Submission + - RIAA Data Shows P2P Users Spend Nearly 50% More on Music Than Non-P2P Users (michaelgeist.ca) 1
Submission + - NASA to encrypt all of its laptops (bbc.co.uk)
Submission + - With Pot Legal, Police Worry About Traffic Safety 13
Submission + - Amazon Payment Adds "No Class Action" Language to Terms Of Service
1.3 Disputes. Any dispute or claim relating in any way to your visit to the Site or Seller Central or to products or services sold or distributed by us or through the Site or Seller Central (including without limitation the Service) will be resolved by binding arbitration, rather than in court, except that you may assert claims in small claims court if your claims qualify. The Federal Arbitration Act and federal arbitration law apply to this agreement....
This is becoming more and more common, and while the end user normally doesn't make out well in a class-action suit, large settlements do provide a punishment and deterrent to corporations that abuse their power. The question becomes, what do we do to fix this so that consumers are truly protected?
Submission + - In UK, Twitter, Facebook rants land some in jail (chron.com)
Submission + - Kinected Browser - Kinect On The Web (i-programmer.info)
Submission + - A Free Internet, If You Can Keep It (techcrunch.com)
Submission + - The First Amendment and Software Speech (stanfordlawreview.org)
Submission + - Unhackable drone research to go open source (scmagazine.com.au) 3
The DARPA research will take four years, cost $18 million and promises to also help secure critical systems such as aircraft, vehicles and medical devices and make their code more stable.
Submission + - Climate treaty negotiators are taking the wrong approach, says game theory (sciencenews.org)
Submission + - Google open non-destructive book scanner; books and libraries rejoice (google.com)
Disclaimer: I worked with Jeff when we were at Xerox (where he did the awesome hack Gnu Chess on your Scanner), but this is more awesome because it saves books."
Submission + - US Air Force scraps ERP project after $1 billion spent (computerworld.com.au)
Submission + - Volcano may have killed off new bioluminescent cockroach (mongabay.com)
Submission + - Entire Pig Genome Sequenced in Breakthrough That Could Combat Human Disease (medicaldaily.com)
The study published in the journal Nature found that pigs and humans share 112 DNA mutations that have previously been linked to diseases like obesity, diabetes, dyslexia, Parkinson's and Alzheimer's, according to US and European researchers.
Researchers said that because pigs share many of the same complex genetic diseases as humans, the animals would serve as excellent models for studying the underlying biology of human disease.