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  1. Re:Who the hell cares? on Report Finds Google Supervisors Knew About Wi-Fi Data Harvesting · · Score: 1

    When I buy equipment whose purpose is to broadcast I cannot blame someone for listening. In the case of the window I am taking steps to make sure no one listens in and you are going out of your way with explicit equipment to override my intention. This violates a key tenant of the law, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expectation_of_privacy. A more accurate one would be this: You are outside outside on a public street and see that my wifi name is foobar. Do you really think I have the legal right to now ask for your arrest for violating my privacy.

  2. Re:What people figured all along on Report Finds Google Supervisors Knew About Wi-Fi Data Harvesting · · Score: 2

    Probably never... he just read the report. Give reading a try, you might find that you like it.

  3. Who the hell cares? on Report Finds Google Supervisors Knew About Wi-Fi Data Harvesting · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Let's sum up the whole thing, "Google had not violated any laws". That's straight from the article and the FCC investigation report. Not one single law was broken, PERIOD. So how is this news? If the NYT really wants to do news about privacy rights why doesn't it put the bullshit CISPA on the front page instead of ignoring it.

  4. Probably Wrong on Cringely Predicts IBM Will Shed 78% of US Employees By 2015 · · Score: 5, Insightful
    Considering the fact that most of his big predictions are completely wrong why believe he's right? When did Apple buy out Time Warner Cable? How about Facebook forking and going against LinkedIn. Or Apple’s white iPhone 4 would be the Verizon iPhone 4?

    What kind of predictions does he get right? Software will crash and Google will be the new Microsoft and Microsoft will be the new IBM.

    http://www.cringely.com/tag/2011-predictions/

  5. Re:Arianna on NY District Judge Dismisses Blogger Suit Against Huffington Post · · Score: 1

    Capitalist is derived from capital, which evolved from capitale, a late Latin word based on proto-Indo-European caput, meaning "head"; Capitale emerged in the 12th to 13th centuries.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitalism

    Capitalism is human rights viewed from an economic and political perspective.

    No it's not, please site a reputable verificable source for this ridiculous statement

  6. Re:WTF? on UK Man Jailed For 'Offensive Tweets' · · Score: 1

    The reason is a hate crime is because you are going to repeat it therefore it carries a much more serious weight. If someone kills someone else because of their race he's going to do it again unless that was the last person of that race.

  7. Re:Double standards for network tracking on Stolen iPad's Reported Location Not Enough To Warrant Search, Say Dutch Police · · Score: 1

    I dont see anywhere in the wikipedia entry that mentions a warrant issued on users based on network traffic. The word warrant appears only once and it concerns actually seizing materials from the Pirate Bays offices.

  8. Re:Double standards for network tracking on Stolen iPad's Reported Location Not Enough To Warrant Search, Say Dutch Police · · Score: 1

    You are mixing up the laws between countries. In the US you can get a search warrant for both. Only in Holland are the police and courts so lazy they dont want to do their jobs. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2012/03/03/BAL01NFOUT.DTL

  9. What exactly makes you think that the Dutch are a multinational society? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_the_Netherlands It seems only 15-17% are nonwhite while in the US 12.4% of the population are black/afrtican http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_and_ethnicity_in_the_United_States#Black_Americans. Then you have to factor in hispanics and asians and other races. Do you have any facts to backup your claim?

  10. Re:Ars Technica Lnk on FBI Tries To Force Google To Unlock User's Android Phone · · Score: 1
    He was found guilty, did partial time and placed on parole for the rest. He lied to his parole officer which violated parole.

    Agents conducted surveillance on Dears and found that he was using a mobile phone to allegedly communicate with prostitutes and other associates. Dears had denied to his parole officer that he owned a mobile phone, and in January the parole officer went to Dears's apartment and seized the phone.

    And he is an Asshole since he was CONVICTED of various crimes including human trafficking. "one minor female testified how Dears had recruited her out of a homeless shelter.... Dears found out the woman had spoken to a man who wanted to help her get off the streets. So Dears "beat her up in the back seat of his Cadillac and then forced her to get into the car's trunk, she testified. While in the trunk, she was driven from East Main Street in El Cajon to Hotel Circle in Mission Valley" http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2012/03/fbi-stumped-by-pimps-androids-pattern-lock-serves-warrant-on-google.ars

    So yah he's an asshole

  11. Re:Ars Technica Lnk on FBI Tries To Force Google To Unlock User's Android Phone · · Score: 3, Interesting

    What is "rubber stamped" on the warrant since it was when he was caught lying to his parole officer and violating parole? "Dears had denied to his parole officer that he owned a mobile phone, and in January the parole officer went to Dears's apartment and seized the phone."

  12. Re:huh? on James Whittaker: Focus on Ads and 'Social' Destroying Google · · Score: 1

    A phone bought at cost from Nokia with no carrier subsides, that way you can run whatever you want. There you go.

  13. Re:Man whose job relies on the scientific method.. on Lawsuit Claims NASA Specialist Was Fired Over Intelligent Design Belief · · Score: 1
    To try to convert people at work is stupid and is completely inappropriate. But there are plenty of scientists who believe in a God; so to assume that being a scientist excludes the idea of accepting a supreme being to me to seems incredibly short sighted.

    http://www.amazon.com/Language-God-Scientist-Presents-Evidence/dp/0743286391

    And more who would support belief more than atheism.

