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  1. Excuse? on Zimbabwe Makes Arrest Over Facebook Comment · · Score: 2

    What, they still need an excuse to arrest you in Zimbabwe?

  2. Re:Self-destruct satellites on Canadian Firm Plans 78-Satellite Net Service · · Score: 1

    The satellite wouldn't 'burn-up' in orbit. An explosion would just scatter the pieces of the satellite into various new orbits. Much of the shrapnel would hit the atmosphere and burn-up, but a significant amount would stay up there and just add to the debris problem, worse than if the satellite was left whole and in place.

  3. Re:Yo dawg, I heard on Assange Secret Swedish Police Report Leaked · · Score: 1

    No, double jeopardy only applies if one has been found guilty or acquitted of a crime. The authorities can investigate, charge, drop charges, even go to trial but withdraw before it is finished, after which they can still try you again for a crime. In this situation, the authorities investigated a complaint and dropped it, then reopened the investigation. No one's been charged AFAIK, let alone gone on trial for a crime.

  4. Re:In every train station? LOL on Next Step For US Body Scanners Could Be Trains, Metro Systems · · Score: 2, Funny

    That train has already left the station.

  5. Re:This is going to be hellish in 5 years on CRTC To Allow Usage-Based Billing · · Score: 1

    $150 of cel+internet is not a necessity and more than what's needed just to stay in touch. Plans for $50 or less are available if one can barely pay for the necessities.

  6. Re:From the TFA on The World's Smallest Full HD Display · · Score: 1

    I wonder what the minimum comfortable focus length is a single eye...

    Minimum focus distance is 100mm, more or less, but depends strongly on age: Presbyopia Anything eyeglass-mounted needs to be optically adjusted to appear in focus.

  7. Re:Use the effort where it matters on Australian Visitors Must Declare Illegal Porn To Customs Officers · · Score: 1

    But what's illegal in Australia is not necessarily illegal in your point of origin. If the porn is produced legally elsewhere, Australia can't reasonably do anything about it until it reaches their borders, where they can be as unreasonable as their electorate will allow.

  8. Re:Maybe not in the near term.... on UN May Ban Blotting Out the Sun · · Score: 1

    When the Sun starts moving into the giant stage, it will increase in size and the surface temperature will drop. The increase in surface area will more than offset the drop in temperature (dramatically), so total energy will be much higher.

  9. Re:Visible? Opaque? on Visible Light 'X-Ray' Sees Through Solid Objects · · Score: 3, Funny

    It's called Ballistic light.

    Eventually, you get enough ballistic photons through that you can map out an image.

    And if you get the light strong enough, you resolve the opacity issue permanently, once the smoke clears.

  10. Re:Don't blame Apple... on Apple, Startup Go To Trial Over 'Pod' Trademark · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Note the "Arbitrary marks" section of the entry specifically notes that ordinary words can be registered marks, if the use of the word is unrelated to its common meaning. I don't recall pod being used for media players/consumer electronics before Apple started using iPod, in which case there's a case for pod not being a descriptive or generic word in that space.

  11. Re:No price or freedom on Microsoft To Issue Blanket License To NGOs · · Score: 1

    Free software won't help them with this particular issue. From what I've read the police we're reporting "finding" unlicensed MS software installed despite offices producing licenses. I suspect running a totally Free system won't be a good enough defence against that. This removed the MS license as an excuse to confiscate the computers; I have no doubts other excuses will be trotted out.

    What the NGOs should be doing is encrypting their data. Then, at least, the authorities don't get a free pass at the data leading to other people and organizations they should target next.

  12. Summary fail on Germany To Grant Privacy At the Workplace · · Score: 2, Informative

    Just looking at the "ban employers from surveilling their employees by cameras or logging and reading their emails" sections of the translated article, it's clear that it mentions banning cameras in traditionally private places such as wash rooms, but allowing open surveillance in areas where it makes a business/safety sense to do so, and I think it says telephone/email monitoring will be allowed (and probably required) based on regulations covering the industry in question; I see nothing about banning.

