Comment Pay in advance? (Score 1) 208
what are other people doing, impulse buying a satellite launch?
Anti-Piracy Dog Uncovers Huge Cache of Discs 283
sgt scrub writes "I've never thought about sniffing my CDs before buying them but that is all about to change. According to this Yahoo! news article, dogs can be trained to tell the difference between a legit copy of a DVD and one from those pesky pirates. From the article, 'A DVD-sniffing anti-piracy dog named Paddy has uncovered a huge cache of 35,000 discs in Malaysian warehouses, many destined for export to Singapore, industry officials said on Wednesday. Paddy was given to Malaysia by the MPA to help close down piracy syndicates, which churn out vast quantities of illegal DVDs. The dog is specially trained to detect chemicals in the discs.'" We ran a story about anti-piracy dogs being trained in Ireland a few years ago.
Comment Re:This thread is useless without pics (Score 1) 347
Kenny Rogers
Submission + - IBM Seeks Patent for Real-Time Pay Cuts
theodp writes: "When it comes to reducing labor costs, even its detractors will acknowledge that IBM is quite the innovator. Take Big Blue's just-published patent application for Dynamically Setting a Wage, illustrated with an example that shows how call center workers can be pitted against each other by only guaranteeing pay rates for an hour at a time, causing some workers to accept 10% less pay than others for doing the exact same work. Probably a safe bet that IBM CEO Samuel J. Palmisano won't be eating his own dog food on this one!"
Comment Re:Snowbound is great for a different reason (Score 4, Informative) 429
http://www.snopes.com/pregnant/blackout.asp
although it sounds like it should be true, it isn't
Submission + - The Origin and future of Eclipse
An anonymous reader writes: An interesting article about the Eclipse Platform, including its origin and architecture. Starting with a brief discussion about the open source nature of Eclipse and its support for multiple programming languages, it demonstrate the Java development environment with a simple programming example. It also provides a survey of some of the software development tools available as plug-in extensions and where Eclipse is headed.
