Or maybe people don't feel like joining real life out of High School. Maybe they just want to drink lots of beer, smoke pot from a bong made out of a toilet paper roll, root for the school sports team, and have bitchin' spring break parties while going into debt for the extended vacation.
Then again, maybe it is about all of that altruistic shit.
Anything's possible.
The DVD CCA had argued that the "CSS General Specifications" was part of the licensing agreement and Kaleidescape replied that it was "available only after you sign the license and pay the fee," thus, not part of the contract. Judge Nichols agreed; therefore, copyright issues were never even considered in the case.Kaleidescape argued, first and foremost, that nothing in the DVD CCA licensing agreement prohibits the development of products that allow users to copy their DVDs.
Sprint Nextel was the big loser in the $20bn telecomms contract dished out today by the US government.
Intel will stash away an “extra” $275m this quarter after settling with the IRS.
TJX has taken the crown for presiding over the largest credit card heist ever, with a tally of 45.6m numbers lost to unknown thieves who intruded on the US-based retailing giant's networks over a span of 17 months. Personal information, often including social security numbers, for at least 451,000 was also lifted.
Dell says an audit committee convened to probe its bookkeeping has found evidence of misconduct and accounting errors that may result in restatements to previous financial results. The preliminary finding, which also disclosed potential deficiencies in the company's financial controls, is the latest announcement to raise doubts about the accounting of the cut-rate PC maker.
Wall St Linux darling Red Hat was down in after hours trading Thursday after reporting a sharp drop in income on sales that grew less than expected for the fourth quarter.
Security watchers are calling on net governance body ICANN to adopt a new top level domain name to be used exclusively by registered banks and financial organisations.
A vulnerability in the way Windows handles animated cursors puts users at risk of being pwnd, and several nefarious websites are already trying to exploit the flaw, according to the SANS Internet Storm Center.
Ya'll hear about the geometer who went to the beach to catch some rays and became a tangent ?
