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Comment Re:Missing the Point Entirely (Score 1) 354

by petteyg359 (#42361379) Attached to: Taking Sense Away: Confessions of a Former TSA Screener

Bullshit. They PROVIDE great weapons inside the plane, if anybody were actually looking to do harm. Just tear apart one of those aluminum cans they serve drinks from and then shred the faces of everyone within reach. How about bludgeoning somebody with your arm or leg? Better make sure only quadriplegics are allowed on planes. But then they might bite, too. So, only your torso is allowed. You get to be reacquainted with your extremities upon arrival.
Piracy

Submission + - Music Industry Threatens to Bankrupt Pirate Party Members (torrentfreak.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Music industry group the BPI has threatened legal action against six members of the UK Pirate Party, after the party refused to take its Pirate Bay proxy offline. BPI seems to want to hold the individual members of the party responsible for copyright infringements that may occurs via the proxy, which puts them at risk of personal bankruptcy.

Pirate Party leader Loz Kaye criticized the latest music industry threats and reiterated that blocking The Pirate Bay is a disproportionate measure.
Censorship

Submission + - UK Internet Porn Blocking Rejected (bbc.co.uk)

Submitted by Gordonjcp
Gordonjcp writes: The BBC are reporting that the proposed automatic blocking of porn websites by UK ISPs has been rejected by the government. Only 35% of the parents who responded to a survey on filtering wanted an automatic block. The report, drawn from over 3500 responses, found that 80% of all those who responded were in favour of no filtering of any kind.
United States

Submission + - Marijuana Prosecution Not a High Priority Says Obama

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Hugh Pickens writes
Hugh Pickens writes writes: "VOA reports that President Obama says it does not make sense for federal authorities to seek prosecution of recreational marijuana users in states where such use is legal. "As it is, you know, the federal government has a lot to do when it comes to criminal prosecutions," said Obama during a television interview with ABC's Barbara Walters . "It does not make sense from a prioritization point of view for us to focus on recreational drug users in a state that has already said that, under state law, that's legal." When asked if he supported legalizing marijuana, the president said he was not endorsing that. ""I wouldn't go that far, but what I think is that, at this point, Washington and Colorado, you've seen the voters speak on this issue.""
Bug

Denial-of-Service Attack Found In Btrfs File-System 210

Posted by timothy from the at-that-range-a-hammer-works-too dept.
An anonymous reader writes "It's been found that the Btrfs file-system is vulnerable to a Hash-DOS attack, a denial-of-service attack caused by hash collisions within the file-system. Two DOS attack vectors were uncovered by Pascal Junod that he described as causing astonishing and unexpected success. It's hoped that the security vulnerability will be fixed for the next Linux kernel release." The article points out that these exploits require local access.

Comment Intel? (Score 1) 226

by petteyg359 (#41974563) Attached to: AMD Hires Bank To Explore Sale Options

Intel Corp ... suggested by Wall Street analysts as potential suitors

I realize it says "Wall Street analysts", but what utter moron even among that crowd of utter morons could possibly think having effectively all desktop CPU production controlled by a single company would be a good idea?

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