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Comment Its legal if the govt says so (Score 0) 785

Perhaps this school system can go the route of the Maryland Correctional system.

The Associated Press Wednesday, July 15, 2009; 8:27 AM Maryland's top corrections official is scheduled to testify in favor of legislation to allow states to get permission from the federal government to jam illegal cell phones in prisons. Gary Maynard, who is the secretary for the Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services, is set to testify before a Senate committee on Wednesday. Maryland Sen. Barbara Mikulski also is scheduled to appear. She is a co-sponsor of legislation that would allow states to petition the Federal Communications Commission to use jamming technologies in prisons where illegal cell phone use is a significant problem.

Comment Re:So like where is the rest of the stuff? The goo (Score 2, Informative) 392

From her attorneys brief asking for the appeal: The second Gore factor is the factor commonly expressed in ratios of punitive to actual damages: "the disparity between the actual or potential harm suffered by the plaintiff and the punitive damages award." Campbell, 538 U.S. at 418. Although the Supreme Court has declined to state a bright-line rule about the maximum permissible ratio, it has repeatedly held that "few awards exceeding a single-digit ratio between punitive and compensatory damages, to a significant degree, will satisfy due process." Id. at 425. Even if, on occasion, awards with two-digit or even three-digit ratios are permissible, the damages award in this case, with its four-digit ratio looked at by album and five-digit ratio looked at by song is nowhere close to constitutionally permissible. "In sum, courts must ensure that the measure of punishment is both reasonable and proportionate to the amount of harm to the plaintiff and to the general damages recovered." Id. at 426.

Comment Chinas motives (Score 0) 293

The government justifies its ban on virtual currency trading as a way to curtail gambling and other illegal online activities.

Will the other illegal online activities include, dissent against the govt or telling the world about human rights violations? Looks like its another way to pass a law to restrict their populace.

Comment Q-Ships (Score 1) 13

From http://www.safetyatsea.net/09 Apr 2009, NAVIES should take a page from history to battle piracy by resurrecting the Q ship tactic from the 20th Century's two world wars, a security professional has told Fairplay. Kim Petersen, security chief for TranSystems, said heavily armed decoy cargo vessels could halt piracy cold: "What is needed is some game-changing action by US forces, and for part of the answer we need only look to the allied response to the U-boat wolfpacks ... Also see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q-ship

Comment Re:WTF! (Score 1) 105

As of 5-19-2009 Haliburton filed a request for reconsideration of their patent application being rejected on 2-19-2009. http://portal.uspto.gov/external/PA_1_0_15H/view/BrowsePdfServlet?objectId=FUWRR4H6PPOPPY4&lang=DINO The NON-Final rejection of all claims, 53 page pdf http://portal.uspto.gov/external/PA_1_0_15H/view/BrowsePdfServlet?objectId=FRDIGQCZPPOPPY5&lang=DINO I would think for this nonsense they could have just skipped straight to the FINAL rejection.

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