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16y ago
Look at the recent case of Simon Singh, a science writer who said homeopathy is junk. He was sued for libel by the quacks and ran up $200,000 in fees defending himself before the other side withdrew the case. And since it never went to tria
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16y ago
But then it's not based on the chance of winning it's based on the likelyhood of a quick settlement and the amount they are likely to get. Suing a council/schoolboard/hospital - likely to win (they don't defend strongly) and likely to be a
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16y ago
There is one - but it suffered from a Y1900 Bug
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16y ago
By 'thousand emergencies' they mean tweets from Paris Hilton or new comments on HN.
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16y ago
How many degrees of separation are they allowed? Your face book page links to the eff = rejected? A friend of yours links to eff, a friend of a friend ^ 6 links to eff? Also AFAIK you don't put a social security number on facebook. Do they
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16y ago
The problem is that it isn't clear WHY you should upvote a question. Upvoting an answer is helpful - I'm saying that I confirm that it's correct and you should believe it - but upvoting a question is just gold star time.
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16y ago
Happened in the UK parliament - their email system was quietly deleting emails about child pornography, from the committee debating the rules for censorship of child pornography.
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16y ago
Or writing about the US sprinter "Tyson Homosexual" - http://voices.washingtonpost.com/sleuth/2008/07/christian_si...