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Comment Re:Is this important? (Score 1) 396

he 4th Amendment doesn't cover foreigners engaging in war against the US or our allies, and the NSA is supposed to be looking for things like this.

Case law on this is very clear. When you have an expectation of privacy, a warrant is required. If you were on the phone in a public place, it's legal to record your half of the conversation, because you're speaking loudly in a public place. If you're at home, a warrant is required to record the phone call, because you have an expectation of privacy in your home.

Comment Re:Being a Saudi (Score 1) 537

How can you be an extreme atheist?

A hard atheist who actively dis-believes in any deities?

I'm an atheist, but I don't actively dis-believe in any deities. I could understand it would be foolish to be certain about something like that, but I don't think people who would fit that description would be as dangerous as the Saudi "legal" system.

Comment Re:Hey... (Score 3, Informative) 248

The hopper doesn't analyze meta data or closed captions or anything like that.

The reason the commercial skip feature doesn't work right after broadcast, is because a human being actually watches the program at Dish HQ, marks the start and end time stamps of each commercial break, and the device then skips those times when you tell it to.

It's not an elegant solution, but it's immune to anything the broadcasters can try to do to muck up an automated solution.

Comment A personal anecdote (Score 1) 835

This post is going to get buried, but it seems applicable to put here.

I was "escorted" off of a bus by a SWAT team, at least three of them pointing automatic weapons at my head while the six or so people on the bus were removed.

Fortunately for me, the SWAT team that was doing the "evacuating" had enough trigger discipline to not end up shooting me in the face.

Comment Re:Trust (Score 1) 668

Saying vaccines cause autism is a nice sound bite which is easy to understand whereas the counter argument that there is no credible evidence of any link is harder to explain

Don't say there's not evidence linking them, instead you should say something else.

Something like "if you don't give your kid the measles vaccine, your kid can catch measles and DIE!"

If that doesn't spur people into vaccination, then nothing will.

Comment Re:This is the best way of gun control (Score 1) 656

You don't have a Constitutional right to own a car. You do have a Constitutional right to own and carry a firearm, whether or not you choose to exercise it.

Rights are not granted by the Constitution. The right to bear arms is enumerated, but the right to own a car can simply be incorporated by the 9th Amendment.

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