What do your years of casual reading of FBI documents say about the odds that agents of the FBI may pick up knowledge from those they investigate, perhaps certain turns of phrase or specific technical terms in use by them?
Not understanding how things work is how we manage to have modern technology. If everyone had to understand everything, humanity could hardly even manage to stay at the hunter-gatherer level.
Having said that, I agree with your point that if a judge doesn't understand something, he should call in experts to explain it to him. (or her)
Opera Mini does the 'adjusting the content to fit the device' thing too. You'd think that Opera would've been sued for this if it was problematic in any way. Of course, Opera is a lot poorer than Amazon, so they're a less tempting target for a troll seeking to beat the money out of them with a lawyer-club.
(If Opera _has_ been sued for this, no doubt some knowledgeable person will link to it for us.)
DOH! I just mouseover'd the 'report' button, and I see that it included trollishness in there..
Sorry, folks.
Still, the option not to see troll-comment-trees would still be nice.
... having said that, I bet I'll find that option somewhere when I look...
Along with 'insightful' and 'funny' can we have a 'this is a troll' button? And an option not to see posts by trolls and those responding to the troll?
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What do your years of casual reading of FBI documents say about the odds that agents of the FBI may pick up knowledge from those they investigate, perhaps certain turns of phrase or specific technical terms in use by them?
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"Testing me to see if I'm the kind of person who gives away their passwords, eh? Good one! - very sensible in this networked age."
Re: Re: I wish I was special...
I must be getting old, because I briefly felt like complaining about how the meanings of words change over time...
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/special
Meaning 3 is getting more and more usage, it seems. :)
Typo
"...domains air domestic..."
We have always been at war...
...with Eastasia!
Also, lies are truth and protectionism is free trade.
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Punny. But hey!, puny works too if you want to diss 'em.
Typo report.
Neterhlands -> Netherlands
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Not understanding how things work is how we manage to have modern technology. If everyone had to understand everything, humanity could hardly even manage to stay at the hunter-gatherer level.
Having said that, I agree with your point that if a judge doesn't understand something, he should call in experts to explain it to him. (or her)
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You can be right and still be a crackpot.
Not that I am suggesting that any particular conspiracy theory is right or commenting on the crackpot status of any particular people.
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Opera Mini does the 'adjusting the content to fit the device' thing too. You'd think that Opera would've been sued for this if it was problematic in any way. Of course, Opera is a lot poorer than Amazon, so they're a less tempting target for a troll seeking to beat the money out of them with a lawyer-club.
(If Opera _has_ been sued for this, no doubt some knowledgeable person will link to it for us.)
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Virtual Memory file too.
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Freedom of Speech? I heard that judges get to ignore that in cases where money is involved... http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110826/15450015708/federal-court-invents-new-intellectual-propert y-right-money-makes-it-so-exclusive-right-to-record.shtml
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I marked you insightful, 'cos I hadn't known either.
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Reality is made of quarks (mostly).
Re: Spoilers do not spoil?
Hmm... OK, I just clicked through to the linked article, and I find that they got there before me.
Ho hum.
Spoilers do not spoil?
I have counterevidence: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4x_WUb68RQo
Re: Interface Proposal.
DOH! I just mouseover'd the 'report' button, and I see that it included trollishness in there..
Sorry, folks.
Still, the option not to see troll-comment-trees would still be nice.
... having said that, I bet I'll find that option somewhere when I look...
Interface Proposal.
Along with 'insightful' and 'funny' can we have a 'this is a troll' button? And an option not to see posts by trolls and those responding to the troll?
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Like that will work!
Re: Re: Did you hear that?
Since that is the best advert for Bing I've ever heard, I feel I must accuse you of being a paid Microsoft blog-shill :)