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  1. Re:Can't have it all. on Keeping Your Data Private From the NSA (And Everyone Else) · · Score: 1

    how about this: if you float and live, you are a witch and we will burn you at the stake, but, if you sink and drown and die you are not a witch.

    is a can't win.....

  2. Re:NOT robust at all... on Majority of Americans Say NSA Phone Tracking Is OK To Fight Terrorism · · Score: 1

    um. you are saying the "bluest of the blue" (which I read as "liberal") would be more likely to agree that PRISM (or whatever surveillance program is de' jour) is acceptable? Really?
    Why? Because that 'liberal' Obama (PRISM, ) is for it? Or maybe that 'liberal' Bush (TIA, Patriot Act, TSA)? which one?

    This is not a conservative vs. liberal problem. This is a all government becomes corrupt problem.

  3. Re:Someone start a defense fund on USA Calling For the Extradition of Snowden · · Score: 1

    I am repeating myself here, but
    Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
    Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759

  4. Re:Someone start a defense fund on USA Calling For the Extradition of Snowden · · Score: 2

    Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
    Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759

    Q.E.D.

  5. Re:Dammit, Texas! on Texas Bills Would Bar Warrantless Snooping On Phone Location · · Score: 1

    Fuck You.

  6. Re:File a police complaint for littering on Don't Want a Phonebook? Give Up Your Privacy · · Score: 1

    better, bill each and every advertiser in the phonebook for the cost of disposal, as a community. (need to make the dollar signs add up to something big.)

  7. Re:Political correctness in action on Florida Accused of Concealing Worst Tuberculosis Outbreak In 20 Years · · Score: 1

    Rape, Dangerous Pregnancy.
    Sometimes the woman doesn't have a choice or has her life in mortal danger. So I throw it back at you; who's life do you choose to protect? who's innocence gets to be protected?

    It is simply not fair to tell a women that she MUST continue to be pregnant, or for that matter must have an abortion.

    As a loose analogy, would be okay for someone to tell you that you MUST provide blood or organs to prevent another from dying? That by refusing to do so you condemn that person to death, because there is no other person that can provide the required material, and then are made criminally responsible for it?

    Yes, as a father and husband, I am part of the trio involved. But in the end my opinions about abortion mean NOTHING. I am not the pregnant party. I would like to think that I will be listened to and my arguments for or against an abortion carefully considered, but finally it is not my choice.
    I do feel that after a certain point an abortion should be highly restricted (notice that I did NOT say disallowed), but I don't know that I CAN know when that would be, so any law about it will be flawed.

    In the end women are not property. They are sentient, thinking beings with the right to make decisions about their actions, person, and possessions.

  8. Re:Good job on behalf of the hacker on Hacker Exposes Parts of Florida's Voting Database · · Score: 1

    As long as there isn't positive identification of voters at the voting booth, there will always be rampant fraud in some areas. Eliminate the hacker prone, but require state ID to vote.

    unless that State ID is free... you have a voter tax. and that is already been declared illegal. (Jim Crow laws and all)

  9. Re:Android just won't catch up with iPhone on Unlocking Android · · Score: 1

    Um, AD2P has been supported since the release of 1.5. It has been out for 2-3 weeks.

  10. Re:FAT32 patents on Has Microsoft's Patent War Against Linux Begun? · · Score: 1

    So, the court says "take the thing you sold to the customer from the customer and break it" ?
    Okay, then who gets to pay for the customers loss of property by a third party? The company? The court (read TaxPayer)?

    Such an order would be equivalent to stealing and would be unlikely.

  11. Re:Patenting mistakes on Has Microsoft's Patent War Against Linux Begun? · · Score: 1

    fine. but those developers, etc. can be used for other things after win95/98...
    A large manufacturing plant cannot be easily nor cheaply re-purposed. Oh, and such a plant might cost tens or hundreds of BILLIONS of $$. (with a B)

  12. Re:What, excatly, is the law on this? on "Anonymous" Hacks Palin's Private Email · · Score: 1

    it would full under the law covering "obtaining access to a network/computer to which you don't have permission"

  13. Re:Scrutiny on "Anonymous" Hacks Palin's Private Email · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Repeat after me: STATE/FEDERAL business MAY NOT use NON-STATE/NON-FEDERAL Email servers.

    It is not legal, it violates records retention acts and it is unethical as well as it
    keeps the business of OUR government from OUR scrutiny.
    To head off the quips, yes the business of government is not normally availible to the public,
    however it MUST BE MADE PUBLIC upon lawful order. If the exchanges are not on STATE/FEDERAL
    servers, then the public release of it may not be possible.

