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  1. Re:The sad part? on DEA Planned To Monitor Cars Parked At Gun Shows Using License Plate Readers · · Score: 1

    QED.

  2. Re:The sad part? on DEA Planned To Monitor Cars Parked At Gun Shows Using License Plate Readers · · Score: 1

    OK, if you want to play that game, in US vs. Miller the Supreme Court decided that firearms suitable for the militia-- that is, combat-- were the only ones expressly protected by the 2nd Amendment. So when some Democrat or "Independent" tries to write up a bill banning "scary guns" for having folding stocks or bayonet lugs, they are trying to ban the exact firearms we are supposed to have.

    I'm also curious what definition of "keep" you use-- from "keep and bear arms"-- that precludes individual ownership. The only other one I could think of is if the government buys every able-bodied person over 18 an M16A4 and allows them to keep them in their house.

    The concept of natural law dictates that we have all rights except those we delegate to our government. Our government never "gives" us any. The idea of government "giving" us rights leads to tyranny.

  3. Re:This is Texas! on Texas Boy Suspended For "Threatening" Classmate With the One Ring · · Score: 0

    Imagine if you'd actually passed spelling in third grade.

  4. It's not about the individual plates-- it's about the data mining. Our government deems it a good use of the resources and rights it was allocated from the people to monitor the whereabouts of said people. I don't want my government abusing its rights and using my tax money to do such things.

    I suggest you do not allow your dislike of organizations such as the NRA to cloud your judgement in the future.

  5. Re:imaginary witchcraft is ok on Texas Boy Suspended For "Threatening" Classmate With the One Ring · · Score: 0

    Do people like you like sounding like morons?

  6. Re:This is Texas! on Texas Boy Suspended For "Threatening" Classmate With the One Ring · · Score: 0, Troll

    The kind of folks who would lose their shit over calling a dark skinned person "black" instead of the SJW approved term of the week aren't the ones who would lose their shit over teaching evolution.

    They're people like YOU.

  7. Re:Not enough on Proposed Disk Array With 99.999% Availablity For 4 Years, Sans Maintenance · · Score: 1

    A little faster if someone with a pulse is at the site. Then it's sending the new disk overnight or with a courier, and handing it to the IT staff member who swaps the disk.

  8. Re:4 years??? on Proposed Disk Array With 99.999% Availablity For 4 Years, Sans Maintenance · · Score: 1

    Your C64 has video and keyboard I/O. Luxury! I would have responded earlier, but I was still keying my response into the front panel of my Altair. Now get off my lawn!

  9. Re:not the point on Why Screen Lockers On X11 Cannot Be Secure · · Score: 2
    Windows NT 3.1 didn't have an NT kernel? Color me confused.

    No, scratch that-- color you wrong.

  10. Re:not the point on Why Screen Lockers On X11 Cannot Be Secure · · Score: 2

    This feature goes back to at least Windows NT 3.5 in 1994, and perhaps even Windows NT 3.1 in 1993. The summary also implies that it always needs to be enabled, which it does not as it is the default when joined to a domain (and I think it is also the default on Enterprise and Server editions).

  11. Re:not the point on Why Screen Lockers On X11 Cannot Be Secure · · Score: 1

    Security features and policies are two different things. If you can solve a vulnerability with a feature, you do it. Policies are for things that don't have a technological solution, like social engineering. People should lock their workstations, but they don't always. Instead of remarking on how lazy or dumb they are, Microsoft created a solution 22 years ago.

    Also, policy doesn't fix this scenario with a shared computer: a malicious employee, instead of logging off after his shift, runs a fake logon screen malware to collect credentials from other users. Those other users may be privileged or, even if unprivileged, have their identities be used as cover in later attacks.

  12. Re:If it's accessing your X server, it's elevated on Why Screen Lockers On X11 Cannot Be Secure · · Score: 2

    Security standards like PCI DSS assume that, yes, your users are untrustworthy or, at best, naive.

