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  1. Re:Why is it a sealed criminal complaint? on US Charges Edward Snowden With Espionage · · Score: 1

    Any spy agency has plenty to hide.

  2. Seriously, the is no comparison in capability between say, an X-Box 360. Consoles will still be the choice for graphic-intensive gaming. The iPad just doesn't have the horsepower with a Cortex-A8 processor. And if it did, it would burn your hands because there's no fan.

  3. For all this talk about honoring Aaron Schwartz... on Aaron's Law Would Revamp Computer Fraud Penalties · · Score: 1

    ...what he did will still be a crime.

  4. Re:Not good enough. on Aaron's Law Would Revamp Computer Fraud Penalties · · Score: 1

    Scenario: Two guys are drinking in a bar. The get in an argument over something really stupid. Later, when leaving the bar, one of them yells an insult at the other. A fight ensues. The police show up and make some arrests. They have the second guy dead to rights on assault, because he was angry and threw the first punch, and the other guy has a black eye. What would you have the prosecutor do?

    In most cases, the prosecutor charges him with simple assault and offers that if he pleads to disorderly conduct. The prosecutor can prove either charge, as there are multiple witnesses.

    Like most extreme positions, yours is foolish.

  5. Re:TIL: Adblocking in IE is actually BUILT-IN on Stanford, Mozilla, Opera Launch Web Privacy Initiative · · Score: 1

    What's wrong with reddit?

    What isn't?

  6. Re:A conspiracy... proving you wrong on 2 Men Accused of Trying To Make X-Ray Weapon · · Score: 1

    Whoa whoa, what have to do those guys in ALF with the rest of monsters you list here? They wouldn't hurt rabbits nor human beings.

    Well there have been car bombs.

  7. Re:Why Your Sysadmin Hates You on Why Your Sysadmin Hates You · · Score: 1

    Fraid not. Some people are born misanthropes and they become BOFH as soon as you give them the authority. Same as any profession. There are always bad apples on the tree.

  8. Re:So... on Why Your Sysadmin Hates You · · Score: 1

    As a manager, I'm pleased that you are all giving me so many ideas I can implement immediately to increase operational efficiency.

  9. So they're different than other co workers? on Why Your Sysadmin Hates You · · Score: 1

    In what way?

  10. Re:"It turns out"? on Length of Applause Not Tied To Quality of Presentation · · Score: 1

    I'd like to see a study in audiences composed mostly parents of the performers are compared to audiences of unrelated adults.

    Just this weekend I heard somebody trying to convince radio listeners that knowing when to start and stop clapping was a fine example of the "the wisdom of crowds." I like to see situations where real sociologists put such notions in their pseudoscientific place.

  11. Re:"It turns out"? on Length of Applause Not Tied To Quality of Presentation · · Score: 1

    I agree "It turns out" is a lousy way to express a scientific finding. "Scientists demonstrate" is a much better phrase to use.

  12. Re:I'm so happy that some scientists on Length of Applause Not Tied To Quality of Presentation · · Score: 1

    That has nothing to do with it. Clapping is not expected at a scientific presentation. Because it's not expected, people mostly don't do it.

  13. Re:It's about the right to choose on Stanford, Mozilla, Opera Launch Web Privacy Initiative · · Score: 3, Funny

    That's called Internet Explorer isn't it?

  14. Re:A conspiracy... proving you wrong on 2 Men Accused of Trying To Make X-Ray Weapon · · Score: 1
    You forgot
    • Eric Rudolph and Army of God
    • Animal Liberation Front
    • Aryan Nations
    • Ku Klux Klan
    • Black Liberation Army
    • The Convenant, The Sword and the Arm of the Lord
    • Jewish Defense League
    • The Order
    • Phinneas Priesthood
    • Wade Michael Page
  15. Re:A conspiracy... on 2 Men Accused of Trying To Make X-Ray Weapon · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Easy mistake. I made the same mistake when I first read it. Had to go back and read it a couple times before I saw it. Yeah, we all know know that not all terrorists are Muslim. But we're not used to it.

    Short memories. I remember when a large proportion of terrorists were Catholic.

  16. Re:A conspiracy... on 2 Men Accused of Trying To Make X-Ray Weapon · · Score: 1

    Always trying to claim credit. It wasn't the Peoples' Front of Judea. Those guys are bumbling idiots. This was the Judean Peoples' Front.

  17. Re:Why so much? on Microsoft Launches $100k Bug Bounty Program · · Score: 1

    Because there has been a body of very effective bug finders who find bugs for profit.

  18. Re:Bugs in Windows? Unthinkable! on Microsoft Launches $100k Bug Bounty Program · · Score: 1

    Not likely. It's an "up to" meaning "not more than." Any amount less than $100,001 is in compliance with that policy.

  19. Where is the right to face one's accuser? on NSA's Role In Terror Cases Concealed From Defense Lawyers · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Isn't that a bedrock principle of our justice system? What would you do if you were on a jury where the prosecutor was allowed to talk about evidence and not even the defendant's attorney was allowed to to see the order that showed it was legally obtained?

    Should the jury at that point disregard the evidence because they can presume it was illegally obtained?

  20. Re:Come on, Google on Google Files First Amendment Challenge Against FISA Gag Order · · Score: 1

    That really depends. If the government insists on acting as if the court hadn't decided anything there's really no way for the court to enforce its decisions. Really, it only has the power to affect how courts rule in cases that are brought to court.

  21. Re:SCOTUS is final on Google Files First Amendment Challenge Against FISA Gag Order · · Score: 1

    They only take cases where there is a dispute as to what the law says. That's how they got in the business of deciding constitutional issues. Laws often conflict with one another. In the case of ordinary laws, they're typically self-enacting. You make a law that says X is illegal, that supercedes any law that says it's legal. But the Constitution can't be so easily changed. Statutes can't override it. So laws are often found to be in conflict with one or another part of the Constitution.

  22. Re:why not just publish them? on Google Files First Amendment Challenge Against FISA Gag Order · · Score: 1

    That really doesn't happen in spy cases and they would be charged (if at all) under the same laws. See Walter and Gwendolyn Myers, Chi Mak, Donald Keyser, Leandro Aragoncillo, Lawrence Franklin, etc. They all got trials and prison time in the USA.

    The real risk for Google is that the government could shut them down.

  23. Re:wtf on Supreme Court Decides Your Silence May Be Used Against You · · Score: 1

    You realize that's complete nonsense though, don't you? In the real world, rights are the principles that society and the law uphold regarding personal freedom. Anything right someone thinks they have that isn't universally or near-universally respected might as well not exist.

    If these things were really natural things that every human being possesses, there would never have been a need to write them down, except as observations of scientists and philosophers who said, "That's funny. Nobody ever tries to limit the free expression of another person. There must be something in human nature that prevents people from doing that.

  24. Re:Wow on Supreme Court Decides Your Silence May Be Used Against You · · Score: 1

    Except according to the Supreme Court, maybe you don't.

  25. Re:wtf on Supreme Court Decides Your Silence May Be Used Against You · · Score: 2

    Just wait. The Supremes will find a way to take that away too.