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Comment what would you do? (Score 1) 777

(re-posting because I accidentally posted as AC)

Personally, I'd be tempted to find out everything I could about who hacked into my system and how they did it.

Would that be wise? I'm not sure. My guess is that you couldn't do such investigative work after calling the police, that it might help if you did it before calling the police, and that if you were in the middle of doing it and the police came knocking, you'd be in even more trouble.

I couldn't just delete it and not try to help - I'd feel guilty the rest of my life and wonder if I could have made a difference for some child. I'd have to call the police.

What would you do?

Science

Submission + - "Nomad" Planets Could Outnumber Stars 100,000 to 1 (universetoday.com)

Nancy_A writes: "Could the number of wandering planets in our galaxy – rogue planets not orbiting a sun — be more than the amount of stars in the Milky Way? The latest research concludes there could be 100,000 times more free-floating planets in the Milky Way than stars. Even though the author of the study, Louis Strigari from the Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology (KIPAC), called the amount “an astronomical number,” he said the math is sound."

Comment Re:harassment or protest? (Score 1) 1127

Just to clarify, what would constitute "non-violent protest" to you, yet not constitute "harassment"?

When I think of nonviolent protest, I think first of convincing the broad public and getting the weight of public opinion on your side. Second, I think about refusing to do something which the law requires you to do, but which you believe is immoral. Third, I think about directly disobeying laws which restrict you from doing something which you believe is your moral right. I think about Gandhi making salt or the freedom riders as an example of the latter and conscientious objectors or tax protestors as an example of the former.

I think that collecting video could help the group convince the broad public and could be a tool in non-violent protest, but it is not clear to me from their video that their target is changing the law. Instead, their target seems to be "those people" at Broxton.

Comment harassment or protest? (Score 5, Insightful) 1127

Context: Personally, I fully support regulated hunting for food, don't like hunting for trophy, and don't like the use of raised birds in a pigeon shoot (which seems to be the practice under scrutiny here).

After watching the video, I think there are two main issues - one (dealt with at length here) is about whether or not it was right and/or legal to shoot down the drone. The second one is whether or not it is right and/or legal for Hindi's group to be harassing the Broxton Bridge Plantation. His tone throughout and his words at the end of the video are clearly harassment - "we have a lot of plans for those people, that much I can guarantee."

If the shoot is legal, then the harassment should be illegal and the goal of Hindi's group should be to change the law through non violent protest and engaging the public (potentially with video).

If the shoot is illegal, then law enforcement should handle it. If they do not, the goal of Hindi's group should be to change the actions of law enforcement officials through non violent protest and engaging the public (potentially with video). The harassment should still be illegal.

I think this group has confused non violent protest against immoral laws with harassment of groups doing things you don't like.

Submission + - Physicists Create a Working Transistor From a Single Atom (nytimes.com)

stupendou writes: Australian and American physicists have built a working transistor from a single phosphorus atom embedded in a silicon crystal. The group of physicists, based at the University of New South Wales and Purdue University, said they had laid the groundwork for a futuristic quantum computer that might one day function in a nanoscale world and would be orders of magnitude smaller and quicker than today’s silicon-based machines.

Comment "Free Trade" is a marketing slogan (Score 3, Insightful) 237

Yes, it it "free trade". "Free", doesn't means free for everyone, or equal for everyone. "Free trade" just means "no rules trade" or "self-regulating trade".

Oh boy, are you ever wrong. At the time of the free trade talks, I obtained a copy of the agreement. It is a fairly hefty book.

"Free Trade" is a marketing slogan to sell a trade agreement to liberty loving people. In reality, it is a set of rules that groups try to influence to their advantage.

Your post only points out how effective that marketing has been.

Google

Submission + - Microsoft can remotely delete Windows 8 apps (itnews.com) 3

tripleevenfall writes: Microsoft will be able to throw a "kill switch" to disable or even remove an app from users' Windows 8 devices, the company revealed in documentation released earlier this week for its upcoming Windows Store.

"In cases where your security is at risk, or where we're required to do so for legal reasons, you may not be able to run apps or access content that you previously acquired or purchased a license for," said Microsoft in the Windows Store terms."If the Windows Store, an app, or any content is changed or discontinued, your data could be deleted or you may not be able to retrieve data you have stored," Microsoft said.

Both Apple and Google can flip such a switch for apps distributed by the iOS App Store and Android Market, respectively.

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