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Comment Re:Excellent. (Score 3, Interesting) 234

The release of US classified information is illegal everywhere. Otherwise anyone who spied on the US Government while in Paris would be fine.

That's not the case with any of the rules you mentioned.

This sounds like a lot of nonsense. If the release of US classified information is illegal in Paris, that is, according to French law, then you're right with regards to spying in Paris. And it could be, since the US and France are NATO allies. However, that does not make the same true everywhere else. I highly doubt that for example Iran has a similar stance on spying on the US.

That's not to say that anyone who spies on the US government in a country where that's legal is safe. The US has quite a record of extra-legally dealing with people.

In addition, if someone who spies/d on the US government were to enter US territory, it's even more likely the person would be apprehended. The US government likely views itself as having universal jurisdiction where people embarrassing it are concerned, regardless of whether this is in line with international law.

Comment Re:Barcoding the Ballots. (Score 1) 584

by God Of Atheism (#41422331) Attached to: Federal Judge Says No Right To Secret Ballot, OKs Barcoded Ballots
In my experience the citizen limitation only applies to national elections, not to local ones. A resident in a city who is a citizen of another country, can vote for the city council in the city, but not in the national elections of the country in which that city is located. However (s)he can vote in the national elections of the country of which (s)he is a citizen, but not in any local elections of that country since (s)he is not a resident there. The exact rules do vary from country to country of course.

Comment Re:not "available for purchase anywhere" (Score 1) 195

by God Of Atheism (#41145651) Attached to: UKNova TV Torrent Tracker Shut Down After FACT Issues C&D
$0.99 per mp3 is ridiculously high. If an album has say 10 songs that would mean $9.90 for an album in the low quality mp3 format. You can often find hard copies of albums for that price. For a soft copy (which has no production costs per unit, only production costs for the initial unit), the price should be much lower. I'm thinking along the line of at most $2.00 per album in lossless format (possibly including access to relatively high quality lossy), and low quality lossy (say 128k mp3) available as free preview.

Submission + - As airlines caving in to PETA, scientists are urged to take a stand (nature.com)

Submitted by mapkinase
mapkinase writes: Fresh issue of Nature features two articles on recent development in the war of animal rights activists against human health. It turned out that

Many airlines, including Lufthansa, British Airways and Virgin Atlantic, already refuse to carry research primates...

under the pressure of PETA and other ilk (I am actually shocked that airlines caved without even a whimper in any major news source). Author of the first article proposes that scientists should take a stand against luddites:

Picture a crowd of scientists waving placards plastered with photographs of stroke victims and sufferers of Parkinson's disease. They are demonstrating outside the corporate headquarters of British Airways, Lufthansa and Delta, demanding that the airlines stop impeding the biomedical research that could deliver big advances against these and other diseases.

if scientists want continued access to animals as research models, they will have to appear on the front line with every bit as much visibility, determination, organization and persistence as animal-rights activists now muster.

We, scientists, are the force to be reckoned with and every scientist who still believes that human rights to the best health care supersede rights of the animals, imaginary or not, should take a stand, not only scientists actively involved in medical research on primates.

Submission + - Cisco To Buy NDS (digitalspy.co.uk)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Is Cisco doing the right thing? After Cisco terminating the employment of almost 13.000 employees several months ago, is now adding about 5000 more employees from NDS. I am wondering what will be the repecursions for NDS as well as for Cisco, as once again, Cisco is taken over a company in an industry that is already quite full of competitors and that has its own way of operating

Submission + - Bug in OpenBSD's random() function (banu.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: random() is a C library function which can generate reproducible random number sequences. The folks at ISC have found a bug in OpenBSD's implementation of random() which causes it to generate a sequence of zeros. Such an exposition of the bug is made possible because it is free software. It seems that OpenBSD have fixed it within a day too!
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Submission + - Australian Greens demand public access to cloak and dagger anti-piracy meetings (delimiter.com.au)

Submitted by
Fluffeh
Fluffeh writes: "Continuing the recent stories on the secret, closed door, FOI blocked talks, the Australian Greens have filed a motion in the Senate requesting that the Government release documents regarding its closed door meetings on Internet piracy which the Attorney-General’s Department has blocked from being released under Freedom of Information laws. This morning, Greens Communications Spokesperson Scott Ludlam filed an order in the Senate that the Government disclose details of the most recent meeting. “The Government refuses to reveal almost any information about the attendees, the substance or the outcomes of the meeting,” he said in a separate statement. “A Freedom of Information request from a journalist looks like it’s been met with maximum resistance.”"

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