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Comment Which will lead to monitoring the press... (Score 2) 563

by AhNewBis on Wednesday December 16, 2015 @10:40AM (#51129213) Attached to: Go To Jail For Visiting a Web Site? Top Law Prof Talks Up the Idea

Now there will be a managed list of reporters. I'm sure any ISIS related hits will still trigger SOMETHING, which will surely lead to [more] surveillance of the press, even if it doesn't lead to a 'three strikes' letter. What other websites did they visit? Who did they contact? What else are they searching for? Who in the government is leaking information to that reporter? What are their other sources? Are they talking to a known leak? Can we plant a leak for them to speak to? If they're willing to publish that information can we imprison them for leaking 'secrets' to eliminate the chances of reporters talking to whistleblowers?

No sir, I don't like it.

Comment Re:Slippery Slope (Score 1) 370

by AhNewBis on Thursday April 08, 2010 @08:49AM (#31774480) Attached to: Russia Doubles Price For Launching US Astronauts

Once India's space program takes off maybe we can outsource our space exploration there, too.

Comment Re:Oh, the naivete. (Score 1, Insightful) 590

by AhNewBis on Tuesday February 02, 2010 @07:31PM (#31002744) Attached to: The Lancet Recants Study Linking Autism To Vaccine

Now the Vaccine Industry has scared or bribed the other doctors into recanting the evidence and they are going to destroy this Doctor's ability to practice medicine as a warning to anyone else that dares to come forward with the truth.

There isn't a rolleye big enough to express how likely it would be for this to end the discussion.

Submission + - T-Mobile UK employees sold customers' information (idg.com.au)

Submitted by

angry tapir

on Tuesday November 17, 2009 @06:50PM

angry tapir writes: "Workers at T-Mobile UK have been selling customer data to brokers who work for the competition, according to T-Mobile and the U.K.'s Information Commissioner's Office. "Many thousands" of customer account details were sold to several brokers for substantial amounts of money, the ICO said. In an announcement (PDF) from the ICO, the agency does not name the operator involved, but T-Mobile acknowledged that it alerted ICO about the data breach. The BBC reported that after the other mobile operators said they were not the subject of the investigation, T-Mobile confirmed its involvement."

Submission + - Two prosecuted for refusing to decrypt data (theregister.co.uk) 4

Submitted by ACKyushu on Tuesday August 11, 2009 @12:10PM

ACKyushu writes: Two people have been successfully prosecuted for refusing to provide authorities with their encryption keys, resulting in landmark convictions that may have carried jail sentences of up to five years.

Ten Things We Still Don't Understand About Humans 397

Posted by Soulskill on Friday August 07, 2009 @08:01PM from the why-do-they-like-will-ferrell-movies dept.

ParticleGirl writes "New Scientist has an article examining 10 human features (bugs?) that we still don't understand, like blushing, laughing, and nose-picking. There are some interesting, speculative evolutionary explanations listed for each. '[Psychologist Robert R. Provine] thinks laughing began in our pre-human ancestors as a physiological response to tickling. Modern apes maintain the ancestral 'pant-pant' laugh when they are tickled during play, and this evolved into the human 'ha-ha.' Then, he argues, as our brains got bigger, laughter acquired a powerful social function — to bond people. Indeed, Robin Dunbar at the University of Oxford has found that laughing increases levels of endorphins, our body's natural opiates, which he believes helps to strengthen social relationships.'"

Apple's Schiller Responds To iPhone Dictionary App Fiasco 200

Posted by Soulskill on Friday August 07, 2009 @07:04PM from the not-so-sinister-after-all dept.

beef curtains writes "Phil Schiller, Apple senior vice president of worldwide product marketing, responded by e-mail to a blog post discussing Apple's rejection of a dictionary app. If Schiller's e-mail is to be believed, it offers an interesting perspective on this whole issue. He said, 'The issue that the App Store reviewers did find with the Ninjawords application is that it provided access to other more vulgar terms than those found in traditional and common dictionaries, words that many reasonable people might find upsetting or objectionable. ... The Ninjawords developer then decided to filter some offensive terms in the Ninjawords application and resubmit it for approval for distribution in the App Store before parental controls were implemented. Apple did not ask the developer to censor any content in Ninjawords, the developer decided to do that themselves in order to get to market faster. ... You are correct that the Ninjawords application should not have needed to be censored while also receiving a 17+ rating, but that was a result of the developers' actions, not Apple's.' PC World has an article summarizing the drama-to-date, the blog post, and Schiller's response."

Examining Software Liability In the Open Source Community 241

Posted by timothy on Thursday August 06, 2009 @03:21PM from the three-letters-starting-f-u-d dept.

snydeq writes "Guidelines from the American Law Institute that seek to hold vendors liable for 'knowingly' shipping buggy software could have dramatic impact on the open source community, as vague language around a 'free software' exemption could put open source developers at litigation risk. Meant to protect open source developers, the 'free software' exemption does not take into account the myriad ways in which vendors receive revenue from software products, according to a joint letter drafted by Microsoft and the Linux Foundation. As such, the guidelines — which, although not binding, are likely to prove influential on future lawsuits, according to attorneys on both sides of the issue — call into question the notion of liability in the open source community, where any number of coders may be responsible for any given defect."

Comment Reuters text? (Score 4, Interesting) 340

by AhNewBis on Monday August 03, 2009 @07:38PM (#28934595) Attached to: AP Will Sell You a "License" To Words It Doesn't Own

What if the AP sells you a license for text copyrighted by Reuters or any of the other wire services? Woah, man!

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