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Android

Submission + - IGDA warns against Amazon's app store (wordpress.com)

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ConfusedVorlon
ConfusedVorlon writes: "Amazon reserves the right to control the price of your games, as well as the right to pay you 'the greater of 70% of the purchase price or 20% of the List Price.'

The IGDA's bottom line is simple: under Amazon's current terms, Amazon has little incentive not to use a developer's content as a weapon with which to capture marketshare from competing app stores."
EU

Submission + - EU about to vote on copyright extension (wordpress.com)

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ConfusedVorlon
ConfusedVorlon writes: "Christian Engström (Pirate MEP) writes : Monday or Tuesday this upcoming week there will be another round in the fight against prolonging the copyright protection term for recorded music in the EU. Now is an opportunity to contact MEPs, Members of the European Parliament, and persuade them to vote against the term extension."
Security

Submission + - Passenger not guilty despite annoying the TSA (papersplease.org)

Submitted by ConfusedVorlon
ConfusedVorlon writes: A six-woman Bernalillo County Metropolitan Court jury has found Phil Mocek “NOT GUILTY” of all of the charges brought against him following his arrest in November 2009 at the TSA checkpoint at the Albuquerque airport.

Annoying the TSA is not a crime. Photography is not a crime. You have the right to fly without ID, and to photograph, film, and record what happens. Your best defense is your own camera and microphone. Ordinary jurors know, and are prepared to recognize with their verdict, that the TSA and police lie about what they are doing and why.
Portables (Apple)

Submission + - What rating for the Web?

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ConfusedVorlon
ConfusedVorlon writes: "My app Fast Web which is currently live in the iTunes store with a rating of 4+ just got an update rejected.

Fast Web is just a web browser, it presents any page on the internet, but uses Google to optimise the page so that it downloads more quickly.

Unhelpfully, Apple told me that they can't approve the current rating, but don't say what rating might be appropriate.

the categories are:

Cartoon or Fantasy Violence
Realistic Violence
Sexual Content or Nudity
Profanity or Crude Humor
Alcohol, Tobacco, or Drug Use or References
Mature/Suggestive Themes
Simulated Gambling
Horror/Fear Themes
Prolonged graphic or sadistic realistic violence
Graphic sexual content and nudity

Each has to be rated as "None", "Infrequent/Mild" or "Frequent/Intense"

However if the web contains even infrequent/mild 'graphic sexual content and nudity' then Apple won't allow the app at all.

I can conclude from the fact that Mobile Safari _is_ available that the web must be free of 'graphic sexual content and nudity'.

By the same logic, I can conclude that the web must be free of 'Prolonged graphic or sadistic realistic violence'.

Regarding such elements as 'Profanity or Crude Humor' and 'Sexual content and nudity', how would Slashdot rate the web? None? Infrequent/Mild? Frequent/Intense?"
Security

Submission + - Correction: uk can't hold people for 42 days! (slashdot.org)

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ConfusedVorlon
ConfusedVorlon writes: "re 'UK Can Now Hold People Without Charge For 42 Days'

-this is not true. The house of commons has passed a bill which would allow this, however it would have to be ratified by the lords to become law.

The lords is very unlikely to ratify the bill and the house of commons will not be able to force it past the
lords for a year.

Please post an update. This is a terrible day for UK rights, but the story you post is not true."
Privacy

Submission + - Id theft leads to job loss and prosecution (bbc.co.uk)

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ConfusedVorlon
ConfusedVorlon writes: "Here is one for the 'Done nothing wrong, nothing to fear' brigade. The BBC reports: Simon Bunce had his credit card details stolen. They were used at a child porn website that was part of Operation Ore which resulted in him being prosecuted in the UK. He has now proven his innocence, but he still lost his job and it took him six months to find another at a quarter of the salary. Pedophiles and terrorists are used to justify many extensions of legal powers. Here, the power to seize all of a man's computers and drives before anything was proven cost him dear."
Television

Submission + - Nuclear Hacking Pranksters Acquitted (hobbyistsoftware.com)

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ConfusedVorlon
ConfusedVorlon writes: "It's good to see the courts in at least one land have a sense of proportion. When the artistic group Ztohoven hacked the tv weather report to show a nuclear explosion in the background they say they were showing how the media can influence perception. Czech TV were not amused and took them to court for 'Spreading false information'. The courts acquitted them yesterday."
Privacy

Submission + - UK DNA database. Is it good to solve crimes?

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ConfusedVorlon
ConfusedVorlon writes: "Storing DNA records of people who are arrested and never charged seems like an infringement of civil liberties.
However I have lived in a country where crime is out of control so I'm sympathetic to an initiative that does solve rapes, murders and other crime.

Franklin's statement that 'Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.' seems too trite for me. How should we weigh the risks versus the benefits of an initiative like this?

The Independant discusses the UK DNA database along with it's Big Brother Britian feature."

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