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  1. Re:Seems obvious to me... on Astronaut Careers May Stall Without the Shuttle · · Score: 1

    The ambitious ones become Senators, like John Glenn and Bill Nelson.

  2. Re:Here's a radical idea on Chicago Debates Merits of ShotSpotter Technology · · Score: 1

    Is it just an FOID or does it allow her to carry?

  3. Re:am I the only one... on PARC Builds iPod-Sized HIV Detector · · Score: 1

    Maybe not so funny. Remember the VA hospitals that didn't properly sterilize their equipment?

  4. Re:Cyberbullies? on 9 MA Cyberbullies Indicted For Causing Suicide · · Score: 1

    Did you bother to continue reading?

  5. Re:Cyberbullies? on 9 MA Cyberbullies Indicted For Causing Suicide · · Score: 1

    The age of consent in MA is 18. Phoebe Prince was 15. This seems to be the relevant law.

  6. Re:Yup on BBC Activates DRM For Its iPlayer Content · · Score: 1

    Subtlety & Slashdot don't often mix well.

  7. Re:Uh oh on Venezuela's Last Opposition TV Owner Arrested · · Score: 1

    Julius Caesar.

  8. Re:Does this make Google Voice illegal? on Mississippi Makes Caller ID Spoofing Illegal · · Score: 1

    I do exactly that. I specifically asked my provider whether that would violate any portion of their TOS/AUP and was told it was acceptable.

  9. Re:15 minutes? on Japan To Standardize Electric Vehicle Chargers · · Score: 1

    Even if 15 minutes is realistic, just imagine waiting in line at a power station knowing that each customer ahead of you means 15 minutes waiting time before you can even begin. They'd better have some really good tea.

  10. Re:It is the most important open source project. on OpenBSD 4.7 Preorders Are Up · · Score: 5, Insightful

    OpenBSD, while is very secure, does owe some, if not a lot, of it's security to security through obscurity.

    Security through obscurity? What are you talking about? Name a better documented OS or distro.

    New (and not so new) users are well-advised to keep the FAQs bookmarked, but the man pages shipped with the distribution are the most comprehensive I've ever seen. Terse, maybe, but complete, and the developers treat errors/omissions seriously.

    Maybe you meant security due to small market share? Don't you think that every wannabe cracker out there wants to make a name for himself by rooting a properly configured OpenBSD box?

  11. Re:Can someone explain please on Texas Approves Conservative Curriculum · · Score: 1

    Do you believe that the officer who ordered his troops to fire on Jackson's party knew who they were?

  12. Where do the authors live? on How Slums Can Save the Planet · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I wonder how many of the cited authors live in "conurbations made up of people who do not legally occupy the land they live on."

  13. Re:Mirror of the offending document? on Cryptome in Hot Water Again · · Score: 1

    Just wait until the US adopts the ACTA.

  14. Re:Bore them to death on Police Want Fast Track To Get At Your Private Data · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Isn't that what the US effectively was up until the Civil War? "States Rights" came to mean merely supporting slavery (later, racial discrimination), and everything started to slide downhill from there. Now we're at the point where someone will complain if one state has different home schooling rules than another.

  15. Re:New? Really? on Spray-On Liquid Glass · · Score: 1

    Well, Knot Wax is silicon free, for starters. Not sure if that makes much difference aeronautically.

  16. Re:Best comics on "Calvin and Hobbes" Creator Bill Watterson Looks Back With No Regrets · · Score: 1

    +1, Poignant.

  17. Re:Government Employee? on US Dir. of Citizen Participation Patents the News · · Score: 2, Informative

    Ms. Stanton was working for Google, not the government, when the patent application was filed back in 2006.

  18. Re:Limited times on Ursula Le Guin's Petition Against Google Books · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Not sure what Ursula has in mind, but I think that copyright is one thing the Founders got right back in 1790.

  19. Re:Publishing the ACTA negotiations on Deadline For Data.gov Arrives, and Delivers · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure that we've ever revoked a treaty; it's easier to break them. Ask the Indians.

    Apparently the Supreme Court can invalidate all or part of a treaty if it's blatantly unconstitutional, but it seems that's about it.

  20. Re:Publishing the ACTA negotiations on Deadline For Data.gov Arrives, and Delivers · · Score: 1

    Could a treaty be ruled as invalid by the legislature?

    Article II, Section 2 of the Constitution requires 2/3 of the Senate to consent to any treaty. Of course, if you look at the Senate vote on the DMCA...

  21. Re:I'm not a huge fan of DHS either on 80% of .gov Web Sites Miss DNSSEC Deadline · · Score: 1

    Who comes up with names like these? "Homeland" is disturbingly close to "Vaterland." Wouldn't "domestic" have worked?
    My county renamed the Sheriff's Office to "Department of Public Safety," bringing to mind that laff-riot Reign of Terror during the French Revolution.

    And yes, DHS could easily have been made part of the FBI or the US Marshall's Service, if it needs to exist at all.

  22. Re:Gee thanks China. on 2-D Avatar To Be Pulled From Theaters In China · · Score: 1

    I felt the same way when they banned Rush Hour 3.

  23. Re:Why does it have a GPS? on MiFi Attack Exploits GPS To Reveal User's Location · · Score: 1
    From the EVDOinfo review:

    The Sprint MiFi enables the GPS functionality and allows for Sprint's "Location Based Services" that will plot onto a Google map the restaurants/banks/shopping/gas/etc that are near by. Verizon disables the GPS capabilities of the MiFi!

  24. Re:Hmm, this seems illogical. on US DOJ Says Kindle In Classroom Hurts Blind Students · · Score: 1

    What did schools do pre-Kindle? Shun books that weren't also available in Braille?

  25. Re:Any asterisk compatable solutions? on MagicJack Femtocell Gates Cell Traffic to VoIP · · Score: 1

    If you're maniacal, you can do what these guys did at last year's Burning Man.