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  1. Re:4th Amendment on US Customs Destroys Virtuoso's Flutes Because They Were "Agricultural Items" · · Score: 1

    the 4th has never applied to international borders.

  2. M7 Ilst on Ask Slashdot: What Are the Books Everyone Should Read? · · Score: 1

    1) Catch 22 2) LOTR trilogy 3) Stranger In a Strange Land 4) Everything by Ray Bradbury 5) The entire Discworld Series 6) The Gormenghast series. 7) Of Mice and Men 8) Also sprach Zarathustra: Ein Buch für Alle und Keinen 9) Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica 10) God Is Not Great

  3. by the hand that feeds it i'm going to assume the government and not the movie/music buying public - whom they already persecute.

  4. or simply inform Adobe, Microsoft, MPAA and all other interested parties for the data you have on your laptop that the US Government is in violation of copyright by copying their data which you have licensed and legally hold on your laptop. Let them with fatter wallets sue them.

  5. Re:confusion? on UK Introduces Warrantless Detention · · Score: 1

    true, however breach of the peace isn't an arrestable offence if it is not ongoing nor likely to recur.

  6. Re:confusion? on UK Introduces Warrantless Detention · · Score: 1

    breach of the peace is *NOT* and never has been an arrestable offence if it is neither on going or likely to recur. So you can stop yourself from being arrested if you shut up when the police arrive ;-)

  7. Re:confusion? on UK Introduces Warrantless Detention · · Score: 1

    actually, the police have a warrant that permits them to arrest for arrestable offences. the police seldom don't know what is and isn't an arrestable offence though as I can attest. I was once "arrested" until I explained to the officer that my "crime" wasn't actually an arrestable offence and they could only arrest me during the commision of the crime or if it was likely to recur (which it wasn't), so they would need a proper warrant to arrest me. the matter was dropped.

  8. Re:And they used to say... on World's Largest Ship Floated For the First Time · · Score: 1

    I always thought it was about a Captain that could keep his ship in the harbour long enough to get everyone off.

  9. Re:An example to follow on Norway's Army Battles Global Warming By Going Vegetarian · · Score: 0

    I suspect that the methane produced through the switch to a vegetarian diet would overshadow the CO2 reduction. Methane is thought to be a much more efficient greenhouse gas.

  10. I thought that the firing pin and the bullets were still metal and therefore detectable?

  11. Re:ironic idiocy on Clam That Was Killed Determining Its Age Was Over 100 Years Older Than Estimated · · Score: 1

    why not? they are the finniest books in living memory.

  12. Re:ironic idiocy on Clam That Was Killed Determining Its Age Was Over 100 Years Older Than Estimated · · Score: 5, Insightful

    it was frozen upon collection (standard procedure). So it was already dead when they counted in inside. Do not wish scorn upon others for it may fall upon you.

  13. can't anyone English anymore on Military Drone Lost Over Lake Ontario · · Score: 0

    s/practice/practise/g you want the verb, not the noun.

  14. Re:standard operating procedure on Military Drone Lost Over Lake Ontario · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    i think both you and the summary mean "practise" the verb, not practice the noun.

  15. Re:I have an question on Researcher Allows Sand Flea To Grow Inside Her Foot To Study It · · Score: 5, Funny

    The foor is a little known keyboard elf that causes's typo, they like to live under spacebars as this allows them greater room to breed but it is not unknown for them to inhabit any key on a keyboard. They are a distant cousin of the Mouse-monkey that yanks your pointer to that link you really shouldn't have clicked - these are responsible for a large number of relationship breakups amongst humans.

  16. well done to her on Researcher Allows Sand Flea To Grow Inside Her Foot To Study It · · Score: 2

    There's a great tradition of self sacrifice for the benefit of scientific knowledge the name Curie and Rutherford spring to mind although they are both what might be termed as "uninformed sacrifices" at the time - but have reaped a huge benefits for scientists and the general public at large. I'm also mindful of intentional infestation with hookworm as a cure for all sorts of ailments from asthma to IBD - all with a modicom of sucess that hopefully peer review that will better our experience of being human beings. Way to go, this is how to science!

  17. Re:Comment Subject: on Credit Card Numbers Still Google-able · · Score: 1

    If I were you, not out of spite - but out of concern for J Q Public - I'd drop an email to the auditors. OK, I admit it, there'd be some spite involved.

  18. Re:why he chose France on French Court Orders Google To Block Pictures of Ex-F1 Chief Mosley · · Score: 1

    and this yet again shows me why I should preview and re-read my posts. I think I typed "i think he" but the "think he" got lost in the buffer.

  19. why he chose France on French Court Orders Google To Block Pictures of Ex-F1 Chief Mosley · · Score: 4, Insightful

    because the french have very tight privacy laws - they have rather strict photography laws too, you don't even get freedom of panorama in France. I sued there because he could win there.

  20. The NSF have just placed an order for a rubber stamp that reads "This would increase the nation's scientific knowledge"

  21. Re:tacit admission on Full Details of My Attempted Entrapment For Teaching Polygraph Countermeasures · · Score: 1

    that's just wrong, there are states where they are inadmissible - but their a plenty of states that do admit them into court proceedings. I also consider the police to be part of the justice system as they're the ones that drag you into court - they should have no truck with these pointless tests either. In point of fact - if the police do ask you to take the test and you beat it - they simply consider that you beat the test, not that you are innocent turning the whole tacking of the test into a lose-lose situation.

  22. FTFY on Feinstein and Rogers: No Clemency For Snowden · · Score: 4, Insightful

    "Weâ(TM)ve done this enormous disservice to our country, and he's exposed us for that."

  23. Re:tacit admission on Full Details of My Attempted Entrapment For Teaching Polygraph Countermeasures · · Score: 3, Informative

    polygraphs don't work, it's pseudoscience. A real justice system wouldn't allow such nonsense anywhere near it.

  24. Re:Odd words on Charles Carreon Finally Surrenders To the Oatmeal · · Score: 2

    it is not unwonted for a nabob such as he to attempt to appear erudite and loquacious by using obnubilative and superannuated terminology. That darned popinjay!.

  25. Re:More than just Tucker on Peter Capaldi Unveiled As the New Star of Doctor Who · · Score: 1

    also a non-living role. Uncle Rory was dead (except in flashbacks)