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  1. Re:Getting charged negative dollars for cable on How YouTube Music Key Will Redefine What We Consider Music · · Score: 1

    VDSL2+ is out (and has been for years). The original DSL was much slower. Yes, the connections I had in the '90s wouldn't do HD. But I've seen 70/30 (as an unusually high, but real) connection for current DSL technology.

  2. Re:Concern for high values? on Pirate Bay Co-Founder Peter Sunde Is a Free Man Again · · Score: 1

    Some vegans do it because they find it objectionable to eat people. More than one in the anti-vegan rants mentioned cannibalism being not immoral.

    Others do it because they are for animal rights, and feel that eating meat supports animal torture.

    Others are health nuts, and take it to excessive absolutes.

    You are saying that all the reasons are not reasonable, and your one reason encompasses all perfectly.

    I think that makes you an arrogant ass, and you've not supported your premise to convince others, obviously.

  3. Re:LOL on US Weather System and Satellite Network Hacked · · Score: 1

    The NSA is unfortunately a necessary agency because every other country of note has agencies that have espionage programs targeting the US.

    No, not really. 3 guys in a basement reading Obaba's Medium posts and Republican tweets isn't an "espionage program". And really, most foreign governments don't do much more than read public information to make guesses and inferences from them. The only countries that routinely invaded other countries with CIA/KGB/FSB/MI6 operatives are referenced in those acronyms.

  4. Re:correct me please on US Weather System and Satellite Network Hacked · · Score: 1

    Sounds like that's consistent with disrupting public NOAA websites where the satellite feeds are displayed, reported by bad journalism.

  5. Re:Ok... just turned two score, but... on The Students Who Feel They Have the Right To Cheat · · Score: 1

    Nah, it was a supplies closet, the first door on the left headed from the office to the lunchroom (in case someone were to be in the area and want to check my facts). It had a storage bench on the left side, and piles of supplies on the right, and I was sat at the storage bench, and locked in the room. No idea what would have happened in a fire. If I had died, hopefully manslaughter charges for the teacher and principal.

  6. Re:Dumb idea ... Lots of assumptions .... on US School Installs 'Shooter Detection' System · · Score: 1

    But the point is, if you bought it from a private citizen, the FFL links you to a gun, not unlinks you. So you are "safer" never using an FFL, than selling a privately bought gun through one.

  7. Re:Concern for high values? on Pirate Bay Co-Founder Peter Sunde Is a Free Man Again · · Score: 1

    So, because 200 years ago, 12 year olds were married by 30-somethings, vegans are predictable. Yeah, there's no coherent response to that, even if one were to attempt to agree.

  8. Re:Ok... just turned two score, but... on The Students Who Feel They Have the Right To Cheat · · Score: 1

    John J Pershing Elementary school in Dallas. She locked me in a closet for lunch after that as well. Once I realized I was smarter than her, she didn't like my attitude.

    Theoretially, the beating was assault, as they didn't get parental permission for discipline, but it's not like children have rights in the USA (then or now) so nothing would have come from anyone making a stink about it.

  9. Re:Dumb idea ... Lots of assumptions .... on US School Installs 'Shooter Detection' System · · Score: 1

    A private citizen is not required to perform a background check. A private citizen may (legally) sell a gun to a person who is illegally buying it. So I'm still unclear what the problem is that an FFL fixes. And using an FFL would *increase* my legal liability, not reduce it. For that and other reasons. Presume the person you bought it from used it in a crime. The FFL paperwork ties you to that gun. You are now linked to a crime, that if you hadn't used a FFL to sell the gun would never have been linked to you.

    Stay safe, don't use FFLs.

  10. Re:Okay, so on ISPs Removing Their Customers' Email Encryption · · Score: 1

    context

  11. Re:Your Thoughts and Use of Post Processing? on Interviews: Ask Rachel Sussman About Photography and the Oldest Living Things · · Score: 1

    By that definition, all print photography is post-processed as well.

  12. Re:Okay, so on ISPs Removing Their Customers' Email Encryption · · Score: 1

    I didn't realize the complaints against him were HIPAA related. Where did you read that?

  13. Re:Wonderful idea. on US School Installs 'Shooter Detection' System · · Score: 1

    Another reason why the movies are wrong. They have silenced semi-auto handguns being silent. The slide action alone is quite audible, even if the discharge was silent.

  14. Re:Dumb idea ... Lots of assumptions .... on US School Installs 'Shooter Detection' System · · Score: 1

    Has any school shooter ever broken down a locked door and killed someone on the other side? How about just shot through the door and killed someone?

