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Comment I think something is missing here... (Score 2) 299

by coastal984 (#41972725) Attached to: Mark Cuban: Facebook Is Driving Away Brands — Starting With Mine
Forgive me if I'm incorrect here... But Facebook isn't trying to charge him to post on his page with 1 million fans; Facebook is trying to charge him for "promoting" [read: advertising] his post more prominently in peoples timelines and around the site. I don't have a problem with this. You let Facebook's news feed dynamic work for free just like everyone else, your you pay up to reach others. Why is he pitching such a hissy fit over advertising not being free?

Comment Re:No smiles in Ohio (Score 1) 265

by coastal984 (#41409499) Attached to: No Smiles At NJ Motor Vehicle Commission
No smiles in Virginia either. Granted, my last license pic I looked stoned out of my mind (I was 17 and it was 8am - not my brightest hour of the morning) - but now I just look like I'm mad at the world, one of those people you see as the perpetrator in one of those hilarious workplace violence training videos...

Submission + - High School Web Design Competition Topic

Submitted by coastal984
coastal984 writes: I coordinate a high school web design competition for a national Career & Technical Student Organization. The competition is weighted towards content and presentation, with the content being an annually changing topic. Past topics were, for example, Future of NASA Manned Space Exploration, Web Accessibility for the Visually Impaired, Open Source Software Alternatives, and "What Will Web 3.0 Be Like?".

I've been spinning ideas around for a new topic, but they all seem bland and uninteresting (This past topic on NASA wasn't exactly a thriller. The Accessibility, Web 3.0, and Open Source ones received far better responses and deep thinking/research.) What might the Slashdot crowd suggest for a competition topic for high schoolers?
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Submission + - ACLU Questions Privacy of Virginia Police License Plate Scanners (timesdispatch.com)

Submitted by coastal984
coastal984 writes: The ACLU is questioning the usage and retention of data by the Virginia State Police and various local police agencies in the Commonwealth as part of a 35-state inquiry into license plate scanners.
"ACLU chapters in 35 states announced Monday that they are querying law enforcement agencies through Freedom of Information Act requests about how they are using the scanning technology and about the extent to which the information may be used to compile "movement histories" of people. "Automatic license plate readers make it possible for the police to track our location whenever we drive our cars and to store that information forever," said Catherine Crump, staff attorney with the ACLU's Speech, Privacy & Technology Project.
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Submission + - Facebook changes your email listing to @facebook.com without permission (latimes.com)

Submitted by coastal984
coastal984 writes: Facebook has rolled out a sweeping change to profiles few have noticed, without users' permission: Your email listing has been changed from whatever you had posted to an @facebook.com address. You have to go and change it back manually to undo the change. One would have thought Facebook would have learned it's lesson by now, but apparently they have not.

Comment Re:When you can't innovate (Score 1) 349

Playing a music CD as a paid DJ is not personal use. It is professional use. You are making money using the product you bought. Now, if it was the brides cousin sticking a CD in and playing it for the reception, I would agree with you, that's "personal". But playing a CD as a paid DJ at an event is definitely NOT personal use.

I would imagine they should make DJ's pay more for songs that come with a license to play in venues for the paying customers. (They may do this, I don't know).

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