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  1. The Tenth Amendment does not include the word "expressly" for the specific reason of not overriding the Necessary and Proper Clause of Article 1, Section 8. Powers are no more enumerated than rights are, though powers do have much greater constraints.

    In addition, the Supreme Court has upheld the broad interpretation of "general welfare" in Clause 1. So long as NPR is available for the *national* welfare and is not otherwise infringe on the state's power, the five cents it gets from the federal government is constitutional.

  2. Re:Israel on FBI Hires Cellebrite To Crack San Bernadino iPhone (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Besides which, TowerJazz *is* an Israeli company. It owns Jazz Semiconductor which is the US company.

  3. Re:Israel on FBI Hires Cellebrite To Crack San Bernadino iPhone (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    That wasn't the claim that Grishnakh made.

  4. Re:Middle-click paste, really? on GNOME 3.20 Officially Released (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    So you complain that the clipboard system alters what you copy... then go on to describe how you want the clipboard system to alter what you copy.

  5. There was two aspects to their naivete:

    1) Thinking that someone could just walk out of the building with a sack of nuclear material, if only sufficient threats were made.
    2) Thinking that someone being threatened with "help us [or] we'll kill your family" would not be able to figure out that he and his family will be dead anyway.

  6. Re:Burner phones !!! on Whistleblower: NSA Is So Overwhelmed With Data, It's No Longer Effective (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    "or you have to communicate the new information"

    You load the new numbers into the address book on the new sim card that you already have to put in the the new phones that you already have to hand out on a regular basis. The end users only need to know which contact name to use for which purpose.

  7. Re:We're a Startup! on Samsung Plans To Give Up Authoritarian Ways, Act Like a Startup · · Score: 1

    Also, your stock/stock options have no market value.

  8. You're so concerned that a problem not show itself in a case where you could feel bad about it happening that you'd make sure that they'd never take the problem seriously.

    That is the height of selfishness.

  9. Re:Keep saying there's no Islamic terrorist proble on Terrorist Attack In Brussels Airport and Metro Station: At Least 34 Dead (mirror.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Keep saying there's no person-with-head terrorist problem.

    I'll believe it when the headless start repeatedly shooting people and blowing themselves up because someone drew a fucking cartoon.

    The problem is that people who do not understand conditional probability think that a reasonable response to terrorists that claim to be Moslem is to hassle everyone that is a Moslem, when that really just means they will drown us in false positives. There is such a small population of terrorists that the criterion of "Moselm" by itself is in no way sufficient to build a useful forensic profile.

  10. Who wil block the ad blocker blockers? on What Lies Beneath: The First Transatlantic Communications Cables (hackaday.com) · · Score: 1

    "if Wired accepts all risk associated with the ads on their site as well as stops tracking my browsing."

    Considering that ad blocker blockers have been used to distribute malware, I am not hopeful on this point.

  11. Re:Cook is wrong about why banks keep information on Tim Cook Talks About Encryption, Right to Privacy, Public Safety, and DOJ (time.com) · · Score: 1

    The Senate Intelligence Committee is on the job! http://www.reuters.com/article...

  12. Re:Cook is wrong about why banks keep information on Tim Cook Talks About Encryption, Right to Privacy, Public Safety, and DOJ (time.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    "If the federal government can compel banks to keep this information I'm not sure what prevents them from compelling Apple as well. "

    What prevents them is the lack of actual law that authorizes the federal government to do so. If we want the federal government to able to compel Apple to turn this data over then we must make a law authorizing the federal government to do so. IF not, then the federal government should not be using unrelated threats to compel a "voluntary" action that it cannot actually compel.

  13. Re:By what definition were they not compromised? on Malvertising Campaign Hits MSN, NY Times, BBC, AOL · · Score: 1

    "If you've configured your site to allow arbitrary content from unknown third-parties, your site is compromised by design. "

    Stronger version: If you have taken money to specifically configure your site to allow arbitrary content from unknown third-parties, you are an accessory to the resulting crimes..

