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Submission + - Hegseth Planning Public Execution (bbc.com)

Submitted by hadleyburg
hadleyburg writes: The BBC reports the Pentagon announcing that "Fort Hood attacker's execution by firing squad will be livestreamed".

This would be the first public execution in the US in almost a century. "We'll make sure that people are able to watch it, that it's public," Hegseth said. Only Iran and Afghanistan are known to currently carry out public executions.

There are some who suggest that such an execution could have the effect of lowering support for the death penalty in the US as it would "force a level of transparency that we have probably never seen before in this country".

Submission + - Margret Hamilton, Director Working on the Apollo Guidence Computer, Passes Away

Submitted by BrendaEM
BrendaEM writes: From Wikipedia: Margaret Hamilton (née Heafield; August 17, 1936 – September 30, 2026) was an American computer scientist. She directed the Software Engineering Division at the MIT Instrumentation Laboratory, where she led the development of the on-board flight software for NASA's Apollo Guidance Computer for the Apollo program. She later founded two software companies, Higher Order Software in 1976 and Hamilton Technologies in 1986, both in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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Submission + - Cloudflare Keeps 1.1.1.1 Out of Piracy Blocking, Escapes Penalties in France (torrentfreak.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Cloudflare doesn't block pirate sports streaming sites through its 1.1.1.1 DNS resolver in France, only through its CDN. The Paris Judicial Court has now accepted that stance, rejecting [French pay-TV provider] Canal+'s request for penalties of 50,000 euros per site, per day. Interestingly, the court's conclusion relies on statistics provided by Canal+ itself. [...] As a result, Cloudflare will not be penalized under these orders, even though its public DNS resolver is not blocking the sites in question. That is in line with the company’s long-standing claim that it doesn’t interfere with its DNS.

In its recent transparency reports, Cloudflare repeatedly stated that it hasn’t blocked any content through 1.1.1.1, despite orders from French and Italian courts. “To date, Cloudflare has not blocked content through the 1.1.1.1 Public DNS Resolver,” the company’s latest report reads. [...] Blocking through the CDN is another matter. According to the same report, Cloudflare geoblocked 1,238 domains in France in the second half of 2025, all under a single court order. In the first half of the year, it geoblocked 662 domains under seven orders. Cloudflare recently explained its position to the European Commission, in a submission (PDF) to its Counterfeit and Piracy Watch List consultation, stressing that global public DNS resolvers should not be used to block or restrict access.

Instead, it highlights its real-time pirate stream blocking program, which allows vetted rightsholders to flag pirate streams that run through its network. These streams are disrupted "within seconds," Cloudflare says, without any DNS or IP address blocking. "For live content, where speed is crucial, Cloudflare has built real-time mitigation mechanisms that allow vetted rightsholder partners to flag infringing streams. When those streams are running through our network, we act on them in seconds," Cloudflare informed the Commission. For now, Cloudflare can continue to block pirate sites through its CDN only, while its 1.1.1.1 DNS resolver remains untouched. Canal+ can still appeal the rulings, so it may not be the last we hear of it.

Comment Re:State is probably best stated by the comics (Score 2, Insightful) 120

by serviscope_minor (#66367290) Attached to: Campus Censorship Wars, 25 Years After a Slashdot Q&A

They have been trained to view language as a tool that can cause real, psychological harm.

It absolutely 100% is.

In modern youth culture, the prevailing ethical rule is that the impact on the listener matters more than the intent of the speaker.

If you run over someone with a car by accident, they're just as dead whether you intended to or not. That's the thing really, harm is independent of intent and intent is not readily apparent.

Comment Re:The Ultimate Bike Shed (Score 1) 277

by eepok (#66366560) Attached to: Canadian Analysis: Permanent Daylight Saving Harms Sleep and Mental Health

It's the Parkinson's Law of Triviality: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2F...

Basically, people simply accept the complex stuff from experts because they know they won't be able to understand it. However, they will waste ridiculous amounts of time on minutia because that's the stuff they personally can relate to. (Uh, ya, sure. Put in a nuclear power plant.... but I've painted things before and I have a strong opinion on the color of the bike shed!).

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