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  1. Re:Inadvertent Or Not ... on Why Google's Wi-Fi Payload Collection Was Inadvertent · · Score: 1

    please keep in mnd that hitting a pedestrian always results in full responsibility on your part, even if said pedestrian is drunk out of his mind and throws himself on your vehicle.

    Given that it's illegal for a pedestrian to be on a UK Motorway, I'd suggest that your sweeping statement there is incorrect.

  2. Re:Well duh on Why Google's Wi-Fi Payload Collection Was Inadvertent · · Score: 1

    Actually, it's to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful.

    That "Don't be evil" thing is totally unofficial.

  3. Re:Well.. on Google Street View Wi-Fi Data Includes Passwords, Email Content · · Score: 1

    At the very least, Google is guilty of exploiting the ignorance of an overwhelming majority of the population.

    Since when has that been illegal? Seems to me that much of business today is built on that premise.

  4. Re:grow some skin on Pakistani Lawyer Wants Mark Zuckerberg Executed · · Score: 1

    In the early 80's there was a pair of DJs in south florida that recorded a song about the Ayatolla's Fatwah to kill Salman Rushdie.

    Maybe you mean the early 90s, as the fatwa was proclaimed on Saint Valentine's Day 1989.

  5. Re:They would only be hurting themselves on Pakistani Lawyer Wants Mark Zuckerberg Executed · · Score: 2, Informative

    It's not bowing to pressure, it's ensuring their survival by making damn sure that some lunatic with deep pockets doesn't put a million dollar death sentence bounty on their head. Salman Rushdie still can't come out of hiding to this day...

    Sure he can. In fact I can supply a list of his upcoming public appearances if you like.
    http://www.randomhouse.com/rhpg/features/salmanrushdie/appearances.html

    He was here in Toronto a couple of weeks back, http://www.cbc.ca/canada/toronto/story/2010/06/01/rushdie-wiesel-toronto.html

  6. Re:I love moderates on Pakistani Lawyer Wants Mark Zuckerberg Executed · · Score: 1

    Not to mention, any time that a death penalty is suggested for anything, there's something terribly wrong with the picture.

    FTFY.

  7. Re:I love moderates on Pakistani Lawyer Wants Mark Zuckerberg Executed · · Score: 1

    No more violent than most of the other tribes/nations of the time. Judaism is unique from Christianity and Islam in that it didn't start solely as a religion, but also as a political unit, complete with a legal system (I don't mean the laws about who you can sleep with and which animals you can eat, but the laws about how much money you owe your neighbor when your ox kills one of his goats) and conflicts with neighboring tribes. With the separation of politics and civil law from religion that we have in Europe and the Americas now, a lot of people forget that Judaism had no such separation 3,000 years ago.

    Unique from? Oh the cromularity ...

  8. Re:I don't know what the complaint is about? on Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names · · Score: 1

    M (the bent one)

    Milky milky

  9. Re:Filtering is Uncalled For on Digitally Filtering Out the Drone of the World Cup · · Score: 1

    On commercial channels, the broadcast is about delivering viewers to the advertisers, not football to the viewers. That's why in England''s first match ITV cut to advertisements about 3 minutes into the match, meaning that English viewers didn't get to see England's first goal of the tournament.

    Wrong

  10. Re:Privacy? Really? on FBI's Facebook Monitoring Leads To Arrest In England · · Score: 1

    You berate the poster for drawing a false analogy, and then dash it all by drawing your own even worse one. Cameras in bathrooms is further removed from walking down the street than is posting in an internet forum. I can legally record your actions on the street (taking a photo in public is not illegal, though harassment is - so I can't follow you). Your passing down the street can be captured by me when I take a photo of the street scene - all above board and legal. Not so if you are in your bathroom.

  11. Re:Privacy? Really? on FBI's Facebook Monitoring Leads To Arrest In England · · Score: 1

    foreigners living abroad are free game for our agencies

    Do you extend the same carte blanche for foreign agencies with respect to US citizens in the US? If you are ok with Uncle Sam spying on John Bull's public, then you should be ok with John Bull spying on Uncle Sam's public.

  12. Re:Privacy? Really? on FBI's Facebook Monitoring Leads To Arrest In England · · Score: 1

    And here is where I respectfully disagree. If I want to take a picture of where I vacation, and it's in public - then I shall do so. If you are in the background then that's too bad. My freedom to take photos in public trumps your assumption that no-one can take photos of you while you are in public.

  13. Re:Privacy? Really? on FBI's Facebook Monitoring Leads To Arrest In England · · Score: 1

    Look at the teenager who wanted to sail -- everyone is calling out the parents for being assholes for letting their adult offspring do something they had been planning for since she was 13 years old.

    Would this be Abby Sunderland? She's not an adult.

  14. Re:Cry me a river on Google Slams Apple Over iPhone Ad Ban · · Score: 1

    You have obviously not worked in the marketing or advertising industries.

    I spent 10 years of my life in the 80s and 90s working for an ad agency - my dept was responsible for making sure that ad campaigns were targetted appropriately, and I can tell you that placement of ads is more important than content of ads. How do you choose where ads go? Well that would be by looking at the research, or "analytics", for the media you are intending to use, be it print, broadcast or new media/web.

  15. Re:Wrong on iPhone OS 4.0 Brings Multitasking, Ad Framework For Apps · · Score: 1

    Yes, I'm an iPhone user and I chose Rogers.

    Then again, I live in Canada, which I think is the point Roberto was trying to make.

  16. Re:Too bad on Subversive Groups Must Now Register In South Carolina · · Score: 1

    Ahhhhhhh :D

  17. Re:Have a problem with this? on Feds Push For Warrantless Cell Phone Tracking · · Score: 1

    Because a republican administration would never suspend part of the constitution?

  18. Re:Too bad on Subversive Groups Must Now Register In South Carolina · · Score: 1

    What specific charges would they be?

  19. Re:Easy way to "democratically" jail and fine diss on Subversive Groups Must Now Register In South Carolina · · Score: 1

    What groups aren't seen as "men" now?)

    Women. Homosexuals. Atheists. Non-US citizens.

  20. Re:Can I mail it in or what? on Subversive Groups Must Now Register In South Carolina · · Score: 1

    That's easy - I worship by buying alcohol on Sundays.

  21. Re:Republican Party... on Subversive Groups Must Now Register In South Carolina · · Score: 1

    The way I see it, the Government is the organisational structure, and the Dems/Reps who take turns having a majority are the administration who controls the government. When you vote, you are not voting in a government, you're voting in an administration.

  22. Re:Too bad on Subversive Groups Must Now Register In South Carolina · · Score: 1

    Doesn't that fly in the face of the 2nd Amendment? The arms are there to be borne so that the citizenry can overthrow a corrupt government - or so that's what I hear from advocates of the 2nd Amendment anyway.

  23. Re:Too bad on Subversive Groups Must Now Register In South Carolina · · Score: 1

    What jurors? There'd have to be a trial for there to be jurors, and for a trial there'd have to be specific charges. Unless the nature of the crime is known, I can't see how there'd be a trial.

  24. Re:Now's the Time on Google Buzz — First Reactions · · Score: 1

    ... because the notification box would be larger than my window ...

    Press F11 twice, a scroll bar appears.

  25. Re:Public vs private on Google Buzz — First Reactions · · Score: 1

    How are they trying to intrude on your civil rights?