And just so it is clear what level of morality exists among Federal prosecutors, consider this "game" which certainly gets applied in real life:

At the federal prosecutor's office in the Southern District of New York, the staff, over beer and pretzels, used to play a darkly humorous game. Junior and senior prosecutors would sit around, and someone would name a random celebrity -- say, Mother Theresa or John Lennon.

It would then be up to the junior prosecutors to figure out a plausible crime for which to indict him or her. The crimes were not usually rape, murder, or other crimes you'd see on Law & Order but rather the incredibly broad yet obscure crimes that populate the U.S. Code like a kind of jurisprudential minefield: Crimes like "false statements" (a felony, up to five years), "obstructing the mails" (five years), or "false pretenses on the high seas" (also five years). The trick and the skill lay in finding the more obscure offenses that fit the character of the celebrity and carried the toughest sentences. The, result, however, was inevitable: "prison time."

http://www.slate.com/articles/...

Complacency. What freedom haters have for breakfast.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB...

Aside from statutes, beware the CFRs:

These rules can carry the force of federal criminal law. Estimates of the number of regulations range from 10,000 to 300,000. None of the legal groups who have studied the code have a firm number.

"There is no one in the United States over the age of 18 who cannot be indicted for some federal crime," said John Baker, a retired Louisiana State University law professor who has also tried counting the number of new federal crimes created in recent years. "That is not an exaggeration."

Exactly. Everyone seems to think he was a hacker. He's a __reporter__ .

Not hacker.

Writer.

It's his job to tell people the news. He's going to jail essentially (though not technically) for linking to data. That ain't hacking.

Barret Brown didn't do any hacking. He's a reporter. Reporters are fucking supposed to report the news, not keep it secret. This was just an example of the fact if the Feds want to get you, they have criminal code base so large, nobody can even count crimes let alone fit all of that knowledge into a single brain. Of course, not knowing the law is no excuse (unless you are cop), and having no intent to break the is irrelevant. What this boils down to, is the Feds can fuck you up any time they want if they don't like you. It's called tyranny.

[In 1998, the ABA tried to count crimes contained in Federal statutes but gave up estimating the number to be in excess of 3000.]

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None of these studies broached the separate -- and equally complex -- question of crimes that stem from federal regulations, such as, for example, the rules written by a federal agency to enforce a given act of Congress. These rules can carry the force of federal criminal law. Estimates of the number of regulations range from 10,000 to 300,000. None of the legal groups who have studied the code have a firm number.

"There is no one in the United States over the age of 18 who cannot be indicted for some federal crime," said John Baker, a retired Louisiana State University law professor who has also tried counting the number of new federal crimes created in recent years. "That is not an exaggeration."

http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB...

See also, "Three Felonies a Day: How the Feds Target the Innocent" http://www.amazon.com/Three-Fe...

Yes, like statistics favour mice not evolving functional wings in the next few thousand years.

I reject the whole left vs right dichotomy. It reduces every position and person to 1 political dimension. There is no such thing as right wing ideology or left wing ideology. It's just the sides of the building that people sit on. Both parties are basically like shitty weather-vanes (i.e. they don't have ideologies beyond getting elected).

I said I voted for twice as many republicans as democrats (i.e. I am more likely to be confused as a right winger than a left winger, for those wishing to confuse me as one of those two things)

I actually *am* a free thinker and independent voter. I don't vote for lessers of X evils. I always vote my conscience regardless of party. I actually wish we could change our election system to one which does not foster the political party as a winning strategy. Our 2 party system is a direct result of our 1st past the post election system.

What *is* the inverse of that statement in your mind?

"I don't think you might be underestimating the minimum intelligence of right wingers"?

"I don't think you might be overestimating the maximum intelligence of right wingers"?

"I don't think you might be underestimating the minimum intelligence of left wingers"?

That statement doesn't really follow the "if p then q" format, so it doesn't really have an obvious inverse, so I have no idea what you are talking about.

Again, I didn't think suggesting that the dumbest right winger was dumb would be so controversial, but here we are...

Also I don't see the relevance of which party had the closer ties to the KKK in the distant past. The Russians were our allies in WW2. The republicans used to not be so retarded. Things change.

I don't think it takes a whole lot of brain cells to google a person and figure out what their address is, especially if they have not made any attempt to keep this information secret. I would actually probably give most of this credit to google for allowing stupid people the ability to do things that only smart people used to be able to do.

I'm sure kids in elementary school can figure out how to do this. Where real intelligence one might expect of a mature adult might come into play, is the judgement of whether to use this information to do anything anti-social.

I don't think it was necessarily meant to be a warning. I think it could just be a case of vandalism. Or it could just be a very poorly executed warning, which fits quite nicely into the narrative of the right wing idiot. Or the blogger just cut his own cable for attention.

i have an asus 4k monitor, 1 ms gtg 60hz on displayport. works pretty well though for gaming i am still using 2560 on a single 980gtx.

It is a little sad that while at least seventeen of these giant telescopes have been launched by the US alone, only one has ever looked up.

we can conduct a survey of the birds later to see if they feel any pain while flying through !

the problem comes with secure email i.e. not active sync. then you end up with containerized email which has HUGE (as in sales people don't like it) issues from a usability stand point. KNOX is fixing it for BES and Android but iOS is lagging, but i think just its a matter of time.

So by saying I think something is likely, I'm underestimating it?