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Did Register.com get punked by Charles Carreon?
Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, June 27 2012 @ 11:43 AM EDT
http://adamsteinbaugh.com/2012/06/26/did-register-com-get-punked-by-charles-carr eon/

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First cute, then thought-provoking, then a little bit scary
Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, June 27 2012 @ 12:24 PM EDT
The pi-piloted-picoboat grabbed my attention on El Reg. With a tiny camera and enough space on the SD card, one of these automatons could travel the world and bring back snapshots. As long as the craft is solar powered, you could even program it to visit a series of GSP-defined coordinates to then return home for the data dump. Looking at the craft, I wondered if it would be better to have something just below the water surface, just close enough for a GPS signal and to get light for the solar cells. With a magnetically-coupled propeller and some good sealant, the craft could be out there for who knows how long. This is really cool; a GPS-derived guidance system for $100-ish. Then, it hit me that this could be used for a lot more than hobbyist projects, and some are not very nice. Historically, several barriers have thankfully inhibited globally-directed autonomous vehicles. Air drones have weaknesses of device cost and fuel/time limitations. Land drones have obstacles to circumvent on land and oceans to prevent intercontinental delivery. With this guidance system, a party could send something without having to worry about maintenance over the course of the months it might take to reach the destination. Anyone know how difficult it is to detect the signal from a GPS device’ local oscillator?

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Mark, PJ, delete parent
Authored by: cjk fossman on Wednesday, June 27 2012 @ 03:01 PM EDT
Blatantly political.

Offensive language.

Trolling.

We don't need it.

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Frankly, surprised by the gall....
Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, June 27 2012 @ 06:57 PM EDT
of this post on groklaw. Suppose one cannot stop all the abuse but this one is
clear as mentioned above.

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Economist has a typically acerbic take
Authored by: Tolerance on Wednesday, June 27 2012 @ 10:38 PM EDT
The British "Economist" magazine has an excellent commentary, subtitled
The Supreme Court's decision on Arizona's immigration law is a bonanza for the largely Democratic, easy-on-the-undocumented side of the debate
It's very cutting to both sides:

To hear the two sides of the immigration debate react to today’s Supreme Court ruling, you would think that proponents of much tougher enforcement had won an only slightly tempered victory ... Meanwhile, Barack Obama, whose administration had challenged the law in the first place, fretted ... This being a matter of disingenuous election-year posturing, the truth is precisely the opposite. The win was about as sweeping as the administration could have hoped ...
The states, it turns out, cannot step in to enforce immigration laws in areas where they consider the federal government lacking...
All in all, this is a bonanza for the largely Democratic, easy-on-the-undocumented side of the debate. Not only has the Supreme Court handed them a big victory on the substance of the dispute; it has also left it something to rail against.
Activists can continue to denounce racist laws, safe in the knowledge that their practical implications are negligible. Naturally, they can’t acknowledge this state of affairs—hence the president’s reticence.

Let the poster have his fun. Scalia too. Actually, looking at what Scalia and Obama actually said, it seems to me Obama started it. Not that I have a dog in that fight.

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Grumpy old man

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Larry Page loses voice, assures staff
Authored by: hardmath on Wednesday, June 27 2012 @ 10:46 PM EDT

Link

Using this new-fangled thing called email, Google chief Larry Page has reassured the staff that his lost voice is not a serious health matter. Larry will have to miss a few public engagements over the next two weeks, but the good news is he'll be motivated to beta test the new Android feature, voice search.

Kidding, Larry! Hope you have a swift recovery...

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"Prolog is an efficient programming language because it is a very stupid theorem prover." -- Richard O'Keefe

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GRUB 2.00 Officially Released
Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, June 27 2012 @ 11:28 PM EDT
More at Phoronix.

Ed L. (not logged in)

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Dotcom searches illegal: Judge
Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, June 28 2012 @ 02:00 AM EDT
Mr Davison [Dotcom's lawyer] also said there had been an "excess of authority''.

"Here is an example of what I would submit at the most moderate was high- handed and at the worst misleading.''

He said the process was "off the rails'' and his client's rights had been "subverted''.
NZ Herald

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Search Warrants of Dotcom "unlawful"
Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, June 28 2012 @ 02:42 AM EDT
TVNZ is reporting that the Judge has held that the search warrants for the
search of Kim Dotscom's house were not valid and the seizure of assets unlawful.
Judge has directed that they all be returned including all clones of computer
drives.

Comment attributed to Crown lawyers acting on behalf of FBI "it was
expected"

http://tvnz.co.nz/national-news/kim-dotcom-pleased-police-search-ruled-illegal-4
950160

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