This effectively removes the fourth amendment prohibition against unreasonable search and seizure: Just keep arresting and hauling away occupants until one of the remaining occupants gets too scared to invoke his Constitutional right.

All six Justices who voted for this need to be impeached for treason.

Hmmm...let's see:

1) GEMA (presumably) has the legal right to license the music.

2) GEMA has not licensed the music, and ordered Google to remove it.

3) Google removed it, and explained that it has been removed due to 1 and 2 above.

So what part of that is Google's fault? Google explained very factually that the rights owner has not granted Google a license to exhibit the music, and GEMA has a hissy fit. Seems like GEMA is the bad guy. Or at the very least, it seems like GEMA is run by a bunch of emotionally stunted 12 year-olds.

I just got my hands on a leaked copy of the cirriculum, and I'm posting it here in its entirety:

Chapter 1: In The Beginning
God did it.

Chapter 2: Your Responsibilities
God did it.

Chapter 3: Your Future
God did it.

Please pick up your State of Oklahoma diploma on your way out into the real world.

And they're still trying to assassinate Julian Assange's character (see yesterday's Slashdot stories) in a transparent attempt to divert attention away from their highly illegal/unconstitional behavior.

Remember, the NSA's stated M.O. is to publicly smear Julian Assange in order to get people to divert focus away from the crimes commited by the U.S. Federal Government.

Julian's character is an irrelevant distraction, so don't get drawn into a debate over the messenger. Stay on message: The U.S. Federal Government has committed crimes against its people, and will do anything to cover it up.

That would explain why, as a programming language, Perl is so damned inpenetrable. Hint to Larry: Vogon poetry is not a programming language.

Military intelligence has always been an oxymoron, so this shouldn't surprise anyone.

At least not until we get the Do What I Want, Not What I Say language.

Fortunately for me, I decided 2 things a few years ago:

1) There is nothing worth watching on Cable/Satellite, and nothing on broadcast TV that justifies the endless advertising torture perpetrated against its viewing audience.

2) The Olympics has long since forgotten why it exists, and is now nothing more than a shell game.

I can now feel sympathy and sorrow for those who are still chained to the Olympics addiction. Once you view television and the Olympics from the correct perspective, you can laugh at moves like the one perpetrated by NBC.

No, you don't. I'm not going to speculate on their actual profession, but it isn't "scientist".

You linked to a site which specializes in fictional writing. It's like quoting Star Trek as an authority on real faster than light travel. Think of fosspatents as a site that recommends reversing the polarity on the deflector dish to fix legal problems.

This is what Psychology calls, "Projection."

Let's assume, for the same of argument, that RSA is being completely honest and sincere: their product is not compromised by the U.S. Government. Given that the U.S. Government can just slap any company in the U.S. with a National Security Letter; the violation of which comes with prison time, and which prohibits the recipient from even saying they got one; we can't trust any U.S. (or U.K., for that matter) company's word that they haven't been compromised by the Government.

So as our computer security companies start to decline, and our economy (which has a huge computer company component to it) declines even further, we can all tip our hats to the corrupt polititians that gave our three-letter agencies the power to deal a body blow to the very country they are supposed to be protecting; and to the agencies that use that power to harm us more than any terrorist plot ever could.

So an organization whose existence is predicated on lying, and whose employees, from the top of the food chain to the bottom of the food chain, have done nothing but lie to their country, from the top of the food chain to the bottom of the food chain, goes on a national TV show and says stuff that we are supposed to believe?

Either the NSA is staffed by utter morons, or they think we are the utter morons. There is a huge believability deficit in that agency, and an enormous cognitive disconnect among its leaders. It's yet another federal agency that needs a large funding reduction, and whose leaders need many years of therapy.

Speak for yourself. You're assuming that a lack of women programmers is a bug rather than a feature. I left my lower paying job at a place with no women programmers for a 60% pay increase at a company with women programmers. Before the week was over, I was calling my previous employer to ask for my old job back. The caustic, catty, backstabbing, childish environment created by women was so bad, I was willing to take a 60% pay cut to get out of it.

Now I'm happy at my job again, and running a small business on the side to make up the difference in pay. The single best way to ruin a satisfying career is to add women to it. I hope more women and young girls think that computers are just not for them.