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  1. How much did they spend on typewriters? on The Government's Gadget Habit · · Score: 2

    Did they spend anything on typewriters?

    How about filing cabinets?

    Any word on semaphore flags?

    Pretty sure this is a shift in paradigm in the tools needed to perform the task, not a shopping spree on cool toys.

  2. Re:Jurisdiction on British Student Faces Extradition To US Over Copyright · · Score: 1

    Are you really that ignorant?

    You're free to speak. You're not free to break laws about keeping secrets secret. Established journalists get a pass if the information they release doesn't increase the danger (which is actually what that law up there says, so it's the fact that experienced journalists know the difference that gets them the pass). Assange is not an established journalist; that's why after the first release, made randomly without evaluations and redactions, he had to scramble to send the subsequent releases through the NY Times, who did the evaluations and redactions. The Times knows the law, understands the procedure, and knows what to release and what not to release.

    Regardless, if Assange has rights they will be protected in a court of law, and there is no reason to prevent him from being tried.

  3. Re:Of course on Why Businesses Move To the Cloud: They Hate IT · · Score: 1

    I've noticed the propensity for IT to say "NO".

    I haven't noticed that it's correlated to anything other than their mood.

  4. Re:Duh on Why Businesses Move To the Cloud: They Hate IT · · Score: 1

    Correct. Political infighting in a corporation is a sign of inept management at the levels above the fighting departments.

    Problem is, some of those tools think they're supposed to make their people compete with each other that way. And once they've made that mistake, they can't admit it to the people they're competing against themselves.

    Getting out from under that sort of stupidity is a good way to avoid career stagnation.

  5. Re:Some american tell me on Iowa Rejects Video Privacy Protection For Cows · · Score: 2, Informative

    Republicans are psychopaths.

    That isn't news.

  6. Re:Some american tell me on Iowa Rejects Video Privacy Protection For Cows · · Score: 1

    No, they're trying to keep it private. Subtle difference. Not sure it's really about the cow, though.

  7. Re:Uh... on Iowa Rejects Video Privacy Protection For Cows · · Score: 1

    Natural predators strive for a clean, efficient kill,

    Uh, I've seen enough nature videos with big cats munching on the guts of an ungulate that's STILL BREATHING ON THE GROUND BENEATH THEM to know that they really don't give much of a rat's ass about anything other than what's for lunch.

  8. Re:Jurisdiction on British Student Faces Extradition To US Over Copyright · · Score: 0

    I know I don't look like a Google query page, but you'd think fewer people would use me as one, as it rarely goes the way they expect it to:

    http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/718/usc_sup_01_18_10_I_20_37.html

      793(e) ought to do it. It's only worth 10 years, but if the spooks testify that anyone died from it, the sky's the limit (or rather, the rope hanging from the scaffold in the sky).

  9. Re:Jurisdiction on British Student Faces Extradition To US Over Copyright · · Score: 1

    >downloading is NOT copyright infringment

    Count how many copies have to be made when you download something.

    Did you have the author's permission to do it? Say, by having paid him or his agent for that permission? No?

    Whether you knew you did or didn't have the author's permission is a possible mitigation in court; maybe before then, if the cop or prosecutor believes you're an innocent dupe. Doesn't change the fact that you made one or more copies in order to read it. And if it was deliberate, it's against the law.

  10. Re:Incompetent key handling. No surprise. on New Android Malware Attacks Custom ROMs · · Score: 1

    I didn't understand your post. Could you send me your private key so that I can decode it?

  11. Re:Jurisdiction on British Student Faces Extradition To US Over Copyright · · Score: 0

    I don't think so, but if the Danish courts think so then it's a legal extradition and he can be tried and convicted.

    I do believe Julian Assange should be extradited to the U.S. to stand trial for what he did. If the UK or Swedish courts agree, then it's a legal extradition and he can be tried and convicted and maybe even hanged.

  12. Re:Jurisdiction on British Student Faces Extradition To US Over Copyright · · Score: 1

    Updated continually since then and adopted by the United States in the late 1980s.

    The distinction between civil and criminal law is variable, depending only on where the crafters of a law want to draw the line, if it is a line and not a jagged tear.

  13. Re:It's the JEWS, stupid... on British Student Faces Extradition To US Over Copyright · · Score: 0

    I think I speak for all Jews when I say fuck you.

    In fact, I'm certain of it. Even though I'm not a Jew.

