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+ - Prenda lawyer kicked off 9th Circuit case

Submitted by rudy_wayne
rudy_wayne writes "On Friday, Paul Hansmeier, a Minnesota attorney who has been pointed to as one of the masterminds of the Prenda copyright-trolling scheme, filed an emergency motion to stay the $81,000 sanctions order while he and his colleagues could mount an appeal. Today the appeals court flatly denied his motion.. Two appellate judges signed this order, and it gives Hansmeier the option to make a plea for delay with the district court judge. That would be US District Judge Otis Wright, the judge who sanctioned Hansmeier in the first place.

Hansmeier is also getting kicked off a case he was working on that was totally unrelated to Prenda's scheme of making copyright accusations over alleged pornography downloads. On Friday, the 9th Circuit Commissioner ordered Hansmeier, in no uncertain terms, to withdraw a the case involving Groupon since he has been referred to the Minnesota State Bar for investigation. The commissioner has delayed Hansmeier's admission to the 9th Circuit because of Wright's order, which refers to Wright's finding of "moral turpitude.""

+ - Google demands Microsoft pull YouTube app for WP8->

Submitted by exomondo
exomondo writes "Google has given Microsoft until May 22nd to pull their Windows Phone 8 YouTube app from the marketplace and disable it on customer devices. It not only includes a built-in ad blocker but also allows users to download videos and doesn't impose device-specific streaming restrictions outlined in the YouTube Terms Of Service."
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Comment: Re:in 50 years how does it adapt? (Score 1) 694

by symbolset (#43729697) Attached to: "Dramatic Decline" Warning For Plants and Animals
The Earth: It is a large sphere. As equatorial insolation becomes extreme it falls off as a sine of the latitude. It cannot go unsurvivable for humans without the Earth shifts its orbit or the sun goes nova. Climate changes happen gradually enough that you could walk to your new best climate. To suffer the ills projected by the warmists you would have to stand your ground on your beachfront property for three generations and refuse to move.

Comment: Don't (Score 1) 1

Since this article isn't going to be accepted I may as well reply. The answer to your question is: don't. Don't redefine yourself as signature bits.

If you've got some anonymous activism to do then school up on the methods and practices that it would be self-defeating to educate you on here.

If you need to do secure communications it would behove you to stay away from the Internet and work on the primitives like blind drop and clear sign.

If you must do some confidential stuff over the Internet use serious encryption with keys manually passed.

Comment: Re:in 50 years how does it adapt? (Score 1) 694

by symbolset (#43729509) Attached to: "Dramatic Decline" Warning For Plants and Animals
Let's go with habitable for humans then. How many degrees C increase do you think it would take before the vast expanses of the Russian and Canadian Arctic, more surface area than man lives in now, were rendered uninhabitable to humans because it was too hot for men to live? 20C? 30? 40? If summer temps increased by 40C in some of these places, the locals would take to wearing shorts in summer in the sunny spots but would still need polar down in winter and on the North side of the mountain. In the wildest possible extrapolation of your runaway global warming scenario, could 40C possibly happen? No. You're freaking out about 0.6C of warming as if it wasn't a good thing. If it swung the other way, billions would die.

Comment: Re:in 50 years how does it adapt? (Score 1) 694

by symbolset (#43729363) Attached to: "Dramatic Decline" Warning For Plants and Animals
Let me help you out. Some three million years ago when CO2 levels were the same as now, and average temps were 8C higher than now, this place had a nice habitat for fir trees that has since moved South. Fir trees don't grow there now because it is too cold. If because the level of CO2 has again reached these prior levels the temperature increases in this place again, then fir trees will grow again. Implicit in that is that the region might support human habitation and agriculture without external logistical support. Because the latitude includes about one third of the Earth's terrestrial surface area, it's a pretty big deal.

The unfacts, did we have them, are too imprecisely few to warrant our certitude.

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