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Comment Re:My Mailbox at Home is Full (Score 1) 317

by mkkohls (#37047650) Attached to: Court Rules Sending Too Many Emails Is "Hacking"

My physical mailbox at home is kind of small and when I go on vacation it can get full to the point of no longer being able to put more mail in. Do I get to go after Capital One or any/all of the other habitual mail spammers now? If not, why? Because this Act only covers electrons flowing through wires and not physical items physically limiting my mailbox?

Its called a vacation hold at the post office or having a neighbor bring in your mail. Though that brings up the issue of direct mail and junk mail which is a whole other can of *very* smelly worms.
Games

Submission + - GameFly to unveil 'unlimited' PC gaming service (techspot.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: GameFly apparently wants to pull a Netflix when they launch their new online client that allows for “Unlimited PC Play” later this year. The service won’t require a separate subscription, but will be bundled alongside a standard GameFly by-mail subscription. GameFly acquired digital game retailer Direct2Drive earlier this year so it's likely they are harnessing this technology to offer the Unlimited PC Play addition.
Privacy

Submission + - Collecting DNA from arrestees unconstitutional (wired.com) 1

Submitted by wiedzmin
wiedzmin writes: A California appeals court is striking down a voter-approved measure requiring every adult arrested on a felony charge to submit a DNA sample. Court questioned the extent to which technology can be permitted to diminish the privacy guaranteed by the Fourth Amendment. More than 1.6 million samples have been taken following the law’s 2009 implementation. Only about a half of those arrested in California are convicted.
Canada

Submission + - Canadian academics and advocates on lawful access (christopher-parsons.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: During the last election cycle, Canada's governing party assured Canadians that within 100 sitting days lawful access provisions would be passed in an omnibus crime bill. Lawful access legislation has not been fully debated in the House or Senate, and has significant implications for the future of anonymity and privacy on the Internet, while simultaneously expanding police powers without a clearly demonstrated need to expand such powers.

Working from the most recent lawful access bills, advocates and academics have come together to send a letter of concerns to Prime Minister Harper. The letter notes: the ease at which Canadians' communications providers will be turned into state surveillance operatives, lack of oversight accompanying these new powers, capacity to force identification of anonymous commentators, and potential to impose gag orders on communications providers.

Comment Define New (Score 1) 160

by mkkohls (#36995782) Attached to: I try to learn something new every...
Every Day seems logical even if its little things. If figured they meant even something as simple as oh there's a new shop opening down the street. That is a fact that I learned. If they mean something like school then that works too because usually one picks up something new each time they study. Though I guess the operative word is try.

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