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  1. Re:I wonder if... on Bank That Suppressed WikiLeaks Gives It Up · · Score: 1

    Julius Baer of course has no need to respect wikileaks freedom of the press only the government and that means the judge, but by filing a motion to have the government infringe the wikileaks freedom of the press, Baer restrained the trade of wikileaks by induced the court to infringe on wikileak's freedom of the press. If I tell the village idiot to go jump off a bridge, his widow isn't going to be impressed when I say "I didn't think he was that stupid". The court should have known better, but it wouldn't have if not for Baer's motion.

  2. Re:Sure we can. on Bank That Suppressed WikiLeaks Gives It Up · · Score: 1

    Their fee.
    What does their fee have to do with their expertise; do you think the snowjob artist who depends on his fee for making his mortgage payment is going to charge less that the real expert who will have to take time out of productive work to be deposed?

  3. Re:I wonder if... on Bank That Suppressed WikiLeaks Gives It Up · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I would think that by moving to have their domain removed from resolution resulted in wikileaks being harmed and they should be eligible for damages. When Baer filed suit for copyright, it could be argued that the filing was a defacto admission of the documents authenticity and if the document is authentic then it's also newsworthy and becuase it's new the freedoms of the press apply and wikileak's trade was restrained for no good reason.

  4. measure the hype on When Should We Ditch Our Platform? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I've found that the more a manufacturer hypes a product the more likely it is to be a flash in the pan; If your lucky the previous programmer made a well designed application that will be easy to translate into other platforms or languages. Still sooner or later everything goes the way of the dodoe, I learned COBOL once apon a time.

  5. Re:summary wrong on Record Box Office Indicates MPAA 'Piracy Problem' Hot Air · · Score: 1

    WOW meatloaf got paid, who'da thunk. Somehow I thought he even lost performance rights to that in the USA.

  6. Re:summary wrong on Record Box Office Indicates MPAA 'Piracy Problem' Hot Air · · Score: 1

    the cash registers of most stores will not let a DVD be sold before the street date, so they have to be stolen so the "pirate" can rip and seed them before it hits the streets.

  7. Re:cool on Statue of Galileo Planned for Vatican · · Score: 1

    We have a reciprocal agreement with Lambton Co Comm College in CA so I , an American can get in-district tuition rates in Canada and they get our in-district at St. Clair Co Comm College in the US.

  8. Re:Discovery rules in Civil vs. Criminal cases? on Should RIAA Investigators Have To Disclose Evidence? · · Score: 1

    I keep seeing "IANAL" in comments on the RIAA and wonder to myself, what does the RIAA have to do with sodomy?
    keep reading the comments, sooner or later it'll click, then you'll say to "DOAH, now I get it, goatsex is us, not the RIAA"

  9. Re:Discovery rules in Civil vs. Criminal cases? on Should RIAA Investigators Have To Disclose Evidence? · · Score: 1

    I'd be tempted to say "Expert witnesses get $300.00 an hour, to fill your request, we charge for the first whole hour, then any additional. Due to the nature of this work there are occasions where results may be unavailable due to system errors, this doesn't not release you from financial obligations to us for the determination. If you agree with the terms and conditions, please sent a check tho cover the first hour."

  10. Re:Disclose Evidence? on Should RIAA Investigators Have To Disclose Evidence? · · Score: 1

    The Emperor has no cloths

  11. Re:who will pay? on MIT's Nano Storage Could Replace Hybrid Batteries · · Score: 1

    .. or it melts regular cars, especially some of the rust buckets that cruise the expressway through Detroit. Metal cars driving 70-90 MPH over big-ass high current inductive coils in the concrete full of steel rebar just seems scary to me; I think I'll let somebody else test drive the prototypes for a while.

  12. Re:Not Faster on Strict Order Boarding Would Get Planes in the Sky Faster · · Score: 1

    then the airlines could serve popcorn in stead of peanuts, because that's what everyone would suddenly start craving.

