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Pirate Bay Day 3 — Defense Requests Dismissal 685

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday February 19, 2009 @12:16AM from the ninja-lawyers dept.

Hodejo1 writes "Yesterday was a big day for the Pirate Bay when half of the charges against them were dropped leaving only the lesser charges of assisting making copyrighted material available in place. TorrentFreak is following the English twitter feed of the trial in the wee hours of the night, documenting more missteps by the prosecution. 'The Pirate Bay trial is moving forward rapidly and again the day in court has ended early. On the third day the prosecution presented the amended charges. The defendants all called for acquittal while Carl Lundström's lawyer scored points with the already legendary "King Kong" defense.'"

Best Buy API Aims To Expand Store's Reach Online 99

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday January 26, 2009 @07:28PM from the right-way-to-encourage-business dept.

surely_you_cant_be_serious writes "Best Buy has opened up proprietary product catalog data in its online store through an open API. Through the Remix API, Best Buy can track how many people are using its information, while users can check to see where a certain product is available without visiting Best Buy's site. Web developers and bloggers can also sign up to become an official Best Buy affiliate. If approved, they can get a small percentage of a sale if someone makes a Best Buy purchase through their site."

Comment Seems Rep. King has some important issues to pass. (Score 2, Informative) 1235

by djodom on Monday January 26, 2009 @04:47PM (#26612385) Attached to: New Law Will Require Camera Phones To "Click"

Congressman Peter King (NY) is responsible for this waste of floor time. Next thing we know, the representative will wanna push something through for funding some obscure secret society... Oh wait... http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c111:H.RES.63:

100 Years Ago, No Free Broadband Pneumatic Tubes 293

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday December 16, 2008 @03:38PM from the when-brooklyn-was-a-considerable-city dept.

TheSync writes "The Division of Labour blog spotlights a report written 100 years ago by a commission appointed by the Postmaster General, that came to the conclusion: 'That it is not feasible and desirable at the present time for the Government to purchase, to install, or to operate pneumatic tubes.' Here is a scan of the original NYTimes article. If only we had gotten the free government Intertubes in 1908!"

Comment Re:Lego Mindstorm (Score 1) 962

by djodom on Wednesday December 10, 2008 @10:13PM (#26069417) Attached to: Best Introduction To Programming For Bright 11-14-Year-Olds?

I twelfth this idea, Lego Mindstorms NXT is based right on top of LabVIEW, which is a graphical programming language that abstracts the need for syntax. Absolutely perfect to demonstrate the idea of programming- IE loops, variables, subroutines, etc without the constant stumbling block of "does not compile" errors.

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