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Comment Re:You shamefaced apologist (Score 1) 915

"What is "normal," though not in Sweden obviously, is that any interview prior to charges being laid be voluntary."

Except that he's already been ordered arrested in Sweden. His interview is no longer voluntary at this point, and his attendance is required. It's required on Swedish soil, since this formal questioning is — as the British High Court noted — the equivalent of an arraignment, and the next step is that he'd be charged and arrested if the prosecutors agree that the charge is warranted. The court explicitly said that a) the acts he's accused of would indeed be crimes in the UK, and b) that were this case being tried in the UK, he'd be charged if it had progressed to the point the Swedish case has.

So, let's say they (in this one very special case) allow an accused criminal to dictate the terms of his own questioning, and question him by telephone in his hidey-hole in the Ecuadorian Embassy. Based on that, they indeed decide to charge him.

What then? They can't arrest him if he's outside of Swedish jurisdiction (like Britain; or Ecuador). Are they supposed to extradite him a second time?

Submission + - OpenRelief, Building Open Technology UAVs for Disaster Relief Efforts (youtube.com)

stonemirror writes: "A new project, OpenRelief, is being announced at LinuxCon Japan 2012 in Yokohama this week. OpenRelief is using open source software and open hardware to build intelligent robot drones that can gather first-response data in disaster zones for relief workers. The drones are autopiloted, and use the OpenCV library to recognize people on the ground, roads, smoke, fire and other features."

Comment On "Not Feeding Trolls" (Score 1) 382

Let's suppose that you had maintained a presence on a domain for a number of years, call it "stonemirror.net".

Let's further suppose that a "troll" (more accurately, an online stalker and harasser) purchases the domain "stonemirror.org" and puts up a pro-NAMBLA web site with your name on it.

That happened to me, and the person who's harassing Rachel Marone — Jason Christopher Hughes aka Michael Rudra Nath — is the person who did it to me.

Suppose that someone set up a Facebook profile impersonating you, and attempted to get your friends and family to add it. Suppose further that he preemptively blocked your real profile, so you could neither see nor report it yourself.

That also happened to me, and Jason Christopher Hughes aka Michael Rudra Nath is also the person who did that.

What's the collective wisdom of Slashdot on dealing with such things?

Comment Re:I was stalked by stonemirror too (Score 1) 382

Another comment from stalker Jason Christopher Hughes. You can see more of the same in the comments section of this article on The Daily Dot: http://www.dailydot.com/business/kickstarter-cyberstalker-victim-rachel-marone/ This quote is manufactured, and appears nowhere on the web except for places it's been posted as a quote by some sock puppet ID or an "anonymous coward", like Mr. Hughes is right here. Check http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=victor+cypert+%22resident+computer+programmer%22&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8 and see for yourself.

Comment Re:He's harassed me too. (Score 1) 382

I've also been stalked by Jason Christopher Hughes, and I can corroborate that he exists and that he's very difficult to track down. He's changed his name twice since 2004, first in Texas (to Manuel Luis Arsupial) and then in Washington (to Michael Rudra Nath). He's a transient and changes location multiple times a year as well. There have been criminal complaints made against him, by various people, in California, Washington, Texas, New York and other places, but — as people have noted — law enforcement doesn't make this kind of thing any sort of a priority. I had an active criminal complaint against him myself, in Merced County, California, from March 2010 to March 2011. I'm aware of no fewer than twenty different people who've been harassed by this person.
Facebook

Submission + - Apple Isn't Tracking You, But Facebook Is... (shugendo.org)

stonemirror writes: "Apple has put out a statement explaining that the file containing locations in the areas where the iPhone has visited are, indeed, the locations of cell towers and such and are, indeed, used to speed up triangulation in iOS Location Services. Apple says that will store less data, encrypt the file on the phone, and not back it up to the desktop in a future release of the platform.

On a related note, it's been revealed that Facebook has been placing tracking cookies onto the computers of non-users of the site, simply for visiting sites which happen to use Facebook Connect for authentication. Facebook blames this on a bug."

Piracy

Submission + - Movie-ruining trends that are actually ancient (cracked.com)

An anonymous reader writes: Cracked has an interesting article on the historical roots of a number of entertainment industry-related things we like to complain about here. In case you don't want to RTFA:

5) Crappy Sequels/Prequels: actually started in 460 B.C.E. (sequels of The Iliad)
4) Everything Is an Adaptation or a Remake: actually started before recorded history.
3) Rampant Piracy: actually started in the 1500s (bad quartos)
2) Cheap Knockoffs Trying to Cash in on Blockbusters: actually started in the 1800s (penny dreadfuls)
1) Arbitrary Ratings for "Adult" Content: actually started in the 1500s (Queen Elizabeth's censorship boards)

Google

Submission + - Does Google Encourage Book Piracy?

lee1 writes: "David Flanagan, author of JavaScript: The Definitive Guide and other reference works, has for 15 years been, as he says, ‘one of those lucky authors who has been able to support himself and his family almost entirely on book royalties.’ But now he his looking for a salaried job, because royalties are declining. He believes this is due in part to piracy of his books, which he sees as being actively encouraged by Google. The search giant ranks results leading to illegal copies of his works above legitimate results, such as reviews, and features illegal download sites prominently in its interactive list of search suggestions. Flanagan even found that the latest edition of his JavaScript book was available as an illegal download before he received his own copy."
Businesses

Submission + - Nokia Hands Symbian OS Business To Accenture (itworld.com)

jfruhlinger writes: "As Nokia shifts from Symbian to Windows Phone 7 for its smartphones, it doesn't need the 3,000 employees it has working on Symbian software, so the company is handing them over to consulting firm Accenture. No word on who paid whom in this transaction, or how long Accenture will hold onto these employees once Nokia's shift is complete, since Nokia would be their major customer for Symbian consulting. In addition to this move, Nokia is also firing 4,000 people outright."
Security

Submission + - FBI Says Wire Fraud Scam Sending Millions to China (threatpost.com) 2

Trailrunner7 writes: The FBI is warning businesses about an ongoing spate of attacks that are stealing millions of dollars from companies through unauthorized bank transfers to Chinese companies. The fraudulent wire transfers are not a new tactic, but the FBI says the current round of attacks is notable in that virtually all of the transfers are going to shell companies based in China and have cost U.S. businesses $11 million.
The FBI said that many of the cases it has seen involve well-known pieces of malware, such as Zeus, SpyEye and others. The amount of money the attackers try to transfer varies from $50,000 up to nearly $1 million.

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