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Precedent seems to imply that the resulting object cannot be controlled

So the input to the projector at the movie theatre is copyrighted, but the output projected on screen isn't?
Therefore it should be legal for me to record it on my cellphone and post it on youtube. or post 15 second bits recorded on a cellphone to instragram

Which are we talking about> Saudi Arabia they executed a princess and her lover (1977), Misha'al bint Fahd al Saud, a famous case.
Here's one with 3 men and 1 women being executed in Pakistan. http://www.theage.com.au/news/World/Four-executed-for-adultery-in-Pakistan/2007/06/05/1180809502745.html
A couple executed by Taliban. http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/271594

I found these extremely fast. I've seen nothing at all to suggest that the male participant in adultery is given leniency under strict Islamic societies, and am surprised to hear that someone actually thinks the men are excused in those societies or given lesser sentences. (Actually in Saudi Arabia the sentence is different; beheading for the man, stoning for the woman.)

Well, thank you for educating me on this. I had thought this to lean very much against women, as many things in islam seem to do.

Which are we talking about> Saudi Arabia they executed a princess and her lover (1977), Misha'al bint Fahd al Saud, a famous case.
Here's one with 3 men and 1 women being executed in Pakistan. http://www.theage.com.au/news/World/Four-executed-for-adultery-in-Pakistan/2007/06/05/1180809502745.html
A couple executed by Taliban. http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/271594

I found these extremely fast. I've seen nothing at all to suggest that the male participant in adultery is given leniency under strict Islamic societies, and am surprised to hear that someone actually thinks the men are excused in those societies or given lesser sentences. (Actually in Saudi Arabia the sentence is different; beheading for the man, stoning for the woman.)

Seriously, I still fail to understand why the Qwerty keyboard still is the norm, even in virtual keyboard in mobile devices.

What's the problem with pushing a better keyboard like Dvorak? wouldn't that be a better improvement over just adding 'th' or other minor fixes?

Because the original studies were biased at best, and follow up studies found there are no cost benefits to retraining with Dvorak:

In the first phase of the experiment, 10 government typists were retrained on the Dvorak keyboard. It took well over 25 days of four-hour-a-day training for these typists to catch up to their old QWERTY speeds. (Compare this to the Navy study's results.) When the typists had finally caught up to their old speeds, the second phase of the experiment began. The newly trained Dvorak typists continued training and a group of 10 QWERTY typists (matched in skill to the Dvorak typists) began a parallel program to improve their skills. In this second phase the Dvorak typists progressed less quickly with further Dvorak training than did QWERTY typists training on QWERTY keyboards. Thus Strong concluded that Dvorak training would never be able to amortize its costs. He recommended instead that the government provide further training in the QWERTY keyboard for QWERTY typists.

The GSA study attempted to control carefully for the abilities and treatments of the two groups. The study design directly paralleled the decision that a real firm or a real government agency might face: Is it worthwhile to retrain its present typists? If Strong's study is correct, it is not efficient for current typists to switch to Dvorak. The study also implied that the eventual typing speed would be greater with QWERTY than with Dvorak, although this conclusion was not emphasized.

Much of the other evidence that has been used to support Dvorak's superiority actually can be used to make a case against Dvorak. We have the 1953 Australian Post Office study already mentioned, which needed to remove psychological impediments to superior performance. A 1973 study based on six typists at Western Electric found that after 104 hours of training on Dvorak, typists were 2.6 percent faster than they had been on QWERTY. Similarly, a 1978 study at Oregon State University indicated that after 100 hours of training, typists were up to 97.6 percent of their old QWERTY speed. Both of these retraining times are similar to those reported by Strong but not to those in the Navy study. But unlike Strong's study neither of these studies included parallel retraining on QWERTY keyboards. As Strong points out, even experienced QWERTY typists increase their speed on QWERTY if they are given additional training.

Ergonomic studies also confirm that the advantages of Dvorak are either small or nonexistent. For example, A. Miller and J Thomas, two researchers at the IBM Research Laboratory, writing in the International Journal of Man-Machine Studies, conclude that "no alternative has shown a realistically significant advantage over the QWERTY for general purpose typing." Other studies based on analysis of hand-and-finger motions find differences of only a few percentage points between Dvorak and QWERTY. The consistent finding in ergonomic studies is that the results imply no clear advantage for Dvorak, and certainly no advantage of the magnitude that is so often claimed.

