You posted this same thing farther up the discussion too, but as I replied there:

Actually it appears that decision was made by the Canadian supreme court, and that it was only the case because the farmer recognized the cross pollination of his crop but continued to use the seed anyway. Furthermore, at least according to wiki Monsanto wasn't awarded any damages in the case because the farmer didn't make any additional profit even knowingly using their seed. That being said the whole thing does still seem a bit ridiculous....

In which case, you're begging the question by presupposing that this law which has not been passed yet applies. I'm not aware of any current law in either the online or offline worlds that would allow me to order pictures of myself destroyed, at least in the US.

So here's what's confusing to me, isn't Comcast in support of SOPA/PIPA? And isn't implementing DNSSEC under that plan one of the major issues with it? So wtf is going on here? It's like they're saying one thing and doing another.....

Mod parent up pls

Wait, does that mean....

Finally! A bittorrent search engine that's legal in the US! Way to go **AA!

...but there is a socioeconomic one in the United States...

Note: Correlation does not imply causality.

And this line of reasoning is how Trusted Computing was born. Wait, you mean we're supposed to trust the client unless we have a good reason not to?!?

While I agree with the view that the slashdot summary, if not the entire case, is bs, I do want to point out that you can indeed affect a CRT display with a permanent magnet if it is sufficiently close. To test this, set up an old CRT display on your computer and place a large speaker (the kind with a 4" - 6" ceramic magnet at the back) directly against the side of your monitor. Observe the distortion this creates.

That being said there's no way the house itself is going to do this to a TV or monitor, the distances involved are just too great. And you can completely forget about affecting a hard drive for a number of different already mentioned reasons.

Where have you been? From WP:

I'll let you do the probability calculations on one 10m (or even 1000m) asteroid hitting another. I'll give you a hint though, it's astronomically small.

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[citation needed]

No, trusted computing is useful. What corporations are trying to do with it is eevil...

Actually that's not entirely true, the primary reason for our unused fiber is lack of the open access agreements/requirements which other countries have instated.

You going to cite that? Because I have trouble believing it.

This was my thought too when I read this headline.

FTFY

Also, In case anyone wants a source.