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Two years after Kanye West’s mother, Donda, passed away during what was supposed to be a “routine” surgical procedure for beautification purposes, a new law has been passed in California bearing her name, meant to prevent further tragedies of this type, Radar Online has learned. The law was pushed b... |
16 October 2009
13:31 GMT |
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JD Supra, a distributor of legal content, has launched its free “Legal Edge” iPhone application. Streaming timely legal information written by the nation’s lawyers and law firms, the application allows iPhone users to stay on top of the latest legal news, as well as of the various developments in an... |
15 October 2009
09:59 GMT |
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Last week, British actress Natasha Richardson passed away following a blunt impact to the head on the ski slope. The star, who was not wearing a helmet while taking ski lessons at a private resort in Quebec, died shortly after the fall because of brain damage. Her case is now being used by authorities in Quebec in a ... |
23 March 2009
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Style guru Valentino, though long retired from the glitzy world of fashion, is holding all the headlines again, this time not for his creations but for having been fined for tax evasion. The Italian authorities from the district of Lazio pursued the case in court and, today, the designer has been sentenced to pay a $... |
16 January 2009
07:13 GMT |
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Following a similar initiative in New York, the British government is pushing for a law that will force restaurants, takeaways and fast-food joints to publish the calorie content of all dishes on the menus. The move, it is believed, will contribute to a decrease in the daily calorie intake by providing customers with... |
16 January 2009
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“Thou shalt not kill” is one of the ten commandments whose violation generates the most controversy in terms of the punishment that should be applied. The situation in Britain right now is illustrative of this, as a new law that will help wives escape a murder charge, while also abolishing jealousy as goo... |
14 January 2009
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On Thursday, the Bush administration passed a law that offers extended protection not only for medical staff but also for associated personnel who refuse to take part in certain medical procedures, such as abortion, on religious or ethical grounds. Critics are now chiming in, saying that the health of more than 17 mi... |
22 December 2008
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Under existing Swiss laws, people are allowed to seek a doctor willing to give them a lethal dose of drugs, if they suffer from incurable diseases, or they simply are in too much pain from their medical conditions. Non-profit organizations, founded to answer this need, operate in Switzerland under the assumption that... |
15 December 2008
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On the big picture scale, the "large step for mankind" made when Neil Armstrong first touched lunar ground is still a "small step for man". There has been little success so far in the attempt to conquer space, for one reason or another. But recent efforts, like the many probes that orbit or land on distant celestial ... |
12 December 2008
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It's a known fact that cell phones get smaller, lighter, better and harder to detect, since they're largely made of non-metallic materials, and can easily fit into hardly accessible places. This has caused the number of smuggled phones in some state prisons to increase by as much as 100% this year, as comp... |
9 December 2008
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Recently, a legislator from Nebraska has filed a lawsuit against God, but it was dismissed by the court before it even began since, according to the state laws, a plaintiff must reach the defendant, and there was no address specified. There were quite a few movies on the theme of suing God, and perhaps they hav... |
16 October 2008
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California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signed Senate Bill 31, which makes it illegal to establish a connection with a Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tag in order to access the stored information without explicit consent from its owner. The Governor had previously vetoed another bill (SB 768), which aimed at... |
6 October 2008
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The Virginia Supreme Court has ruled AOL spammer Jeremy Jaynes should go free, after he was convicted in 2004 and sentenced to serve 9 years in a federal prison. The court's decision was not taken because Jeremy Jaynes was actually innocent, as he did send spam e-mails, but because the law under which he was con... |
13 September 2008
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Because more and more girls are tempted to step into the pro-anorexia side, the French government tries to stop the phenomenon by promoting new laws that would reduce the number of websites encouraging this matter. According to Reuters, the pages or blogs supporting anorexia may get two years in jail and a fine of ap... |
15 April 2008
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Because a 13-year-old girl committed suicide a few weeks ago after she broke up with her virtual MySpace friend, the Missouri authorities decided to promote a new law that will make the online harassment a crime. According to the Houston Chronicle, the maximum penalty for this kind of illegal activity brings 90 days ... |
23 November 2007
