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Comment Re:For the sake of discussion... (Score 5, Insightful) 316

What should they do with the X?

It goes in the evidence locker until the driver finishes their trial for possession.

What should they do with the machine gun?

It goes in the evidence locker until the driver finishes their trial for possession.

What should they do with the machine gun?

It goes in the evidence locker until the driver finishes their trial for possession.

What should they do with the $20,000?

It goes in the evidence locker until the driver finishes their trial for possession.

What should they do with the car?

It goes into impound until the driver finishes their trial for possession.

What's that? You can't be bothered with a court case to prove that anything illegal happened? Well, fuck you.

Comment Re:Jurors (Score 1) 303

Hell, I'm sure you could arrange for a demonstration: get 5 people to line up. Person one (we'll call him Adam) hands a box wrapped in paper that says "To Bob" to the next person who rips off that layer of paper to show another layer "To Charlie" and hands it to the next person and so on. Then point out that the feds can't see what's in the box, and if the feds look at the box between Charlie and David they can only see that the box came from Charlie and is going to David, but they can't see that it came from Adam or is going to Emily.

Run it again with a cop standing in for Bob and David and show that by comparing notes, Bob knows they got a box from Adam and gave it to Charlie, and David knows he got a box from Charlie at the same time and gave it to Emily. Point out that Adam doesn't know who any of the people are, their computer picks people at random and sometimes the cops get lucky.

<strike>Then point out that if you're the NSA you can use PRISM to track down everyone who handled that box</strike>

Comment Re:HTTP isn't why the web is slow (Score 1) 161

As a PHP developer I can tell you exactly where one huge bottleneck is: POST-Redirect-GET. The current paradigm for handling POST requests requires that I initialize my framework, load all my objects, create a new object, save it in the database then set fire to the whole thing and tell the browser to redirect to another page where I initialize my framework, load all the objects, recreate the object I just burned down and plug it into the relevant view.

Not being able to respond to a POST request with a view with a "if the user wants to bookmark this page or reload it, please GET this Location: instead" doubles the number of requests I have to serve and halves my throughput.

Comment Re:Doesn't go far enough (Score 1) 216

Nice try, but you're doing it wrong. I don't pay to send the internet.

Ending network neutrality would be more like you paying to ship me something overnight express, but unless I pay on top of what you already paid to send me the package, the package gets shipped media mail. No, you don't get your money back. Yes, you're paying for a service you have no hope of receiving.

Comment Re:Express Lane? (Score 2, Insightful) 216

Our state allows wealthy drivers to pay extra for the convenience and speed of the Express Lane.

When your state installed this "Express Lane" did it actually add a new lane, or did they wall off existing lanes, forcing everyone who doesn't pay up into fewer lanes than they had before, making the traffic for everyone else worse?

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