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narramissic writes:
An article on ITworld today opens: 'Google revealed that its own online video-sharing service is the subject of a copyright infringement lawsuit, adding to worries that the company may become the subject of expensive lawsuits related to the YouTube Inc. video-sharing service it is buying.' Well, no kidding.
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klwood911 writes:
Windows chief Jim Allchin said Microsoft signed off on the code less than an hour ago. "It's rock solid and we're ready to ship. This is a good day," Allchin said in a conference call.
Allchin said Vista will go on sale to consumers January 30. He said that Microsoft is releasing Vista in five languages. The French, Spanish and Japanese versions were actually signed off on before the English version, Allchin said.
Full story can be found at CNET: http://news.com.com/Microsoft+Vista+is+ready+to+ro ll/2100-1016_3-6133660.html
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Trebonius asks:
"I have just received two job offers in the same day. The first was for a job coding in Perl on Linux/UNIX platforms, for a small but very cool company around 120 miles from where I live. They play Half-Life together in the off-hours and the people I've talked to there seem very happy with the job and work environment there. I'd be making smallish web systems, and I'd basically have total control over the projects on which I work. They offered me 20% more than I make now. The second offer I received is for a huge nationwide company opening an IT office a couple blocks from where I currently work. They're an all-Microsoft shop — VB, C#, .NET, SQL200*, etc. I'd be a very small cog in a very large machine. They offered me 66% more than I'm making now. Benefits are essentially identical between the companies, so that's not a big factor. I'll also give the Perl company a chance to make me another offer, but what should the threshold be? How do you folks balance the desire for a fun job with the need to pay off debt?"
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FiReaNGeL writes
"Scientists have discovered that venom from a West Indian tarantula has been shown to cause pain by exciting the same nerve cells in mice that sense high temperatures and the hot, spicy ingredient in chili peppers. The findings demonstrate that some plants and animals have evolved the same molecular strategy to deter predators — triggering pain by activating a specific receptor on sensory nerves. The research provides new tools to understand how these pain- and heat-sensing neurons work, and to help develop drugs that ease persistent pain."
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Old.UNIX.Nut writes:
I'm a bit of a political activist, and regularly lobby for many issues popular on /.
Of course many of us have been following the switch to electronic voting machines.
We got new machines here in Clark County Nevada for this election. I felt these machines addressed most of my complaints about the incoming equipment I've been reading about.
1. they were quite simple to use — even for the technology challenged crowd.
2. at the end of the voting session I was able to review and change if necessary any or all of my votes.
3. There is also paper trail for recounts. Like the onscreen view I was able to view my votes as printed on the paper to make sure they matched how I had voted. The paper remains in the machine, so it can be used for recounting.
We have "none of the above" as a voting option here too. That option got 4% to 27% of the vote per race this election cycle.
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Edis Krad writes:
A Japanese elderly, bar manager and performer has been arrested for playing copyrighted songs in his harmonica. From the article:
Investigators accuse Toyoda of illegally performing 33 songs such as the Beatles' songs "Here, There and Everywhere" and "Yesterday," whose copyrights are managed by the Japanese Society for Rights of Authors, Composers and Publishers. He allegedly performed the songs on the harmonica with a female pianist at the bar he operated between August and September this year.
That is for you guys who complain that the RIAA/MPAA are being irrational with all their legal mumbo jumbo. And for those kids who are learning chords in their guitars, be ready to pay fees for performing "Smoke On The Water" while practicing.
