Yes, and I'm certain that drug kingpins would buy the cellphone with their own, entirely legitimate photo ID.

Contrary to what the Senators are saying, this bill has NOTHING to do with catching drug kingpins, and everything to do with advancing the surveillance state.

"Any sufficiently optimistic statement is indistinguishable from sarcasm."

If the government tells an airline that they are not to let me fly, and threatens the airline with revocation or non-renewal of licenses needed to operate, then yes, they are forbidding me to fly. The fact that an intermediate party (the airline) is involved doesn't alter that.

Aside from violating my (unenumerated) right to travel by air, it violates the Privileges and Immunities clause. That they add names to the NFL arbitrarily with no legal process and that there is no provided means of getting my name removed from the NFL violates the Due Process clause.

The government has absolutely NO rights whatsoever. The rights belong to the people. The people have granted the government limited powers to impose restrictions on the people's rights. The government routinely exceeds the limitations of those powers, and one of the functions of the courts is to provide a means for the people to attempt to rein in such abuses.

Of course the government does things all the time that they don't actually have the power to do. That's no surprise. Thanks to the Constitution (as amended), we have legal recourse, and can at least attempt to rein in the worst excesses.

The Supreme Court isn't always willing to let them get away with everything on the basis of the interstate commerce clause. U.S. v Lopez 514 U.S. 549 (1995) is an example of the court recognizing that a broad interpretation of the interstate commerce clause would effectively remove all limitations on government power.

Although not marketed for open-source use the way the Linksys WRT54GL was, the DLink DIR-825 rev B seems like a great choice. It is supported by many of the third-party firmware distributions (I use OpenWRT), has an Atheros MIPS-based CPU that runs at 680 MHz, simultaneous dual-band Atheros WiFi which has good open source support (no binary blob driver needed), detachable antennas, gigabit ethernet, and isn't too expensive.

Much though it pains me (as a former Ubicom employee) to say it, I would recommend avoiding the earlier DIR-825 rev A which uses a Ubicom processor. Although Ubicom now offers some kind of Linux SDK, as far as I know there is currently no third-party firmware that will run on the DIR-825 rev A. The hardware revision is on the label of the package, and also the rev A and rev B look somewhat different, so if you buy a DIR-825 at retail you can easily ensure that you get the rev B. I suspect that most of the major online retailers probably have exhausted their inventory of rev A by now.

Sorry, but there most certainly *IS* a right to travel by air. It is one of the unenumerated rights, protected by the Ninth Amendment:

The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.

The government can only deny us this right if they have a power to do so, granted to the government by the people, by means of the Constitution. I am not presently able to find the section of the Constitution that gives the government the power to deny the people the right to travel by any particular means.

Note that the right to air travel does not compel any other party to help me to exercise this right. I can't demand that United give me a ticket; the right simply guarantees that I can negotiate a contract with United to pay them to transport me, or to purchase (or build) and fly my own plane. If the government wants to deny me that right, they have to have a specific power to do so. The government does not have the power to arbitrarily deny rights just because it suits their purposes to do so. That is a key difference between the US government and most governments of the past (and even many of the present).

That's "sprawling urban charm". There isn't any suburban charm to be found anywhere near here.

The "isolated from our reality" part of the quote sums it up quite nicely.

DHS says Cell-All will operate only on an opt-in basis and will transmit data anonymously.

Sure, at first.

Just like how your census form won't be used inappropriately, except maybe to round up japanese-americans and put them in internment camps.

And Java 7 is actually going to be released some day?

unless you don't mind having a "heart attack" or "farming accident".

Even though I use Gnome, I really don't especially care whether 2.30 is an April Fool's Day prank or not.

In some cases, probably a lot worse than the first time you did it. horrific beetle sex

Submersion cooling using mineral oil isn't new, dating back to the use of Fluorinert in the Cray 2.

Fluorinert is not mineral oil, nor even very similar to mineral oil.

3.0 was supposed to introduce a stateless API, but didn't. Now 4.0 apparently hasn't either. Have they decided that it's a bad idea, or that it's too difficult, or what?

Having the API retain state is a fundamentally bad idea. As one overview points out, "Nearly all of OpenGL state may be queried". (emphasis added)

It would be much better if there were OpenGL context objects that encapsulated the state, and were explicitly passed into API calls. I was completely dumbfounded when I first looked at API and saw that it didn't work that way.