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  1. Re:Fifth amendment zone of lawlessness on Justice Department: Default Encryption Has Created a 'Zone of Lawlessness' · · Score: 1

    There have been dozens of cases where a warrant for a password was upheld. No need to pass a new law, existing laws are sufficient.

  2. Re:Fifth amendment zone of lawlessness on Justice Department: Default Encryption Has Created a 'Zone of Lawlessness' · · Score: 1

    In one case, "I do not remember the password" was upheld as a valid reply to a warrant to provide password. The computer had been confiscated more than a year prior to the warrant, so the claim was plausible.
    They can require you to provide information you have. they cannot punish you for not providing information you do not have.

  3. Re:Fifth amendment zone of lawlessness on Justice Department: Default Encryption Has Created a 'Zone of Lawlessness' · · Score: 1

    Want to bet every single electronic device in DOJ is heavily encrypted?

  4. Re:When everyone is guilty... on Justice Department: Default Encryption Has Created a 'Zone of Lawlessness' · · Score: 2

    Now, If you will all gather around the screen of the electron microscope, we can review the latest law we just etched in to the next paper molecule in the book.

  5. Re:Zone of lawlessness: The U.S. government on Justice Department: Default Encryption Has Created a 'Zone of Lawlessness' · · Score: 1

    Like make war in Iraq to support a oligarchy?

  6. Re:DoJ zone of lawlessness on Justice Department: Default Encryption Has Created a 'Zone of Lawlessness' · · Score: 1

    One of my favorite stories. The Marine Corps keeps up to date on the latest and greatest, but we have not forgotten our past either.

  7. Trust is a two way street on Justice Department: Default Encryption Has Created a 'Zone of Lawlessness' · · Score: 1

    The government want us to trust them to uphold the law and protect us, when sometimes it's them we need protection from. Yet, they are trying to force us into silence against our will and against the Constitution, because they don't trust us.

  8. Anyone smell a set up? on White House Drone Incident Exposes Key Security Gap · · Score: 1

    There has been a lot of talk and posturing about controlling drones but not enough to take action on.

    buy a drone at wal-mart, toss it on the White House lawn, then raise a fuss over how it got there and what can be done. NOW you have enough to take action on.

  9. Austerity on Valve's Economist Yanis Varoufakis Appointed Greece's Finance Minister · · Score: 1

    The patient died, but the operation was a success.

  10. Re:Success! on FCC Fines Verizon For Failing To Investigate Rural Phone Problems · · Score: 2

    The right wing think tanks will tell you all day long how such a law will destroy the economy, give your children aids and rabies, and rape your pets.

  11. Re:So what next? on FCC Fines Verizon For Failing To Investigate Rural Phone Problems · · Score: 1

    He preyed on the one forbidden target- the rich. He lost all protections when he did that.

  12. Re:So what next? on FCC Fines Verizon For Failing To Investigate Rural Phone Problems · · Score: 1

    Thy just pay it out of the $200B they took to expand fiber to rural regions and then refused to do.

  13. Re:About time on Obama Unveils Plan To Bring About Faster Internet In the US · · Score: 1

    bullshit. Complete and utter bullshit. look at Utopia in Utah for what really happens when utulity fiber is laid.

    I can choose from a dozen ISPs on that fiber. I can also choose Clearwire or Comcast in the same areas. Prices are great, no caps on the fiber ISPs, and customer service is astoundingly polite and helpful.

    Obama's goal here is to remove the restrictions put in place by the current monopolies so that real competition can happen.

  14. Re:About time on Obama Unveils Plan To Bring About Faster Internet In the US · · Score: 1

    Do it like Utah did. They built out the fiber network and maintain it. They sell connections to it to the residents at a rate that pays the bills. ($30 a month).
    Then they opened it up to ISPs to use. Not one- there are a dozen you can choose from. All private companies- no government entities at all. And, since they truly have to compete with each other with no "gentleman's agreements" to stay out of each other's yard (looking at you Comcast, Verizon, and Clearwire), the prices are great and the customer service ROCKS HARDCORE.

