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Comment Bad Press (Score 1) 452

Considering they're trying to get more students in the door, this is a terrible public relations nightmare. What student would want to attend a college that threatens to sue over something as trivial as an email adress -- and a private one at that? Very unfortunate for the students and faculty, and a black eye for the administration.

Comment Re:Read the Complaint (Score 3, Insightful) 695

I have an issue with your line that Craigslist is profiting by this. Last I checked, not only was Craigslist free, but there are no ads.

Why not sue magazines that have classified ads geared towards erotic services? I'd bet there are "erotic services" advertised in most major newspapers or local rags.

I'd think that the police looking at Craigslist ads has done more for locating abused kids forced into prostitution than their "normal" investigations.

Comment Confluence Wiki (Score 1) 401

We've started a similar knowledge base project, and after a lot of searching and testing, we settled on Atlassian Confluence as our Wiki.

It has some excellent plug-ins, so our Visio diagrams can be displayed as web pages. The individual pages can be locked down at a granular level. It has a Sharepoint connector to tie in to our Sharepoint Intranet system.

I've directed my team to post two new articles per week, and the Wiki is getting populated quickly. When a job that only gets run every quarter comes along, we get the steps documented. Our internal processes are on flowcharts so the business folks can see what happens when they put in a request. It's been a very helpful tool, and has not had any down time. We even have embedded Spark messaging links by all the user names, so you can contact an author to ask a question.

The Internet

Submission + - Second Life Ends First Land Program

RancidPickle writes: "Second Life, the virtual word created and run by Linden Labs, announced they were no longer issuing First Land to premium members.

Effective immediately, the supply of cheap First Land parcels by Linden Lab will cease. Premium accounts will still be able to own up to 512m of land as part of their Premium membership package as they do now, the only change is that we will not be supplying the discounted parcels as we have done in the past. The website and knowledgebase will be amended to reflect this change shortly.


As a premium SL user who spent hours looking for First Land, this does not bode well for me or the users who will be left out in the cold — literally."
Portables (Apple)

Submission + - iPods making their way into cockpits

Agentscott00 writes: "Apple's iPod has found its way into the cockpit and is about to become a flight data recorder (FDR), more commonly known as "black box." Flight reports that light aircraft maker LoPresti Speed Merchants is adding the ability to use an iPod as a flight data recorder to its Fury piston aircraft. The airplane will include an iPod dock connector, and will be able to send data to the iPod for storage. Although it's not clear yet exactly what data will be recorded, typically that includes system monitoring information and data for post-flight analysis."
Microsoft

Submission + - Microsoft Encourages Use of Vista Cracks

Vulva R. Thompson, P writes: Yeah, yeah, another Vista story. But this one has a twist. After reinstalling Vista Home, the user wasn't able to activate with the key he purchased so he called the activation line: "The Customer Service Manager told me that I could either borrow an XP Home disk from a friend (isn't that software piracy ??) or look online for one of the many Vista Activation cracks to bypass Vista Activation completely...Well, I followed his instructions." Full story here: http://www.overclockers.com/articles1416/
The Internet

Submission + - Police use Myspace in murder investigation

therufus writes: NineMSN Australia is reporting that police are using Myspace pages to track down the killer of murder victim Carly Ryan

"Police believe the web of message boards stemming from Carly's own Myspace profile could be crucial to finding out how the 15-year-old died."
Announcements

Submission + - Pirate Bay permanantly quits plans for own nation

Jared writes: "The world's most famous BitTorrent pirates decide to permanently drop anchor in their home country of Sweden, saying the whole affair was really for them to be able to "look on Google Maps and find ourselves there." In a response from an ADMIN over at The Free Nation Foundation, which split from BuySealand to form a group of the truly committed, he writes that "Personally, I'd like to say I 'saw it coming', but truthfully, I can't. What I can say, though, is that I'm not all that surprised, especially after the roller coaster ride their forums took." — Now I just wonder what the guys who donated a share of the $25,000 bucks The Pirate Bay has in collected in donations so far think about the fact that their money was simply a big Google Earth ad. Refunds anyone?"
United States

Submission + - Another H-1B fight looms in Congress

An anonymous reader writes: http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/01/08/HNh1bpus h_1.html Demand for new H-1B workers for the current fiscal year was so high that the USCIS reached the annual cap of 65,000 visas less than two months after it began accepting applications, the shortest period ever. An additional 20,000 visas limited to workers with advanced degrees from U.S. universities was gone in four months. The strong demand likely means that proposals to raise the H-1B cap will again be introduced in Congress, according to officials from industry and labor groups.

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