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stevegee58 writes:
Teaching isn't known to be the highest-paying profession. However at least one teacher made $700K selling her lesson plans through teacherspayteachers.com.
Through this new e-commerce site some 700,000 subscribers can buy and sell lesson plans, typically for $5 — $10 though some are free. Teachers Pay Teachers makes money by taking a commission on each sale.
If sites like this take off it begs the question if it's truly good for education, or merely for lining the pockets of a few teachers willing to sell.
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stevegee58 writes:
The jury in the Android patent infringement case found that Google did not in fact infringe on Oracle's patents.
At one point Oracle was seeking as much as $1B in damages against Google.
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stevegee58 writes:
The practice of employers demanding Facebook passwords as a condition of being hired or maintaining employment has been making headlines lately.
Most recently reported here, a teacher's aid was fired and Congress lost the nerve to ban the practice.
Now Maryland has entered the fray, banning the practice of employers demanding passwords in that state.
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stevegee58 writes:
We all know smoking is bad for you but this should really convince you.
"A faulty battery caused an electronic cigarette to explode in a Florida's man's mouth, taking out some of his front teeth and a chunk of his tongue and severely burning his face, fire officials said Wednesday."
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stevegee58 writes:
Just when it seemed like no one in government can agree on anything any more, the US Supreme Court unanimously agreed that police need a warrant before tracking a car with GPS.
A (faint) ray of light in our bleak political landscape.
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stevegee58 writes:
Netflix appears to be down. I went to watch a streaming movie and couldn't log in any more. I tried changing my password to no avail — no password reset email was sent.
So I figured it was me, but I searched Twitter just to be sure. Sure enough, lots of other people are having the same problem.
Bankrupt finally?
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stevegee58 writes:
The financial blockade by financial firms like Bank of America, Visa, MasterCard, Western Union, and PayPal has finally caught up with Wikileaks.
Due to lack of funding Wikileaks has announced on its web site that they're temporarily ceasing publication.
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stevegee58 writes:
Last week's 5.9 earthquake that shook the mid-Atlantic states moved some nuclear waste casks at the North Anna nuke plant in Virginia. 25 of the casks, weighing 115 tons each and containing spent fuel rods, were shifted by 1 to 4 inches.
Luckily none of the containers were damaged.
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stevegee58 writes:
During trading today Apple briefly passed Exxon-Mobil as the largest S&P 500 company by market capitalization.
Kind of amazing when you think about it: a tech company actually larger than an oil company.
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stevegee58 writes:
Wind and ocean currents have pushed debris from the March 11 tsunami in Japan across the Pacific to the US west coast. Beach combers are now finding the leading edge of this debris field. It is estimated that the largest pieces of debris will arrive in a 1 to 3 year time frame.
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stevegee58 writes:
Former Goldman Sachs programmer Sergey Aleynikov was sentenced to 97 months in prison for stealing source code used in Goldman's high-frequency trading algorithms. Aleynikov was convicted late last year in Manhattan federal court.
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stevegee58 writes:
A former Fannie Mae contract programmer, Rajendrasinh Babubhai Makwana, has been convicted of computer intrusion by a Federal jury.
On the day he was fired in 2008, Makwana planted a malicious script on one of the servers which was discovered days later by another engineer.
According to Federal officials, “The malicious code was designed to propagate throughout the network of computers and destroy all data, including financial, securities and mortgage information."
Sentencing is scheduled for December 8 where Makwana could receive 10 years in prison for the felony.
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stevegee58 writes:
Old zombies don't die, they just go to conventions.
Ever wonder who all those zombies really were and where they are now? The Wall Street Journal had a fun article about the zombie extras from Romero's original 1968 film, "Night of the Living Dead."
"Josephine Streiner, 92, is a mother, grandmother and great-grandmother. She is also the oldest living ghoul from the 1968 horror classic "Night of the Living Dead."
...
To mark the film's 40th anniversary in 2008, she and the other zombies were invited to a Living Dead Festival in Evans City, Pa., where the movie was filmed, and met with fans from all over the country. It went so well, they gathered again last year. One loyal movie fan came from France."
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stevegee58 writes:
Slashdot readers may recall the case of a Maryland motorcyclist (Anthony Graber) arrested and charged with wiretapping violations (a felony) when he recorded his interaction with a Maryland State Trooper.
(http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/07/27/0212232/Facing-16-Years-In-Prison-For-Videotaping-Police)
Today, Judge Emory A Pitt threw out the wiretapping charges against Anthony Graber, leaving only his traffic violations to be decided on his October 12 trial date.
"The judge ruled that Maryland's wire tap law allows recording of both voice and sound in areas where privacy cannot be expected. He ruled that a police officer on a traffic stop has no expectation of privacy."
A happy day for freedom-loving Marylanders and Americans in general.
