Comment: Re:Why would they have problems suing him? (Score 1) 113
It has already happened in an article by Emil Protalinski (the guy in the headline photo):
Facebook is suing Mark Zuckerberg
Is there life inside black holes?->
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jamax writes "From TFA: "Inside the rotating or charged black holes there are bound periodic planetary orbits, which not coming out nor terminated at the central singularity. The advanced civilizations of the third kind (according to Kardashev classification) may inhabit the interiors of supermassive black holes, being invisible from the outside and basking in the light of the central singularity and the orbital photons. "
That's a preprint from arxiv.org, of an article by Vyacheslav Dokuchaev, a russian physisist, working at Institute for Nuclear Research at Russian Academy of Sciences..
While no actual proof (even theoretical) is provided for the existence of life, author argues that under certain circumstance, some black holes may indeed harbour stable planetary systems, even if planetary orbits are a far cry from ellipse-shaped orbits we see everywhere else."
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That's a preprint from arxiv.org, of an article by Vyacheslav Dokuchaev, a russian physisist, working at Institute for Nuclear Research at Russian Academy of Sciences..
While no actual proof (even theoretical) is provided for the existence of life, author argues that under certain circumstance, some black holes may indeed harbour stable planetary systems, even if planetary orbits are a far cry from ellipse-shaped orbits we see everywhere else."
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SPAM: Digital Privacy Rights Erode as Police Increasingl
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How indie developers stop pirates->
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chronodev writes "An Indie game creator — Garry Newman (Garry's Mod) found a creative way of dealing with pirates. He put in an error in his game that triggered when running a pirated version of the game. He then asked in his tweeted if anyone was "unable to shade polygon polynomials". Soon responses flowed in, unveiling those users who pirated the game."
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Prof Hawking's Team Gets A New Supercomputer ->
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judgecorp writes "The UK's COSMOS astrophysics group in Cambridge, led by Professor Stephen Hawking, has got a new supercomputer. It's a big-name case study for supercomputer maker SGI — and trumps Dell's recent proud announcement that NASA is using PowerEdge servers for climate research."
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Touchscreens Gain Programmable Texture Coverings->
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HizookRobotics writes "A new covering developed by Senseg and Toshiba Information Systems gives touchpads, LCDs, and other curved surfaces (eg. cellphones) programmable texture using a high-resolution electrotactile array — a grid of electrodes that excite nerves in the skin with small pulses of current to trick the body into perceiving texture, pressure, or pin-pricks depending on the current amplitude and electrode resolution. The new covering has many potential applications: interactive gaming, touchscreens with texture, robot interfaces, etc. Find out more at Hizook.com"
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SPAM: Vitamin C puts the brakes on cancer cell growth
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mjan2010 writes "A half century ago, Linus Pauling began his pioneering research into how vitamin C impacts health ([spam URL stripped]). Now, almost 25 years after Pauling's death, a new study backs up his contention that vitamin C has remarkable healing and protective benefits. In fact, now scientists have discovered how vitamin C may put the brakes on the growth of cancer cells."
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Netflix invests hugely in on-demand content
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Alan426 writes "The New York Times reports that Netflix has entered a deal worth about $900 million over five years to acquire the online distribution rights for new releases from three major Hollywood studios.
The Epix deal will add new releases like "Iron Man" and "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" to Netflix's catalog, greatly enhancing the streaming service that the company markets to subscribers as part of an $8.99 package that also includes DVD deliveries. It was the second film deal for Netflix this summer, coming a month after a pact with Relativity Media, the firm run by Ryan Kavanaugh.
All the more reason for
Comment: Civil Liberties (Score 1) 158
You make an interesting point. That article you linked to is Fiona Patten, the leader of the Australian Sex Party and the Eros Association so you have to admit that she’s not purely objective/independent in this situation. Also, I think both censorship and refugees have to do with civil liberties.
For the record, I agree with your position against that censorship, but I don’t see how you can conclude that it is the main issue in this election.
From my understanding, censorship in the context of the filtering Refused Classification (RC) rated internet content is impractical for a variety of reasons, will reduce internet speeds and could be a slippery slope to more draconian censorship. Australian’s treatment of refuges and the demonisation of the boat people already leads to pain, suffering and death of a very vulnerable group of people that Australia has already agreed to protect through international conventions.
When I look at it this way, I don’t see how you could conclude that censorship is a more important issue and voting should be made along censorship.
Comment: Supporting citizens vs supporting a platform (Score 5, Insightful) 393
Here is the BBC story if anyone is interested: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/10514367.stm
Governments using modern technology to support/educate users should be encouraged - it will assist the UK IT industry employment, grow UK IT capabilities and give citizens the information they need when they need it. But at the same time, a government should be careful not strongly benefit one closed source platform over other platforms. Of course this doesn't mean that the UK government should build applications in all mobile platforms - just that they should build at lease some software application on another platform - preferably an open source one.