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Submission + - Anti-piracy group fined for stealing music (bgr.com)

zacharye writes: Oh, the irony. A musicians’ rights group in the Netherlands was fined this week for stealing music from a client, using it without his permission and failing to pay royalties. Music royalty collection agency Buma/Stemra approached Dutch musician Melchior Rietveldt in 2006 and asked him to create a composition that would be used in an anti-piracy advertisement, which the group said would be shown exclusively at a local film festival. One year later, Rietveldt purchased a Harry Potter DVD only to find that his piece was being used on DVDs around the world without his permission...
IBM

Submission + - IBM Seeks Patent on Judging Programmers by Commits 5

theodp writes: How'd you like to be deemed unworthy of a job based upon a scan of your GitHub updates? That's what proposed in a newly-published IBM patent application for Automated Analysis of Code Developer's Profile, which proposes weeding out developer candidates for certain roles based on things like the amount of changes one typically makes with each commit, how frequently and regularly one makes commits, what hours of the day one makes commits, the percentage of commits with conflicts that one resolves, and the 'depth' of one's commit comments ('shallow', 'mid-range' or 'deep'). Big Blue explains that commit or repository interactions can be used to produce a 'conclusion report' that compares a developer to others who have profiles on the repository, which helps management 'avoid wasted time with ineffective developers.

Comment 2012: End of Days (Score 1) 1

At least the end of a free internet. First, they wanted to stop it. Then they wanted to section it off into paid tiers. Now, we're at the mercy of technological dunces who are bowing to their corporate overlords.

Comment OWS? (Score 1) 1

"One commonly espoused view is that if we keep more foreigners out of the U.S., employment will rise and the economy will rebound. "

Wait, who's saying this? Granted, OWS has a lot of interests, but I doubt keeping out foreigners is high on their collective list.

Comment Re:Is this something the market forces are demandi (Score 3, Informative) 148

Some estimates have mainframes processing 80% of the world's data. http://fosspatents.blogspot.com/2010/08/western-civilization-runs-on-mainframe.html Now I'm not sure how accurate that percentage is, but if you run an enterprise business and have thousands of servers to maintain, a mainframe still makes a lot of sense.

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