Ten thousandth near-Earth object discovered in space

June 25, 2013 ? More than 10,000 asteroids and comets that can pass near Earth have now been discovered. The 10,000th near-Earth object, asteroid 2013 MZ5, was first detected on the night of June 18, 2013, by the Pan-STARRS-1 telescope, located on the 10,000-foot (convert) summit of the Haleakala crater on Maui. Managed by the University of Hawaii, the PanSTARRS survey receives NASA funding.

Ninety-eight percent of all near-Earth objects discovered were first detected by NASA-supported surveys.

"Finding 10,000 near-Earth objects is a significant milestone," said Lindley Johnson, program executive for NASA's Near-Earth Object Observations Program at NASA Headquarters, Washington. "But there are at least 10 times that many more to be found before we can be assured we will have found any and all that could impact and do significant harm to the citizens of Earth." During Johnson's decade-long tenure, 76 percent of the NEO discoveries have been made.

Near-Earth objects (NEOs) are asteroids and comets that can approach the Earth's orbital distance to within about 28 million miles (45 million kilometers). They range in size from as small as a few feet to as large as 25 miles (41 kilometers) for the largest near-Earth asteroid, 1036 Ganymed.

Asteroid 2013 MZ5 is approximately 1,000 feet (300 meters) across. Its orbit is well understood and will not approach close enough to Earth to be considered potentially hazardous.

"The first near-Earth object was discovered in 1898," said Don Yeomans, long-time manager of NASA's Near-Earth Object Program Office at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. "Over the next hundred years, only about 500 had been found. But then, with the advent of NASA's NEO Observations program in 1998, we've been racking them up ever since. And with new, more capable systems coming on line, we are learning even more about where the NEOs are currently in our solar system, and where they will be in the future."

Of the 10,000 discoveries, roughly 10 percent are larger than six-tenths of a mile (one kilometer) in size -- roughly the size that could produce global consequences should one impact the Earth. However, the NASA NEOO program has found that none of these larger NEOs currently pose an impact threat and probably only a few dozen more of these large NEOs remain undiscovered.

The vast majority of NEOs are smaller than one kilometer, with the number of objects of a particular size increasing as their sizes decrease. For example, there are expected to be about 15,000 NEOs that are about one-and-half football fields in size (460 feet, or 140 meters), and more than a million that are about one-third a football field in size (100 feet, or 30 meters). A NEO hitting Earth would need to be about 100 feet (30 meters) or larger to cause significant devastation in populated areas. Almost 30 percent of the 460-foot-sized NEOs have been found, but less than 1 percent of the 100-foot-sized NEOs have been detected.

When it originated, the NASA-instituted Near-Earth Object Observations Program provided support to search programs run by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Lincoln Laboratory (LINEAR); the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (NEAT); the University of Arizona (Spacewatch, and later Catalina Sky Survey) and the Lowell Observatory (LONEOS). All these search teams report their observations to the Minor Planet Center, the central node where all observations from observatories worldwide are correlated with objects, and they are given unique designations and their orbits are calculated.

"When I began surveying for asteroids and comets in 1992, a near-Earth object discovery was a rare event," said Tim Spahr, director of the Minor Planet Center. "These days we average three NEO discoveries a day, and each month the Minor Planet Center receives hundreds of thousands of observations on asteroids, including those in the main-belt. The work done by the NASA surveys, and the other international professional and amateur astronomers, to discover and track NEOs is really remarkable."

Within a dozen years, the program achieved its goal of discovering 90 percent of near-Earth objects larger than 3,300 feet (1 kilometer) in size. In December 2005, NASA was directed by Congress to extend the search to find and catalog 90 percent of the NEOs larger than 500 feet (140 meters) in size. When this goal is achieved, the risk of an unwarned future Earth impact will be reduced to a level of only one percent when compared to pre-survey risk levels. This reduces the risk to human populations, because once an NEO threat is known well in advance, the object could be deflected with current space technologies.

Currently, the major NEO discovery teams are the Catalina Sky Survey, the University of Hawaii's Pan-STARRS survey and the LINEAR survey. The current discovery rate of NEOs is about 1,000 per year.

