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• On the post: Two Florida Students Charged In Connection With A Bullied 12-Year-Old's Suicide

  

  Jeremy Lyman ( profile ), 17 Oct, 2013 @ 04:46am

  Re: Personal responsibility?

  This also makes me worry about legitimizing suicide as a recourse against bullying. For kids that feel so powerless and helpless, the prospect of getting back at their tormentors could overshadow better options. Teenagers make terrible decisions every day (case in point) lets not put this prescient out there to further cloud rational judgement.

• On the post: Gym Thinks New Member Isn't A Real Person; Drains Nearly $1,000 From Her Checking Account To 'Verify'

  

  Jeremy Lyman ( profile ), 03 Oct, 2013 @ 09:18am

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Silly me .....

  Except that this was with a computer... which everyone knows is mystical and magical and makes it ten times worse. Where are the terrified victims crying out for the DOJ to save them from nefarious "cyber" hackers?

• On the post: Gym Thinks New Member Isn't A Real Person; Drains Nearly $1,000 From Her Checking Account To 'Verify'

  

  Jeremy Lyman ( profile ), 03 Oct, 2013 @ 08:59am

  Re:

  I've often wondered how static routing numbers can be considered secure.

• On the post: Gym Thinks New Member Isn't A Real Person; Drains Nearly $1,000 From Her Checking Account To 'Verify'

  

  Jeremy Lyman ( profile ), 03 Oct, 2013 @ 08:56am

  Re: This is why I use a CC for everything like this

  Low cost gyms like this generally require access to a checking account. I imagine they're avoiding the CC processing fees, while ensuring they get their dues promptly each month. But it really creeped me out when I joined one that the only method of payment was to give them access to my routing numbers.

• On the post: Time To Change Your Fingerprints: Apple's Fingerprint Scanner Already Hacked

  

  Jeremy Lyman ( profile ), 23 Sep, 2013 @ 07:52am

  Re: Re: Apple doesn't seem to have considered this fact

  I'm more concerned about the local cops than the CIA. They have significant precedent to extract physical identifiers from your person (DNA, fingerprints) but it's less clear that they can coerce you to divulge a pass-code.

• On the post: DOJ Scrambles To Try To Explain Why It Never Investigated Systematic Misrepresentations By NSA To FISA Court

  

  Jeremy Lyman ( profile ), 20 Sep, 2013 @ 09:27am

  It is SOOOO simple you guys...

  We didn't conduct an investigation on whether we needed to conduct an investigation because we didn't conduct an investigation on whether we needed to conduct an investigation, which wasn't needed because we didn't conduct and an investigation on whether it was needed.
  
  If you torture logic enough, it will say anything you want it to.

• On the post: California College Tells Student He Can't Hand Out Copies Of The Constitution On Constitution Day

  

  Jeremy Lyman ( profile ), 20 Sep, 2013 @ 06:48am

  This Is All Backwards

  The "little cement area" should be the NO free speech zone, and we should be arguing about whether that much restriction was constitutional.

• On the post: Without Any Legal Basis, The NYPD Has Been Classifying Its Own Documents For More Than A Decade

  

  Jeremy Lyman ( profile ), 19 Sep, 2013 @ 08:19am

  Re:

  "Want" and "Need" sometimes become indistinguishable when someone else is footing the bill.

• On the post: Angered By The NSA, But Confused By Acronyms, Brazilian Hacker Defaces NASA Websites

  

  Jeremy Lyman ( profile ), 19 Sep, 2013 @ 12:22pm

  He knows what he's doing.

  How do you think the NSA got all those spy satellites up there? Some kind of Secret NASA? SNASA?

• On the post: NYC Tracking E-ZPass Tags All Over The City, Without Telling Drivers

  

  Jeremy Lyman ( profile ), 16 Sep, 2013 @ 05:42am

  Re: Re: Re: Don't go overboard...

  It says here that you were doing 670,000,000 in a 55?

