There's also the big difference that the Germans make a much clearer cut between criminal investigations (that have to obey the niceties of law) and counter terrorism activities (which are under a special internal security service and has much greater leeway). That wouldn't work in the US due to the fruit-of-the-poisoned-tree doctrine which throws out most evidence that is collected with a "dark spot" somewhere in the chain of acquisition. German law doesn't operate that way, and can still prosecute using data procured under questionable circumstances.

How can it be serious? They added RMS.

You missed the point that he can only buy the .gov address with permission of the township. The township could hardly use ICANN against its own authorized representative.

Is "tried to conclusion" lawyer speak for "lost at trail and had his appeals rejected"? Otherwise "won" would have been a much for positive statement.

You're both trolling. The reason mass gun ownership is effective is not that the individual gun owner can fight of the swat team. It's that for every time the swat team goes out, 1000 others start worrying it might come to them. Once that happens, they start to realize it's not like the police lives in barricaded ghettos for cooperative defense, they're spread out in the community. Usually protected from harm by the sense of "they're here to protect us". When that "they are serving us" goes away, you suddenly have 1000 targets (plus families) spread out withing a town with 100,000 gun owners. How many of those are stable? Take the LA case, one crazy guy took out two cops and two family members before he was taken down by the combined effort of all police departments in a 100 mile area. How many of those cases would it take until cops stay home to protect themselves and their families?

Close. Just copy nsa.gov on every email you send. It's just courtesy, not a DDoS, and not our fault if their servers can't handle it.

Funny, there I thought it was my device after paying for it. Silly me.

This so sounds like a Dilbert episode. Here we have the useless consultant trying to fire the PHB... Makes me wonder what the IT guy did - upgrade everyone from Celerons running XP straight to surface tablets and Win 8? That would upset the CFO and everybody else in the company that can't find their minesweeper.

That's because it's really tricky to hold an atomic nucleus in your attometer calipers. Bloody electrons getting in the way all the time.

Provided that discovery channel immediately stops reruns of the Mythbuster episode on "how to beat a fingerprint reader". Because kids will never try to get around technology.

Actually that's true, it's hidden outsourcing. The cost overruns were getting too much for our budget, so now we wait for the Chinese to fix the designs and buy them back via Walmart.

If you think WoW requires a lot of grinding, you never played EQ or any of the other early MMOs. I actually only activate my account when there's a new expansion and levels to gain because I find the leveling interesting (and after 10 years EQ raiding at the top level WoW raids never got my excited).

Yes, but did you set of any of your devices on school property during hours? If you're bright enough to make these fun experiments you typically know where NOT to set them off.

No, it wasn't a science fair project, it was teenagers playing around in the bathroom at 7 am before school starts making a big bang for kicks and youtube. It was as much science as it was racism.

The problem is that "you didn't suspend/expel/charge A for doing this so you can't charge B" is the main defense in school misbehavior cases, so letting someone getting away with making a bomb "because no one was hurt" isn't going to fly. This is not a case of some first grader having unauthorized scissors, this is someone getting lucky that no one was seriously hurt. It was done on school property, while kids were present, so they can't sweep it under the rug. Now, the felony charge is a different matter, but again, the question is are they going to try to make it stick? Or is it just an opening salvo in pleading it to a misdemeanor, to be taken off the record after graduation? I wait for the end of the story before coming to a judgement there.