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Federal Judge Rules US No-fly List Violates Constitution 276

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday June 24, 2014 @06:40PM from the no-wasp-list-and-no-mosquito-list-remain-unchallenged dept.

New submitter dmitrygr sends this news from Reuters: The U.S. government's no-fly list banning people accused of links to terrorism from commercial flights violates their constitutional rights because it gives them no meaningful way to contest that decision, a federal judge ruled on Tuesday. ... "The court concludes international travel is not a mere convenience or luxury in this modern world. Indeed, for many international travel is a necessary aspect of liberties sacred to members of a free society," [U.S. District Judge Anna Brown] wrote in her 65-page ruling (PDF). "Accordingly, on this record the court concludes plaintiff's inclusion on the no-fly list constitutes a significant deprivation of their liberty interests in international travel," Brown said.

Comment Re:I'm 15 and I ask, is this worth playing? (Score 1) 110

by thred on Friday January 08, 2010 @05:09AM (#30692090) Attached to: <em>M.U.L.E.</em> Is Back

It is more like a table top game than a simulation. Easy to learn, hard to master...

M.U.L.E. Is Back 110

Posted by Soulskill on Friday January 08, 2010 @04:04AM from the not-for-the-red-wings dept.

jmp_nyc writes "The developers at Turborilla have remade the 1983 classic game M.U.L.E. The game is free, and has slightly updated graphics, but more or less the same gameplay as the original version. As with the original game, up to four players can play against each other (or fewer than four with AI players taking the other spots). Unlike the original version, the four players can play against each other online. For those of you not familiar with M.U.L.E., it was one of the earliest economic simulation games, revolving around the colonization of the fictitious planet Irata (Atari spelled backwards). I have fond memories of spending what seemed like days at a time playing the game, as it's quite addictive, with the gameplay seeming simpler than it turns out to be. I'm sure I'm not the only Slashdotter who had a nasty M.U.L.E. addiction back in the day and would like a dose of nostalgia every now and then."

Comment Austria won't pull out of CERN (Score 1) 168

by thred on Monday May 18, 2009 @10:10AM (#27995787) Attached to: Austria To Pull Out of CERN

After a week long discussion Federal Chancellor Faymann just announced, Austria won't pull out of CERN (news Austrian Television (Google Translated)).

Comment Broke this patent two weeks ago (Score 1) 186

by thred on Wednesday October 03, 2007 @04:18AM (#20834295) Attached to: IBM Patents Checking a Box

I have implemented this two weeks ago in an application for the company i work for.....on the 19th Sept...just checked the repository. Heres the code

<script type="text/javascript">
var CheckBoxMultiSelect = {
mouseIsDown: false,
checkBoxIsChecked: false,
initialCheckBox: null,

setMouseIsDown: function(elem, event, value) {
this.mouseIsDown = value;

if ('INPUT' == elem.nodeName) {
this.initialCheckBox = elem;
this.checkBoxIsChecked = !elem.checked;
}
else
this.initialCheckBox = false;
},

onCheckboxMouseOver: function(elem, event) {
if (this.mouseIsDown) {
if ((this.initialCheckBox) && (elem != this.initialCheckBox)) {
this.initialCheckBox.checked = this.checkBoxIsChecked;
this.initialCheckBox = null;
}

elem.checked = this.checkBoxIsChecked;
}
}
}
</script>

<body onmouseup="CheckBoxMultiSelect.setMouseIsDown(this, event, false)"> ....

<input .... onmouseover="CheckBoxMultiSelect.onCheckboxMouseOver(this, event)" onmousedown="CheckBoxMultiSelect.setMouseIsDown(this, event, true)"/> ....
</body>

Do I have to remove this code now?

Submission + - Wii outsells Xbox 360 worldwide (videogamesblogger.com)

Submitted by

Wowzer

on Thursday September 13, 2007 @01:10PM

Wowzer writes: "Despite confusing consoles produced, shipped or sold reports, the Nintendo Wii is now the best-selling system worldwide. Its sales exceed that of the Xbox 360 despite Microsoft's console having a year-long head start. And it's way ahead of the PS3. From the article: 'Approximately 9 million Wiis were purchased across the world as of July 31st, which is barely more than the Xbox 360's total worldwide figure of 8.9 million unit sales. The PS3 is dead last with only an estimated 3.7 million units internationally.'"

Supercomputer On the Cheap 133

Posted by kdawson on Wednesday August 01, 2007 @08:01AM from the mere-six-teraflops dept.

jbrodkin writes "You don't need Ivy League-type cash to get a supercomputer anymore. Organizations with limited financial resources are snatching up IBM supercomputers now that Big Blue has lowered the price of Blue Gene/L. Alabama-Birmingham and other universities that previously couldn't afford such advanced technology are using supercomputers to cure diseases at the protein level and to solve equally challenging problems. IBM dropped the price of the Blue Gene/L to $800K late last year before releasing a more powerful model, Blue Gene/P, last month. Sales of Blue Gene/L have more than doubled since then, bringing supercomputing into more corners of the academic and research worlds."

Submission + - Building Artificial Bone From Mineralised Collagen

Submitted by

Late-Eight

on Wednesday August 01, 2007 @07:46AM

Late-Eight writes: "Researchers from the National University of Singapore, have recently developed a new way to make artificial bone from mineralised collagen.

For some time scientists have tried to make nanosized artificial bone materials using various methods, And have recently turned their attention to mineralised collagen, a nanoapatite/collagen composite. This material is highly biocompatible and has the nanostructure of artificial bone. It could be used in bone grafts and bone-tissue engineering, among other applications."

Submission + - China's Open Document Format (zdnetasia.com)

Submitted by

eldavojohn

on Wednesday August 01, 2007 @01:21AM

eldavojohn writes: "While there's been a lot of talk of the open document formats in the states, we have to realize that China's facing the same dilemma. And that's nothing to ignore with the largest population of the world under it's governance. The blog starts by pointing out they will most likely merge their current standard with either OOXML or ODF. The bulk of this blog points out why OOXML shouldn't be ISO certified and the biggest problem for Microsoft's standard: "Another Standard, Microsoft does not support, is the specification RFC 3987, which defines UTF-8 capable Internet addresses. Consequently, OOXML does not support, to use Chinese characters within a Web address." This would be problematic for many languages, not just Chinese."

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