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Comment Re:I'm not going to make the smartphone mistake ag (Score 1) 255

Well, if you don't want it any more, I'll take it. I got myself an n900 months and months ago and am still finding new uses for it. Ever since I've got it, I have been capable of keeping a telephone, calculator, browser, book reader, flashlight, media library/player, GPS navigation, TV remote and streaming set-top box in ONE pocket. Just be careful, because having so much useful stuff in one place is VERY appealing to thieves :(

Comment Re:USA...we miss you! (Score 5, Insightful) 279

Well, here's a word from me at least. Obama can eat a dick. I'm getting so fed up with this gradual transition to full autonomous surveillance. There will be people out in the streets about this when things start getting bad. Soon enough, the schism between reality and the fairy tales they told us about freedom in public school will be too wide even for the American Idol crowd to believe. An interesting time to live. It's just too bad we can't be investing these man-years and resources on attaining sustainability before the Earth becomes a giant radioactive ball of toxic shit inhabited by cannibalistic asshats.

Submission + - The War On Photography: Legal Analysis (ssrn.com)

YIAAL writes: We've seen increasing numbers of stories about photographers facing arrest or assault by police and security officers simply for taking pictures — often pictures of law enforcement misconduct. Although photographers have a legal right to take pictures in pretty much any public place, this article by Morgan Manning concludes that the legal remedies for violations of that right are inadequate and often entirely unworkable. Is law-enforcement education the solution, or do we need new civil rights laws — maybe with attorney fees and heavy damages — to protect photographers from being hassled?

Comment Re:meh (Score 1) 983

Shit man. I have a lot of sympathy for you. I have paid a few thousand dollars in fines (all traffic violations) and surcharges and had my license suspended for almost a year just because these fucking pricks keep thinking they have some sort of right to pull me over for totally bogus reasons and try their damned hardest to find my nug. (yeah, you fuckers pick up that piece of napkin under my gas petal while I sit in the fucking winter cold in a t-shirt. It sure looks like a joint, right? oh shit, its only a bit of napkin.) I cannot begin to list all the bad karma these fucking pigs generate.

Submission + - Wikileaks Shows Massive US Lobby on Canadian DMCA (michaelgeist.ca)

An anonymous reader writes: Wikileaks has released dozens of new U.S. cables that demonstrate years of behind the scenes lobbying by U.S. government officials to pressure Canada into implementing a Canadian DMCA. The cables include confirmation that Prime Minister Harper personally promised U.S. President George Bush at the SPP summit in Montebello, Quebec in 2008 that Canada would pass copyright legislation, U.S. government lines on copyright reform that include explicit support for DMCA-style digital lock rules, and the repeated use of the Special 301 process to "embarrass" Canada into action. In fact, cables even reveal Canadian officials encouraging the U.S. to maintain the pressure and disclosing confidential information.

Comment Re:So Android 3.0 ... (Score 2) 262

3. You may copy and distribute the Program (or a work based on it, under Section 2) in object code or executable form under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above provided that you also do one of the following:

        a) Accompany it with the complete corresponding machine-readable source code, which must be distributed under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above on a medium customarily used for software interchange; or,
        b) Accompany it with a written offer, valid for at least three years, to give any third party, for a charge no more than your cost of physically performing source distribution, a complete machine-readable copy of the corresponding source code, to be distributed under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above on a medium customarily used for software interchange; or,
        c) Accompany it with the information you received as to the offer to distribute corresponding source code. (This alternative is allowed only for noncommercial distribution and only if you received the program in object code or executable form with such an offer, in accord with Subsection b above.)

from the GPL 2 under terms and conditions for copying, distribution, and modification

Comment these fuckers (Score 1) 505

I'll warn ahead of time, this is going to be a serious rant.

As a young citizen of New Jersey living no farther then 15 minutes away from mahwah, I have got a thing or two to say about the police in my area. Real Estate in this area is expensive as hell since NYC is not a long drive away. The area consists of infinite sprawling suburbs filled with middle class families living off of jobs in the city (where the money is). These are hardworking people who have a lot to loose and a little to gain from the forms of crime that the municipal police usually deal with. This makes Police work in the area rather dull, compared to cities like Hackensack and Paterson (or Camden...). It would make sense then for Police resources to be allocated to areas with higher levels of violent crime, but instead, these quiet suburban communities feed their pigs on the absurdly high property taxes levied on the absurdly expensive properties. Since the Police are given such a high budget they need to show that it is going to use. My town was one of the first in the area to replace their crown vics with dodge chargers, as well as acquiring several hybrid SUVs. They also need to catch enough "criminals" to show that they are needed.

Throw an over-paid pig in a new car with a new laptop which he can use to look up anyone's criminal record in seconds and they feel like they are ready to push crime to extinction. Every minor traffic offense, every 0.7 gram marijuana deal, every underage party, and every case of loitering must be eliminated. Since the police have eliminated all entertainment (that comes at a cost my generation can afford) from an entire county, we sit around and do nothing but smoke cigarettes. Apparently this looks too much like drug dealing to ignore so the police will use any shred of probable cause they can find to invade your life and look for the weed. When they don't find it, there is always something they can write you a ticket for.

its fucking bullshit

Comment Completely Disagree (Score 4, Insightful) 467

When you die, your writings and works are the only thing left of you. They are the only way for someone to try to dig deeper into your mind and build up an understanding of your true character. A lot of crazy shit happens in a lifetime, someone may really appreciate you leaving a book of your reflections behind.

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