The current situation in the UK was on my mind when reading up on this case. It seems like, at least currently, in the US defamation and libel suits have a hard time proceeding except when it's incredibly blatant, or when the plaintiff has far more in the way of resources than the defendant. Having done a bit of business in the UK, and having a few relatives who've done a lot more, I've been getting the feeling that media there would be scared to do a lot of the things that media in the US currently takes for granted.

Several of his earlier posts had already been up on Slashdot when they were new last month. Though the previous posts have more information, it seemed odd to link to them after having gone there from the newer post.

And unless they're transmitting from the middle of nowhere, it's extremely hard to get a narrow enough search area to find one person with a radio setup that might be quite small. You might know that they're in a particular apartment complex, but without searching room-by-room, DF systems aren't good enough to get an exact location.

Even in the US, it takes quite a bit of effort (and some luck) to find people using a radio improperly. When I lived in Maryland, there was a guy who made fake distress calls via his marine radio on several weekends in a row. The state police & USCG narrowed the search area down to a fairly small area, but since it was in the middle of a marina, they couldn't determine which boat it was coming from. (He eventually got caught when someone who had been on the pier at the marina overhead him making the transmission.)

But T-Pain's on a boat!

Or that the sampling wasn't properly randomized.

Just like AIS, except in cars?

Except for the fact that the much-shortened reaction time in operating a car versus a ship makes that almost useless, that's a great idea!

But all microcontrollers include a microprocessor.

Except that it's the colonies used by commercial beekeepers that are among the hardest-hit by CCD, and their replenishment programs can't keep up with the loss. If a cure for CCD can't be found, in a few years the supply of hives will be lower than the demand for pollination services.

But a 200 page novella does?

I've always disliked the 'number of books read' metric. I could re-read all 38 Discworld books in about the same amount of time it took to read the Night's Dawn trilogy.