Comment Re:You can't transfer a 'vote' (Score 1) 501
Can you not nominate a proxy to vote on your behalf?
Submission + - Egyptian Government Jailing Bloggers
Chardish writes: "The UK Telegraph is reporting that the Egyptian government has begun jailing bloggers critical of the regime. Shortly before his capture, one of the now-jailed bloggers posted that he had been suspicious that the police were spying on him. Another claims he was tortured. How long before bloggers start being forced offshore to free-speech-friendly countries?"
Submission + - BBC joins HD DVD crack distribution
An anonymous reader writes: BBC Click news covers one censorship story and inadvertently starts another. Is it ok to post the key's if you're covering a story?
http://www.dslinux.org/blogs/pepsiman/?p=81
Submission + - YouTube to be sued by English Premier League
An anonymous reader writes: The BBC is reporting that the English Premier Football League, with high profile content worth $5.5bn over the next 3 years, has launched a lawsuit against YouTube and its owner Google claiming unspecified damages. This will be the second major attack on the site since Google's purchase, who are already defending a $1bn suit lodged by Viacom. Are the floodgates now gradually starting to open and how many well funded organisations with extremely powerful legal teams can Google hope to successfully defend against before being forced to settle?
Submission + - Brazil voids Merck AIDS drug patent
JoeBackward writes: "Merck has this useful anti-AIDS drug Elfavirenz, and Brazil has lots of poor people with AIDS. So, after trying really hard to get Merck to cooperate on pricing, the Brazilian government has decided to take a "compulsory license" to the patent, and get the drug from a factory in India. This "compulsory license" is basically a way to take the patent by eminent domain. Check out this story from the Reuters news agency."
Why Are T1 Lines Still Expensive? 556
badfrog asks: "Over the last 10 years, DSL and cable modem has upped its speed (although in some instances only slightly) and dropped its price. However, the price of a T1 has stayed almost exactly the same. If you had asked me 10 years ago, I would have predicted any geek that wanted to would have fiber or their own T1 line to the house by now. What is with this sad state of affairs that a 'business class' 1.544Mbit connection is hundreds of dollars more than a 6Mbit cable connection? Is it a legitimate case that a high upload rate should increase cost so significantly?"
Submission + - How to legally determine an anonymous coward's ID
CPE1704TKS writes: My girlfriend is running into a weird situation. Someone is posing as her and sending her friends on her friendster account messages asking for their IM account names. Some of them have been duped and have even engaged in conversation with this person. What can I do (legally) to determine this person's true identity.
I was able to determine this person's IP address by putting trackers on specific web pages and sent those pages to them to look at. I even set up a fake AIM account and chatted with this person, pretending to be someone who thought she was my gf.
Now what?
I have the person's IP address, and I know the city that they live in, based on it. Is there any way I can narrow down who they are? If people post grey-area or not-so-legal tactics, as a law-abiding citizen, I would never do such a heinous thing, but it would be educational to know what tricks and tips there are out there to figure out who this person is.
I was able to determine this person's IP address by putting trackers on specific web pages and sent those pages to them to look at. I even set up a fake AIM account and chatted with this person, pretending to be someone who thought she was my gf.
Now what?
I have the person's IP address, and I know the city that they live in, based on it. Is there any way I can narrow down who they are? If people post grey-area or not-so-legal tactics, as a law-abiding citizen, I would never do such a heinous thing, but it would be educational to know what tricks and tips there are out there to figure out who this person is.
