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  1. Here you go. on EFF Sues AT&T Over NSA Wiretapping · · Score: 1
    The President does need a warrant to tap overseas calls (where one party is in the US). See http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/casecode/uscodes/50/ chapters/36/subchapters/i/sections/section_1802.ht ml
    1802(a)(1) Notwithstanding any other law, the President, through the Attorney General, may authorize electronic surveillance without a court order under this subchapter to acquire foreign intelligence information for periods of up to one year if the Attorney General certifies in writing under oath that -
    • (A) ...
    • (B) there is no substantial likelihood that the surveillance will acquire the contents of any communication to which a United States person is a party; and
    • (C) ...
  2. Re:Getting ahead of themselves on EFF Sues AT&T Over NSA Wiretapping · · Score: 1

    In that case, the law needs to be changed, not ignored.

  3. Re:Slippery slope on Airport ID Checks Constitutional · · Score: 1

    Amtrak requires ID when purchasing a ticket; your name is printed on the ticket. I've never heard of ID actually being rechecked once on the train, but apparently it happens.

  4. Re:got the karma to burn, so.... on Poll Finds Mixed Support for Domestic Wiretaps · · Score: 1

    Dear Mrs. Smith,

    I'm sorry for conducting surveillance on your family via your bathroom window. However, you are Middle-Eastern according to our records and statistically, you are 70% more likely to participate in a terrorist attack. Also, Mr. Smith has a long beard and we've observed both of you at the local mosque. Given these facts, we had reason to believe that your children were manufacturing a dirty bomb in the shower.

    Please rest assured that we will not rest as long as Terror exists in the world, as long as the evildoers try to strip this great nation of its Freedom and Security. We will continue our surveillance of the evildoers in order to prevent another terrorist attack. We will never cease to protect you.

    God Bless America.

    Thank you,
    President Safety.

  5. Re:Blame Congress for lacking nads on Poll Finds Mixed Support for Domestic Wiretaps · · Score: 1

    Yes, except Carter and Clinton didn't ignore FISA.

  6. Re:Your identity is worthless to the feds on ChoicePoint Hit With Large Fine For Data Theft · · Score: 1

    Bulk discount.

  7. Re:not anymore than any browser on Google's Cache Ruled Fair Use · · Score: 2, Insightful
  8. Re:I believe in an opt-in Internet. on Google's Cache Ruled Fair Use · · Score: 1

    I just read TFA; now I see that it does mention an implicit license. IANAL, but I don't think that applies to all pages, since the page in question explicitly allowed indexing.

  9. Re:I believe in an opt-in Internet. on Google's Cache Ruled Fair Use · · Score: 1
    Same thing applies here: if you put a web page on the web, you have to expect people to use it, and the fact that you didn't do anything to prevent that even though you easily could've means that you don't have a case later on when something someone does doesn't sit well with you. Deep links, indexing for search engines (not counting caching) and caching all fall under this.

    Are you saying that caching falls under fair use, or are you saying that when you publish something online you implicitly grant users rights in addition to those they have under copyright law? I would assume you mean the former, but you mention an "implicit license" that suggests the latter.

  10. Re:Past Canadian Results: RAW Format + other musin on Diebold's Election Data Off-limits · · Score: 1
    On another topic I'll throw this out there.. Why not have paper ballots that can be read into computers. Wouldn't you have the best of both worlds? Both a paper record and electronic counting/

    Some counties use this: http://www.diebold.com/dieboldes/accuvote_os.htm ; it's a "fill in the bubble" type thing. You use a pen.

  11. Re:terrific ..... not on IE7 Leaked · · Score: 1

    Software takes energy and time to create, so it is a product. Data is "substance" in itself. It's a pattern that is worth more than the jumble it would otherwise be.

  12. Re:Who cares if is wrong. on Cringely on Domestic Eavesdropping · · Score: 1

    I'm sorry I didn't happen to have that book on me to look it up.

  13. Re:Who cares if is wrong. on Cringely on Domestic Eavesdropping · · Score: 1

    When did he say that?

  14. Re:Tell ya what everyone on Cringely on Domestic Eavesdropping · · Score: 1

    Exactly. Bush thinks that the law doesn't apply to him. He doesn't like the FISA law as it exists now, but he won't step up and try to change it. Instead, he simply ignores it. That, to me, is much worse than anything he could do legally.

  15. Re:Why they didn't get warrants.... on Cringely on Domestic Eavesdropping · · Score: 1

    To hell with trying to change that law, as well. Let's just ignore it and hope no one notices.

  16. Re:I've been discriinated against on Is There Still Racism in IT Hiring Practices? · · Score: 1

    How would they know if you're Jewish or not?

  17. Wikipedia was never "closed" on German Wikipedia Threatened w/ Injunction · · Score: 1, Insightful

    The site ( http://de.wikipedia.org/ ), along with the other language Wikipedias, is located in the US, and it's still up. Only the redirect ( http://wikipedia.de/ ) is affected by the injunction, since it's under German jurisdiction.

    I only had to look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tron_(hacker)#Current _controversy to find that..

  18. Re:WHY WOULD ANYONE WANT TO RUN WINDOWS? on Ars Technica Reviews Intel iMacs · · Score: 1

    They want to run Windows apps while still having Mac OS on the same machine. I'm sure that if they could run Mac OS on their PC, they would do that instead.

  19. Re:So, if it were up to you... on Chinese Ban on Wikipedia Prevents Research · · Score: 1

    Iraq didn't present a threat to our way of life either, and that was the only reason going into Iraq was approved in the first place. "They're gonna bomb us! They're gonna bomb us! Don't take time to think about it, if we think about it the terrorists win!"

  20. Re:A logical consequence of people having rights on Felony For Refreshing a Web Page? · · Score: 1

    What about free speech in the use of collective resources (like money) that don't belong to an individual? Then the corporation's rights are independent of the rights of its members.

  21. Re:Nah.... on The Odds at Macworld · · Score: 1

    What about that "right-click" key that pretty much all recent PC keyboards have?

  22. Re:They need look no further than their own polici on Wikipedia Founder Releases Personal Appeal · · Score: 1

    Do I get to use a sword?

  23. Re:Missed it? on Leap Second At The End of 2005 · · Score: 2, Informative

    It's inserted at UTC 23:59:59, which would be 6:59:59 PM in New York.

  24. Re:global warming on Tropical Storm Zeta Forms in Atlantic · · Score: 1

    Where did you get this information?

  25. Re:For the record on Makers · · Score: 1

    Especially when the parts don't quite fit together.