ArieKremen - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Accident? (Score 1) 377

by ArieKremen on Wednesday December 24, 2008 @10:57AM (#26223079) Attached to: Karl Rove's IT Guru Dies In Small Plane Crash

Doesn't Finland have one of the highest suicide rates in the world (http://herkules.oulu.fi/isbn9514256042/html/x335.html)? And statistically, if more people commit suicide, more bankers are included in this group.

Submission + - Korean worker not killed by exploding mobile phone

Submitted by ArieKremen on Friday November 30, 2007 @03:12PM

ArieKremen writes: The "Spiegel Online", a German online publication loosely affiliated with the print magazine "Der Spiegel" has a follow-up on the story of the Korean worker supposedly killed by an exploding mobile phone http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/web/0,1518,520640,00.html. According to the short note, a co-worker killed the guy in an accident and tried to hide the fact. After pinning the poor guy between a truck and a rock wall, the co-worker staged the scene with the cellular phone to make it look like an accident. However, police got suspicious, investigated, and eventually arrested the driver/stager.

Submission + - Tolerated Use of Copyrighted Material

Submitted by ArieKremen on Tuesday October 16, 2007 @08:29AM

ArieKremen writes: Tim Wu at 'The Slate' discusses copyright and tolerated use of copyrighted material in the digital world (http://www.slate.com/id/2175730/entry/0/). He starts with examples describing two competing interests of the copyright owner: increased visibility vs. protection of copyrighted material. The gist of the story is a paradox, where the current law is so expansive and extreme that the very firms, ie. the copyright owners, that first sought it cannot even make of the law. He points out that while in a functioning political system a copyright reform would be negotiated between all involved parties, this is not applicable to the US. BTW, the article is part of a series discussing versus aspects of laws in the US. Worth reading!

Submission + - OLPC 2-for-1 myth becomes reality (nytimes.com)

Submitted by r00t on Sunday September 23, 2007 @10:06PM

r00t writes: Difficulty in getting countries to follow through on their commitments has made the One Laptop Per Child project reconsider the buy-2-get-1 idea. It's now the $399 laptop.

Submission + - OLPC Announces Buy-2-Get-1 XO Laptop Sale

Submitted by

theodp

on Sunday September 23, 2007 @10:05PM

theodp writes: "Starting November 12, The One Laptop Per Child Project will sell its affordable XO laptop to Americans for a brief period of time, but there's a slight catch: U.S. buyers must purchase two computers — one for their own child and one for a child in the developing world — for a total cost of $399."

Submission + - Government-initiated Patent Reform in the Works

Submitted by ArieKremen on Wednesday June 06, 2007 @11:38AM

ArieKremen writes: The New York Times (http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/06/business/07cnd- patent.html?_r=1&oref=slogin) discusses an overhaul of the patent system, initiated by the administration, to improve quality of patents and to "curb the rising wave of patent disputes and lawsuits". The reform is to encompass "requiring better information from inventors and allowing public scrutiny of applications, according to the director of the government's patent office", and would address software patents as well. The article does discuss an ongoing pilot underway at the USPTO to reform the software patent application and review process. Other steps aimed at improving performance are mentioned, such as increasing the number of reviewers from less than 4k to more than 5k.

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