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  1. The salient point : on Web Hosts Hit With $32 Million Judgment For Content · · Score: 4, Interesting

    They further said that Chen and his companies had been informed of the activity by Louis Vuitton but still refused to implement a policy for removing the offending sites, which was their responsibility.

    If true, then they got it coming their way. You do not willingly ignore that one of your customer do illegal activity when it has been reported to you.In addition :
    Under existing precedent (outside of the Internet realm) a plaintiff seeking to prove contributory trademark infringement needs to prove that a defendant intentionally and knowingly enabled another to infringe a trademark, Johnson said. In this case, the jury appears to have been convinced by the evidence presented by Louis Vuitton that the Web hosting companies had clear knowledge of the infringing activity, he said.

  2. I am not sure where is the privacy problem here is on UK Plans To Link Criminal Records To ID Cards · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Every time you have contact with the governments your name will land in a database to properly assign the bit of info to the correct person. Tax ? You are in the tax database. Crime ? You are in some police DB (print,possibly DNA, photo etc...). Identity ? You are in birth certificate, death certificate at the end. The alternative of not being in those database, is possibly to be mismatched to somebody else. So people get their panties in a knot when the government try to do a proper job to make sure they have identified the correct persons, but when they refuse them the tool to do so, and error happens, they get their panties in a bunch and accuse the government to be unprofessional, doing a bad job, then possibly suggest a private entity which will have possibly worst privacy or less oversight. Sure government should not willy-nilly be able to use or abuse such data, but it is the abuse which should be reprimanded. Not the normal usage. And the linking above, do not sound abusive. We call it here around a background check and it is done by checking your judicial database for sex offense.

  3. It takes only 1 bit to kill a human on How Many Bits Does It Take To Kill You? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Change 1 of the DNA base and the embryo cannot grow to completion. Change a base and a cancer can suddenly develop and go awry (for example, kill the apoptose system of the cells). Kill one bit in the mytochondrial DNA and you probably get the same. I am not a biologist , and I am sure there are a lot of redundant gene, but some might not.

  4. No he is not on A Breathalyzer For Cancer · · Score: 1

    The current hypotheses is that this is most probably observation bias on the personal side, with maybe a combination of people which are dying can#t defend themselves against a cat wanting to sleep on them.

  5. that is actually old news on China Admits Use of Death-Row Organs · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I dunno why everbody is suddenly surprised, it has been known for quite a long time that China harvest organs from death row prisoner (end of 90 local china group were claimoring it, 2000 some major paper reported it, and I assume by then many state department knew it), what is NEW is that they admitted it *NOW* and want to introduce ethical organ harvesting practice. So whereas everybody get their panty in a knot and cheap shot China, one should note (as the WHO did) that this is a bettering of the situation. China should be encouraged at that point in time , because they are trying to do the right thing. And all I see in this thread are cheap shots.

  6. remember the 3DS rts ? on Achron — an RTS With Time Travel · · Score: 1

    In the end the 3rd dimension did not add too much to the mechanic of the gameplay. I want to see the finished game and try it before it really add a dimension and it is also a dimension of fun.

  7. That is litterature on Appeals Court Overturns 2007 Unix Copyright Decision · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It is quite clear that all along in history, violence solved a lot of problem. Solved them very definitively. It might have created other, or ultimately led to the end of the offender, but the original problem was mostly solved, even if it involved putting to the sword the whole populace, including children, and then salting their fields.

  8. Not silica on Air Force & NASA Fire Off Green Rocket · · Score: 1

    Just a nitpick : "Al2O3 (silica) ". No. Silica is Silicium Dioxyde (SiO2). Al2O3 is alumina.

  9. Big difference : the region they are in on Poor Design Choices In the Star Wars Universe · · Score: 1

    Venus flytrap : wet region. Prey : small insect relatively easy to find in those region. Sarlac : big ass stuff, which would need a lot of energy jsut to maintain its metabolism, in the middle of a freaking desert where animal of such size should be slightly rare. Put the sarlac scene in the middle of a region with big game, wet savanah, grassland or whatever. But in the desert ? You are kidding me, it is unjustifiable by any means.

