Comment Is this News? (Score 5, Informative) 271
Providers have been doing similiar things for a while...If you want security, use https.
Comment My favourite part of the article... (Score 1) 140
"As well as fraud the pair are also facing charges under the National Security Act for using illegal professional surveillance equipment,"
What is professional surveillance equipment?
Submission + - Canada: Police do not have power to wiretap without warrant (thestar.com)
omega6 writes: "The Supreme Court of Canada struck down Friday warrantless wiretap powers that police have in cases of emergency. The country’s top court said a 1993 provision of the Criminal Code is unconstitutional because there is no accountability or oversight for the warrantless searches, either to the person wiretapped or in reports to Parliament."
Comment Did the submitter not read the article...? (Score 4, Informative) 358
/. Headline: US Appeals Court Upholds Suspect's Right To Refuse Decryption
Linked Headline: Ruling Stands: Defendant Must Decrypt Laptop
Comment Re:DHS = Ministerium fur Staatssicherheit (Score 1) 385
Actually, here is the list:
http://cryptome.org/2012/01/0001.pdf (its long..so go check if your favorite site is on there)
Submission + - Web links don't constitute defamation, Supreme Cou (theglobeandmail.com)
omega6 writes: Supreme Court of Canada ruled that posting links is not the same as posting the actual content, but more similar to a footnote.
"The top court ruled against former Green party campaign manager Wayne Crookes, who argued that posting links to sites with defamatory statements was the same as publishing the defamatory material."
"The top court ruled against former Green party campaign manager Wayne Crookes, who argued that posting links to sites with defamatory statements was the same as publishing the defamatory material."
Comment Re:Yeah Right. (Score 1) 223
Then would it surprise you to learn, that one of the first things cancer does is re-activate telomerase (the enzyme that extends the chromosomes to prevent deletions)?
Telomeres (the ends of the chromosome) are not extended in most human cells, precisely so that the cell dies after a certain number of replications. Re-activating telomerase will make the cells live infinitely long, and allow them to accumulate a number of mutations, but not die, increasing the risk of cancer.
Telomeres (the ends of the chromosome) are not extended in most human cells, precisely so that the cell dies after a certain number of replications. Re-activating telomerase will make the cells live infinitely long, and allow them to accumulate a number of mutations, but not die, increasing the risk of cancer.
Comment Wrong Issue (Score 1) 104
The issue is not competition or even wireless-related at all. There is a Federal Law specifying some minimum requirements. The cabinet decided that we will give a one-time exception to a particular private company, and allow them to break the law. A federal judge said: no, cabinet cannot do that, if they want to make exceptions in law, they have to do it the proper way: pass a bill, through parliament.
I think this is a great decision since this gives more power to the democratically elected parliament, as opposed to a chosen Cabinet.
(If the ruling party controls only 30% of the votes, they shouldn't have carte blanche to do anything they want, esp. breaking laws)
Comment Comments (Score 1) 2254
Overall good redesign, with two caveats:
1) The user names are tiny now (when people post).
2) I liked the floating comment-depth scroll bar more.
Submission + - Google accused of YouTube 'free ride' (ft.com) 3
An anonymous reader writes: Google accused of YouTube 'free ride'. Telefonica, France Telecom and Deutsche Telekom all said Google should start paying them for carrying bandwidth-hungry content such as YouTube video over their networks.
Submission + - S Korea Announces Daily MMO Blackouts for Youths (koreaherald.co.kr)
eldavojohn writes: Via GamePolitics I heard that South Korea's Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism has announced two new policies that will force underage gamers to pick a six hour block of time (midnight-6 a.m.,1-7 a.m., or 2-8 a.m.) where they will not be able to play nineteen online role playing games. While it targets most popular MMORPGs, some popular games like "Lineage" were left off the list.
Submission + - U.S. Rejects Demands For ACTA Transparency (michaelgeist.ca)
An anonymous reader writes: The U.S. Trade Representative issued a release
just prior to the launch of the New Zealand round of
Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement negotiations
that has left no doubt that the U.S. is the biggest barrier to official
release of the ACTA text. Unlike most other ACTA countries
that have called for transparency without condition, the U.S. has set
conditions that effectively seeks to trade its willingness to
release
the text for gains on the substance of the text.
Submission + - NASA Unveils Sweeping New Programs for Next 5 Yrs
Hugh Pickens writes: "The NY Times reports that after terminating the Constellation program, which was to develop rockets to return humans to the moon, NASA has announced that instead it will focus on developing commercial flights of crew and cargo to the ISS and long-range technology to allow sustained exploration beyond Earth’s orbit, including exploration by humans. "We're talking about technologies that the field has long wished we had but for which we did not have the resources," says NASA administrator, Maj. Gen. Charles F. Bolden Jr. "These are things that don't exist today but we'll make real in the coming years. This budget enables us to plan for a real future in exploration with capabilities that will make amazing things not only possible, but affordable and sustainable." Among the new programs is an effort known as Flagship Technology Demonstrations, intended to test things like orbital fuel depots and using planetary atmospheres instead of braking rockets to land safely, a program that will cost $6 billion over the next five years and will be run by the Johnson Space Center in Houston. Kennedy Space Center in Florida is to get $5.8 billion over five years to develop a commercial program for carrying cargo and astronauts to the space station. These new programs will be “extending the frontiers of exploration beyond the wildest dreams of the early space pioneers,” added Bolden."
Comment Re:Does it affect Firefox on XP? (Score 1) 324
On windows XP, help always launches in IE no matter what your default browser is. (In Vista/7 you can remove IE)
Comment Privacy and Google don't go together (Score 2, Insightful) 391
From the article it says that Google was convicted of violating privacy law for not getting permission to post the video. The nature of the video is irrelevant. I don't know Italian privacy law, but if they do have requirements that you must get permission to post video recordings of people on the internet, then this is Google's problem for not bothering to care about the local laws.
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