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LHC Flips On Tomorrow 526

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday September 09, 2008 @06:07PM from the nice-knowing-you-all dept.

BTJunkie writes "The Large Hadron Collider, the worlds most expensive science experiment, is set to be turned on tomorrow. We've discussed this multiple times already. A small group of people believe our world will be sucked into extinction (some have even sent death threats). The majority of us, however, won't be losing any sleep tonight." Reader WillRobinson notes that CERN researchers declared the final synchronization test a success and says, "The first attempt to circulate a beam in the LHC will be made this Wednesday, Sept. 10 at the injection energy of 450 GeV (0.45 TeV). The start up time will be between (9:00 to 18:00 Zurich Time) (2:00 to 10:00 CDT) with live webcasts provided at webcast.cern.ch."

YouTube Reposts Anti-Scientology Videos 435

Posted by timothy on Tuesday September 09, 2008 @11:38AM from the fun-and-easy-to-destroy-stuff dept.

Ian Lamont writes "YouTube has reposted anti-Scientology videos and reinstated suspended YouTube accounts after receiving thousands of apparently bogus DCMA take-down notices. Four thousand notices were sent to YouTube last Thursday and Friday by American Rights Counsel, LLC. After YouTube users responded with counter-notices, many of the videos were reposted. It turns out that the American Rights Counsel had no copyright claim on the videos, and the group may not even exist, although the text of the DCMA notices have been linked to a Wikipedia editor. While filing a false DMCA notice is a criminal offense, prosecution in these cases rarely comes about."

Google Will Anonymize IP Logs Faster 97

Posted by timothy on Tuesday September 09, 2008 @09:56AM from the time-to-make-a-baby dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The BBC reports on some changes to the data retention policy at Google in response to pressure from European authorities, but also included in the article is information about why Google claims they need to retain non-anonymised data for so long. Improving services, sure, but preventing fraud? Aiding 'valid legal orders'?" Reader s0ckratees points to some commentary on the change at Google's official blog. The upshot: IP addresses in Google's logs will be anonymized after nine months, rather than 18 as previously.

Submission + - US to employ overhead spying domestically (washingtonpost.com) 1

Submitted by DigitAl56K on Sunday April 13, 2008 @08:47AM

DigitAl56K writes: The Washington Post reports that, "The Bush administration said yesterday that it plans to start using the nation's most advanced spy technology for domestic purposes soon" and that Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff has said that "Sophisticated overhead sensor data will be used for law enforcement". Last year CNET reported on at least one county in North Carolina already using a UAV to "monitor gatherings of motorcycle riders at the Gaston County fairgrounds from just a few hundred feet in the air — close enough to identify faces".

Discovery Channel's Future Weapons has provided insight into numerous UAVs, including the Fire Scout, Global Hawk, Predator 2, and the Dominator, their coverage of the Predator 2 particularly demonstrating surveillance and tracking capabilities of these units.

According to DefenseNews the US Air Force just announced the purchase of 28 Predators as part of a contract awarded to General Atomics. The US Air Force has just begun running ads on cable TV as part of their "Above All" campaign that feature the UAVs (sorry, no online video yet).

Initially, it appears that the administration plans to leverage conventional satellites for domestic surveillance purposes.

Behave yourself, citizens.

Submission + - Vote Swapping Ruled Legal!

Submitted by cayenne8 on Tuesday August 07, 2007 @01:34PM

cayenne8 writes: Way back when (2000), during that election, there were some sites set up (voteswap.com and votexchange.com) for people across the nation to agree to swap votes. This was set up mostly for Nader and Gore voters to work against Bush.

California representatives threatened to proscute these sites as criminal offenses, and many of them shut down. On Monday, the 9th US court of appeals upheld that "the websites' vote-swapping mechanisms as well as the communication and vote swaps they enabled were constitutionally protected" and California's spurious threats violated the First Amendment. The 9th Circuit also said the threats violated the U.S. Constitution's Commerce Clause."

See the story HERE .

Comment Re:How (Score 1) 666

by Carter313 on Friday June 08, 2007 @01:12AM (#19433937) Attached to: Man Sues Gateway Because He Can't Read EULA

What gets me is that you can go to the store and purchase a copy of some kind of software. You get home and attempt to install it and you don't like the terms of the EULA, what is your recourse if you don't like the terms of the EULA? Most stores have a policy of no opened software returns, only an exchange for another copy of the software. So, by not agreeing to the terms of the EULA you have given money away in exchange for a useless copy of whatever software with no way of getting a refund for your purchase. The guy is probably gonna get raped in court but I can't see how it is fair or just that a person either accept the EULA or be out their money with no or little possibility of a refund.

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