396477
submission
NewYorkCountryLawyer writes:
The Court has ordered UMG Recordings, Warner Bros. Records, Interscope Records, Motown, and SONY BMG to disclose their expenses-per-download to the defendant's lawyers, in UMG v. Lindor, a case pending in Brooklyn. The Court held that the expense figures are relevant to the issue of whether the RIAA's attempt to recover damages of $750 or more per 99-cent song file, is an unconstitutional violation of due process.
370805
submission
Stony Stevenson writes:
An email sent to the Dutch foreign ministry by a group of Israeli journalists has sparked a diplomatic row, thanks to an unreliable translation by Babelfish. The journalists wrote a set of questions before a planned fact-finding trip to The Netherlands, running them through the online translation tool to turn them into Dutch. The beginning of the email read: 'Helloh bud, enclosed five of the questions in honor of the foreign minister: The mother your visit in Israel is a sleep to the favor or to the bed your mind on the conflict are Israeli Palestinian.'
369787
submission
Pseudonymous writes:
I am an assistant professor in a computer science department wanting to go into industry (not out of choice but necessity). Over the past pretenure
years, I have worked on pretty theoretical problems, involving algorithms and complexity so I think I am unprepared or unskilled to join the software
industry. I have of course taught the basic courses in C and Java (which unfortunately does not mean that I know enough to jump into a huge software project).
So how do I go from a theoretician to someone that industry might value ? What skills should I aim to develop before I put myself out there ?