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Comment: CanIStream.It (Score 1) 380

I actually built a site/app called "CanIStream.It" ( http://www.canistream.it/ ) just because I wanted to get rid of cable, but I didn't want to search across all of the services. Plus I knew movies would eventually get to the service I had (Netflix, Hulu, Amazon) so I built a reminder system into it. Now when I hear about a movie somewhere, I just pull out my (free!) app and tell it to remind me when that movie is out on Netflix/Hulu/Amazon/etc. I don't get to watch everything right away, but at least I know I'll watch it eventually. /plug

Comment: Re:jury trials cost more money (Score 5, Interesting) 897

by guibaby (#39333877) Attached to: How To Crash the US Justice System: Demand a Trial

Maybe a better plan is for the state to allot the same amount for a defense as they allot for a prosecution. You can still hire your own attorney if you want, but the poor and middle class are far less likely to get overcharged in order to settle. Seems very fair to me, and it keeps prosecutors from bringing BS cases. Might solve all of the problems. Every case is proceeded by a cost, benefit analysis.

Comment: Re:But how do you know if you know? (Score 1) 358

by guibaby (#39150405) Attached to: US Appeals Court Upholds Suspect's Right To Refuse Decryption

There is a "plain site" exception to the FOTPT. If you have a warrant, and while legally pursuing that warrant you find something else, the thing you find is fair game. For instance: If I serve a search warrant to find evidence that you ripped the tags off of your mattresses and when I walk in to the house I see your "grow" operation, I am free to charge you and use the evidence against you.

That's assuming the "force" mentioned above is in the form of a warrant. Otherwise they would not be able to use any of the evidence they found on the computer, including the stuff they were looking for.

FOTPT applies in the instance that your grow room is no where near anyplace that could contain a mattress or anyplace you have to walk through to get to a mattress and the officer goes out of his or her way to look for something other than tags on mattresses. At that point anything they find is off limits and any evidence they get that solely comes from direct knowledge of what they found is FOTPT, and can not be used. IANAL but once upon a time I worked in LE.

Idle

Why US Gas Mileage Advances Don't Help Consumers a-> 2

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greenrainbow
greenrainbow writes "The average, fuel efficiency for US vehicles actually increased by 60 percent between 1980 and 2006 but at the same time cars in the US got bigger (by 26% on average) and their horsepower increased (by 107 hp on average), which, when factored in, means that the average fuel efficiency of American cars only increased by a mere 15%. Almost all of the new technology went into making cars more efficient per pound of weight so that the cars could get bigger and still fit within average mile per gallon expectations."
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Movies

A quick way to find out where a movie is available->

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DeionXxX
DeionXxX writes "We recently launched a new web and mobile call called CanIStream.It to easily search across various site to figure out if and where a movie is available for streaming/rental/purchase instantly. If a movie is not available, you can set a reminder and the site will email you when the movie is available.

We built the site and the app for the community, and we've been listening and adding more services and features. We're not trying to do everything and build a huge service, just a small tool to search quickly for a movie to watch."
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Comment: No Value (Score 1) 200

by DeionXxX (#36962258) Attached to: Is Google+ a Cathedral Or a Bazaar?

Pseudonyms and Anonymous users provide absolute no value to Google. Google isn't a charity, it provides services because of the data it gathers about users for targeted advertising.

Facebook / Twitter / etc also rely on advertising and user information but they don't care about fake information because these fake accounts make their site look good to investors. Google on the other hand actually cares about REAL data, they don't want their algorithms to be soiled with fake data.

Biotech

Ruling Upholds Gene Patent In Cancer Test 173

Posted by timothy
from the every-pair-of-genes-is-a-hand-me-down dept.
diewlasing writes with a report in the New York Times which begins: "In a closely watched case, a federal appeals court ruled on Friday that genes can be patented, overturning a lower court decision that had shocked the biotechnology industry." Techdirt has some insightful commentary on the ruling.

If you push the "extra ice" button on the soft drink vending machine, you won't get any ice. If you push the "no ice" button, you'll get ice, but no cup.