reginaldjcooper

All the important ones (President, Congress) seem to be based on bipartisan politics. What is left? Voting on propositions?

Yes please describe how the English language is conspiring against women.

I suppose there are not enough of us to make that worthwhile? I quit buying Apple and complain bitterly in any thread about them in hopes of creating more open computing advocates.

Your logical fallacy here is that you have no evidence whatsoever that the people complaining are not voting for a third party every time. Perhaps they are, and in fact, it is as ineffectual as they claim.

My opinion is that your points are all incorrect.

\* It will not be publicly available other than behind a paywall a la PACER.

\* No laws will change. The government and corporations are already protected from the consequences of acquiring illegal data so they (congress, lobbyists) will continue to not care if a non-corporate entity can access data safely or not.

\* The government has already decided that you are well within your rights to photograph whatever you want from public land, they will angle the cameras however they like. Although I am sure wealthy people will be able to get cameras facing away from their neighborhoods somehow.

Being in public does mean potentially being recorded. But that law was legalized before everyone had a camera and could easily aggregate it all. We should be fighting for laws against persistent, widespread recording or aggregation of photos and video done by private or government entities.

\* You cannot tail everyone, everywhere with such low expenses without ubiquitous recording. Why not criminalize that? Otherwise any CEO can see where you or I go, who we talk to, etc. It will not be available for ordinary people to view CEOs or congresspeople.

\* Recording people's conversations is illegal for private entities, but "voice stress analysis" is legal. Recording conversations in service to the NSA and DHS is probably illegal but they most likely have a secret court warrant that allows it but is unchallengeable.

\* If you think every violent crime will be solved by recording everything, and that it is worth the collateral damage, I have got some news for you. If you're serious about recording conversations they're going to be able to solve many new conspiracy to commit "crimes," like if someone jokes about eating a child's heart in public.

\* "Follow a protest" is exactly what they would like to do; by having computers everywhere they can skip having police get an identity and just add the protestors to a no-fly list directly, or look up their crimes from the email database and arrest the leaders at their leisure. No more embarrassing pepper spray incidents. Yes Google will be able to tell you the traffic or weather, startups will not be able to unless they are well-funded and well-connected.

Making the recording public just allows abusive spouses to easily find their victim again as well as enabling all the shit the government would like to do. I want neither the government nor private entities to be allowed video data from hundreds of points around any given city.

It's weird you chose that strawman because actually people do need a permit to operate large fires in public and I am pretty sure a convicted arsonist would be denied this privilege.

Oh yes I am well aware :) I think Replicant is the one for me.

"Attempted manslaughter" is an actual legal concept [0]. Gotta love the US legal system :)

I think DUI three times is particularly heinous. Maybe life in prison is excessive, but the third time you do it you are well aware that it is potentially lethal, and the punishment should be on the level of attempted manslaughter. If that gets you nailed with some three-strikes thing, I think your argument should be against the three-strikes aspect.

But my original point was to disagree that DUI is the same class of crime as drug use in general, since it's incredibly dangerous for the other members of the public.

[0] http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1113

Thank you for this, I am switching to Android for freedom but I wish to retain privacy also. Asking permissions for each aspect and requiring apps to work if it is denied is one of the few things I liked about iOS.

It's not negligence because you are an active participant. But, ok, let's meet in the middle and call it attempted manslaughter because you had no mens rea.

The goal of this idea is to encourage you to not attempt manslaughter with your vehicle, so if you were faced with life imprisonment perhaps you would think long and hard before you do it the third time.

Multiple DUIs do deserve a severe punishment IMO, because that is attempted murder basically and they are a danger to the public. The rest I agree are ridiculous. Huffing drugs three times does not deserve permanent incarceration.

It's purposely constructing a false reality to make a victim think they are going insane. I am taking some rhetorical liberties by not intending the second part of that and using it to refer to the false information only.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaslighting

Or a full-on cynic/paranoiac would suggest the poorly-done websites are part of a gaslighting scheme.

Stop redirecting me based on GeoIP or whatever. I'm not Japanese, only my VPN is. That's why I typed .com instead of .co.jp.

Nowhere in the US are atheists explicitly forbidden from holding a government position as that would be a flagrant and obvious violation of the First Amendment. In many places they certainly won't be voted for if they admit their religious position in public.

Non-obviousness to someone working primarily in that field is a good start to determining the line.

We get most riled up by scan-to-email or click-here-for-full-version patents. The idea that you could independently come up with an obvious solution like clicking to upgrade and then need to pay some shitbird for the privilege of implementing it is despicable.

I worded it poorly, I didn't really think Canadian employees get free legal services for all matters.

I am reminded that the USA was designed to have a much greater congressperson to person ratio than it currently has.

If you don't know how to pivot an interview question when the interviewee is already familiar with it, you aren't qualified to perform interviews.

If the goal is to find how they approach problem solving, you can adapt by asking about increasingly difficult aspects of the problem. If that isn't the goal, your hiring practices are wrong.

It always blows my mind when countries get things right, and by that I mean providing adequate health, housing, and legal services to all residents.

Paying legal fees for employed persons sounds like a great way to provide them access to fair(er) representation. Otherwise if they have to pay out of pocket they can't afford it, and if it's loser pays the risk requires a large reward before it's rational to pursue.

Well done, again, Canada.

They also need to be imprisoned just as any other group of rapists would.

This is as cool or cooler as the tablet apps that replace thousand-dollar devices and allow even poor and uninsured autistic children to communicate. Congrats to the dad for being awesome.

Why does all integrity fly out the window when it comes time to write the title?

He didn't become a billionaire through his fight with Mattel, he became one in spite of it.

Or did I read the article wrong?

Yeah, you could argue me over to your position quite easily. My thinking is it's less dangerous because you can put it down. But I'd be fine with taking licenses away for DWT.

I've seen Engineering a Compiler get recommended as well, have you read that one?

Agree 100%. Many persons are already far too cavalier about driving.

In one of the last TSA threads a few people insisted that requiring a driver's license (also) unduly restricted freedom of travel, totally disregarding that driving is different from flying because you are operating heavy machinery in public.

I think a single DWI should be an instant and permanent revocation. DW-Texting/Facebook should be at least a temporary revocation. Having a computer on your face is the same class of thing. If you're so important that you can risk other persons' lives to save your time you can afford to hire a taxi.

That sounds useful! I signed up for your newsletter. I'm curious if you have a series of screenshots or something showing it in use?

If they figure out how to visually separate the buttons and text inputs from the text, I'm all in. I prefer the flat UI.

A donation to the EFF might cheer you up :)

That's because it's a free upgrade that improves speed, battery life, adds multi-monitor support, and removes the dumb leather interfaces. This is the first time since Snow Leopard that I felt new OS X was an upgrade; not a downgrade just to continue using Xcode.