The title of this story is over the top. The document confirms nothing. It says "someone claimed some flying saucers have been recovered. We decided it's a matter not worth pursuing."
That "someone" was an investigator for the Air Force (or at least passed as one to the FBI). The document doesn't say the FBI decided it was a matter not worth pursuing, only that the one agent didn't "attempt further evaluation".
It's a curious document for sure.
The American Southwest is the most heavily atomic-bombed place in the world. There was a lot of radiation in the air back then.
Oh probably not at all. That's just one of a hundred explanations of wildly varying degrees of plausibility and they're all interesting.
I can just imagine the FBI field agent wiping away the tears of laughter as he types up this memo back to headquarters after chatting with the USAF guys using spatulas to scrape the fried chimpanzees in silver lame' flightsuits off the wreckage of some top secret atomic-powered X-plane.
This law basically says that if you do e-commerce, you better not have your service hosted in France. If you're not hosted in France, you might as well not pay any taxes in the country. Nice playing french government, genius move.
No he's absolutely not, there's a massive difference between having someone's password that's been reused on X number of sites and having a hashed version of a password that's only valid on one site.
Also if you wanted to make it secure you could restrict hash passwords to work only from certain IP addresses so you either have to be using a company internal machine or say the IP addresses from a police station.
Notice that many of these services offer copyrighted contents online. I think the primary issues they had with doing business outside the U.S. is that there are less copyrighted laws to adequately protect the material and that sort of business in those countries. It would also be notoriously hard to sue people who abuse them.
Other services such as telecom have to deal with Canadian collusion and protectionism towards the readily established telcorps. It's an uphill battle. One that Canadians have been paying the price for, with high wireless phone bills, high internet fees and the recent attempt at imposing Usage-Based Billing.
Protection is not the problem. The problem is that each jurisdiction is a different sales market for copyright holders. While selling into Canada, Australia etc the sellers may have given over a total copyright license, or there might be terms trying to prevent "leakage" from the home market and so on.
For example, as an Australian, I used to be able to watch whole episodes of Stewart & Colbert via the website. Then one of the local cable companies got the Australian rights to those shows and blam, no more easily-watched episodes for me.
Not sure why you got downvotes for this. This is exactly my take, too. The regulatory hurdles for online producers are significant and Canada is a small market relative to the United States.
As my previous comment indicated I know the hurt of learning about a product and finding out it's unavailable here. However, I understand the economics at work and feel that–while they're frustrating–they're totally understandable.
I'm not a typographer, but I am a reader and I don't agree with his opinion that the list with hanging bullets makes it more legible. I find them slightly confusing. Maybe it's my programming background, but it just makes sense to indent something positively to emphasize context.
I do agree though that the hanging bullets add sophistication, but when I write that's not really my primary concern.
