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IFPI, RIAA, and BPI have sued users who have the audacity to recall verses and lyrics from songs they heard on Youtube and the radio.

RIAA spokesperson commented, "Each time one of these social deviants hums, sings, or otherwise repeats our intellectual property to their peers represents an enormous loss of revenue to our members. We intend to aggressively pursue legal action whenever possible to recoup all potential losses. It's clear the recent declining revenue in our industry is directly caused by these unauthorized reproductions of our copyrighted material"

They backed down this time but I'm sure they'll keep trying

to deny that human-caused CO2 emissions are having a significant impact on global climate really is no different than denying that all life evolved from some common ancestor, or that eating high amounts of refined sugar is hazardous to your health, or that smoking cigarettes leads to cancer and lung disorders.

First two aren't the best examples. Sugar hasn't been proven to be particularly bad for people if blood sugar and overall weight is managed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

And our coastal cities and whole countries aren't likely to be uninhabitable in 2100 if we're wrong about evolution.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/earth/sto...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/tech...

"To improve system performance, Lenovo is leading an industry trend of adopting Raid [redundant array of independent disks] on the SSDs [solid state drives] in certain product configurations," it said.

"Lenovo does not intentionally block customers using other operating systems on its devices and is fully committed to providing Linux certifications and installation guidance on a wide range of products."

It added that once Linux-based operating system developers had updated the necessary code, their products should work on its machines.

Maybe instead of being given a Nobel Peace Prize for doing fuck all, that would actually make it worth it.

To bad he doesn't have the balls.

According to the BBC article:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/tech...

"Overhead signs or bridges can also be misinterpreted if the road dips. To combat this, Tesla cars are going to be used to âoelearnâ about the road. Initially, the vehicle fleet will take no action except to note the position of road signs, bridges and other stationary objects, mapping the world according to radar,â Mr Musk wrote.
"The car computer will then silently compare when it would have braked to the driver action and upload that to the Tesla database. If several cars drive safely past a given radar object, whether Autopilot is turned on or off, then that object is added to the geocoded whitelist.â

I didn't think they could make Autopilot even more dangerous but they've managed it.

Whitelisting locations where the radar "always" detects objects and then just ignoring objects in those locations.
Kill me now. If you're in a Tesla you may as well, it would only save time.

Apart from BEC fraud and DDOS, a large part of the Israeli IT business is also involved in commercial adware installations pushed without consent, general spam and other irritations.

In terms of fraud I would suggest it's a top three country along with Russia and Nigeria.

But, this could help India increase the size of their average penis so they can finally fit into international condoms.

Condoms 'too big' for Indian men LOL!!

In China students are fined for 'excessive' toilet flushing, they must use an electronic pass every time that they go to the toilet.

Any energy released comes from the chemical reactions which are the bonds between electrons being broken and created.

The reaction products have a mass that is ever so slightly lower than the mass was before the reaction.

A lot of online explanations get this wrong. Like this one: from the BBC, explaining conservation of mass in chemical reactions. It would probably unnecessarily confuse the students who focus on all the mass that a fire "loses" as CO2 and water vapour and such, which is not lost at all.

The mass loss is extremely small of course. For an energy release of 1J, you lose 11 femtogram (1J/c^2). Good luck measuring that on your high school scales, or indeed any scales at all.

However, you can't claim you're owed past money when Apple wasn't hiding anything.

I don't know about EU law but in the UK this is, indeed the case.

Tax avoidance schemes have to be registered with HMRC. If they are deemed to be invalid then you have to pay the tax that was due.

If you decide to fight it through the courts and the courts find in HMRCs favour then your tax liability is a multiple (greater than or equal to 1) of the tax that you tried to avoid. (plus any legal fees)

There was a very recent case along exactly these lines:
http://www.taxation.co.uk/Arti...

And another that looks like it will go HMRCs way.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/busi...

Apple has shittons of money, and this number is too lax.

Apparently the latest number in other articles is €13 billion, see BBC.

I am pleased my example's out of date.

The latest court ruling, says the ban "seriously and clearly illegally breached fundamental freedoms", underlining tolerance in French society.

Wearing a burkini on a beach or a hijab in a hospital should be no business of the authorities and is not an assault on or a threat to a secular democracy.

Demographers agree that we are on course to seeing the world's population maxing out and starting to fall. We can debate as to whether we will survive peak population

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/maga...

The British government disagrees with you:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-1...

So do others:
http://www.independent.co.uk/n...

Anywhere, where's the fucking justice in the US court and prison system these days?

