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  1. Re:Probable cause on UK Police Implement Roadside Fingerprinting Tools · · Score: 1

    "Intefering with an investigation" is pretty much against the law everywhere, regardless of how it's worded. Your objection is a crime in and of itself.

  2. Re:On the Fly UA & Blood Tests on UK Police Implement Roadside Fingerprinting Tools · · Score: 1

    Papers, please? More like DNA, please lolamirite?

    "Sir, it says here you have an elevated chance of alcoholism in your family. Please come with us."

  3. Re:What's the difference? on Florida Judge Upholds Conviction By Defining "Email" To Include IMs · · Score: 1

    Actually, it is and -- surprise to me -- supports your side completely. I stand corrected, the legislature is full of idiots in this case.

    (7) "Electronic mail message" means an electronic message or computer file that is transmitted between two or more telecommunications devices; computers; computer networks, regardless of whether the network is a local, regional, or global network; or electronic devices capable of receiving electronic messages, regardless of whether the message is converted to hard copy format after receipt, viewed upon transmission, or stored for later retrieval.

    http://www.leg.state.fl.us/statutes/index.cfm?mode =View%20Statutes&SubMenu=1&App_mode=Display_Statut e&Search_String=mail&URL=CH0668/Sec602.HTM

  4. Re:O rly? on Vista's EULA Product Activation Worries · · Score: 1

    "will" being the key point here. The people that would be affected by this are the customers who buy Dells and Gateways with basic Vista installed. IE - the people least suited to hiring a "good" lawyer.

    The corporate customers who would certainly throw fits over this won't have the issue because corporate copies do not come with activation/protection. Microsoft 'aint that dumb.

  5. Re:Changing a system on ICANN Under Pressure Over Non-Latin Characters · · Score: 1

    While that will work somewhat, it doesn't address the GP's original dilemma -- you want to register the max number of permutations for your brand name. A space in the name simply doubles that number.

    In this case, what happens when one of these companies sues the other over a combination they didn't think to register that is now supposedly infringing on their trademark? Even with latin-only characters we don't know how to handle this -- afaik mikerowesoft.com was settled.

  6. Re:What's the difference? on Florida Judge Upholds Conviction By Defining "Email" To Include IMs · · Score: 1

    The distinction is that email and IM are distinct formats both to the average person (a big thing in laws) and the legislators -- who decided to use the term "email" and not "online communication." The court here is obviously wrong in how it's interpreting the law -- you have to see why it's crucially important that the wording of what is and is not legal is precise and you can't simply say "it's close eniugh."

    Some people who were groped would insist it was rape. Should be prosecute it as such?
    Both murder and homicide in self-defense are intentional killings of another human being. Close enough, right?
    See where I'm going?

  7. O rly? on Vista's EULA Product Activation Worries · · Score: 4, Interesting

    and then you can sue Microsoft for the original license fee.

    I thought the new vogue in EULAs nowaways was a clause stating that by using the software, you give up the right to any litigation?

  8. Re:What is wrong with this picture? on WiiConnect24 Update Causing Issues For Wii Owners · · Score: 1

    Article is unfortunately blocked from work, so I had to interpret "Wii consoles to become inoperative" as "bricked." Thank you for correcting me.

  9. Re:What's the difference? on Florida Judge Upholds Conviction By Defining "Email" To Include IMs · · Score: 1

    That is logically invalid. Email implies transmitting online (E -> T) and IM implies transmitting online (I -> T), but you cannot determine E = I from that. Sorry, try again.

  10. Re:Probably right on Florida Judge Upholds Conviction By Defining "Email" To Include IMs · · Score: 1

    their was no reason why another "on the internet" law should have been applied.

    I'm sure if you ask the legislators responsible, they will unabashedly say the reason was "to punish them more than before." More charges = higher score.

