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Comment Re:Hmmm (Score 1) 343

by ween14 on Monday July 28, 2008 @09:38PM (#24378725) Attached to: FCC Commissioner Urges, Don't Regulate the Internet

They have not had an official vote on the matter yet. From the Ars Technica article:

The Wall Street Journal reports tonight that commissioners Copps, Adelstein, and Martin have decided against the cable giant, paving the way for an official vote when the order is publicly voted on next Friday.

Submission + - The Open Source Petition letter to IBM

Submitted by

OS2World News Master

on Tuesday December 11, 2007 @12:35PM

OS2World News Master writes: "On November 19, 2007, we sent the second letter to IBM where we insisted on implementing the estipulations contained in this petition because we believe that OS/2 is an important part of the history of the Operating System, and furthermore, it still contains values that the computer science field considers unique. On this second letter we requested IBM to open source three specific components. The SOM (System Object Model) Core, Workplace Shell (graphical user interface) and Kernel. http://www.os2world.com/content/view/15847/1/ The Petition can still be signed at: http://www.os2world.com/petition Esther Schindler also made an analysis about this petition on this article. http://advice.cio.com/esther_schindler/should_ibms_os_2_be_open_sourced"

Submission + - Flying Humans (nytimes.com)

Submitted by mlimber on Tuesday December 11, 2007 @12:28PM

mlimber writes: The NYTimes is running a story about flying humans who jump from planes or other high locations wearing a wing suits akin to flying squirrels. Their efforts have potential military and X-treme sports applications. They have some good pictures and a video at the site, and here's an excerpt:

Modern suit design features tightly woven nylon sewn between the legs and between the arms and torso, creating wings that fill with air and create lift, allowing for forward motion and aerial maneuvers while slowing descent. As the suits, which cost about $1,000, have become more sophisticated, so have the pilots. The best fliers, and there are not many, can trace the horizontal contours of cliffs, ridges and mountainsides.
YouTube also has some video along these lines, one with a flier "skimming six feet above skiers in the Swiss Alps."

Submission + - Thomas guilty of infringement

Submitted by

hymie!

on Thursday October 04, 2007 @07:51PM

hymie! writes: "http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/riaa_trial/index.html Jammie Thomas, a single mother of two, was found liable Thursday for copyright infringement in the nation's first file-sharing case to go before a jury. Twelve jurors here said the Minnesota woman must pay $9,250 for each of 24 shared songs that were the subject of the lawsuit, amounting to $222,000 in penalties."

Submission + - Record Companies Win Music Sharing Trial (yahoo.com)

Submitted by

heroine

on Thursday October 04, 2007 @07:45PM

heroine writes: ""the record companies accused Thomas of downloading the songs without permission and offering them online through a Kazaa file-sharing account." But was she busted for seeding or for originating the files?"

Submission + - EU court crushes Microsoft's antitrust appeal

Submitted by Stony Stevenson on Monday September 17, 2007 @06:59AM

Stony Stevenson writes: European antitrust regulators have won a historic victory over Microsoft when an EU court upheld the European Commission's 2004 ruling that the U.S. software giant abused its market dominance. The European Union's second-highest court dismissed Microsoft's appeal on all substantive points, but threw the company a small bone by reversing the Commission on the creation and funding of a monitoring trustee to ensure implementation of one of the remedies.

In a crucial finding backing the Commission's order that Microsoft change its business practices, the court said the company was unjustified in tying new applications to its Windows operating system in a way that harmed consumer choice. In a revealing detail, the judges ordered Microsoft to pay most of the costs including some of its business rivals' which had supported the Commission's case.

Submission + - 1000's To Be Laid Off At Intel Rio Rancho Facility

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 01, 2007 @10:14PM

An anonymous reader writes: An Intel spokesperson says 1,000 or more workers will be laid off from the company's Rio Rancho plant starting in a few months.
http://kob.com/article/stories/S74699.shtml?cat=50 0

IBM Asks Court To Declare Linux Non-Infringing 133

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday March 20, 2007 @06:56PM from the decisive dept.

A Cyclic Graph writes "We finally have a redacted version of IBM's Reply Memorandum in Support of Summary Judgment on Counterclaim 10 in SCO v. IBM. In short, IBM is asking the Court to declare that Linux doesn't infringe upon any of SCO's purported intellectual property. This document is the last word on that matter until the Court either declares there to be no doubt that Linux is free of infringement, or decides that that issue has to be decided by the jury. In their brief, IBM points out that SCO puts forth a convoluted set of non-answers referencing each other to disguise it's inability to answer IBM. Their set of cross-references is so complex that Groklaw readers graphed the claims to make what little sense of them they could."

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