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Submission + - Julian Assange to run for Australian Senate (abc.net.au)

Submitted by bozman8 on Saturday March 17, 2012 @02:07AM

bozman8 writes: Announced recently on social networking platform Twitter, Julian Assange has found a way to run for the Upper House of the Australian Senate; despite being detained under house arrest in Britain. Along with Julian's candidacy, Wikileaks has announced that they are going to run a nominee against current Prime Minister Julia Gillard in her local electorate.

Comment Re:See? We don't need "security theater" anymore! (Score 1) 809

by bozman8 on Saturday December 26, 2009 @08:49PM (#30559786) Attached to: Man Tries To Use Explosive Device On US Flight

Exactly. Generally people know who are going to be the "terrorists" and who are the average Joes. Its pretty obvious that the person who is Muslim is going to be more apt to blow up a plane where a generic white guy drinking a coke isn't going to want to. Yeah, we can be fooled, but on just about every plot this has held true.

How on earth can anyone just "know" who is going to be the terrorist? What you are saying is that you are stereotyping them on what they look like, and if they look Middle Eastern they are a suspected terrorist, which is quite a dangerous mentality. That "generic white guy" could be having suicidal thoughts and think lighting a firecracker on a plane would be the best way to stir controversy, and because he has nothing to live for does it. Labelling people because of what they look like only leads to making them scapegoats, which ultimatley leads to hate crimes as people get 'revenge'(even though that Arab guy walking down the street hasn't done anything wrong).

EULAs For Malware 105

Posted by kdawson on Monday April 28, 2008 @11:51PM from the must-read-russian dept.

I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "The authors of the Zeus malware have added an end-user license agreement to their product. The buyer is, of course, permitted to infect as many computers with Zeus as they please, but they have no right to distribute it for 'any business or commercial purpose not connected with this sale,' and they can't examine the source, use it to control non-Zeus botnets, or send it to anti-virus companies. Oh, and they commit to paying for future upgrades, too — wouldn't Microsoft love to be able to add that term to their EULA. While it seems silly to imagine Zeus's authors going to the authorities for violations of this EULA, if they're anything like the Russian Business Network, they probably have an extra-judicial means of contract enforcement named Ivan. That said, this is by no means the first EULA-encrusted malware."

Hans Reiser Guilty of First Degree Murder 1395

Posted by kdawson on Monday April 28, 2008 @07:32PM from the so-much-for-the-geek-defense dept.

Anonymous Meoward writes "Today Hans Reiser was found guilty of first degree murder in Oakland, California. Quoting Wired: 'In a murder case with no body, no crime scene, no reliable eyewitness and virtually no physical evidence, the prosecution began the trial last November with a daunting task ahead... The turning point in the trial came when Reiser took the stand in his own defense March 3.' Whether he really did it or not, Hans basically just didn't know when to shut up."

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