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  1. Re:Is the judge a member of Anon? on UK Judge: Galaxy Tab "Not Cool" Enough To Infringe iPad · · Score: 1

    While also managing not to commit any of the classical faux pas which are typical of most salespeople (such as promising the customer something which is entirely impossible to produce)

  2. Re:The trick? on Carderprofit.cc Was FBI Carding Sting, Nets 26 Arrests · · Score: 1

    It wouldn't surprise me to discover that Tor had been broken by the NSA, but they're not going to reveal that they've managed to do that just to convict a few people of possession/supply of controlled substances.

  3. Re:No expectation of privacy on Audio Surveillance, Intended to Detect Gunshots, Can Pick Up Much More · · Score: 1

    Suspended?

    The common law definition of kidnapping includes 4 elements:

    (1) the taking or carrying away of one person by another;
    (2) by force or fraud;
    (3) without the consent of the person so taken or carried away;
    (4) without lawful excuse.

    An officer cannot possibly have probable cause to believe somebody has committed a crime if the action in question is not illegal, therefore the officer has no lawful excuse. Courts have also previously held that the threat of force is sufficient to satisfy (2)

    He shouldn't have been suspended, he should have been charged with kidnapping.

  4. Re:Who said they hate the Internet? on Ultra-Orthodox Jews Rally For a More Kosher Internet · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Yes, if the community are actively shielding these people from prosecution, they share in the responsibility. Why is that so hard to understand?

  5. Re:Who said they hate the Internet? on Ultra-Orthodox Jews Rally For a More Kosher Internet · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Point fingers at the ultra-orthodox and scream about child molestation, since that is exactly what they are afraid of happening if people speak about it outside of their community -- you are basically validating what they are saying to themselves when they keep it a secret.

    If they weren't actively trying to cover it up then people would be pointing at the particular people responsible for the child abuse and screaming at them. As it is, in exactly the same way as the Catholic church has, their community are trying desperately to cover it all up, shield the perpetrators from any sort of punishment and allow them to carry on doing it

    Damned right we should be screaming at people who do that, because they're enabling the molestors.

  6. Re:The internet isn't their problem on Ultra-Orthodox Jews Rally For a More Kosher Internet · · Score: 1

    Nope, the Orthodox jewish community does it as well.

  7. Re:No wonder they hate the Internet on Ultra-Orthodox Jews Rally For a More Kosher Internet · · Score: 4, Informative
  8. No wonder they hate the Internet on Ultra-Orthodox Jews Rally For a More Kosher Internet · · Score: 5, Informative
  9. Re:Truth plus on UK To Give Peer-Reviewed Science Libel Protection · · Score: 1

    Keep truth as an absolute defence for libel trials.

    Charge the media in your example with attempting to pervert the course of justice, not libel.

  10. Emotionally invested in what exactly? on Federal Patents Judge Thinks Software Patents Are Good · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If you care most about promoting innovation, offering carve-outs from the patent system to certain industries and technologies looks like a pragmatic solution to a serious problem. If you're emotionally invested in the success of patent law as such, then allowing certain industries to opt out looks like an admission of failure and a horrible hack.'"

    Isn't that the actual, official, reason for having patent laws and protections in the first place?

    Surely being 'emotionally invested in the success of patent law' would require you to want it to achieve what it was meant to achieve?

  11. Re:Your appendix, in a jar, at Judgment. [34 point on U. Chicago's Epic Scavenger Hunt Is Back For 2012 · · Score: 1

    I'm pretty certain that's a rule.

  12. Re:Turn about is fair play. on UK Home Secretary Bans US Martial Arts Expert · · Score: 3, Informative

    Actually, the concept in UK law is "reasonable" force, which isn't the same thing at all.

  13. And yet on B&N Pulls Linux Format Magazine Over Feature On 'Hacking' · · Score: 5, Insightful

    They'll happily stock martial arts magazines, full of special features about new and exciting ways to hurt people.

  14. Re:They are full of crap, of course! on BART Defends Mobile Service Shutdown · · Score: 0

    Maybe a better choice would include, oh I dunno, not fucking shooting unarmed and restrained men in the back?

    Oh perhaps that's just me

  15. Re:Why is this moderated down? on Anti-Education Attack Poisons 150 Afghan Schoolgirls · · Score: 1

    So, people who commit atrocities in the name of Jesus aren't real Christians, but people who commit atrocities in the name of Muhammed are real Muslims.

    Is that how you see things in your world?

  16. Re:Don't fix it, abolish it. on Former TSA Administrator Speaks · · Score: 1
  17. Re:Vermont. on Lack of Vaccination Sends Babies In Oregon To the Hospital · · Score: 2

    Generally speaking, no, I don't support the government being able to inject any random chemical into people's bodies.

    I'm more than happy to make an exception in your case though

  18. Re:Vermont. on Lack of Vaccination Sends Babies In Oregon To the Hospital · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If the people refusing vaccinations were the only ones affected by that refusal, i'd agree with you.

  19. Re:I just wish... on Boston Pays Out $170,000 To Man Arrested For Recording Police · · Score: 1

    And in some cases, when police act in good faith that they're following the law, they're not

    So, basically, you're arguing that ignorance of the law is a perfectly valid excuse for breaking it?

  20. Re:I just wish... on Boston Pays Out $170,000 To Man Arrested For Recording Police · · Score: 1

    With no legal right to do so, these officers took that man off the street and locked him up in a small room against his will.

    Explain to me how that's not kidnapping?

  21. Re:I just wish... on Boston Pays Out $170,000 To Man Arrested For Recording Police · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Charge the officers involved with kidnapping.

    Then you'd see them stop.

  22. Re:Warned about what? on TSA 'Warning' Media About Reporting On Body Scanner Failures? · · Score: 2

    In theory, there's no difference between theory and practice.

    In practice, however, there usually is

  23. Re:What a surprise on Anonymous, Decentralized and Uncensored File-Sharing Is Booming · · Score: 1

    Oh, yeah, that's so obvious and the typical modus operandi of the NSA.

    Come on.

    selinux

  24. Re:I still don't get it on US Prosecutors Have a Sealed Indictment On Assange, Say Leaked Files · · Score: 2

    Yeah, and people keep forgetting that that's exactly what investigative journalists do, so if you want to prosecute him for that, you've just killed freedom of the press.

  25. Re:I still don't get it on US Prosecutors Have a Sealed Indictment On Assange, Say Leaked Files · · Score: 4, Insightful

    And what, exactly, did Julian Assange hack, or break into?