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Submission + - Obama to pick Joe Biden for VP (paul-robinson.us)

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on Saturday August 23, 2008 @01:15AM

rfc1394 writes: "Yahoo news, among others has reported that the Associated Press has discovered that the U.S. Democratic Party putative presidential nominee Barack Obama will chooseSenator Joe Biden (D, Delaware) for his running mate."

Submission + - AT&T to offer no-contract iPhone (infoworld.com) 1

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on Friday July 04, 2008 @04:49AM

rfc1394 writes: "While the regular price of an iPhone is $199 if you take a 2-year contract with AT&T, if you're willing to pay a lot more you can get one without a contract. This article in Infoworld mentions that "Freedom will come with a price — $599 for an 8GB device and $699 for a 16GB — but this will mark the first time consumers in the United States are able to buy an iPhone without being tied down to a two-year contract. The phone probably would still be locked for use only on AT&T's network, said Jupiter Research analyst Michael Gartenberg. But buyers could choose a pay-as-you-go plan for voice service." The question still remains, does it make any sense to pay that much for a phone that is still locked to AT&T's network even if you aren't bound to a contract?"

Submission + - Correction to posted story Stanford's New Website (slashdot.org)

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on Tuesday January 29, 2008 @11:24AM

rfc1394 writes: "In the article beginning "An anonymous reader writes to tell us that Stanford has a new website that not only shows you how cool their new 3-d modeling system is, but actually allows you to give it a try with your own photos. The system can take a 2-d still image and estimate a detailed 3-d structure which you can navigate." the link I have indicated in bold goes to a 403 forbidden page. The correct link it should go to is this one."

Submission + - Down Under: Use an iPod, go to jail?

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on Tuesday November 21, 2006 @10:12AM

rfc1394 writes: "In this article, the Sydney Morning Herald reports proposed changes to Australia's copyright laws could so lower the standard of proof in copyright infringement cases by making posession of a device which can infringe copyright even if you were unaware you were doing so to be a crime. Virtually any device that can easily reproduce copyrightable material, such as a camera cell phone, an iPod or any MP3 player which is used to, say, load tracks from a CD even if the CD was legally purchased, "would constitute an indictable offense" of criminal copyright infringement with huge fines (AU$65,000, almost exactly US$50,000) and jail time of up to 5 years. Wonder how long before this sort of stunt is tried here in the U.S., after all, as Ayn Rand said in "Atlas Shrugged", if you don't have enough conscript labor in jails, change the laws to make more people into criminals."

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