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  1. Re:Thank you FCC on FCC Nixes PayPal's Forced Robocalls Plan · · Score: 1

    Between the two of you, there isn't much more to say. Rigel47's âoesmall number of companiesâ have resulted in over 600 court cases by the FCC; and $300 million doesn't go far when you are chasing callers who are providing spoofed info in their caller id packets. In those cases the FCC has to file a subpoena in each area that the call has gone through a telephone exchange starting with the one closest to the receiver. Law requires the FCC to complete all actions and file the case within one year, pretty hard to do when uncooperative countries may take six months to a year to honor records requests. The law was really popular and definitely bi-partisan, but when a bi-partisan committee met in 2008 to consider new ways to stop robocalls, neither house of congress acted on t he bill (Federal Robocall Privacy Act[) (pay attention here - this is how congress acts interested and doesn't let executive agencies actually do anything). You might also consider the FTC's enforcement actions in this area. The two Fs work togather fairly closely in this area. As for fuck's sake, my fuck doesn't need, nor want, you sake.

  2. Re:Thank you FCC on FCC Nixes PayPal's Forced Robocalls Plan · · Score: 1

    How is that you confuse incompetence with enforcement budgets and political pressure? Congress doesn't provide sufficient funding and demands the FCC not interfere with "the market", When the majority of directors are conservative appointees, protecting the rate paying public isn't a high priority. When others are in charge, money isn't provided to accomplish the mission..

  3. Really didn't want my research t end like this on Ask Slashdot: Pros and Cons of Homeschooling? · · Score: 1

    Some fairly positive results that I wasn't expecting to find http://www.cbsnews.com/news/ca...

  4. Re:...and... you're a fucking moron who is driven on Ancient Planes and Other Claims Spark Controversy at Indian Science Congress · · Score: 1

    Are you saying an ideologically driven, chaste moron is somehow prevented from blindly following one side or the other?

  5. Re:Oh, beautiful irony on Book Review: Mobile HTML5 · · Score: 1

    Now smile, go back and think of it comical terms! Ya know - errata as an admission of error. BTW, my feeble attempt at irony (notice the misspelling of O'Reilly) seems to have failed, too.

  6. Re:Oh, beautiful irony on Book Review: Mobile HTML5 · · Score: 1

    'Errata' was the correct choice. After all, if the correction appears in the same edition as the error, there is no error! BTW, I gave up on O'riley in the 90s, mostly rubbish that wouldn't make it by a decent editor.

  7. What about the old tried and true... on Guardian Ignores MI5 Warnings, Vows To 'Publish More Snowden Leaks' · · Score: 2

    All of the spy types could meet at Rick's Cafe. Of course Sam won't be there to play that tune, but you can't have everything now, can you? The best alternative might be to have forms of communication directed to a spy central where censors review it for "National Secrets" then pass it on or arrest you!

  8. Re:Not a joke on Colorado Town Considers Drone-Hunting Licenses · · Score: 1

    Funny, living in Texas I detect an overt "I wanna control your actions" trend.

  9. Re:Not a joke on Colorado Town Considers Drone-Hunting Licenses · · Score: 1

    Don't know if you're one or the other, don't really care. Maybe we should stop stereotyping, but people make it so damn easy. They keep acting so stereotypically it's almost impossible not to consider them that way. Talk to a hippy? Hell, half the people I grew up and associated with were hippies, several never left the life style and I still respect and love them. Hey, I didn't suggest (much less write) that lefties are whiners. As far as I can tell if lefties and righties (the real ones, those that are proud to be considered hard core) got together all we'd have is a riot. Closed minds with open mouths. Sorry for your bad morning, I do try not to whine or rant in public.

  10. Not a joke on Colorado Town Considers Drone-Hunting Licenses · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Visit the West once or twice and you won't need to ask. Individualists were driven West by the crowds of "help me, I'm being picked on". Three are still a lot of them out there and when it comes to stopping illegal government actions, they don't joke around a lot. AC though "a completely illegal destruction of government property?" would result, but that's OK, see the illegal activities of the government have always been fair game:-). You do need a license though, the town has to know who's shooting up the sky.

