Comment Good excuse for school (Score 0) 147
If your teacher said what was your excuse this time for late homework, you say "blame your door right there, it is the cause of my memory loss."
Comment Re:Government responsible says, 'Look, commies'. (Score 1) 281
According To battlefield 3, Russia is the bad guys. Right?
Comment Land of the Dream? (Score 1) 757
I thought it is the land of the Dream and DEA destroyed 88-years-old's dream? LoL.
US Copyright Czar Cozied Up To Content Industry 162
Nemesisghost writes "According to emails obtained via a Freedom of Information request, the U.S. Copyright Czar played an important role in brokering the deals between ISPs and copyright holders to punish subscribers whose IP addresses participated in copyright infringement. From the article: 'The records show the government clearly had a voice in the closed-door negotiations, though it was not a signatory to the historic accord, which isn’t an actual government policy. ... [T]he communications show that a wide range of officials — from Vice President Joe Biden’s deputy chief of staff Alan Hoffman, the Justice Department’s criminal chief Lanny Breuer to copyright czar Victoria Espinel — were in the loop well ahead of the accord’s unveiling. "These kind of backroom voluntary deals are quite scary, particularly because they are not subject to judicial review. I wanted to find out what role the White House has played in the negotiation, but unfortunately, the OMB (Office of Management and Budget) withheld key documents that would shed further light on it," Soghoian said when asked why he sought the documents.'"
Comment We are lying along because.. (Score 0) 320
We are lying, but it is not our fault, It's EARTH's FAULT for pulling our damn moral compass! damn Earth!
Comment Mhmm Weird Scientist, (Score 0) 253
"The Code Has Already Been Written" sound like Scientists don't believe in evolutionary while Programmers do. Really?
Comment Evolutionary calls (Score 0) 118
Adapt or die.
Nuff Said.
Submission + - Hackers a Credible Threat to Dams? (internationalrivers.org) 1
rhinokitty writes: International Rivers, an anti-dam organization that has been fighting big hydro developtment since 1985, provides testimony from three campaigners about the feasibility of dams being decommissioned by "hackers."
"I have never heard of a dam being attacked by a computer hacker and find the whole concept quite intriguing. How do you send a computer virus to attack a huge chunk of concrete on a river?" Aviva Imhof, Interim Executive Director
Outlook not so good?
"I have never heard of a dam being attacked by a computer hacker and find the whole concept quite intriguing. How do you send a computer virus to attack a huge chunk of concrete on a river?" Aviva Imhof, Interim Executive Director
Outlook not so good?
Submission + - Assange police reports leaked on to the internet (nzherald.co.nz)
An anonymous reader writes: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is getting a dose of his own medicine, with details of the confidential Swedish police pre-trial investigation continuing to be leaked on the internet.
The latest leak is a 100-page fax between Assange's Swedish and British lawyers that was posted to a website on January 27 by an unknown person.
Although Swedish chief prosecutor Eva Finne decided that there was no rape case to answer for Assange and rescinded the warrant for his arrest, the documents show that the police continued to investigate the WikiLeaks founder and interviewed witnesses for months.
A full translation of the police records is available here.
The latest leak is a 100-page fax between Assange's Swedish and British lawyers that was posted to a website on January 27 by an unknown person.
Although Swedish chief prosecutor Eva Finne decided that there was no rape case to answer for Assange and rescinded the warrant for his arrest, the documents show that the police continued to investigate the WikiLeaks founder and interviewed witnesses for months.
A full translation of the police records is available here.
Submission + - AT&T Sued for Systematic iPhone Overbilling
Hugh Pickens writes writes: UPI reports that AT&T is facing a lawsuit that says AT&T routinely bills for 7 percent to 14 percent more data transactions than normally takes place that could blossom into a costly class-action case. Court papers claim that attorneys set up a test account for an iPhone, then closed all of its apps and left the device unused for 10 days. AT&T still billed the account for 2,292 KB of usage. "A significant portion of the data revenues were inflated by AT&T's rigged billing system for data transactions," say court papers filed on behalf of AT&T customer Patrick Hendricks. "This is like the rigged gas pump charging you when you never even pulled your car into the station." Attorneys say they would file to have the case moved to class-action status, which makes the outcome relevant to all of AT&T's iPhone accounts.
Comment Wow... (Score 1) 151
I looks on to this story with stern face.. momentarily later, i cries freely. I salutes you, Tal Golesworthy. You should win Nobel Prize for this kind of stuff! Also, you made me consider my major by looking more into engineering in university!
Comment Happy Ending is but an illusion (Score 0) 299
i misread that statement and i thought Pi finally have an ending to its story! Guess not.
Comment Re:From Specifics Upwards (Score 0) 180
Isn't passing a law that makes something originally outside the law to remain outside the law rather oxymoronic?
Hmm, is it? I vaguely recall a set of laws that certain things shall remain outside the law to be rather highly thought of somewhere...
"Congress shall make no law" sound familiar?
"Congress shall make no law" is too vague. explain more what you mean by that..?
Copernicus Reburied As Hero 369
CasualFriday writes "Mikolaj Kopernik, a.k.a. Nicolaus Copernicus, the 16th-century astronomer whose findings were condemned by the Roman Catholic Church as heretical, was reburied by Polish priests as a hero on Saturday, nearly 500 years after he was laid to rest in an unmarked grave. On Saturday, his remains were blessed with holy water by some of Poland's highest-ranking clerics before an honor guard ceremoniously carried his coffin through the imposing red brick cathedral and lowered it back into the same spot where part of his skull and other bones were found in 2005."
Comment Re:Google is interested in the technology (Score 0) 101
brillant statement of the day.