Tell this speech about speed to Barbara Blackburn, the fastest typist of the world, who entered the Guiness records in 2005, using a Dvorak keyboard.

Please take a time to READ THIS http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/12/09/1102182415761.html http://www.productivity501.com/michael-sampson-on-the-dvorak-keyboard/526/

so it's easier to blame a whistleblower.

Blaming a whistleblower is one thing, while acting for all intents and purposes like an international terrorist is another. (For those who are too lazy to look for a citation, see here for a succinct synopsis).

According to the age, Snowden has withdrawn that request. Mr Snowden withdrew his Russian asylum request because of a demand that he stop harming US interests by leaking documents

The madness must stop.

Have you considered not installing the toolbar?

That way the madness doesn't start. Or if you have already installed it, you could, just maybe, uninstall it?

Qantas wants frequent flyers to install a toolbar on their web browser that records their internet searches and web browsing activity for "marketing targeted and relevant products, services and offers".

In return for surrendering personal search data, which Qantas will tie to its customers' frequent flyer membership, it plans to award users up to 150 Qantas frequent flyer points a month.

http://www.theage.com.au/digital-life/consumer-security/qantas-toolbar-to-monitor-your-web-activity-20130621-2omfa.html

Supposedly this is more than made up for by the fact they can live the rest of their life how they feel they should be.

Maybe. There are people that do regret it. If you do, there's no magic reset available. On this earth you will never fully be again what you once were.

Are sex change operations justified?

Sex changes are not effective, say researchers

'I will never be able to have sex again. Ever'

But what worries other psychiatrists is the mounting evidence that surgery may not actually improve the lives of those who feel they were born with the wrong body. A review of more than 100 international studies of post-operative transsexuals by the University of Birmingham found there was no scientific evidence that surgery was effective and, in many cases, patients were left feeling more distressed. Baltimore's Johns Hopkins University — which housed one of the pioneer gender clinics — no longer performs sex-change surgery due to such concerns.

A recent British review found suicide rates of up to 18 per cent among people who had undergone gender reassignment surgery. Doctors from London's Portman Clinic say they see many patients who feel trapped in "no-man's land" after surgery, finding themselves with a body which is no longer recognisable as male or female. Psychotherapy, the experts believe, may have saved them from such a fate but few gender clinics offer it. -- more

Long-term follow-up of transsexual persons undergoing sex reassignment surgery

It's a difficult issue for all concerned.

Supposedly this is more than made up for by the fact they can live the rest of their life how they feel they should be.

Maybe. There are people that do regret it. If you do, there's no magic reset available. On this earth you will never fully be again what you once were.

Are sex change operations justified?

Sex changes are not effective, say researchers

'I will never be able to have sex again. Ever'

But what worries other psychiatrists is the mounting evidence that surgery may not actually improve the lives of those who feel they were born with the wrong body. A review of more than 100 international studies of post-operative transsexuals by the University of Birmingham found there was no scientific evidence that surgery was effective and, in many cases, patients were left feeling more distressed. Baltimore's Johns Hopkins University — which housed one of the pioneer gender clinics — no longer performs sex-change surgery due to such concerns.

A recent British review found suicide rates of up to 18 per cent among people who had undergone gender reassignment surgery. Doctors from London's Portman Clinic say they see many patients who feel trapped in "no-man's land" after surgery, finding themselves with a body which is no longer recognisable as male or female. Psychotherapy, the experts believe, may have saved them from such a fate but few gender clinics offer it. -- more

Long-term follow-up of transsexual persons undergoing sex reassignment surgery

It's a difficult issue for all concerned.

Or balloon based WiFi:
http://www.theage.com.au/digital-life/digital-life-news/google-floats-balloons-for-free-wifi-20130615-2oamm.html

Fucking clickbait.

Read about the fun we had in Australia http://www.theage.com.au/it-pro/government-it/police-to-get-home-access-to-database-20130604-2nohd.html
"The program was suspended in March 2010 and cancelled in June 2011. It was later found to have cost more than $100 million."

And I really hope the Icelanders gets to join them http://www.theage.com.au/environment/whale-watch/endangered-whale-used-for-japan-dog-treats-20130528-2n989.html

The Russian thing was total coincidence. This is known and your conspiracy theories are for loons.

