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Submission + - Student in court over suspension for youtube video

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kozmonaut

on Tuesday May 22, 2007 @02:09PM

kozmonaut writes: "A "model student" is in court this week over 40-day suspension for posting a mocking in-class video of "Mongzilla", a high school english teacher. The student is arguing he had First Amendment rights to publish the video, though it was filmed without permission in the classroom. The judge says she will have a decision by the end of the day. http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/316618_youtube 22.html"

Site Claims to Reveal 'Tattle-tales' 565

Posted by Zonk on Tuesday May 22, 2007 @10:19AM from the true-capitalism-in-action dept.

Dekortage writes "Have you ever ratted somebody out? If it was a legal case, you might end up on Who's A Rat, an online database of police informants and undercover agents, identified through various publicly-available documents such as court briefings. The data-mined information is now available online at a price. As reported in the New York Times, 'The site says it has identified 4,300 informers and 400 undercover agents, many of them from documents obtained from court files available on the Internet.' Understandably, U.S. judges and law enforcement agents are upset, although defense lawyers seem to like the idea. Where do you draw the line between legal transparency and secrecy?"

Microsoft Will Not Sue Over Linux Patents 291

Posted by Zonk on Tuesday May 22, 2007 @09:01AM from the what's-with-the-saber-rattling-then dept.

San Muel writes "In an official statement, Microsoft has said it has no immediate plans to sue after alleging patent infringements by open-source vendors for the time being. The company goes on to say that, essentially, it could have done that any time in the last three years if it wanted to. So what's the purpose of these bold announcements? '[John McCreesh, OpenOffice.org marketing project lead] added that while Microsoft may not have plans to sue, it could be using the threat of litigation to try to encourage corporate customers to move to those open-source product vendors with whom it had signed licensing agreements, such as Novell. "Microsoft has spent time and money accumulating patents. Maybe it has started using that armory to move corporate customers to open-source software that Microsoft approves of."'"

Comment Re:Why not release it? (Score 1) 424

by ColorMeLucky on Thursday November 18, 2004 @11:53AM (#10854323) Attached to: Gates 'World's Most-Spammed Man'

Probably because releasing said code would make it open for public scrutiny and, thus, being circumvented by millions of spammers out there. Ballmer's comment in the ref'd article, "And so we have special technology which just filters (spam)" is just seething with the "security through obscurity" mantra of Microsoft.

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