Comment Re:Civil America extinct (Score 3, Informative) 675
Nunavut is almost exactly three times as big as Texas. Nunavut is 808,190 square miles according to wikipedia, and Texas is 268,820 square miles.
Comment Re:SKY TV set top box (Score 1) 480
meh. Back in the 80s when I had a VCR, unless there was a timed program I wanted to watch, I didn't consider the time worth my while. To dig out the manual, or to try and figure out the programming of the device. Total waste of time when I was learning a new assembler language, as opposed to IBM's assembler. Obligatory: Get off my lawn!
Comment Re:Constitutionality (Score 0, Troll) 630
Once upon a time, I saw an old drunk piss on a bus's tire at a transfer point/bus stop where I lived, while middle and high school kids were around. Grossed everyone out and he was arrested. Sex offendor? not imho but needed a long time away from kids until he learned appropriate behaviour in public. Lifelong sentence? Perhaps, if it happened multiple times.
How To Supplement Election Coverage? 241
An anonymous reader asks "What information sources and social networking sites will you be using to supplement the election coverage on TV next Tuesday? I am ready with a big HDTV with Comcast, a Mac mini, and and an Xbox 360. I also have two laptops (one good for websites and one for streaming video), an old-school Blackberry, a 'regular' cell phone, a Nokia N810, a Squeezebox, and finally Sirius Satellite Radio. Which websites should I watch for live county results? I already know about the Twitter Vote Report for tracking and reporting voting issues and I already watch 'CNN Reporters' on Friendfeed for the national flair. What other Twitter accounts should I follow? Which urgent ones should I send to my phones? Which YouTube accounts or keywords I should subscribe to in Miro? What are the most popular sites for posting 'on-scene' videos — iReport, Flickr, something else? I know most local Fox affiliates are great about streaming, but is there a page that lists all of the streams, in case I need to quickly focus on one city or area? Basically, how would you configure all those gadgets?" This reader might find some guidance in what to focus on from a video produced by reader (and data modeler) Bruce Nash that lays out a predicted timeline for when the media will call each state, depending on when the polls close and how tight each race is expected to be.
DOJ Opposes Extending DOJ Copyright Authority 141
I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "The White House has opposed the bipartisan bill that would create copyright cops on the grounds that it would cause the Department of Justice to end up 'serving as pro bono lawyers for private copyright holders.' And while they do occasionally prosecute criminal copyright infringement, they have no intention of dabbling with civil cases because, 'taxpayer-supported department lawyers would pursue lawsuits for copyright holders, with monetary recovery going to industry.' At this rate, the discovery of winged suiformes would appear to be imminent."
Comment Re:to quote bash.org... (Score 1) 821
Because rouges are OP
Submission + - FBI Doesn't Tell Courts About Bogus Evidence
dprovine writes: According to a joint investigation by series of articles in The Washington Post and
60 Minutes, a forensic test used by the FBI for decades is known to be invalid. The National Academy of Science issued a report in
2004 that FBI investigators had given "problematic" testimony to juries. The FBI later
stopped using "bullet lead analysis", but sent a letter to law enforcement officials
saying that they still fully supported the science behind it. Hundreds of criminal
defendants — some already convicted in part on the testimony of FBI experts — were
not informed about the problems with the evidence used against them in court.
Does anyone at the Justice Department even care about what effect this will have on
how the public in general (and juries in particular) regards the trustworthiness of
FBI testimony?
Submission + - Book copies Wikipedia; Publisher aggressive on IP. (wikipedia.org) 1
An anonymous reader writes: Two pages of a book, Black Gold: The New Frontier in Oil for Investors, consist of a direct copy from the English Wikipedia article on the Khobar Towers Bombing. The book is published by John Wiley and Sons, the same publisher who, earlier this year, threatened a blogger with legal action over a clear case of fair use commentary.
Submission + - Hans Reiser interview on ABC's 20/20
baegucb_18706 writes: I haven't seen the interview, but there's an article that gives more detail then previous write-ups, and what the defense strategy may be. http://abcnews.go.com/2020/story?id=3807336&page=1