On the other hand, asteroid caravans are not unheard of. In fact one happened a couple weeks ago. I bet you never even heard anything about it? That's the problem with conspiracy loons, they know enough to sound like they know enough to be dangerous but the truth of the matter is that an eight year old could debunk most of their nonsense.

Why don't lights in the US have these covers anyway? We don't have much snow at all around here in Australia, but we still put the hoods on to stop glare from the sun making it difficult to see what the light signal is (as shown in the big image here.

CSIRO-linked company DataDot also said it was concerned about the leak of confidential information, saying it appears to have been made ‘‘by a person disgruntled with the CSIRO and ... not from anyone currently employed by DataTrace or DataDot’’.Nevertheless, the company apologises unreservedly for this breach of confidentiality and reserves its rights against the person causing the breach.’’ http://www.theage.com.au/technology/technology-news/shares-tumble-after-csirolinked-company-announces-inquiry-20130415-2hum1.html datadat should care about TEN YEARS JAIL FOR FRAUD!!!!!!!!!!! but maybe hope lard arses at AFP wont climb out of chairs

Recall long ago when the US State Department cables thing was going on that Wikileaks said they had something MUCH MUCH bigger. I wonder if this is what they had to offer.

My understanding is that Domsheit-Berg destroyed those documents.

http://www.theage.com.au/national/australians-restock-the-gun-racks-20130113-2cnmu.html

AUSTRALIANS own as many guns now as they did at the time of the Port Arthur massacre,

Just remember that the same person that wants to build this, also declared that Greenpeace was a CIA plot to destroy Australia's mining sector...

...just in time to steal the front pages in the days before the Queensland state election, when his preferred party was leading but starting to attract bad press. Sneaky bastard.

Hardware donations do not come from vendors who use OpenSSH on parts of their stuff. They come from individuals. The hardware vendors who use OpenSSH on all of their products have given us a total of one laptop since we developed OpenSSH five years ago. And asking them for that laptop took a year. That was IBM.

Theo de Raadt

http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/10/07/1097089476287.html

Look, I've already said that I am personally convinced in the reality of AGW and that I favor a policy (carbon taxes) that seeks to control it. I also am very interested in science, am a member of several environmental organizations, wrote for an environmental/alt-energy blog and follow a lot of interesting alt-energy companies (for instance, Cool Planet Fuels has a carbon negative fuel cycle and soil amendment process that seems very cool to me).

I simply think that using loaded terms to describe a range of people, from industry shills on one end to people who simply have policy differences on the other, is counterproductive. It alienates people you can work with and just gives ammunition to those you can't.

It's not "paranoid" to point out that newspapers have been running prominent op-eds making the Holocaust denial link for years - Ellen Goodman, George Monbiot, Peter Christoff , Joel Connelly and a host of others. Grist had to issue a retraction for an admittedly stupid piece calling for Nuremberg trials for denialists. Even one Holocaust survivor has jumped on the bus.

I'm a free speech absolutist - if people want to make analogies to Nazis, Stalinists, Pol Pot or the Psychlo Terl from Battlefield Earth, they have every right to do so. But it's the climate equivalent of fan service - it makes a tiny part of your audience cheer and the rest are either confused or roll their eyes...

In Adam Turner's article (on which the blog post linked in the Slashdot summary is based) Microsoft declares that " If the customer has a system crash, they are allowed to reinstall Office on that same computer..." but with the caveat, "No, the customer cannot transfer the license from one PC to another PC." Sounds like I'm allowed to upgrade my computer, and I'm allowed to replace broken parts...I just can't "transfer" the license between PCs.

Who knows the way to fix an old Fiat?

Step 1: Raise hood.
Step 2: Turn the radiator cap counterclockwise until fully loosed.
Step 3: Lift radiator cap straight up, at least six inches.
Step 4: Remove old Fiat from under radiator cap. Replace with new Fiat.
Step 5: Screw radiator cap back in place.
Step 6: Close hood.

Clearly, the solution in this situation is similar. Disconnect your mouse. Replace the computer underneath. Plug in a new computer. The license, obviously, transferred with the Theseus-mouse.

The story linked from the Slashdot article mostly just summarizes Turner's already-concise (but still more-detailed) article, and wraps it in a different set of ads.

So.... tell me. How many volunteers do you think you are liable to get, that are willing to take the financial risks involved with financially supporting copyright infringers?