NASA's Near-Earth Object Observations Program manages and funds the search for, study of and monitoring of asteroids and comets whose orbits periodically bring them close to Earth. The Minor Planet Center is funded by NASA and hosted by the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory in Cambridge, MA. JPL manages the Near-Earth Object Program Office for NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington. JPL is a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena. More information about asteroids and near-Earth objects is available at: http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/, http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/asteroidwatch and via Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/asteroidwatch .

Source: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/06/130625112104.htm

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AT&T cuts smartphone prices in half, jumps on the discount bandwagon

If you're looking for a new smartphone, this is apparently the weekend to go shopping. Following Radio Shack's promise to chip in a $100 Google Play credit with purchase an HTC One and Walmart's deep iPhone discounts, AT&T has quietly tacked on a 50% discount to all smartphone purchases under $199. This puts devices like the HTC One, Samsung's Galaxy S4 (and the S4 Active), the Note II, both of BlackBerry's latest handsets and iPhone 5 at an enticing $100. Naturally, Ma Bell has attached the usual hooks: the deal necessitates a new 2-year agreement or contract renewal, and in-store purchases require a trade-in device to activate the discount. Not a bad deal if you're hankering for new hardware -- just make sure you don't walk away with buyer's remorse.

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NSA leaker charged with espionage, theft

This photo provided by The Guardian Newspaper in London shows Edward Snowden, who worked as a contract employee at the National Security Agency, in Hong Kong, Sunday, June 9, 2013. The man who told the world about the U.S. government?s gigantic data grab also talked a lot about himself. Mostly through his own words, a picture of Edward Snowden is emerging: fresh-faced computer whiz, high school and Army dropout, independent thinker, trustee of official secrets. And leaker on the lam. (AP Photo/The Guardian) MANDATORY CREDIT

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WASHINGTON (AP) ? The Justice Department has charged former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden with espionage and theft of government property in the NSA surveillance case.

Snowden, believed to be holed up in Hong Kong, has admitted providing information to the news media about two highly classified NSA surveillance programs.

A one-page criminal complaint unsealed Friday in federal court in Alexandria, Va., says Snowden engaged in unauthorized communication of national defense information and willful communication of classified communications intelligence information. Both are charges under the Espionage Act. Snowden also is charged with theft of government property. All three crimes carry a maximum 10-year prison penalty.

The federal court in the Eastern District of Virginia where the complaint was filed is headquarters for Snowden's former employer, government contractor Booz Allen Hamilton.

The complaint is dated June 14, five days after Snowden's name first surfaced as the leaker of information about the two programs in which the NSA gathered telephone and Internet records to ferret out terror plots.

The complaint could become an integral part of a U.S. government effort to have Snowden extradited from Hong Kong, a process that could turn into a prolonged legal battle. Snowden could contest extradition on grounds of political persecution. In general, the extradition agreement between the U.S. and Hong Kong excepts political offenses from the obligation to turn over a person.

It was unclear late Friday whether the U.S. had made an extradition request. On Saturday, Hong Kong legislators said the Chinese government should make the final decision on whether Snowden should be extradited to the United States.

Outspoken legislator Leung Kwok-hung said Beijing should instruct Hong Kong to protect Snowden from extradition before his case gets dragged through the court system. Leung also urged the people of Hong Kong to "take to the streets to protect Snowden." The charges against Snowden were first reported by The Washington Post.

The Espionage Act arguably is a political offense. The Obama administration has now used the act in seven criminal cases in an unprecedented effort to stem leaks. In one of them, Army Pfc. Bradley Manning acknowledged he sent more than 700,000 battlefield reports, diplomatic cables and other materials to the anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks. His military trial is on-going.

Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Fla., a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, welcomed the charges against Snowden. "I've always thought this was a treasonous act," he said in a statement. "I hope Hong Kong's government will take him into custody and extradite him to the U.S."

But the Government Accountability Project, a whistle-blower advocacy organization, said Snowden should be shielded from prosecution by whistle-blower protection laws. "He disclosed information about a secret program that he reasonably believed to be illegal, and his actions alone brought about the long-overdue national debate about the proper balance between privacy and civil liberties, on the one hand, and national security on the other," the group said in a statement.