  10. Meet the new media : like old media on Judge Rules To Reveal Anonymous Blogger's Identity Over Insults · · Score: 2, Insightful

    People here keep harping that the internet is no different than other media in Point of view of first admendment and right to privacy. The question IS NOT "is it fair that the anonymity was revealed" but the question IS would this with other normal older media be a ground for a libel/slander lawsuit or not ? Would a photo poster with the person with " is a psychotic skank" a ground for slander ? Forget the part where it is a blog. Think about what the LAW would be for the older media. And in such a case, I think there is a good ground to say posting poster with " is a psychotic skank" can be seen as slandering. Once you have that step, then be it a paper poster, blog, or graved on a stone.

  11. That is old news on Looking For a Link Between Sci-Fi UFOs and UFO Reports · · Score: 3, Interesting

    If you look at UFO sighting report from the earliest to the latest you would remark that alien face evolved with time, and surprise surprise, cinematography. There is a web page somewhere which shows that somewhere , too bad I did not bookmark it. Same for alien "saucer" evolution by the way.

  12. There is an even easier work around on Airborne Laser Successfully Tracks, Hits Missile · · Score: 2, Informative

    Beside suitcase bomb, jsut multiply the number of missile or decoy with a "heat" source in it or whatever.

    Can you imagine the energy requirement and the number of laser necessary to deflect a full scale attack of say, the russian ? Even if only 50% of the missile go through (and from seeing the dfficulty of development I am being generous) , your country is about as parking-lotted as it can be.

  13. I concur, i ahd the same experience on On Transitioning To an Asian-Style MMO, Such As Aion · · Score: 4, Informative

    I started playing WoW in march 2009. I kept hearing stuff like I am "faking being a newb" that I am a "fucktard" for not knowing what to do or not to do during boss fights, I was disbelieved when saying I had no alt (shortly after they laughed at me because I did not know what an alt was or an "owl" or a "dudu"). When i reached the burning crusade floating island this went even worst so I decided to stop, and I will only flock to new MMO now. So I am pretty sure everybody is about as newb as I am.

  14. Here is one on Parents Baffled By Science Questions · · Score: 1

    Young kid : "it is very complicated, so I will give you only a partial explanation. If you want we can later check the complete explanation. Light is composed of small particle (think them as very very small balls which we cannot see individually, but when an extremly lot of them come together we see "light"). Those small particle have different color. The blue color, the red color etc.... Normally when those small particle/bullter of light are in space, there is no air in space so they go on at the same speed together. Red and blue together. So when you look at them all the color put together make "white" light. But when they enter air they get scattered/collided and instead of going straight the4y go into every direction. But the thigns is, the "bluer" the light is, the more it is scattered in every direction, whereas the "redder" it is the less it is scattered it goes straight. Which is why the sky looks blue, because poor blue light get scattered everywhere".

    Not the best one but comprehensible enough. As the kid grow you can add / make a more correct explanation. Works marvel if you can have a few balls of different color to represent the light "balls".

  15. Disagree on Parents Baffled By Science Questions · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Honestly... I think people who know a lot of science are probably the biggest problem with science education.

    The problem is not that science people are arrogant, the problem is that they come way too late in education (to properly explain the science method) at a point where all people did for the previous year was swallow factoid and regurgitate them (lower school science lesson is usually just that), and combined with the fact science is seen as nerdy/geeky and thus only for contempt. Later those same people which admire jocks and despite nerd become parents and are baffled by science question.Add to that the fact that science is sometimes seen as attacking/going against their own religious belief (in reality science as a method do not care for religion (except social science) what cannot be falsified is ignored)...