Ummmm.. I don't know, but you may be surprised.
I mean... a scheme of insurance against fare fines was quite successful until threatened. And it was a scheme that offered probably a much lower rate: something like 1:15 ($20/month insurance premium against... say 30 day x $10/day trip fares=$300).

Also it's fucking hot out here. As in - my tyres got sticky in the car park hot out here.

In fact - it is so hot that the Bureau of Meteorology has just added new colours to its weather forecasting chart - because the previous chart colour range capped at 50C and in the coming weeks we are going to need more.

I kid you not.

Oops... seems my trying to put target="_blank" at the end of my link stuffed up. This is the correct link.

interesting... the article I read about this (as an external observer) indicated that a deal was reached... but this article seems to indicate the opposite.

If you don't fancy the civet coffee, maybe give this a try.

At that price, toss it a year from now

It'll be a race to the bottom for Win8 PC prices now. That's the only way they'll get them off the shelves.

Windows 8 sales flounder as critics pan clumsy interface

Windows 8 sales in Australia and overseas are below expectations, with one US expert describing its user interface as "a monster that terrorises poor office workers and strangles their productivity".

http://www.theage.com.au/digital-life/computers/windows-8-sales-flounder-as-critics-pan-clumsy-interface-20121126-2a2d0.html

You know... People are knocking this Metro interface so much that I was a little skeptical when I first went to use it.

But I've got to tell you, IT'S JUST NOT THAT BAD. It's actually even pretty good! It may just be that I never much used the start button in the first place. (I mostly Run whatever I need to use) But for day to day stuff, when I get home, it cuts out a lot of stops. I have everything I need right in front of my face when I login. I don't know why it gets such a bad rep.

Knock it for compatibility issues, or for the annoying "lets get out of metro IE because this page isn't setup correctly for metro IE" thing, or any number of other things. But the interface itself seems like the strongsuit to me. I could be wrong, and I'm sure most of you think I am.

At that price, toss it a year from now

It'll be a race to the bottom for Win8 PC prices now. That's the only way they'll get them off the shelves.

Windows 8 sales flounder as critics pan clumsy interface

Windows 8 sales in Australia and overseas are below expectations, with one US expert describing its user interface as "a monster that terrorises poor office workers and strangles their productivity".

http://www.theage.com.au/digital-life/computers/windows-8-sales-flounder-as-critics-pan-clumsy-interface-20121126-2a2d0.html

I recently upgraded from 7 and have to agree that the new UI is clunky. Fortunately there's a plethora of third party UI enhancements to make things work like win7. The biggest benefit to win8 as far as I can tell is that it runs much faster than win7 on lower end hardware (read: computers with 8GB or less RAM). The fact that it runs better on lower end hardware makes it a good choice for these cheap laptops.

At that price, toss it a year from now

It'll be a race to the bottom for Win8 PC prices now. That's the only way they'll get them off the shelves.

Windows 8 sales flounder as critics pan clumsy interface

Windows 8 sales in Australia and overseas are below expectations, with one US expert describing its user interface as "a monster that terrorises poor office workers and strangles their productivity".

http://www.theage.com.au/digital-life/computers/windows-8-sales-flounder-as-critics-pan-clumsy-interface-20121126-2a2d0.html

Malcolm Turnbull has the solution to wireless bandwidth limits, but he's keeping it a trade secret.

No, he doesn't. Only a certain French company has (large grin)... Turnbull is only an investor.

> "The bank says all data was 'deidentified' and it consulted with privacy authorities."

Sure, but what about the actual customers whose data is being exposed? Someone should take nude photos of these bank bureaucrats in the shower, mosaic out their faces and put it in on the web. "Don't worry, we checked with our "privacy authorities.""

You have to wonder who these "privacy authorities" are. The Federal Privacy Commissioner is weak and except for hidden microphones, Australia has weak privacy laws: The worst penalty the Privacy Commissioner can hand out is a letter to an offending company saying "please don't do that." There is no fine or penalty so there is no deterrent.
http://www.theage.com.au/technology/technology-news/youre-being-more-closely-watched-20120916-260ko.html
http://www.privacy.org.au/Resources/POA.html

I'm amazed at the voting process in USA.

Here in Australia, you register to vote when (or even before) you turn 18. Postal votes are available for a couple of weeks prior to the election and most reasonable excuses will work. If you vote on election day you can turn up to any of several polling booths in your electorate. If you are in a different city or state you can submit an absentee vote. Very simple paper based process which is consistent across the entire country.