    The theory is if you send kids into the hallways with a shooter (even if you think he's on the other side of the school), they are at more risk than behind a locked door. I've seen nothing to contradict that, thought the nutjobs who insist waiting on a government response for safety is the same as killing all the kids in the room yourself protest the thought.

  15. Re:Dumb idea ... Lots of assumptions .... on US School Installs 'Shooter Detection' System · · Score: 1

    That doesn't seem like a productive contribution to the discussion.

    Neither were yours, so he responded in kind.

  16. Re:Wifi cameras? Really? on US School Installs 'Shooter Detection' System · · Score: 1

    Most of the wireless cameras I've dealt with also do wired. Just wire them all with Ethernet. Cheaper than a "real" system, and doesn't rely on wireless.

  17. Re:Dumb idea ... Lots of assumptions .... on US School Installs 'Shooter Detection' System · · Score: 1

    I moved from the US to a place where guns are (in US terms) illegal. And you can buy them, but one of the dis qualifiers is if you plan on defending yourself with it. "I think guns are cool" is a valid reason to buy one, but "they make me feel safer" wouldn't be. More people here could be gun owners than in the US (as the US has so many criminals and others excluded from ownership). But the number of actual gun owners is tiny.

  18. Re:Dumb idea ... Lots of assumptions .... on US School Installs 'Shooter Detection' System · · Score: 1

    But at the time it clearly applied to cannons, but wouldn't now? Keep and bear arms. You have the right to own them AND carry them, but you don't have to be able to own them to carry them, or carry them to own them.

    And a 3-man machine gun is bearable, just not with the spare barrels and ammo. And the spare people help swap barrels faster.

  19. Re:Dumb idea ... Lots of assumptions .... on US School Installs 'Shooter Detection' System · · Score: 1

    The only thing that is not illegal, that could be implied by your comment, is the sale of a firearm from one private citizen to another without the aid of an FFL. Personally, I think anyone who would make such a sale without the aid of an FFL is an idiot, as it could lead to legal complications in the future.

    I've sold guns that way, but then I've always bought my guns without the use of a FFL, so the sale would *never* be traced to me. Well, theoretically, the person I sold it to could try to identify me, but that would fail, so the gun check would turn up someone in the '80s that bought it from a FFL, and got rid of it. That person is probably dead anyway. So all the tracking will find a dead end that leads nowhere. Not sure how that'd get anyone in trouble, unless you think the types of people to sell guns second-hand without a license would always buy it from an FFL themselves?

  20. Re:Dumb idea ... Lots of assumptions .... on US School Installs 'Shooter Detection' System · · Score: 1

    From the perspective of the dead victim, they are.

    And from the perspective of the live stabbing victim and dead shooting victim?

  21. Re:Dumb idea ... Lots of assumptions .... on US School Installs 'Shooter Detection' System · · Score: 1

    Firearm availability is one of the factors in these sorts of things.

    Nope. Most of the guns used are "stolen". Though often stolen by family members with access to improperly secured firearms, but rarely are the guns used in gun shooting legally bought. So laws about gun safes and security of guns would go much further to stopping this than any additional rules on buying them.

  22. Re:Legalities on Police Body Cam Privacy Exploitation · · Score: 1

    It's a move for dismissal/mistrial on the grounds of a tainted jury. It is far from unknown for cases to be dropped because media attention on a suspect has compromised the ability to hold a fair trial.

    That's different than moving for a mistrial simply because facts were released into the "public domain". They had to be widely spread, and common knowledge. Even OJ managed to get a jury that supposedly never heard of the killing before being called for jury duty. So a dismissal for something being in "public domain" without any evidence of jury taint isn't popular, as you state.

    You know just enough to be dangerous, but not enough to be right.

  23. Re:Okay, so on ISPs Removing Their Customers' Email Encryption · · Score: 1

    No, it is not. Most of my communications with my various lawyers is done over email. I trust their legal judgment more than some jackass on the Internet.

  24. Re:Okay, so on ISPs Removing Their Customers' Email Encryption · · Score: 1

    "Exposing" communications isn't illegal. Last I checked, there were some HIPAA fines for not releasing records, but still none for exposure or leaks, despite some leak events.

  25. Re:They are not removing encryption, more like ... on ISPs Removing Their Customers' Email Encryption · · Score: 1

    They are actively using technical means to circumvent encryption.