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UK Home Secratary Ban US Martial Arts Expert->

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Big Hairy Ian
Big Hairy Ian writes "An American expert in violent self-defence has been excluded from entering the UK by the Home Office.

Tim Larkin tried to board a plane from his home in Las Vegas on Tuesday, but was given a UK Border Agency letter saying "his presence here was not conducive to the public good". Mr Larkin, who was due to host seminars, told the BBC the move was a "gross over-reaction". The Home Office said he was subject to an exclusion order. A spokeswoman said: "The home secretary will seek to exclude an individual if she considers that his or her presence in the UK is not conducive to the public good." Mr Larkin — who trained as a US Navy Seal — runs a company teaching combat to military and law enforcement clients in the United States.

Some thing's gone wrong here as he's not teaching or even advocating anything that's illegal."
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Zynga sues publisher for releasing "ville" game->

Submitted by KingofSpades
KingofSpades writes "Zynga is suing (Google Translation) Kobojo, a French game publisher, for releasing Pyramidville. The point of the game is to create and manage an egyptian city. This is too much for Zynga, which believes that this publisher is exploiting the reputation of Zynga's ville games. The complaint is now on line."
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Comment: Re:IT employers again conspire against employees (Score 1) 402

by Mr. Shotgun (#39765283) Attached to: Apple and Google Face Salary-Fixing Lawsuit

Just recently there was a bill before congress to eliminate overtime for IT employees. Nobody else, just IT employees.

The bill being referred to by the parent was the CPU act (cute acronym). The status is here. Thankfully it seems kinda stalled but three more cosponsors signed on since it was first read on Oct 20, 2011.

Comment: Re:As much as I hate to say it.. (Score 5, Insightful) 59

If Fox News' Derp-O-Sphere can label patent trolls as terrorists and inform the pitchfork and shotgun base.... that *might* actually be helpful.

That would be nice as patent trolls care little for political affiliation and will happily shake down a republican as well as a democrat. But alas the comment section for this story on Foxnews is mostly filled with complaints about Fark, not the lesson from the story itself. People seem content to hate each other for their political leanings, and won't realize some issues transcend politics and need cooperation to root out.

Comment: Re:I take exception to the term "mistake" (Score 1) 498

Oh yeah, it is. But I was just taking the title from the original article. They most likely used "mistake" because there have not been any cases filed yet and they don't want to get hit with a suit for libel. Kinda like how most news articles about criminal trials refer to the defendant as allegedly committing a crime up until they are convicted. The news story stinks to high heaven of fraud and negligence but until the story gets told in a courtroom the press kinda has to use neutral terms like mistake and such.

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SFPD Breathalyzer Error Puts Hundreds Of DUI Convictions In Doubt-> 1

Submitted by Mr. Shotgun
Mr. Shotgun writes "

Hundreds, or even thousands, of drunk driving convictions could be overturned because the San Francisco Police Department has not tested its breathalyzers, officials said Monday. For at least six years, the police officers in charge of testing the 20 breathalyzers used by the Police Department did not carry out any tests on the equipment. Officers instead filled the test forms with numbers that matched the control sample, said Public Defender Jeff Adachi, throwing countless DUI convictions into doubt.

Apparently this has happened before."
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Comment: Re:Issue for me is pattern recognition. (Score 1) 204

Over the years, I seem to have trained my brain to seek out patterns in everything I encounter. This makes sleeping rough as any back ground noise resembling human speech causes me to become fully alert as my brain tries to make sense of what it heard. Only solution to this I've found is a good white noise generator that operates on the same frequency patterns as speech.

I had that problem too, best thing i've found is to just get a small fan. Loud enough to drown out most background noise like conversations and walking yet not loud enough to keep you awake.

God grant us the serenity to accept the things we cannot change, courage to change the things we can, and wisdom to know the difference.