    I pay a total cost of $70 a month for 150MB with no data caps. I can go to 1GB with no caps for another $25- but true, unrestricted 150Mb is far far far better than I ever had before with Comcast's 150Mb. I can have every device in the house streaming movies and still download games/patches on Steam in minutes.

    This is what Obama is talking about here. Not whatever nightmare pipe dream you are imagining. It has happened, when the action was able to outrun the monopoly's attempt to outlaw the competition. And in every case, it has been a roaring success.

    Wanna know something amazing? Comcast out here dropped their pricing, raised caps a lot, and will give you silky smooth customer service when calling on an account out here. Fucking imagine that. having to compete.

  15. Re:About time on Obama Unveils Plan To Bring About Faster Internet In the US · · Score: 1

    A lot of cities have tried to build these already. They were shut down by the cable companies via the local laws he speaks of. The very laws he is targeting exist because they tried to do what he is "allowing" them to do by removing them.

  16. Re:Secret Ballot? on How Bitcoin Could Be Key To Online Voting · · Score: 1

    There is your problem. Elections are held every year, and often in off season elections too.
    people that only bother to vote for President and ignore all the rest are a huge part of the problem.

  17. ASUS ROG 12.5" models on Ask Slashdot: High-Performance Laptop That Doesn't Overheat? · · Score: 1

    I have an ASUS ROG G75. I can hammer the ever living hell out of it all day and it barely warms up. The cooling is a high flow system that flows all the way through to vent at the back. It does not pull from the bottom or vent from the bottom (who the retarded designer is that thought that was good I will never understand).

    yes, it is big. But it is also very portable and packs a LOT of horsepower.

  18. Re:Yay partisanship! on Bill Would Ban Paid Prioritization By ISPs · · Score: 2

    Incorrect. The Tea Party was formed in 1986 by the Heritage Foundation and Phillip Morris as an astroturf effort. It just got popular enough to be noteworthy in the 2004 elections, and really took off in 2008.
    All revealed in the documents obtained from heritage and Phillip Morris in the tobacco trials.
    http://tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/...

  19. Re:Fuck the libs! on Bill Would Ban Paid Prioritization By ISPs · · Score: 3, Funny
  20. redirect output on FCC Revamps Customer Complaint System · · Score: 1

    /dev/null

    Complaint system is much faster now.

  21. Re:Excuse me while I blow a kiss on Dish Introduces $20-a-Month Streaming-TV Service · · Score: 3, Insightful

    This is us vs the in-laws. We cut cable years ago and are fine with netflix and hulu (and Plex streaming our massive DVD collection)
    When the inlaws come over, they are floored at the concept that we cannot watch sports. We really don't care to, but that does not figure in to their calculations.

  22. Re:Carriers on Ask Slashdot: What Should We Do About the DDoS Problem? · · Score: 0

    For a while? No. You disconnect them until they can prove their systems are disinfected.
    fuck "for a while".

  23. Re:Poor choices to use proprietary cause this! on Google Researcher Publishes Unpatched Windows 8.1 Security Vulnerability · · Score: 1

    Sorry you got lost. Tumblr is three doors down, on the right.

    kthx, bye.

  24. Re:Ha ha ha on Google Researcher Publishes Unpatched Windows 8.1 Security Vulnerability · · Score: 5, Informative

    People used to wait on Microsoft to fix before revealing. As a result, Microsoft didn't bother to fix anything until it became a problem in the wild.
    Once people started giving deadlines and sticking to them, Microsoft's patch response time became orders of magnitude faster. Simply put, they will do ONLY what they are forced to do.

  25. Re:cut off one head on Peter Sunde: the Pirate Bay Should Stay Down · · Score: 1

    Dirty trick. Most private trackers will ban you if your ratio is bad. Yours, being at all down and no up, is the worst possible ratio.