"Used to".

Ars hasn't been better than that since... Well, since the days when Slashdot was better than having clickbait make it to the FP. :)

"no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things"

Kindly explain how that is compatible with a request for data not specific to a particular person, place, and objective of the search?

In U.S. law, only someone who is involved in the conflict may ask the courts to resolve the matter in a particular way.

In U.S. law, "no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things".

But please, keep trying to suck Officer Friendly's cock; he'll no doubt cut you some slack when he eventually gets around to figuring out what (not "if") crime you're guilty of.

Okay, so you're just still pissing and moaning over Trump's win and have no actual point.

That's fine, but you should take care not to make it sound too much like you actually have something meaningful to say.

"One job, one vote!"

/ shudder

How do these people participate in a free market without setting up corporations?

Have you ever bought anything from a farmers' market? Have you ever hired a plumber d/b/a himself rather than working for Plumbers-R-Us? Have you ever bought a used car directly from a private seller? Do you have a 401k/403b/457/TSP/IRA? Have you ever used eBay? Have you ever traded your labor for a paycheck (aka "worked") without hiding behind an intermediate shell-corp?

The freeness of a market has nothing to do with the corporeality of the entities participating in that market; and in fact, the Founding Fathers had quite the standing disagreement about whether or not to allow incorporation in the first place, despite all believing pretty strongly in the importance of a free market.

If you like doing off-the-clock work, great. Not sure what that has to do with labor laws, tho.

In the US, if you are hourly, you cannot legally work "off the clock". Ever. Period. Not even answering emails on a work-issued phone. Those saying they do that would get their employer completely screwed if they complained to the DoL.

Now, if you're salaried... "Off the clock" doesn't really exist, so feel free to act like a slave... But fuck you if you think I'm responding to your "look at what a good little slave I am, working at 2am on a Saturday!" emails before Monday at 8am.

Don't worry about premature optimization.

You clearly have never worked with an old-school Assembly programmer. Yes, there are people who will drop an O(n^3) algorithm in without even realizing what they've done, and those people need to take up an exciting career in fast food preparation. But at the other extreme, there are also people who will count every clock cycle and hand-unroll the inner loop to minimize the constant factor of a rarely-used O(log n) operation.

Avoiding both of those is optimal in terms of the use of human time, and it really doesn't matter how many machines your code runs on. Sure, saving 32 milliseconds per user per day adds up to ten years of CPU time across a billion machines - So what? Your users don't notice that, but your development costs most certainly do.

FWIW, I would accuse myself (as an "old-school Assembly programmer") of needing to resist the urge to optimize, optimize, optimize everything - All too tempting, spending just a few more hours (that turns into a week or two) tightening up that one obviously-inefficient section of code; when in reality no one but me will ever know about it.

Wait - So if FL doesn't require any special permits or licenses for "driverless" cars, how exactly do they define "driverless"?

This seems like a loophole big enough for people who've had their licenses revoked to drive a Scania R 450 through - Just stick a computer between yourself and the car's controls, and bam, no need to worry about that pesky "license" thing.

Hell, some people might do that just for kicks - I've always wondered why we can't just have a simple joystick to control our cars... Well, in FL, we apparently can!

A few weeks ago, Jimmy Wales promised that the Wikimedia Foundation would "stop the fundraiser if enough money were raised in shorter than the planned time".

who would refuse if the donations kept coming in.

Anyone that actually values honesty?

Until we have (power) efficient dedicated h.265 playback chips in most mobile devices... Yes, it looks absolutely gorgeous, but it doesn't matter that you can store 10 hours of HQ video when your battery only lasts for half an hour of playback. :)

I don't care in the least if my computer sits idle for a few seconds waiting for me, the user, to tell it what to do. I care very much if it arbitrarily decides to waste some of my all-too-limited monthly bandwidth incorrectly trying to second-guess my intent.

Dear Silicon Valley (or in this case, Oslo): Kindly fuck off and quit acting like the whole world has the same nice gigabit FTTP connections you've come to enjoy. Over half of the US (and more than half of the planet) doesn't have effectively unlimited high-speed broadband available. Please behave accordingly.

I know, right? Expecting people to pay back the loans they agreed to... And even threatening to *gasp* take back big-ticket items like houses and cars used as collateral for the mortgages? Might as well just give out bank-branded kneecapping sticks, amirite?

Banks certainly have their flaws, and make no mistake, we have some outright bad-actors like Wells Fargo. But as a whole, I have zero sympathy for people whining that their creditors actually dare to expect repayment. If you can't afford something, don't buy it.

Well, I still haven't seen any smoking guns just yet

Really???

So if CowboyNeil came out and admitted to editing your posts because he disagrees with your politics, would you have a problem with that?

This isn't speculation, Spez admitted to depriving Reddit of its default protections under 47 U.S.C. 230. Spez didn't just commit a minor faux pas, he opened Reddit-the-company to serious legal liability as a result of his thin skin.

He then got caught in a leaked chat transcript conspiring with a handful of top default mods to find a way to ban T_D (y'know, the only sub openly supporting the goddamned president-elect of the United States of Fucking America without pissing off the userbase too much.

And you want a smoking gun? Hey, does this video footage of the gun firing repeatedly count?

/ Jesus, when will Slashdot allow HTML entities, never mind actual *gasp* Unicode!

I don't even keep location services turned on except when I need to use my phone as a GPS, never mind allow any apps to access it.

Why the hell would I want to share my location with Uber? Oh, right - "Location data could also be used to provide new channels of revenue for the digital platform. This could include serving ads of local businesses". Yeah, kindly fuck right off, Uber.