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Ontario Court Wrong About IP Addresses, Too 258

Posted by kdawson from the reasoning-by-bad-analogy dept.
Frequent Slashdot contributor Bennett Haselton comments on a breaking news story out of the Canadian courts: "An Ontario Superior Court Justice has ruled that Canadian police can obtain the identities of Internet users without a warrant, writing that there is 'no reasonable expectation of privacy' for a user's online identity, and drawing the analogy that 'One's name and address or the name and address of your spouse are not biographical information one expects would be kept private from the state.' But why in the world is it valid to compare an IP address with a street address in the phone book?" Read on for Bennett's analysis.
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Streaming the Inauguration In a School? 201

Posted by timothy from the coronation-will-be-televised dept.
Anonymous Teacher writes "I work in a small school in Washington and we are trying to prepare a way to watch the inauguration in 20 classrooms over a 1.5 T1. As our bandwidth severely limits the ability to individually stream to these rooms, is there an alternative to presenting it to the students? Are there any sites that offer a downloadable copy of the video quickly after the event that can be hosted locally or is reconfiguring the computers to use a proxy server the best solution?"

Comment "Bias" is the wrong word. (Score 1) 477

by Kelmenson (#18013728) Attached to: SCO Vs. Groklaw
You say:

the blog has been clear in its anti-SCO bias from the get-go
The definition of Bias is

A preference or an inclination, especially one that inhibits impartial judgment.
Groklaw has definitely been anti-SCO, but to call that a "bias" does a severe disservice to the legal analysis that is the raison d'être for Groklaw.

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