Comment Re:the joy's of running a big block (Score 1) 525
There's just a *tiny* difference between racing on a legal drag race strip and illegal street racing. But dont let that stop you now.
Comment Re:Paid (Score 1) 184
If there was no formal written policy declaring no lookie - it's claimed a person had a personal informal policy and this is not the department's policy - then SOL, no matter what the Lt. may have said.
I would further say that the fact the Lt went looking suggests there was something the employee was doing that wasnt kosher and there is more to this story. I am betting the person who got looked at was not doing their job.
The fact the SCOTUS took this up is a concern for businesses and sys admins. I would have thought it obvious there's no freedom of speech issues here.
Comment Which is why... (Score 1) 175
... you dont use d!ct!0n@ryw0rd50r@tl3@st make them hard to be brute forced.
I cant really see how this is service is legal but I am willing to be educated how it could be.
Comment Re:we'll see (Score 0, Flamebait) 312
You have the right to speech, that is true.
You do not have the right to be a fucking bunch of asshats and liars aka Fox News. With speech comes resposibility and the Murdoch press left that bit out years ago.
Submission + - USPTO Examiner Rejects 1-Click Claims as 'Obvious'
theodp writes: "Faced with a duly unimpressed USPTO examiner who rejected its new 1-Click patent claims as 'obvious' and 'old and well known', Amazon has taken the unusual step of requesting an Oral Appeal to plead its case. And in what might be interpreted by some as an old-fashioned stalling tactic, the e-tailer has also canceled and refiled its 1-Click claims in a continuation application. As it touted the novelty of 1-Click to Congress last spring, Amazon kept the examiner's rejection under its hat, insisting that 'still no [1-Click] prior art has surfaced' to a Judiciary Committee whose members included Rick Boucher (VA) and Howard Berman (CA), both recipients of campaign contributions from a PAC funded by 1-Click inventor Jeff Bezos, other Amazon execs, and their families."
