Limb - Slashdot User

Comment Re:He needs to think twice (Score 1) 264

by Limb on Friday January 16, 2009 @06:36PM (#26489887) Attached to: Wireless Internet Access Uses Visible Light, Not Radio Waves

. Why don't we stick to that instead of trying to use something that does?

Because that wouldn't make for a very slashdot worthy story, now would it? Useful information finding itself onto the front page? BLASPHEMY!

Comment Re:Pictures? (Score 1) 86

by Limb on Sunday January 11, 2009 @03:24PM (#26408815) Attached to: Chandrayaan Maps Apollo Missions

Thats exactly what I'm wondering... no mention at all in the article.

Submission + - Mission-critical hospital systems on Linux (computerworld.com)

Submitted by

jcatcw

on Wednesday December 12, 2007 @10:09AM

jcatcw writes: "Health care software vendor McKesson Provider Technologies is focusing on ways to cut IT costs for customers, including hospitals and medical offices. The cure is moving many of McKesson's medical software applications to Linux, which can then be used on less expensive commodity hardware instead of expensive mainframes. A deal with Red Hat allows McKesson to offer its software in a top-to-bottom package for mission-critical hospital IT systems."

FBI Coerced Confession Deemed "Classified" 456

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday October 22, 2007 @01:24PM from the united-states-of-embarrassment dept.

Steve Bergstein is one of several who have blogged about a recent court ruling that reads like most any bestselling crime novel. Apparently, when the court originally posted their decision (complete with backstory) it detailed how a coerced confession was obtained by the FBI from Abdallah Higazy in relation to the 9/11 attacks. The details, however, were later removed and deemed "classified". "As I read the opinion I realized it was a 44 page epic, too long for me to print out. I blogged about the opinion while I read it online and then posted the blog as I ate lunch. Then something strange happened: a few minutes after I posted the blog, the opinion vanished from the Court of Appeals website! [...] The next day, the Court of Appeals reissued the Higazy opinion. With a redaction. The court simply omitted from the revised decision facts about how the FBI agent extracted the false confession from Higazy. For some reason, this information is classified."

Submission + - Viacom Wants Industry Wide Copyright Filter (pcworld.com)

Submitted by slashqwerty on Sunday October 21, 2007 @01:30AM

slashqwerty writes: Unsatisfied with the proprietary copyright filter Google recently unveiled, Viacom CEO Philippe Dauman has called for an industry standard to filter copyrighted material. Mr. Dauman has the backing of Microsoft, Disney, and Universal. "They reflect the fact that there ought to be a filtering system in place on the part of technology companies," he noted. "Most responsible companies have followed that path. What no one wants is a proprietary system that benefits one company. It is a big drain to a company like ours to have to deal with incompatible systems." How would an industry standard impact freedom of speech and in particular censorship on the internet? How would it affect small, independent web sites?

Submission + - Provider of Free Public Domain Music Shuts Down (imslp.org)

Submitted by

Mark Rogers

on Sunday October 21, 2007 @12:18AM

Mark Rogers writes: "The International Music Score Library Project has provided access to copies of many musical scores that are in the public domain. It has just been shut down due to a cease-and-desist letter sent to the site operator by a European Union music publisher (Universal Edition). A majority of the scores recently available at IMSLP were in the public domain worldwide. Other scores were not in the public domain in the United States or the EU (where copyright extends for 70 years after the composer's death), but were legal in Canada (where the site is hosted) and many other countries. The site's maintainers clearly labeled the copyright status of such scores and warned users to follow their respective country's copyright law. Apparently this wasn't enough for Universal Edition, who found it necessary to protect the interests of their (long-dead) composers and shut down a site that has proved useful to many students, professors, and other musicians worldwide."

Canada May Tax Legal Music Downloads 246

Posted by Zonk on Saturday October 20, 2007 @09:42PM from the more-like-a-half-pounder-of-flesh dept.

FuriousBalancing writes "MacNN is reporting that Canadians may soon pay a small tax on every legal music store download. This fee is the work of a measure proposed by the Copyright Board of Canada. About two cents would be added to every song downloaded, with 1.5 cents being added to album downloads. Streaming services and subscriptions would also be taxed, to the tune of about 6% of the monthly fee. Most interesting - the tax would be retroactively applied to every transaction processed since 1996. 'The surcharge would help compensate artists for piracy, according to SOCAN's reasoning. The publishing group draws similarities between this and a 21-cent fee already applied to blank CDs in the country; the right to copy a song from an online store demands the same sort of levy applied to copying a retail CD, SOCAN argues. The tax may have a significant impact for online stores such as iTunes and Canada-based Puretracks, which will have to factor the amount both into future and past sales.' The full text of the measure is available in PDF format."

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