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Comment Re:Wrong picture... taken from here (Score 1) 73

by Jrono on Thursday October 30, 2008 @06:28PM (#25576547) Attached to: Halloween Pumpkin Carving With CNC Robotics

"Ethics" and "professional conduct"? On Slashdot?

You must be new here... :-)

But yeah, I had to browse through the comments to figure out where that picture came from. It's very annoying when things like this aren't properly attributed.

Commerce Department Pushing For New "Copyright Czar" 294

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday October 06, 2008 @01:23PM from the bogus-stats dept.

TechDirt is reporting that those all-too-familiar "stats" surrounding the cost of piracy are being trotted out in an attempt to push through a new "Copyright Czar" position. "In urging President Bush to sign into law the ProIP bill, which would give him a copyright czar (something the Justice Department had said it doesn't want), the US Chamber of Commerce is claiming that 750,000 American jobs have been lost to piracy. Yet, it doesn't cite where that number comes from."

Submission + - Sabotage suspected in undersea cables damage 1

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 18, 2008 @07:49PM

An anonymous reader writes: France 24 if carrying a story confirming that sabotage is strongly suspected for the cutting of the undersea internet cables to the middle east earlier this month.

http://www.france24.com/en/20080218-mideast-asia-internet-cable-cut-sabotage

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