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  1. Re:huh? on 2015 Corvette Valet Mode Recorder Illegal In Some States · · Score: 4, Informative

    The problem here is recording audio. In the states where this isn't permitted, it is considered "Wire tapping" since it is "intercepting communication". These are called "all party states", where everyone has to give consent.

    You are, however, free to record just video.

  2. Re:let them suck it on FBI Chief: Apple, Google Phone Encryption Perilous · · Score: 2

    "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."

    Don't worry. "Unreasonable" can and is defined however it is convenient for them

  3. Re:Now all they need to do... on New MRI Studies Show SSRIs Bring Rapid Changes to Brain Function · · Score: 1

    I'm sorry. If you think "how" and "why" are the same question, you need to go back to school. Start at the very beginning

  4. Re:Now all they need to do... on New MRI Studies Show SSRIs Bring Rapid Changes to Brain Function · · Score: 2

    We know how they work. We don't know why they work. It is right there in the name "Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitor". It causes excess amounts the neurotransmitter Serotonin to be not reclaimed

  5. Re: And they wonder why I block ads... on Google's Doubleclick Ad Servers Exposed Millions of Computers To Malware · · Score: -1

    unmoderate

  6. Re:I know! on What To Expect With Windows 9 · · Score: 0, Troll

    Everything with Linux is like a mishmash of products, technologies, standards all mixed together when nothing really works as efficient as it should

    FTFY

  7. Re:Imagine, a Beowulf cluster of these! on Intel Discloses Core M Broadwell Speeds, Feeds and Performance Expectations · · Score: 1

    So they can run on a potato?

  8. Re:A limit is a limit on Google's Driverless Cars Capable of Exceeding Speed Limit · · Score: 1

    Deliberate misdirect:

    This paragraph shall not apply to evidence obtained through the use of devices authorized by paragraph (2) or (3) within a school zone or an active work zone

  9. Re:A limit is a limit on Google's Driverless Cars Capable of Exceeding Speed Limit · · Score: 2

    In Pennsylvania, the vehicle code (Title 75, 3368), you can not be cited for speeding less that 6 miles per hour when the posted limit is less than 55 miles per hour, and over 55, you have to be going 10 miles an hour or over. I'm pretty sure this is what it is all about.

  10. Re:Self Serving Story? on Are Altcoins Undermining Bitcoin's Credibility? · · Score: 2

    Well, you COULD create an altcoin where instead of 10 minutes to the new block, you have it down to 10 seconds. But then submitted stale shares are substantial, no one wants to mine, and the network doesn't have the computational support it needs. Every altcoin is based on bitcoin, with parameters/hash method just changed. All of it have advantages and drawbacks depending on how far from one side to the other you tweak those values. Overcoming these will need a totally new idea

  11. Re:P vs. NP on New Watson-Style AI Called Viv Seeks To Be the First 'Global Brain' · · Score: 1

    This can't be a huge issue. I'm sure these folks aren't oblivious to its nature. The complexity of the query goes up to a known maximum. When parsing, have a limit for the most work that can be done/you are willing to compute and if the query will exceed that, you do the ol' DrSbaitso "Could you please be more specific?"

  12. Re: We only use JS now? on The Technologies Changing What It Means To Be a Programmer · · Score: 1

    Pfff. Node.js is functionally:

    MyString = MyObject.ToString;
    eval("MyObject = " + MyString + ";");

    and a few bits to deal with different date formats. Nothing about a runtime environment or browser. Simple class serialization

  13. Re:HL3? on Valve Discloses Source 2 Engine In Recent DOTA 2 Update · · Score: 2

    left5dead

  14. Good luck on Ask Slashdot: Where Can I Find Resources On Programming For Palm OS 5? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I had the same happen with Codewarrior for Sharp Zaurus. Metrowerks was sold and Freescale erased all traces of it. Can't be found anywhere, legit or warez. I even contacted Freescale and they said they looked everywhere they could, but they said it was nowhere. Gone forever

  15. Re:Scamaday on A Router-Based Dev Board That Isn't a Router · · Score: 2

    If you require "perfect RF", you are doing something wrong

  16. It's obvious on SpaceX Executive Calls For $22-25 Billion NASA Budget · · Score: 2

    This is to fund the Crossbow project

  17. Re:If it quacks on Siberian Discovery Suggests Almost All Dinosaurs Were Feathered · · Score: 1

    If she weighs the same as a duck.... she's made of wood!

  18. Re:wat on Black Holes Not Black After All, Theorize Physicists · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Black holes aren't "infinitely dense" because that is ridiculous

  19. Re:The Death of Bitcoin? on New York State Proposes Sweeping Bitcoin Regulations · · Score: 1

    That isn't the heart of bitcoin at all.

  20. Re:Ridiculous! on Marvel's New Thor Will Be a Woman · · Score: 1

    Your SRS is showing

  21. Easy on Slashdot Asks: Do You Want a Smart Watch? · · Score: 2

    I want to be able to call my self-aware trans-am to save me from gunfire

  22. Re:No, I won the bitcoin auction! on Investor Tim Draper Announces He Won Silk Road Bitcoin Auction · · Score: 1

    There is zero evidence Tim Draper was the auction winner, except for is own statement, that's not backed up by absolutely anything.

    Because if he was lying, the actual winner is extremely likely to issue a "nuh uh. *I* won the auction" statement

  23. Re:Better analogy: on Supreme Court Rejects Appeal By Google Over Street View Data Collection · · Score: 1

    You can find out all you need by googling "wiretapping two party state". Most refer to recording phone calls, but it includes anything recording voice. Here is a map, with the red states indicating which you can be charged with wiretapping for recording a conversation without all parties consent:

    http://www.vegress.com/index.p... Essentially, without consent in these states, recording audio is considered "Interception of communication", which is why it falls under wiretapping laws

  24. Re:Better analogy: on Supreme Court Rejects Appeal By Google Over Street View Data Collection · · Score: 1

    Shit. A lot of states classifying video taping another person without consent to be wiretapping

  25. Re: vi, Emacs or IDE on Ask Slashdot: Correlation Between Text Editor and Programming Language? · · Score: 2, Funny

    Linux "experts" love to hate on nano because you don't need a cheat sheet to just start using it