Have a read of Votes are in and our plodding way of having a say wins in a landslide which gives an Australian perspective on the US election system. In any other country in the world, I'm convinced the USA system would be roundly criticised.

Voting for a third party has much more value with Preferential Voting of which Instant-Runoff Voting is a much better system. I still don't understand why this system is not in more common use.

Have a read of Votes are in and our plodding way of having a say wins in a landslide which gives an Australian perspective on the US election system. In any other country in the world the system would be roundly criticised

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I get where you're coming from - but you don't get where *we're* coming from.

A recent study in Australia found it's cheaper to fly to the USA ***TWICE*** and buy software than it is to buy it here.

http://www.theage.com.au/technology/technology-news/downloads-its-cheaper-to-pay-a-wage-fly-to-the-us-and-back-twice-20120718-229in.html

And that includes paying someone's wage (btw: the Age is a serious / reputable newspaper here).

For example, Microsoft Visual Studio is $8500 (that's EIGHT AND A HALF THOUSAND DOLLARS) cheaper in the USA than Australia.

This isn't bitching about a one just and true price - we are seriously being price gauged down here.

Higher powered lasers have been banned in Australia since way before the media reported incidents of shining lasers on aircraft appeared...

That's not true. The ban was enacted in July 2008. Here's a story reporting such behaviour before then.

People react to the culture in which they're brought up. And even in the Middle East, it's a small proportion of Muslims acting in the way rightists here want to depict all Muslims as.

Yes, this is clearly a problem of "rightest" depiction of the actions of Islamists.

Bounty on Salman Rushdie increased to $3.3 million - Iran will pursue makers of anti-Islam film: vice-presidenthor

Pakistani minister puts bounty on anti-Islam filmmaker's head

Egypt's president elect Mohammed Morsi says he will try to free Blind Sheikh

Mohammed Morsi, Egypt's president elect, on Friday appealed for the release of one of Osama bin Laden's closest associates, a call sure to alarm critics worried about the direction he will take the country

Interview with Father Zakaria Botros, 'Radical Islam's Bane' - An interview with the Coptic Orthodox Priest with a 60 million dollar bounty on his head from al Qaeda.
More: Michael Coren Interviews Father Zakaria Botros 'Radical Islam's Bane'

Allied Menace

"Here are two brother countries, united like a single fist," said socialist Hugo Chávez during a visit to Tehran last November, celebrating his alliance with Islamist Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Che Guevara's son Camilo, who also visited Tehran last year, declared that his father would have "supported the country in its current struggle against the United States." They followed in the footsteps of Fidel Castro, who in a 2001 visit told his hosts that "Iran and Cuba, in cooperation with each other, can bring America to its knees." For his part, Ilich Ramírez Sánchez ("Carlos the Jackal") wrote in his book L'islam révolutionnaire ("Revolutionary Islam") that "only a coalition of Marxists and Islamists can destroy the United States."

As an atheist, I have no dog in this fight, except one: I want to live in a peaceful world.

You want to live in a peaceful world, and al-Qaida and assorted Islamists want you to live in a Muslim world. I expect that neither of you will get your wish unless enough people prefer any peace, even the peace of the graveyard, or the "peace" of slavery, to the long term struggle to defense genuine peace a freedom.

People think they have Privacy Laws and the Privacy Commissioner protecting them. They don't. Like much the government does to reassure the public, they are deliberately weak and there for just for PR value. If you ever try and use them you will find they have all the whipping power of a wet lettuce leaf: The worst thing the Commissioner can do is write a letter to a company breaching your privacy saying "Please don't do that." There is no fine. http://www.theage.com.au/technology/technology-news/youre-being-more-closely-watched-20120916-260ko.html

Add to that Nicola Roxon's plans to snoop on Australians Internet Usage. Do you really trust public servants to keep your private that information secret? The only privacy they care about is hiding their mistakes from public. http://www.canberratimes.com.au/national/police-fight-to-keep-corby-secrets-20120922-26dni.html

As for your privacy, they don' think you should have any: http://au.ibtimes.com/articles/380194/20120904/ag-nicola-roxon-bats-data-retention-laws.htm

Brings to mind the Leskie DNA incident. The funny thing was that for months after the rape victim's DNA had been found on the murdered child's clothing, police and forensic investigators flatly denied that it could have been caused by contamination.

