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  1. Re:And no one will go to jail on CIA Director Brennan Admits He Was Lying: CIA Really Did Spy On Congress · · Score: 4, Informative

    It may sound like treason to you, but it's not.

    Treason is specifically defined in the Constitution.

    While it's not treason, it sounds like multiple felonies to me.

  2. Re:Then, Why isn't he being arrested and charged w on CIA Director Brennan Admits He Was Lying: CIA Really Did Spy On Congress · · Score: 4, Insightful

    That's not treason. Treason is specifically defined in the Constitution.

    However, why isn't he being charged with multiple felonies, including perjury, etc...?

  3. Re:Limits of Measurement on More Quantum Strangeness: Particles Separated From Their Properties · · Score: 4, Informative

    Follow up to my own post.

    The fact that you cannot measure the momentum and location of a particle exactly is NOT a limitation imposed by measuring apparatus. The fact is that a quantum particle HAS no exact momentum and location, as a result of its wave function.

  4. Re:Limits of Measurement on More Quantum Strangeness: Particles Separated From Their Properties · · Score: 4, Informative

    Your explanation of Heisenberg with the inability to observe is incorrect. That's a RESULT of Heisenberg.

    Heisenberg's Principle comes out of the wave/particle duality. To localize a particle, you have to add waves of differing frequency to its wave function (ala Fourier). The more you localize it, the more waves of higher frequency you add. Momentum is derived from the wave frequency. Therefore, when you localize a particle, you are increasing the uncertainty of the momentum (by adding more and more higher frequency waves).

    This is the argument that Heisenberg used (yes, I've read his book).

  5. That has to be the most garbled summary.... on The Hobbit: the Battle of Five Armies Trailer Released · · Score: 1

    Why is he talking about Faramir? Faramir isn't even BORN yet!!!

  6. Re:Radicalization on Gaza's Only Power Plant Knocked Offline · · Score: 1

    Let's look at it another way. Some Aztlan nutjobs somehow manage to set up a base of operations in Tijuana, and say that they want California "back".

    They start by sending in suicide bombers to San Diego. The Mexican government does nothing to stop them. They launch rockets into San Diego and Orange County. The Mexican government does nothing to stop them.

    Assuming this scenario, what should/would the US government do?

  7. Hey, AC. I'm going to assume you live in the US.

    Let's assume the following hypothetical. A bunch of the Aztlan nutjobs somehow manage to assume some power in Tijuana. They decide that they want California "back".

    They start sending suicide bombers into So Cal. The Mexican government does nothing. They start launching rockets into So Cal. The Mexican government does nothing.

    What should the US Government do in this situation?

  8. Wish this was around a few years ago. on Metamason: Revolutionizing CPAP Masks With 3D Scanning and 3D Printing · · Score: 1

    My late wife could have used something like that for her BIPAP.

  9. Re:What's stopping me you ask... on Laser Eye Surgery, Revisited 10 Years Later · · Score: 1

    Try PRK.

    Plus, they have immensely improved the way they correct astigmatism using lasers.

  10. Re:Orange? on Black Holes Not Black After All, Theorize Physicists · · Score: 2

    Netflix series. "Orange is the new black".

  11. Re:Where were you when the Eagle landed? on Apollo 11 Moon Landing Turns 45 · · Score: 2

    I was six. At a friend's house. I had sprained my ankle, so his dad carried me downstairs so I could watch it on TV with everyone.

  12. Oh shit... it's Silurians! on Giant Crater Appears In Northern Siberia · · Score: 4, Funny

    Where is the Doctor when we need him?

  13. Re:don't drive with nobody in it? on FBI Concerned About Criminals Using Driverless Cars · · Score: 1
  14. Re:nobody ever won a war with their customers on Comcast Customer Service Rep Just Won't Take No For an Answer · · Score: 4, Funny

    Why am I cancelling? Because Comcast has assholes like you in customer service!

  15. Re:What? on White House Punts On Petition To Allow Tesla Direct Sales · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Thank you. For once, this would be a legitimate use of the Interstate Commerce Clause.

    Clearly, this *is* the purview of Congress, not the President, but all that the White House needs to do to make the petitioners happy is have one of its pet Congresscritters introduce legislation.

    It seems to me that the state regulations banning such sales are an intrusion upon the prerogatives of Congress.

  16. Re:If it looks like a duck on Aereo Embraces Ruling, Tries To Re-Classify Itself As Cable Company · · Score: 2

    He does so have to shoot me now, so SHOOT ME NOW!!!!!

    [BANG]

    You're dettttthhpicable!!!

  17. Re:If it looks like a duck on Aereo Embraces Ruling, Tries To Re-Classify Itself As Cable Company · · Score: 1

    Shoot him now! shoot him now!

  18. Re:Technically, it's not a "draft notice" on Today In Year-based Computer Errors: Draft Notices Sent To Men Born In the 1800s · · Score: 1

    At least they didn't give you the "I don't care, you still have to register" bureaucratic BS.

  19. Re:searching for reports from Boris and Natasha on Thousands of Leaked KGB Files Are Now Open To the Public · · Score: 1

    Won't be there. Boris and Natasha were Potsylvanian, not Russian.

  20. Re:No exhaustive.. on The World's Best Living Programmers · · Score: 1

    Nope. That was Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie.

  21. Re:Superman logo is a Trademark on DC Entertainment Won't Allow Superman Logo On Murdered Child's Memorial Statue · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Sure they can. They can license it out for this particular statue. Once it's licensed, there's no dilution.

  22. Re:Easier for Illuminati on Airbus Patents Windowless Cockpit That Would Increase Pilots' Field of View · · Score: 1

    And yes, I know 24 is fictional (and *bad* fiction, when it comes to tech)

  23. Re:Easier for Illuminati on Airbus Patents Windowless Cockpit That Would Increase Pilots' Field of View · · Score: 1

    Funny.... But I actually complained about that when they did it on 24 with the "magic ATC hacking box". Pilots aren't robots, if they see they're about to collide, they'll avoid it. Now there's another mechanism for the 3vil h4xx0rz to use.

    But seriously. What happens when the video crashes (I guess the plane will, too), or gets hacked (and don't give me any bullshit about "airgapped")?

  24. Re:If you take the bait on Lessig's Mayday PAC Scrambling To Cross Crowd Funding Finish Line · · Score: 1

    I actually did some minor volunteer work for the Anderson campaign in '80. He ran as an Independent, not as a Libertarian.

  25. Re:Why do we permit "property tax" at all? on California Property Tax Exemptions For Solar Energy Systems Extended To 2025 · · Score: 1

    For all intents and purposes, "all intensive purposes" is illiterate. Which begs the question, "is anyone literate enough to notice, much less care?

    There. FTFY.