Michael di Pretoro, a retired 30-year veteran with the FBI who served from 1990 to 1994 as the legal liaison officer at the American consulate in Hong Kong, said "relations between U.S. and Hong Kong law enforcement personnel are historically quite good."

"In my time, I felt the degree of cooperation was outstanding to the extent that I almost felt I was in an FBI field office," said di Pretoro.

The U.S. and Hong Kong have a standing agreement on the surrender of fugitives. However, Snowden's appeal rights could drag out any extradition proceeding.

The success or failure of any extradition proceeding depends on what the suspect is charged with under U.S. law and how it corresponds to Hong Kong law under the treaty. In order for Hong Kong officials to honor the extradition request, they have to have some applicable statute under their law that corresponds with a violation of U.S. law.

In Iceland, a business executive said Friday that a private plane was on standby to transport Snowden from Hong Kong to Iceland, although Iceland's government says it has not received an asylum request from Snowden.

Business executive Olafur Vignir Sigurvinsson said he has been in contact with someone representing Snowden and has not spoken to the American himself. Private donations are being collected to pay for the flight, he said.

"There are a number of people that are interested in freedom of speech and recognize the importance of knowing who is spying on us," Sigurvinsson said. "We are people that care about privacy."

Disclosure of the criminal complaint came as President Barack Obama held his first meeting with a privacy and civil liberties board as his intelligence chief sought ways to help Americans understand more about sweeping government surveillance efforts exposed by Snowden.

The five members of the little-known Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board met with Obama for an hour in the White House Situation Room, questioning the president on the two NSA programs that have stoked controversy.

One program collects billions of U.S. phone records. The second gathers audio, video, email, photographic and Internet search usage of foreign nationals overseas, and probably some Americans in the process, who use major providers such as Microsoft, Google, Apple, and Yahoo.

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Body clocks linked to osteoarthritis

June 11, 2013 ? Scheduled exercise, regular meals and the periodic warming and cooling of joints could be used to relieve the symptoms of osteoarthritis according to scientists at The University of Manchester. Their research may also help explain why older people are more prone to developing this common joint disorder.

The team in the Faculty of Life Sciences has established for the first time that cartilage cells have a functioning body clock that switches on and off genes controlling tissue function. The rhythm of the cartilage clock perhaps goes some way to explain why osteoarthritis sufferers find the symptoms of the disease worse at certain times of the day.

When Dr Qing-Jun Meng and his team studied cartilage tissue in older mice they found that the tissue?s body clock was 40% weaker than in younger mice. This suggested that clock deterioration could contribute to an increased risk of developing osteoarthritis in later life. The researchers then looked at cartilage cells affected by damage similar to osteoarthritis and found that components of the body clock are altered during the early stages of the disease.??

Following these discoveries the researchers tested what would happen to cartilage tissue in mice and human cartilage cells if they imposed an artificial rhythm mimicking daily changes of body temperature. By raising the temperature by two degrees at 12 hour intervals they found that after three applications the body clock in the cells had been reset and was working in a more robust state. This change lasted for between five and seven days even after the temperature cycles were removed. Further study may show the change continues for longer.

Dr Meng says: ?By imposing a rhythm to boost the internal rhythm in cartilage, our data suggests the aged cartilage clock might be re-tuned. This could be done using systemic approaches such as scheduled exercise, restricted meal times or by targeting the joint itself with scheduled warming and cooling. We believe imposing a rhythm could have a significant impact on the future management of joint diseases and with further study it could relieve sufferers? symptoms.??

This ground breaking research also suggests that taking drug treatments for joint diseases according to the cartilage clock time could increase their effectiveness, which would allow a lower dosage and consequently reduce side effects.

Dr Meng, a Medical Research Council (MRC) Fellow, has been studying body clocks for a number of years: "Mounting evidence suggests that disruption to body clocks by changes like shift work or jet lag contribute to a number of conditions such as obesity, cardiovascular diseases, cancer and mood disorders. Our next step is to test our theory that body clock disruption also contributes to osteoarthritis."

The research has been published in the journal Arthritis and Rheumatism. Osteoarthritis is the most common joint disorder, affecting around 6 million people in the UK. However, the mechanisms behind the disease are poorly understood and treatment options are limited.?

