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  1. Impeach the Judges on 'No Refusal' DUI Checkpoints Coming To Florida? · · Score: 1

    Really, this is why the process exists. Talk to your legislators, Floridians.

  2. Re:No citation needed on 'No Refusal' DUI Checkpoints Coming To Florida? · · Score: 1

    However, since you do not have a constitutional right to drive, the courts have also held that states are free to revoke your privilege to drive if you refuse to take the test.

    Why don't people understand that?

    Why don't people understand the Ninth Amendment? You're parroting authoritarian newspeak. Of course you have a right to travel - the Founders would laugh at any suggestion to the contrary.

    Where I live you either drive or die. Literally - you can't get food if you can't drive (some of the essential highways were taken over for Interstates, and pedestrians, bicycles, and horses are forbidden).

  3. Re:No problem! on Our Lazy Solar Dynamo — Hello Dalton Minimum? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I haven't been using my fireplace nearly enough lately.

    Won't help that much - the carbon sequestered in those logs went in 30-40 years ago. You need to liberate some fossil carbon to get serious, but even at that you're a rounding error (sorry to say).

    Perhaps there's a reason it's called "the current ice age"? Cripes, people seem to keep forgetting we're still coming out of the last ice age cycle.

    "Oh, the Earth warmed a bit in the past century."
    "Yeah - what else were you expecting?"

  4. Re:Call it on YouTube Legally Considered a TV Station In Italy · · Score: 4, Insightful

    So what you are saying is that Google now has the power to bring down a democratically elected government?

    No, he's saying its people do. And this is how it's supposed to be.

  5. Re:Obvious problem.... on Lessons Learned From Skype’s Outage · · Score: 1

    Yeah, that does make sense.

  6. Re:Obvious problem.... on Lessons Learned From Skype’s Outage · · Score: 1

    Hrm, so assuming a time distribution of those client restarts, the Skype client nails the supernodes with something >> 100x normal traffic on startup, I guess.

    Could be, I've never read their protocol, but ouch.

  7. Re:Good advice - Always use your ISP for DNS on Beware of Using Google Or OpenDNS For iTunes · · Score: 1

    Only if I trust them not to fuck with it.

    "with it" or "it up".

  8. Re:Selling for scrap? on Kodachrome Takes Its Final Bow Today · · Score: 1

    it might not really matter unless some boutique operation gets permission to make and sell kodachrome

    Permission? Haven't the patents expired 30+ years ago?

    Are their trade secrets really that tight that after 80 years nobody knows the chemicals? Seems unlikely.

  9. Re:So the moral of the story is... on Beware of Using Google Or OpenDNS For iTunes · · Score: 1

    Maybe this should be filed as a bug report to Apple (do they read those?) instead.

    Yes, but they're just marked 'duplicate' and you're not allowed to see the original.

  10. Re:Remaining inventory on Kodachrome Takes Its Final Bow Today · · Score: 1

    Dwayne's Photo [dwaynesphoto.com] is selling their K-14 processing equipment

    to whom?

  11. Re:Been there, done that on Democrats Crowdsourcing To Vote Palin In Primaries · · Score: 1

    EVERY President has had the same philosophy.

    No - Jefferson, Madison, and Cleveland would be good counter-examples.

    Most, certainly. Some were straight-up tyrants, like Lincoln (even Bush II only jailed one journalist).

  12. Re:Skype Win 5.0 client sucks on Lessons Learned From Skype’s Outage · · Score: 1

    heh, good call.

  13. Re:How are supernodes defined? on Lessons Learned From Skype’s Outage · · Score: 1

    You paid for the air you're breathing?

    Are we counting Clean Air Act costs embedded in cost-of-goods?

    You paid for the rain that watered your garden?

    Careful, if you live uphill from the Colorado River, California might sue you for starting a garden and stealing their water (water 'rights' are f*ed in the Southwest).

