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Comment Re:Normandy? Why not Pearl Harbor? Or Hiroshima? (Score 2) 63

Honestly, if Nokia was an amurican company I doubt the tone in /. would be quite the same. Nokia's network side is making a profit, they're selling the mobile branch so them doing a low-end project in Android, the OS of 1000+ devices, is supposed to be an evil plot of some kind? You can call them a patent troll when they start trolling, thus far they've been almost too gentle compared to the Samsung/Apple/etc. which keep slinging mud at each other over this and that.

Comment Re:Quick... (Score 1) 252

That's not what the NSA did, and US legal code applies to US citizens, not foreign ones. Also, if the NSA is operating within boundaries set by other laws like the PATRIOT Act, which they were, then they're in the clear.

Blame the law and the politicians for poor oversight, the NSA is just a bureaucracy told to go do something without sufficient guidelines and oversight.

Yeah, it's asymmetric to say the least; NSA hacks foreigners by the millions and should one poor bastard get through to pentagon then it's suddenly a hanging crime.

Submission + - Thousands of Germans threatened with €250 fines for streaming porn (bgr.com)

PolygamousRanchKid writes: Thousands of German users that have used a porn website to stream shows have received threatening letters from a local law firm demanding €250 ($344) per certain watched clips, Chip.de reports. Apparently, a Swiss-based firm that owns the content hosted by porn site Redtube has tasked a law firm with collecting fines for each of its shows that was streamed online in the region. The law firm has apparently received a go ahead from a local court, and as many as ten thousand warnings may have been set to users, for porn shows watched in August.

However, the court in Cologne may have issued a wrong verdict, German online publication Stern says, allowing the lawyers of U+C to go forward and ask ISPs to disclose names and addresses associated with the IPs which allegedly streamed the porn shows.

More importantly, it’s unclear how their IPs were actually shared with the law firm sending out the warnings in the first place, but their privacy has clearly been violated in some sort of way. Chip.de suggests that these users may have been targeted with malware that harvested their IP addresses in order to be later used in such legal proceedings.

Comment Re:yes and no (Score 1) 326

What most people don't remember is that militaries used to build bombs for fun and then explode them in the atmosphere to see what happens. Castle bravo was the largest US bomb though it only killed one jap and poisoned some islanders; they stumbled upon lithium-7 not being inert so the bomb was actually 3x the predicted yield. Fun all around!

Comment Re:Obligatory (Score 3, Informative) 175

I knew this was familiar, here's a similar article in ny times from 2011. The therapy isn't quite risk free, in the linked article it says that a 39-old woman died when the retrained T-cells targeted a protein in her lungs; just 15 minutes after the injection and she developed breathing problems which I guess goes to show how potent destroyers T-cells can be.

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