  16. Do not work on In UK, Two Convicted of Refusing To Decrypt Data · · Score: 1

    If you really want to build yourself an alibi, they need to extract an extremely kinky and very ambarrassing picture of you. Otherwise you would have no reason to encrypt the data.

  17. Re:Good try, but doesn't work on In UK, Two Convicted of Refusing To Decrypt Data · · Score: 1

    I think you misunderstand the point. You offer a file which you MIGHT want to protect, and encrypt it, but in reality the KEY is the one you want to protect and is the encryption with a real OTP. OTP(real data)->Fake OTP ; Fake OTP(kinky data of you)->aliby encrypted data. As far as I know OTP'd data from real random source will not be differentiable from real random data. So sure without KNOWING the original first OTP encryption, a forensic analyst can only go back to the first encryption and get an alibi file which you MIGHT want to hide (yourself with a shoe fetishist or whatever), but the KEY can ONLY look like random data. There is no way to distinguish between real random noise to an OTP'd structured data XOR'd with real random noise. If tehre was , OTP would be reversible and i would like to see you pointing how. So if you take the time and resource to cover your trace by only manipulating your real data onto RAM disk systems, then there is no way an analyst can tell : yeah this bunch of OTP'd random data the suspect pretend is random data, is not random data. You can't.

  18. Very interresting on In UK, Two Convicted of Refusing To Decrypt Data · · Score: 1

    Double OTP. The first to encrypt your data into a "fake" OTP that you store somewhere and label "OTP". Then you encrypt something incriminating but not really illegal. Maybe letters to your mistress, or some particularly kinky and/or disgusting habits. I think this can only work well if you additionally can make sure there is no history anywhere : so for example by booting on an OS which can use a RAMdisk without needing a scrap/page file. It might be slow but if you only encrypt/decrypt/use those incriminating doc there, worth it. Each time you want to use them you boot on that ram disk system, "decrypt" your kinky photo/docs, then un-OTP your real doc, use it, change it, then encrypt again with first the real OTP then with the kinky data. Copy back on disk. Make sure you wipe out the old palce where it was as analysis would show you changed your OTP (or maybe make an habit of saying it is a ONE TIME pad so I change it regularly Mr officer).

    If you properly do this, it will be wiped from RAM each time, and only the double OTP'd version will stay on disk, not the real one. No history, and perfect disclosure. But you have really to make sure no disk access is written other than what you request to read/write/wipe the various OTP'd file. Otherwise history on your computer will betray you.

    Now i would be interested into somebody critizing the process... Just to, intellectually, you know, refine it.

  19. HUGE difference on Supreme Court Review of Bilski Heats Up · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Suppose someone invents a new mechanical device and patents it. The patentee can now prevent everyone else from making a business out of making, using, selling, offering to sell, or importing the patented device. In that sense, all patents declare ownership over a new business process. Business method patents are just applied economics in the same way that mechanical device patents are applied physics.

    The huge diference is that you cannot use a TRIVIAL mechanical process and patent it, or even use that patent to leverage money against ESTABLISHED other mechanical industry (Otherwise your mechanical device would not be an innovation but a copy of existing mechanical device). And this is the contention here : A lot of those business process patent are either trivial, already in use for decenny, copy of something existing but-with-computer or just plain mathematical application. You do not have such a problem with mechanical device patent.

  20. I seepeople speaking of small city commute on Chevy Volt Rated At 230 mpg In the City · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Small city commute is for me up to 10 miles (twice , so up to 20 miles a day). I keep hearing car , car , car , mpg, mpg , mpg, and I SMILE. With such a small commute you can use a *bicycle* and have a bajillo miles per gallon, and do sport, save on car cost (I have a 11 miles commute). Sure you have to be a bit more warry on car, but if you live in a city with bike lane (I do) this can be very safe. Lately I even added a trailer on it so that I can buy up to 80 kg of stuff, so I need only a car ONLY in case of 1) medical emergency 2) non city commute. 230 MPG ? HA !

