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Comment How embarassing for India (Score 4, Interesting) 20

by Paktai on Tuesday April 29, 2025 @02:17PM (#65340507) Attached to: India Court Orders Proton Mail Block On Security Grounds

This is another of those stories where it quickly becomes obvious that the legal system has no idea what it's doing.
Also,

... the service, which has already been banned in Russia and Saudi Arabia

What august company. They're trying to deal with abusive emails to women and bomb threats. Saudia Arabia and Russia are well known paragons of women's rights and crusading against terrorism.

Air Canada Ordered To Provide Nut-Free Zone 643

Posted by samzenpus on Friday January 08, 2010 @07:09PM from the no-nuts dept.

JamJam writes "Air Canada has been told to create a special 'buffer zone' on flights for people who are allergic to nuts. The Canadian Transportation Agency has ruled that passengers who have nut allergies should be considered disabled and accommodated by the airline. Air Canada has a month to come up with an appropriate section of seats where passengers with nut allergies would be seated. The ruling involved a complaint from Sophia Huyer, who has a severe nut allergy and travels frequently. Ms. Huyer once spent 40 minutes in the washroom during a flight while snacks were being served."

Feed Rullemarie robot shot, bludgeoned with axe after attempted arrest (engadget.com)

From feed by engfeed on Thursday June 07, 2007 @02:53PM

Filed under: Robots

As we've seen, robots can be quite capable of making arrests (or at least helping police make arrests). But even the best robots sometimes meet their match, as evidenced by this latest turn of events out of the Netherlands. It seems that police were having trouble contacting a man that was holding out in a cottage, so they decided to send in their trusty "Rullemarie" robot on a mission of peace. The criminal doesn't appear to have been in a mood to negotiate, however, and promptly shot the unarmed bot a few times before bludgeoning it with an axe. Sadly, the damage appears to have so extensive that even a robot MASH unit would likely not have been of any help.

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Earth Life Possibly Could Reach Titan 237

Posted by Zonk on Friday March 17, 2006 @06:43PM from the bacteria-with-heavy-coats-now-thriving-there dept.

dylanduck writes "New simulations show that big asteroid impacts on Earth could have sent about 600 million boulders flying into space. About 100 have reached Jupiter's moon Europa - but they landed at 24 miles/sec. 'This must be rather frustrating if you're a bacterium that survived launch from Earth,' says a researcher. But 30 boulders from each impact reach Titan - and they land gently." From the article: "'I thought the Titan result was really surprising - how many would get there and how slowly they'd land,' Treiman told New Scientist. 'The thing I don't know about is if there are any bugs on Earth that would be happy living on Titan.' Titan's surface temperature is a very cold -179C and its chemistry is very different from Earth's."

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