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  1. Re:bad analogy ! on Schneier Recommends Nuclear-Style Cyberwar Hotlines, Treaties · · Score: 1

    No, it's not, but you missed the obvious reasons:

    A cyber-attack won't kill hundreds of thousands of people in a flash of light, then kill millions more from cancers and other after-effects of the blast and fallout.

    It won't obliterate acres of infrastructure and render the area uninhabitable for decades or centuries.

    It won't scare the shit out of an entire range of humanity from the simplest of folk to the most-informed on the subject.

    Frankly, anyone who compares cyber-war to nuclear war is blowing smoke up the public's ass in order to get a panicky public to over-fund every cockamamie idea proposed to combat or prevent it.

  2. Re:Why are Sony so horribly short-sighted on USAF Unveils Supercomputer Made of 1,760 PS3s · · Score: 2

    ITAR.

    If anyone could do this with Sony's currently-produced hardware, Sony would be breaking the law by shipping that hardware to anyone "International".

  3. The key that can be extracted on Canon's Image Verification System Cracked · · Score: 5, Insightful

    ...is not a secret key.

  4. Re:comskippers rule on House Passes TV Commercial Volume Bill · · Score: 1

    I'm basing it on the fact that TV scripts are written to a standard of 11 minutes per segment, 22 per half hour, 44 per hour.

    And yes, I do know that syndicated shows are further edited to get more commercials in.

    I don't know what you're going on about DVDs for.

  5. Re:Greenest Energy Possible? on Aquarium Uses Eel Powered Christmas Lights · · Score: 1

    I see the purpose in the exhibit. I just don't see a purpose in characterizing it as the greenest energy possible when it's nearly the opposite.

  6. Re:A records subpoena is a court order. on Feds Warrantlessly Tracking Americans' Real Time Credit Card Activity · · Score: 1

    Everyone writes their own subpoena. For record subpoenas the court vets it and authorizes it before it's served. For witness subpoenas the court doesn't have to get involved until the witness doesn't show up to be deposed.

  7. Re:A records subpoena is a court order. on Feds Warrantlessly Tracking Americans' Real Time Credit Card Activity · · Score: 1

    I'm saying if you don't know where your rights end and the law starts, and you exhibit traces of believing your rights are more expansive than they are, there is a significant chance you will end up a defendant for something you will argue you had a right to do. But, as they say, ignorance is not an excuse.

  8. Re:Hyuk! on Kentucky Announces Creationism Theme Park · · Score: 1

    Jesus would be alive today if he'd had a "Post Anonymously" checkbox.

    P.S. You're not Him.

  9. Re:A records subpoena is a court order. on Feds Warrantlessly Tracking Americans' Real Time Credit Card Activity · · Score: 1

    You're all confused.

    Of course the founding fathers knew that business records could be kept in locations other than your own house and by people other than yourself. Business and business law and prosecutorial procedure weren't brand-new to them. They didn't invent the idea of a warrant.

    The point of the 4th Amendment is to protect your person and your home from fishing expeditions, not to prevent the gathering of evidence. If your evidence is in someone else's hands, all they have to do is ask for it. In fact, they could just ask you for it. You can refuse to provide it. They then need a warrant, which means they need to attest to probable cause. The difference is, there's no reason your credit-card company would refuse to comply, so a warrant to forcibly seize the information is unnecessary.

  10. Re:A records subpoena is a court order. on Feds Warrantlessly Tracking Americans' Real Time Credit Card Activity · · Score: 1

    Business records aren't your papers.

    The only interpersonal information that is protected is your communications with your lawyer and your doctor and your immediate family.

    I can defend this just by saying that I believe in justice and the Constitution.

    You can request anyone's credit records by filling out a form to get a subpoena. Many government officials are required by law to regularly file statements as to their financial activities. I'll leave it as an exercise for you to figure out how to access them.

    and I'll take that "clinically retarded" crack as an example of projection. You're not free at all when you're so vastly ignorant of the actual limits on your freedom. You're just a criminal act and a jail sentence waiting to happen.

