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NewYorkCountryLawyer writes
"In an interview with Jon Newton of p2pnet, Prof. Deirdre Smith of the University of Maine says that 'our students are enthusiastic about being directly connected to a case with a national scope and significance'. The UM Cumberland Legal Aid Clinic is the first law school legal clinic in the U.S. to have taken on the RIAA, to have the opportunity for hands-on experience fighting the RIAA's effort to rewrite copyright law. Smith went on to say that the case is probably one of the first intellectual property cases the clinic has ever taken on, and that if it proceeds further, she expects to also 'draw on the considerable expertise in IP among members of our faculty and the Maine Center for Law and Innovation, another program of the Law School'. "
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Anonamouse writes:
I'm a 50 year-old self-taught programmer. I was lucky enough to be working in the accounting dept of a life insurance company when IBM released the first PC's. My company bought one and I spent my waking hours in front of it or reading anything I could about it. My question is about games and gaming. My wife's 22 yo is living with us. He is an eating, sleeping, shitting and WOW playing child. I think he is good at the game, but all I have is his word for it. Does he have any skills from playing the game (besides) playing the game? His idea of technology and mine are very different. My idea of a "game" is to sit and write a little game (i.e. Sudoku, Yahtzee) in Java, C#, C++, APL, Lisp, Assembler, etc. His is to spend 8-16 hours playing WOW when he's not e, s or s of course.
Give me your wisdom oh, mighty /.ers
or..
Let the flaming begin.
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smitty_one_each writes:
"The trend for the decade is clear: the red states are gaining people and electoral votes while the blue states are losing them."
http://www.weeklystandard.com/weblogs/TWSFP/2007/12/census_bureau_red_states_gaini_1.asp
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the_humeister writes:
According to the AP, New Jersey has just enacted a new law restricting internet access to sex offenders. Now this wouldn't necessarily be a bad thing save for the fact that "sex offender" now covers such a wide range of actions such that getting caught urinating in public can get you such a label.
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Hillview writes:
Seeing the article a few months ago about the Fit-PC http://www.fit-pc.com/new/ , I started looking and found the Koolu Net Appliance, a similar PC with the same AMD Geode processor and 512mb of non-soldered RAM, and an 80-meg HDD. http://shop.koolu.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=3
I did purchase one and am happy with it, so I Thought it might interest some of the folks here. Works fine with
an iogear KVM, so it makes a nice "secondary" terminal to use for email, browsing, typing, etc.
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jmange writes:
A vulnerability in Gmail leads to this designers website being hijacked. He details how it was done and the ordeal he has gone through in his blog.
http://www.davidairey.co.uk/google-gmail-security-hijack/
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mightysquirrel81 writes:
Check out some of the oddest data retrieval missions data recovery company Kroll Ontrack has had to deal with in 2007. From ant infestations to fixing a squeaking hardrive by pouring oil on it, these need to be seen to be believed.
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BaCa writes:
More than half of computer users who think they are protected against online threats like spyware, viruses and hackers actually have inadequate or no online protection, according to an independent research study conducted for Verizon. While 92 percent of participants thought they were safe, the scans revealed that 59 percent were actually vulnerable to a variety of online dangers. Ninety-four percent of those surveyed said they would find it helpful to be able to diagnose or check their online security status on a regular basis to make sure their PCs were safe.