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Comment Re:Using the truth to bolster a lie (Score 3, Informative) 291

by Stunning Tard (#28702605) Attached to: Canadians Find Traffic Shaping "Reasonable"

Perhaps the model of charging X amount for X speed is flawed then.

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In Canada/USA/Europe and other locations the current model is broken.

You are misinformed, Rogers already uses a "data and speed billing model". E.g. Their regular plan has a 60GB monthly cap with overage charges. (I'm a customer). So now, with the cap system in place, they need to back the f*** off the traffic shaping agenda.
Social Networks

Submission + - Digg lets members fine advertisers (pcpro.co.uk) 4

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Barence
Barence writes: "Digg has introduced a novel new advertising scheme which lets members financially punish the companies behind poor ads. The new ads will appear alongside regular stories on the Digg homepage, and users are invited to either Digg or bury them as normal. "The more an ad is Dugg, the less the advertiser will have to pay," says Mike Maser, the site's chief strategy officer. "Conversely the more an ad is buried, the more the advertiser is charged, pricing it out of the system.""
Microsoft

Submission + - MS Issues Fix for FireFox Add-on in .Net Framework

Submitted by Pigskin-Referee
Pigskin-Referee writes: On May 6, Microsoft issued an update to .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 for the .NET Framework Assistant 1.0 for Firefox. It is available at:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=cecc62dc-96a7-4657-af91-6383ba034eab

It adds an uninstall button to the add-on. Further information is available at: http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=963707
Announcements

Submission + - Possible "missing link" unveiled.

Submitted by Narpak
Narpak writes: Researchers have unveiled a 47 million year old creature today at the American Museum of Natural History in New York.

The fossil, nicknamed Ida, is claimed to be a "missing link" between today's higher primates — monkeys, apes and humans — and more distant relatives.
Ida was discovered in the 1980s in a fossil treasure-trove called Messel Pit, near Darmstadt in Germany. For much of the intervening period, it has been in a private collection.

The investigation of the fossil's significance was led by Jorn Hurum of the Natural History Museum in Oslo, Norway.
He said the fossil creature was "the closest thing we can get to a direct ancestor" and described the discovery as "a dream come true"

BBC News

AMD

Submission + - First 40nm GPU

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: First Review of Radeon HD 4770: $99 Monster Review "It seems that the conversion of GPU's manufacturing process has been lagging behind CPU cycle, but this history is going to be rewritten soon, as AMD debuts the world's first graphics processor, RV740, which takes advantage of 40nm processing, which means GPUs will overtake CPUs for the first time in history of IT in terms of production nodes." Review Round up
The Courts

Submission + - The Pirate Bay Aftermath Circus in Swedish Press

Submitted by MaulerOfEmotards
MaulerOfEmotards writes: Reading the Swedish news reports, the turmoil surrounding the aftermath of The Pirate Bay trial continues.

Part of the news are occupied with Tomas Norström, the presiding judge of The Pirate Bay trial. Mr. Nordström is suspected of bias after reports of affiliation with copyright protection organisations, for which he has been charged reported to the appeals court, is rapidly gaining a certain notoriety. The circus around him is currently focused on three points. First, his personal affiliation with at least four copyright protection organisations, a state the potential bias of which he himself fails to see and refuse to admit. Secondly, Swedish trials use a system of several lay assessors to supervise the presiding judge, one of which, a member of an artists' interest organisation, which is far fewer than Mr. Norström himself, was by Mr. Norström made to resign from the trial for potential bias, and his failing to see the obvious contradiction in this casts doubts on his suitability and competence. Thirdly, according to professor of judicial sociology Håkan Hydén the judge has inappropriately "duped and influenced the lay assessors" during the trial: "a judge that has decided that 'this is something we can't allow' has little problem finding legal arguments that are difficult for assisting lay assessors to counter".

The apparent grave legal problems if the trial itself is also of medial interest. Professor Hydén continues with enumerating "at least three strange things" with "a strange trial": Firstly that someone can be sentenced for being accessory to a crime for which there is no main culprit: "this assumes someone else having committed the crime, and no such individual exists here ... the system cannot charge the real culprits or it would collapse in its entirety". It is unprecedented in Swedish judicial history to sentence only an accessory. Secondly, that the accessories should pay the fine for a crime committed by the main culprits "which causes the law to contradict itself". And thirdly that accessories cannot be sentenced to harsher than the main culprit, which means that every downloader must be sentenced to a year's confinement. In closing Me. Hydén sums up by saying that to allow this kind of judgement the Swedish Parliament must first pass a bill making this kind of services illegal, which hasn't been done.

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