  11. Re:Changing a system on ICANN Under Pressure Over Non-Latin Characters · · Score: 1

    And what happens when the owners of "sol ote" (sol as in the sun), who already have a website, find people attempting to access it "helpfully" redirected to your example?

  12. What is wrong with this picture? on WiiConnect24 Update Causing Issues For Wii Owners · · Score: 2, Insightful

    This is how computers modify data:

    1) Copy current data to a backup file
    2) Overwrite current data
    3) Test new data
    4) If okay, delete backup

    Did IQs just drop sharply for this generation of consoles? If mandatory updates are bricking systems, the programmers have failed the basic aspects of design. Even the patchwork scraps which hold windows together will pop up a message saying "hay, something's fucked now." via safe mode if you screw up and give you a chance to revert it.

  13. Re:Make 'em all speak english on ICANN Under Pressure Over Non-Latin Characters · · Score: 1

    Because those languages are dirka, obviously

  14. Re:Changing a system on ICANN Under Pressure Over Non-Latin Characters · · Score: 1

    And, of course, you need to make sure when someone types this into any application ever made that access the internet Fixed.

  15. Well... on Game Industry Folks Siding With the Wii · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm getting nintendo solely because the effort required to get a PS3 was analagous to a real life game of Dead Rising.

  16. Re:Aqua viva on Space Elevators Could Be Lethal · · Score: 1

    Deuterium too. That's what the "bussard collectors" on the nacelles supposedly collected during normal space flight. Voyager especially kept running out because apparently these things had to be maintained from time to time and they had no access to a starbase.

  17. Re:Aqua viva on Space Elevators Could Be Lethal · · Score: 1

    a tiny amount might convert some of it to deuterium

    You'll definitely have a carrer in Engineering once the Federation starts up. I'm pretty sure they frequently ran out of this stuff in all five series.

  18. Re:Not necessarily a 3% error rate on Man's Vote for Himself Missing In E-Vote Count · · Score: 2, Insightful

    When presidential elections can give different results on a .5% error rate, then no, it is not a tolerable number.

  19. Re:Pushing the envelope, eh? on Final Fantasy XII Pushes Envelopes · · Score: 1

    slow battle is slooooooow...

  20. Re:Unlikely on Will the U.S. Lose Control of the Internet? · · Score: 1

    Nowhere in the canstitution or declaration of independence does it say these rights are to be extended to people that are non citizens of the United States.

    Not only did they include it, but they even specifically said they shouldn't have had to. It was a self-evident truth that all men are created equal.

  21. Re:I knew I was being scamed on Sony Warns of PS3 Scams · · Score: 1

    You Are Wrong Because:

    Irrelevant Comparisons
    Example: A hundred dollars is a good price for a toaster, compared to buying a Ferrari.

  22. Re:Perp was at least 70 miles away on Bomb Explodes At PayPal Headquarters · · Score: 1

    Language evolution. Learn it, live it, love it.

  23. Re:Shouldn't be too difficult.. on Bomb Explodes At PayPal Headquarters · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Thank you all, but we civilized people don't kill, maim or bomb anyone who we don't like for the last 50 out of ~8000 years.

    Fixed.

  24. Re:I imagine... on Bomb Explodes At PayPal Headquarters · · Score: 1

    What happened to "violence can be used for good?"

  25. Re:Unlikely on Will the U.S. Lose Control of the Internet? · · Score: 1

    So, if I may indulge in the slippery slope, what would be the problem (if any) with simply rounding all non-citizens up and summarily executing them? If they indeed have no rights under the constitution.

    And not just illegal immigrants, either. We can just drive to the airport, find a plane that came in from Europe, and shoot them all right there on the tarmac. Tourists are not US citizens either. And as most people outside the US are not citizens, the military should no longer have to worry about collateral damage in the Iraq war, right? They can have a nice, friendly spokesman to simply remind us on occassion that they are not citizens so it o-kay.

    If you're not willing to go this far, at least a proclamation that police officers will no longer investigate any crimes committed against non-citizen.