BigLonn - Slashdot User

Comment Re:And here I was (Score 1) 77

by BigLonn on Thursday August 07, 2008 @07:05PM (#24518317) Attached to: 11 Charged In TJX, Other Breaches

You're correct, they aren't responsible, if, it's a proper credit card, the point is the credit card company's are on the hook for these charges and yes they will pass these expenses back to you and me some how.

Submission + - Music Industry Attacks Papers For Free Prince CD (guardian.co.uk)

Submitted by im just cannonfodder on Saturday June 30, 2007 @12:23PM

im just cannonfodder writes: The music retailers are seething at the mouth, as the artist formally known as prince, cuts a deal with Sunday newspapers and at his uk concert venues to give away his new album Planet Earth for FREE.

i love this quote from sony "the UK arm of Sony BMG had withdrawn from Prince's global deal" and i thought the media companies were fighting for the artists rights so when an artist wants to give away their music for free, sony run a mile!

"It's all about giving music for the masses and he believes in spreading the music he produces to as many people as possible,"

Submission + - Counting to 1 million. Live on the Internet (millioncount.com)

Submitted by

Steffen Tengesdal

on Saturday June 30, 2007 @12:12PM

Steffen Tengesdal writes: "Leveraging the power of the internet to raise money for a charity is nothing new, but this is definitely an odd (or unique?) way to do it. Jeremy Harper of Birmingham, Alabama is counting to 1 million, live, on the the web at http://www.millioncount.com/. He started nearly two weeks ago and is up to about 153,000 at the time of this submission. The goal? Raise money for http://www.pushamerica.org/, which helps people with disabilities.

Jeremy's employer has voluntarily let him take 3-4 months off to complete this project. So is it stupid? Depends on who you ask. There are literally many thousands on the site at all times and bandwidth has been an issue. By the end of 1 week he was using up about 50GB of transfer. I rode (bicycled) across the country with Jeremy 10 years ago for the same charity, so I support the effort and where the money is going. Without that history, I'd probably think he was a bit crazy for taking on something like this."

Submission + - Exxon's Brute Squad Hacks the Yes Men (infoshop.org)

Submitted by tom_evil on Saturday June 30, 2007 @11:15AM

tom_evil writes: One day after the Yes Men made a joke announcement that ExxonMobil plans to turn billions of climate-change victims into a brand-new fuel called Vivoleum, the Yes Men's upstream internet service provider shut down Vivoleum.com and cut off the Yes Men's email service, in reaction to a complaint whose source they will not identify. "Since parody is protected under US law, Exxon must think that people seeing the site will think Vivoleum's a real Exxon product, not just a parody," said Yes Man Mike Bonanno. "Exxon's policies do already contribute to 150,000 climate-change related deaths each year," added Yes Man Andy Bichlbaum. "So maybe it really is credible. What a resource!" [In addition,] the Yes Men are desperately in need of a sysadmin. The position is unpaid at the moment, but it shouldn't take much time for someone who knows Debian Linux very well.

Submission + - GPLv3 license marks GNU's decline (thejemreport.com)

Submitted by daemonical on Saturday June 30, 2007 @10:56AM

daemonical writes: I've no doubt that this is the beginning of the end for GNU, and it will prove the strength of the larger free software world. The Free Software Foundation has dumped a load of restrictions on us with GPLv3 and told us that restrictions lead to freedom and that it is good for us. That's a little too Bush administration-like for me. In fact I fully expect someone, somewhere, to claim that I "hate freedom" for speaking out about this abysmal license — that would make the irony complete.

Jem Report

Submission + - Installing Vista: My Personal Hell (msdn.com)

Submitted by daemonical on Saturday June 30, 2007 @10:44AM

daemonical writes: I wanted to install Vista at home, so I picked up my copy of Vista Ultimate at the company store and took it home. I've installed Windows on machines for over a decade, and I have no fear. I did make a full backup of my XP install, and I added a new drive so I could install Vista side-by-side and check it out without blowing away my XP install, just in case. My machine is a Dell Dimension 370 with 1G of RAM, pretty standard except I added a new SATA drive for Vista itself and I have an additional DVD drive (for region 2 discs). Its not a state-of-the-art-2007 machine, but it is reasonable and until very recently I was using an identical machine at work (with more RAM and disc) for all my development. Andy Pennels Blog (Microsoft)

Submission + - Why iPhone Flipping Will Fail

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 30, 2007 @10:29AM

An anonymous reader writes: The press has reported how many of the customers on line last night for the iPhone had nothing more in mind than to look to make a quick buck reselling the units. The joke may be on them as MP3 Newswire points out. For there to a market amenable to this there has to be more than a great demand. There has to be a finite supply of an item. With concert tickets there is always a finite supply for a given night. Flipping a Playstation 3 was briefly profitable, because while Sony would over time make as many units as the market called for, there was a finite supply available for those who wanted it in time for Christmas. The Apple iPhone has no such time restraints, therefore on a theoretical level they have an infinite supply. The first wave of iPhones may sell out, but the great majority of consumers can wait until the supply catches up.

RIAA Wants Agreements to Stay Secret 196

Posted by CowboyNeal on Saturday June 30, 2007 @10:21AM from the don't-share-that-either dept.

NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "The RIAA is opposing Ms. Lindor's request for discovery into the agreements among the record company competitors by which they have agreed to settle and prosecute their cases together, by which she seeks to support her Fourth Affirmative Defense (pdf) alleging that 'The plaintiffs, who are competitors, are a cartel acting collusively in violation of the antitrust laws and of public policy, by tying their copyrights to each other, collusively litigating and settling all cases together, and by entering into an unlawful agreement among themselves to prosecute and to dispose of all cases in accordance with a uniform agreement, and through common lawyers, thus overreaching the bounds and scope of whatever copyrights they might have. ...As such, they are guilty of misuse of their copyrights.'"

Submission + - Germany Demands Changes to The Darkness (gamesindustry.biz) 1

Submitted by

HaymarketRiot

on Friday June 29, 2007 @09:18PM

HaymarketRiot writes: "GamesIndustry.biz is reporting that German officials have demanded several changes to Take-Two's new dark shooter. 'Nazi symbols, a finishing move and several mechanics relating to "Darklings" have had to be removed in order to satisfy the board's demands. The finishing move — a CGI sequence showing a human heart being ripped out — must be replaced by a yellowish-green-fog "soul absorption" instead.' Are these warranted changes, or just another instance of authorities overstepping their bounds?"

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