ViceVirtue - Slashdot User

Comment US only (Score 4, Insightful) 293

by A1kmm on Friday January 11, 2008 @05:12AM (#21996624) Attached to: Sony Announces DRM-Free Music at Amazon

Unfortunately, they didn't think to also drop their geographic restrictions, so this is only available to their US users. I can only presume that they got pressure from the music industry to do this, because they think they can get more out of people in their own countries. Of course, it really just means that overseas Linux users will either download the files illegally or they just won't listen to big 4 music at all.

MIT's SAT Math Error 280

Posted by Zonk on Monday September 24, 2007 @12:10AM from the maybe-they-should-get-a-college-graduate-to-check-it dept.

theodp writes "The Wall Street Journal reports that for years now, MIT wasn't properly calculating the average freshmen SAT scores (reg.) used to determine U.S. News & World Report's influential annual rankings. In response to an inquiry made by The Tech regarding the school's recent drop in the rankings, MIT revealed that in past years it had excluded the test scores of foreign students as well as those who fared better on the ACT than the SAT, both violations of the U.S. News rules. MIT's reported first-quartile SAT verbal and math scores for the 2006 incoming class totaled 1380, a drop of 50 points from 2005."

Feed The Register: UK IP office offers trade mark guidance (theregister.com)

From feed by registerfeed on Thursday August 23, 2007 @05:12AM

New rules call for vigilance from trade mark holders

The UK Intellectual Property Office will be offering advice and practical help on forthcoming changes to the Trade Marks Act in a series of events being held around the country in September.

Comment Well they get off to an obligatory bad start. (Score 0) 687

by ViceVirtue on Saturday January 21, 2006 @07:41PM (#14528974) Attached to: College Students Lack Literacy

Seeing as they must do the obligatory "Hello world!" to begin with... which is grammatically incorrect, we can't be expecting too much of the poor suckers, espectially not when their instructors are like this guy:

Instructor: "What is this?"
Student: "That's a comma, there should be a comma between hello and world"
Instructor: "So, you think you're better than me? Bad move, boy-o."

I never was able to gain his approval after that...

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