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Submission + - Restaurant uses social media to exclude patrons (gothamist.com)

Submitted by RevWaldo
RevWaldo writes: From Gothamist: Five former employees of Bowlmor Lanes in New York have filed a lawsuit against Strike Holdings CEO Tom Shannon, claiming he used social media outlets to keep minorities from making reservations at "one of the city’s hottest and most compelling nightlife venues." The suit claims Shannon met with top executives after "incidents" at Bowlmor's restaurant, Carnival, "to discuss possible ways to exclude certain people...such as African-Americans, Asians and Latinos."...The suit claims the workers were asked to look up prospective patrons on Facebook and MySpace to see how they looked and dressed and where they lived. If they didn't fit the Bowlmor customer ideal, they didn't get a reservation.
Privacy

75% Use Same Password For Social Media & Email 278

Posted by CmdrTaco from the my-password-is-trustno1 dept.
wiredmikey writes "Over 250,000 user names, email addresses, and passwords used for social networking sites can easily be found online. A study of the data collected showed that 75 percent of social networking username and password samples collected online were identical to those used for email accounts. The password data was gathered from blogs, torrents, online collaboration services and other sources. It was found that 43 percent of the data was leaked from online collaboration tools while 21 percent of data was leaked from blog postings. Meanwhile, torrents and users of other social hubs were responsible for leaking 10 percent and 18 percent of user data respectively...."
Music

Submission + - How Confusing Is It To Legally License Music? (techdirt.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: If you were to set up an authorized music service, you might think that the licensing of the music, while it would involve a detailed negotiation with record labels and publishers, would still be relatively straightforward if you could just agree on numbers. Not so fast. One new service has outlined that incredible mess in licensing music for an online service in graphical form. It specifically covers the UK market, but the same basic structural disaster happens around the globe (making things even more difficult if you want your service to be global). Basically, you'll need a full-time team of lawyers to continually sort through the mess, and even then you're probably still infringing on someone's rights. As the post notes, this is the result of various governments — at the regular urging of the industry — to simply slap new "rights" into copyright every time a new technology comes along, leading to various bureaucracies and cross licenses. And it gets worse when new technologies like the Internet don't clearly fit into one bucket, and multiple groups demand licenses for the same thing.
Movies

Lost Star Wars Scene In the Wild 294

Posted by CmdrTaco from the i-made-this dept.
Someone managed to get a clip on-line of the lost Star Wars scene from Jedi where Luke is shown crafting his Lightsaber. The full clip will apparently be included on the Blu-ray box set expected to come out in 2011. Hit the link below to see what is circulating. It's not much, but it looks real. Can't wait to see what they include in the 2015 version.
Update: 08/16 22:44 GMT by S : Lucasfilm complained, and YouTube took the video down.
Image

Town Gets Patent On Being the Center of Europe Screenshot-sm 169

Posted by samzenpus from the continental-drift-be-damned dept.
An anonymous reader writes "And you thought software patents were going to far? How about geography patents? Apparently, as a part of the weird fight over what place in Europe represents the 'geophysical center of Europe,' the Austrian town of Frauenkirchen has received a patent (Austrian patent AM 7738/2003) declaring it the center of Europe. Not clear how one 'infringes' on such a patent, but then again, it's not clear why anyone's patenting this either."
Debian

Happy 17th Birthday, Debian! 225

Posted by CmdrTaco from the august-is-interesting dept.
An anonymous reader writes "Debian turns 17 today. Yes it has really come a long way from being Murdock's pet project back in 1993 to being the distribution on which the most popular Linux distribution, Ubuntu, is now based."
IBM

Submission + - IBM: Linux is on Parity with AIX Unix (cioupdate.com)

Submitted by darthcamaro
darthcamaro writes: After a dozen years of pushing AIX as its premier mission critical operating system — a top IBM exec is now saying that there is little difference in features between AIX-Unix and Linux.

"Linux is on parity with AIX," Jean Staten Healy, IBM's director of worldwide Linux strategy told InternetNews.com. "Linux enables choice. I think that's one of the basic tenants of the faith."
Internet Explorer

Internet Explorer Turns 15 271

Posted by CmdrTaco from the and-the-internet-has-never-been-the-same dept.
An anonymous reader writes "Software giant Microsoft's Internet Explorer turned 15 years old on Monday. The company recently said it would launch the Internet Explorer 9 public beta version on September 15, 2010. The software giant launched the first version of the browser, Internet Explorer 1, on August 16, 1995. It was a revised version of Spyglass Mosaic, which Microsoft had licensed from Spyglass Inc."
Businesses

Submission + - Why net neutrality is good (hbr.org)

Submitted by
duggi
duggi writes: "How do businesses react to the recent net neutrality deal/recommendation/debate/discussion? Here is an interesting take in the link. Mind you, the author is not a techie, he is an economist. So are most of the decision makers in this scenario. What can be the arguments against him?"
Windows

Submission + - New Jaguar XJ suffers Blue Screen of Death (cnet.co.uk)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: CNET UK is reporting that it crashed a £90,000 Jaguar XJ Super Sport — one of the most technologically advanced cars on the planet today. It's not the sort of crash you'd imagine, however — An unforseen glitch somewhere within the car's dozens of separate onboard computers, 100s of millions of lines of code or its internal vehicular network led to the dramatic BSOD, which had to be resolved with the use of a web-connected laptop.
Linux

Submission + - Indie dev tool maker has “Name Your Price&rd (lunduke.com) 2

Submitted by TroysBucket
TroysBucket writes: Radical Breeze (company founded by host of the Linux Action Show) is having a "pay what you want" sale for a visual software creation tool built for people with no programming experience. All proceeds go directly to the indie developers building Illumination Software Creator. Available for Linux, MacOS X and Windows.
Linux

Submission + - An Overview of Today’s Top-ten Linux Distrib (linuxtrends.com)

Submitted by __aajbyc7391
__aajbyc7391 writes: LinuxTrends has published a brief overview of each the Linux distributions on today's DistroWatch 10 list, which range from the newbie-friendly Ubuntu to the sysadmin-oriented Gentoo. Specifically, in order of popularity (highest first), the list includes Ubuntu, Fedora, openSUSE, Debian, Mandriva, Linux Mint, PCLinuxOS, Slackware, Gentoo, and CentOS (not to mention the un-linux, FreeBSD). It will be interesting to read Slashdot readers' current opinions on the pros and cons of these (and other) Linux distros.
Linux

Submission + - Linux Stories Buried on Social Networking Sites? (computerworld.com) 1

Submitted by Hugh Pickens
Hugh Pickens writes: Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols writes on Computerworld that those who follow Social Networking sites have long known that sites like Digg, Reddit, and StumbleUpon are susceptible to external gaming. "In early 2009, new popular Linux stories would pop up every day or two on Digg. By mid-2010, Linux stories on Digg became popular only once every week or so. Why? Has everyone who once interested in Linux suddenly vanished? Have people stopped writing about Linux?" writes Vaughan-Nichols. "The only explanation I can come up with is that Linux stories are getting down-voted on a regular basis on Digg these days. Who's doing this? In whose best interest is it to make it appear that there's little interest in Linux?"

Comment Re:Congestion? (Score 3, Informative) 371

by rackeer (#33128022) Attached to: The Bus That Rides Above Traffic

I was very impressed by the video, but I also worry about how to change the lange when under the "bus."

In the video they say it is much faster to build such a highway than building subway. And the bus is driven by both solar energy and electricity.

What I find also cool, if not better, is the suspended railway in the German town Wuppertal. It seems to me it as all of the advantages, minus maybe time and money, and avoids the trap problem.

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