  21. Initial cost on US Cell Phone Plans Among World's Most Expensive · · Score: 1

    So how often and how long will you pay this initial cost ? I doubt that the difference of price is really only that of coverage and maintenance only. Most probably tehre is also the fact they CAN charge that cost.

  22. Physical limit on Earth's Period of Habitability Is Nearly Over · · Score: 1

    My bet is on us blowing ourselves, or us expanding all easy resource, or most probably falling in a dark age/semi industrialized age from which we will never recover (how ? Remember, no access to fossil fuel or many ores means you are limited in the tech you can use especially energy production, and without fossil fuel (coal/oil/methane gas) the jump from wood/charcoal to nuclear or better is next to impossible). After that it is a matter of time before the environment get downright hostile to us and we get wiped out.

    As for warp drive and other associated Sci-fi staple, as time and science advanced more and more limit came in, rather than remove them. Newton ? You can reach infinite speed. Einstein ? c is the limit baby. Before newton ? Universe is deterministic. Bohr , heisenberg and co ? Incertitude baby. And I pass over other limits like energy production. The vastly probably scenario is that all intelligent life, is born on planet such as earth, and *DIE* on their home planet, without really going anywhere near any other solar system. The energy requirement and time and distance involved, with the aforementioned limit bare us living being from anything really realistic except our own home turf.

  23. I kinda like mods here on Music Labels Working On Digital Album Format · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Modding "man man" insightful (parent's full post) whereas modding me offtopic is kinda.... biased. Both are offtopic or both are interresting/troll/whatever other mod there is. But I guess this sort of bias is to be expected and certainly clarify why linux , despite good stride, is not even 10 years away from being a good desktop for Joe Q Public.

  24. (offtopic rant on Ubuntu) it isn't for joe public on Music Labels Working On Digital Album Format · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I have for the 3rd time AGAIN tried Ubuntu. 1) video do not work properly and skip (matroska container , vlc and another media player used). No skip on windows. 2) updating firefox is an hassle 3) alsa or whatever is called was a hassle and skip 4) email client looked nice, until it started eating my email. 5) installing some apps forced me to go through "man" and there is no GUI equivalent that I have found (why can't you the hell change owner from the GUI freaking screen, and force people through a chown ? Why file saved by *MY* user has not the same user as owner ??? torrent file as an example). Installing some stuff made me go through hoop and loop and scripts. The bottom line is whereas I tolerated this, that is NOWHERE near the reliability or easiness of installation of the average windows stuff. As long as linux proponent do not recognize that, linux will stay a fringe stuff used mainly for server, desktop being an afterthought. And my biggest rant : why the FUCK asking the help system on CHOWN give me 10 crap before I am being shown the main topic (see below after the rant). Heck clicking on some topic just make the help "disappear" (crash?)

    Search results for "chown"


    Clock Manual
    sudo chown -r www-data:www-data /path/to/rails/application/public
    Problem showing document
    sudo chown nobody.nogroup /srv/samba/share/
    Ubuntu Server Guide
    sudo chown bind /var/log/query.log
    Five or More Manual
    sudo chown -r root:root /home/username/
    Using the Command Line
    sudo chown -r www-data.www-data mywiki
    Mahjongg Manual
    sudo chown -r www-data:www-data /path/to/repos
    Rhythmbox Music Player Manual V2.0.2
    sudo chown oneadmin /var/lib/one/images/
    Gnome Display Manager Reference Manual
    ...presession script would need to be modified to chown
    /dev/console to the user:group ...
    chown manual page
    change file owner and group
    coreutils info page
    chown
    coreutils info page
    lchown
    coreutils info page
    lchown

  25. Ditto here on Man Accuses Cat of Downloading Child Porn · · Score: 1

    I downloaded a lot of porn , and I stumbled onto once on a bulletin board on an attachment which read "12eat12!". That is it. I read somewhere there is next to no child porn on publicly available internet web page. In reality they are mostly transported physically (hard drive, CD, USB , laptop...) or on darknet and similar.