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Comment Re:Have some shame (Score 1) 589

Imagine yourself stuck in a case where you are facing 30+ years

In the end I served 30 months in federal prison. It was easy time, and I was in a medium security facility. I cannot say it was pleasant, but it was not even close to being a scenario in which I could have been the victim of homosexual rape

Maybe you are not pretty enough?

Comment Re:The Chinese... (Score 1) 544

You, and those who modded you up, are completely retarded. Your military strength means nothing, any war of magnitude between China and the US will utterly fuck up the entire world including the US. Unless your willing for that to happen your military is useless as a threat until such a point such major consequences is better than what you currently have. The US wont even attack a backwater like North Korea who is hated because your scared of China and the potential nukes in North Korea.

Comment Re:Finally, the year of Linux (Score 1) 106

While MS can be blamed for many things don't forget the manufactures also, is it win7 fault your machine locks or shitty drivers provided for your sound card etc? I run win7ultimate64 with Intel SSD and the only problems I have had was after upgrading my gfx card games would stutter and every so often huge drop in frame rates, installing newer beta version nvidia drivers cleared it up.
Piracy

Submission + - Piracy is a Market Failure - Not a Legal One (thestar.com) 1

Mr.Fork writes: "Michael Geist, Canada's copyright law guru and law prof at the University of Ottawa, posted an interesting observation about the copyright issue of piracy. Canada's International Development Research Centre, came to a conclusion that "piracy is chiefly a product of a market failure, not a legal one" after a multi-year study of six relevant economies."

Comment Re:GPS usage (Score 1) 325

IMHO Being a vastly older country UK towns tend to be "mishapen" or even circular unlike the simple grid/block system that is so common un the US, and yes it can be very hard to spot road signs. To e blunt our towns/cities just were not planned well from the start and now grown too large to fix them. As a Brit who has been driving in the US multiple times, visiting an unknown area is far easier in the US than the UK..

Comment People leaving Aircon on even when not at home (Score 2, Insightful) 393

Jesus I cant believe how many people seem to leave aircon on during the day while at work etc, what exactly is the reason for this?? I am a UK expat living in Thailand...Thailand gets extremely hot and pushes 100% humidity regularly so aircon is wonderful however I only ever cool rooms im actually using and only when people are in the house, as does everyone else I know... If you cant stand being hot for even 30 mins while the rooms cool down can you not at least put things on timers to cool it before you get home from work??
Education

Parents Baffled By Science Questions 656

Pickens writes "The BBC reports that four out of five parents living in the UK have been stumped by a science question posed by their children with the top three most-asked questions: 'Where do babies come from?', 'What makes a rainbow?' and 'Why is the sky blue?'. The survey was carried out to mark the launch of a new website by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills called Science: So what? So everything."
Input Devices

Microsoft Hardware Demos Pressure-Sensitive Keyboard 212

Krystalo writes to tell us that Microsoft hardware has an interesting demo of a pressure-sensitive keyboard they have designed. While there are no currently announced plans to turn this into a shipping product, there are many cool uses that one could imagine a device like this providing. "The device will be put to use in the first annual Student Innovation Contest in Victoria, Canada, where contestants will be supplied with a keyboard prototype and challenged with developing new interactions for it. Contestants will demo their creations and attendees will vote for their favorite at the conference on October 5. $2,000 prizes will be given to the authors of programs deemed as the most useful, the best implementation, and the most innovative."
Medicine

Psychopaths Have Brain Structure Abnormality 438

mmmscience writes "A group of scientists has identified a structure in the brain of psychopaths that is abnormal when compared with controls. The change is found in the uncinate fasciculus, a bridge of white matter that connects the amygdala (emotion/aggression brain region) and the orbitofrontal cortex (decision making region). Interestingly, the greater the abnormality in the region, the more severe the levels of sociopathy in a subject. The results were published as 'Altered connections on the road to psychopathy' in the journal Molecular Psychiatry. A researcher on the team suggests the finding could have considerable implications in the world of criminal justice, where such scans could one day be presented as evidence in a trial." The study's results have not yet been replicated by other researchers.
The Courts

RIAA Moves To Keep Revenue Info Secret 130

NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "In the Boston, Massachusetts case SONY BMG Music Entertainment v. Tenenbaum, the Court had ordered the RIAA to produce certain revenue information, which would be relevant to a determination of the 'fair use' defense. The RIAA has now moved for a protective order to keep the information 'confidential.' In the opinion of the undersigned, the fact that the motion is made jointly by four competitors shows that any claim suggesting the information is valuable or 'proprietary' would be unfounded, and the sole purpose for making the motion is to keep the information out of the hands of lawyers for other defendants, thus increasing the defense costs in other cases."

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