  11. Re:fourth amendment vs. first amendment on EFF Sues NSA, Justice Department, FBI · · Score: 1

    And I'm in favor of responsible First Amendment rights with adequate controls that, while not infringing on your 1st Amendment rights, will permit the proper authorities to determine that you haven't committed sedition, threatened the President, conspired to overthrow the government, etc. You won't mind registering your computer, friendships, reading lists, and such with those likable folks now, would ya?
     

  12. Oh No!! on Scientists Develop Chocolate That Won't Melt At High Temperatures · · Score: 1

    Hersey's gave us that stuff in Vietnam. True, it wouldn't melt, OTOH, it couldn't be consumed, either. The stuff was so bad that the rats would chew through a carton of cigarettes, crawl over the chocolate leaving foot prints and droppings, then continue with whatever else was available.

  13. Drupal is already being used in Municipalies on Ask Slashdot: What Web Platform For a Small Municipality? · · Score: 1

    Visit here:

    http://openpublicapp.com/

    one of the available Drupal sites might inspire you AND give you a contact in a municipality to bounce questions off of.

  14. It's not arrogance . . . on Ask Slashdot: Rectifying Nerd Arrogance? · · Score: 1

    It's a life style based on a personality defect. Never being willing to accept that others are your equal, or betters, puts you in the lowest class of humanity. I have done what you're learning to o and am better at it simply because it is colored with experience. I have also rebuilt engines and transmissions for heavy equipment and made a decent living at it. Yet I except that there are others out there who have it faster and better then I have.

    You'll either learn to accept people and your place among them or grow up to be another Sheridan.

  15. Re:Bipartisan support on Bipartisan Internet Sales Tax Bill Introduced · · Score: 1

    > In many places the amount of property tax is fixed at the time of purchase and never increases.
    Sorry, but that is local or state problem, easily fixed b y requiring periodic re-appraisal for taxes. My property is reevaluated at least every three years, and if the re-evaluation misses the FMV by xx percent, the State has a value they are more than ready to replace the County's valuation with.

  16. Re:Technology changes markets on Bookstores May Boycott New Amazon-Published Books · · Score: 1

    Sorry, those were Federal, not state, programs

  17. Re:That's bright! on Patent Claim Could Block Import of Toyota's Hybrid Cars · · Score: 1

    Yes, most of it could be seen as an improvement on "Grecian republics", not much, but some. On the other hand, if you'd let your mind wander through some real history, you'll find that the model was, indeed, England's Constitutional Monarchy. Changes to the upper chamber were reqiured and, of course, the executive branch had to be made equal to, or at least not more powerful than, the other two branches.

  18. Re:Nobody is to blame on How Important Is Protecting Streaming Media? · · Score: 1

    Cryptography is a method of ensuring, among other things, that a message sent from one party to another cannot be read by an attacker.

    That's close, but there is a limitation that has been ignored for years by most of us - time. The point of cryptography was to insure that a message couldn't be read by another - until its content was not longer useful. After all, who cared if you cracked the code and found out at 10:00 that I was going to attack at 9:00?

    Unlike diamonds, cryptography isn't forever.

  19. Re:Burnitdown made it up on Biologists Create Genetic Map of Europe · · Score: 1

    Yes Gandhi said those things and many more. But was it racial or cultutal? Kaffir, when used by Gandhi, was a non-derogatory term used to describe most native (non-white) groups in southern Africa. After the British Colonial period ended (roughly 1914)it slowly became a derogatory term. His description of the differences between the Kaffir's educational level, concept of personal hygiene, and clothing selection can been seen as a comparison of one cultural to another, with the person doing the comparison not wanting to see his group, already being discriminated against placed in the same 'class' as those who appear to have a less civilized culture.

    Of course Gandhi offered to fight with the British. Among other reasons, he was going to return to his home to practice law, someday. To align himself against the British would leave him branded a traitor, a serious impediment to survival at the time.

    While I don't deny Gandhi's racism, I do question your evidence in support of your belief.

  20. Re:OMG! WAR CRIMES! on Guantanamo Officers Caught Modifying Wikipedia · · Score: 1

    Can't be. 11s, 12s and 13s have much better things to do with their spare time than make wiki changes. At a minimum, they've got card games to win and sweethearts to write.

  21. Re:Technically??? on Air Force Jams Garage Doors · · Score: 2, Informative

    Correct, these are Part 15 devices, wrong on Class B. Class B devices are digital devices that make use of a signal of 9khz (or is that 90khz) that are NOT suppose to radiate RF.