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$50M Cdn. copyright class action settled-> 0

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limber

on Tuesday May 31 2011, @09:46AM

limber writes "The largest Canadian copyright class action suit has been settled for $50 million. The offenders? The four labels comprising the Canadian Recording Industry Association — EMI, Sony Music, Universal Music, and Warner Music)
Ahem."
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Comment: as long as the product manager's name isn't forbin (Score 1) 65

by limber on Saturday September 11 2010, @11:15PM (#33550334) Attached to: Google Caffeine Drops MapReduce, Adds "Colossus"

Colossus? That sounds ominous.

Comment: Re:Achievements... (Score 1) 109

by limber on Monday September 06 2010, @10:48PM (#33494654) Attached to: American Business Embraces 'Gamification'

"Congratulations! You survived a bird looking at you! Achievement unlocked, 10 points!"

Congratulations! I see your slashdot achievements are:

* Got a Score:5 Comment
* Days Read in a Row
* Days Metamoderated in a Row

+1 Flamebait!

Comment: Re:SCTV is on the air! (Score 1) 594

by limber on Saturday September 04 2010, @09:37PM (#33479082) Attached to: The Joke Known As 3D TV

and there was also the 3D House of Beef

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEnCKEfSgUM&feature=fvw

For Non-Profits, Common Ground vs. Raiser's Edge? 97

Posted by timothy on Thursday May 13 2010, @04:57PM
from the nope-we-lost-it-all dept.

lanimreT writes "I work at a medium-sized non-profit organization. We've been considering a switch from our current constituent relationship manager (CRM) The Raiser's Edge to Common Ground, a non-profit-focused CRM built on SalesForce. I would like to hear from other organizations that have already done this. What features are present in Raiser's Edge but missing in Common Ground? Is your workflow improved by the new software? If you had it to do over again, would you make the switch?"

Beaver Dam Visible From Space 286

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday May 05 2010, @05:41PM
from the dam-big-job dept.

ygslash writes "The Hoover Dam no longer holds the title of the world's widest dam. Satellite photos of northern Alberta, Canada, show that several families of beavers have apparently joined forces to build a dam 850 meters wide, more than twice as wide as the Hoover Dam."

Philip K. Dick's Exegesis To Be Published In 2011 82

Posted by Soulskill on Friday April 30 2010, @04:55PM
from the that's-a-lot-of-pkd dept.

Dynamoo writes "The NYT reports that a two-part edition of PKD's Exegesis will be published next year. This huge work, a combination of journal and philosophical treatise, has been published in part before, but this is the first time that the whole version will be made generally available."

Lord British Claims He Owns the Moon 144

Posted by Soulskill on Monday March 29 2010, @04:14PM
from the enjoy-the-property-tax dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Following the recent discovery of Richard Garriott's old moon rover, the man known as Lord British has laid claim to his own lunar territory. Moon dwellers, all hail your new overlord!"

Ubisoft's Authentication Servers Go Down 634

Posted by kdawson on Sunday March 07 2010, @07:23PM
from the single-point-of-well-you-know dept.

ZuchinniOne writes "With Ubisoft's fantastically awful new DRM you must be online and logged in to their servers to play the games you buy. Not only was this DRM broken the very first day it was released, but now their authentication servers have failed so absolutely that no-one who legally bought their games can play them. 'At around 8am GMT, people began to complain in the Assassin's Creed 2 forum that they couldn't access the Ubisoft servers and were unable to play their games.' One can only hope that this utter failure will help to stem the tide of bad DRM."

Dead Pigs Used To Investigate Ocean's "Dead Zones" 106

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday March 04 2010, @02:55PM
from the big-ocean-long-pig dept.

timothy writes "As places to study what happens to corpses, the Atlantic Ocean is both much larger and much more specialized than the famous 'body farm' in Knoxville, TN. But for all kinds of good reasons, sending human bodies into Davy Jones' locker just to see where they float and how they bloat is unpopular. Pigs don't pay taxes, and more importantly, they don't vote. So Canadian scientists have taken to using them as human-body proxies, to study what happens when creatures of similar size and hairlessness (aka, us) end up 86ed and in the drink."