Comment: Chair throwing (Score 1) 397
One more thing scientists can't seem to understand is the remarkable ability of some humans to throw chairs
PirateBay lose court case, founders go to jail->
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Barence writes "The Pirate Bay has lost its landmark court case against US entertainment companies including Sony, Columbia Pictures, Warner Bros and EMI. The founders of the site, Peter Sunde Kolmisoppi, Fredrik Neij, Carl Lundstrom and Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, have been sentenced to a year in prison each, and hit with a $3.6 million fine. Kolmisoppi dismissed the case as "theatre for the media" in a Twitter update earlier today, and claimed that "nothing will happen to TPB, us personally or file sharing whatsoever." He also announced a leak of the verdict on Twitter before the court handed down its judgement: "Really, it's a bit LOL. It used to be only movies, now even verdicts are out before the official release.""
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Pirate Bay guilty verdict
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frank_abacus writes "http://www.thelocal.se/18908.html
not news really, just the first round.
"All four men were sentenced to one year in prison and ordered to pay 30 million kronor ($3.5 million) in damages.""
not news really, just the first round.
"All four men were sentenced to one year in prison and ordered to pay 30 million kronor ($3.5 million) in damages.""
Pirate Bay loses trial, says co-founder->
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CNETNate writes "Peter Sunde, one of the co-founders of The Pirate Bay, has broken news that the Bay has lost its high-profile court case. Earlier this morning Sunde, who goes by the online alias Brokep, posted a message to Twitter, claiming a trustworthy source had leaked the court's verdict to him. The official verdict is expected later today."
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Comment: Re:How many bones (Score 1) 369
thanks. you made my day :)
Comment: Re:...because H1Bs are forms, not people (Score 4, Informative) 574
actually, laid off h1b workers are allowed a 2 month "grace" period to either find a new job or leave the country
Berners-Lee Speaks Out Against DRM, Advocates Net Neutrality 187
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Zonk
from the papa-don't-speak-i'm-in-trouble dept.
from the papa-don't-speak-i'm-in-trouble dept.
narramissic writes "Speaking before the House Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet, Tim Berners-Lee advocated for net neutrality, saying that the Web deserves 'special treatment' as a communications medium to protect its nondiscriminatory approach to content. Berners-Lee's more controversial statements came on the topic of DRM, in which he suggested that instead of DRM, copyright holders should provide information on how to legally use online material, allowing users the opportunity 'to do the right thing.' This led to an odd exchange with Representative Mary Bono who compared Berner-Lee's suggestion to 'having a speed limit but not enforcing the speed limit.'"
Biggest computing disaster ever
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xiox writes "Private Eye magazine contains a comprehensive report detailing the horrifying background to the wasting of £12.4 billion of public money on an unnecessary and useless central bureaucratic computer system for the UK's National Health Service. This could have paid for 26,000 doctors over 10 years. While the full report is not available online, NHS Blog Doctor details some of the findings.
Those of us working within the NHS have long been aware of the futility and waste of this IT system. The details that emerge from the Private Eye report reveal a tale of incompetence and greed that beggars belief. Incompetence on the part of the government, and greed on the part of some of the contractors, two of whom are named by the report. Both made personal profits of over £20 million on the back of inflated share sales and illusory profits generated by Enron style accounting.
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Comparison of Working at the 3 Big Search Giants 179
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Zonk
from the searching-for-some-free-sushi dept.
from the searching-for-some-free-sushi dept.
castironwok writes "Finally, everything you've ever wanted to know about being an employee at Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo. Tastyresearch describes his (or her) past few years interning and working at the three companies. Things I didn't know from before: Bill Gates wears old shoes, Google's internal security watches you like a hawk, the office styles of each company, and how to fill your suitcase with Google T-shirts. He calls the few select companies the 'prestigious internship circle', noting 'once you have worked at one, it's a lot easier to get into another'."
Is Delphi the next Database dev platform.. again?
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santakrooz writes "Delphi's always been known as a solid database application development platform, it just had it's 12th birthday on Valentines day, and now the Delphi guys are coming up with a completely new database architecture. The interesting thing is that it's backward compatible, insanely extensible, single sourced between .NET and Wintel native code, and... and written completely in Delphi. Ok I know Delphi's written in Delphi and there are "wow" apps out there written in Delphi like Skype that Delphi guys always like to mention, there was a loosely supported Linux version, so my question is, what can't you do in Delphi? Or a better question is... what have Slashdot readers written in Delphi?"