The background to this project is that a newly elected government held a big "vox poluli" talk fest called 2020, which was to lay out a "big vision" for Australia. A result was the announcement of $50 million funding for a bionic eye project. It's entirely possible that there is an element of "gung ho" about it in that a large chunk of money was laid down for a project that made politicians look good and was easy for the public to understand.

Having said that, there are some pretty smart people involved. As an Australian taxpayer, I'd hope that they are aware for the problems you raise and, given the grandness of the project, would plan on addressing such tough, tough problems. Given your area of expertise, maybe you should contact them? There might be some pretty exciting work to be done in collaboration?

In Australia, we're being gouged by just about every private company that can sink its hooks into our wallets. We should be asking for more regulation, not less.

Check this out!

'Mr Levey said in its research Choice [magazine] discovered one Microsoft software development product that was more than $8500 cheaper in the US.

"It would be cheaper to pay someone's wage and fly them to the US and back twice, getting them to buy the software while they're there,” he said.'

http://www.theage.com.au/technology/technology-news/downloads-its-cheaper-to-pay-a-wage-fly-to-the-us-and-back-twice-20120718-229in.html

Education is the distillation of thousands of years of experience reverse-engineering the brain.

That's true and it sounds great as long as you trust the people in charge of doing the reverse engineering. I, for example, had most of my formal education in Catholic institutions and I do not at all trust the Catholic church to teach me how to think.

Extreme right wing and extreme left wing governments use the educations system to control the populations, as do religions of all flavors. In my own country, Australia, our left wing government is implementing a left wing national curriculum. They got the idea from the right wingers that were in before them. http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/politics/blatant-bias-in-national-curriculum-could-damage-our-democracy-20120707-21noi.html

So yes, our education system is a process of reverse engineering the human mind. If you think that is done for your benefit, I have a bridge to sell you. It is primarily for the benefit of those in power, any benefit to you is just part of the sales pitch to get you to submit. Since the separation of church and state, public education has become the replacement mind control program.

A kilogram ought to be defined as N atoms of something, but atom counting isn't quite good enough yet. There's a plan to define mass through the Planck constant, which means tying the standard of mass to the standard of current.

This has been done, with a specific sized sphere (in atoms) of silicon

Cults tend to cause great amounts of harm to people, often times leading to mental conditions that can never be repaired, suicides, rape and molestation, as well as the financial burdens placed on families and communities.

http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/churchs-suicide-victims-20120412-1wwox.html

The political backlash domestically would be considerable. Extraditing an Australian citizen to the US for something that isn't a crime under Australian law and that didn't actually occur in the US? Would be pretty easy to kick up a massive media fuss about that I think.

You mean something like a member of a piracy group being expedited to the US to face charges despite never having been to the US? Australia hands over man to US courts. It has happened before, the government responded to the public backlash with a lot of hand waving and hot air, the man got extradited regardless.

epic failure of an IPO? The company's goal is to sell a share of itself for the highest price it can. How did Facebook fail?

By doing just about everything that would have raised its price wrong. Source: Pretty much every major news outlet that's reported on it. http://communities.washingtontimes.com/neighborhood/tygrrrr-express/2012/may/25/why-facebook-ipo-failed/ http://www.theage.com.au/business/world-business/facebook-ipo-fail-may-cost-nasdaq-us100m-20120606-1zuys.html http://rt.com/usa/news/facebook-ipo-globe-internet-644/ http://www.nashuatelegraph.com/business/962290-192/signs-of-facebook-ipo-failure-dots-connecting.html http://www.forbes.com/sites/tykiisel/2012/05/23/facebooks-ipo-dealing-with-a-failed-project/

We tried "features" and got the its "4G" sales effort:
http://www.theage.com.au/business/accc-seeks-225m-bite-from-apple-20120608-200p8.html

from the Age police may deploy spy drones
 
But what should be news for the US is that both stories point out that US police will start using drones this week. The only indication I have seen about this is things like: US police agencies to begin using drones within 90 days

One by one they are been named and listed. http://www.theage.com.au/business/ikea-australia-pays-tax-like-a-charity-case-living-at-the-margin-of-society-20110331-1cnd7.html

> visible (and invisible) light has a frequency of between 400 and 800THz (800 and 375nm), which is unlicensed spectrum worldwide.

Well, that's good.

Cadbury has attempted an interesting approach to try and license some of that spectrum.