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Submission + - McCain on Net Neutrality, Copyright, Iraq

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 29, 2007 @11:40PM

An anonymous reader writes: Sen. John McCain kicked off the All Things Digital conference Tuesday night with some interesting comments about net neutrality among other things. His take: there should be as little government regulation of broadband as possible. The market should be allowed to solve the Net-neutrality issue: "When you control the pipe you should be able to get profit from your investment."

Submission + - MySpace Gets False Positive In Sex Offender Search

Submitted by

gbulmash

on Tuesday May 29, 2007 @11:27PM

gbulmash writes: "In its eagerness to clear sex offenders off its site and publish their identities, MySpace identified an innocent woman as a sex offender. She shares a name and birth month with a sex offender who lives in a neighboring state and that was apparently enough to get MySpace to wrongly brand her and completely ignore her protests."

Submission + - LOLCODE: scripting code for a new generation

Submitted by

Tumbleweed

on Tuesday May 29, 2007 @05:16PM

Tumbleweed writes: " LOLCODE is a new scripting language being designed to more closely match current trends in language grammar and syntax; LOLCODE will likely appeal to a new generation of web coders.

LOLCODE features keywords like these: can-has, gimmeh, hai, i-has-a, im-in-yr, im-outta-yr, kthxbye and
visible. My favourite example:

HAI
CAN HAS STDIO?
I HAS A VAR
GIMMEH VAR
IZ VAR BIGGER THAN 10 O RLY?
YA RLY
BTW this is true
VISIBLE "BIG NUMBER!"
NO WAI
BTW this is false
VISIBLE "LITTLE NUMBER!"
KTHX
KTHXBYE"

Submission + - AT&T's U-verse: Want TV over phone lines ?

Submitted by

ppadala

on Sunday May 27, 2007 @03:36PM

ppadala writes: "AT&T is upgrading their phone lines to offer video programmes over phone line. The service, which will be available in parts of southern California communities initially, is similar to your cable and dish offerings. AT&T is insisting that,

This offering is on par with those of its cable rivals. But AT&T claims that it offers customers more for their money, including fast channel changing, video-on-demand, three set-top boxes, a digital video recorder, a picture-in-picture feature that allows viewers to surf channels without switching channels and an interactive program guide.
"

Submission + - Life Imprisonment for Copyright Infringement

Submitted by

ronadams

on Saturday May 26, 2007 @06:06PM

ronadams writes: "P. Parameswaran writes in his AFP article:

Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said he proposed comprehensive legislation to Congress Monday against copyright thieves, including raising the maximum penalty to life imprisonment and seizing the illicit profits of offenders.
Nick Ferrel at the Inquirer confirms the reports and adds a few interesting insights of his own. Good to know RIAA is a vital part of the US Government. I must have been asleep when my Government & Law professor glossed over that one."

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