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Comment Re:The other countries need protect jurisdiction (Score 1) 226

The question is: who does have legal jurisdiction on data stored in a given country? The courts of that country, or the courts of the nationality of the company who manages the data storage?

Any court that has personal jurisdiction over the corporation. Which is to say wherever the company is incorporated or resides. At a minimum the Federal and State court where the company is incorporated will have personal jurisdiction. There are no jurisdictional borders when it comes to corporations, ether the court has personal jurisdiction over the company or it doesn't, and if it does it can issue any warrant it wants on the corporation. The court can't send it's agents to another country to execute the warrant, but they can find the corporation in contempt or charge them with obstruction of justice.

Comment The ruling makes sense. (Score 1) 226

Where the servers reside is simply not relevant because the corporation resides within the jurisdiction of the court, corporations are people and because a company is one legal entity the court has jurisdiction over all of the company, regardless of where it's assets are physically located. It's called personal jurisdiction and the ruling is correct, it will be upheld if appealed. If you don't want to be subject to american jurisdiction then don't incorporate in america, it's really that simple.

Comment Re:The problem is they're called "printers" (Score 2) 302

This stupid crap with 3-D printed guns, for instance.

Yeah, I don't understand this craze with plastic guns, people have been producing guns using manual milling machines and lathes for well over a century. Moreover, in my state, the mere possession of bullets without a license to possess a gun is a crime. Problem solved.

Comment Re:Humanity is Sick and Twisted (Score 1) 608

We don't deserve the stars.

We deserve death.

Incorrect. Evolution is sick, twisted, and blind. We deserve better. I believe we still have time to take control and become a better, post-human species.

You must be new here. With time you'll understand the error in your last statement. I wouldn't count on some utopian post-human species, I'm confident we'll manage to find some reason to nuke ourselves, along with our planet, out of existence. Cheers!

Comment Re:iPod touch + feature phone (Score 1) 386

If you're willing to drop the requirement to surf the web while outside of Wi-Fi range, an iPod touch plus a dumbphone supporting only voice and SMS costs less than an iPhone, and its service costs less per month than iPhone service.

A better solution is an iPhone or android device with service through Lycamobile. The reason is Lycamobile doesn't force you into getting a data plan for your smart phone. Monthly service through them is as cheap $16/month. They also offer 2 cent/minute prepaid plan. Any unlocked SIM based GSM phone will work, all you need is a Lycamobile SIM card, which you can typically find on eBay for $1

Lycamobile is a mobile phone virtual network, in the United States they piggyback on the T-Mobile network.

Comment Re:Why no cells in the lab yet? (Score 1) 115

Because proteins are incredibly more complex then base amino acids. The Ribonuclease protein is the simplest protein that we know of, and can be considered the most basic building block of a cell. It is made from 124 amino acids, the first one in the strand being Lysine, and there are 17 different amino acids in this protein. The only process we know of that can produce proteins are proteins, i.e. RNA and DNA transcription. We haven't yet figured out how to bootstrap this process, much less produce synthetic proteins that can transcribe proteins from biological code. This is akin to a compiler, and we're nowhere near this level of complexity or understanding.

Comment Re:NASA Proposes "Water World" Theory For Origin o (Score 1) 115

Who's to say that we even exist [outside of our universe]? The fact is we assume we exist in absolute terms. However, this reality could be nothing more then some mathematical construct in a sea of infinite probabilities and random chaos. If the universe is 14 billion years old, and the earth is 4.5 billion years, and the human race is 2.5 million years old, then it's probably reasonable to conclude that the realm outside the universe (i.e. unbound probability) has existed for at least 7 trillion years. If that kind of time has elapsed, and I believe it has, the infinite monkey theorem can easily explain how we came about, and further explain that we only exist in relative terms. I don't think the origin of the universe can ever be proven, but we can certainly come up with an answer that conforms with science and logical reasoning.

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