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  1. "It is owned and operated by a commercial venture."

    So, when a Facebook employee microwaves their lunch at work, Facebook becomes subject to the regulations which apply to commercial restaurants? The electrical wiring inside their buildings means they're an electric utility subject to utility regulation? The shit in their employee's colons means they need a license for commercial waste hauling?

  2. Re:Commercial? on Facebook Took Its Giant Internet Drone On Its First Test Flight (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Read Wickard v Filburn for an explanation, if it's not already obvious. The real question is, is something which affects interstate commerce itself interstate commerce? If I poke you in the eye, I'm affecting you, but that doesn't make me you. The Constitutional power is over interstate commerce, not things which affect it. That's the fundamental flaw in our legal system which allows the feds to claim powers they don't actually have.

  3. "regulations for flying commercial drones "

    So, if it's a research aircraft which has no current role in the exchange of goods/services/money, what makes it commercial?

  4. I came to say basically the same, but about sunburn and cancer. Beyond that, the whole article is Bookface marketing puffery.

  5. Re:yes on Slashdot Asks: Would You Eat Lab-Grown Meat? (dmarge.com) · · Score: 1

    Animal 57 at Taco Bell.

  6. Re:Good luck with that? on UK Gov Says New Home Sec Will Have Powers To Ban End-to-end Encryption (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    "How do you get around a cut cable?"

    Wireless, obviously.

  7. Re:I called up the NSA on Google Deletes Artist's Blog and a Decade Of His Work Along With It (fusion.net) · · Score: 1

    LOL. You're demonstrably wrong, and now trying to backtrack. Your claim was that the OP was wrong and the proper saying was "...googles...", and pointed to a link for more detail. When I pointed out that was wrong due to the misspelling at that source, you said that wasn't your source, which was your own experience. So, the misspelling must have been yours, or you lied about your source. Whatever, it's clear you're simply wrong and are now simply digging a deeper hole.

  8. Re:I called up the NSA on Google Deletes Artist's Blog and a Decade Of His Work Along With It (fusion.net) · · Score: 1

    "The page I linked isn't my source. My source is watching the show..."

    Oh, you just don't know how to spell goggles. Got it.

  9. Re:I called up the NSA on Google Deletes Artist's Blog and a Decade Of His Work Along With It (fusion.net) · · Score: 1

    That's many levels of meta-ironic. The correct quote is "My eyes! The goggles do nothing!" So your source is wrong. But their presumably unintentional misspelling of "goggles" as "googles" makes it fit very well with this story.

  10. "Name one occasion in the recent past where a politician has been replaced by a better one."

    In 2000, a dead person was elected to replace the incumbent.

  11. Re:Arguing over the subjective on Linus Torvalds In Sweary Rant About Punctuation In Kernel Comments (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 5, Funny

    Emacs ... Use a real editor kid...

    "When I log into my Xenix system with my 110 baud teletype, both vi *and* Emacs are just too damn slow. They print useless messages like, 'C-h for help' and '"foo" File is read only'. So I use the editor that doesn't waste my VALUABLE time...Computer Scientists love ed, not just because it comes first alphabetically, but because it's the standard. Everyone else loves ed because it's ED!... When I use an editor, I don't want eight extra KILOBYTES of worthless help screens and cursor positioning code! I just want an EDitor!! Not a "viitor". Not a "emacsitor". Those aren't even WORDS!!!! ED! ED! ED IS THE STANDARD!!!"

    -Ed is the standard text editor.

  12. Re:The DNC overlords always get their way on Bernie Sanders Endorses Hillary Clinton (cnn.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    "Just like those people who vote for a third party as some kind of protest vote. All you're accomplishing is basically handing a vote to the candidate you like the least."

    You're confused, and just plain wrong, which is typical of ACs. It's when you don't vote for the person you like most, that you're throwing away a vote.

