You can't steal my copyright or that of my friends who wrote them.

Our copyright holds true.

No matter how many islands you own in Hawaii.

Yes, but we'll be getting even faster wireless speeds on campus soon, that will make the LTE from both T-Mobile and AT&T look pitiful.

(caveat - I get the AT&T service)

I find that turning on a second (or third, or in my case fifth) language usually takes anywhere from 3 to 5 days in the location where the other language is used before you gain fluency, if you don't use it all the time. Accents usually only take a day.

When I was working at Century 21 in Richmond BC most of my colleagues in the office next to mine were French, so when I coded in French, I would mostly just speak French the whole day.

Even having someone with you who is not very good at the other language will slow you down, as you have to keep switching how you think to translate for them. Nothing wrong with that, but it seems to make it take longer to access those portions of your brain/memory.

Great movie.

We saw it in 3D IMAX which is a bit intense, but it should be great in 2D as well.

See, I use my car to read my news to me and draft my emails using hands-free Bluetooth sync which is totally safe ...

CRASH

Help!

Look, I've known for decades the spying that has been going on both in Canada and the US, and was even in the Yakima listening center that you all didn't know about until it just closed.

And, coincidentally, through my work at Boeing and local Seattle wireless and telephone providers, I also know how to use the metadata to figure out things about people.

But we do live in a Police State. It's just you all pretended we didn't.

The fun part for me is, as a result of the discussion on this topic, realizing that the data could easily be used (and probably is being used) to track who goes to gun shows and stores and what they are buying, or probably have.

Exactly. No matter what you do, you break five laws every day just existing, so who cares?

I see all these "older" programmers saying stuff like this, but I just don't think they get that everyone who isn't a fossil knows that people will just jack your code anyway.

And then patent it and sell it to some patent troll in the US.

The system is broken. Licenses are for old people.

As we all know, the NSA metadata, combined with their other data collection methodology, easily allows them to track all interactions by people at gun shows and gun stores, based on your cell location and interfaced with video feeds.

What second amendment?

Have to agree with you there.

But you assume there's only one set of doors.

No matter what illegal laws or treaties that PM Harper signed, Canadians have a specific right of privacy spelled out in the Canadian Constitution.

Which makes these actions illegal no matter what justifications were given.

In news today, it was admitted the UK government processes information that the NSA and FBI are not allowed to process and vice versa.

And GITMO is?

Additionally, we're only talking the NSA component. The FBI and the other TLD mil-side agencies have their own programs, which are not included. But they do share data.

Actually, fire and drought tend to correlate. Floods less so.