant statutes.

    I don't know where you got your law degree from, but you may want to ask for a refund.

  16. Re:Enough already on Speculation On the Doomed Satellite · · Score: 1

    Ahh, guilty until proven innocent.

    How's that police state working out for you?

  17. Re:Sue MIT on MIT Student Plans to Take on RIAA · · Score: 1

    So you're saying if I make a backup of my CDs I'm breaking the law, or if I photocopy a page out of one of my books? Sorry dude, that isn't illegal. Neither is receiving a copied CD from a friend, or an email from with a song that friend.

    If you can cite the specific law that states that receiving a copy of a copyrighted work is illegal, I'll retract the comment.

  18. Re:Sue MIT on MIT Student Plans to Take on RIAA · · Score: 1

    He could probably sue them for making false statements about the law.

    In an Oct. 4 statement, Dean for Student Life Larry G. Benedict and Jerrold M. Grochow '68, vice president for Information Services & Technology, said, "Unauthorized downloading and sharing of copyrighted files is illegal

    Downloading is not illegal. Sharing (or publishing) a copyrighted work without authorisation is illegal.

    MIT repeats this falsehood on their copyright website: http://web.mit.edu/ist/topics/security/copyright/

    The website they link to (presumably a **AA front) also tries to muddy the waters. But in the legal details it mentions nothing about downloading being illegal: http://www.campusdownloading.com/download.htm So: using a protocol that downloads and uploads at the same time (eg. BitTorrent) to obtain copyrighted works would be illegal. Receiving an email containing such works would not.

  19. Re:In Soviet United States... oh wait on New Hampshire Primaries Follow-Up Analysis · · Score: 1

    Hey, don't knock those communist tenements. Apparently they're a great investment these days.

  20. Re:I guess my age shows now on What Was Your First Gaming Experience? · · Score: 1

    My friends and I used to love Chaos. Many I night we'd spend drinking cheap lager chancing our luck with a dragon spell.

    I hacked the game to give the faun massive movement and attack capabilities. It was pretty funny to send one right across the board to obliterate an enemy.

  21. Re:Overdose on Coverity Reports Open Source Security Making Great Strides · · Score: 1

    Hmmm... posting that link ought to spike their project activity stats for a couple of days. ;-)

  22. Re:RTF Vs. OOXML on RTF Vs. OOXML · · Score: 1

    Maybe you could get Zed to train you.

  23. Re:Oh noes! on Iran Builds Supercomputer From Banned AMD Parts · · Score: 4, Informative

    Actually the link is an Australian repost of an American media story. Here's the original (as linked in the Australian repost): http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=204800653&cid=RSSfeed_IWK_All

  24. Word95 on OOXML's 662 Resolutions · · Score: 1

    Here are the responses to that oft-reported Word95 kludge: http://www.dis29500.org/?s=word95

    Interesting that the responses look like they were written by different people.

  25. Happy Festivus! on Yahoo Settles With Imprisoned Chinese Journalists · · Score: 1

    This is that card that Yahoo! will be sending to those families.