Reminder publisher Valerie Durnin said when she tried to pay the $242.95 for the paper's entries, PayPal flagged the payment as possibly not in compliance with its "acceptable use policy," which she said she hadn't been able to track down. PayPal did promise to follow up within 72 hours of its investigation, which it never did.

"You may be buying or selling goods or services that are regulated or prohibited by the U.S. government," PayPal said in an email to News Media Canada.

Within hours of The Canadian Press asking about the situation on Friday, the account was unfrozen.

Among the increased fees is a currency conversion charge increase from 2.5 to 3 percent on top of the exchange rate established by PayPal's bank. Meaning customers will pay three percent more than the bank's currency conversion difference when exchanging money internationally.

While the half percent increases for most transactions won't impact buyers and sellers who only make a handful of transactions a year if you have a business that sells products all over the world it could result in a significant impact on business owners.

Spidermind informed Ars that the complaint was lodged by Chris Jordan, apparently acting for Ian Bell, or at least on behalf of a LLP bearing Bell's name. Bell is the co-creator of the original 1984 Elite.

Jordan's complaint appears to hinge on whether or not the Elite: Dangerous Role Playing Game uses intellectual property from the original 1984 Elite—some of which Chris Jordan states he owns on behalf of Ian Bell and Ian Bell Elite Rights LLP.

The Rail Delivery Group (RDG), which represents train operators and Network Rail, said further development could see passengers identified using biometric technology in a way similar to the facial-recognition schemes used at some UK airports to speed up border checks.

“The Capability Delivery Plan is an important step in ensuring that the whole railway and its supply chain collaborates efficiently and effectively to deliver the digital railway’s wide-ranging benefits.”

“Because IMDb's message boards continue to be utilized by a small but passionate community of IMDb users, we announced our decision to disable our message boards on February 3, 2017 but will leave them open for two additional weeks so that users will have ample time to archive any message board content they'd like to keep for personal use,” the statement reads.

This is the suggestion of Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales in a guest column Friday in The Guardian. He suggests the human element is crucial to discerning false from factual stories -- enhanced formulas for social networks and other aggregator sites to weed out fake news aren't enough.

"We need this visibility," Wales added, "Because it sheds light on the process and origins of information and creates a structure for accountability."

Five years after the launch of Snapchat, Snap is planning to go public. The company filed for an initial public offering on the New York Stock Exchange today, picking the ticker symbol “SNAP.” The company hopes to raise $3 billion and says it has 158 million daily active users. The IPO would reportedly value the company above $20 billion.

Snapchat lost $372.9 million in 2015 and $514.6 million this past year, more than its total revenue.

If the DOJ isn't going to do anything about this, the FBI will continue to issue thousands of letters a year asking for more than it should and hoping recipients aren't aware they don't have to hand all of this information over. It's also hoping recipients don't know they're allowed to challenge the accompanying gag orders -- or at least it was until the Internet Archive (which isn't the proper target for NSLs to begin with) publicly pointed out the FBI was still using outdated boilerplate in its demand letters.

Wheaton acknowledged the honor on his blog on Wednesday, writing, "As soon as it gets dark here, I'm going to walk out into my backyard, look up into the sky, just a little above Sirius, and know that, even though I can't see it with my naked eye, it's out there, and it's named after me."

His Cyber Squirrel 1 project was set up to counteract what he called the "ludicrousness of cyber-war claims by people at high levels in government and industry", he told the audience at the Shmoocon security conference in Washington.

"The number of potential attackers is growing, the number of potential targets is also going up. So we all need to reinforce our defences to the maximum - and also worry about squirrels."