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Submission + - RIAA: This case is about to get interesting

Submitted by gone.fishing on Monday July 07, 2008 @12:03PM

gone.fishing writes: Stay tuned: This case is about to get really interesting If you would enjoy seeing what a federal judge looks like when he's hopping mad, drop by the federal courthouse in Duluth August 4th. The RIAA lawyers forgot to tell the judge about a couple of details he might have wanted to know: One, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit, which presides over the District of Minnesota, had previously ruled that you can't have liability without proof of actual dissemination, and secondly, one of the two authorities the record company lawyers were relying upon, an Arizona case named Atlantic v. Howell, had been vacated a week before the Thomas trial.

Submission + - VA Loses another HDD with data on 48,000 veterans

Submitted by

Saqib Ali

on Saturday February 03, 2007 @02:46PM

Saqib Ali writes: "Seems like VA has managed to lose another hard drive containing data on 48,000 veterans. The hard drive was stolen from a employees home. The good news is that hard drive was partially encrypted. So it is expected that no more then 20,000 records were impacted. Which is still a high number. My question, why the partial encryption? If you are going to encrypt, just encrypt the whole drive."

Is Computer Programming a Good Job for Retirees? 147

Posted by Cliff on Saturday February 03, 2007 @01:55PM from the never-too-old dept.

braindrainbahrain asks: "Ask Slashdot has been rife with career advice lately, so maybe I can get some too. I hit a milestone recently, the big five oh, and the realization of retirement is starting to settle in. The trouble is, I don't want to sit around, play golf, or even travel that much. I work in a technical field, but I have always enjoyed programming. Indeed, I do it as a hobby. I wonder what you readers would think about programming as a post retirement job. It seems well suited for a retiree, one could do contract work for a few months of the year, in some cases work from home even. By way of background, I have worked in hardware engineering for a very long time, and have pursued graduate study almost regularly (two Masters degrees so far). Should I begin preparing for a post-retirement career in computer science?"

Submission + - Canadian Spy Currency

Submitted by

WED Fan

on Thursday January 11, 2007 @10:41AM

WED Fan writes: "The U.S. Department of Defense is quoted by the CBC as saying that several contractors returning from Canada had Canadian coins that were RFID enabled.
Canadian coins containing tiny transmitters have mysteriously turned up in the pockets of at least three American contractors who visited Canada, says a branch of the U.S. Department of Defence.

A U.S. security report says Canadian coins with tiny transmitters have turned up, and could be used to track defence industry personnel. (CBC) Security experts believe the miniature devices could be used to track the movements of defence industry personnel dealing in sensitive military technology.

The coin depicted in the story is a really sharp looking Looney."

Journal Journal: Compaq Armada 1130T

Journal by gone.fishing on Friday April 11, 2003 @10:14AM

I just inhereted a retired Compaq 1130T. Cool little laptop with a P133 processor, 32MB RAM and a 1GB HDD. Not much of a computer really but it is something that I see has a few possibilities. She does not have a CD-ROM but does have a FDD.

I want to make her run Linux with X-Windows and a couple of applications (Spreadsheet, Word Processor, Browser). I'll use a PC Card to hook her to the network.

Journal Journal: My Lexmark repair experience

Journal by gone.fishing on Wednesday April 09, 2003 @04:07PM

My Lexmark X73 printer decided to quit feeding paper. Looking into the machine from the top or the bottom, I could not see anything jamming the printer but the paper simply wouldn't feed (however, it made lots of noise).

The printer is just 13 months old, has worked well and meets most of my needs in the Windoze environment (there are NO *nix drivers available).

No "disposable" income although I do lust after one a those Epson printers with the colorfast technology.

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