DCC does something very similar, and has been in use for years.

SysRQ can be extremely useful in figuring out why a machine has locked up or become unresponsive...

http://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/sysrq.txt

'Only two Gmail accounts appear to have been accessed, and that activity was limited to account information (such as the date the account was created) and subject line, rather than the content of emails themselves,' said David Drummond in that blog update. That does sound like it perhaps could be a result of insecure HTTP traffic being intercepted in transit between the users and Gmail's servers.

No, if that were the case they would have been able to see *everything* the user received as part of the data response, including message bodies.

That's a pretty long-winded. Why didn't you just say "...theories remain: either the gas is created as a by-product of reactions between volcanic rock and water". Oh, right, the clip and story already did. :P

Upvotes for --
    Rendezvous With Rama
    War of the Worlds
    The Cold Equations
    I, Robot - Asimov long story
    NightFall - Asimov short story
    Lord of the Rings/The Hobbit - I still have my 1970's paperbacks.

I remember this one clearly as well. I'll never stow-away aboard a spaceship as long as I live!

hear hear. Great book. +1

Flowers For Algernon - Daniel Keyes (Short Story)
Blood Music - Greg Bear (Short Story).

Both of the above deal with potential ramifications of human enhancement through medical or mechanical means. Both show the promise of the technologies as well as the potential ramifications (transience or transformation).

20,000 Leagues Under The Sea - Jules Verne
Journey To The Center of The Earth - Jules Verne
A Wrinkle in Time - Madeleine L'Engle (though now that I look back at it some of it's Religious themes might be considered inappropriate for school)

Stories of exploration and wonder.

Startide Rising - David Brin
Watchers - Dean Koontz

Stories of the challenges and rewards of working with familiar animals (dolphins, chimpanzees and dogs) who have been given intelligence on par with humans.

Wasn't much of human history the epitome of 'unschooling'? Wouldn't that be a reasonable explanation why there was very little progress for many hundreds of thousands of years with only a very few bright lights in all that time? Only since the advent of formalized and widely accessible education and knowledge dissemination has there been significant progress in recent history.

My brother was 'homeschooled' in a way that was effectively unschooling. The best he can hope for is a manual labor job because his education is only at the 8th or 9th grade level, if that. Unless these children are truly exceptional, they are being severely disadvantaged by their parents and will pay for it for the rest of their lives. It's amazing how non-forward thinking some people can be.

Nothing too surprising here. The East Antarctic isn't expected to show dramatic melting due to Global Warming. It's the *West* Antarctic that's the worry and always has been.

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20227036.400-driller-thriller-antarcticas-tumultuous-past-revealed.html?full=true

Who or what piece of legislation authorized RIAA to collect all these information?

They don't need any. It's 'published' via a public system (the p2p network).

Who authorised RIAA to represent this information as some sort of "evidence"?

Presuming this is presented as a DMCA notification, their clients and the US Government.

Who authorised RIAA to submit all these (illegaly?) collected information as "evidence"?

See above.

Who authorised RIAA that they can submit (illegally collected?) "evidence" to a third party in order to "request" anything from a third party, based on (illegally collected?) "evidence"?

See above. Read the DMCA.

Any lawyer in the house?

IANL but I have received DMCA notifications that should have been directed to others.

If the ISP did 2) or 3), they'd be looking at a lawsuit from the end-user that would have 100% more bite than anything the RIAA was capable of doing legally.

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Marc

While they don't explicitly identify them as such, the content of the e-mail is essentially a DMCA notification. Since the content is not stored on the ISP's systems, and is just a transitory communication over the ISP's network, the ISP is not obligated to perform any action whatsoever. They could >/dev/null 2>&1 them and there's nothing the RIAA could do about it.

To be valid, the DMCA notification needs to be directed to the party hosting the content, in this case the end-user. The ISP for that user is not obligated to 'pass on' the notification to the end user any more than they would be to 'pass on' a notification meant for another ISP. It is the complainants responsibility to identify the correct destination for the DMCA notification, not anyone else's.

Even _if_ the ISP were hosting the content on systems they own, the only obligation they would have would be to remove the specifically identified offending content from their systems. Per the DMCA, the alleged offender would have 10 days to contest the validity of the DMCA notification at which point the ISP would be required to re-post the content if they did so. The claimant would then need to begin legal proceedings to obtain further relief.

Seems to me to be a re-hash of a previously failed tactic. Once the RIAA found this was a dead-end, they began their DOE lawsuits.

You're kidding, right? I guess you haven't seen the Firefox support forums? 22 different, active support topics just in the past hour. That's 528 a day if that rate keeps up. Not exactly a shining example of a no-support OSS project.

Proportionally to it's use, that's good but certainly does require more support than one or a few developers could handle on their own.