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Pride Goes Before a Fall writes:
It hasn't been a good week for the anti-P2P company MediaDefender. Fresh after the devastating leaks of their internal emails, their Gnutella tracking database, and their phone call with the New York Attorney General over an anti-child pornography project, now Wired reports that MediaDefender's source code is on the Pirate Bay for anyone to download. Given that MediaDefender joked about their own inability to put a dent in online copyright infringement, one wonders why companies trust these folks to fight copyright infringement when they can't even stop the torrent with their own worst secrets in it?
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Nitack writes:
The tiny, human-like creature living and using tools in Indonesia just 18,000 years ago really was a distinct species, not just a malformed modern human.
That is the clear implication of a new study of the so-called "hobbit". It states that the creature had wrist bones almost identical to those found in early hominids and modern chimpanzees, and so must have diverged from the human lineage well before the origin of modern humans and Neanderthals.
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spring(boing-boing)monkey writes:
Ok so I have an iPhone, I go over to vacation in Canada for a wedding, need to sync up with relatives and stuff, find my way around using maps. What do I pay? 80 cents a minute. I didn't know, what I knew is that Rogers wireless is owned by AT&T. How ridiculous is this? I can call around the globe for 10 cents a minute, but Canada, whoa that is different, especially if you stay on AT&T's network. The customer service asked me first if I was going to leave feedback, very interesting way, maybe then they didn't care to be helpful. I certainly don't expect to add a $130 bill to my weekend vacation in Canada. Ok, this is legally correct, but why does my cellphone have to be so expensive? Does roaming cost that much? Am I supposed to buy a new phone for the weekend? American cell phone companies are way behind global standards and way too expensive and just not convenient. I just hope involvement of new age companies like Apple and Google can change how older firms like Telecoms and Music Labels work.
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fava writes:
Last year, Spamhaus found itself on the wrong end of a $11.7 million default judgment awarded to online marketing firm e360insight after it decided not to fight the case due to its belief that US courts had no jurisdiction over the group because of its location in the UK. Yesterday, an appeals court overturned the award, sending the case back down to a lower court.
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saintlupus writes:
Time has an interesting article about the failure of the US educational system to properly deal with gifted students. For example, up to ten times as much money is spent nationwide on educating "developmentally disabled" students as gifted ones. Does No Child Left Behind mean that nobody can get ahead, either?
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saintlupus writes:
Time has an interesting article about the failure of the US educational system to properly deal with gifted students. For example, up to ten times as much money is spent nationwide on educating "developmentally disabled" students as gifted ones. Does No Child Left Behind mean that nobody can get ahead, either?