  11. Re:We are all suspects, welcome to the police stat on Feds Warrantlessly Tracking Americans' Real Time Credit Card Activity · · Score: 1

    No, really. What's Santa bringing me this year, Rudolph?

  12. Re:Greenest Energy Possible? on Aquarium Uses Eel Powered Christmas Lights · · Score: 1

    That's fine, but it's not the "greenest energy possible", in fact, it's nasty energy camouflaged as green just because it comes from a living thing.

    Now, if they ran the wires to the stream where the eel normally lives, that would be green.

  13. Re:We are all suspects, welcome to the police stat on Feds Warrantlessly Tracking Americans' Real Time Credit Card Activity · · Score: 1

    Pardoning people for something they did under the idiot who previously held the office is not proof that the thing is ongoing. Nor is continuing to litigae in the government's defense in cases brought by people who were wiretapped under said idiot.

  14. Re:In Soviet Russia... on Moscow Has Eyes On WikiLeaks, Too · · Score: 1

    If the documents are classified to cover up a crime, they are illegally classified.

    However, it's illegal to publish them in the way that Assange did.

    There are procedures for declassifying them that protect the innocent and preserve security while still revealing all of the crimes involved.

    Assange is not interested in justice, and certanly not interested in procedures. He's interested in self-aggrandizement more than the safety of anyone endangered by the leaks. My comment stands. The harm he does can not be justified by the good he may do.

  15. Re:I write my own, thank you on Feds Warrantlessly Tracking Americans' Real Time Credit Card Activity · · Score: 4, Informative

    It always was. A subpoena is a demand for a witness to appear or for the delivery of records. If it's for a witness the court doesn't get involved before the subpoena is served. If it's for records from someone who isn't a party to the case the court issues the subpoena.

    You are protected by the 4th amendment. Information other people have about you, who aren't your lawyer or your immedate family, is not.

  16. A records subpoena is a court order. on Feds Warrantlessly Tracking Americans' Real Time Credit Card Activity · · Score: 4, Informative

    Business records are not your personal "papers and effects", so they don't really live under the 4th amendment, but even if they did they're covered because subpoenas of records are issued by the court; they're merely requested by the prosecutor. This is a non-issue.

  17. Re:We are all suspects, welcome to the police stat on Feds Warrantlessly Tracking Americans' Real Time Credit Card Activity · · Score: -1, Troll

    You do realize that warrantless wiretapping hasn't stopped, right?

    Prove it.

  18. Re:Hyuk! on Kentucky Announces Creationism Theme Park · · Score: 4, Insightful

    They have money

    If they had money the state wouldn't have to kick in $37 million.

  19. Oh please oh please on Kentucky Announces Creationism Theme Park · · Score: 5, Funny

    let it be built in a flood zone.

  20. Re:Will they turn down the volume of commercials.. on House Passes TV Commercial Volume Bill · · Score: 1

    They will enforce it by adhering to the standards that were written long before the law was.

  21. Re:Better solution on House Passes TV Commercial Volume Bill · · Score: 1

    Your grandma would get up off the recliner, walk across the living room, turn the volumn knob all the way down, wait for the commercials to end, turn the volume knob back to its original setting, walk across the living room, and sit down again?

  22. Re:comskippers rule on House Passes TV Commercial Volume Bill · · Score: 1

    shows are now 20 minutes shorter, too.

    There are only 16 minutes of commercials in a 60-minute show.

    Wonder what you're missing...

  23. Re:Chicago had a freight tube system for decades on Foodtubes Proposes Underground, Physical Internet · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Why it will never be built in any American city:

    but after a terrorism scare in the early 2000s, all access to the tunnels has been secured

  24. Re:Goldblum has this covered... on Foodtubes Proposes Underground, Physical Internet · · Score: 1

    Health department shut him down. Won't say why.

  25. Re:Expect resistance on Foodtubes Proposes Underground, Physical Internet · · Score: 1

    You're right about truckers, but the others won't mind a bit. This won't be feasible for home delivery. Way too much single-purpose infrastructure to re*place a system that's already handled by Mom driving to the grocery store. UPS, USPS, and FedEx will buy it to get things to their distro centers, and their trucks will handle the last-ten-mile segment.