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Comment Free energy! (Score 1) 10

by CDenno (#27280053) Attached to: Colorado Woman With Flammable Water Fears Blast
A creative homeowner could turn this potential disaster into a windfall... install an entrained gas separator on the incoming water line and harvest the natural gas heating fuel. Not exactly for the faint of heart, but better than waiting for your house to blow up if you leave your faucet on.
The Courts

Another Attempt At Using the Courts To Suppress an Online Review 180

Posted by Soulskill from the it's-true-i-read-it-on-the-internet dept.
gandhi_2 writes with this excerpt from the SF Chronicle: "A San Francisco chiropractor has sued a local artist over negative reviews published on Yelp, the popular Web site that rates businesses. Christopher Norberg, 26, of San Francisco posted the first review in November 2007 after visiting Steven Biegel at the Advanced Chiropractic Center on Valencia Street. In the six-paragraph write-up, Norberg criticized Biegel's billing practices and said the chiropractor was being dishonest with insurance companies. ...The Electronic Frontier Foundation, a local nonprofit that supports free speech online, is considering helping with Norberg's defense. Matt Zimmerman, an attorney with the group, said Biegel will get far more negative publicity from filing the lawsuit than from a bad review on Yelp. He said the foundation is seeing more and more cases of people trying to use the courts because they're unhappy with postings on the Internet."
Security

UK Court Rejects Encryption Key Disclosure Defense 708

Posted by samzenpus from the do-not-pass-go dept.
truthsearch writes "Defendants can't deny police an encryption key because of fears the data it unlocks will incriminate them, a British appeals court has ruled. The case marked an interesting challenge to the UK's Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA), which in part compels someone served under the act to divulge an encryption key used to scramble data on a PC's hard drive. The appeals court heard a case in which two suspects refused to give up encryption keys, arguing that disclosure was incompatible with the privilege against self incrimination. In its ruling, the appeals court said an encryption key is no different than a physical key and exists separately from a person's will."

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