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3 Firms Confess To Fixing LCD Prices, Agree To Pay $585M Fine 417

Posted by timothy from the win-friends-and-influence-people dept.
Oldyeller89 writes "LG, Sharp, and Chunghwa Picture Tubes pleaded guilty to charges of price fixing in violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act. They fixed the prices on LCD screens used not only in their products but also in other products such as Apple's iPods. The three companies agreed to pay $585 million in fines. Perhaps this will cause the price of our TVs to drop?" The New York Times also has a story on the outcome of this case.

Comment Re:Karma (Score 1) 616

by tx_kanuck (#25343819) Attached to: Give two weeks' notice ...

sadly they only have to give you the minimum required by law at that point.

In Alberta:
        * one week - for employment of more than three months, but less than two years
        * two weeks - for employment of two years, but less than four years,
        * four weeks - for employment of four years, but less than six years,
        * five weeks - for employment of six years, but less than eight years,
        * six weeks - for employment of eight years, but less than 10 years, and
        * eight weeks - for employment of 10 years or more.
Censorship

Australian Police Chief Seeks Terror Reporting Ban 146

Posted by samzenpus from the ignorance-is-bliss dept.
DJMajah writes "News.com.au reports that Australian Federal Police chief Mick Keelty has called for a media blackout on reporting of terrorism investigations and cases before trial in a speech to the Sydney Institute last night. Although he doesn't believe public institutions should be immune from public accountability, he goes on to say that public discussion should be delayed until information is made available by the courts or legal proceedings are complete. This all comes after last year's widely reported case of Dr. Mohammed Haneef who was detained then later deported from Australia on evidence described as weak — and seen by some, including Haneef, as a conspiracy."
United States

US Military Leaks its Secrets Online 198

Posted by samzenpus from the check-out-the-cia-myspace-page dept.
athloi writes "Detailed schematics of a military detainee holding facility in southern Iraq, geographical surveys and aerial photographs of two military airfields outside Baghdad and plans for a new fuel farm at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan are among the items accidentally left online by government agencies and contractors."
The Almighty Buck

Underfunded NSA Suffers Brownouts 198

Posted by Zonk from the war-on-terror-doesn't-include-juice dept.
An anonymous reader writes "Almost ten years after the an internal report, and a year after a Baltimore sun story warned that the electrical system at the fort Meade NSA HQ couldn't keep up with the growing electricity demand ... the problem has got worse. The 'NSA has had to resort to partial, rolling brownouts at its computer farms and scheduled power outages and some offices are experiencing significant power disruptions'. NSA director Alexander testified to congress about this problem. It is suggested he wanted to add more than $800 million to the 07 budget. A recent public powerpoint presentation suggested 70% of of all intelligence spending goes to contractors. It also included a graph, without numbers, of this spending. It suggests that US intelligence spending is around $60 billion. An internal survey that showed NSA employees have problems trusting each other."
Music

Submission + - Legal guitar tabs return to the 'Net

Submitted by Guitar Hero
Guitar Hero writes: Guitar players will soon be able to access guitar tablatures online, thanks to an agreement between the Music Publishers Association and Musicnotes. Popular and free online guitar tab sites were shut down last summer after the MPA said that the sites — which were built on the contributions of individual guitar players — infringed on their copyrights. The new site will go online this summer and will be ad-supported: 'the site will be making its money from users, who create and edit the tabs in question. Users get free access to legal tabs, while Musicnotes and music publishers get the cash. Will guitar players want to donate their time and energy to propping up The Man? Probably, if the site is slick, enough publishers sign on, and everything is fast and simple to use.'
United States

Submission + - The Supremes say CO2 can be regulated by EPA

Submitted by
wattsup
wattsup writes: "While the Science is apparently still not settled, the Supreme Court has ruled in a split 5-4 decision, that the Environmental Protection Agency can begin the process of creating regulations for automobile emitted CO2. The overall tone of the 5-4 decision, written by the liberal wing of the court, showed concern for global warming and respect for the worries voiced by Massachusetts and other states about diminished coast line and other atmospheric problems associated with warmer temperatures. Greenhouse gases are air pollutants under the landmark environmental law, Justice John Paul Stevens said in his majority opinion. I wonder what's next. CO2 taxes on soda pop?"
The Internet

Canadian Broadcasters Seek New Internet Regulation 171

Posted by ScuttleMonkey from the new-interference-commission dept.
An anonymous reader writes "Michael Geist's weekly Toronto Star column reports that the Canadian broadcasting community, including broadcasters, copyright collectives, and actor labor unions, are all calling on Canada's broadcast regulator to increase its regulation of the Internet. Some groups want sites such as YouTube to be subject to Canadian content requirements, while the broadcasters want to stop U.S. broadcasters from streaming television shows online into Canada."
Software

Submission + - spherebrowser

Submitted by
bob phaculty
bob phaculty writes: "I found this site which has a real-time 3D file browser free (as in beer) to download and use. Its an early release, but very usable for all that . Its based on DirectX and has deli.co.us tags built in (even for local files)."

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