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  1. Re:When do I get to be a multinational corp? on Google Rejects French Order For 'Right To Be Forgotten' · · Score: 1

    >> While (X) may be the law in (place), it is not the law globally (therefore pound sand)

    Wow. And techies thought Microsoft was arrogant when dealing with Europe in the 2000s.

    More to the point: how do I get to be a multinational corporation so I can tell local authorities to fuck off too?

    I think you are missing a major point of the discussion. Google complies with French law in France. Google complies with EU law in the EU. Google did not want to comply with Chinese law in China, so they left China. The issue is that France is trying to force Google to comply with French law everywhere else. I hope you can see the distinction.

  2. Re:"...the same as trespassing." on Kentucky Man Arrested After Shooting Down Drone · · Score: 1

    Requiring a "duty to retreat" from the thief/murderer that came into your own home is not what most people think of as castle doctrine.

  3. Re:ask slashdot on How Pentaquarks May Lead To the Discovery of New Fundamental Physics · · Score: 1

    Ok. I hope you feel better now.

  4. Re:ask slashdot on How Pentaquarks May Lead To the Discovery of New Fundamental Physics · · Score: 1

    Turns out it was *I* who didn't know what the A stood for. When I replied to your post I was thinking it stood for 'Anti' as in Anti-global-warming. Add that to the fact you called GP a denier moron and you can see my confusion. Note my emphasis was on your use of the word denier, not moron.

  5. Re:ask slashdot on How Pentaquarks May Lead To the Discovery of New Fundamental Physics · · Score: 1

    Based on the the fact you called GP a "denier moron" it makes me wonder if you understand what the A in AGW stands for.

  6. Re: That was my thought. on New York Judge Rules Against Facebook In Search Warrant Case · · Score: 2

    What meaning of the word "Citrus" were you going for here?

  7. Re:again on FTC Accuses LifeLock of False Advertising Again · · Score: 1

    The false advertising may have been a continuous thing, but the accusation of false advertising happened once, and has now happened again. The title is written correctly.

  8. Re:Average Americans want to prohibit armed drones on Police Not Issuing Charges For Handgun-Firing Drone -- Feds Undecided · · Score: 2

    That's not cognitive dissonance. On one hand you have a teenager building a flying gun in his backyard in Connecticut. One the other hand you have the U.S. military taking out the bad guys half way across the world. Having two differing opinions on these two situations is not contradictory. Are the situations much more complicated and nuanced than how I described? Sure. But for most people, that's what it boils down to, so their reactions make sense.

  9. Re:Age, 18 for long guns and 21 for hand guns on Police Not Issuing Charges For Handgun-Firing Drone -- Feds Undecided · · Score: 1

    According to this website: http://smartgunlaws.org/minimu... the federal minimum age for possession of a handgun is 18. But according to that same website, the minimum age set by Connecticut state law is 21.

  10. Re: Curious on Gmail Spam Filter Changes Bite Linus Torvalds · · Score: 1

    Turns out it's actually a cosine wave, dummy.

  11. Plot twist on Free Tools For Detecting Hacking Team Malware In Your Systems · · Score: 1

    Milano is the spyware...

  12. Re:How does it hurt academic research? on Google Applies For Patents That Touch On Fundamental AI Concepts · · Score: 3, Informative

    What's stopping academic research on ideas covered by patents?

    The source of the grants/funding?

  13. Re:Freedom! on Robotic Space Plane Launches In Mystery Mission This Week · · Score: 1

    You should have paid closer attention. Your "reward" will be 70 very ugly virgins riddled with various diseases who will constantly be fighting with each other, and who will always be jealous of each other. Plus they will have only one hobby - nagging at you. Have fun with your paradise, my friend.

    Your sarcasm only makes sense if you think GP was serious. I hope that is not the case.

  14. Re:Probably a stupid question but... on Galaxies Die By Slow "Strangulation" · · Score: 1

    See metallicity.

    Your link only reaffirms what GP already recognized: astronomers combine all elements except hydrogen and helium into one large group calls "metals" and then measure an object's "metallicity". The question that was asked is why did astronomers choose to use the specific word "metal"? The word already had a very specific meaning in science and in common usage. So were the astronomers just being lazy or was there more meaning to the decision?

  15. Re:Makes sense. on Google Throws Microsoft Under Bus, Then Won't Patch Android Flaw · · Score: 1

    I believe he meant physically versus legally (contractually).

  16. Re: Some day you children will have a REAL problem on Xbox Live and PlayStation Networks Downed By Apparent Attack · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It might not matter as much as some things, and it might not matter at all to you, but that doesn't mean it doesn't matter.

  17. Re:Many people have thunk it. on Study: Police Body-Cams Reduce Unacceptable Use of Force · · Score: 0

    Not all motorists are calmed when they see my camera, but it seems many are (for example, they'll ease off tailgating me and shadowing my blind spots).

    You are on a bicycle. You have no blind spots.

  18. Re:At that rate ... on Feds Plan For 35 Agencies To Collect, Share, Use Health Records of Americans · · Score: 1

    The audit trail for every agency that has consulted your file? That IS part of your medical records, right?

    Nah, man . . that there's just metadata !

  19. Re:Define "reasonable" on 18th Century Law Dredged Up To Force Decryption of Devices · · Score: 1

    Wrong. The vendors WILL be able to offer reasonable technical assistance. Whether that reasonable technical assistance will lead to the prosecutors getting the data that they want is the question.

  20. Re:Setting aside that old Constitution on 18th Century Law Dredged Up To Force Decryption of Devices · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure you and I are reading the same constitution in regards to corporations. Last I checked, the closest the constitution says about the subject is giving congress the authority to regulate interstate commerce. How this affects the power to issue interstate/intrastate corporate charters is in no way "clear" as you claim.

  21. Re:5th Admendment? on 18th Century Law Dredged Up To Force Decryption of Devices · · Score: 0

    Unless he mutation caused the almost-but-not-quite-chicken to mutate into a chicken, which then laid the first chicken egg...

  22. Re:Not a camera on Single Pixel Camera Takes Images Through Breast Tissue · · Score: 4, Informative

    Not really a single pixel camera, more of a single pixel light absorption meter taken over an area...

    What is a camera if not a glorified light absorption meter?

  23. Re:Court's judgement, not Google's. on BBC Takes a Stand For the Public's Right To Remember Redacted Links · · Score: 1

    It validates their sub-point that Google makes the call, but it contradicts the main point which is that a court decided it should be this way, and therefore should get the blame.

  24. No fault? on Apple, Google Agree To Settle Lawsuit Alleging Hiring Conspiracy · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Let me guess: the settlement specifically states that they admit to no fault right?

  25. Re:Worker shortage in 2014 on James Dyson: We Should Pay Students To Study Engineering · · Score: 1

    Just out of curiosity, what is an undergraduate masters? I've only heard of degrees where one precludes the other.