Professor Ray Boot-Handford from the Wellcome Trust Centre for Cell Matrix Research, which is based at the university, has been studying cartilage and osteoarthritis for more than 20 years. He worked with Dr Meng on this research and says: ?Osteoarthritis is a complex disease caused by multiple factors, although it?s well known that one of the major risk factors is aging. Our findings that the cartilage cells show circadian rhythm and that this rhythm is weakened with age is exciting and may help explain how osteoarthritis develops as we get older. Future research will directly examine the link between cartilage clock changes and osteoarthritis and highlight potential new avenues for treating this disease.??

One of the key aspects of this research was the identification of the rhythmic genes that are expressed in cartilage tissue. The scientists found that 615 genes, or 4% of the genes in cartilage, were time-dependently expressed with peaks every 24 hours. They also found that many of the genes have previously been linked to osteoarthritis.

Nicole Gossan worked on the study as part of her PhD. She says: ?This research has been incredible to work on. It is the first to show a functioning clock in mouse and human cartilage cells and identify its genome-wide targets. Disruption of these targets during ageing could seriously impact joint health and we are the first to establish a link between clock disruption and osteoarthritis.??

Dr Meng and his team have now been awarded an MRC grant of half a million pounds to establish the causal relationship between clock disruptions and the onset and severity of osteoarthritis as well as identifying novel therapeutic targets. This will include the targeting of clocks by imposing an artificial rhythm as well as the timed delivery of drugs. It?s hoped the research will ultimately lead to better treatments for osteoarthritis.?

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BLOG: June Storms Into Delaware Valley With Extreme Weather

By: Steven Strouss

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) ? June has stormed into the Delaware Valley with a Tropical Storm, record rainfall and a tornado which touched down just yesterday in Newark, DE.? Since the beginning of the month, the region has experienced its most extreme weather since Hurricane Sandy slammed into our coastline last October.

During the first week of June, Tropical Storm Andrea quickly formed and spun up the East coast dumping as much as five inches of rain in spots. Our area was hit hard on Friday by Andrea?s relentless downpours and gusty winds. The storm proved to be a problem before the storm ever arrived. Flight delays snarled passengers for hours from New York State to Florida and power outages were counted in the thousands up and down the U.S. East coast.

In our suburbs, the Brandywine, Chester and?Neshaminy creeks among others could not handle all the runoff from Andrea?s rains and quickly overflowed their banks. ?Poor drainage areas and low lying streets were closed off due to flooding and traveling on the roads became a traffic nightmare for some, as they head home, on?Friday afternoon. Before all was said and done, Andrea dumped over three-and-a-half inches at the Philadelphia airport, which set a new record for daily rainfall on June 7^th.

The flood waters barely had time to recede before another significant storm hit our area on Monday. A strong area of low pressure barreled out of the Midwest with enhanced moisture and drenched our area once again with several inches of rain. Flood Watches were posted for the second time in less than three days and as expected the susceptible waterways spilled out of their banks when the rain began. Rain from Monday?s storms totaled 2.1 inches in Philadelphia and that was enough to break another daily record that stood for over one hundred years. The last time it rained so much on June 10^th was back in 1903 when 2.08 inches of rain fell on the city.

The extra force of Monday?s storms even led to the season?s first confirmed tornado and 10-20 homes near Newark, Delaware sustained EF0 damage. Winds in the tornado were estimated to be 80 mph and this was enough to topple large trees and send debris flying for miles though the air. Several people in the?Robscott Manor neighborhood had to abandon their homes yesterday but thankfully there were no injuries or fatalities.

Since the beginning of the month, we have received 6.79 inches?of rain at the Philadelphia International Airport, currently making it the 10^th wettest June of all-time (with over a half of the month still to go).? Rainfall is already 5.57 inches?above the normal, and the record for the month of June stands at 10.06 inches?set back in 1938.? If we continue on our current rainfall pace, it is highly likely that we will drown this record for good.

