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Comment Apple should pull the authorization, if it is true (Score 1) 1

by newsblaze (#34741540) Attached to: Apple support company sues customer for complaint
The Greek economy is in the toilet and maybe they thought they could just rip off a few customers and nobody would know. If so, they are so far behind the times they don't know the internet can be used to reveal all the bad things they do to customers. Perhaps they were ripoff car repairers in a former life.

Submission + - Thousands of blackbirds fall from sky dead (reuters.com) 1

Submitted by Dan East
Dan East writes: In a fashion worthy of a King or Hitchcock novel, yesterday blackbirds began to fall from the sky dead. Somewhere between 4,000 and 5,000 birds rained down on the small town of Beeb, Arkansas, with no visible trauma. Officials are making wild guesses as to what happened — lightning strike, high-altitude hail, or perhaps trauma from the sound of New Year's fireworks killed them.
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Submission + - Judge Declares Federal Healthcare Unconstitutional (bryanhealey.com)

Submitted by healeyb
healeyb writes: In a surprise move, U.S. District Judge Henry E. Hudson issued a ruling today that the universal healthcare law that was pushed through by the Obama administration is unconstitutional. Specifically, he invalidated the section of the law that requires all citizens to purchase healthcare insurance, arguing that it does not fall under the purview of Commerce Clause of the constitution, as has been asserted by the government. — The ruling represents the first major setback for President Barack Obama on an issue that will likely end up at the Supreme Court. Two other courts have shot down challenges to the law...

Submission + - UN Rights Expert Calls for Scrapping of Draft Wire (newsblaze.com)

Submitted by newsblaze
newsblaze writes: Italy has a draft law on surveillance and eavesdropping that could jeopardize journalists and threaten freedom of expression. The UN doesn't like it and they are calling for the abolition or revision of the bill. Anyone not accredited as a professional journalist can be imprisoned for up to four years for recording a conversation without the consent of the person involved and then publicizing that information. Four years seems a bit draconian, but people should know they are being recorded. Across Italy, journalists and citizens protested against the draft law, and some journalists went on strike. I couldn't discover what would trigger the maximum penalty. This is similar to a 2007 bill that was stopped — lobbyists never give up!

Comment LED listing is good (Score 1) 1

by newsblaze (#32202546) Attached to: Sylvania takes on 60-watt bulb with LED light | Gr
The LED replacements lights could be good. I have a dimmable LED light array that I use for videos on NewsBlaze and it is amazingly good, battery consumption is low. I hope they last longer than the useless CFLs I have in my house, that cost 5 times more than the incandescents but often expire more quickly.

Comment Re:database research ideas (Score 1) 6

by newsblaze (#30288840) Attached to: What to show 7/8 graders in database research?
In whatever terms you want them to do, but to do a search, first they must understand what possible results they will get. Very few people can get the exact results they wanted on a single search, so I'm suggesting they learn about refining searches. Once they have a result, they can look at it and decide if it is reasonable, it it looks like what they were expecting and if not, why not - and then what do they do about it.

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