This is exactly right. This what the Bart police did to protesters in 2011.

Obviously, the problem was not that the Bart police shot a protester in the back while he was handcuffed and lying face down (see video at 1:25). It was that too many people filmed the incident with their cell phone cameras and that not all the cell phones could be confiscated in time before the content could be uploaded to the internet.

By shutting down cell networks, you no longer have to worry about people streaming your actions on to the internet and you can just confiscate their device claiming that they contain evidence, and that they're just obstructing justice if they refuse to give their device to you.

As the article originally posted points out.

Also, these other votes could of his have had an impact on their decision.

After all, if you're a CEO, which one is more important to you? net neutrality, or tax loopholes and your overall executive compensation package?

Swiss watches are fashion accessories. The Apple watch is a fashion accessory.

There is an overlap in market there.

If you were reading books, that's completely different.

However, if you had been going to the library to stare at the same page of your year book day after day pining over a classmate you had a crush on, or going to the library only to hide behind a bookshelf staring at your crush while she's studying with her boyfriend, that would be a closer analogue to what people do on the internet nowadays.

At the very least, it seems to be considered identity theft.

But if blackmail, or hacking, is involved, then other charges can follow.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revenge_porn#Criminal_prosecutions

You Google Foo must not be very strong then.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revenge_porn#Criminal_prosecutions

You must be from the future, because if there is a silver-bullet book reader solution for blind people, I certainly couldn't find one for my half-blind mother.

Currently, there is the audiobook reader provided for free by the Library of Congress. That reader is great in terms of physical interface design, but it's limited only to books that have had professional voice actors read them.

And then in terms of text-to-speech technology, the best technological solution out there is currently Ivona (now owned by Amazon), but despite all the awesome progress this technology has made over the years, it still isn't good enough for most blind users who want a book read to them for leisure.

I'm not sure what you mean by "the largest national organizations" out there, and why you would even need their seal of approval in the first place, but if your venture was looking to get cash from them, or get some kind of exclusive endorsement from them, for what seemed like a commercial venture, it doesn't really matter the reason they gave you for that denial.

There is currently no perfect usable book reader for the blind. It doesn't really matter if the blind person is deaf, or not. For instance, my mother certainly wasn't deaf, and she certainly loved books, but there really wasn't a book reader solution that was satisfactory to her.

No, we're still on April 1st in California. They're just messing around with the date.

I know not everyone is in California, but this is the first time I'm seeing a date and time on Slashdot that's not using the local time of my browser.

Who said they were using violence? Trespassing doesn't imply violence. And they were the ones who got shot. They themselves didn't shoot anyone.

They could just have been a couple of well known protesters with no history of violence, but with an history of trying to do publicity stunts for their cause.

If anyone should know, it's the NSA. For about an hour, I bet every NSA analyst dropped what they were doing to investigate and go through the life records of these two individuals.

You mean like preventing a plane from landing on the Hudson river?

Give me a break! This was only one incident.

Treating pilots like little kids who need someone to help every time they go to the bathroom is not a solution.

The extremely rare occurence of such an event doesn't justify the regular inconvenience and demeaning aspect of such a halfway measure.

To be fair, it's the French language from France that is becoming a mongrel of a language.

I've never been to Québec, but aside from their annoying accent, the French-speaking people from Québec I've met seem to be using really old French.

Silly me, I thought wifi was invented in 1942 by an Austrian-American woman and an American guy.

Austria and Australia do sound the same, I admit.

Actually, there are private companies that already do this. They drive around streets and parking lots scanning people's license plates. Then they aggregate that information on a national level to resell to other companies. This data is really handy for car/truck repos, private detectives, and stalker exes.

And the information they have dwarves any information the police department has themselves. It's such a new area, it's not regulated yet.

This portapotty-like shelter seems to have been optimized for government use. As far I can tell, it will tip over in extreme winds and it will suffocate its occupants in extreme heat. The last thing they want is the extremely bad reviews that might come from actual consumer adoption/experimentation before the government/Halliburton money comes in.