You said, "But if I signed my real name to this, I'd be on a terror watchlist by the end of the week and you and I both know it. ". So you sound pretty sure. Saying, "How can anyone know" is more honest but it runs contrary to what you originally wrote.

Schizophrenia is not curable.

The one thing that's been amusing about the whole Manning case is how consistent his Defender’s argument has been. From the very beginning, the idea that "Manning is Not Guilty" has accepted as axiomatic, regardless of whatever evidence was provided and all arguments had to end with that conclusion.

At first, “Everyone” knew that Manning was just a scapegoat for Wikileaks and anyone who claimed otherwise was obviously A Fascist Thug.
Then as evidence came out show he had released documents, well of course he was just a whistleblower and anyone who claimed otherwise was obviously working for the Man.

When it turns out he released tens of thousands of documents he hadn’t even read and thus can’t be whistleblowing, then The Defenders invent bizarre new legal doctrines about how since the documents went to WikiLeaks not a foreign government, it’s not illegal. Or Manning is a Journalist! And so no laws apply to him, after all the legal expert Assange said so. And anyone who claimed otherwise was obviously A Fascist Thug.

Now that Manning’s own lawyers are giving up on that argument, let’s go to claims of mistreatment to get him off.

When that fails I’m sure some of the older claims of insanity will come back. Or we’ll go to the claim that HE created the Arab Spring, not the millions of oppressed Arabs who’ve suffered for decades. Nah, they’re just a sideshow to Manning. Or another favorite, Governments shouldn’t be able to have anything secret at all. That’s why the Defenders all worked so hard to defend Scooter Libby. Free Scooter Libby! they cried. And of course there is the strange issue ofis this all proof that Obama is actually A Fascist Thug?

Stop stop stop. If you think that electronics simply "stop working completely" when they overheat then you need to stop pontificating on a subject you don't understand. Also, the machines were made by ES&S, not Diebold, so statements by a Diebold CEO seem oddly out of place. So apparently your "Occam's Razor" answer is to randomly scream "CONSPIRACY!".

PS: as an aside, Diebold never been found guilty of any attempt to manipulate votes, just general incompetence, and the CEO statement wasn't about Diebold voting machines.

There are lot's of books on HDLs, but to get good results for non-trivial designs you also need to learn how to test them.

http://www.amazon.com/Writing-Testbenches-Functional-Verification-Edition/dp/1402074018 is a great guide to this.

Mexican drug cartels regularly threaten & kill reporters who talk about cartel violence. That's why you don't here much about it:

http://www.cnn.com/2011/11/15/world/americas/mexico-journalist/index.html
http://articles.latimes.com/2010/aug/16/world/la-fg-mexico-narco-censorship-20100816
http://www.npr.org/2011/09/23/140745739/mexican-drug-cartels-now-menace-social-media
http://www.chicagonow.com/chicanisima-latino-politics-news-and-culture/2011/09/mexican-journalist-killed-for-using-social-media/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/sep/20/mexico-newspaper-drug-cartels

PS: This is a well-known fact (I don't live in TX but I knew about it) and is actually pretty well covered by the regular media, but somehow retech wants to blame it on Buuuuuussssshhhhh. That's an impressive display of logic & research on your part retech, I look forward to more thoughtful analysis on your part.

People on slashdot always laugh their asses off when they read about normal people over reacting to things like computer viruses (should I wear gloves when touching the keyboard?) but then do the same thing when reading about drones.

Planes have been around for over 100 years and the laws covering them have been around for almost that long. Drones are just planes, they're covered by the same basic set of laws that planes are covered by now. OMG, somebody might fly over my house and take a picture of me naked! Can I shoot it down? Don't they have to give me the flight plan before it can cross my airspace.

Hey, guess what, planes can fly over your house RIGHT NOW and take a picture. Why are your panicking now, it's been a possibility for decades. And the police? Didn't you ever notice those police planes & helicopters that have been flying for decades? What the heck do you think they've been doing. Yeah, they're watching you. And of course RC people have been using video drone planes as well for years. Sheesh.

No they don't have to give you a flightplan. No you can't shoot it down. No you can't blind it. No you don't own it if it crashes on your land (although you can get compensation). No they can't film you frolicking naked in your yard & sell the video.

"2. The owners of the private property never objected to the protester's presence there. In order for being on someone else's property to be considered trespassing, the owner has to not want you to be there (e.g. if I walk through a church parking lot and nobody complains, that's not trespassing)."

The owner's have protested about OWS multiple times. The Police have simply stalled in their actions.

"3. The private property in question was actually required, by city ordinance, to be open to the public at all times, so even if they had objected they weren't allowed to do anything about it."

City Ordinance's also make it illegal to camp there. So they're clearly violating that.

Look, the reality is that if I or any other Joe Schmoe just showed up at a NY park, setup a tent, and said we're protesting _______________ and plan to stay until ____________ is achieved, the police would have you out within a few hours, at most. Far from being singled out for unfair treatment, OWS is getting especially kind treatment. The idea that they're peacefully protesting and therefore whatever they do is automagically legal is absurd and 99% of the people advocating that on slashdot would never want that made into law. Would you want peaceful anti-abortion zealots to be able to squat indefinitely in any clinic they don't approve of? Can I setup a camp in front of Old Faithful in Yellowstone because people don't respect The Bears properly? Can I and 100 friends setup camp in your house until the US government "does something" about Australian mistreatment of aboriginals?

Having a right to assemble doesn't magically make all other laws irrelevant, just like Freedom of the Press doesn't mean I can steal paper & ink to put out my newspaper. It certainly has never been interpreted that way in the past and even the people who support OWS today don't really want it to change the laws. They just want the laws changed for them only. Their attitude is, "I like OWS, so whatever they do is legal."

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