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Submission + - Julian Assange Closer to Packing His Bags (cnn.com) 1

Submitted by JakartaDean on Wednesday May 30, 2012 @04:45AM

JakartaDean writes: Julian Assange lost his appeal before Britain's Supreme Court on Wednesday, which takes him another step closer to extradition to Sweden for questioning on sexual abuse accusations filed against him in August 2010.
But the court will allow Assange's attorneys to file a petition for the court to reconsider the ruling, which upheld an extradition order handed down in February 2011.

Comment The Trinity Explained - God is like a Shamrock (Score 1) 1054

by DarthSmeg on Wednesday March 21, 2012 @03:26AM (#39424151) Attached to: Teacher Suspended For Reading <em>Ender's Game</em> To Students

God is like a shamrock. He's small, green and split three ways

Comment Wouldn't it be nice ... (Score 1) 81

by DarthSmeg on Tuesday November 22, 2011 @09:23AM (#38134556) Attached to: ITC Rules Apple Does Not Infringe S3 Graphics Patents

... if HTC, Apple and all the others spent their time and money making better products instead of on War Chests?

If they competed on the strength of their merit instead of on the size of their legal funds?

I'll crawl back into my little dreamworld now.

Comment Re:Mafiaa all over again! (Score 1) 316

by DarthSmeg on Thursday November 11, 2010 @09:23AM (#34195348) Attached to: 3D Printing May Face Legal Challenges

Yeah.

It's definitely NOT okay to kill people in creative and innovative ways!

AU Internet Censorship Spells Bad News For Gamers 152

Posted by Soulskill on Wednesday February 24, 2010 @02:11AM from the no-hope-for-call-of-duty-kangaroo-wars dept.

eldavojohn writes "Kotaku is running an investigative piece examining what internet censorship means for games in Australia. Australia has some of the most draconian video game attitudes in the world, and the phrase 'refused classification' should strike fear in game developers and publishers looking to market games there. Internet censorship may expand this phrase to mean that anybody hosting anything about the game may suffer censorship in AU. Kotaku notes, 'This means that if a game is refused classification (RC) in Australia — like, say, NFL Blitz, or Getting Up — content related to these games would be added to the ISP filter. [This would bring up] a range of questions, foremost of those being: what happens when an otherwise harmless website ... hosts material from those games (screenshots, trailers, etc) that is totally fine in the US or Japan or Europe, but that has been refused classification in Australia?' Kotaku received a comment from the Australian Department of Broadband Communication promising that the whole website won't be blocked, just the material related to the game (videos, images, etc). Imagine maintaining that blacklist!"

Comment Re:What Psystar is forgetting about (Score 1) 865

by DarthSmeg on Monday November 02, 2009 @10:49AM (#29950134) Attached to: Apple Says Booting OS X Makes an Unauthorized Copy

No, they would be owners of a shiny plastic disc. Apple retains ownership of the software. Users of software do not become owners of the copyright held in the software.

That's like saying that if you buy a book, you own the pieces of paper but not the letters on them. It's nonsense.

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