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by smegged (#26153779) Attached to: If Programming Languages Were Religions
Just to clarify, "be not yoked with unbelievers" is in reference to marriage and marrying someone who is not a believer. Which is probably good advice for anyone of any religion (or lack thereof). Marrying someone who holds different fundamental beliefs to you is going to cause difficulties.

Since this is slashdot, I feel obliged to include a definition of marriage as for most readers it will be a foreign term, and for those to whom it isn't - hi mum.
The Courts

Submission + - Simpsons movie pirate fined (AUS) $1,000

Submitted by from_downunder
from_downunder writes: A Sydney man who recorded The Simpsons Movie on his mobile phone has been fined $1,000 (Australian) after pleading guilty to two charges. (Simpsons movie pirate fined $1,000)

I can't help comparing it with the $220,000 judgement in the US for a similar offence (Jammie Appeals, Citing "Excessive" Damages).

I know that the Australian Dollar has risen against the US, but I didn't think it was by that much.
Movies

Submission + - $1000 (Aussie pesos) for uploading Simpsons movie (abc.net.au)

Submitted by
bikkit
bikkit writes: "An Australian has been fined $1000 (Australian pesos) for uploading the Simpsons Movie to the interwebs... A bit cheaper than your average seven-figure penalty in the US of A! Dunno if it's fair, but it's not ridiculously high! Published on the (Australian) ABC 20 minutes ago!"
Media

Submission + - RIAA wins $222,000 in first ever file sharing case (engadget.com)

Submitted by
mytrip
mytrip writes: "The first RIAA file-sharing case to go to trial just wrapped, and sadly, the outcome isn't a positive one.

The RIAA plaintiffs weren't required to show that Thomas had a file-sharing program installed on her machine or that she was even the person using the Kazaa account in question."
Windows

Submission + - Valve Releases Recent Hardware Survey Results

Submitted by Freastro
Freastro writes: Last week, Valve reset their on-going Hardware Survey in order to "keep on top of what kind of hardware everyone out there is running." Little has changed statistically since their first 200,000 responses, and it gives some interesting insight into what hardware and versions of Windows people are actually running. Their news article gives the following statistics and the full results can be found on their Valve Survey Summary page:
  • Just over 1% of respondents can run a DX10 path for graphics.
  • About 78% of you have microphones plugged in for voice communication. This will help you out a lot in TF2.
  • A little under 5% of you have upgraded to Vista.
  • Around 20% of your PCs are running multiple CPU cores.
Media

Submission + - Anti-DRM Activists Take on the BBC (freethebbc.info)

Submitted by
An anonymous reader writes: Activists from Binary Freedom Boston have launched a campaign calling on the BBC to release their content online without DRM or proprietary formats. You might remember the BBC asking us about this earlier and even though the public chose not to use DRM by a landslide, they still decided to use it. EMI and Amazon have already ditched DRM. How long before the BBC does?
Biotech

Submission + - Terminator gene ban suggested in Canada

Submitted by innocent_white_lamb
innocent_white_lamb writes: A member of the Canadian Parliament has proposed legislation to outlaw the development and deployment of "terminator genes" that prevent seeds from germinating so farmers have to re-purchase seed every year instead of saving the seeds from last year's crop. The legislation is not expected to pass due to opposition from the Agriculture Minister.
Censorship

Submission + - Users Overtake Digg

Submitted by
econoar
econoar writes: "Well, digg pissed off their users, and the users have just fought back. I've never really seen anything like this on user run websites, but chaos is taking place over on Digg. As I have mentioned before, Digg is my favorite website out there, but after they banned me earlier today I got a little pissed. I submitted a story about a T-Shirt with the now famous HD-DVD hex key on it, and I was banned for "violating the terms of use". Stories were getting deleted and user accounts were being banned all because of a stupid HD-DVD copyright Hex code that can be used to unlock HD-DVD. Digg claimed that they could be sued and what not for it so they decided to censor all of the stories that had to deal with the key. The whole thing is just bull, you can't copyright a sequence of numbers and letters. People come to digg for the sole reason of not having to deal with censorship. The users have become pissed and now every story on the front page is about the HEX key. I'm not going to post it here, but you can go see for yourself. Oh, and not to mention that HD-DVD is a main sponsor on Digg's podcast, Diggnation, of which I am a fan of. Digg really screwed the pooch on this one. Don't fuck with your users. Submissions are now shut down on digg also."
Education

Submission + - Cheating is widespread among graduate students

Submitted by sas-dot
sas-dot writes: Thirty-four first-year business graduate students at Duke University cheated on a take-home final exam, a judicial board has found, in what officials called the most widespread cheating episode in the business school's history. Nine of the students face expulsion, according to the ruling, which was distributed within the business school on Friday. Fifteen students were suspended for a year and given a failing grade in the course; nine were given a failing grade in the course, and one got a failing grade on the exam. Four students accused of cheating were exonerated. National surveys have suggested that cheating is widespread among graduate students. In a survey released last September by a Rutgers University professor, 56 percent of business graduate students admitted having cheated, compared with 54 percent in engineering, 48 percent in education and 45 percent in law school. More than 5,300 students at 54 universities were surveyed from 2002 to 2004.
The Matrix

Submission + - How the Internet is currently distributed

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: A study has been published by IPligence.com on how the Internet is distributed across the entire world. The study reveals the differences between the most and least developed countries and compares the human populated world with the eye invisible Internet super structure giving a fantastic overview.
Microsoft

Submission + - Is Windows Vista in trouble?

Submitted by Ken Erfourth
Ken Erfourth writes: I'm a small computer shop owner, and I have noticed how little interest my customers have in Windows Vista. Now, the Inquirer.net is running a story about what they consider two powerful indications that Vista is failing in the marketplace.

One, Dell has reintroduced PCs running Windows XP on its website due to customer demand. Two, Microsoft is conducting a worldwide firesale on a bundle of Microsoft Office 2007/WindowsXP Starter Edition. According to Inquirer.net, at least, these are signs of serious problems selling Vista.

Are we seeing the stumbling of the Microsoft Juggernaught with the slow adoption of Windows Vista?

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