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  1. Re:Good to see. on Bipartisan Bill Would Mandate Warrant To Search Emails · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The Supreme Court has migrated base rights into new areas of technology in the past:

    - Freedom of the press doesn't mean literally a printing press anymore, control of which was a back door way of controlling speech even if there was no direct censorship.

    - The SC ruled infrared scanners that passively looked through walls required a warrant, as the founding fathers, and Americans' expectations, were such that an area was secure from warrantless examination.

    As Americans move more of their life into the online virtual world, they carry with them the same expectation of privacy from warrantless search. The Supreme Court should overturn the outdated loophole that is from the telephone days, that you have no reasonable expectation of privacy in data held by 3rd parties.

    Well, no, everybody has that expectation. The King of England would have abused it, and warrant requirements would have been included in the Constitution.

  2. Re:Required across Asia on New Chinese Regulations Require Real Name On Internet · · Score: 2

    The idea has been floated in the US before. It would probably fail at the Supreme Court level as freedom of speech includes the right to speak anonymously.

    See, when hacking off Linux lovers, anon is coward. When in these other countries, anon is brave.

  3. Re:Holy shit on Too Much Exercise May Not Be Better Than a Sedentary Lifestyle · · Score: 1

    Still, if you remain reasonably cogent, it would be sweet to run around at 100 in a 20 year old body. Youth no longer wasted on thee young, imagine the perverted fucking you'll do -- Dr. Seuss

    "Hi."

    "Hello."

    "What's your name?"

    "Buffy."

    "I'm Devilus. Say, do you play Magic: The Gathering?"

    "Ha god no!"

    "Uhhh, I have to go, bye. (To self) looks like it's you and me, again, Rosie, for the 347,891st time. Sigh."

  4. Re:Holy shit on Too Much Exercise May Not Be Better Than a Sedentary Lifestyle · · Score: 2

    It's my understanding the brain does not work that way. Although it grows new stuff to learn, those cells are basically it, and those cells just start wearing out.

    Assuming the wildest success for telomere lengthening for every other cell and organ in your body, and you'll still be a drooling idiot at 150.

  5. Re:Good thing. on FAA Could Extend Property Rights On the Moon Through Regulation · · Score: 1

    Alls I knows is I like the idea of the Old Planet trying to control the New Planet for its own benefit!

    Hmmm, "planet" sounds clumsy. Maybe "world".

  6. Re:Corporation Controlled on FAA Could Extend Property Rights On the Moon Through Regulation · · Score: 1

    Hehe, the denoument of The Maple Syrup War, in the first part of Live Free or Die by John Ringo.

  7. God dammit, indeed. on Listnr Wants to be 'Your Listening Assistant' (Video) · · Score: 1

    Secretary: "Here's another data stream to record!". (Throws spec sheet in the programmer's inbox.)

    NSA Programmer (Looks at 3 foot high inbox.). God dammit.

  8. Re: We the Government on Big Telecoms Strangling Municipal Broadband, FCC Intervention May Provide Relief · · Score: 1

    People may not want to hear it, but it is unfair competition -- no cable company can spend on behalf of everyone, not just their customers, with the legal power to tax.

    Had they approached government, oh how those supporting this city council would have howled.

    How long would it take a company to get that kind of money back out of its customers?

  9. I love the smell of deficit reduction in the morni on US Wireless Spectrum Auction Raises $44.9 Billion · · Score: 1

    > Sales totaled $44.89 billion

    Yey! We can put off borrowing for 14 days!

    > [of which] contribute $20 billion to deficit reduction

    Yey! I mean 6 days!

  10. Re:Government Intervention on Ask Slashdot: When and How Did Europe Leapfrog the US For Internet Access? · · Score: 1

    Europe and other government purchases are not driving Cisco and other equipment advances in speed. That's mostly capital investment. Euro governments (and US munincipalities) are leveraging this by way of uaving taxes to pay for it.
    A
      few years down the road, it won't see so fast when quad streams, each of 4k video, to every house are the desire.

    Then there's turnaround latency, need to have twitch games 3d generated at the server in a reasonably tiny time frame.

    No, these city services, akin to water and sewer and electricity, will be reliable, but no longer on a timely upgrade path.

  11. Re:track record on US Air Force Selects Boeing 747-8 To Replace Air Force One · · Score: 2, Funny

    I hear a presidential limo made from a Chevy Bolt, with an electric engine and no armor, is much more fuel efficient, too.

  12. Re:track record on US Air Force Selects Boeing 747-8 To Replace Air Force One · · Score: 2

    I wondered that, too.

    In any case, Boeing saw no business case for larger planes, while tons of room for smaller, direct jets. More to more airports with less hub crap.

    The Airbus decision flabbergasted them. Officially, anyway. Cynics realized it was some European Union pride/multistate boondoggle as pieces were mandated to be made in most countries. Business case is irrelevant to politicians in such a situation. See also perennial money-loser SST.

  13. Re:Demonstrates the need... on Anonymous No More: Your Coding Style Can Give You Away · · Score: 5, Insightful

    You want scary? The same can be applied to general text on the Internet, tying posters on different sotes together, including anonymous (not your real name avatar) to a site with your real name.

    Which the NSA probably has churning away on its databases. Which probably does little more than add confirmation of said links from watching and recording all traffic to any and all of a billion IP addresses.

