Extra judiciary domain seizures, extradition of foreign citizens for crimes not committed in the US... ICE (U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement) is either corrupt or completely out of control. They must be reigned in.

In the mean time, it's great that they have the situation at the Mexican border under control, gives them more time to be innovative in the war against piracy (keep going guys, you're so close to winning that one).

Notice the absence of "In ebook form, used, legally"

Freedom for enterprise customers and trusted computing for the rest of us. Thanks Apple!

Only corporation (not people) should be entrusted will the ability to run code.

The problem in your example is not advertisement, it's a repressive religion that exert way too much social control over its followers and that punishes and ostracize people based on imaginary crimes.

In other words, loss of privacy for advertising sake, while definitely wrong, is still a lesser evil than religious fundamentalism.

They should know, they created most of them.

I think we have to be very careful when comparing crime statistics between countries (a well known problem in criminology) and this is especially true with sex crimes. Crime statistics only reflects what has been reported and processed as an actual crime by the system, depending in which country you live this may accurately reflect reality or be completely off.

Things are getting better now but the police in Japan is know for their very poor handling of sex crime victims. This alone greatly affects how many crimes are being reported. Then there are cultural factors that may also lead victims not to report crimes in order to avoid the social consequences of being victimized. Japan being a more group-oriented society than the west, the incentive not to report to "avoid causing troubles" is also stronger. This is a highly political matter since properly taking care of victims and helping them report abuse will actually make the crime rate go *up*. Which would be a very positive outcome for society but a disastrous one for the politician taking that decision.

Does pornography reduce sex crimes? I don't know. I strongly believe it does, but that's just my sentiment.

Why does it matter? If someone is not terminally ill then they shouldn't be allowed to chose how and when to end their life? Because of what?

I'm sorry if I misunderstood you, but it sounds like your saying "Sorry, your sickness is not terminal, it will only guarantee you a life time of horrible debilitating suffering, you'll understand of course that society can't help you end your life, that would be immoral, please grin and bear it, we've determined it's the right thing to do."

Linux ME (aka Linux Millennium Edition)

That we like the way pixel art looks in the first place!

This project is technically interesting but as art it completely misses the point. Not every piece of human creation needs to be updated, upscaled, "improved" and redone.

I know the originals make more sense to me.

This sounds like a ploy to harvest phone numbers from well meaning (if ill informed) users who care about security and who previously hadn't surrendered their phone number to facebook.

Is there a valid reason for not offering the same service via email? Using, you know, the email address that facebook already has on record.

I just what to know how well XBMC for linux runs on this thing now that full access to the hardware is possible (I don't own a PS3... yet).

The XBMC team has stated numerous times that they aren't interested in supporting XBMC on a hacked platform anymore, but this is different since we might be able to run the vanilla linux version on it (and if any optimization is required for it to run smoothly, maybe it can be done at the OS level - outside of XMBC).

It is interesting.

However if you think that the Cold war was about democratization you're completely deluded. The cold war was two superpower having at it. The west supported whoever was against the soviet side (Containment and Trueman doctrine), including many dictators and autocrats (not to mention our "freedom fighter" friends in Afghanistan). The Cold war has never been about democracy, it was an empire struggle.

That's why you don't "announce" leaks. You either release or don't release documents.

This is one of the reasons why Daniel Domscheit-Berg (and several others) left Wikileaks. He thought it was wrong of Julian Assange to make threats about releasing specific leaks.

Also: Since last year, Wikileaks doesn't have a working submission system. There's still no way to send wikileaks anything right now. Assange stated in several interviews that Wikileaks wasn't accepting documents anymore because they were overwhelmed with the Iraq war/Afghanistan/State cable leaks and that they didn't have the staff to process new submissions. That was only half of the story. The other half is that one of the Wikileaks members that left last year at the same time as Daniel Domscheit-Berg was the guy who coded the submission system. When the coder left, Wikileaks wasn't able to keep the submission system running because there was no one else capable of maintaining it and making sure it stayed secure (given that the submission system is probably the most sensitive part of the site).

Check out this interview with Domscheit-Berg for more about why he left Wikileaks.

Toy Size Spy Drones, Live government cell phones tracking, ACTA, Arbitrary domain names seizing, Law mandated year-long ISP data retention policies. Innocent citizens detained at airports (during which agents copy and/or seize their laptops and cellphones).

It sure is nice living in the future.

As far as web traffic goes: websites logs + ISP logs = recorded phone call