CheeseburgerBrown - Slashdot User

Comment Novelists as Experts (Score 1) 494

by CheeseburgerBrown on Saturday January 02, 2010 @11:16AM (#30622398) Attached to: Novelist Blames Piracy On Open Source Culture

Novelists can't be trusted. It's always a story with those guys. Like Al Gore and his triffids, or Michael Crichton's genetic engineering alarmism -- nothing to see here. Pure fabrication. I'm pretty sure if we want to know the truth about piracy we have to dig really deep into the back part of the Bible...somewhere between Muhammed and the passages about Neo.

Submission + - TV Station posts public employee salaries online

Submitted by ncstockguy on Thursday May 03, 2007 @04:21PM

ncstockguy writes: The CBS affiliate in Raleigh, NC has generated some controversy by posting names and salaries of local public employees online. After complaints from a large number of public school teachers, and a news story on a competing station, WRAL removed the names of the employees and now just has positions and pay posted online. No question public employee pay is public record, but the question remains, just how easy should it be for casual snoops to look up an individual's pay? http://www.wral.com/news/public_records/?show_all= 1 http://abclocal.go.com/wtvd/story?section=triangle &id=5267279

Submission + - Digg.com: Site Is 'Aligned With the Users'

Submitted by

Strayline

on Thursday May 03, 2007 @04:11PM

Strayline writes: "http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,131520/article.h tml Digg users fought back as the company began removing posts that contained a software key needed to crack the encryption used to limit copying of HD-DVD and Blu-ray. The company was pressured by a lawsuit to remove these posts from it site. However user revolt made that impossible and Digg was forced to allow the posts to stay and the story of the removal become the top story with over 35,000 Diggs."

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