From a national security standpoint of the government, it absolutely does matter who has the data.

The value of the DNS is that we all use the same one. You can declare independence, but you’d lose out on that value.

Why Windows doesn’t have an ‘expert mode’ (2003)

A judge must avoid all impropriety and appearance of impropriety. This prohibition applies to both professional and personal conduct. A judge must expect to be the subject of constant public scrutiny and accept freely and willingly restrictions that might be viewed as burdensome by the ordinary citizen.

https://www.uscourts.gov/judges-judgeships/code-conduct-united-states-judges

Not that SCOTUS is held to the same code of conduct that all other federal judges are held to, of course.

That’s the opposite of what the court said.

Well, no. The courts struck down Trump’s Tiktok ban because he used an executive order that overstepped his authority.

Tiktok has been a subject of national security concerns since at least 2020.

The article makes it sound like you can push the gate open without a receipt, it will just set off an alarm.

To the boiler room of hell. Allll the way down.

You Linux users sure are a contentious people.

Fun fact: The Windows executable format is originally based on an old Unix executable format.

Well, what does the lease actually say? If it says the discounts were temporary marketing gimmicks, then that’s what they are. If it doesn’t say that, then that’s what they are not.

I just thought “pirate-friendly” was concise.

tl;dr: The users’ comments say that a certain ISP is pirate-friendly. Studios want to use the comments against the ISP (not the users).

I don’t usually approve because two people convicted of similar offenses ought to be dealt similar punishments.

But violence or intimidation towards elected representatives is a crime that is worse than the sum of its parts.

I don’t usually approve of courts making examples of people, but the court needs to make an example of this guy.

I have zero sympathy. In fact, I hope it gets even worse.

A “rump” in this context refers to a minority group within a legislature that has more effective power than the technical majority.

Battery fires burn much hotter than gasoline, and are much harder to put out.

As a gay Californian, I took prop 8 personally. I spurn its supporters as I would spurn a rabid dog.

What’s his attitude on gun control or mental health care? /s

Why was appointing Eich as CEO so controversial? It’s because he donated $1,000 in support of California’s Proposition 8 in 2008, which was a proposed amendment to California’s state constitution to ban same-sex marriage.

Which is all the reason I need.

2008 is not ancient. Nor is same-sex marriage some minor technical legal point.

Nor has he repented.

Would the government have the power to force people to move?

Reminiscent of John McCain questioning James Comey.