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by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 01, @06:03PM (#24018257)
Attached to: Non-Programming Jobs For a Computer Science Major?

As a former Accenture employee I can tell you that this is 100% true, but a few years at Accenture right out of college sure looks good on your resume.

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by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 01, @03:03PM (#24018167)
Attached to: Non-Programming Jobs For a Computer Science Major?
Why is this modded "funny"? It's insightful as hell.
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  Soviet Union TLD Owners Snub ICANN 2007-09-20 16:43

Posted by Zonk on Thursday September 20 2007, @04:43PM
from the nelson-muntz-should-be-quoted-here dept.
An anonymous reader writes "New Scientist has up a post about ICANN's latest decisions about country-code TLDs. The body is making an effort to tackle the problem of Yugoslavia's .yu outliving the country by over a decade but is far from getting its way with the Soviet Union's domain .su. Around 2,500 new .su sites are created every year despite ICANN ordering its retirement — the disgruntled .su registrars have announced an 80 per cent price cut in the price of .su domains in response. 'It makes the much-publicized wrangles over the ".xxx" domain seem tiny by comparison. And it convinces me of the need to reevaluate the existence of the US Dept of Commerce-backed non-profit organisation that is ICANN. The current squabbles are petty compared to the diplomatic arguments that TLDs could cause. An international body like the UN would be a more appropriate overseer, surely?'"

  BBC proposing DRM for Linux 2007-01-31 16:31 VJ42

Submitted by VJ42 on Wednesday January 31 2007, @04:31PM
VJ42 writes "This morning the new BBC trust reached provisional conclusions on BBC on-demand proposals. The headline is that they are giving the go ahead for on demand services, but buried further down in the document is this:

The Trust will require the BBC Executive to adopt a platform-agnostic approach within a reasonable timeframe. This requires the BBC to develop an alternative DRM framework to enable users of other technology, for example, Apple and Linux, to access the on-demand services.
The good news is that these proposals are still open for consultation. Take particular note of question 5

Question 5
How important is it that the proposed seven-day catch-up service over the internet is available to consumers who are not using Microsoft software?
If the Beeb don't develop a "Linux DRM" will they just not support Linux users at all, and if they do how long until it's cracked?"
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  Legalised filesharing through taxed internet 2007-01-31 15:51 Josh Dean

Submitted by Josh Dean on Wednesday January 31 2007, @03:51PM
Josh Dean writes "http://torrentfreak.com/holland-considers-banning- drm-legalizing-filesharing/ Last year the Dutch tried to tax all MP3 players, but that proposal didn't make it into law. But not to worry, they have other brilliant ideas. Earlier this week, Dutch politicians suggested that it might be a good idea to tax Internet traffic, and use this money to compensate the music industry. This, under the condition that DRM is abandoned, and people can't be charged for downloads. Say what? Recently Dutch Record Companies decided to no longer use copy protection on CDs because the costs didn't outweigh the benefits. Politicians are now looking for alternative ways to compensate the Music Industry. Martijn van Dam, a member of one of the bigger political parties in The Netherlands said, "Taxing Internet traffic is great way to compensate the Music Industry for the loss in sales by illegal filesharing". He added that a prerequisite would be that DRM and copy protection should be abandoned. The battle against piracy is lost according to Van Dam, he says that the Music Industry has to accept that their products will be traded over the internet. Surprisingly, Van Dam is not alone in this. Nicolien van Vroonhoven, a politician from the leading party (CDA) in the Netherlands, also thinks that this pirate tax would be a good idea. She adds that this could only work if people can't be charged for downloading music anymore. The statements (Dutch source) from these leading politicians basically say that piracy should be condoned, as long as Internet traffic is taxed. Although the (hypothetical) model might sound appealing to some, it is not very practical. First of all, illegal music downloads are just a small percentage of all files that are swapped illegally. What about movies and software, will those companies be compensated too? And an ever bigger problem, these politicians seem to assume that all internet traffic is generated by illegal downloads. What about sites like YouTube, or software, music and videos that are released for free? These all generate a lot of traffic, but have nothing to do with piracy. A bad idea if you ask me. It is good to see that politicians are exploring alternative methods to overcome piracy, but this one is quite ridiculous. This clearly shows how alienated politicians sometimes are from the real (or virtual) world."
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