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Comment Subduction Zones (Score 1) 279

by gculling on Sunday July 31, 2011 @09:55PM (#36942986) Attached to: Volunteer Towns Sought For Nuclear Waste

Would there be any problem with setting it into an area near a subduction zone? In this way the radioactive waste should be pushed under, no more chance of it entering the food chain, taken care of in a fashion that doesn't require 10,000 years of constant supervision. There is even a subduction zone relatively near the coast of US which should make it fairly cheap.

OpenTTD 1.0.0 Released 107

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday April 06, 2010 @02:51AM from the and-so-soon dept.

Gmer writes "Eming.com reports that OpenTTD, the open source clone of the Microprose game Transport Tycoon Deluxe, has reached a milestone. OpenTTD 1.0.0 has been released 6 years after work started on the first version, with the help of hundreds of contributors and thousands of testers/players. Over 30 language translations are considered complete, and OpenTTD is available for *BSD, Linux, Solaris and Windows. OpenTTD is a business simulation game in which the player is in control of a transport company and can compete against rival companies to make as much profit as possible by transporting passengers and various goods by road, rail, sea or air."

Landmark Ruling Gives Australian ISPs Safe Harbor 252

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday February 03, 2010 @08:33PM from the pick-on-someone-your-own-size dept.

omnibit writes "Today, the Federal Court of Australia handed down its ruling in favor of the country's third largest ISP, iiNet. The case was backed by some of the largest media companies, including 20th Century Fox and Warner Bros. They accused iiNet of approving piracy by ignoring thousands of infringement notices. Justice Cowdroy said that the 'mere provision of access to internet is not the means to infringement' and 'copyright infringement occurred as result of use of BitTorrent, not the Internet... iiNet has no control over BitTorrent system and [is] not responsible for BitTorrent system.' Many Internet providers had been concerned that an adverse ruling would have forced themselves to police Internet traffic and comply with the demands of copyright owners without any legislative or judicial oversight."

Canadian Censorship Takes Down 4500 Sites 227

Posted by timothy on Tuesday December 29, 2009 @04:00PM from the now-that's-what-I-call-political-science dept.

uncadonna writes "According to activist group The Yes Men, the government of Canada has shut down two parody websites criticizing Canada's poor environmental policy. The article goes on to claim that 'In response to Environment Canada's request, Serverloft immediately turned off a whole block of IP addresses, knocking out more than 4500 websites that had nothing to do with the parody sites or the activists who created them. Serverloft was shown no warrant, and never called the web hosting company about the shutdown.'"

Submission + - Comcast Pays Out $16Million in P2P Throttling Suit (arstechnica.com)

Submitted by eldavojohn on Tuesday December 22, 2009 @06:41PM

eldavojohn writes: Comcast has settled out of court to the tune of $16 million for P2P throttling class action lawsuit in Pennsylvania. You may be eligible for up to $16 restitution if 'you live in the United States or its Territories, have a current or former Comcast High-Speed Internet account, and either used or attempted to use Comcast service to use The Ares, BitTorrent, eDonkey, FastTrack or Gnutella P2P protocols at any time from April 1, 2006 to December 31, 2008; and/or Lotus Notes to send emails any time from March 26, 2007 to October 3, 2007.' $16 million seems a bit on the low end and it's too bad this was an out of court settlement instead of solid precedence for your right to use P2P applications and traffic. It's not clear on how this affects the slough of other Comcast P2P throttling suits or if they are included in this settlement or even if this satiates the FCC.

AU Authority Moves To Censor Net Filtering Protest Site 225

Posted by kdawson on Monday December 21, 2009 @02:17AM from the shortcutting-the-udrp dept.

An anonymous reader writes "On Friday the Sydney Morning Herald reported that an Internet censorship protest site had been set up under the banner 'Stephen Conroy: Minister for Fascism' and was ironically registered under the very name of the Australian Communications Minister responsible for trying to mandate the compulsory filtering scheme in federal law, stephenconroy.com.au. Within hours of the story being published, auDA, the Australian Domain Name Authority, had shut down the site, giving the owners only 3 hours to respond to a request to justify their eligibility for the domain. Normally auDA would allow several days to weeks for this process. An appeal to request an extension was denied, with no reason given. The site was quickly moved to a US domain, stephen-conroy.com in order to stay active while the dispute with auDA is resolved."

UK Government Seeks New Web Censorship Powers 187

Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday December 16, 2009 @01:42PM from the well-that's-not-good dept.

oldandcold writes "Given the recent coverage and controversy over Australia's forthcoming web censorship system, it is somewhat surprising (and worrying) that Clause 11 of the UK's proposed Digital Economy Bill seems to have gone by largely unnoticed. It amends the Communications Act 2003 to insert a new section 124H that could give the Secretary of State powers to order ISPs to block pretty much any website for pretty much any reason. Such orders would not require the scrutiny of parliament, or anyone else for that matter, because the Secretary of State would not be required to publish them."

Aussie Gov't To Introduce Bill That Would Require ISP-Level Censorship 200

Posted by timothy on Tuesday December 15, 2009 @10:34AM from the lovely-people-shame-about-the-government dept.

bennyboy64 writes "iTnews reports that the Australian Government has announced its intention to introduce legislation that will make ISP-level filtering mandatory for all refused classification material hosted overseas. The Government intends to amend the Broadcasting Services Act in August 2010 to enforce the filter, and expects the filter to be operational within a further twelve months. 'The report into the pilot trial of ISP-level filtering demonstrates that blocking RC-rated material can be done with 100 percent accuracy and negligible impact on internet speed' Senator Conroy, Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy said." This despite, as reader Sharky2009 writes, the trial run showing that "a technically competent user could circumvent filtering technology based on ACMA’s blacklist."

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