Are you serious? He is requesting at the same time to be paid (quite highly actually - no it is not a good deal) for his photos AND be put down as a sponsor AND have his name printed on them. You can't ask for all of that - you give something to be a sponsor, you don't take, and in general asking for a big sum for photos usually means allowing no watermarks etc. And IN ADDITION he wants to be their official international photographer for life! But of course his father is a "cosmetic surgeon" and told him he can spend money and lawyer up, so he thought a little ridiculous extortion is fine too...

The kid seems like a little shit to me. When he found out they were using the pictures he send an extortionist email. He wrote that his father "a cosmetic surgeon", advised him to retain a lawyer and sue in federal court. But he said, magnanimously, instead he is: "requesting compensation as follows: $100,000.00 US deposited into my business bank account, additionally to be named the Official Photography Sponsor of The Color Run (Internationally) for the remainder of its existence, my Logo to be added in sponsors section next to Chevy on the bottom of your web pages. My name to read at the bottom of any photo's used in legible print from the next print run forward as, Photogrph by Max Jackson." "if no efforts are made within 15 days, to contact me I will be forced to take further action." This is not some poor kid here that they take away his livelihood. Yes, Color Run was in the wrong, but I can understand how they would get litigious after this!

So, they steal your wallet and you quickly find out. Now what? They can log in, you can't without the password. Genius. No, the password changing policies are stupid. One of my banks requires a new password every 1-2 months, which also has to follow specific guidelines (guess how much less secure that makes the password by reducing the possible password space) and does not allow you to enter one similar to the previous passwords. So far I've had to call 3 times for their reset process... For my WiFi I have a password that is 3 very long foreign names. That is one kind of password that can't be brute-forced or guessed, but very few password policies allow something like that. For example I tried it for skype and it got rejected for lack of security, while a 7-letter lower case english word plus the number 1 was deemed fine! Go Google!

My comment went from +4, Funny to -1, Flamebait, which would mean most moderators seem to think that I am making fun of a rational POV in order to stat a flame war? Interesting, and you can't blame this to the Beta!

God is giving us a great test. Only the truly righteous and resolute will be able to escape the appeal of "convenient" blasphemous explanations.

Wow, you waited and waited for almost 2 years since your last post just for such an opportunity? :)

Apparently they dismissed schools more than an hour and a half after the snow started. But the point is they had a severe weather warning. I was saying that in Athens usually you don't even need a warning, but when there is a warning it is even more obvious that schools won't open...

I usually joke about the Athens (Greece) snow situation, but it works. You see in a city that can get an inch or two of snow for a day every 3-4 years you don't need any planning. You wake up in the morning and you see some snow. Hey, no school! You can switch on the TV/Radio to verify, but when people wake up and it is snowing they stay home, no prior warning required.
Then, there are a few snow-plows, which are obviously parked outside the city since they are almost never needed in the city. And equally obviously, the one day they are needed there is no way for the drivers to actually go there and fetch them. So, you have to wait for the snow to melt by itself (quickly), and you go to work/school the next day.
Having lived in NY, I used to make fun of the fact that Athens is paralyzed with half an inch of snow, but after seeing the Atlanta mess, I guess they are doing pretty good!

If this thing takes off, I can imagine in a few years the highly subsidized corn industry trying to sell high concentration fructose batteries, marketing them as "corn sugar fuel cells".

Eh, are you serious? You can't just trademark the names of products that are not yours in countries where they have not yet applied just to blackmail the company. If you have a legitimate product and you are the first to register that name for it, it is all good and they will have to pay you to get it back. But this guy just registered the name and made a fake "Tesla Motors China" website, complete with the Tesla logo and a car he had no relation to, then asked for millions.

Hmm, I always read it as: "Malicious, Software Removal Tool" and opted out to avoid having it maliciously remove my software. I would even be shocked that MS would even propose such a thing, but I read slashdot, so I did expect such and worse...
But in retrospect, perhaps you are right, and it is just a Tool that removes Malicious Software?
Honest mistake, I mean that's how Pythia had all the success...

I mean, the whole problem is the legal framework, which is focused on dealing with the wrong issues. Imagine if instead of malware you attempted to host copyrighted content on Amazon or GoDaddy or whomever else. Immediate takedown of the content and people coming after you. If you host malware on the other hand, meh, as long as Amazon gets paid they can host it without getting into trouble.
When I say it is a national issue, I don't mean it is only a US issue. It is a national issue for every country that writes the laws that corps ask for. Well, of course, it is the only country that I know off where corporate bribes are institutionalized, but that's another story.

I mean, if you are in business of stealing something to sell, you can never have "too much". You just have to sell in packets or whatever is the usual instead of advertizing "hey! Anybody wanna buy 110 million CCs wink, wink, nudge, nudge!".
But most importantly, they had been stealing at least since November. And CCs are a "commodity" with an expiration date. You think if they wanted to sell them they have sat on them for all these months (when there was supposedly no "problem" finding buyers), waiting for something?
Low article even for /.
Not that I read it of course ;) The summary was too much already!

For many researches it takes more than 3-years to get a federal grant (if they don't falsify results that is), how is a 3-year ban from federally-financed research any sort of punishment for such dishonesty?

Wow, you must be doing something wrong. Perhaps crappy PSUs? I just got my 4th UPS in about 10-11 years (I get a new one when I move to a different Voltage country, or the battery dies), my company is in their 2nd or 3rd batch for the same duration, and I've never seen what you describe. In fact, I have lived in places where we would get brownouts several times per day and without a UPS there was a reboot each time.
Funny story. The first time I got a UPS was when I went to NY for grad school. I ordered all parts from NewEgg, assembled a machine, hooked it on a UPS and the same day I had arranged for the cable internet to be connected. So, I was all up and running and I distinctively remember saying "perhaps the UPS was overkill for NY, I don't suppose they have such problems here" just a few minutes before the power went out! It was August 14th 2003, and the power went out for several hours over NE USA & Canada... No, my PC did not reboot.
But, yeah, if you say you get good UPSs, it could be the PSU. I always get rather expensive units from the likes of Antec.