Comment Re:Hoorah! (Score 1) 2424
No it is a sad day in America more big government more taxes.
The government need to stop meddling in my affairs, now I will have to pay to not have something.
Comment Re:WTF!! (Score 1) 293
10% fucking unemployment.
I wish we had only 10% unemployment here in Michigan its 15% and including the people who no longer count it around 20%. And I have to ask my self why is the US taxpayer funding a Finnish car company to build a luxury hybrid sports car, that in all reality most like will never be built on any production scale. Why am I paying for this? How is this stimulus for our economy? Why are we spending money we don't have and never will. Isn't that what got us in to this mess in the first place?
Comment Last Hope (Score 1) 265
Things Like this makes me hope California breaks off and sinks into the ocean.
Submission + - Canada's Privacy Commissioner slaps Bell over DPI 2
codeguy007 writes: Canada's Privacy Commissioner has complained that Bell Canada does not explain clearly to it's clients how it uses information gleaned from Deep Packet Inspection (DPI). Bell uses DPI to traffic shape. They purposely limit bandwidth use of P2P networks across their network. Not only for their own clients but also for clients from other ISPs that use their network. When using the DPI, Bell is able to determine which packet types belong to which dynamic IP which in turn can be associated with that users id. While Bell claims that it does not keep the IP information beyond it's use in Traffic Shaping, the Commission has complained that there is no link to this information in Bell's Privacy statement and noted that Bell has yet to add it to their FAQ as promised in 2008. (The process is explained elsewhere on the site).
http://www.itworldcanada.com/Pages/Docbase/ViewArticle.aspx?id=idgml-f8c8388d-1425-4e20&Portal=448d158c-d857-4785-b759-ffa1c005933c&sub=501490
http://www.itworldcanada.com/Pages/Docbase/ViewArticle.aspx?id=idgml-f8c8388d-1425-4e20&Portal=448d158c-d857-4785-b759-ffa1c005933c&sub=501490
Submission + - FSF Attacks Windows 7's 'Sins' In New Campaign (computerworld.com) 1
CWmike writes: "The Free Software Foundation today launched a campaign against Microsoft Corp.'s upcoming Windows 7 operating system, calling it "treacherous computing" that stealthily takes away rights from users. At the Web site Windows7Sins.org, the Boston-based FSF lists the seven "sins" that proprietary software such as Windows 7 commits against computer users. They include: Poisoning education, locking in users, abusing standards such as OpenDocument Format (ODF), leveraging monopolistic behavior, threatening user security, enforcing Digital Rights Management (DRM) at the request of entertainment companies concerned about movie and music piracy, and invading privacy. "Windows, for some time now, has really been a DRM platform, restricting you from making copies of digital files," said executive director Peter Brown. And if Microsoft's Trusted Computing technology were fully implemented the way the company would like, the vendor would have "malicious and really complete control over your computer.""
Submission + - Is it Unlawful to Execute an Innocent Person? 1
Hugh Pickens writes: "Michael Dorf, a professor of Law at Cornell University, has an interesting post on FindLaw about the case of Troy Davis, convicted twenty years ago and sentenced to death for the murder of off-duty police officer Mark McPhail. Since then seven of the nine key state witnesses against Davis have recanted their testimony, "claiming in affidavits that they were pressured by police to name Davis as the perpetrator," writes Dorf. "Meanwhile, additional evidence has been found indicating that Coles, the prosecution's star witness against Davis, was the actual killer." Yet despite national and international attention neither the Georgia courts nor the Georgia Pardons and Parole Board has seen fit to stop Davis's execution. Last week in response to his petition for a writ of habeas corpus, the Supreme Court ordered that a federal district court in Georgia "should receive testimony and make findings of fact as to whether evidence that could not have been obtained at the time of trial clearly establishes [Davis's] innocence." The Court's order in Davis was not unanimous though as Justice Scalia wrote that even if the district court were to find Davis to be innocent, there would still be nothing unlawful about executing him (PDF). The Supreme Court's finding comes on the heels of a report in Texas that the execution of Cameron Willingham in 2004 for setting a house fire that killed three young children was based on faulty investigations that ignored eyewitness reports and failed to follow accepted scientific procedures. "Does the Constitution forbid the execution of an innocent person who was convicted and sentenced to death after a trial that was free of constitutional error but that nonetheless led to an erroneous verdict," asks Dorf."
Comment No surprise (Score 1) 125
This doesn't surprise me at all, I don't exactly like it but under stand it. The positive side of this is they are being reasonable on how long they keep the logs. Though if they collect this information the student should made aware of, not just buried in the contract they signed.
