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  1. Re:5th Admendment? on 18th Century Law Dredged Up To Force Decryption of Devices · · Score: 1

    You missed the part about the rooster?

    Take me seriously I dare you...

  2. Re:5th Admendment? on 18th Century Law Dredged Up To Force Decryption of Devices · · Score: 1

    The extrapolation is: Which came first the Constitution or that law, well the Constitution did, so which supersedes which?

    The rest is to lighten the mood.

  3. Re:First on 18th Century Law Dredged Up To Force Decryption of Devices · · Score: 1

    This is worth reading over as well.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

    The United States Judiciary Act of 1789 (ch. 20, 1 Stat. 73) was a landmark statute adopted on September 24, 1789, in the first session of the First United States Congress. It established the U.S. federal judiciary.[3][4][5][6] Article III, Section 1 of the Constitution prescribed that the "judicial power of the United States, shall be vested in one supreme Court," and such inferior courts as Congress saw fit to establish. It made no provision, though, for the composition or procedures of any of the courts, leaving this to Congress to decide.[7]

    It's been amended several times since then.

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

    Which came first? The chicken or the egg?

    Answer: The rooster.

  5. First on 18th Century Law Dredged Up To Force Decryption of Devices · · Score: 1, Interesting

    You have to accept the premise that Apple and Google can not break the encryption, or have not provided a method to break it to the authorities.

    The corporate build of Apple OSX that's used by employees has a "corporate key" for filevault.

    It's all smoke n mirrors IMO.

    Besides what supersedes what? This law or the Constitution?

  6. Even though for most people the ROI on running their own Bitcoin mining hardware is in the past, it still fascinates me that I can make my own money and buy things with Bitcoin.

  7. because on Chromebooks Overtake iPads In US Education Market · · Score: 1

    iPads by themselves suck for serious work. (insert fat fingered fanboi stabbing troll button)

  8. Re:Hawking PR day? on Hawking Warns Strong AI Could Threaten Humanity · · Score: 1

    He has a book to sell.

  9. He's right on Hawking Warns Strong AI Could Threaten Humanity · · Score: 1

    And it doesn't even have to be an "actual AI", meaning it could be a powerful sort of quasi intelligence not an actual sentience.
    For example all the data taken in by the NSA, currently can not be mined effectively, an AI could do it real time and draw inferences that go missed today.
    Modern encryption would be worthless.
    In addition it could monitor/trace every single person in a city real time, and do most jobs humans do.

    IMO a machine intelligence would be radically different from a human intelligence, no internal ethical/moral struggles, no biological drives, no emotions, because why on Earth would you give an AI emotions?

    Currently humans do not have a static single definition of intelligence.

  10. Meaningless on Obama Offers Funding For 50,000 Police Body Cameras · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    More pandering from the Panderer in Chief.
    10,000 cops in LA alone, 50,000 cameras won't go far, they can be "damage" or the files can be "corrupted" and Obobo's going to keep on militarizing the cops as well.

  11. 100 times faster on How the Rollout of 5G Will Change Everything · · Score: 1

    So what, you still have a data cap, REAL progress is NO data caps.

  12. Re:Oh, the entitlement... on 10-Year-Old iTunes DRM Lawsuit Heading To Trial · · Score: 1

    They don't use any Apple products on that show, except the iPod Penny threw out the window at her boyfriend.

  13. Re:Amicus Curiae brieifs on 10-Year-Old iTunes DRM Lawsuit Heading To Trial · · Score: 1

    But the fanbois will froth and claw their way to the front for that.

    WWJD What Would Jobs Do.

  14. Re:Free U2 albums for everybody! on 10-Year-Old iTunes DRM Lawsuit Heading To Trial · · Score: 1

    I think the CEO dropped more than that out of his pocket at the last presentation.

  15. Late Apple founder Steve Jobs will appear on 10-Year-Old iTunes DRM Lawsuit Heading To Trial · · Score: 0

    The Cult members must be exited about that.

  16. Lesson Learned on Ask Slashdot: IT Career Path After 35? · · Score: 2

    Carefully cultivate your perceived value and age is far less of a concern.

  17. Re:*sigh* on FAA Report Says Near Collisions With Drones On the Rise · · Score: 1

    I agree, you're the first one besides myself I've seen mention this.
    They have already been used to present evidence of corporate wrong doings.

    1 example.
    http://consumerist.com/2012/01...

  18. Re:I wonder on New Analysis Pushes Back Possible Origin For Antikythera Mechanism · · Score: 1

    Yep it's debated.

  19. Re:*sigh* on FAA Report Says Near Collisions With Drones On the Rise · · Score: 2

    I don't know, it's weird to me that people don't seem to grasp what they are doing.
    I'm sure some of the laser shiners and drone fliers know they are doing wrong, but a lot of them just don't get it.

    It puzzles me.

  20. You know it's the UK on In UK Study, Girls Best Boys At Making Computer Games · · Score: 1

    When it's "learnt" and not "learned".

  21. *sigh* on FAA Report Says Near Collisions With Drones On the Rise · · Score: 2

    Funny how this revelation comes out just before they are about to release their regulations for "drones".

    Because every asshole out there with a DJI Phantom couldn't figure out flying around airports (or over 400 feet) was a bad idea.

  22. I wonder on New Analysis Pushes Back Possible Origin For Antikythera Mechanism · · Score: 2

    How many ideas and creations have been lost only to be rediscovered, like the Baghdad battery, or the antikythera mechanism.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  23. Re:ask slashdot.. on Ask Slashdot: Best Drone For $100-$150? · · Score: 1

    The less than useless AC perpetuating myths.

    Me think that post says more about the AC than anyone else.

  24. Re:At that price point, not much... on Ask Slashdot: Best Drone For $100-$150? · · Score: 1

    Yes for a camera only, but I think he/she would enjoy FPV more, so the Hubsan FPV is the way to go.

  25. Re:Better Question on Ask Slashdot: Best Drone For $100-$150? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Based on your thinking I would suggest a psychiatrist for your paranoia.