  13. Re:Incredible! on Computer Chess Created In 487 Bytes, Breaks 32-Year-Old Record · · Score: 2

    But... but... these kids will never learn the joy of fiddling with jumpers, or rearranging their config.sys!

  14. Re:They better be damn sure we're not home... on Omand Warns of "Ethically Worse" Spying If Unbreakable Encryption Is Allowed · · Score: 1

    Especially with a 360 no scope.

  15. Re:Translation ... on Omand Warns of "Ethically Worse" Spying If Unbreakable Encryption Is Allowed · · Score: 3, Informative

    No-knock warrants are an anti-liberty product of the Drug War. Police know how to secure a building so the only way out is through them, but the suspects can easily dispose of "evidence" (illicit drugs) in the toilet. Since it was impractical to ban toilets, the courts decided to let them barge in and assault everyone they saw.

  16. Re: That's a nice democracy you have there... on Omand Warns of "Ethically Worse" Spying If Unbreakable Encryption Is Allowed · · Score: 1

    "constitution-based federal republic; strong democratic tradition"
    https://www.cia.gov/library/pu...

  17. Re:See... on Secret Service Investigating Small Drone On White House Grounds · · Score: 5, Funny

    A new executive Bureau of Drones, Quadcopters, and Very Large Kites will be created to require federal drone licenses for everything that flies. Because interstate commerce.

  18. Re:Quadcopter on Secret Service Investigating Small Drone On White House Grounds · · Score: 1

    Forget SWATting; I'm going to try droning all my favorite public servants.

  19. Re:WTF! She was 32 years old on Behind the MOOC Harassment Charges That Stunned MIT · · Score: 1

    The initial exchange where he allegedly requested nude photos should have been passed on to the MIT administration. Done. And if not done, next to the federal office of civil rights.

  20. Re:Awesome idea on Fake Engine Noise Is the Auto Industry's Dirty Little Secret · · Score: 2

    I vote K.I.T.T., although I rode in a 1987 Buick GN once and it actually sounded a lot like that.

  21. Re:Just give the option to turn it off... on Fake Engine Noise Is the Auto Industry's Dirty Little Secret · · Score: 1

    There most certainly were in the UK. Vermont may have also had some. They went away by the start of the 20th century, though.

  22. Re:Censorship? on Blogger Who Revealed GOP Leader's KKK Ties Had Home Internet Lines Cut · · Score: 2

    Who is "they"? Do you have evidence you'd like to share?

  23. Re:Crusty Hardware on User Plea Means EISA Support Not Removed From Linux · · Score: 1

    I had an AMD 486DX-40 system with two VLB slots. I had both VLB graphics and multi-I/O. Before the Pentium era, a motherboard didn't usually have all the basic I/O on it, so you had to buy a card with serial, parallel, and usually an IDE controller on it. Anyway, the second most annoying thing with VLB is that it ran at your FSB speed, so if you had a 25 MHz FSB you could have three cards, 33 MHz you could have two. I had 40, so I was only supposed to have one. It was surprisingly stable, but when I had the occasional video glitch I understood why it happened and could deal. It got better when I dumped the Computer Shopper white-box special for a DX2/80 with a decent ASUS board.

    The most annoying thing with VLB being, of course, that every card was almost full-length because the VLB part sat behind the ISA slot. They popped out all the time.

  24. Re:Thank you, President Obama! on President Obama Will Kibbitz With YouTube Stars · · Score: 1, Interesting

    I don't see any problem with how many days of vacation he has. I have a problem with the EXPENSES RUN UP BY HIS WIFE. She's the one jet-setting for 12 weeks a year, costing the taxpayers millions.

  25. Re:Thank you, President Obama! on President Obama Will Kibbitz With YouTube Stars · · Score: 2

    The State of the Union address would be far more entertaining if Grumpy Cat provided the post-speech response.