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>I know what a shitty brat I've been and I'm sure if God or karma exists, I'll get an equally shitty child or worse I'll make a very shitty parent. Man, that kept me up many a nigh…

I see plenty wrong with the stereotype. I've been on my own since 17, too. I'm 28 now. In that time I've worked at nearly every job you can imagine, with no parents to beg money fr…

The ERP numbers are misleading. I've read elsewhere that the transmitter's output at the antenna connector is on the order of a half watt.

That's a good explanation, especially wrt intelligence being linked to identity. When I was growing up, I was used to being the smartest person in the room, but there was no "thril…

"Extend the use of state remote computer hacking from the security services to the police in cases involving a 'threat to life' or missing persons. This can include cases involving…

Haven't some courts been going back and forth on whether it's 5th amendment kosher to compel someone to enter a passphrase and decrypt data on disk? I seem to remember a case invol…

Oh boy. Turtles all the way down.

Ha, for a second I thought they were going to do something about the ad saturation. uBlock and NoScript on Firefox for Android pacify this consumer just fine.

Bingo. Every time I see a fresh gripe from the likes of the FBI, I think of how much worse it would be if we didn't have the nominal protection of the Constitution.

Found my favorite near the bottom: "Design by committee."