  14. Smartphone makers in Russia on Google Loses Anti-Monopoly Appeal In Russia Over Android Bundling (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Who makes smartphones in Russia to be affected?

  15. Re:Check your FUCKING Privilige! on NASA Begins Planning the First Human Mission To Cislunar Space (blastingnews.com) · · Score: 1

    It is politically correct to blame things on political correctness.

  16. Where I work:

    a) VGA is the most common video port on the laptops issued by the company. (2nd most common is mini-DVI.)
    b) VGA is the most likely to get you a image at the native resolution of the variety of displays at a reasonable refresh rate without any jittering.

    So putting in VGA is a sign that interfaces are chosen based on what makes sense, rather than religion.

  17. Re:Netflix: It would be very helpful... on An Inside Look At How Netflix Builds Code (sdtimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Well... it doesn't have three disjoint paste buffers.

  18. Succeding, according to their incentives on An Inside Look At How Netflix Builds Code (sdtimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Viewers value the amount of time they get to spend watching things. Suppliers charge by the number of times a stream is started and by the popularity of the streamed work. Therefore, Netflix is incentivized to get you to watch any random thing the whole way through then start you on the next random thing.

    What you are complaining about are deliberate choices which show that Netflix is successfully responding to their incentives.

  19. Re:How safe again? on GM Buys Driverless Software Startup Cruise Automation (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    "With all the talk of how it's impossible for a computer to have an accident "

    -1, strawman

  20. Re:Solved Problem?!?!?? on Thanks For the Memories: Touring the Awesome Random Access of Old (hackaday.com) · · Score: 1

    " SRAM ... isn't widely used in PCs due to cost. "

    All on-die CPU caches are SRAM.

    " it does have to be searched by polling every used address"

    Entries in a tag ram are mapped in the same way the entries in the related caches are mapped. The Tag ram give you the complete address for the store cache line that is then compared to the desired address to determine if the desired address is actually in the cache.

    "a CPU cache today uses content-addressable memory"
    At most, selection of a line out of a set from an associative cache is content addressed. Choosing the set is still direct mapped, and not all caches are associative.

  21. Re:Solved Problem?!?!?? on Thanks For the Memories: Touring the Awesome Random Access of Old (hackaday.com) · · Score: 2

    "Random Access Memory (RAM) can only access one memory address at once. "

    Random Access Memory can access memory randomly. The term includes no prior restraint on the number of ports. Internal caches are (typically) specifically SRAM, where you will note the "RAM" portion of the acronym.

    "If you tried to use it for CPU cache, you would have to store the address of each cached word (collection of bytes) along with the value"

    Caches already store the address of each cached word. This is the Tag RAM. Although once you are in the CPU you are typically operation on a portion of the address since the CPU internally can only access a portion of the address space at once. This portion is the Tag.

  22. "It's also not the court's job to enforce the minutia of the license terms"

    Having the court enforce terms is the *entire point* of contract law.

  23. Re:American leftsist are taking note... on China Car-Tracking Scheme Could Allow Higher Fuel Prices For Gas-Guzzling Cars (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    Any right is implicitly constitutionally protected, but there is no restriction for non-rights. So we are still left with the question of what is a right or not. Do I have a right to a free pony?

  24. Re:Implementation problem on Paperless Statements Not Always Best Choice, Says New Report · · Score: 1

    The interceptor can now brute-force the password offline with no hope of any "N password failures so lock the account" policy kicking in. You can buy PDF password crackers commercially.

  25. Re:Implementation problem on Paperless Statements Not Always Best Choice, Says New Report · · Score: 1

    Then we are also back to my response elsewhere in these comments that just like the receiver cannot trust the links in the mail, the bank cannot verify who they really sent the mail to. The only safe thing to send through the mail is a notification of an update and depend on out of channel information on how to get the update