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  1. Re:Encryption on Protecting IM From Big Brother · · Score: 1

    The government probably has the computing resources necessary to break any encryption people are likely to use. Even so, those resources can't be allocated/used lightly, so they simply can't afford to run huge fishing expeditions. They are forced to only try to read messages they already have reason to believe contain evidence of wrongdoing. As for subpoenaing keys themselves, it's fairly common to discard keys used for communication once the communication is done.

  2. Re:Earlier-than-documented influences? on Ask MST3k Creator Joel Hodgson · · Score: 2, Interesting

    While we're taking questions from the Green Bay area, what did you write on the theater wall at Ashwaubenon High School? (It has since been boarded over)

  3. Re:Why? on Chinese Sub Pops Up Amid US Navy Exercise · · Score: 1

    Even those who are vastly underestimated lose something attrition. They might make a show of strength just to make war look less attractive to the potential opposition.

  4. Re:I don't think so... on Microsoft's Treatment of Google Defectors · · Score: 1

    What previous posters have indicated isn't that the company is obligated to pay for the full period of the notices, but that it may be possible (depending on the unemployment laws in your state, these vary greatly), it may be possible for you to apply for unemployment benefits for the period intervening.
    There were also a couple saying that employers might be held liable for remaining wages/salary if they fire people when they give notice. The unemployment benefits thing is at least believable.

    Regardless of the laws, I don't want to be known as the kind of person who would do that.
  5. Re:I don't think so... on Microsoft's Treatment of Google Defectors · · Score: 1

    Other posts further up the page suggest that companies who fire employees when they give notice are liable for pay up through most of the notice period. So... anybody got any references?

  6. Re:I've read about this before. on Ex AT&T Tech Says NSA Monitors All Web Traffic · · Score: 1

    So, under what conditions would you say these protections would be reinstated? And how might these conditions be met?

  7. Re:As long as the users don't care... on The New Facebook Ads - Another Privacy Debacle? · · Score: 3, Informative

    As long as facebook refrains from using pictures of users that have restricted accounts, I could see this being a bonus for particularly attention seeking users.
    As I understand it, these ads will be displayed by the news feed page, which aggregates information from your friends' recent activity. Only people's friends would be able to see them in ads.
  8. Re:Piracy Should be Stopped. on Congress Pressures DoJ With PIRATE Part II · · Score: 1

    I don't get it -- why did the game have to stop if you still have the ball?

  9. Re:That's not Net Neutrality on New Network Neutrality Squad — Users Protecting the Net · · Score: 1

    The problem is that once we begin regulating industry it is difficult to extricate ourselves from government control.
    Just remember to remove the things that keep monopolies in place before you remove the things that keep monopolies in check.
  10. Re:Network Neutrality != good on New Network Neutrality Squad — Users Protecting the Net · · Score: 1

    If Network Neutrality is legalized, it really means government regulation. The Internet regulated by the FTC/FCC, and we know how wonderful that won't be.
    Slightly better than an Internet regulated by AT&T.
  11. Re:This would only hold true... on The Implications of a Facebook Society · · Score: 1

    ... if you were forced to get a Facebook account.
    There was a recent homework assignment in one of my classes, "written analysis of the persona you present to the public via your Facebook or MySpace page." Anyone without a Facebook/MySpace was required to create one.
  12. Re:So What? on National Security Letter Plaintiff Speaks · · Score: 1

    Where's the willingness to take one for the team?
    You seem to have confused "willingness" and "eagerness." Nobody's a coward for trying the win-without-getting-arrested strategies before the win-but-get-arrested ones; it's generally considered pretty stupid not to go that way.
  13. Re:It's called checks and balances on National Security Letter Plaintiff Speaks · · Score: 1

    ...without first obtaining a judge's approval
    Even though what I hear them say is that they haven't got time to go to court first, they already have a court which can grant retroactive warrants.
  14. Re: You don't stop obnoxious car drivers on Cell Phone Jamming on the Rise · · Score: 1

    Slower than the rest of the traffic. This means that if you're going to speed, you belong in the left lane. Also, if you're not going to speed, and other people are, you belong in the right lane.

  15. Re:Private Lives Private on The Implications of a Facebook Society · · Score: 1

    the general principle (that pretty much what we use it for is to hide stuff we shouldn't be doing) was about right.
    Or perhaps stuff that other people tell us we shouldn't be doing.
  16. Re:matter of time on Cell Phone Jamming on the Rise · · Score: 1

    How did we handle emergencies when we didn't have cell phones anyway?
    A fair bit less promptly, especially out on the highway.
  17. Re: You don't stop obnoxious car drivers on Cell Phone Jamming on the Rise · · Score: 1

    ... or obeying the law, be it right or wrong, quaint notion that that is ...
    This may not be the case where you live, but where I come from, The Law also says slower traffic must keep to the right lane.
  18. Re:Early Adoption on Leopard Early Adopters Suffer For The Rest of Us · · Score: 1

    As far as Apple products go, it seems to be more and more the case in recent years. I may start delaying on a lot of their patches until I hear how they go for other users. It's great to have a bleeding edge system to play around with, but I want my primary one to just work.

  19. Simple case of begging the question on Schneier On the War On the Unexpected · · Score: 1

    Alright, third time's a charm. Unless you can back this up with documentation, we're done here.
    Didn't you see his proof?

    I'm 100% certain if he had a valid canadian passport and presented it to the customs officer, he would have been allowed in or sent back to Canada.
    The government does not use extraordinary rendition, so the only way Arar would have been sent to Syria is if he showed his Syrian passport. Since they only sent him to Syria since he'd shown his Syrian passport, we can conclude that the government does not use extraordinary rendition.
  20. Re:Doublt benefit.. on Students Assigned to Write Wikipedia Articles · · Score: 1

    - Authors should WANT to write an article without being under duress
    I don't think this is all that relevant in this context, since we're talking about students. Since when do students write papers just because they want to? Chances are that a good number of students are only in the class because it's required.
    (No problem with the rest of that.)
  21. Re:Dejavu on Schneier On the War On the Unexpected · · Score: 1

    I never said it's right
    Now that you've been called out on it, no, you never meant to imply that.

    But torturing/questioning a detainee, as wrong as it might be (and I'd argue that more often than not it isn't)
    How about you convict before you punish? Or do you seriously still think you get reliable information through torture?
  22. Re:How about the source of the problem... on Why Everyone Should Hate Cellphone Carriers · · Score: 1

    I fail to see how "most people are fine with it" means that I'm fine with it.

  23. Re:just taking care to take care. on Anti-Terrorism and the Death of the Chemistry Set · · Score: 1

    Or, maybe we'll just shoot you since it is safe to assume that you are the type to bring a knife to a gun fight.
    GP might be, but he's not the one the 2nd amendment is supposed to protect you from. Your post doesn't help the stereotype that gun rights advocates only want to look badass.
  24. Re:How about the source of the problem... on Why Everyone Should Hate Cellphone Carriers · · Score: 1

    The 30% of the people that can be bothered to vote feel the system works just fine for them
    I do? When did I come to this conclusion?
  25. Re:I'll go one further .... on Blogger Wins 1.5 Year Legal Battle · · Score: 1

    I'd actually go further ... there is probably good reason to distinguish between the two, where a citizen journalist may be more reliable (in general) than a "professional" one. Plenty of Professional Journalists have been found fabricating stories / events just to spice up the copy to increase viewership/circulation.
    That would certainly affect how credible I believe the person in question is, but I don't think that the laws/courts should really be taking into consideration whether a person is a professional or an amateur.