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Today, Google rolled out a new flavor of YouTube, addressing especially the Australian users which are now capable to access and publish clips on their own version of the video sharing service. Just like the other versions of YouTube, the Australian one comes with translated interface and other elements which bring t... |
23 October 2007
09:56 GMT |
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Now, here's some good news - this is a rare thing in cyber-security - the Californian government just issued an act that expands a data breach law. All that is needed for this new bill to pass is the governor's (Arnold Schwarzenegger) signature and the new "Consumer Data Protection Act" is going to be offic... |
17 September 2007
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Everybody's bugged by spam nowadays, and as if the fact that it's annoying weren't enough, people make a profit by using spam too. That's why anti-spam laws exist, so that spam-scammers and other scammers too can be punished. But recently, a lawyer defending one of the world's greatest spamme... |
13 September 2007
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Amina Lawal was saved in 2002 from stoning to death. And after that, lawyers used the notion of "extended pregnancy," arguing that under Sharia law, a five year interval is possible between human conception and birth.Her guilt: having sex out of the wedlock. She gave birth to a child while being divorced. Amina was d... |
8 September 2007
07:38 GMT |
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Do you have a lot of money in your bank account? No? Then don't spam! Not only that crime doesn't pay, but now it costs as well. A lot of countries have severe laws against spam and other Internet-related activities, but a new law in New Zealand hits spammers really hard.Their mentality is something like "S... |
4 September 2007
06:20 GMT |
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What I'm going to write next is about to astonish you, I sure know it made my jaw drop when I first got a hold of the news. Perhaps you've already read the material about the boy who shut down Internet access in Marshfield. If you didn't or you don't remember it too well, allow me to say it briefl... |
3 September 2007
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A firm from the United Stated is in trouble with the law after they had used a spam campaign to advertise their pharmaceutical products. The Federal Trade Commission has temporarily issued a restraining order against the Nevada-based Sili Neutraceuticals LLC and owner Brian McDaid, doing business as Kaycon Ltd., earl... |
24 August 2007
05:29 GMT |
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A new law in Germany states that users should have no link with any type of hacking tools, and according to it, no one is allowed to posses any type of tool that might harm other users' computers, not to mention using it. This comes as a great hit to security experts that were using such software to test progra... |
14 August 2007
10:40 GMT |
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Moore's Law is an empirical observation made in 1965 that basically says that the number of transistors inside an integrated circuit will double every 24 months, while costing the same to produce. This observation is attributed to Gordon E. Moore, a co-founder of Intel. Sometimes it is quoted as every 18 months,... |
25 July 2007
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The European Union announced that it cooks a new set of rules for broadcasting and on-demand content, a category that also includes Google Video and the popular online video sharing service YouTube, also owned by the Mountain View company. According to Patricia Moll, European Policy Manager, the EU split the content ... |
17 July 2007
03:34 GMT |
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The Swedish authorities are demanding the Mountain View company private information although they are still trying to promote a special legislation to obtain the details. However, Google refused to provide the information, sustaining that this requirement is incompatible with the "western democracy", as The Local rep... |
30 May 2007
08:49 GMT |
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Would you feel confident to race against a Viper or a Corvette when you're in a 20-year-old pickup-truck? Probably not. But would you feel safer driving a 4.3 tons Hummer H1 truck on a busy highway? You surely would, don't even try denying it. I guess that's why the number of SUVs sold in the US is co... |
11 May 2007
15:36 GMT |
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Google acquired YouTube in October 2006 for $1.6 billion, the search giant aiming to pay off the investment by attracting more users to the service. Since the Google acquisition, YouTube recorded numerous complaints from both users and companies that were all accusing the product for copyright infringement. Although ... |
30 March 2007
10:47 GMT |
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European computer users are one step closer to getting jailed for downloading pirated material from the Internet. This is because of a vote cast by the European Parliament's Legal Affairs Committee in which a set of amendments were adopted. This is part of an IP law which was released in order to protect the rig... |
22 March 2007
06:26 GMT |
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I'm sure many of you agree that spam is definitely a problem for the Internet because more and more e-mail addresses are assaulted by millions of unwanted messages sent from every corner of the world. Some time ago, the authorities from numerous countries started a powerful offensive to block spam and to release... |
14 March 2007
11:51 GMT |
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