Submission + - Army pirates software (bbc.co.uk)
ISoldat53 writes: The US agrees to pay $50 million for pirated software.
Submission Summary: 0 pending, 26 declined, 6 accepted (32 total, 18.75% accepted)
Submission + - Nobody likes a poor thief (reuters.com)
ISoldat53 writes: Several large investors in Microsoft want Bill Gates to step down
Submission + - Don't Panic
ISoldat53 writes: May 25 is Towel Day. Do you know where your towel is?
Submission + - Lionsgate sued for ripping off model (yahoo.com)
ISoldat53 writes: The producers of "Mad Men" are being sued by a model appearing in the opening sequence of the show. They have never given her credit for the image. From her attorney, "If two minutes of 'Mad Men' had been taken for commercial purposes, Lionsgate would be throwing thermonuclear bombs," he said.
Submission + - Economists at the Federal Reserve recommend abolishing the current patent system (huffingtonpost.com)
ISoldat53 writes: From the article:
"Two economists at the St. Louis Federal Reserve published a paper arguing to abolish the American patent system, saying there's "no evidence" patents improve productivity and that they have a "negative" effect on "innovation."
"Two economists at the St. Louis Federal Reserve published a paper arguing to abolish the American patent system, saying there's "no evidence" patents improve productivity and that they have a "negative" effect on "innovation."
Submission + - Post Homo sapiens homonids (eurekalert.org) 1
ISoldat53 writes: Researchers have identified a group of Africans that appear to have diverged from the H. sapiens gene pool. See the RTFA for details. We have spent years trying to find out where we as a species come from; it's interesting to speculate on where we are going.
Submission + - Google fifth largest server manufacturer (wired.com)
ISoldat53 writes: Wired has an article about who Intel's top server processor customers are. Google comes in at fifth. Gives new meaning to "Buy Direct."
Submission + - Galactic Towel Day (towelday.org)
ISoldat53 writes: Today is towel day. Do you know where your towel is?
Submission + - Sci-Fi Brothel (blastr.com) 1
ISoldat53 writes: New brothel in Nevada to offer sex girls dressed as aliens.
Submission + - UW unable to meet demand for CS students (nwsource.com)
ISoldat53 writes: The University of Washington has to turn away 4 out of 5 (500) students who want to get a CS degree because of lack of space. The state has no solution because of lack of funds to expand the school.
Submission + - You Thought software patents were a bad idea. (arstechnica.com)
ISoldat53 writes: The Supreme Court seems poised to extend patent protection to the medical profession making scientific correlations in medical practice patentable.
Submission + - The Patriot Act and the EU Cloud (zdnet.com)
ISoldat53 writes: Microsoft admits that the Patriot Act allows government access to data in it's cloud services even in Europe.
Submission + - WI Capitol blocks Pro-Union Web Site (rawstory.com) 1
ISoldat53 writes: State government workers are unable to connect to a pro-union web site ,defendwisconsin.org, from the wifi at the state capitol.
Submission + - Ease of publishing an ebook (huffingtonpost.com)
ISoldat53 writes: This article describes how easy it is to publish an ebook. The author details the costs to the writer for a major publishing house to publish a book and the savings to the writer by self-publishing. He looks to make the same profit selling the book at $2.99 on amazon.com as he does going though a publisher. The book is Kindle specific for now but the author describes how it can be purchased though amazon.com and converted for other readers. No DRM.
Submission + - US to fund software maker tied to Falun Gong (washingtonpost.com)
ISoldat53 writes: From the Washington Post "The State Department has decided to fund a group run mainly by practitioners of Falun Gong, a Buddhist-like sect long considered Enemy No. 1 by the Chinese government, to provide software to skirt Internet censorship across the globe. " Is this because US software developers don't want to make China mad?
