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Comment Re:And as usual (Score 1) 238

> Intentionally disabling your services on a competitors device is a dickweed move, and probably hurts Google
> in the long term too. How many affected consumers will be willing to purchase anything from a Google owned
> company after this short sighted, childish move ?

Did you know Amazon refuses to release a Roku app for their Prime Video service in Canada? For over a year since they "rolled out" Amazon Prime video to Canadians? The US folk have an App, but not Canadians (and maybe many other regions? Dunno).

Who's the dickweed again?

Comment Re:And as usual (Score 2) 238

Except if you are in Canada. We just got Prime Video a year ago. Amazon WILL NOT release a Roku app in Canada (it's not Roku, it's Amazon that provides the app). So, no Chromecast support, no Roku support. It seems Amazon doesn't want me to watch their service. Fine.

I'm not buying a FireTV device.

Not sure I can support Amazon Prime anymore.
The Internet

Court: 'Repugnant' Online Discussions Aren't Thoughtcrime (arstechnica.com) 155

Posted by Soulskill from the lucky-for-AC dept.
An anonymous reader writes: The U.S. 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals has issued a ruling in favor of former NYPD officer Gilberto Valle — the so-called "cannibal cop." In 2012, Valle was fired and arrested for going online and talking about his fantasies, which included kidnapping, murder, sexual assault, and cannibalism. He was later convicted in a jury trial. A district court judge overturned the conviction, but the government appealed, hoping to make it stick. The Appeals Court has now affirmed Valle's acquittal. In the ruling (PDF), the court notes, "We are loathe to give the government the power to punish us for our thoughts and not our actions. That includes the power to criminalize an individual's expression of sexual fantasies, no matter how perverse or disturbing. Fantasizing about committing a crime, even a crime of violence against a real person whom you know, is not a crime." The court also addressed the government's questionable efforts to use the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act to increase the severity of Valle's punishment: "While the Government might promise that it would not prosecute an individual for checking Facebook at work, we are not at liberty to take prosecutors at their word in such matters."
The Courts

Federal Court Invalidates 11-Year-old FBI Gag Order On NSL Recipient 81

Posted by Soulskill from the moving-at-the-speed-of-government dept.
vivaoporto writes: The Calyx Institute reports that an 11-year-old gag order has been lifted from the recipient of a National Security Letter served by the FBI in 2004. A federal court found there wasn't a "good reason" to keep the man, Nicholas Merrill, from talking about it, "nor has the Government provided the Court with some basis to assure itself that the link between disclosure and risk of harm is substantial." The judge who invalidated the gag order, Victor Marrero, is the same judge that struck down a portion of the revised USA PATRIOT Act in 2007, forcing investigators to go through the courts to obtain approval before ordering ISPs to give up information on customers, instead of just sending them a National Security Letter. After a 90-day waiting period (for the government to mull an appeal), Merrill will be able to say whatever he wants about the case, finally completing the partial victory he managed back in 2010.

Comment Quick solution? (Score 1) 737

by Xciton (#49345061) Attached to: Germanwings Plane Crash Was No Accident

Maybe a new second master override code can be provided to the flight attendants during an incident (via air-phone with ground control) that completely override the pilots lock would cover this issue. There would have to be a risk-assessment on the ground in order to provide this code. Although I'm not sure if there is enough time to do this (8 minutes?).

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