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Submission + - Postal worker steals 3012 netflix DVD and only fac (thesmokinggun.com)

e3m4n writes: "Now how exactly is it that Jamie Thomas gets fined 1.92 Million dollars for 'making available' a mere handful (as in 24) of songs and yet someone abuses such a high position of trust, and tampers with the mail is only assessed with $38,500 in damages??? How is this NOT a violation of Jamie Thomas' 14th amendment rights — equal protection under the law??? I am not a lawyer so if anyone IS a lawyer, please help me understand. From where I sit, this is another shining lesson that if you screw up, make sure you do it on an Exxon Valdez scale, so as to escape a proportionate level of punishment."

Comment Re:That's all well and good... (Score 1) 437

Doesn't matter - *you* run Opera, then send them to the URL of services you're running. I think this has a lot of potential.

It's hard to see how cool it will be when there are real apps for it, but it will get there.

As to all the whining about it being offline when you are - well, so is your IM client, and that's the realm that these apps will start falling into...

Comment Re:Put yourself in their shoes (Score 1) 898

I don't know how to overcome the fear, but it *is* important to rationalize and notice the difference between perceived risk and actual risk. In the scale of things, dying in a terrorist attack is miniscule in terms of risk. If we had another attack on the scale of 9/11, we'd be looking at 3,000 dead. In a population of 20,000,000 - that's a 0.15% chance of dying - *if* there's an attack. On the other hand, there are 40,000 deaths from car crashes every year in the US - that's about 13 9/11 attacks EVERY YEAR (yes, I know, I'm not including attributable deaths, but it's close). But are you scared of driving? If not, why not? It's funny how our brains work, isn't it...
Music

Submission + - Universal blocks Trent Reznor's fan remix web site (cliveholloway.net)

cLive ;-) writes: "Trent Reznor's recent departure from Universal was meant to leave all this crap behind but, even now, the suits are stopping him from helping to bring the music industry into the 21st century (eg, with new distribution models). Having previously fallen out with his record company by urging fans to steal his music when he thought his CDs were overpriced, now he's being "lawyered" over his upcoming fan remix web site. The main gist of the problem is that Universal are scared to host his remix site when fans could be submitting mashup tracks that would infringe on other artists' rights, as this would affect the industry's ongoing lawsuit against YouTube et al...

When will these dinosaur industries get it?"

Space

Submission + - Faster than Light? (jerrypournelle.com)

Carl L writes: Jerry Pournelle's Chaos Manor blog/daybook reports a New Scientist article about two German Scientists that may have broken the fundamental speed limit of Einsteinian space time. As Dr. Pournelle opines,

"If true, this changes everything. Everything."
Indeed.

User Journal

Journal Journal: Gmail Paper

A little after midnight today I went to check my Gmail and discovered that the front page displayed information about a new service from Gmail: Gmail Paper. If you go here: http://mail.google.com/mail/help/paper/more.html you will see the information on this "service." Looks like the holiday has already started.
Republicans

Submission + - McCain MySpace hacker raided by FBI

Shatter36 writes: "Following on from the clever hack of John McCain's MySpace page on Wednesday, a slashdot subscriber decided to do a follow up, tricking the page maintainers into displaying an embarrassing comment on McCain's page for 18 hours. Not that exciting, except that today he was raided by the FBI and had all of his computer equipment seized, even though he didn't actually "hack" anything! — all the images that appeared in the comment were hosted on his website. He's posted a short account of the afternoon's events on his website (probably NSFW — he sounds a little upset). This is just ridiculous. I am lost for words, though I guess one should never underestimate the stupidity of politicians..."
Operating Systems

Submission + - Linux Kernel To "Ban" Non-GPL Modules By 2

Bootsy Collins writes: In a discussion today on the LKML, Greg Kroah-Hartman has agreed with opinions in favor of having the Linux kernel load only GPL-tagged modules, and has put forward a patch which will start warning users loading "tainted" modules into the kernel that such loading will no longer be possible in kernels released after 1 January 2008. The intent is to give companies time to GPL their modules, release hardware specifications so that others can write GPL'ed modules, or otherwise respond to the restriction. Later in the discussion, Linus Torvalds has voiced his opposition to this move.

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