  13. Re:It's Heartbreaking you're not in Jail on Clinton: It's 'Heartbreaking' When IT Workers Must Train H-1B Replacements (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1
    "You must have missed the House Republican Benghazi report that cleared Hillary of any wrongdoing"

    You must not consider lying to the American public to be wrongdoing.

    "Two of our officers were killed in Benghazi by an Al Queda-like [sic] group"

    The Secretary of State to her daughter, September 11, 2012

    "We know that the attack in Libya had nothing to do with the film. It was a planned attack - not a protest"

    Summary of a statement by the Secretary of State to the Egyptian Prime Minister, September 12, 2012

    "I gave Hillary a hug and shook her hand, and she said we are going to have the filmmaker arrested who was responsible for the death of my son."

    Diary entry of Charles Woods, father of Tyrone Woods, September 14, 2012

    All from section II of the report.

  14. Re:BREAKING: Romanian hacker Guccifer found dead! on DOJ Will Not File Charges Against Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (politico.com) · · Score: 5, Informative
  15. Re:median vs average on New Cars Are Too Expensive For The Typical Family, Says Study (gulfnews.com) · · Score: 0

    "The next biggest expense was about 700 to replace the brake disks because I let the brake pads wear down to the metal."

    That's a $150 job if you learn to do it yourself (3 on a scale of 10, done in an afternoon). Just sayin'.

  16. "You must be new here."

    Why? Are you consistently wrong when you try to be pedantic?

  17. Re:Because $15/year is worth more than... on TP-LINK Loses Control of Two Device Configuration Domains (helpnetsecurity.com) · · Score: 1

    You're a naif if you think the domain squatter who bought the expired domain will give it back for nothing.

  18. Pedantic failure.

  19. Re:it can't be for distributing copyrighted materi on Man Who Teaches People How To Repair Their MacBooks Alludes To Apple Lawsuit (gamerevolution.com) · · Score: 1

    "To count as a creative work, it must be improbable that someone else would independently make an identical work."

    So, you agree that good schematics are creative. Why didn't you simply agree in the first place?

  20. Re:it can't be for distributing copyrighted materi on Man Who Teaches People How To Repair Their MacBooks Alludes To Apple Lawsuit (gamerevolution.com) · · Score: 1

    Whoosh. That's a non-sequitur. Skill implies creative expression, which any decent schematic demonstrates.

    Contrast a clear, easily understood schematic with one with the components randomly distributed and ratsnest of interconnections.

  21. Re:it can't be for distributing copyrighted materi on Man Who Teaches People How To Repair Their MacBooks Alludes To Apple Lawsuit (gamerevolution.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    "Board schematics are a factual description of a physical object."

    You've obviously not dealt with electronics much. If it was just a netlist, I might agree, but drawing good schematics is an art requiring skill.

  22. Re:Yep - impersonation on NRA Complaint Takes Down 38,000 Websites (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    "Part of the reason why cars are safer today than 40 years ago is because the CDC did studies examining car safety and provided the results and recommendations to Congress."

    That's a red herring. The CDC shouldn't be involved there either, they should be focused on preventing the zombie apocalypse. Vehicle safety should fall under the NHTSA. And workplace safety should fall under OSHA. But, for political reasons, the CDC duplicates the work of both.

  23. Re:Remeber the name for the program on NRA Complaint Takes Down 38,000 Websites (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    "a right that can be exercised for free."

    Free as in libre, not as in beer. And your whole argument that the government should give out guns reeks of a poorly done troll - if you're serious, you're an idiot.

  24. Re:Is it leaked or is it not yet leaked? on 2 Million-Person Terror Database Leaked Online (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    "How can a databse is said to be leaked online when the person who says he has it is still considering whether to publish the info?"

    It's well described in the summary. There is a vulnerability which allows unauthorized online access to the database. At least one person has taken advantage of that. That's a leak. It doesn't mean it's been leaked to you.

  25. Re:The moon on a stick might as well be in the pla on Clinton Tech Plan Reads Like Silicon Valley Wish List (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    "Only because not enough people petition to put them on."

    We're done until you understand the rules, instead of making them up.