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dnamaners writes:
Well, It's the day after the 10th anniversary Slashdot Party in Middleton, WI. As far as I know we all survived.
I and my lady (yes I have one) arrived around 7:00 pm, apparently we were not the first. There was one lone software DB there in his fervor to get his Friday night started right, with the power of beer. A few other had arrived earlier for dinner first, we did not meet them until later. About 7:25 pm our host Zonk arrived with the big box of gifts. It was perhaps only a few minutes and soon many Slashdotters arrived. Apparently the Pub had reserved us one booth, we were to get more later but for a while there were enough of us present to readily break fire codes. Probably 25 or thirty of us eventually showed up. As far as I know every one got a cool think geek promo code worth $10 off and the promised XL special edition Slashdot tee shirts. The night was for a few beers and conversation, that is what happened. I don't feel the need to say more. Of course, feel free to add if you want to.
The lady took many pictures and put them up on flicker in all their 8 mega pixel glory (1.6 MB each). Feel free to name everybody here or on the Flicker, enjoy.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/15579773@N08/sets/72157602561010007/
The party was at Claddagh's Irish Pub (1611 Aspen Cmns, Middleton, WI, USA)
Our Slashdot host moderator was Zonk (12082). The thing took place on October 19, 2007, 8 pm- 10 pm.
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NewYorkCountryLawyer writes:
A federal judge in Tampa, Florida, has ruled that an RIAA defendant's counterclaim against the record companies for conspiracy to use unlicensed investigators, access private computer records without permission, and commit extortion, may move forward. The Court also sustained claims for violations of the federal Computer Fraud and Abuse Act as well as a claim under Florida law for deceptive and unfair trade practices. The decision (pdf) by Judge Richard A. Lazzara in UMG v. DelCid rejected, in its entirety, the RIAA's assertion of "Noerr Pennington" immunity, since that defense does not apply to "sham litigations", and Ms. Del Cid alleges that the RIAA's cases are "sham".
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zarloq2 writes:
Craig Murray's site, along with several other UK-based political blogs have been shut down in response Usmanov's lawyers putting pressure on his webhost.
Here's an excerpt from the sports.aol.com blog:
Craig Murray, the former British Ambassador to Uzbekistan, is badmouthing Alisher Usmanov, the billionaire Russian steel magnate attempting to take over Premier League club Arsenal (UK football club), because he wants to sell you a book he wrote about his experience in that former Soviet republic. It has become clear today, however, that whatever Murray is attempting to sell, Usmanov and his lawyers do not want anyone to buy it.
According to Tom Dunmore at PitchInvasion.net, Craig Murray's web site was taken off line today after sustained pressure on Murray's web hosting provider from Schillings, the London law firm representing Usmanov. What's more, Schillings has also managed to put the kibosh on political site Bloggerheads three days after Tim Ireland wrote this piece on Schillings' cease & desist letters.
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nbuuck writes:
In an article (PDF) from The Exponent, an independent student newspaper at Purdue University, students and faculty learned of another wave of "pre-litigation" letters being forward by the university from the RIAA. These letters are preceded by another group of thirty-seven that were issued to Purdue students in the spring of 2007, eventually leading to seventeen subpoenas for names of university students alleged to have shared music illegally. The RIAA will now be issuing a total of forty-seven to university students, offering each of them a settlement within twenty days upon receiving the notice.
Purdue was rated second among university schools that have been identified as being host to illegal file sharing by the RIAA earlier this year (see "Forget Party Schools...", Ars Technica).
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mattnyc99 writes:
Glenn Derene at Popular Mechanics has a frightening look at the growing industry of corporate security investigation, learning how software to spy on your cubicle data, e-mail, phone and even corporate smartphone has grown more powerful and prevalent than ever before. Who knew that digital snapshots of your screen were being taken so frequently? Or that a "poison pill" can shred your company BlackBerry? Or that companies can remotely steal things off your iPod? That countdown clock to a surveillance society is ticking real fast...
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umStefa writes:
For the last few years the music industry has claimed that reduced CD sales are the result of piracy, while slashdotters have constantly defended piracy on the grounds that main stream music was overpriced. Well know the largest music retailer in Canada has gone and cut their prices on CD's to try and increase sales (CBC article).
If successful could this spur music stores in other countries to reduce their prices? and could it have an effect on piracy rates? or is this simply a move destined to fail (by not increasing CD sales), thereby giving the music industry ammunition to get governments to pass legislation that will support their outdated business model. Only time will tell.
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feuerfalke writes:
A flour-and-chalk trail marked out by Daniel Salchow and his sister Dorothee for their running club, the Hash House Harriers, sparked fears and evacuations Thursday night, and now the siblings are finding themselves in deep trouble with New Haven police. Police were called after they were spotted sprinkling "powder" in the parking lot of an IKEA furniture store, which was later evacuated. The "powder" was, in fact, flour, which the siblings have used plenty of times before, all across the country, to mark trails for their club. The Salchow siblings are now facing felony charges, and New Haven police seek "restitution" for the resources wasted in their mistake. This sounds familiar...
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An anonymous reader writes:
NJ Kids made a music video they called Produce Paradise, lost their jobs, and now A&P is suing them for 1 million dollars in damanges
CALIFON — It has already cost them their jobs. Now, the fictitious music video "Produce Paradise," created by two Hunterdon County brothers as a way to parody the outlandishness of gangster rap by using veggies as props, could cost them $1 million.
The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co., parent company of the supermarket chain A&P, recently filed a defamation lawsuit in state Superior Court in Flemington against college students Mark and Matthew D'Avella, who until recently stocked shelves at the Califon A&P.
The full article: http://www.c-n.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/2007 0828/NEWS/708280303
The video in question: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5iDpxucNFE