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  1. Re:Privacy Violation on A DNA Database For All U.S. Workers? · · Score: 1

    The right to privacy is an unenumerated right protected even by the original Constitution. Rights not granted to the government were always reserved to the people. Amendment 9 to the Constitution reaffirms this explicitly and was declared to not add anything that wasn't already in the Consitution by the Supreme Court.

  2. Re:Don't forget... on IL School District to Monitor Student Blogs · · Score: 1

    They'll also suspend you and attempt to ruin your life for writing about illegal activities whether you actually committed them or not. Aspiring writers beware. If you don't conform to your school's model, you are screwed.

  3. Re:Linux has more copyright owners on Slashback: Kororaa GPL, ICANN .XXX, BellSouth NSA · · Score: 1

    There's the middle ground where a person who has code in the part of the kernel that is being linked (if any) is having their copyright on that portion violated.

  4. Re:Drivers = Software on Slashback: Kororaa GPL, ICANN .XXX, BellSouth NSA · · Score: 2, Insightful

    You're not exactly going to be using a driver for an ATI Radon X1600 Uber-Dooper Edition on your nVidia GeForce 7900 Ultimate-WTF Edition, so what is the point?

  5. Re:hmm... on iPod Lawsuit Lawyers Sue Their Own Plaintiff? · · Score: 1

    The outrage is due to rather than doing as he asks (the right thing), they are going to stall in an attempt to bleed him dry.

  6. Re:Crazy lawyers... on iPod Lawsuit Lawyers Sue Their Own Plaintiff? · · Score: 1

    Perhaps a forgery because it would be insane for this guy to publicly claim he never entered into such an association, jeopardize the class action and possibly end up on the receiving end of a lawsuit brought by the firm. Even if this was an attempt to stop any harassment from the Mac fans, he'd be just as likely to end being harassed by members of the sunken class action suit that don't realize they wouldn't get dick even if they "won".

  7. Re:Starving... on Drug Found to Aid Vegetative Patients · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Because eventually another family member with something to gain ($$$) from their death will gain the power to make medical decisions and argue they have the right to have them euthanized. I'm an atheist and I think the prospect of having people euthanize other people is horrendous. Abuse would be inevitable and you can't trust the courts not to throw out any provisions to stop the abuses.

  8. Re:What simple questions? on Drug Found to Aid Vegetative Patients · · Score: 3, Funny

    It's probably more like
    Researcher: Hi there, can you see me? Patient: BRAAAAAAIIIIINNNZZZZZZZZ

  9. Re:GC and Wii processor on Nintendo Confirms Wii on GC Housing at E3 · · Score: 1

    Why would the CPU need to be slowed down?

  10. Re:Accusation on Nintendo Confirms Wii on GC Housing at E3 · · Score: 1

    The internals are new but backwards compatible and designed to fit in a smaller space than a GameCube. Sitting in a spare shell doesn't make it a modified GameCube...

  11. Re:Bah! on Microsoft Releases Vista Hardware Requirements · · Score: 1

    I would assume there's at least some debug information bloating stuff up in there that won't be there when they print the binaries on discs...

  12. Re:"interesting and respectful"? on NSA Chose Invasive Phone Analysis Option · · Score: 1

    They take it to a judge and the judge must decide that it's suspicious enough and there's enough evidence to support decryption.

  13. Re:Product's name: on Bio-Engineered Rice Uses Human Genes · · Score: 1

    The casing is often synthetic now. I'd wager most of the mass produced sausage in the developed world and probably most butchers use synthetic casings.

  14. Re:Product's name: on Bio-Engineered Rice Uses Human Genes · · Score: 1

    It is probably still dangerous in the developing world. Since the religions that ban eating it are mostly based in that area, best to leave the ban in place.

  15. Re:Flirting with open source on Microsoft Flirts with Open Source · · Score: 1

    There were some ported *utilities* and their may be BSD in a stack that was licensed from another company, but the primary TCP/IP stack in Windows NT 3.5 and Windows 95 and presumably onward were written by Microsoft. There's probably sprinklings of BSD in the code doing calculations that everyone has to do (checksums etc) and would be perfectly legal as long as there's a notice in compliance with the BSD license the code came from.

  16. Re:Who is their intended audience? on New Windows Media Player Leaks · · Score: 1

    You'd have to have hundreds of CDs worth well over $5,000 (I come up with >$8,000 with some conservative assumptions on tracks per disc and price per disc) at retail for that. ;o I don't even think that much *good* music currently exists on CD! ;p

  17. Re:All the more reason... on Kororaa Accused of Violating GPL · · Score: 1

    What if statements are retarded. Please stop.

  18. Re:Sour Grapes on Kororaa Accused of Violating GPL · · Score: 1

    The only people that could sue would be kernel contributors and probably only specific ones.

  19. Re:tainted kernel on Kororaa Accused of Violating GPL · · Score: 1

    We don't know that the driver qualifies as a derived work...

  20. Re:The good thing about extradition to the US... on Email Bomber Faces Retrial · · Score: 1

    It might work better if juries didn't think they were Robin Hood punishing the wealthy for nothing other than being wealthy. They simply love to shift wealth from one part to another in huge sums. Why else do awards from such cases almost always get stripped down on appeal...

  21. Re:security over privacy on Americans Not Bothered by NSA Spying · · Score: 1

    It is unlikely that deaths by car accidents will accelerate because cars want to kill us and have gotten big weapons or funding from rogue nations...

  22. Re:Yay! For the USA! on Americans Not Bothered by NSA Spying · · Score: 1

    Do you not see how letting rogue nations fund terrorists and potentially provide weapons might eventually threaten our freedom? Maybe once they start setting off nuclear bombs provided by one of those rogue nations smuggled in through Mexico in major cities until we agree to live under radical Islamic laws?

  23. Re:First Amendment? on Busting People for Pointing Out Security Flaws · · Score: 1

    You can make them leave or sue them for trespass if they don't leave, but the distribution of literature is 100% lawful. The first amendment says that Congress (and later applied to all federal and state government) may pass no law abridging freedom of speech and press. This means a law allowing other entities to sue you based on something you said will have to tread lightly and will often err on the side of free speech. More often than not, you'd have to have broken another law to obtain the material you leaked in order to be sued for the leak. The broken law here is supposedly unauthorized access.

  24. Re:who will win? on T-Mobile Releases New Card, Outlaws VoIP and IM · · Score: 1

    We need a way where everyone who wants to stand tall can do so as well as their abilities will let them, and their desire will drive them to.

    Isn't that the original idea behind capitalism?

  25. Re:DANGER WILL ROBINSON! on OpenDocument Plans Questioned by Disabled · · Score: 1

    They're saying that there is no disabled-friendly software supporting ODF. ODF can be the most open format in the history of humanity, but if there's no accessible software, it may as well be the most closed as far as the disabled are concerned.