Before we get too comfortable with a break in the action today and tomorrow, our eyes are now turned to another large scale event expected on Thursday. The Storm Prediction Center has already placed part of the region in an enhanced risk for severe weather (primarily Philadelphia and south) and multiple weather models are indicating very heavy rain and strong thunderstorms. Any?thunderstorm could?contain damaging wind and hail and there is?even the threat of an isolated weak tornado. No matter what exactly occurs Thursday, it is looking more and more?concerning that the area will have to sustain another deluge from Mother Nature and this time the streets, creeks and rivers?are even more vulnerable to flooding.

The heaviest rain is expected Thursday afternoon and evening before the front crosses the region and moves out to sea. Residual showers are forecasted on Friday before high pressure moves in and finally gives us sunshine for the weekend.

Source: http://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2013/06/11/blog-june-storms-into-delaware-valley-with-extreme-weather/

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Issa Says Washington Directed IRS Targeting Out of Cincinnati

irs WASHINGTON - The IRS agents in Cincinnati who were involved in the targeting of conservative groups were "being directly ordered from Washington," Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., said today, and he accused the White House of lying about the involvement of IRS headquarter officials in the scandal, calling White House Press Secretary Jay Carney a "paid liar."

"The administration is still - their paid liar, their spokesperson, picture behind - he's still making up things about what happens and calling this local rogue," Issa said on CNN's "State of the Union." "The reason that Lois Lerner tried to take the Fifth [Amendment when called to testify before Congress] is not because there's a rogue in Cincinnati, it's because this is a problem that was coordinated in all likelihood right out of Washington headquarters And we're getting to proving it.

"The administration is still trying to say there's a few rogue agents in Cincinnati, when in fact the indication is they were directly being ordered from Washington," he said.

Investigators from two House committees - Oversight and Government Reform and Ways and Means - are questioning IRS workers from the Cincinnati office, and Issa said these interviews provide evidence that the orders stemmed from Washington.

"My gut tells me that too many people knew that this wrongdoing was going on before the election, and at least by some sort of convenient benign neglect allowed it to go on through the election, allowed these groups, these conservative groups, these, if you will, not friends of the president to be disenfranchised through an election," he said. "Now, I'm not making any allegations as to motive, that they set out to do it. But certainly, people knew it was happening."

Congress is scheduled to hold a series of hearings this week on the IRS' targeting of conservative groups. On Monday, J. Russell George, the Treasury Department's Inspector General, and IRS Acting Commissioner Danny Werfel are expected to testify before a House Appropriations subcommittee on the progress the IRS is making in addressing the controversial practices that came to light last month. Representatives of conservative organizations that were targeted by the IRS are scheduled to appear Tuesday before the House Ways and Means committee.

On Thursday, the House Oversight Committee, which Issa chairs, has a hearing scheduled for questioning about excessive spending at IRS conferences. The hearing comes nearly a week after the release of a video showing IRS officials line dancing to the "Cupid Shuffle" at a 2010 agency conference in California.

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Terms & Conditions: Aereo toes a legal line but that's its problem ...

Launched in 2012, New York-based Aereo allows subscribers to access over-the-air broadcast television (the kind you get for free with an antenna) over the Internet. But it does this without the permission of network broadcasters, like Fox and CBS, a consortium of which has sued the company for copyright infringement ? a battle the broadcasters have so far lost.

The reason Aereo manages to not break strict U.S. copyright law is thanks to a so-called loophole that the company ingeniously exploited: Each customer pays $8 or $12 a month ? not for the content, but to ?rent? an individual antenna and DVR box, which can be accessed by many Internet connected devices. Because Aereo is only providing ?private performances? of the broadcasts, it falls on the right side of the law. Were it to allow multiple customers to access broadcast TV channels captured by the same antenna and recorded on a single DVR box, that would constitute a ?public performance,? which is illegal without permission from the broadcasters. Needless to say, Aereo is riding a fine legal line ? so what exactly are you getting yourself into if you sign up for its service? Let?s find out.

Terms of Use

Aereo?s Terms of Use explains in plain English exactly what it?s policies and rules are, which is great. But, as you might imagine, it?s a hulking document, and that means almost nobody?s going to read it. The company would do well by its users to provide a summary of the key provisions ? so here are some suggestions.

