Submission + - Bill Gates: Sex Machine (battleswarmblog.com)

Submitted by Nova Express on Wednesday June 03, 2026 @01:20PM

Nova Express writes: "Bill Gates was accused of having more than 20 extramarital affairs in the fallout from his divorce from ex-wife Melinda, the billionaire told Gates Foundation staffers during a sullen town meeting earlier this year, according to a new report." I don't think anyone had Bill Gates, sex machine on their 2026 bingo card. Or any other year's bingo card.

Submission + - How UC Exploited Visa Programs to Outsoure IT to India (latimes.com)

Submitted by Nova Express on Sunday January 08, 2017 @07:09PM

Nova Express writes: "Using a visa loophole to fire well-paid U.S. information technology workers and replace them with low-paid immigrants from India is despicable enough when it’s done by profit-making companies such as Southern California Edison and Walt Disney Co. But the latest employer to try this stunt sets a new mark in what might be termed 'job laundering.' It’s the University of California. Experts in the abuse of so-called H-1B visas say UC is the first public university to send the jobs of American IT staff offshore." And the American IT workers who were laid off were required to train their foreign replacements.

Submission + - Project Gutenberg Pirating In-Copyright SF (lawrenceperson.com)

Submitted by

Nova Express

on Tuesday November 30, 2010 @07:29PM

Nova Express writes: "Recently a lot of science fiction stories from the 1950s and 60s (including work from still-living authors like Frederik Pohl and Jack Vance) have been showing up on Project Gutenberg as being in the public domain. However, according the science fiction writer Greg Bear and his wife Astrid Anderson Bear (daughter of Poul Anderson, some of whose works were among those put up) Project Gutenberg has made a mistake: 'After conducting legal research on the LEXIS database of legal cases, decisions, and precedents, we have demonstrated conclusively that PG was making incorrect determinations regarding public domain status in many, many works that originally appeared in magazine form...In general, Project Gutenberg is doing a tremendous service by making available texts that have truly long since fallen out of copyright, but they are clearly overstepping their original mandate. They are not merely exploiting orphan works, but practicing a wholesale kidnapping of works that are under copyright protection.'"

Submission + - Difficult Times for SF Magazines (locusmag.com)

Submitted by

Lawrence Person

on Friday January 30, 2009 @12:51AM

Lawrence Person writes: "Another speculative fiction magazine folds: Realms of Fantasy is ceasing publication. This comes hot on the heels of the announcement that the venerable Fantasy and Science Fiction will be moving from a monthly to a bimonthly schedule, and underscores what a tough environment this is for science fiction and fantasy magazines, all of which have suffered declining circulation for quite some time. This is a real problem, since short fiction is generally where new writers cut their teeth, appearing in print alongside their more famous peers. Given that a one-year subscription costs less than the average video game, those with an interest in science fiction might want to consider buying subscriptions to Asimov's , Fantasy and Science Fiction , and Analog . (Those in the UK might want to consider subscribing to Interzone and/or Black Static and Postscripts as well.) The genre you save may be your own!"

Submission + - Red Dwarf to Return, Find Earth (guardian.co.uk) 1

Submitted by

Lawrence Person

on Wednesday January 28, 2009 @10:25PM

Lawrence Person writes: "Everyone's favorite live-action science fiction comedy series will finally return to TV, with Lister, Rimmer, Kryten and the Cat all making it to Earth. The new two-part series Red Dwarf: Back to Earth will appear on digital channel Dave, will be written and directed by Red Dwarf co-creator Doug Naylor, and will reunite the line-up. Personally, I think this is pretty smegging fantastic."

Submission + - Ray Bradbury turns 88 (latimes.com)

Submitted by

Lawrence Person

on Sunday August 24, 2008 @02:18AM

Lawrence Person writes: "Legendary science fiction writer Ray Bradbury turned 88 years old on August 22. Happy Birthday Ray! The Illustrated Man was one of the first science fiction books I ever read, and I've been hooked ever since. I'm sure that's true of a lot of science fiction writers and readers, be it that, or The Martian Chronicles, or Fahrenheit 451. There are also several videos of Ray on that page, including one where he doesn't endorse Sunsweet Prunes."

Submission + - Apple's Market Cap Exceeds Google (macdailynews.com)

Submitted by

Lawrence Person

on Wednesday August 13, 2008 @08:28PM

Lawrence Person writes: "Mac Daily News was one of many Apple-followers to note that Apple Inc.'s market capitalization exceeded Google today. That means that the combined value of all Apple's outstanding shares of stock exceeded the combined value of all Google's outstanding shares of stock. Apple's stock is worth $157 billion and change vs. Google's $156 billion. Other companies Apple has surpassed in market cap include Cisco, HP, and Intel. Also, Apple is now worth 3 times the value of Dell Computer, despite Dell's founder and CEO declaring over a decade ago that if he ran Apple, he'd "shut it down and give the money back to the shareholders."."

Submission + - Amazon to POD Publishers: Use our printer, or else (writersweekly.com)

Submitted by

Lawrence Person

on Saturday March 29, 2008 @03:31PM

Lawrence Person writes: "According to this story on Writer's Weekly, Print on Demand publishers are being told to use Amazon's own BookSurge POD printer or else Amazon will disable the "buy" button for their books. After hemming and hawing, an Amazon/BookSurge rep "finally admitted that books not converted to BookSurge would have the 'buy' button turned off on Amazon.com, just as we'd heard from several other POD publishers who had similar conversations with Amazon/BookSurge representatives...their eventual desire is to have no books from other POD publishers available on Amazon.com.""

Submission + - Bill to Treat Bloggers as Lobbyists Defeated

Submitted by

Lawrence Person

on Friday January 19, 2007 @01:23AM

Lawrence Person writes: "The attempt to require political bloggers to register as lobbyists previously reported by Slashdot has been stripped out of the lobbying reform bill. The vote was 55 to 43 to defeat the provision. All 48 Republicans, as well as 7 Democrats, voted against requiring bloggers to register; all 43 votes in favor of keeping the registration provision were by Democrats."

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