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Comment Re:Under what authority? (Score 5, Insightful) 298

Yes. They could arrest him immediately on the warrants, which is separate. But as he did not physically appear, it amounts to needing pre-clearance from government, on content, to speak in a public forum, which a park is.

And that is an easy win for the First Amendment. They should get nailed in a lawsuit.

Comment Re:Why do browsers allow websites to do this? (Score 1) 365

> Many websites don't allow copy or paste, or even selecting/highlighting text.

It is silly not to allow copy out of a password field while allowing paste in, as hack code that copied it out would be taking advantage of it being in the paste buffer, which is exactly what copying to paste it in leaves you with. So, too the "Oops, I walked away mid-login" manual breach issue.

I guess it comes down to which way is more likely to lead to more breaches -- brute cracks of simpler passwords or copy buffer hacks.

Given a hack would have many tools and dangers besides spying on passwords, that leaves just manual walk up to a (perhaps temporarily) abandoned terminal mid-login as the differentiator, and that is very weak to me.

Just the other day I had a crazy reset-your-password password mailed to me, and the system forbid paste, an it jusrt made me rage. You're damned right I would go back to a simpler pw as soon as possible.

Comment Unregulated speech, must stop at all costs! (Score 5, Insightful) 298

Had he physically appeared, they could have arrested him as the warrants are independent of free speech. But you don't get to censor speech, even by people with warrants. Parks count as public fora with respect to speech.

And as for "they agreed he would not perform" giving them leverage, that may work over the warrant issue, but as he did not physically appear, it amounts to needing to get pre-clearance from government on what you are going to speak about in a public forum, which is a no no. Good luck with that at the lawsuit trial.

Comment Re:Robo Cars Will be More Fuel Efficient (Score 1) 252

So many declarations so at variance with actual measured reality.

Outside government intervention, prices tend to come down, not go up, over the long run. More properly, this includes improvements which may increase costs, especially for early adopters.

Paying extra for the deluxe FM radio in your car, beyond the plain AM-only one?

Didn't think so.

Comment Re:Easiest question all week. (Score 1) 252

And when such private automobiles are no longer sold for any amount you can afford?

This can only happen in a context of government intervention in the economy. As European nations with extensive public transport found out, personal cars are still much better pussy magnets^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H more popular with the yoots.

If people want cars, and government stays out of the way, they will get cars, and cheaper ones.

Comment Re:Approach security the wrong way? No shit! (Score 1) 157

They put a great deal of effort to have a simple gateway processor talk to the car network instead of the giant 32 bit radio processor directly, lest some bug in a hundred gigantic code pieces broadcast nonsense and crash the network.

But directed hack attacks, well, whodathunk?!?!?

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