• On the post: Canada's Copyright Board Shuts Down Industry's Request For 'You Must Be A Criminal Tax' On MicroSD Cards

  

  Jeremy Lyman ( profile ), 05 Sep, 2013 @ 11:46am

  Re: Criminality Taxes

  Bank robbers use cars; hello bank robbery MVA fee.

• On the post: Canada's Copyright Board Shuts Down Industry's Request For 'You Must Be A Criminal Tax' On MicroSD Cards

  

  Jeremy Lyman ( profile ), 05 Sep, 2013 @ 11:45am

  Root of the Problem

  It would make more sense for CBC to tax the babies coming out of hospitals. But that's not saying much.

• On the post: Bradley Manning Apologizes For The Harm Everyone Admits He Didn't Actually Cause

  

  Jeremy Lyman ( profile ), 16 Aug, 2013 @ 06:24am

  Re: Re: Re:

  But he didn't make the U.S. look bad, the abuses made us look bad. He showed us a mirror so we could see how horrible we look to everyone else.

• On the post: Dear Hollywood: Giving Identical Scripts To Congress Reveals That You're Feeding Them Talking Points

  

  Jeremy Lyman ( profile ), 07 Aug, 2013 @ 12:17pm

  Perfect Example

  Representative Chu obviously needs to start automating her DMCA take-down notices, how else will she be able to stay ahead of dirty infringers like Representative Bass?

• On the post: Feds Say It's Classified Info To Say Who We're At War With

  

  Jeremy Lyman ( profile ), 30 Jul, 2013 @ 05:17am

  Re: Re: Re:

  We've always been at war with Eastasia.

• On the post: Rep. Mike Pompeo Says NSA's Metadata Program Is A Result Of The Way 'Government Is Supposed To Operate'

  

  Jeremy Lyman ( profile ), 25 Jul, 2013 @ 11:48am

  Re:

  "I'm terrified of the unknown, so I'm going to violate the basic rights of my constituents."
  
  Doesn't really sound like something that should get you re-elected in America.

• On the post: How Overclassification Makes Secrets Less Likely To Remain Secret

  

  Jeremy Lyman ( profile ), 19 Jun, 2013 @ 07:46am

  If everyone is special, then no one is.

  I suggest issuing top secret clearance to every citizen, but then we'd all be subjected to Orwellian double-think where you're not allowed to acknowledge the facts in front of you.

• On the post: Ron Paul Doesn't Win RonPaul.com And Is Guilty Of Reverse Domain Hijacking

  

  Jeremy Lyman ( profile ), 24 May, 2013 @ 08:19am

  I'm either over or under thinking this.

  I'm still trying to wrap my brain around "Reverse Hijacking". Is that where you pull your car over next to a pedestrian and make him take your car?

• On the post: Rep. Steve King: Because Boston Bombing May Have Been Done By An Immigrant, We Should Block Immigration Reform

  

  Jeremy Lyman ( profile ), 16 Apr, 2013 @ 12:24pm

  How is it that we elect people like this to represent us?

  Because our elections choose the people who are good at getting elected, not the people who are good at governing.
  Enact severe term limits; evict the career politician!

• On the post: New Jersey Lawmaker Proposes Legislation To Ban Games With Mature Content From Public Places

  

  Jeremy Lyman ( profile ), 16 Apr, 2013 @ 06:50am

  Write what you mean

  Is there some type of Continuing Education Class that lawmakers could take to better understand the differences between what they intend and what they actually write? I'd suggest some kind of introductory programming class if I didn't think it'd be written off as confounding 'cyber' babble.
  
  Instructor: "See, right there in that line you assigned this value to all the variables. Is that what you meant to do? Maybe you should think about how to complete this function without breaking 3 other ones."
  
  I'd be really interested to see some runtime debugging on proposed legislation, maybe understand the ramifications before rolling it into production. Something tells me that most bills wouldn't pass a preliminary syntax and type-check.

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