  14. Re:Forced auto updates are not the solution. on Lessons Learned From Skype’s Outage · · Score: 1

    Not to put too fine a point on it, relying on the central package manager for something where you're doing a complicated networked application (e.g., Skype) where protocol versions need to be properly synched across many platforms, well... it's rather less than ideal.

    You're over-thinking it. My Fedora machines get Skype updates from Skype because I have a Skype '.repo' file installed for yum to use. Fedora provides the plumbing, Skype controls the update process for their software.

  15. Re:Obvious problem.... on Lessons Learned From Skype’s Outage · · Score: 1

    And on your second point, I think you're ignoring the fact that the running supernodes received up to 100 times the expected traffic,

    Did anybody catch where this came from? If 40% of the supernodes were down, the remaining nodes should have received 1.4x the amount of traffic.

    Is this an O(n^3) problem somehow?

  16. Re:lesson (hopefully) learned... on Lessons Learned From Skype’s Outage · · Score: 1

    Now i'm not sure how expensive bandwidth is where you are, but a 24 business grade meg METERED (say, 300 gigs) internet connection here is about 5-10 grand a month. The business is not going to wear the cost of 5-10k per month for our users to listen to shitty quality streaming MP3.

    You shouldn't be running those connections over a 'business-grade' line. Buy a cable modem to handle that traffic and route it at your firewall. That's $150/mo vs. $5000 for those 500 $10 radios, which don't work anyway because the office is in the basement under a Faraday cage of an office building.

  17. Re:lesson (hopefully) learned... on Lessons Learned From Skype’s Outage · · Score: 1

    They will have done a good job in educating senior management about why such practices are needed and what the costs to the company are if not followed.

    That's fair, so long as they're also educated about what the costs to the company are if such practices are followed.

    You can be 'perfectly' safe and still incur lots of opportunity costs.

  18. Re:Just wait. on Amazon Censorship Expands · · Score: 1

    For a while now they listed, "Native American", which I chose, but now that one has changed to something more specific.

  19. Re:Just wait. on Amazon Censorship Expands · · Score: 1

    wasn't considered interracial ... the perception is quite different in 2010.

    Jake and Neyteri?

  20. Re:Does this mean on 'Zombie' Satellite Returns To Life · · Score: 2

    So does Intelsat have to give the insurance money back now?

    I'm interested in the preventative actions prescribed by the insurance policy to avoid further software catastrophes.

    Kudos to whomever figured out the patch, though, and those who designed the system such that the patch was still able to be uploaded in its current condition.

  21. Re:welcome to china on China Censors 60,000 Porn Sites, 5,000 Arrested · · Score: 1

    It seems to fly in the face of the one-child policy. I suppose what that means is that the real position of the Chinese government is population growth, despite any official trappings otherwise.

  22. Re:There is no left or right on China Censors 60,000 Porn Sites, 5,000 Arrested · · Score: 2

    Doesn't that destroy the meaning of "left wing" and "right wing"?

    Which of those tribes do you belong to? Hate the other one. You have a choice!

    (The Nolan Chart is much better, but still of an artificially low dimensionality.)

  23. Re:Amazon Response on Amazon Cloud Not Big Enough For Feds and WikiLeaks · · Score: 1

    The entire statement is used to justify that wikileaks is risking lives, which is why it is a lie to say that they "are publishing" 250,000 documents without reviewing them.

    Thank goodness their new big customer, US Government, doesn't risk lives.

    Oh, wait, but they have a buttload of cash. Nevermind.

  24. Re:Sigh on Playstation 3 Code Signing Cracked For Good · · Score: 1

    more than enough evidence that the developers responsible for it were not qualified to design a security system or write its code

    How hard is it to tell the difference between incompetence and willful misimplementation here?

  25. Re:Sigh on Playstation 3 Code Signing Cracked For Good · · Score: 1

    As soon as they locked out the 'Other OS' option, they pissed off the precise segment of the userbase who also have the skill to crack any subsequent security improvements.

    I wonder if the same people who were affected by the PS4 being put on the back burner were those who decided to cancel Other OS support. If so, clever - they hacked Sony from the inside.