    And I, for one, welcome our new panopticon overlords who won't abuse it, not one of their thousand agents, because they're supposed to check a got-a-warrant box on a piece of paper before choosing to abuse it.

  14. Re:18B on 75B on Apple Posts $18B Quarterly Profit, the Highest By Any Company, Ever · · Score: 1

    That is 24%. That means your device could be 20% cheaper and they would STILL make more money then anybody else in percentage per product in the electronics world.

    It's the bottom end that's the problem with this, not the top end. The bottom, not-Apple, not-iPhone product end, where a guy with some money is sitting there and wondering if he should invest.

    Lessee. Taxes on corporate profits look like they're going up. I see a marginal chance at success at best. Screweth it!

    A few percent of investment scared off the bottom, and there's your decade of stagnation.

  15. Re:Brave Man on Valve's Economist Yanis Varoufakis Appointed Greece's Finance Minister · · Score: 1

    Not like there's much room for options. Here's how it's gonna go down:

    New Finance Minister nee Valve Employee: Ok, goodbye austerity, hello ballooning spending! Ok, loan us money at tiny rates we can afford. Oh, I think I see some. Let me fire the portal gun at the wall so I can get it.

  16. I'm on Exoexoearth, I guess. on Kepler Discovers Solar System's Ancient 'Twin' · · Score: 1

    > Plays host to a system of five small exoplanets

    No, it plays host to a system of five planets. Unless you think surgeons, after cutting open a patient, should talk about operating on that there exoliver.

  17. Re:Escaping only helps you until a war. on Davos 2015: Less Innovation, More Regulation, More Unrest. Run Away! · · Score: 1

    "Income inequality" is a red herring. The real measure is average health and wealth in a nation.

    This, by the way, is skyrocketting in the now-world economy as China and India and other nations become more economcally free, and people can better themselves.

    You should be happy for capitalism, as it is the cause of this, now that it can operate there, just like it did in the west 150 uears ago with the industrial revolution.

    But nobody listens or looks at the bigger picture. They just look at stagnation in the west brought on by spending driving fears of tax increases, making investors say fuck it.

  18. Re:Escaping only helps you until a war. on Davos 2015: Less Innovation, More Regulation, More Unrest. Run Away! · · Score: 1

    Mexico is a corrupt nation, where you can'tt do anything from build a building to get a driver's license or even pay bills without having to pay for expedited service kickbacks.

    Thhat's why they remain full of suckage. As usual, the government fails to secure rights.

  19. Re:Escaping only helps you until a war. on Davos 2015: Less Innovation, More Regulation, More Unrest. Run Away! · · Score: 1

    Welcome to third world, postapocalyptic status.

    I guess the first men to the stars really will be the Chinese, who were opening the trade routes, making business easier, rather than closing them down, like Europe, and now the US.

  20. Re:Escaping only helps you until a war. on Davos 2015: Less Innovation, More Regulation, More Unrest. Run Away! · · Score: 0

    This was some bizarre leftist. Sorry, I must adopt their knee jerk rhetoric -- extreme leftist disasterbation fantasy.

  21. I see what you did there. on DEA Cameras Tracking Hundreds of Millions of Car Journeys Across the US · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Apparently we have no right to go anywhere without car and license plate tracking, and facial recognition software on tens of thousands of cameras. Or in cyberspace without tracking everything. Or using credit and debit cards, to buy anything untracked.

    Dictators of old would dream of such a thing at their disposal. England, having abused it badly during the revolution, would have caused the founding fathers to have banned it all...had they succeeded, which would have been far less likely.

    More and more government observation can "be done by steam", in the words of Blaise Pascal. It shouldn't be. When politicians have a system "they're supposed to" get a warratlnt for (probably not even that in this case) but no penalty or even alarm if they don't, it will be abused to track political opponents to those in power.

  22. Angry, lost my template at this story on Comcast Ghost-Writes Politician's Letters To Support Time Warner Mega-Merger · · Score: 5, Funny

    This is blown way out of proportion. Companies are made of citizens who get to persuade officials like anyone else.

    I (insert Senator's name here) stake my reputation on it!

  23. Re:Stuff you simply can't put in a car on Calif. DMV Back-Pedals On Commercial-Plate Mandate For Ride-Share Drivers · · Score: 2

    Thus does the repblic fall, and the center of empire move on to the outskirts, where the roads of trade remain open, and the old empire does little other than impede trade. Hail China.

    Doesn't matter how well-reasoned (or well-memed) the impedance is. Just that it be a burden. The latest in a death of a (hundred) thousand cuts.

    Now downmod me, as censorship driven by outrage, caused by that meme in your head, is part of the meme's meechanical method of operation, of which you are literally a driven cog.

    Kind of scary to see it that way, isn't it? The meme has fingers reaching into your outrage center, by way of which it induces you to behave in ways that protect it, and its spread.

  24. Re: What did you expect? on Google Handed To FBI 3 Wikileaks Staffers' Emails, Digital Data · · Score: 1

    I thought the Supreme Court ruled a long time ago Americans had a right to encrypt by way of free speech.

  25. Re:Did these 3 staffers also have sex w/o condom? on Google Handed To FBI 3 Wikileaks Staffers' Emails, Digital Data · · Score: 1

    Was this rape case listed on the warrant? Or was it the real case where they think he paid for the leaked info.

    Whether or not you believe the last part, it's still a real investigation.