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Submission + - Oracle awarded $1.3 billion in copyright suit (latimes.com)

vk2 writes: Oracle awarded $1.3 billion in copyright infringement suit
A federal jury in Oakland delivers the judgment against German business software maker SAP in a case that began in 2007.

Oracle Corp. won a $1.3-billion verdict Tuesday in a lawsuit in which it alleged that German business software maker SAP infringed on the copyright of the Redwood Shores, Calif., company.

The verdict in the high-profile federal court case is one of the largest ever for copyright infringement. The eight-person jury in Oakland awarded the damages one day after the companies presented closing arguments.

Oracle sued SAP in 2007 claiming that SAP's now-defunct U.S. business software unit, TomorrowNow, illegally downloaded Oracle software and documents to support Oracle's customers. SAP bought TomorrowNow in 2005 and closed it in 2008.

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SAP did not contest that it was liable for the infringement, but estimated that it owed $28 million to $41 million to Oracle. Oracle, however, claimed that SAP owed as much as $3 billion.

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1928 Time Traveler Caught On Film? 685

Many of you have submitted a story about Irish filmmaker George Clarke, who claims to have found a person using a cellphone in the "unused footage" section of the DVD The Circus, a Charlie Chaplin movie filmed in 1928. To me the bigger mystery is how someone who appears to be the offspring of Ram-Man and The Penguin got into a movie in the first place, especially if they were talking to a little metal box on set. Watch the video and decide for yourself.

Comment Re:So... (Score 1) 266

Really? Go Tell Barry - http://www.whitehouse.org/ [NSFW Alert!!]

Really you want a default null tld so Slashdot.org would just be slashdot. I don't care where a site is based, whether it's for profit or not. I want to just type:

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etc and not try and guess/remember whether they're: .com .net .org .co.uk .org.uk

etc etc. The distinction is meaningless to me.

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Study Shows Monkeys Like Watching TV 103

According to a Japanese study, monkeys are not immune to the siren call of the idiot box. It seems rhesus monkeys enjoy watching videos of circus animals. From the article: "The study found that when the monkey was witnessing the acrobatic performances of circus animals on a television screen, the frontal lobe area of its brain became vigorously active. The activity in such an area was significant in reflecting the monkey's pleasure, as the human equivalent is a neurological area associated with triggering delight in a baby when it sees the smile of its mother."

Comment Re:They should never expire (Score 1) 145

Not if you plan and time it correctly. During the recent Christmas holiday I planned to buy a decent LCD TV - found a good one at good price at BB; went to Kroger got a bunch of gift cards ~ equal to the value of the TV and got 10% return on the purchase I made at kroger (See http://supermarketnews.com/news/kroger_gift_1123/) And 3% cash back from my credit card.

Comment Re:Good for apple (Score 1) 1078

I attest to this experience; recently I helped reinstalled windows xp home on an old smoker lady's desktop and the nicotine/tar smell lingered in my home for more than a week after I had the machine running for less than 3 hours.

Comment Re:"they should have used ZFS or btrfs" (Score 5, Interesting) 304

Thats why you have logical redundancies. I work for a fortune 10 company and this is a standard practice for all mission critical applications. The application has be to geographically redundant with install base at least at 3 data centers (ATL,SEA and DLS). Different SAN technology at each DC. All Oracle databases have 2 physical dataguard configuration with 4 hours and 8 hours latency (to guard against user errors) and all J2EE apps hard configured to switch connections from one db to the other almost on the fly or with a reboot. Some really really critical databases have all this and transaction duplication via Goldengate to remote databases to off load reporting queries. We have had issues where SAs screwed up allocating LUNs and ended up f*cking up the file systems but we recovered in every scenario even a 30 TB DB restore over 2 days.

Its amazing a consumer serving company like T-Mobile risked itself by hosting their application on Microsoft platform;. Furthermore where is the DR in all this? Who the F*ck in the right mind fiddle something on SAN without confirming a full backup of all applications/databases? It appears that Hitachi and Microsoft are at fault here (if SAN maintenance is the root cause of this failure) but T-Mobile is the fool allowing these companies to ruin their data. Not only there won't be any consequences because of this issue to MS or Hitachi - T-Mobile will be pouring in more money to fly in the MS and Hitachi consultants.

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