fyngyrz, are you against any kind of civil imprisonment order?

Well considering the age of consent is 16 in Scotland for everyone and everywhere else except England and Wales where it is 16 unless you are in a position of trust regarding the individual, then it is 18. But I agree most countries take a sane approach when it come to younger people, but then again in most countries the prosecuting types are not worried about looking tough due to them not being elected.

quanta themselves are random.

Take an atom of uranium. You know the half-life of the element. You know the exact probability the atom will break up in the next second. You have NO way of determining when it breaks up. It can be in a second or in a thousand years.

Quantize this.

Shameless self-promotion ahead...
This is more a suggestion to help with mapping received signal strength (RSSI), rather than data network latency and bandwidth (you can argue that those data network metrics rely heavily upon your RSSI!):
Grab an old Nokia, use gammu to enable Network Monitor mode, fire up a GPS and display the combined information streams on a map. I did exactly that as an experiment using a Nokia 3310 and a Navman GPS receiver. Interesting to then correlate the signal peaks to the actual base station locations.

The main caveat is that the old Nokias in question only do (I believe) dual-band 2G GSM at best, so you won't actually be able to measure 3G W-CDMA statistics as if you were connected with a 3G data device. I would offer, however, that 3G RSSI might be related to that of 2G as many of the base stations handle both services (ignoring differences in signal propagation characteristics). A starting point at least...

The correct decision in ANY matter is the cheapest solution in terms of total cost to society as a whole. That, roughly, is the evolutionary definition of morality, is it not?

In my own experience, a very quick way to determine this is if they have the following:

1. A vehicle used specifically for carrying their tools to various jobs.
2. That vehicle has an Air Compressor permanently or semi-permanently installed in it (Craftsman-style "portable" compressors do not count)
3. Check what brand tools they have. Shadetrees aren't willing to put out the money for quality tools. If most of what they are using are Craftsman or Home Depot specials, look elsewhere.

The Nazi's were also nationalists... National Sozialistische Deutsche Arbieterpartei. The were nationalist in that they beleived in their inherent national supremacy but were socialist within that particualr group. A mix of both ends of the political spectrum lead to a very unhappy merging of the worst excesses of each.

Like almost any chemistry or physics graduate in the UK I'm effectively a walking compilation of "information likely to be of use to a terrorist". I mean it's not hard - any competent physics grad can be assured of making a really big crater with 100% reliability if you actually got given the raw material. Chemists can make smaller, but still impressive craters and can make the raw materiel themselves from a variety of sources. Just thinking off the top of my head I could probably synthesise a good half dozen chemical agents from stuff in the house and car. I suspect I'm not the only one. So what do I do now the UK govt has decided that for us to be legal we should get a lobotomy? Well we firstly voted in a more sensible Govt than the hideously invasive and illiberal mob that we used to have. Secondly - I don't go round with the intent to actually use this knowledge, at least not for bad stuff. These white supremacists were not jailed for owning/downloading the anarchists cook books - they were not really jailed for making a piss poor chemical weapon (please - enough ricin to kill just *nine* people? You could do much more damage with a burning cross and firebombing the church). They were jailed for desiring and starting to carry out acts to commit terror - the anarchists cookbook is a mere sideshow, a bagateulle, it's nothing. The intent, proved by the actions was what got these people nailed - everything esle is just froth and oam

But what was just described wasnt at all implausible. In the early 1930's the Jews of Germany were happy to complete the cencus that had a box marked for religion. in 1933 some Austrian managed to get himself installed as Chancellor. Within five years we had had Kristellnacht and then those same census forms were used to start rounding up and ghettoising the Jewish, and other "undesirable" populations. Go back to 1999 and the new milennium - would anyone in the West have imagined that within 2 years we would be figthing a pair of major bush wars in 2 other countries, and be missing a couple of skyscrapers just 2 years later on? If I'd had some official document floating about that marked me as "Muslim" accessible to a lot of people I'd be worried for myself as well even though I had done nothing wrong.

I mean Microsoft proactively looking for bugs? It's a bit far-fetched.

Come on it's April 2nd here, stop it!

No it isn't, except when it is. You do raise a valid point, but I meant the search bar. Sure, we can say that Chrome is worse for pulling in URLs as collateral damage, but my point is that all three browsers are sending keystroke, and I don't like this either. It's not that much worse than uploading search terms each time a search is made, but at least I have to hit enter before the terms are uploaded.

Not since a while back it isn't - Elizabeth Windsor holds her regnancies seperately and Canada hasn't been subject to anything like British rule for about a century. All that there was, and which was abolished in the late 20c was the recourse to the House of Lords for certain esoteric legal appeals. Personally I hope the EU loses this one - Canada has a lot better IP laws than the EU or US.

Put videogames that simulate the planes in trailer parks and recruit the kid with the highest score.

You lost me on the first line.

This isn't about a fair trial, it's about a scapegoat. "This is what happens when you attack the US."

This is Swordfish, but more sinister and at the wrong targets. "We must make terrorism so horrific that it becomes unthinkable to attack Americans."