Not here (not UK, but a commonwealth country). It's perjury to say you weren't driving when you were. The identification of the driver is a separate matter. You "swear" you weren't driving. You then must give the police a lead, or they will still hold you responsible.

The 5th Amendment exists because people were "asked" to testify, then, when the first charge didn't convict, try them for perjury on their testimony.

That, and beat a confession out of them.

Those were the main reasons for the 5th Amendment. Not to protect your computer files. You are required to hand those over (arguably in the format the prosecutor wants), so long as they get a valid warrant first. But that's a different Amendment.

So you are arguing that subpoenas are illegal?

A counter-claim is $0. Why not just counter claim, and be done with it?

No evidence is needed to provide a counter-notice.

The only reason there's a hold-down time after the counter-notice is to give the (supposed) copyright holder time to file a court case before it's back up.

It's innocent until proven guilty. The person is presumed innocent. The content is blocked until any disputes are settled, as making it available would cause an irrecoverable loss if the copyright holder is right. It's actually pretty sensible, though wasn't intended to have millions of automated take downs issued by non-holders of copyright who claim a 90% miss rate is "good faith". Change the way that's applied against the take-down issuers, and the problems mostly go away.

In theory, yes. In practice, no. At least not without piles and piles of official warnings.

I'm just listing what my insurance does. Prior to this change, they covered your children until a hard cut off of 27. Once the Obama change came out, they changed it to 26, but will continue to cover as long as they stay in college or active duty. I assumed it was part of Obama Care to continuously cover your children, but I guess not?

Yeah, like the vegetables designed to generate their own insecticides, effectively turning the vegetables into poison. Even the "light" versions are generally so that more poisons can be used on them than "normal". Both are scientifically demonstrably to be "bad" for the consumer. The "good" GMO was mostly done with selective breeding. Maybe a few colors or shapes are "good" GMO, but mostly it's about getting the maximum chemicals in/on the food, and that's why GMO is globally hated. That and a fear of terminator genes.

Read http://science.slashdot.org/co... and tell me if you think he's said anything to indicate he's anti-abortion.

He sounds like someone who is anti-abortion, but deliberately saying things to be able to deny it, while strongly suggesting it.

Then present the scientific basis for your position, rather than solely attacking others while not stating your position.

The Law of Gravity is the fact that it exists. The Theory of Gravity isn't a fact, but is the best description we have for how to model it.

Climate change is a "fact" in that we know that there has *always* been climate change, so it would take something extraordinary to prevent climate change. That something extraordinary hasn't happened. Which direction, how fast, and causes are separate questions.

Nope. The more we abolish hydrocarbons, the better I will be. We should have solar on every building, and in every road. At which time we'd have about 4x the amount of power we use. And being locally generated, will have lower cost and better availability. We just have some minor issues about storage, that'll be easy to solve in the time frame of installing the distributed power solution.

Yes, it is. They had a few problems because it was designed as a private network, then expanded to a network of private networks. I was on the Internet before DHCP was "invented". The Internet was very static, and any logs did a good job of identifying a specific person. There was the perception of anonymity, but there was no actual anonymity, and that was known at the time.

Fast forward to today. Security is such an issue because there was no security built into the network. That isn't an "error", that's by design. It was just considered easier to use bad security than design it for private access from mostly dynamic clients.

That and the people building it on 9600 LAN speeds never considered 10 Gbps WAN links, so many of the speed and QoS options are not optimized for today's networks.

There are a lot of things I'd have done differently, if we were building it new today, but what "errors" do you see in the Internet, besides the lack of a crystal ball by those building it?

Anyone getting to the airport with a phone that's dead should be able to toss it in their checked bag, where it won't be any less useful than in their pocket. Then it's just fine.

If it's so dead and useless, why can't you toss it in your checked bags?