  13. Re:Bigger Problem Than You Think on Government Mistakenly Declares Deaths of Citizens · · Score: 1

    I don't think there is, Ted Kennedy used to get hasseled quite a bid at the airport because he flew under his better known nickname rather than his given name.

  14. Re:What should have been. on Government Mistakenly Declares Deaths of Citizens · · Score: 1

    the first three digit are or were a location code so there is no guarantee that a SSN alone is a unique identifier because the system has been in use for a while and numbers of the deceased are recycled back into the system and the population densities have change over the decades. Cringely got interviewed by the FBI who wanted to know why he stated that there were 17 Million illegal aliens in the US as a fact; he told them that a source he had in the credit reporting agencies told him that that many valid SSN were in use by multiple persons in the country.

  15. Re:Err, shouldn't the proof be right there? on Government Mistakenly Declares Deaths of Citizens · · Score: 1

    How many people ever read this warning, "Format C:, press any key to continue"?

  16. Re:wouldn't it be great? on Government Mistakenly Declares Deaths of Citizens · · Score: 1

    Being dead would definitely stop her from running, but being dead wouldn't stop people from voting for her especially around Chicago.

  17. Re:death certificate on Government Mistakenly Declares Deaths of Citizens · · Score: 1

    They do, but flying fingers in data entry means the wrong guy dies in the database when the wrong keys get hit.

  18. Re:Even getting a job is nixed to on Government Mistakenly Declares Deaths of Citizens · · Score: 1

    if your number shows up as dead, then they'll just figure your doing the lame "dead guy's" SSN routine because your some manner of criminal. Then one of two things will happen, they'll hire you and use you like a peon or figure you'll be more hassle than your worth and never call you back.

  19. Re:There could be an up-side to this ... on Government Mistakenly Declares Deaths of Citizens · · Score: 1

    so now when he gets caught he they take everything he has to pay off the past taxes on the 1st Id, then he still has to pay taxes on the second ID and he goes to prison too, and sooner or later they will catch him.

  20. Re:Do you trust the government with your idenity? on Government Mistakenly Declares Deaths of Citizens · · Score: 1

    you'd have to piss off somebody farther up the food chain for that to happen, a police officer wouldn't have the juice to make that happen, in the scheme of things Corrections Officers are whale-shit and Police Officers are bottom-feeders.

  21. Re:Do you trust the government with your idenity? on Government Mistakenly Declares Deaths of Citizens · · Score: 1

    he was British, and the story was quite amusing in a "better him than me" kind of way

  22. Re:Do you trust the government with your idenity? on Government Mistakenly Declares Deaths of Citizens · · Score: 1

    how do we know it's really you that's not dead, it might be your twin brother, can you prove you don't have a living twin brother to steal an IDS from?

  23. Re:Do you trust the government with your idenity? on Government Mistakenly Declares Deaths of Citizens · · Score: 1

    Damn, I'm going to get in the same line as you from now on.

  24. Re:Mistake in Article? on Large Sheets of Carbon Nanotubes Produced · · Score: 1

    so basically it will have to compete with Balsa wood and Stika Spruce.

  25. Re:No Jury on Court Finds Spamming Not Protected By Constitution · · Score: 1

    A jury is a sworn body of persons convened to render a rational, impartial verdict and a finding of fact on a legal question officially submitted to them, or to set a penalty or judgment in a jury trial of a court of law. The word "jury" originates in Latin, from "juris"-law. In French, it became "juri" a law body.

    The petit jury or trial jury hears the evidence in a case and decides the disputed facts and usually consists of 12 jurors, although Scotland uses 15 jurors in criminal trials.
    Jury

    By that definition a panel of judges hear a case would be a jury, but would not be a Trial or Petit Jury; while calling an appeals court panel a jury may be a bit atypical, calling the Judges in the panel Jurists isn't, at least in the US.