Comment Re:Response from Lulu (Score 1) 260
While you're at it, you might also remove "his" other book that's available, since it appears to just be the second half of the book.
Comment Re:How would that work (Score 1) 550
> The guy continued to send out tweets that he was signing autographs after the giant crowd dispersed.
I didn't see that in a single post about this. Every post I saw said "Cops asked him to tweet that the kid wasn't coming, he refused, he got arrested".
(The kid and his people *did* post that it was shut down on his own twitter account. And whose tweets would you be following - the artist, or some record exec?)
Can you show me an article saying "he kept tweeting that the kid would be there even after the event got shut down" ?
Comment PasswordSafe (Score 5, Interesting) 1007
I first saw the link to PasswordSafe from Bruce Schneier's site. If I have to take advice from someone on keeping something secure, it's Bruce.
uTorrent To Build In Transfer-Throttling Ability 187
vintagepc writes "TorrentFreak reports that a redesign of the popular BitTorrent client uTorrent allows clients to detect network congestion and automatically adjust the transfer rates, eliminating the interference with other Internet-enabled applications' traffic. In theory, the protocol senses congestion based on the time it takes for a packet to reach its destination, and by intelligent adjustments, should reduce network traffic without causing a major impact on download speeds and times. As said by Simon Morris (from TFA), 'The throttling that matters most is actually not so much the download but rather the upload – as bandwidth is normally much lower UP than DOWN, the up-link will almost always get congested before the down-link does.' Furthermore, the revision is designed to eliminate the need for ISPs to deal with problems caused by excessive BitTorrent traffic on their networks, thereby saving them money and support costs. Apparently, the v2.0b client using this protocol is already being used widely, and no major problems have been reported."
Comment Seen this before... (Score 2, Informative) 386
... when Joel Spolsky wrote "Human Task Switches Considered Harmful".
Comment Re:Release it anyway (Score 1) 229
Totally agreed. However, they've now had 8 months since Juniper notified them about the issue. If they aren't in step 3 right now, they totally deserve the public shaming (and loss of stock share value) they would receive.
Comment I can write it in under 140 characters. (Score 2, Funny) 88
"Tweet" what you're thinking about. Reply to other people's tweets. Follow interesting people. Don't be a douche.
(Wait, scratch that. Obviously "don't be a douche" has no place in social networks.)
Comment Re:The wrong issue (Score 2, Informative) 339
From this article, it appears that it was Pond who took it upon herself to publish the rant as a "letter to the editor", appearing to be signed by the original author. (As an aside, since Moreno asked Pond not to publish it, and Pond did so against Moreno's wishes, that reinforces my belief that Moreno's claim of copyright infringement should hold water.) However, the original post was more vague as to who made the decision to attribute the letter to the original author.
Pond *was* fired for her actions. So if you read this (as I originally did) with the belief that Campbell participated in the decision to represent the letter as a submission from Moreno, it stands to reason that Campbell should be fired as well.
Comment Re:The wrong issue (Score 3, Insightful) 339
Did he do those things? If the message he sent the editor said, in preface to the copy of the rant 'look what so and so said on her blag', then he didn't make a false representation or impersonate anybody.
The gist seems to be that the principal talked to a friend who worked at the paper and said "why don't you post this as a letter to the editor?" The friend published it, but rather than saying "I got this from the principal", the letter to the editor was "signed" with the girl's name, as if she had submitted it herself.
It may not have been the principal's suggestion; it may have been the editor's idea, or some combination of the two, but to readers of the paper, the letter appeared to be submitted by the girl, not the principal. The girl then sued because the principal and his friend at the paper conspired to post something that makes the girl look bad and incited violence against her family.
Unfortunately, the court disagreed.
Have there been any further legal proceedings regarding this case?
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