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US Appeals Court Upholds Suspect's Right To Refuse Decryption 358

Posted by Soulskill
from the still-vulnerable-to-$5-wrench-decryption dept.
An anonymous reader writes "The U.S. 11th Circuit Court of Appeals has found that forcing a suspect to decrypt his hard drive when the government did not already know what it contained would violate his 5th Amendment rights. According to Orin Kerr of the Volohk Conspiracy, 'the court's analysis (PDF) isn't inconsistent with Boucher and Fricosu, the two district court cases on 5th Amendment limits on decryption. In both of those prior cases, the district courts merely held on the facts of the case that the testimony was a foregone conclusion.'"
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The Pirate Bay On Track To Be Banned In the UK? 309

Posted by Unknown Lamer
from the cue-rob-halford-stage-left dept.
redletterdave writes with this excerpt from the International Business Times about the fate of the Pirate Bay in the UK: "Swedish filesharing website The Pirate Bay may soon be blocked in the UK after a London judge ruled that the site breaches copyright laws on a large scale, and that both the platform and its users illegally share copyrighted material like movies and music. In addition to finding legal fault with The Pirate Bay and its users, the British Phonographic Industry also wants all British ISPs to block access to The Pirate Bay in the UK."

Comment: Re:More feel good legislation. (Score 1) 473

1. People use bulbs more than you let on. 2. 1.2 kwH = 4.32x10^6 Joules (see here) 3. The efficiences will scale to billions of fixtures, over many years. 4. The industry is actually fine with the legislation and already prepared. 5. LED lightbulbs, public transit, diesel cars and tap water are not mutually exclusive. (And I thought SF's transit was pretty decent, anyhow) 6. We have bigger fish to fry than fighting over lightbulbs. Why do people care so much?

Comment: We got rid of the aristocracy (Score 2) 183

by Atmchicago (#38549634) Attached to: Arise SIR Jonathan Ive
In the US, we threw out the whole notion of titles a few hundred years ago. Of course, that doesn't stop people from reverting to their instinctual need to kow-tow to authority. Why do Americans care about the British royal wedding (but no other)? Were I ever to meet Jonathan Ive, or any of the other "knights," I would call him Mr., lest he have a higher degree (MD, PhD, etc.).

Comment: Re:The USPS is *not* a traditional business (Score 1) 713

by Atmchicago (#38276262) Attached to: USPS Ending Overnight First-Class Letter Service
I live in a US city that's not in the top 10. Is it big? By some standards, I guess. What does it matter? Part of my decision to live where I am revolves around transportation costs, rent, and so forth. These are supposedly "market driven." I can live elsewhere, if the cost of living or some other factor there suits me more. People who choose to live in a rural place should pay for the consequence that mail is more expensive to deliver, just like people in NYC pay high rent.

Comment: Re:The USPS is *not* a traditional business (Score 1, Insightful) 713

by Atmchicago (#38262994) Attached to: USPS Ending Overnight First-Class Letter Service
They can still take a few cues from business. For example, charge more for rural delivery. Why should a letter to Middle-of-Nowhere Alaska cost the same as one to New York City? To put this another way, why should peope who live in NYC subsidize mail delivery to Alaska?

Next to being shot at and missed, nothing is really quite as satisfying as an income tax refund. -- F. J. Raymond