  14. Re:Yes on Can You Be Sued For Helping Clients Rip DVDs? · · Score: 2, Funny

    on that advertising bit...

    say you are taken to court and the decision is that in fact you ARE only licensed to view. At that point you file a motion charging the *AA with literally MILLIONS of cases of false advertising. NICE!

  15. Re:I CONFESS!! IM GUILTY! Can I get off the hook n on MediaDefender Explains Itself · · Score: 1

    "Separately, they set up DoS attacks ..."

    the 'set up DoS attacks' part is where THEY ARE BREAKING THE LAW!.

  16. Re:This will limit new uses of the Internet on Comcast Floats a 250GB Monthly Bandwidth Limit · · Score: 1

    BEEEEEEEP wrong.
    earning a profit is fine. but the oil companies are 'only earning a profit' someting like 10,000% even as prices for the raw materials sky rocket.

    the cables are laid, and equipment is in place... and I am sure the cost for those is already paid.

  17. Re:A high cap, but... on Comcast Floats a 250GB Monthly Bandwidth Limit · · Score: 1

    How can they get away with blocking port 80? I can see this happening a few thousands times
    "Hello, Customer Abuse? Yes, I don't seem to be able to get to ANY website... Yes I get mail in my outlook express/thunderbird, yes ping works ..."

    Unbelievible

  18. Re:Enter legislation on California Court Posts SSNs, Medical Records · · Score: 1

    THERE IS LAW: HIPAA http://aspe.hhs.gov/admnsimp/pl104191.htm#1177
    Someone need to mail them to the wall for disclosure of medical documents.

  19. Re:My fix - avoid vendors that act like assholes. on Unofficial Win2K Daylight Saving Time Fix · · Score: 1

    this behavior and _quality_ of vista (and the DRM) will push a large number of people to mac or linux. MS will need to consider the world where either: they get laws passed making other os's illegal; or they no longer control an 80% market share.

  20. Re:But, but, but... on Toshiba's Wristwatch PDA · · Score: 1

    Does anyone remember the comm devices that were in Babylon 5? a little rhomboid that stuck to the back of the hand. Solve the 'stick to the back of hand' problem... I think that would be great

  21. Re:issue? on EB Demands Payment From Victim of Theft · · Score: 1

    not to mention the confession of EB to being in possesion of the stolen goods, selling (trafficing) in the stolen goods.... aren't there FEDERAL laws about being in possesion of stolen goods? Even if you don't know it?

    And by offering to SELL her back the goods, isn't that extortion? wow that is ANOTHER federal law too...
    DAMN what good are laws unenforced?

  22. Re:Get the boss on Blow the Whistle, Lose Your Job? · · Score: 1

    to fail to report a crime get get you in to S_E_R_I_O_U_S trouble. I say f*ck the company and report the felony (in the case of child porn)

  23. Re:feeling a bit more monopolistic on DIRECTV Broadband Shuts Down · · Score: 1

    Yes, soon to be two ... Comcast is going to buy AT&T Internet Broadband. Sound like even MORE of a monopoly.

    Let's count:
    mainline connections:

    1. dialup
    2. isdn (a phone service)
    3. DSL on copper (a phone service, or on their wires)
    4. Cable
    Dialup sucks, isdn is EXPENSIVE and not always on, DSL is starting to price like ISDN (unless you buy the consumer 'dialup' version which IS well priced but is not always on, and only slightly faster (2-3x best dialup) than dialup) and is also becoming only availible from the phone companies, and cable is going monopolistic.

    other options

    1. phone services/HIGH cap (t1,t3, oc3 etc)
    2. satelite
    3. direct lines (HA :>)
    t1s COST,satelite is FAST, high latency and expensive BUT FAST, Beoing and Microsoft can buy direct lines

    upcoming / limited

    1. local wireless
    2. Others?

    SO ... Everything that the government has done about wiring the US has forced the growth of monopolistic bohemoth providing entities. What ever they may have tried to achive, this is what we HAVE.

    SkessekS

  24. Re:What's the problem? on Directors Counter-Sue Movie Bowdlerizing Company · · Score: 1

    okay. so try this one:
    A company (A Company,LLP) offers a service:
    Send your tape to us, we will edit out the parts that you don't want and send it back... .for a service price.
    is this okay.

  25. Re:shock on 5GB Hard Disk On A PCMCIA Type II Card · · Score: 1

    Here is the spec page for the device. Shock Operating 1,960m/s2 (200G), 2ms half sine wave Non-Operating 9,800m/s2 (1000G), 1ms half sine wave pretty good though.