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CFAA is a ridiculous mistake. It's like if you used a programmable coffee machine and the company's policy forbade making decaf you would be a felon.

Oh those damn stickers. And every time I get a pair of scissors in that indestructible plastic...

I thought those were running interpreters via javascript. User-generated code is really okay?

At least one of Ruby Motion or Xamarin Studio is compiling source code into iPhone apps. Furthermore iPhone apps are definitely allowed to embed interpreters (caveat: no JITC's) an…

And damn it, that's not a Scotsman, either!

I love Vim so much but I sure wish it had a proper scripting language without requiring me to recompile the whole binary to get partial functionality. Has anyone used Vile? I tried…

> So they'd rather have something show up to show that "the system is working". Haha, that's such a ridiculously poor argument. Why not just email yourself something or ask a frien…

USA! Calls should be charged at both ends, internet should be charged at both ends, and if a company like Youtube is making too much money Comcast should be allowed to fine it for …

Maybe the dad stays home, or it's a gay couple, so it's modern single earner. Unless I have been grossly mislead, if singer-earner salaries had appreciated like CEO salaries from t…

He didn't leave the killing of Egyptian children to humans, nor the razing of Sodom. You flat-out ignored my first question, though, so I can tell you really don't want to debate. …

Reports claim it's buggy as anything, so I'm sure they'll have an easy time of finding an exploit.

There's a package that can accelerate all the iOS animations if you've jailbroken your phone. It's quite a nicer experience and for me another reminder of why it's important to hav…

> Not always is possible to save everyone. False. God is omnipotent :)

Easy? Haven't they got a Turing-complete language hiding in there?

> What would you do if injured your hands and could never type again? I don't even disagree with you, but have a tangent to share: Have you seen modern robotic prosthetics? I don't…

> So I'm not worried about the NSA as much as I'm worried about Facebook or Google circumventing ethical principles in lieu of targeted advertising, using my face/name without my c…

:) Applying Bayesian empiricism! My posterior measurement of P(redeemable|young) after a lifetime of observation is too high. While I'm on the topic of children; how is it just to …

Putting aside drowning the majority of everything on Earth, what is just about destroying entire cities, sparing no one?

I think due to evolving as a social animal we necessarily have a sense of justice and a notion that bad behaviour must be punished or corrected. The notion that all bad behaviour i…

They cannot see you from a satellite, don't be absurd. They would use an ARGUS drone if they wanted to visually track someone throughout the day.

PS: Michael Chertoff, the former Secretary of Homeland Security, represents scanner manufacturers. So the whole thing is a massive conflict of interest if you ask me.

That would be nice; you could actually have people on multiple flights opt out because there's a single security checkpoint for multiple gates.

Please don't give up. We all have to value freedom more than to abandon it after half an hour apart from a laptop if we want to be free.

I don't trust them to not save the images, I don't trust them to not get hacked, and I don't want some random black hat to have images of my body over time.

If they are successful I imagine they will end up as a Yelp-style legal extortion business that is rent-seeking on advertisers.