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Comment Re:Just another reason... (Score 1) 385

while i agree this is the way it should be. there is recent federal precedent where they forced a defendant to supply the decryption passcode for her laptop even after she claimed 5th amendment rights.

this is even more egregious w/ regards to phones which at the moment don't have as much access to encryption, let alone hidden partitions, etc.

Comment Re:Bias (Score 2) 619

I have evidence that DEFFENDER produces and distributes meth.

how's that feel?

in the article case the evidence in question DOES violate the law. laws for unreasonable search and seizure.
if only the US were more strict about issuing search warrants, and more restricted when they do...

in my above example, my statement may fall under freedom of speech. it may also fall under libel. either way it's certainly inadmissible. but that won't matter much if they get a broad warrant and find a gimp tied up in your basement, will it?

(IANAL, and i have no evidence against this upstanding citizen)

Comment Re:Good! (Score 1) 507

there is ALSO scientific/professional data showing that the economic costs are only short term and in incentives. this can be offset by taxes on the producers of CO2. building a new energy infrastructure will produce millions of NEW skilled jobs and billions of dollars in NEW revenue.
but right now our government is run by special interests who have a fully vested shares in keeping the petroleum and natural gas funding as is.

Science

The Proton Just Got Smaller 289

inflame writes "A new paper published in Nature has said that the proton may be smaller than we previously thought. The article states 'The difference is so infinitesimal that it might defy belief that anyone, even physicists, would care. But the new measurements could mean that there is a gap in existing theories of quantum mechanics. "It's a very serious discrepancy," says Ingo Sick, a physicist at the University of Basel in Switzerland, who has tried to reconcile the finding with four decades of previous measurements. "There is really something seriously wrong someplace."' Would this indicate new physics if proven?"
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Atari Emulation of CRT Effects On LCDs 226

An anonymous reader writes "A group at Georgia Institute of Technology has developed a fun little open source program to emulate the CRT effects to make old Atari games look like they originally did when played on modern LCD's and digital displays. Things like color bleed, ghosting, noise, etc. are reproduced to give a more realistic appearance."
Programming

Old-School Coding Techniques You May Not Miss 731

CWmike writes "Despite its complexity, the software development process has gotten better over the years. 'Mature' programmers remember manual intervention and hand-tuning. Today's dev tools automatically perform complex functions that once had to be written explicitly. And most developers are glad of it. Yet, young whippersnappers may not even be aware that we old fogies had to do these things manually. Esther Schindler asked several longtime developers for their top old-school programming headaches and added many of her own to boot. Working with punch cards? Hungarian notation?"

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