    "The fanatical atheists are like slaves who are still feeling the weight of their chains which they have thrown off after hard struggle. They are creatures who--in their grudge against traditional religion as the 'opium of the masses'-- cannot hear the music of the spheres." --Albert Einstein

    http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1607298,00.html#ixzz1owehfaA6

    http://www.amazon.com/Einstein-Life-Universe-Walter-Isaacson/dp/0743264746/

    "The situation may be expressed by an image: science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.".......... The two go hand in hand.

  14. Re:Math check... on ESL — a CRT-Based Replacement For CFL Lights Without the Mercury · · Score: 1
    I don't think any e-waste fee is based on the weight of the item directly. It seems Canada charges differently per item and the price varies depending on the province.

    http://www.iphoneincanada.ca/apple-hardware/canadians-to-pay-e-waste-fee-on-computers-and-electronics/

    The author probably took the total fees Canada collected and simply divided by the total weight of the items recycled and used American units since that is the audience he's targeting.

  15. Re:Switch away from .com? on US Asserts Super-Jurisdiction Over Dot-Com, Dot-Net, and Dot-Org Domains · · Score: 5, Informative
    This law article explains the situation in detail.

    http://www.law.umn.edu/uploads/x9/zx/x9zxd7nnmzDMMwHVC-aRHw/Sonbuchner-Final-Online-PDF-04.07.09.pdf

  16. Re:Switch away from .com? on US Asserts Super-Jurisdiction Over Dot-Com, Dot-Net, and Dot-Org Domains · · Score: 2
    The RFC you site are all produced and controlled by the United States government, specially made by IANA. IANA is managed by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) under contract to the United States Department of Commerce (DOC). The Department of Commerce also provides an ongoing oversight function, whereby it verifies additions and changes made in the DNS root zone to ensure IANA complies with its policies.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Assigned_Numbers_Authority

    In July 2008, the U.S. Department of Commerce reiterated an earlier statement[8] that it has "no plans to transition management of the authoritative root zone file to ICANN". The letter also stresses the separate roles of the IANA and VeriSign.[9]

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICANN

    The article can be found here: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/07/01/bush_net_policy/

  17. Re:Switch away from .com? on US Asserts Super-Jurisdiction Over Dot-Com, Dot-Net, and Dot-Org Domains · · Score: 5, Informative
    No the .com domain belongs to the US. .com, .net, .gov, .mil, .edu, .and org are ALL US domains. Since the US invented the internet through ARPNET those extensions do not need the .us at the end. This was specifically designed to follow the stamp model. The UK came up with the idea of standard postage and it's the only country not needed to identify itself.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postage_stamp_design#Country_name

    Jurisdiction is clearly under the control of the US. .com was originally made and administered by the US Department of Defense. Anyone can register and get a .com domain name but it's clearly under US jurisdiction.

    http://www.ntia.doc.gov/legacy/ntiahome/domainname/agreements/summary-factsheet.htm

  18. Re:Spending, not solutions on LAPD Surveillance Cameras Go Unused · · Score: 1

    Cite it or it doesn't exist

  19. Amazon has even more expensive cables on Customers Gleefully Mock Best Buy's $1,095.99 HDMI · · Score: 1
    It's not like other retailers don't have this issue, Amazon has several such cables.

    http://www.amazon.com/Diamond-Digital-Audio-Ethernet-Connection/dp/B003CT2A6I/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1324924465&sr=8-3

  20. Re:Guys, no need to speculate about what GPLv2 say on Ask Slashdot: How Best To Deal With a GPLv2 License Infringement? · · Score: 1

    Clearly you have just joined Slashdot, logic and reasoning are frowned upon here. It's all about speculation and passing off gut feeling and anecdotes as facts.

  21. Re:Trickle down? on Facebook Could Spawn Thousands of Milionaires · · Score: 1

    To be fair it isn't Zuckerberg but the stupidity of Facebook's users. No one at FB forced people to post information from their most private thoughts to their bowel movements to the web.

  22. Re:Bogus on Bloggers Not Journalists, Federal Judge Rules · · Score: 1

    In all of those cases a plea bargain was made between the defendant and the prosecutor. In each case a Judge must sign off and approve that the agreement is fair to all parties. So it is how it works in practice. There are many instances where judges have rejected them, especially in civil fraud cases.

    http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/money/52263468-79/wright-investors-million-plea.html.csp

    http://www.myfoxboston.com/dpps/entertainment/trouble-for-willie-nelson-as-judge-rejects-plea-bargain-dpgonc-20110707-ch_14023686

    http://jonathanturley.org/2011/06/03/answering-the-lords-prayer-judge-rejects-plea-as-too-lenient-jury-then-acquits-defendant/

  23. Re:It's Not ALL Bloggers on Bloggers Not Journalists, Federal Judge Rules · · Score: 1

    It does not say anywhere on that page that Fox argued it was not a news organization. It clearly states that the legal argument was that the Federal Communications Commission position against news distortion is only a “policy,” not a promulgated law, rule, or regulation.

  24. Re:Wont someone think of on Teenager Builds $300 Open Source Eye-Tracking System · · Score: 1

    The second we say we only buy our own goods, other countries will say that wont take in American exports. And of the material that we do need to import, such as rare earth minerals, countries can easily increase the cost to try to make up for the lack of US purchases of their products. So it's not so dead simple.