Apparently Agriculture Ministry is not in charge of Gundam in Singapore, either.

Research has shown that between 48% and 70% of people will tell you their password in exchange for a bar of chocolate.

Also it's insane to think that humans could ever fly like birds in the sky, that the horseless buggy could ever outpace a solid 8-steed-wagon, or that the demons causing polio will ever be driven out by the power of Christ.

You fucking moron.

The chances of it being habited by human like beings is a leap.

For us to become what we are today took at least 5 mass extinction events to allow evolution, and a nitch. http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/ex.... Even then it only takes one to bring about a new species to take our place.

Our DNA shows we all come from a single female, she's considered one who survived a catastrophic event.

For us - you to exist everything had to go right, and one needs to really appreciate each day as we got lucky, as so many things had to fall into place.

Yet no, humans will never acquire wings to fly, our breast isn't nor ever will be large enough.

No, they mislabeled Operation Eternal Opium

...Yep, the same French government that is going to be taking a lead role in the Article 50 negotiations governing Brexit, already seems to be taking a hardline stance on the potential terms and, like all other members of the EU, has the ability to veto any deal that might be negotiated over Brexit. That all bodes well for a better Brexit deal with lower trade tariffs than the WTO default, doesn't it?

Anybody who thinks the UK will get some sort of sweetheart deal on access to the common market is delusional ...the same goes for anybody who thinks that only getting access to the common market on WTO defaults won't have an impact on the UK economy because UK trade in goods and services with the EU is so minimal as to be unimportant. I'm pretty sure the negotiations about a post Brexit relationship with the EU nations will not be hallmarked by the EU doing Britain any favours. These negotiations will be long be hard and quite mercilessly focused on what's in the best interest of the EU and as the negotiations drag on the uncertainty over what future they will face will either deter companies from making investments in the UK or if they have UK based operations they will simply move those operations elsewhere in Europe where the political classes are less likely to shoot themselves in both feet.

Meanwhile, having annoyed the Chinese, Theresa May is now apparently trying to improve relations with Russia which, while it definitely needs to happen in its own right, doesn't exactly scan well in connection with alienating the Chinese the week prior.

Not to mention that fact that normalising relations with Russia as long as the Ukrainian wound continues to fester will piss off a whole string off their allies, most of whom the UK will be conducting sensitive trade and economic negotiations that will severely affect the economic future of the UK for the foreseeable future.

The various unions at EDF have been less than happy with the terms of the deal for ages and have seized on this as grounds for EDF to invalidate their current agreement and re-negotiate their end of the deal on more favourable terms. Unions being what they are in matters like this, they'll probably be quite happy to sour the entire deal in the hope of getting a better deal for their members, and if a major deal between the UK and EDF goes south then that's almost certainly going to have a knock-on effect on the relationship with the French government. Yep, the same French government that is going to be taking a lead role in the Article 50 negotiations governing Brexit, already seems to be taking a hardline stance on the potential terms and, like all other members of the EU, has the ability to veto any deal that might be negotiated over Brexit. That all bodes well for a better Brexit deal with lower trade tariffs than the WTO default, doesn't it?

Meanwhile, having annoyed the Chinese, Theresa May is now apparently trying to improve relations with Russia which, while it definitely needs to happen in its own right, doesn't exactly scan well in connection with alienating the Chinese the week prior.

Given the past support, 1964 Brazilian coup d'état https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
"Is Brazil the target of industrial espionage?" (17 October 2013)
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-...
US allies Mexico, Chile and Brazil seek spying answers (1 July 2013)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/worl...

. . . told people not to list their religion as "Jedi"

Oz, you KNOW what you must do: make the Census FEEL the Power of the Force. Or at least that of the Farce. . . .

Malthus , is that you?

It only requires someone who's already lost an eye to do a succesful impersonation. Or someone who knows how to make contact lenses that fool eye scanning equipment, or some other contraption. You can already get custom contact lenses, so working out how to fool this expensive machinery is but a small step. But no matter, for however it gets done, the effect is the same: The impersonation removes all future "safe" use from my eye, leaving me bereft one usable credential, and sticking me with a burned one I would otherwise be unwilling to lose.

I now walk around with a burned credential, forever marking me tainted because it's been abused once. I'll be lucky if at every scan a marker pops up "victim of impersonation!", but more likely there'll be something along the lines of "WARNING WARNING DOUBLE CHECK ABUSED CREDENTIAL SSSS GET THE GLOVES WARNING WARNING", for every important-ish check, for the rest of my life. For something someone else did, not even me.

