sglider - Slashdot User

Submission + - ISP offers students cash for open source code

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 18, 2007 @01:50AM

An anonymous reader writes: In a world dominated by ISPs straight from the "could-not-care-less" Slashdot department, this article provides a refreshing view of the future of ISPs.

From the article: "As an incentive to get students to push the code boundaries of open source software, a British software network is offering cash for fresh code, reports Welsh IT News Online."

My question to Slashdot is: what other ISPs provide these sort of interesting incentives?

MySpace to Offer Spyware for Parents 282

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday January 18, 2007 @01:36AM from the think-of-the-children dept.

mrspin writes "Following continuing pressure from politicians (and parts of the media), MySpace is planning to offer parents the chance to download software which will monitor aspects of their children's activities on the social networking site. From a business point of view, the move appears to be a highly risky one. The young users of social networking sites are notorious for their lack of loyalty — and history suggests that a change like this could tempt many to abandon MySpace for the 'next cool thing'."

Journal SPAM: Detroit FREEP: Adultery could mean life in prison 5

Journal by Jeremiah Cornelius on Tuesday January 16, 2007 @04:15PM

From the Theocracy Watch Dept.:

Adultery could mean life, court finds

That's what the law says in sex-drug case Cox appealed
January 15, 2007

BY BRIAN DICKERSON

FREE PRESS COLUMNIST

Journal Journal: Penalized for being a Good Consumer

Journal by sglider on Tuesday January 16, 2007 @04:02PM

I *just* got off of the phone with two member of Chase Credit Card's finest, a customer service care representative, and an Account supervisor by the name of 'Jason'.

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