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  1. Non-issue on Google Perks Are Great, But They All Mean Business · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Can you integrate sleep and work? Or sleep and pleasure? Not very well. Same with work and pleasure. You need down time to throw everything away and see to your higher-order needs, or they will come up wanted (read: affect your work).

    Clock out time, that's it. Turn the machine off, leave the building, and forget about it until 9am. If your business can't handle that, they obviously need more staff.

  2. Duh on Ten Dangerous Beliefs About Smart Phones · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    They share the same curse as the "Smart Bomb." Given that thing's track record, this was obviously a poorly-chosen adjective.

  3. Re:Hopeful thinking.... on IT and A National Security Letter Gag Order · · Score: 1

    The "dealbreaker" part was from Lewis Black's standup on Heaven's Gate.

  4. Madness on White House Specifies And Mandates Secure Windows · · Score: -1, Troll

    All along, the answer to virii, malware, hacking, and botnets was right at our fingertips. Just have the government "mandate" Windows be secure!

    Let's just follow King Canute instead. At least he was kidding around when he told the sea to obey him.

  5. Re:Just throw it away on IT and A National Security Letter Gag Order · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The enemy combatant classification (nor the non-enemy combatant which I think you probably meant) cannot be applied in this way.

    And if it were to be, what are your options, noble grasshopper?

  6. Re:Lawyer time on IT and A National Security Letter Gag Order · · Score: 1

    They may see your non-cooperation and go through proper channels

    They may see his non-cooperation and throw him in prison. That's the point. Revealing the letter, even to a lawyer, is now a crime.

  7. Re:what happens if you ignore it? on IT and A National Security Letter Gag Order · · Score: 1

    If it looks like something illegal going on, help out the FBI

    "Illegal" or "wrong?" That's becoming a critical differentiation.

  8. Re:Hopeful thinking.... on IT and A National Security Letter Gag Order · · Score: 1

    That's a good last stand. I'm wondering why we haven't seen signs sooner that "changing horses midstream" would be a bad idea and the administration testing the waters of forgoing the next election. I would think that would be the dealbreaker for America.

  9. Re:Before the end he realized... on Maker of Anti-Clinton Video Outed, Loses Job · · Score: 1

    Then why is he licking it? o__O

  10. Re:Before the end he realized... on Maker of Anti-Clinton Video Outed, Loses Job · · Score: 1

    he loved Big Sister... and a boot descended over mankind's face...

    That's no boot...

  11. Clarification on Maker of Anti-Clinton Video Outed, Loses Job · · Score: 5, Informative

    From a reply to the Huffington Post article by the creator:

    I've resigned from my employer, Blue State Digital, an internet company that provides technology to several presidential campaigns, including Richardson's, Vilsack's, and -- full disclosure -- Obama's. The company had no idea that I'd created the ad, and neither did any of our clients. But I've decided to resign anyway so as not to harm them, even by implication.

  12. woh on ISPs Fight To Keep Broadband Gaps Secret · · Score: 5, Funny

    the unreleased raw FCC penetration data

    I just snagged a torrent of Unreleased Raw Penetration Data 7. It was amazing.

  13. Re:Kudos to this judge! on Judge Strikes Down COPA, 1998 Online Porn Law · · Score: 1

    My wife and I already plan on her staying at home to raise our kids when they are spawned

    It's spelt "raze." And no matter how you do it, camping at the spawn point just isn't cool.

  14. Re:A step in the right direction. on Judge Strikes Down COPA, 1998 Online Porn Law · · Score: 1

    Plato thought about it a bit. His answer was "The watchers watch themselves... or we're all pretty much fucked"

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quis_custodiet_ipsos_ custodes%3F

  15. Re:Yay for google on Judge Strikes Down COPA, 1998 Online Porn Law · · Score: 2, Insightful

    That's one more choice than the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuremburg_defense

  16. Re:Quote FTA on Judge Strikes Down COPA, 1998 Online Porn Law · · Score: 1

    but it's not like any child can have access to it - children don't sign up for their own ISPs, and Internet-cafes can be just like pubs

    I hear there free wireless access points for the, uh... internets.

  17. Re:A step in the right direction. on Judge Strikes Down COPA, 1998 Online Porn Law · · Score: 1

    You might want to keep that under wraps. Your parents are likely guilty of sex offenses depending on jurisdiction for providing pornography to minors.

    Remember, sex offender lists have +2 immunity to ex post facto prohibitions.

  18. Re:A step in the right direction. on Judge Strikes Down COPA, 1998 Online Porn Law · · Score: 1

    Those that commit felonies lose their right to vote. Not just black felons or hispanic felons -- all felons. What does the race of the felon have to do with your argument?

    The arguement is that since minority (read "non-white") felons make up such a disproportionate part of the system, it is effectively limiting that group's voice in government. Disenfranchising "enemies" of your politcal group is usually seen as a Bad Thing, especially given what they were sentenced for (mostly drug crimes) are not seen as crimes by everyone.

  19. Re:I don't get it on RIAA Balks At Complying With Document Order · · Score: 1

    Contempt of court means jail without due process and indefinite imprisonment until you comply with the order. Are you sure you want to support that?

  20. Re:A step in the right direction. on Judge Strikes Down COPA, 1998 Online Porn Law · · Score: 1

    but can the US Congress pass a law that clearly violates the Constitution?
    br> Oh my, yes. Legislative branch can pass anything they like. Who's going to stop them? Are there any mechanisms in place to censure those who pass any such laws

    Now we get to that. The judicaial branch can strike it down, or perhaps it can be nullified by widespread refusal of The People (likely) or the police (less likely). Then you're pretty much left with submitting to it or moving on to armed revolt.

    or can they just immediately pass COPA-II that's word-for-word identical, and will have full force of law until the courts knock that down as well?

    That's the difference between de jure law (what's on the books) and de facto law (what actually is). If the leglislative branch passes an unconstitutional law the those with guns (the police) enforce it, the activity is still constitutional however you will be punished with prison regardless.

  21. Re:A step in the right direction. on Judge Strikes Down COPA, 1998 Online Porn Law · · Score: 1, Insightful

    but this seems like an odd reason to strike it down, since children aren't given the same rights as adults in our society.

    Heck, let's just remove all prisoner's rights, because they don't have the same rights as free citizens in our society. I like the way you think.

  22. Bush missed! on Judge Strikes Down COPA, 1998 Online Porn Law · · Score: 3, Funny

    Forget the federal attorneys, he obviously intended to sack all the federal judges and replace them with new ones loyal to the Empire

  23. Re:Lockout chip business model on Videogame Decency Act in Congress · · Score: 1

    The console makers won't approve a title that is not rated by ESRB.

    I thought that was settled with Tengen and Gauntlet. You can't tell someone they're not allowed to make something for your product. Ipod doohickies are all over the place, as long as they don't use trademarked names. Same thing, no?

  24. Re:censorship fixes everything on Videogame Decency Act in Congress · · Score: 4, Insightful

    What's more, who's spelling out what "sneak" means? If players can manipulate the game in a way the developers did not really intend (upskirt views come to mind), does this count? What about fanedits? Does this clown even know the difference?

  25. How did this happen? on Videogame Decency Act in Congress · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Distributing a video game without rating from the ESRB is completely lawful, just that some stores won't stock it. They are a private organization. Defrauding them is a contractual matter between 2 private enterprises. Mr Upton, STFU and GBTW.