So the error in your thoughts is believing this mechanism beneficial to security, when it does in fact do quite the opposite. It makes legitimate actors within the system vulnerable to attacks that leave them bereft and stuck, with redress made impossible, thus making the legitimate actors effectively expendable.

This is the sticking point and you have not refuted it. You have only reiterated the kool-aid you drank, and so apparently you are okay with the consequences. The fundamental problem is that biometrics are nothing more than a "let's make hollywood real!" circle jerk. You always run into the expendability problem, and you cannot fix it. Because you thought that irreplacability of credentials was a good idea. Guess what, it isn't.

Oh, and another thing: Why is it too hard for that guard at the door to compare, say, a picture on a card, with the person holding it up? If he's there he might as well make himself useful. The reality will again be that there will be plenty of deployments of biometric scanners without any such guard, because why else do we have all this wonderful technology, and then the impersonator suddenly has all the leeway he needs. Thus biometrics are not suitable for "casual" deployment, and where it isn't casual, it's still only a security theatrical gimmick.

Has there ever been a case of a thief actually cutting someone's finger off ...

Not 100% identical to the scenario in your question, but close: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4396831.stm

All very entertaining (I read the BBC story) but I'm at a loss to see the Slashdot angle.

I'll forgive Bush for Afghanistan

I'm sorry to hear that. Afghanistan is an opium war.

Peaky Blinders is a BBC series and not Netflix original content. They just have exclusive rights in the US.

Only if you combine them - which doesn't make any sense.

Actually, if I combine them, it makes your point. However, I didn't combine them, I looked at the largest geographical areas for Scotland on:
  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-p...

The vast majority of larger counties in reality are closer to 50% than 60%, it's really just the numerous smaller counties that pushed it upwards. That's not really "overwhelming" to me.

UK installed 1 million CCTVs
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_...

July 14 2016: "France will not extend the state of emergency imposed after last year's Islamist militant attacks in Paris in November beyond 26 July"

July 15 2016: "Terror attack kills scores in Nice, France"

July 16 2016: "France extends state of emergency"

'The declaration of a state of emergency empowers the prefect whose department is wholly or partly included in a constituency in Article 2:'

1. To prohibit the movement of people and vehicles in places and times fixed by decree;
2. To establish, by decree, areas of protection or security where the presence of individuals is regulated
3. To prohibit the stay in any part of the department to any person seeking to hinder in any way the action of the authorities

.. The Minister of the Interior may impose the house arrest, the place it determines, any person residing in the area set by the decree mentioned in Article 2 .. in any case, the arrest will have the effect of creating camps would be held the persons mentioned in the first paragraph

I. - The decree declaring or law extending the state of emergency may, by an express provision conferring on the administrative authorities mentioned in Article 8 the authority to order searches anywhere, including a home of day and night ..

II. - Minister of the Interior may take all measures to ensure the interruption of any online public communication service leading to the commission of acts of terrorism or glorifying.

.. The Minister of the Interior, for the entire territory is established the state of emergency, and the prefect, in the department may order the temporary closure of theaters, pubs and places of any meeting Nature in areas determined by the decree provided for in Article 2. ref google granslate

Now the country is in the hands of a Remainer

... who just said that "Brexit means Brexit" and there must be "...no attempts to remain inside the EU, no second referendum or attempts to rejoin it by the backdoor". http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-p...

And, by the way, she backed Remain for party discipline, but she has always been known as a eurosceptic, in the past she even said Britain should leave the European convention on human rights (!).

You lost. Just live with it. Or move abroad. Or commit suicide.

When was the referendum that forced the people who lived in UK to become part of the EU exactly?

"Forced" is a silly description. The UK had been trying to join the European Economic Community for about a decade before they were finally accepted in 1973. In 1975 they held a referendum on whether to remain in the EU and remain won 67.2% to 32.8%.

Learn your history, kid.

The Pope himself says 1 in 50 priests are pedophiles, hardly just "a few". And if the Pope admits to 1 in 50, the reality is probably higher.

This seems to be true of Spain, curiously.

It's not true of the UK though.

He's right, the Leave EU campaign was based on lies and half-facts.
And immigration was one central theme and lie, along with the lie that £350 million will go towards the NHS.

He's right, the Leave EU campaign was based on lies and half-facts.
And immigration was one central theme and lie, along with the lie that £350 million will go towards the NHS.

No, employing a non-UK personnel actually costs us far more, more to the agency, and even more for their visa, especially outside the EU, so the Indian devs.
It's got nothing to do with cheap labour, and the salary we pay isn't decided by HR, it comes out of our departments budget.