  13. Re:Yay, FireAxis on 400 Turns of Civilization V · · Score: 3, Informative

    Per the CivIV Complete box: 1.2 GHz Intel Pentium 4 or AMD Athlon or equivalent, 512 MB RAM, 3.8 GB hard drive space, and DirectX 9.0c compatible 64 MB video card with Shader 1.1 support or better.

  14. Re:Why is overflow so expensive? on Rogers Shrinks Download Limits As Netflix Arrives · · Score: 1

    That is not, however, the business model they are bringing to Canada, where it will just be the Internet delivery model.

  15. Re:1200 times safe level? on Infants Ingest 77 Times the Safe Level of Dioxin · · Score: 2, Informative

    They're not adding them up. Multiply all the odds of not getting each cancer, and you get the odds of not getting any, which is what they've done.

  16. Re:Yikes! on Google Street View Wi-Fi Data Includes Passwords, Email Content · · Score: 1

    "However, we can already state that [...] Google did indeed record email access passwords [and] extracts of the content of email messages," CNIL said.

    The use of the word "extracts" implies that Google has gone through to extract data out of the raw packet captures. That would be potentially damning as it certainly would imply that this is more than a simple by-product of the software / process they were following to catalog WAPs.

    By extracts, I believe they mean parts of an email's content, or excerpts, rather than complete emails, were recorded. Which is what one would expect if they grabbing only a handful of packets from any one AP.

  17. Re:THIS IS NOT A PROBLEM on Google Tells Congress It Disclosed Wi-Fi Sniffing · · Score: 2, Informative

    They knew it was not legal to play man in the middle with other peoples networks.

    Passively capturing packets is not a Man-in-the-middle attack.

  18. Re:They are waiting for copyright to expire in 2 on The Hobbit On Hold · · Score: 2, Informative

    I don't believe the US was obligated to apply that to works created before they adopted the Convention.

    From my reading of the circulars below, The Hobbit would be copyrighted (in the US) until 2032. It would have expired in 2012 if they hadn't extended the term an additional 20 years in 1998.

    There is, of course, plenty of time to extend it further.

    Copyright Basics

    Duration of Copyright

  19. Re:In other news... on Steve Jobs Recommends Android For Fans of Porn · · Score: 1

    Or at least stop getting off on my lawn.

  20. Re:Really? on Fate of Terry Childs Now In Jury's Hands · · Score: 1

    This is, of course, after they fired him without demanding the passwords first.

    People keep repeating this, but the news articles (and the arrest warrant affidavit) say he was asked for the passwords before he was fired.

  21. Re:-1 False Assumption on Red-Light Camera Ticket Revenue and Short Yellows · · Score: 1

    Hmm, you seem to misunderstand (or I misstated) the timing. In the second scenario what if oncoming traffic gets a green left arrow (that your light doesn't) while oncoming traffic STILL has a green light.

    The normal sequence would be that if the oncoming traffic has a green lights for straight through and left turn traffic, your side of the intersection will be red. You won't get a green until the oncoming left turn signal turns red. At which point, if you don't see anyone running the red, you pull out for your left turn and wait for a break in traffic, or for the oncoming straight-through traffic's signal to turn red, giving you the break.

  22. Re:want more bandwidth? on Verizon CEO Says "We Will Hunt Heavy Users Down" · · Score: 1

    Don't sell me an "up to" 1mbps connection then come along and claim that its actually 250MB/mo and send your sockpuppets to demand that I pay more.

    Does any ISP sell a residential "up to" X Mbps connection without also specifying a Y GB/month traffic limit nowadays?

  23. Re:Well.. on Foursquare Turns Down $100M · · Score: 1

    For some, what they love doing is creating startups. The day-to-day running of a mature business may not interest them.

  24. Re:Applied skills on Wisconsin DA Threatens Arrests Over Sex Ed · · Score: 1

    Obviously, if they are not taught about sex, they'll have no thoughts of engaging in it.

  25. Re:Exactly. on 2010 Salary Survey Highlights IT Woes · · Score: 1

    Well, in Canada, getting paid for over time is the law.

    Unless you are a high tech professional in BC: High Technology Companies Fact Sheet