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Comment Re:Suspecious (Score 4, Funny) 325

Everyone's doing this wrong. the TSA will never stop their pat-downs while the public is afraid of being groped, and this anti-screening day supposedly set for tomorrow (sort of a carbon-based DDOS) isn't the solution either. You want to stop the intrusive behavior? Simple.

Grind on the screener's hands while moaning loudly and gyrating your hips. It may not change the official policy, but it will eventually make all the screeners quit.

Well, except maybe the pervy ones.

Submission + - Guy Fined For Posting Links To Official Broadcast (techdirt.com) 1

hcs_$reboot writes: Over in Sweden, it appears that a guy has been fined for linking to an online broadcast of a hockey game. We've heard stories of people getting in trouble merely for linking to unauthorized content, but this story is even more ridiculous. The guy wasn't linking to unauthorized content. He was linking to an online video feed from the official broadcaster, Canal Plus.
The issue was that Canal Plus was apparently technically incompetent in how they set up the feeds, and never intended to make the feeds public.

Censorship

Submission + - Oregon Senator Stops Internet Censorship Bill (osdir.com)

comforteagle writes: Senator Wyden of Oregon has objected to a bill in committee that if passed would have given the government the ability to censor the Internet. His objection effectively stop its current passing forcing it to be introduced again if the bill is continue. Which it may not.Oregonians please send pats on the back to this man.
Censorship

Submission + - Groklaw accused of censorship and intransparency

An anonymous reader writes: Dana Blankenhorn quotes several disgruntled Groklaw users who saw their postings on the open source legal blog expunged or, worse still, "sandboxed": the original commenter could still see them but for all others they had disappeared. Dana seems torn: he says "Groklaw is one of the indispensable sites in open source", but he points out "the mysterious Pamela Jones" has never been seen and quotes someone who calls her "sneaky". Users quoted by ZDNet say that Groklaw censored comments that dissented but would be accepted on all other discussion boards, and the fact that posts are "sandboxed", not deleted, is considered unfair and intransparent. The article also brings up stories that are a few years old, criticism by a Tron-costume-wearing open source project maintainer, and a 20-page paper with screenshots showing recent censorship on Groklaw. In her forum, PJ labels all of this 'a Microsoft smear campaign.'

Submission + - Earthquake hazard in Midwest equal to California? (failuremag.com)

swellconvivialguy writes: Next year marks the bicentennial of the 1811-12 New Madrid earthquakes, with earthquake drills and disaster tourism events planned across the Midwest, including the Great Central U.S. ShakeOut. But despite the fact that Earthquake Hazard Maps equate the New Madrid seismic zone with California, geologist Seth Stein says new science (especially GPS data) tells us the hazard has been significantly overestimated and that we should not spend billions on earthquake preparations in the Midwest.
Facebook

Submission + - Did Apple Engineer Invent FB Messages in 2003?

theodp writes: Q. How many Facebook engineers does it take in 2010 to duplicate a lone Apple engineer's 2003 effort? A. 15! On Nov. 15th, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg introduced Facebook Messages, which uses whatever method of communication is appropriate at the time — e.g., email, IM, SMS. A day later, ex-Apple software engineer Jens Alfke was granted a patent for his 2003 invention of a Method and apparatus for processing electronic messages, which — you guessed it — employs the most appropriate messaging method — e.g., email, IM, SMS — for the job. Citing Apple's lack of passion for social software, Alfke left Apple in 2008. After a layover at Google, Alfke landed at startup Rockmelt, whose still-in-beta 'social web browser' also sports a pretty nifty communications platform.
Government

Submission + - Cybersecurity bill gives DHS power to punish tech (cnet.com)

suraj.sun writes: Cybersecurity bill gives DHS power to punish tech firms:

Democratic politicians are proposing a novel approach to cybersecurity: fine technology companies $100,000 a day unless they comply with directives imposed by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.

Legislation introduced this week would allow DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano to levy those and other civil penalties on noncompliant companies that the government deems "critical," a broad term that could sweep in Web firms, broadband providers, and even software companies and search engines.

"This bill will make our nation more secure and better positions DHS--the 'focal point for the security of cyberspace'--to fulfill its critical homeland security mission," said Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.), the chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee.

CNET News: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-20023464-38.html

Comment Re:Living under surface (Score 1) 335

Not to mention, where the hell are people going to grow food?

- Dig huge caverns for agriculture?
- Use hydroponics, or manage to find or make some dirt-like growing medium?
- Construct massive gro-lights?
- Construct ginormous reactors to power the gro-lights, and the air conditioning, and the water pumps, etc ...

No thanks.

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