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  1. Re:Freedom of Speech anymore? on Linking Dangerously · · Score: 1

    "How can the courts do that? This guy has rights that cannot under any circumstances be taken away."

    There are no rights that cannot be taken away. The constitution gives you the right to "Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" but we still have the death penalty(in many states) and imprisonment for certain criminal acts. Basically if you act against society (not the government per se), society (jury of your peers) has the power to strip you of some rights.

    Furthermore strict constructionists would tell you that the order of the rights granted in the constitution are the order of importance, i.e. Life is more important than liberty which is in turn more important that pursuit of happiness. The rights in the bill of rights are less important (not un-important mind you) than those in the constitution proper.

    It's one thing to disagree with the government (I disagree with many policies of both parties myself) but it is another thing altogether to incite violence.

    That said, I would in fact disagree with this sentence if all that was there was linking to bomb making instructions, they should have gone after the places he linked to not him. But perhaps he agreed to the plea bargain and the "bomb making" charge so that other charges would be dropped like inciting violence, etc. Maybe there were several charges pending that the prosecution dropped in exchange for the plea.

    One rather short article is insufficient to decide if justice was in fact carried out or abrogated.

    Disclamer: IANAL, but I do have 3 credit hours of business law and remember much of the study of the constitution in both that class and high school government class.

  2. Re:DMCA Not Applicable Here? on Disposable Digital Cameras Have Arrived · · Score: 1

    Why yes, it is. More precisley if your the copyright holder no one else has a "cause of action" to bring suit against you. Besides, if they are selling you the hardware you own it, you can't copy it but you can use it any way you like.

  3. I've been using NiMH for about 6 months now on Rechargeable Batteries - Yes or No? · · Score: 1

    in the two Palms (IIIxe, IIIx), most of the kids toys, etc. I heard about http://www.batteryspace.com at another forum.

    $23.99 for 24 AA 1700mAh
    $19.99 for 24 AAA 700mAh
    $9.99 for 2 9v 160mAh

    they usually are running one promo or another and have some package deals. I don't have the time to test if they live up to the mAh as stated but even if they are off a little it's still about the best $/mAh deal I've found. They do have some higher stated capacities but the price bump to get there wasn't justified in my opinion. Note that I am not affiliated with the aformentiond retailer and I recieve no remuniration for my endorsment.

  4. PalmOS maybe? on UPS to Deploy Ultra-Connected Wireless Handhelds · · Score: 1

    Palm just announced that the next gen would support 128Meg Symbol currently has 5 palm based handhelds.