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Comment Where'd my parents go? (Score 1) 1

by Nihilomnis (#37574954) Attached to: 2011's Kinect Evokes Memories of 2001's HAL

Interesting concept, but ultimately a waste of software and hardware.

Why does one even need the camera or recognition software if one has a password? Just seems like an unnecessary backdoor to me.

Life-size cutout or cracking a password? I think in this case (children) it'd be easier to construct a cut-out or some other adult sized / shaped object...
Firefox

Submission + - Firefox 8 Beta Now Available, Already. (thecompiler.org)

Submitted by gzomartin
gzomartin writes: It almost seems like just yesterday Firefox 7 was released, Mozilla just released Firefox 8 Beta with lots of new features for Windows, Mac and Linux and is also available on Android.

Submission + - Poor man's data visualization

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: I need to create an animated graph consisting of a combination of scatter plots and lines. Are there any worthy open source software packages for this purpose? What sayeth slashdot?
Canada

Submission + - Canadian court finds that website scraping infring (canlii.org) 1

Submitted by wrecked
wrecked writes: A trial judgment from British Columbia, Canada, found that Zoocasa, a real estate search site operated by Rogers Communications, breached copyright by scraping real estate listings and photos from Century 21 Canada. The decision thoroughly reviews the issues of website scraping, Terms of Use, "Shrink Wrap" and "Click Wrap" Agreements, robots.txt files, and copyright implications of hyperlinking. For American readers used to multi-million dollar damages, the court here awarded $1,000 (one thousand dollars) for breach of the Century 21 website's Terms of Use, and statutory copyright damages totalling $32,000 ($250 per infringing real estate photo). More analysis at Michael Geist's blog, and the Globe & Mail.
Piracy

Submission + - US-style mass piracy lawsuits come to Australia (delimiter.com.au)

Submitted by daria42
daria42 writes: Remember when the RIAA started sending tens of thousands of letters to Americans who it had alleged had infringed copyright online, trying to get them all to settle out of court? Yeah, good times. Well that style of mass-lawsuit has now arrived in Australia courtesy of a new company which dubs itself the 'Movie Rights Group'. The company is currently seeking to obtain details of at least 9,000 Australians it alleges has infringed copyright on one film, and it has a number of other films in the pipeline. Sounds like a good time to know an IP lawyer.

Comment The insanity!!!!!1one (Score 1) 5

by Nihilomnis (#37574806) Attached to: Sexting now illegal in Florida

1. Who defines racy?

2. Sending titillating pictures (of oneself) harms no one. Anyone who says otherwise is misplacing blame from jackass / immature (ex)-boy / girl-friends to the sender(s) / receiver(s).

3. If "offenders" were eighteen there it would be obviously legal but, although age of consent in Florida is eighteen, there is a close age exception, so those close in age could legally "fuck each other's brains out" but cannot send pictures of their body.

The fuck?

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