How about the AI AW SR-98, like the Australians use? Designed for the cold, and no shortage of Commonwealth approval.

These areas where the population density is too low for good cellular data coverage are also places adjacent to where cable and dsl availability drops out owing to too few customers per mile. This is where you can expect people to come in to MickeyD's for that .iso download from time to time because the internet there is better than is possible at home.

I read through this bill, and not only do I find a lack of criminal penalties, I also don't find a means of independent confirmation of compliance, especially considering that these agencies have lied to Congress in the past. And, at the end of it, this bill extends the Patriot Act another two years from 2015 to 2017.

I like the idea of having regular attempts at declassifying FISA court decisions, but it says "where possible" and doesn't say who gets to define what's possible. I have a feeling that "if the public learns of this, they'll hate us and we might lose funding" would make declassification impossible, and "if this guy's defense learns about this, they might actually be able to defend him and we want him imprisoned" would also make declassification impossible. I didn't see a provision to ensure that the people who decide about the declassification are not people invested in the secret activity who would use the decision making ability to obtain outcomes in a manner bypassing the legal and political systems.

I'm pretty low end, and I don't want any of those things. What I would like is LibreOffice Base where it's possible for numeric fields to be dialable. That way I can input 1500 contacts and make & save queries that generate custom phone books for me. Other apps I actually use on my phone now are: the one to record my phone calls, text messaging, easypark, gnuchess, and Garnet, the Palm OS emulator where I have my 1500 contacts and BTZS ExpoDev.

And their reason not to choose xasm was...

So, since I'm reading Slashdot in USA, I shouldn't have to worry about links to goat.cx ?

I read the article, which was interesting. However, I don't feel any particular shock or outrage. The combination of greed, petroleum resources and fighting has been going on for a long time. East Timor provides a fine example. Biden's kid doing lawyering for Ukrainian frackers doesn't seem particularly significant, although I'm sure they intend to milk that situation for all they can get. That the US Mainstream Media doesn't have big reports on this doesn't come across to me as a result of they're being run by some conspiracy, it's because giving a damn about Biden's kid's job isn't a strong sentiment in the US.

I've seen some US laws have the same problems with the internet. There was that whole business about not being able to export public key cryptography where everyone just downloaded it from a non US server. There were (are?) a bunch of US pornography laws (no depicting a woman having sex while she's tied up, not depicting household objects used as a dildo, etc) that don't matter anymore because no one outside the US will enforce them. However there's been no problem getting every country to support enforcement of laws against child pornography or bomb making instructions. I expect that some of the cyberbullying laws that some localities in the US have made would find difficulty with enforcement if someone attempted to apply them to a person in another state in the US, much less to someone in another country.

In general, I think that when countries disagree about what sort of internet activities are permitted, either the least restrictive choice will be predominant, or some sort of filtering (like that for which China is famous) will be implemented.

If Google is censoring their results, they could do so no just on the basis of which version of Google receives the request, but on the basis of the requesting IP address. That would be a showing of making the attempt to comply, and Google could argue that people who make the effort to use a VPN are like people who get on a train and leave the EU. It's up to the EU to treat with the countries at the other end of the train ride if they want their same law to apply in those places as well.

Meanwhile, someone who isn't Google and doesn't have offices in the EU will surely make up a page of links to this information. If the page generates traffic, someone will pay for add space there.

If the case was containing my photo gear or test instruments along with the firearm, it wouldn't be small enough to disappear into regular luggage, but I reckon I could put a duffel around it as camouflage.

No, it's a special culling process. They start at the bottom, firing any personnel who actually show up at your house on time, and then they use the number of angry customer letters per month as the metric for low level promotion. At the higher levels, it's more about demoralization.

That IP is not a person. Yet. Give the Supreme Court a little time, would you. They'll have IP's making unlimited campaign contributions before you know it.

You might want to check with these guys about promises to pay. I talked to a talented Russian once who told me that you get promises of money before you produce results and promises to let you live if you go away quietly after you produce results. Of course, if you're sufficiently talented at interpersonal politics, you may convince someone that they will see more benefit in the long run by cultivating a relationship with you now, but this money doesn't relate so much to their initial promise as to your negotiating skill.

I've worked in commercial fishing a lot. I haven't met so many people with the reasonably prestigious degrees.

Thanks for the idea. I had always thought that the gun case could only have the gun. Apparently (from reading comments to this suggestion at schneier.com) there is an issue if one changes planes in Chicago as firearms are especially targeted for theft there.