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Submission + - Montana close to becoming 1st state to completely ban TikTok (apnews.com)

Submitted by rmdingler on Thursday April 13, 2023 @07:18PM

rmdingler writes: Montana lawmakers moved one step closer Thursday to passing a bill to ban TikTok from operating in the state, a move that’s bound to face legal challenges but also serve as a testing ground for the TikTok-free America that many national lawmakers have envisioned.

So yeah, it's only a matter of time before a conservative State terminates intrastate use of the nefarious Chinese platform that young Americans cannot stop dancing on. Realistically, with VPN's and other browsing cleverness, how enforceable is such a ban? What will be the penalty to Montana's citizens for interacting with a forbidden site?

Submission + - Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz stumps for outlawing Bitcoin

Submitted by rmdingler on Saturday December 02, 2017 @10:10AM

rmdingler writes: The Bitcoin is drawing harsh criticism from Wall Street investment firms and even a Nobel Laurate, who claims "Bitcoin is successful only because of its potential for circumvention," he told Bloomberg TV. "It doesn't serve any socially useful function."

Submission + - Sweden drops investigation of Julian Assange (cnn.com)

Submitted by rmdingler on Friday May 19, 2017 @08:52AM

rmdingler writes: Sweden is dropping its investigation into WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on rape allegations, according to a prosecution statement released Friday. Assange, who has always denied wrongdoing, has been holed up at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London since 2012, in an effort to avoid a Swedish arrest warrant. Despite Friday's announcement, he's unlikely to walk out of the embassy imminently.

There is no apparent change in the risk of being detained in the west, particularly in the US, but it's definitely a win for Assange.

Submission + - Why You Should Care About The Supreme Court Case On Toner Cartridges (consumerist.com)

Submitted by rmdingler on Friday March 24, 2017 @08:24AM

rmdingler writes: A corporate squabble over printer toner cartridges doesn’t sound particularly glamorous, and the phrase “patent exhaustion” is probably already causing your eyes to glaze over. However, these otherwise boring topics are the crux of a Supreme Court case that will answer a question with far-reaching impact for all consumers: Can a company that sold you something use its patent on that product to control how you choose to use after you buy it?

Here’s the background: Lexmark makes printers. Printers need toner in order to print, and Lexmark also happens to sell toner.

Then there’s Impression Products, a third-party company makes and refills toner cartridges for use in printers, including Lexmark’s.

Submission + - IBM's Watson used in life-saving medical diagnosis

Submitted by rmdingler on Sunday December 11, 2016 @11:53AM

rmdingler writes: Supercomputing has another use.

"There's a 60-year-old woman in Tokyo. She was at the University of Tokyo. She had been diagnosed with leukemia six years ago. She was living, but not healthy. So the University of Tokyo ran her genomic sequence through Watson and it was able to ascertain that they were off by one thing. Actually, she had two strains of leukemia. The did treat her and she is healthy."

Submission + - Thanks to the Princess, Han wasn't always solo

Submitted by rmdingler on Wednesday November 16, 2016 @08:05PM

rmdingler writes: It seems the chemistry was strong with these two. It is interesting to note how long it took this to emerge, as by today's standards, it doesn't rise to nearly the same level of scuttlebutt.

Submission + - Trump is the presumptive Republican nominee

Submitted by rmdingler on Tuesday May 03, 2016 @09:03PM

rmdingler writes: Ted Cruz drops out of the race after losing in Indiana. Donald Trump has become the presumptive nominee before Hillary has locked things up versus Bernie.

This is huge.

Submission + - Dwarf Planet big on frozen water reserves

Submitted by rmdingler on Sunday January 31, 2016 @10:28AM

rmdingler writes: A new map created by NASA of the New Horizons flyby of Pluto shows much more frozen water that scientists initially expected. Using LEISA to photograph from 108,000 kilometers(the recently demoted planet has a lot more of the frozen liquid is water, rather than methane, carbon monoxide, and nitrogen as originally posited.

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