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  1. Re:Haha eh on Airport ID Checks Constitutional · · Score: 0, Troll

    Sure, freedom of movement is guaranteed in Canada, but does Canada guarantee against having secret laws that the citizens are not allowed to read? That is what the real issue is here - having secret laws that you are subject to, are supposed to know about, yet are not allowed to know about.

  2. Re:Slightly OT - are "Fake" IDs ok? on Airport ID Checks Constitutional · · Score: 1

    Yes an alias or nickname is legal, but you have to declare them when asked. Many official forms have a 'box' for aliases. For example, it is very common in Canada, for people of foreign descent, to use an anglican alias.

  3. Re:two problems on Airport ID Checks Constitutional · · Score: 1

    Ignorance of the law is not an excuse. However, an unpublished secret law, would be untenable in most countries. How does the US government get away with that?

  4. Right to breathe on Airport ID Checks Constitutional · · Score: 1

    The right to breathe is not in the constitution... ;-)

  5. Re:No particular, but any? on Airport ID Checks Constitutional · · Score: 1

    Walk, cycle or horseback...

  6. Re:Domestic/Foreign? on Poll Finds Mixed Support for Domestic Wiretaps · · Score: 1

    Yes sure - but FISA does not control activities that occur *outside* the USA. it is only concerned with activities inside the country, pertaining to foreign intelligence. See this: http://www.eff.org/Censorship/Terrorism_militias/f isa_faq.html "FISA does not regulate the use of electronic surveillance outside of the United States. For instance, electronic surveillance of electronic communications like e-mail is only governed by 1801(f)(4) if the surveillance device is installed "in the United States." When e-mail sent by a U.S. person to a foreign person is intercepted outside the United States, that interception does not meet this definition."

  7. Re:Bated on NetBSD Q3/Q4 Status Report Published · · Score: 1

    Well, perhaps after eating a tuna sandwich 'baited' would be more accurate.

  8. Re:The biggest news from the report on NetBSD Q3/Q4 Status Report Published · · Score: 1

    Furnulum pani nolo UNIX.

  9. Re:Domestic/Foreign? on Poll Finds Mixed Support for Domestic Wiretaps · · Score: 1

    Well, FISA doesn't apply to foreign actions, so it is an important distinction is it not?

  10. Domestic/Foreign? on Poll Finds Mixed Support for Domestic Wiretaps · · Score: 1

    As I understand it, the wiretaps are only on foreign communications - although it applies to citizens and foreigners alike, it is not a tap on local domestic communications.

  11. Re:No explosion? on 7 Myths About The Challenger Disaster · · Score: 1

    The US 'Daisy Cutter' bombs are fuel air bombs. Some other countries also have these devices. They explode with enormous force and flattens everything on the ground. The resulting firestorm and mushroom cloud looks like a textbook nuclear explosion.

    So, what I'm saying is - it all depends on the circumstances. I would not like to have been anywhere close to the shuttle tank explosion...

  12. Re:No explosion? on 7 Myths About The Challenger Disaster · · Score: 1

    Yup, I had the unfortunate experience of being inside a fireball *twice*. The first one looked blue. The second one looked red. The sound was a kind of 'wump'. In both cases, nothing much happened to me, except some singed hair.

    However - I wouldn't recommend anyone trying it and I sure as hell don't want it to happen a third time...

  13. Re:Satan? on Canadian Record Label Fights RIAA Lawsuits · · Score: 0

    Well, this is a Canadian label...

  14. Re:What century is this? on Medical Data on 365,000 Patients Stolen · · Score: 1

    Uhhh, ever heard of rsync?

  15. Re:The FSF shows its true colors on Tridge wins 2005 Free Software Award · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Huh? The FSF *is* a software business. It just has different business model from some others.

  16. Re:Holy shit!!! on Intel Makes 45nm Chip · · Score: 2, Funny

    No, it is 45 Newton Meters - a very forceful chip...

  17. Re:big numbers? on Diebold's Election Data Off-limits · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Patents and copyrights don't apply to military projects anyway. That is one of the reasons it is very nice to work at a military equipment developer.

  18. First Sale Doctrine on iPod May Become Next Fair-Use Battleground · · Score: 1

    That is perfectly legal with an iPod. It is simply the first sale doctrine. Same as selliing used CDs.

  19. Doom and gloom... on When Data Goes Missing Will You Even Know? · · Score: 1

    There are two kinds of computer users: Those that have lost data and those that will. Any CEO knows that from first hand experience. Companies have dealt with information loss ever since the first person scratched something on a rock. The important thing to remember is that most data is useless anyway, so it doesn't matter if you lose it. Most stuff is saved because it is convenient, not because it is essential to save it.

  20. Re:18% -- that's really funny on Undervolting a Laptop · · Score: 1

    Well, I suppose undervolting is revolting...

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

    Software has no substance. It is neither matter, nor energy. It cannot be a product. If you think it is a product, then I would like to buy it by weight.

  22. Re:Cool, does it run under KDE? on IE7 Leaked · · Score: 1

    I would guess that 95% of the original Mozaic code is still in there. That would be the 5% of the IE code base that doesn't have bugs...

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

    Software is not a product. Software is merely a branch of mathematics. The computer is a product.

  24. Re:Cylon blood on Tumor Suppression Gene Discovered · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Ahah - so the Cylons were actually a bunch of medical orderly robots gone wild who decided that the only way to eradicate all disease is to eradicate the human carriers...

  25. Effect on Tumor Suppression Gene Discovered · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Gee, why would anyone want to effect cancer? I would think there are enough carcinogens out there to effect cancer already.