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freshman_a writes:
The Minnesota Supreme Court ruled in favor of a man, charged with a DUI, who claimed he needed the source code to the Intoxilyzer 5000EN to fight charges in court. From an article at the Pioneer Press:
"That's the gist of the decision, that it's discoverable," said Underdahl's attorney, Jeffrey Sheridan, of Eagan. "The problem is, the manufacturer of the thing thinks they can hold it back and not tell anybody how it works. For all we know, it's a random number generator."
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frooge writes:
With the recent release of iD's catalog on Steam, it appears DOSBox is being used to run the old DOS games for greater compatibility. According to a post on the Halflife2.net forums, however, this distribution does not contain a copy of the GPL license that DOSBox is distributed under, which violates the license. According to the DOSBox developers, they were not notified that it was being used for this release.
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morpheus83 writes:
Talk about last minute upgrades: In a press release today, Apple has revealed a number of significant upgrades to both the iPhone's battery life and touch screen. Instead of around 5 hours of video/talk and 16 hours of audio playback, Apple has updated the iPhone's battery life rating to the following numbers: up to 8 hours talk time, a whopping 250 hours of standby (over 10 days), 6 hours of internet use, 7 hours of video playback and 24 hours of audio playback. The original 3.5" plastic surface of the iPhone has been changed to "optical-quality" glass, which should bring some smiles to those who were concerned about the durability of the phone's primary feature and user interface.
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janoc writes:
Apparently not only China is censoring Flickr. Flickr has recently introduced filters to filter out images deemed inappropriate. Unfortunately, the filters are now forced also on the German users (together with Singaporeans and Korean users). Photos marked "moderate" or "restricted" are invisible even to their own authors if they happen to be in one of the restricted countries. However, users from elsewhere can still see them just fine if they disable the "Safe search" feature in preferences — this option is not available to Germans anymore. There is a large discussion about this issue going on here: link.
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internic writes:
In 2003, a 17-year-old Georgia boy named Genarlow Wilson was convicted of felony aggravated child molestation for having consensual oral sex with a 15-year-old girl at a party. Yahoo is reporting that, after serving 28 months of the manditory minimum 10-year sentence, a judge has now reduced his sentence so that he can go free, calling the case, 'a grave miscarriage of justice.' But it seems that he's not going free after all, because Georgia's attorney general is appealing the case. The New York Times and ESPN have covered the case in the past characterized it as unjust. Georgia state law has already been changed to make these actions a misdemeanor, but the change is not retroactive. The Yahoo article also points out that, 'If he had instead had sexual intercourse with the teen, he would have fallen under Georgia's "Romeo and Juliet" exception'. Along with the prison sentence, Wilson's conviction earns him a spot on the sex offender registry.
