Samsung issues dire warnings about 3-D TV
http://scitech.blogs.cnn.com/2010/04/15/samsung-issues-warnings-about-3-d-tv/?hpt=T2
Pregnant women, drunk people and “those who are sleep deprived” should not watch 3-D television because of potential health issues, electronics manufacturer Samsung says on its Web site.

The company also says people at risk for stroke or epileptic seizures should consult a medical professional before watching TV in three dimensions.

Viewing 3D television may also cause motion sickness, perceptual after effects, disorientation, eye strain and decreased postural stability,” the Web site message says. “It is recommended that users take frequent breaks to lessen the potential of these effects. If your eyes show signs of fatigue or dryness or if you have any of the above symptoms, immediately discontinue use of this device and do not resume using it for at least thirty minutes after the symptoms have subsided.”

The TV maker also says wearing its 3-D glasses in normal situations, when you’re not watching 3-D TV, “may be physically harmful to you and may weaken your eyesight.”

Viewing in 3-D may cause disorientation for some viewers
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Judge Denies RapidShare’s Motion to Postpone, Move Hearing
http://www.xbiznewswire.com/view.php?id=119680
“They’re not a storage locker. RapidShare is the greatest infringing paysite of all time. They’re making $80 million a year that belongs to American studios and producers,” Zada says.
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Entertainment Software association wants changes in Canada
http://www.vancouversun.com/business/Entertainment+Software+association+wants+changes+digital+entertainment/2912214/story.html
Canada must modernize is “aging copyright regime” to bring it into the digital age, the report states. This would include not only reforming copyright legislation to prevent online piracy, but enforcing copyright laws. Among the ways to do this, ESAC says, is to empower Canadian customs officials to make seizures of pirated products at the border without a court order.

In both the Speech from the Throne and the federal budget, the ruling Conservatives said it will develop a Digital Economy Strategy.
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Web users wise-up to Flash cookies as deletion rate rises, says Scout
http://www.research-live.com/news/analytics/web-users-wise-up-to-flash-cookies-as-deletion-rate-rises-says-scout/4002484.article

The reliability of Flash cookies as a proxy for measuring unique browsers is being undermined by increasing consumer awareness of the little data files and of how to delete them, according to research by Scout Analytics.

Nine months ago, Scout said, just 3% of LSOs were deleted from the more than 600,000 devices the company tracks. Now that figure is up to 7%.

The issue with deletion is that it leads to duplicate cookies being created on an individual device, causing counts of unique browsers to be inflated.
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ACLU editorial to Washington Post: American authority to hunt and kill individuals is unlawful.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/04/18/AR2010041803384.html
American authority to hunt and kill individuals is unlawful. Big American media, Washington Post, see’s no problem with it and says it’s lawfull.
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‘al-Qaeda suicide cat’ sends US Iraq war robots out of control
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/04/19/us_war_robots_out_of_control_cat_strike/
The news comes from Colonel Grant Webb, describing technical problems at Creech Air Force Base outside Las Vegas, Nevada. This is famously the location from which US Air Force “Predator” and “Reaper” robot aircraft are controlled during missions overseas*.

[Don't tell the ACLU (above) about this. Big American media, like the Washington Post for example, may try to justify assassinations of cats via bomb loaded robot aircrafts now as well.]
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Sony’s firmware update shows how retailers can be exposed
http://www.out-law.com/page-10926
Consumer law protects the buyers of goods if their functions change, but retailers generally cannot pass those claims on to the device makers who made the change, according to Richard Parkinson, a technology lawyer with Pinsent Masons, the law firm behind OUT-LAW.COM.

Sony has said that it will not compensate retailers who refund customers because of a firmware update to its PlayStation3. The change prevents the machine from using alternative operating systems, which it was previously able to do. Some owners installed the Linux operating system, allowing them to use their consoles as desktop computers as well as games machines.
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Google warns that privacy opt-in rules could create “dystopia”
http://arstechnica.com/web/news/2010/04/googles-opt-in-dystopia.ars?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss
Imagine an Internet in which every website that uses behavioral advertising has to get your up-front permission to do so — make that double for login-account-informed ads, and triple if the site sells your data to third-party applications.

You might think that something like this would be a pretty cool set up, privacy-wise …

Google doesn’t, two of whose top policy people just released a position paper warning of “opt-in dystopias” — environments in which cumbersome opt-in requirements could discourage users from engaging socially on useful sites, push service providers to over-collect user data at the point of consent, and turn the ‘Net into landscapes of “walled gardens” in which consumers are reluctant and even afraid to explore new services.
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eBay shill bid scammer convicted
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/04/19/ebay_scam/
Paul Barrett, a minibus hire firm boss from Stanley, County Durham, has been convicted of bidding against items he was selling on eBay in order to drive up final prices.
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Google Street View captures woman 43 times – Stalked by google
http://link.social.com/c/twitter/12671402/1271686039/b/dbXLKF/acsGFl
A woman has been captured on Google Street View 46 times after the camera car followed her as she walked her dog.

The Google camera car had followed Mrs Southgate for almost half a mile.

Mr Southgate, a fire service worker, told The Sun: “It was a surprise when I found Wendy and the dog. The there she was – over and over again. I counted 43 different shots.”

Mrs Southgate added: “When Terry showed me I couldn’t believe it.”
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Privacy Commissioner of Canada: wrong to say that people who choose to join a social networking site do not value privacy.
http://www.priv.gc.ca/speech/2010/sp-d_20100407_e.cfm
When Everyone and Their Mother is a Content Provider: The Principle of Privacy at the Heart of the Social Revolution
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Palm Pwned: Researchers Hack WebOS With Text Messages
http://threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/palm-pwned-researchers-hack-webos-text-messages-041910
The researchers were able to send a number of text messages to a device running WebOS to perform HTML injection attacks that opened a Web site by simply reading a text message or, worse, turned off the handset’s radio.

The research team said the flaws were uncovered “within a matter of hours,” suggesting that Palm “put almost no thought into security during their development of WebOS.”

While the research was limited to the Palm WebOS platform, Intrepidus cautioned that any app installed via the market place (even other Palm developed apps) may be vulnerable to this or other common web applications vulnerabilities.

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