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  1. Re:I wish the US Supreme Court was that smart. on UK Court Rejects Encryption Key Disclosure Defense · · Score: 1

    Because you can't be tortured into making up shit that would incriminate you.

    Most impartial experts (and many bias ones as well) agree that at least with torture victims in the War On Terror, torture has not produced accurate results, and in fact many victims simply made incriminating stuff up to end the torture

  2. Re:Some Children's Book... on Opus the Penguin Retired · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I'm gonna run right out and buy that for my toddler. Granted, he says it's not directly mentioned in the text, it's just there in the pictures in case you want to point it out to your kids, but still.

    It's really no more "out there" than some of the imagery in classics from Maurice Sendak or Charles Lutwidge Dodgson's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

    My problem with Breathed is that I never really thought his stuff was funny.

  3. Judge Eiler on Spammer Perjury is Worth Prosecuting · · Score: 3, Interesting
    Judge Eiler is well know in King County to be hard to deal with:

    A Seattle-area judge has been accused of routinely interrupting litigants and lawyers and addressing them in a manner that is "angry, disdainful, condescending and/or demeaning."

    The state Commission on Judicial Conduct claims in a statement of charges (PDF) that Judge Judith Eiler treated lawyers and self-represented litigants in a way that is "rude, impatient, undignified and intimidating," the Tacoma News Tribune reports.

    Eiler underwent behavior therapy with an emphasis on sensitivity training after she received a reprimand in 2005 for impatient and rude behavior, the story says.

    The way the she deals with people in her court shows that she should retire from the bench and do something else. Like become a correctional officer or something.

    http://www.abovethelaw.com/judge_judy_judith_sheindlin/

  4. Re:The right thing to do. on Norwegian Standards Body Members Resign Over OOXML · · Score: 1

    You and Twitter need to get a room. There's obviously something between you two.

  5. Great Source on Now Google's CAPTCHA Is Broken · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Announcing that one has cracked something and actually having cracked that something are two different things. Folks like these are not the most trustworthy sources, especially for their own exploits - er, "sploits".

  6. Re:CYMK on GIMP 2.6 Released · · Score: 1

    For those of use who work in the professional publishing world and see our work printed on real presses, YES WE DO!

    People are still using ink on paper?

  7. Re:passionless technician on Wall Street's Collapse Is Computer Science's Gain · · Score: 1, Troll

    Sure there are. Why, you could be an exploiter, or a sycophant, or -- well, that's it, really.

    An ignorant and asinine response.

  8. Re:passionless technician on Wall Street's Collapse Is Computer Science's Gain · · Score: 1

    I have an intense passion in classical music. Yet I want the ability to travel the world and support a life style that is atypical to that of a musician.

    True, but there are other areas within the field of music besides musician.

  9. Re:Right. on Chinese Astronauts Complete First Spacewalk · · Score: 1

    Yeah, right. You've got a couple more steps before you can move into the Moon Base, speedy.

    Not a problem, it's all CG.

  10. Re:Might be actually useful... on Web Server On a Business Card · · Score: 1

    I wonder. If these are cheap, small, low power and low heat, could one simply create a vast array of these then use one central server to direct each connection to one "server"...

    At which point the overall system would no longer be cheap, small, low power and low heat.

  11. Re:Thanks from the reminder on How Close Were US Presidential Elections? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Gore would have known that Bin Laden was in Afghanistan/Pakistan, not Iraq.

    What makes you think Bush didn't?

  12. Re:hmm on Russian Town Puts Giant Smiley On Google Maps · · Score: 1

    Does Blogspot have a bandwidth cap?

  13. Re:Where is it? on Russian Town Puts Giant Smiley On Google Maps · · Score: 1

    Not on maps.google.de (the screenshot is from the German google URL) either.

  14. Re:Sears-Discover debacle anyone? on eBay To Disallow Checks and Money Orders In US · · Score: 2

    CostCo only accepts AmEx and they're doing ok...

    As far as true credit cards, yes. But I use my Visa debit card there all the time.

  15. Re:I can't imagine schools will be too happy on The Tell-All Campus Tour · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I can't imagine schools would be too happy with this. Allowing J. Random Student to publish, in a semi-official venue, information which is intended to represent a public face of the school is not likely to do much for their image any more than having the most (or least) number of girls going wild and lifting up their school t-shirts on spring break porn videos

    This is the same type of thing as the "Rate Your Teacher" sites. They don't like 'em, but this is the age of information, and people are free to communicate.

    One thing to keep in mind, as with the Rate Your Teacher sites, these schools are a business, they sell a very expensive product, and they need to be responsive to their customers.

  16. Re:don't do what? on City Sues To Prevent Linking To Its Website · · Score: 4, Funny

    Have you looked at the code and graphics on that site? It should be illegal to link to it.

    I wonder why?

    meta name="GENERATOR" content="Microsoft FrontPage 5.0"

  17. Re:Why not prosecute? on Judge Rules Defense Can Get DUI Machine Source Code · · Score: 1

    How does that work? "This note is legal tender for all debts, public and private".

    I don't think coinage says that. At least not the coins in my pocket...

  18. Re:DRM... on RIAA and MPAA Developing Domain-Based DRM · · Score: 4, Funny

    You can put lipstick on a pig, but it's still a pig.

    What does Sarah Palin have to do with this?

  19. How about a bait-and-switch... on Telco Sues Municipality For Laying Their Own Fiber · · Score: 1

    I'm wondering if a different approach would be for a city to build the infrastructure while saying they where doing it to better monitor - say - traffic signals and city utility meters, and then after it's built "open it up" to interweb connectivity...

  20. Re:I guess it's press release time. on Virtual Reality Cocoon Being Designed · · Score: 1

    No, it's true. It will be released as a set-top box called "Phantom".

  21. Re:yeah... on HTTPS Cookie Hijacking Not Just For Gmail · · Score: 2, Insightful

    CNN, FoxNews, and a few other broadcast channels are re-broadcast on SIPR because that's where Intel gets their Intel.

    Walk into any US Intel / Base Ops / Command Post in the world, and you'll find CNN on a big flat-screen up on the wall.

  22. Outed? on YouTube Reposts Anti-Scientology Videos · · Score: 5, Insightful
    I wonder if it has occurred to anyone else that this is actually an attempt by the Scientologists to get names and addresses of the people who uploaded the content? Scientology is well known to harass such people, who understandably tend to want to stay anonymous.

    But now, anyone who filed a counter-response to the Take Down is "outed" on documents that Scientology can subpoena.

  23. Re:WARNING hidden IFrame in the bugmenot link on Facebook Blocks Users From Mentioning BugMeNot.com · · Score: 5, Interesting
    The URL of the story poster (http://www.ttuttle.net/) and BugMeNot.com are owned by the same people.

    What's going on is that the people that run BugMeNot "astro-turfed" Slashdot, who when they read "censorship", immediately wet their pants all over the non-story without checking it out. Note that a number of Facebook users have said that they had no issues at all with Facebook and BugMeNot?

    Very good effort on BugMeNot's astro-turf effort. A+ in fact.

  24. Re:Bring back the CRX on Redesigned, Bulkier Honda Insight to Challenge Prius · · Score: 1

    If you're going to buy a Dogdge/Jeep/Chrysler product, better do it soon. They aren't going to be in business past the next 2-3 years.

    I don't think so. Police departments across the nation will keep Chrysler afloat.

  25. Indeed. on The 5 Most Laughable Terms of Service On the Net · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Second Post. I RULE!