Hard and soft

The company kicks things off by explaining, as mentioned above, that the service it provides is access to an antenna and DVR box via an Internet connection ? not for the content itself. In other words, you are paying for use of the hardware, not the ?soft? content that it accesses and records.

Home sweet home

Currently available in New York City and, as of May, Boston, Aereo has plans to expand to a total of 22 cities across the US, including Philadelphia, Atlanta, Austin, and Denver, by the end of the year. Now, you might be thinking, ?If I can access the content over the Internet, why can?t I just sign up and watch shows broadcast from New York or anywhere else?? Indeed, such at thing is technically possible. Unfortunately, that would be against the rules.

Aereo strictly forbids subscribers from accessing any content that is not broadcast by networks in their specific area. You are required to provide a home address when you register for your account, and signing up with a fake address is completely against Aereo?s ToU. So is sharing your account with someone outside of Aereo?s service areas. (See a list of eligible zip codes here.)

Always a cost

As mentioned, Aereo has two separate plans: $8 a month gets you access to live TV and 20 hours of recording space on a DVR box; $12 a month expands your recording time to 60 hours. You are, of course, also responsible for the cost of your Internet service, or mobile data service.

Aereo sometimes offers users a free trial. This is only available once to each household, so don?t think you can get away with just having your roommates sign up as soon as your free trial is over ? that?d be against the ToU.

The company makes clear in its ToU that it may change its prices at any time (as it did last month), and all payments for service are non-refundable.

Sorry, Android

At the moment, Aereo supports all major Web browsers (Firefox, Chrome, Safari, Opera, and Internet Explorer), as well as iPhones and iPads, AppleTV, and Roku boxes. That?s right ? no Android. But fear not. The company says Android devices will be supported ?soon.? (Whatever that means.)

Intellectual property, serious business

A large portion of Aereo?s ToU concerns intellectual property, both that of content providers and Aereo itself. Of course, it makes clear that ?Aereo does not own the copyrights or any other intellectual property rights in any broadcast television programming that you choose to view using the Equipment. Aereo provides only the Equipment that allows you to choose to view such programming.?

This is mainly to cover its rear from the broadcasters that keep suing the company. For users, you need only know that you are not allowed to share you Aereo with non-subscribers, nor are you allowed to use Aereo for any ?commercial purposes,? like showing a baseball game in your bar or restaurant.

There?s also a bunch of blather about not violating Aereo?s copyright or trademarks (forbidden), or ?reverse engineering? Aereo?s service to start your own company. So, you know, don?t do that.

Legal limits

You must be at least 18-years-old to sign up for Aereo, according to the ToU. And users of an Aereo account who are under 18 must be ?under the direct supervision? or a parent or guardian. It is the parents? fault if any kids manage to watch TV without their permission, says Aereo, because broadcast TV is so scandalous that it might, you know, damage them, or something.

Socialize

Aereo?s Privacy Policy is not particularly remarkable; the company collects limited personal information, and really only shares it with third parties that are necessary to operate its business (like credit-card processors). So we?re not going to get into this area too much this time.

There is, however, one thing you should know about. Aereo allows users to link their accounts to Twitter and Facebook, as well as email providers like Google and Yahoo. When you link an account, there are a couple of things to know.

First, whatever content you post on your social networks are subject to the terms and policies of that social network, not just Aereo. (Obviously.) Second, linking your social media accounts grants Aereo ?an irrevocable perpetual license to use, reproduce, edit, create derivative works from, distribute, display, copy, transmit or otherwise use in any way, commercially or otherwise, any material that you post to any social networking site in connection with Aereo.? That potentially means your tweets could end up in an Aereo ad, or something of that nature. This shouldn?t be a big deal, but keep that in mind.

Beware the guillotine

Last but not least, we have my absolutely favorite??(/sarcasm)?provision, the account auto-delete. As with most other companies, Aereo reserves the right to cancel your account at any time, for any reason, or for no reason at all. And remember, if this happens, you don?t get a refund. Just remember that before you go sharing your Aereo login with someone outside of a service area ? you could both be out of luck in the blink of an eye.

Source: http://www.digitaltrends.com/home-theater/terms-conditions-aereo-toes-a-legal-line-but-thats-its-problem-not-yours/

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