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  1. Re:License to print money on Super-Privacy-Protecting ISP In the Planning · · Score: 3, Informative

    http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d110:s.01738:

    NOTE: In the fall of 2008, Congress passed Sen. Biden's PROTECT Our Children Act which has a data retention requirement!

  2. Re:In other news... on Japanese ATMs To Use Palm Readers In Place of Cash Cards · · Score: 1

    dang you beat me to it....

  3. This just in on Japanese ATMs To Use Palm Readers In Place of Cash Cards · · Score: 3, Funny

    The most popular nick name in Japan, "Lefty".

  4. Re:Crazy world we live in. on Zimmerman Charged With 2nd-Degree Murder · · Score: 1

    If there are no witnesses but Zimmerman, then how do you know it was self defense? Last I heard the drug charge was for pot, not much of a charge when you can buy hard alcohol EVERYWHERE.

    There is also something you need to consider, if you fight a person then they say "I stop I don't want to fight any more" you're required by law to stop right then, if you hit them after that it's an A&B charge on you.
    The same applies to guns (obviously) you are not required to retreat in most states but if you continue aggression when the other person has stopped you become the criminal...Zimmerman was told not to follow but he did, then shot an unarmed boy.

    That much is fact because it was recorded in the 911 call, and it was determined Trayvon was not armed.

    Let the peopel that know what they are doing handle this and you go back to CoD... or WoW or whatever.

  5. Re:Not News for Nerds. on Zimmerman Charged With 2nd-Degree Murder · · Score: 5, Funny

    Holy shit am I reading this right? Anonymous Coward just left /. I was getting tired of that guy.

  6. Re:Bad Slashdot on Zimmerman Charged With 2nd-Degree Murder · · Score: 5, Funny

    None, but stand your ground on this issue.

  7. Re:Good luck with that fair trial thing on Zimmerman Charged With 2nd-Degree Murder · · Score: 1

    DId you forgive the man that shot your son? If so you get a pass on your comment.

  8. Re:Good luck with that fair trial thing on Zimmerman Charged With 2nd-Degree Murder · · Score: 3, Insightful

    There are a lot of angry people on both sides of the issue that's why, should give you insight into how the media effects issues and how stupid people can be.

  9. Re:Good luck with that fair trial thing on Zimmerman Charged With 2nd-Degree Murder · · Score: 1

    Trayvon's family of course, not Zimmermans.

  10. Re:Good luck with that fair trial thing on Zimmerman Charged With 2nd-Degree Murder · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Why don't we all calm down, let justice get served legally, and not have any more people wind up dead.

    It took time to work out that he could be convicted, this is normal procedure, liek the prosecutor said "we don't prosecute by petition" and that's hwo we want it.
    He stayed in touch with authorities and now they are going to prosecute with a 2nd degree murder charge, if convicted he will be in protective custody, which means 23 hours a day in a cell one hour out for the rest of his life.
    That's a lot more brutal than you might imagine, and maybe a lot less than his family might want.

  11. Re:Fishy on Super-Privacy-Protecting ISP In the Planning · · Score: 1

    Someone mod this up, because any Admiral Ackbar reference gets at least one mod point.

  12. This may be a bad thing on Super-Privacy-Protecting ISP In the Planning · · Score: 1

    We may wind up getting laws against encryption and obfuscation techniques (TOR, ETC) because of this, congress is nothing if not petulant.
    Congress: "Oh that's how you want to play it?" *blam* new laws.

  13. Re:License to print money on Super-Privacy-Protecting ISP In the Planning · · Score: 4, Informative

    ISP's are required by law to maintain logs.

  14. Fatal flaw #1 on Interview With TSA Screener Reveals 'Fatal Flaws' · · Score: 0

    The TSA wasn't created to protect the people, it was created to humiliate and break them down into acceptance of a police state, just like the "strip search for any crime" SCOTUS decision was.

  15. Re:What if on Maryland Bans Employers From Asking For Facebook Passwords · · Score: 1

    I think you're more likely to see the employer that ask for Facebook passwords think "he's hiding something" "he's anti-social" "he's a luddite"

  16. What if on Maryland Bans Employers From Asking For Facebook Passwords · · Score: 1

    You don't have a Facebook account or any other social media account? What then?

  17. Re:Not a problem on Maryland Bans Employers From Asking For Facebook Passwords · · Score: 1

    So make a dummy Facebook account.

  18. So on Maryland Bans Employers From Asking For Facebook Passwords · · Score: 0

    Exactly how much pull does Facebook have? This seems way to timely and motivated for government workers/politicians, it reeks of Facebook making a "request".

  19. This "customer" information on returns will be farmed out to other companies, eventually giving people with multiple returns a bad buyer profile.

  20. Re:Brute Force on Why CISPA Is a Really Bad Bill · · Score: 1

    "Eventually one will slip through and become law"

    How do you motivate the obese, bewildered masses that only want their iPhones and snacks? Seriously I don't respect the general populace of this country any longer (if I ever did) they get what they deserve.
    Consumer cattle led to slaughter.

    Idiocracy was a documentary.

  21. Re:To paraphrase Steve J... on Apple Snubs Security Firm That Spotted Mac Botnet · · Score: 1

    They also get malware infections when you remove them from their velvet cases.

  22. Re:"We don't know the antivirus group inside Apple on Apple Snubs Security Firm That Spotted Mac Botnet · · Score: 1

    Yeah and you send something to that link on that page and then what?
    He means he has the DIRECT information for MS's security, meaning email and phone numbers.

  23. Re:Run your own on Ask Slashdot: Finding a Trustworthy VPN Service? · · Score: 1

    Then your exit is Amazon's network, is that a good idea?

  24. Possibly on Woz Fears Stifling of Startups Due to Patent Wars · · Score: 2, Interesting

    When it comes to patents stifling competition is, at the minimum, part of the equation, I wonder what would happen with no patents at all, the ultimate form of competition?

  25. Re:GNAA and /. on Internet Responds To Racist Article, Gets Author Fired · · Score: 1

    No silly he meant the "Greater Nashville Apartment Association" http://www.nashvilleaptasn.org/