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Hard Drives Shipping with Star Trek 271

crimeandpunishment writes "Paramount Pictures is trying to live long and prosper by selling Seagate Technology hard drives with the latest Star Trek movie on board ... along with 20 other films. The 500GB hard drive will sell for a special promotional price of $100. It's the latest way for Hollywood to combat falling DVD sales due to piracy."
Government

US Rejects Demands For ACTA Transparency 351

An anonymous reader writes "The US Trade Representative issued a release just prior to the launch of the New Zealand round of Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement negotiations that has left no doubt the US is the biggest barrier to official release of the ACTA text. Unlike most other ACTA countries that have called for transparency without condition, the US has set conditions that effectively seek to trade its willingness to release the text for gains on the substance of the text."

Comment Re:Doubtful (Score 1) 195

I think in terms of the end of next decade he is right. The console will be replaced with iphone/ipad type devices which can be tethered to your TV/computer/etc... and be used as a gaming device.

This is also the way the desktop computer will be going as well.

Comment Re:16 years old, no legal rights against parents. (Score 1) 428

I heard a story a few days where Parents lost custody of their kid because, "They were teaching the child that the government can not be trusted."

Because prisonplanet and infowars are news websites of great repute. Oh wait...

Yes, because posting the official CPS report, interviewing the person and quoting another article on the matter is such lousy journalism.

In the report you will find:
"Parents are unsuitable and create an environment where the children believe the government will harm them" which is the sole concern listed.

So, please explain what is so bad about that article? Or is it that you don't like that website because they cover topics and asks questions which you don't typically agree with?

Comment Re:Ooooh! The Dalai Lama! (Score 1) 61

I continue to get a kick out of the Chinese government's fixation on the Dalai Lama. If the whole thing didn't involve the theft of a nation and the brutal repression of the Tibetan people, the situation would be hilarious in a Monthy Python sort of way.

Or whoever is behind the attack is going after the Dalai Lama to implicate the Chinese Government.

Comment Re:Oh goody (Score 1) 790

Corporations, nor the government will have what is best in mind for the people unless the people direct them.

For many reasons I spend my own money to filter the water coming from the government with all of their "wonderful" regulations. If it was so safe why can't I put fish into it immediately after getting it from the tap?

I have no problem with Comcast or other ISP's doing common sense traffic filtering. I don't mind them giving priority to VOIP and video game traffic over P2P and other traffic.

Government can't do anything to corporations that the people couldn't. It just so happens that most people are apathetic and expect someone else to do it for them. That allows corrupt government officials to write regulations that will do nothing but benefit a few large corporations.

Have you seen the stock prices of the large insurance companies after the health care "reform" bill was passed?

Government

Obama Administration Withholds FoIA Requests More Often Than Bush's 601

bonch writes "Agencies under the Obama administration cite security provisions to withhold information more often than they did under the Bush administration. For example, the 'deliberative process' exemption of the Freedom of Information Act was used 70,779 times in 2009, up from the 47,395 of 2008. Amusingly, the Associated Press has been waiting three months for the government to deliver records on its own Open Government Directive."
Privacy

Yale Law Student Wants Government To Have Everybody's DNA 544

An anonymous reader writes "Michael Seringhaus, a Yale Law School student, writes in the NY Times, 'To Stop Crime, Share Your Genes.' In order to prevent discrimination when it comes to collecting DNA samples from criminals (and even people who are simply arrested), he proposes that the government collect a DNA profile from everybody, perhaps at birth (yes, you heard that right)." Regarding the obvious issue of genetic privacy, Seringhaus makes this argument: "Your sensitive genetic information would be safe. A DNA profile distills a person’s complex genomic information down to a set of 26 numerical values, each characterizing the length of a certain repeated sequence of 'junk' DNA that differs from person to person. Although these genetic differences are biologically meaningless — they don’t correlate with any observable characteristics — tabulating the number of repeats creates a unique identifier, a DNA 'fingerprint.' The genetic privacy risk from such profiling is virtually nil, because these records include none of the health and biological data present in one’s genome as a whole."
Advertising

Window Pain 223

Frequent Slashdot contributor Bennett Haselton contributes the following piece on trying to get some measure of satisfaction in the struggle against pop-up ads, writing "The most annoying thing about some pop-up ads, is that you have no way of knowing which ad-serving network served them or who the responsible parties are. Could we reduce the incidence of illegal or deceptive pop-up ads, by giving users an easier way to trace their origin and figure out where to send complaints? Here's one way to do it with a simple right-click." Read on for the rest.

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