  14. Re:How many links is the limit for infringement? on British Student Faces Extradition To US Over Copyright · · Score: 1

    Aiding and abetting isn't illegal where you are?

    When you figure out that it isn't, tell Tommy Chong's lawyers he shouldn't be in jail for selling bongs. Not for selling dope to put in bongs. Just bongs.

  15. Re:Linking == Copyright Violation? on British Student Faces Extradition To US Over Copyright · · Score: 2

    Fair use of fair use of fair use of fair use of pirated content.

  16. Re:Jurisdiction on British Student Faces Extradition To US Over Copyright · · Score: 1

    I keep trying to explain this, especially in relation to Julian Assange.

    You don't get a free pass to commit crimes against a nation's people or corporations or government just because you're not a citizen and not in that country when you do it.

    Jurisdiction is about determining who gets to prosecute you, based on where you were and who you victimized and what you did and how the judicial systems want to organize it.

    Also remember, the Berne convention is an international treaty, and it likely spells out the procedure for this, streamlining the justification for extradition.

  17. Re:the reward on Treasure Hunter Wants To Find Bin Laden's Body With ROV · · Score: 1

    The reward is for information leading to his capture or killing. It goes to the people who dropped the dime on him. The people who received the call and served the warrant are already paid to do that.

    If the government hasn't paid the money, it's possible it's because the person who found him was in their employ already.

  18. Re:Use the long range sensors... on Treasure Hunter Wants To Find Bin Laden's Body With ROV · · Score: 1

    If 24th century technology can find signs of life in a dead guy, it needs a requirements revision.

  19. Re:Modest proposal on Treasure Hunter Wants To Find Bin Laden's Body With ROV · · Score: 1

    They took his photo next to the dudes who killed him. They also likely have helmet-cam video of the killing (they lost the feed back to the WH during the operation, but that doesn't mean the cameras weren't recording internally).

    The President refused to release the pictures to the public, but the NSC and Intelligence Committee have seen them.

    Now, if you don't trust your Intelligence Committee, NSC, and President, then you should probably remove them out of principle. Otherwise, there's really no cogent reason to believe they're all lying about this.

  20. Re:It's come full circle... on Treasure Hunter Wants To Find Bin Laden's Body With ROV · · Score: 1

    >the government lies to us all the time,

    It's mutual.

  21. Re:Can he find Jimmy Hoffa? on Treasure Hunter Wants To Find Bin Laden's Body With ROV · · Score: 1

    Sonar doesn't work though asphalt.

  22. Re:Wow on Treasure Hunter Wants To Find Bin Laden's Body With ROV · · Score: 1

    He should have been a DARPA-funded scientist.

  23. Re:Well, it only took them 75 years to find Titani on Treasure Hunter Wants To Find Bin Laden's Body With ROV · · Score: 1

    1. I have no doubt that modern lookaside sonar equipment can something the size of bin Laden's body in a body bag, if it's not stuck in a reef that looks like a pile of such things.

    2. Ships are cheaper than you think, and all this one needs to do is cruise back and forth towing the sonar rig and recording to a flash drive.

    3. Not sure anything can grow on a navy body bag. Not sure there's much growing in that body of water. It could be flat, sandy bottom for hundreds of miles.

    4. How does he even have a clue where to start? That's the big question, as it means he's breached the security of the US Armed Forces Special Operations Group, and they will want to know how.

    5. How does he collect a reward that's cancelled because the government caught the guy themselves? That's the small question, as it's just going to surprise him if he doesn't ask it before he shows up with a mangled corpse. (Yes, mangled. The body is in a bag from which most of the air is removed. The bag is sunk hundreds if not thousands of meters into the ocean. the soft tissue in the bag will be squeezed into pudding, and if there's any imbalance in the shape of the bag, it will all be squeezed into that corner, and if one of the bones breaches the bag, it will all be extruded through the hole.)

    6. Why is imagining bin Laden in that state so much fun?

  24. Re:"soylent green is people" on Japanese Scientist Creates Meat Substitute From Sewage · · Score: 2

    Uh-huh. And the stripper really likes you.

  25. Re:Price per Home on US Pays $2B To Develop Concentrating Solar Power Projects · · Score: 1

    Coal kills an enormous number of people every year, between the miners, the environmental damage from the mining, the transport, the burning, and the environmental damage from the burning.

    There's no way to cost-compare it to anything. It's only cheap to those it don't kill.