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Mythbusters Gagged

Adam Savage, of the excellent ‘Mythbusters’ programme(*) reports that they were going to do a segment on RFID chips only to have the lawyers descend from Visa, American Express etc. Texas Instruments comes on along with chief legal counsel for American Express, Visa, Discover, and everybody else… They were way, way outgunned and they absolutely made [...]
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Odd workings of Justice

In case you hadn’t realised, there is a cloud over England’s test matches in NZ with “allegations of sexual assault and/or rape”. Except that no formal complaint has been made, therefore, sensibly, the people at the receiving end have declined to be interviewed. Understand this, I’m not blinded by being someone who watches the game whilst living [...]
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Don’t talk to the police!

Via Hackaday. A very interesting lecture, worth watching. Of course, in the UK the right to silence has gone, and failure to talk answer questions may be seen as incriminating. You do not have to say anything. But it may harm your defence if you do not mention when questioned something which you later rely on in [...]
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Guantanamo

I’ve been rather ill for a few days, but have been getting better. Today it’s been variable – ups and downs. I’m currently in an ‘up’ and decided to catch up on the world. I stumbled upon this article which contains the lovely quote: We have become overly focused on the fairness of what the government does [...]
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Banned for not committing perjury

There is a story in icCoventry about a young woman called Claire Harrison. She is a lifelong supported of Coventry RFC and worked at a kit provider called Flash UK. In a dispute between the club and Flash UK, Claire was called as a witness. As such, she was under obligation to tell the truth [...]
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