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Comment News for nerds? Stuff that matters!? (Score 1) 549

by Zarn (#30531706) Attached to: Florida Congressman Wants Blogging Critic Fined, Jailed

Thank you Timothy, for rolling out the red carpet for all the batshit crazy
  commenters by promoting a foxnews fabrication on Slashdot. I've been
  lurking for years but you got me mad enough to post now.

Check your F-ing sources. Get a second and a third source. Foxnews
does not get the benefit of the doubt, not on Slashdot.

What were you THINKING??
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Submission + - Court Rejects RIAA's Proposed Protective Order (blogspot.com)

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NewYorkCountryLawyer
NewYorkCountryLawyer writes: "You may recall that a few weeks ago the Court rendered a detailed decision providing for safeguards in connection with the RIAA's proposed inspection of the defendant's hard drive in SONY BMG Music Entertainment v. Tenenbaum. The decision instructed the RIAA to submit a proposed protective order consistent with the Court's decision. The RIAA submitted a proposed protective order yesterday, which attracted some thoughtful commentary by readers of my blog, but today the Court rejected the RIAA's suggested order, explicitly rejecting many of the 'enhancements' included by the RIAA, including production of 'videos' and 'playlists' which might be found on the hard drive. Instead the Court entered an order the Court itself had drafted. The Court explained that 'the purpose of compelling inspection is to identify information reasonably calculated to provide evidence of any file-sharing of Plaintiffs' copyrighted music sound files conducted on the Defendant's computer. Once this data is identified by the computer forensic expert....any disclosure shall flow through the Defendant subject to his assertion of privilege and the Court's authority to compel production, just as disclosure would occur in any other pre-trial discovery setting..... (1) As should have been clear from the Court's May 6, 2009 Order, although the Plaintiffs may select experts of their choosing, these individuals are not to be employees of the Plaintiffs or their counsel, but must be third-parties held to the strictest standards of confidentiality; (2) the inspection is limited to music sound files, metadata associated with music sound files, and information related to the file-sharing of music sound files — it shall not include music "playlists" or any other type of media file (e.g., video); (3) the Examining Expert shall be required to disclose both the methods employed to inspect the hard drive and any instruction or guidance received from the Plaintiffs.'"
Transportation

Submission + - Freshman Republican opposes 'TSA porn'

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Not content to simply follow the "anything to protect American lives," Conservative Freshman Representative Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) has introduced a bill to prohibit mandatory full body scans. Rep. Chaffetz states "The images offer a disturbingly accurate view of a person's body underneath clothing, ..." He goes on to note that the American Civil Liberties Union has expressed support for the bill.

Maybe we don't need tin-foil sportscoats to go with our tin-foil hats. For reference, Prison Planet has a thread featuring images from the millimeter wavelength imager.

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