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  1. Re: In Other News: on 3 Scientists Share Nobel For Parastic Disease Breakthroughs · · Score: 2

    Parasite found feasting on "I" from headline

  2. if an API is a list of facts.... on Google Takes the Fight With Oracle To the Supreme Court · · Score: 1

    if an API is a list of facts.... Maybe Oracle seeks copyright protection, as a phone book would, of their compilation of facts.

  3. calculating your BAC after the fact on Texas Drivers Stopped At Roadblock, Asked For Saliva, Blood · · Score: 1

    They can test you and, provided you were in custody, they can prove what your BAC must have been a clocked number of hours ago when you were stopped... WITHOUT regard to your body weight. The standard clearance rate of .0169 BAC/hr applies pretty consistently regardless of body weight.

  4. why announce? on File-Sharing Site Was Actually an Anti-Piracy Honeypot · · Score: 1

    Maybe he had his records sized and can't say it?!

  5. Re: Speech on DOJ: Defendant Has No Standing To Oppose Use of Phone Records · · Score: 1

    If money is speech as is precedent in the U.S, why is his donation...
    Because he didn't incorporate first.

  6. Re: Point of order. He isn't refuting the evidence on DOJ: Defendant Has No Standing To Oppose Use of Phone Records · · Score: 1

    This is true of the CONTENT as well, not just the metadata. A user turns over CONTENT to a third party for transmission. Under this doctrine, such a user cannot enjoy a reasonable expectation of the privacy of that content either-- because they turned it over to a third party...

  7. how many people... on Georgia Cop Issues 800 Tickets To Drivers Texting At Red Lights · · Score: 1

    ... are killed because they were texting while their vehicle was stationery?

    Now get off my lawn!

  8. Re: Medical records privacy act? on DEA Argues Oregonians Have No Protected Privacy Interest In Prescription Records · · Score: 1

    +1 Informative.
    Not the post, the LINK. Why has nobody in this discussion yet mentioned that HIPPA allows disclosure of medical information to law enforcement with only a request?!

  9. Re: A thought experiment on Supreme Court: No Patents For Natural DNA Sequences · · Score: 1

    If they didn't have analogs in nature before, they certainly do now!

  10. Re: Google glasses on Google Glass Is the Future — and the Future Has Awful Battery Life · · Score: 2

    "... now you have battery" Does it last longer than five hours?

  11. Re:Maybe I'm Understanding This Wrong on Quantum Experiment Shows Effect Before Cause · · Score: 1

    You have four photons - A, B, C, D. A starts off entangled with B, C starts off entangled with D.

    What the experiment appears to show is that if B is then entangled with C, then A is effectively entangled with D. In other words, entanglement is transitive. What it does NOT show is a violation of causality,

    What the experiment claims to show is that if A and D are measured, then B and C are subsequently entangled, then A and D were effectively entangled at the time of their measurement.

  12. Two words about success on Bing More Effective Than Google? · · Score: 2

    Google cache

  13. Re:Yo dawg, I heard on Assange Secret Swedish Police Report Leaked · · Score: 1

    ...it contains allegations on which the prosecutor's indictment was based.

    Had there been an indictment, we would be having a different discussion....

  14. Re:Danger Will Robinson on Judge Berates Prosecutors In Xbox Modding Trial · · Score: 1

    This may be true of judges' lines of questioning at the appellate level for the reason you stated, but my experience is that when trial judges tongue-lash a party, it's often with the intent of affecting that party's behavior in the future.

  15. Rules of Professional Conduct on After Online Defamation Suit, Dismissal of Malicious Prosecution Claim Upheld · · Score: 1

    When you look to the Rules of Professional Conduct of your state, and research cases of your state's supreme court disbarring or sanctioning lawyers, you will notice just how egregious conduct must be in order for attorneys to be personally liable for wrongdoing.

    Proving that they knew before they filed is quite difficult; the standard should be outlined in the commentary for your state's RPCs....

  16. Re:Ahhh alcohol ... on Drunken Employee Shoots Server · · Score: 1

    That's because you're putting the alcohol in the wrong person!

  17. Re:Great on Google Officially Brings Voice To Gmail · · Score: 5, Funny

    Isn't that cooler than her shouting down the stairwell?

  18. Re:The expense of the interlock... on Convicted NY Drunk Drivers Need Ignition Interlocks · · Score: 1

    yea, you're good, wearing a helmet and all - but you aren't wearing anything else but sneakers, shorts and a wife beater. Yea, your head will be fine.....

    Up here in Michigan, snowmobile riders call them "brain buckets"....

  19. Low Average Density on How To Destroy a Black Hole · · Score: 1

    So is that why we can't see outside the "universe"? Because it's a giant "black hole" the event horizon of which we can't escape because all paths lead back to within?

  20. Re:Next Stop: Murder! on Guess My Speed and Give Me a Ticket, In Ohio · · Score: 1

    I've been stopped for suspicion of DUI before. Well, not stopped. I was standing outside my car talking to friends when the police showed up. The officer driving down the road, seeing us stopped and talking, could estimate my blood alcohol content. I've also been told I looked like I was going to buy drugs; speeding (without actually driving); and thinking about robbing a closed store (with my car parked in front, under a street light, on a busy street).

    Are you black??

  21. 5th Amendment in civil court on How To Take a Big Vendor To Small Claims and Win · · Score: 1

    I can tell you that, in Family Courts (where the rules of evidence are also relaxed), taking the Fifth will result in adverse inference.... Don't know about general Civil Cases though....

  22. Re:Razor Blades on HP Explains Why Printer Ink Is So Expensive · · Score: 1

    12 shaves a month costs you $3, or $0.25 a shave.

    A $0.60, dual-bladed Bic costs me $0.60 and lasts, comfortably, for 6 shaves.

    What are you, like, thirteen?

  23. Re:How about clowns? on Using Augmented Reality To Treat Cockroach Phobia · · Score: 1

    My wife has an absolute fear and hatred for clowns

    Lemme guess. This started from a date with the Insane Clown Posse?

  24. Re:I thought we already had LSD on Using Augmented Reality To Treat Cockroach Phobia · · Score: 1

    You cannot prevent a bad trip, they can hit people using LSD at random.

    I disagree with this. The concept of a "babysitter" to first-time trippers is someone (usually sober) who can detect when things are going wrong and, in response, divert the tripper's attention to something which can hold his/her focus (such as animation)....

  25. Defense in two words on Wisconsin DA Threatens Arrests Over Sex Ed · · Score: 1

    Judicial estoppel