As I said, we seriously struggle to find a dev from UK alone.
And as I also said, if you don't believe me, please, by all means, go and speak to the senior people and management... or better yet, work for a company and try to recruit a dev or doctor or nurse, and you'll understand the frustration.

Seriously, as I said, either all UK dev are already in full-time employment and stick to their jobs, or they are leaving the country, or, maybe we just don't have the skill.

And by the way, look at the reason why Raspberry PI was created in the first place ;)

Not all of them..
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-3...

I still haven't however seen evidence that racism was a factor for most Leave voters.

Wow. That was fast. Merkel will not play along.

[Corbyn] was so utterly lukewarm, half-baked and borderline invisible in his support for "Remain" that one suspects this may have been intentional.

Hmm. Corbyn office 'sabotaged' EU Remain campaign - sources.

I don't think the EU will be punitive, as I don't think they will need to be. The UK really isn't ready to negotiate an exit (we only have between a dozen and twenty experienced trade negotiators, according to a former top official at the Foreign Office. See EU referendum: Is Britain ready for Brexit?.)

And we won't just be having to negotiate trade deals with the EU, we will now have to negotiate trade deals with non-EU countries, where trade deals were previously with the EU.

I think as things progress, there will be a lot of "regrexit" as the true implications sink in. And as for other countries in the EU, I think that watching the struggle the UK will have on leaving will "concentrate minds" wonderfully!

In case anyone wants a citation:

Wales http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-w...

Cornwall http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...

Translation:

Oshit! you mean leaving the EU means we might not get all the money the EU was giving us?!!??! Shit!!! Give us the money!!!

Push for another referendum on independence.

That's essentially what's going to happen.

The UK has always pushed for the EU to be more pro-business and less pro-individual so it's not clear how Brexit will do anything other than make things for UK citizens even more shit.

In fact, less than 12 hours later we already have examples of this with the BPI claiming it's now going to try and use this opportunity to make the UK's already draconian copyright laws worse meaning we'll have the worst copyright laws in the world:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/ente...

Given how the EU has consistently protected us against draconian internet filtering, and even more draconian copyright laws than those already present I can only see this going badly for the sorts of issues Slashdot users have historically cared about.

This is what more sovereignty looks like, long story short, it means more freedom and less accountability for politicians to serve big and corrupt business.

In my extremists often accuse their opponents of the very same underhand tactics they themselves use.

One example, in the UK, UKIP an extreme ne-nazi group campaigning for the UK to leave the European Union accuse opponents of 'fear mongering' when they themselves have spent years stoking up fear and hate against foreigners using posters such as the following.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-p...

IMHO, we should heavily reward employers (including some of the "1%") who productively employ people. We should encourage new employers (who may some day join the 1%) as well. But fantasizing over imaginary benefits of a one-time taking of wealth from a small class of people? That's a waste of our time. They aren't that wealthy and wealth is not in itself that useful.

The trouble with further most of the capital being owned by a tiny proportion of people with little need to spend most of it leads to a restriction of capital. Loans are used to somewhat mitigate this; However unless you make bad loans this results in yet more capital being removed from buying thing. One way for this to adjust is lacking suitable good bets (due to lack of consumer capital) to it ends up being lent to bad bets.
The top 1% are wealthy. Although I'd like to see how much of the 1% wealth is held by to richest 0.1% or 0.01%.
The same report asserts that the top 62 individuals own as much as the poorest 50% of the world. That is a staggering level of inequality and far beyond any justifiable level of reward for service rendered, and, as I have pointed out, creates trouble for consumer capital.
I'd argue that scientists and those actually developing technology should be thanked for keeping the plates spinning as they have allowed a lot more to be done with a certain amount. I think entrepreneurs are useful but not to the level some are rewarded, and those that just make money by having money are doing very little useful and I'd argue harmful in the long term as it further extracts capital.

@Anonymous Coward: "Edward Snowden talked about the fourteen eyes .. I'm free to criticize Obama heavily without fear of government retribution"

Tell that to Julian Assange. Getting framed in a honeypot sting can hardly be called no government retribution.

"The fourteen eyes aren't actively cracking down on human rights and political dissidents."

Since the Cold War is over, what do you think they spend their time doing?

Indymedia server seized in raid

"British police have admitted that undercover officers have infiltrated at least 460 political groups since 1968"

See here, the state security apparatus framing an environmental group: Activists walk free as undercover officer prompts collapse of case

Nothing to do with the topic, but since we are speaking of Trump, here is another story about why it may not be a good idea to vote for a billionaire celebrity: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/worl...