Comment Re:Information Overload is your freind. (Score 1) 888

by jimbosworldorg on Friday December 11, 2009 @03:29PM (#30405728) Attached to: Best Way To Clear Your Name Online?

I have the same first and last names as a daily AP columnist, a screenwriter, and a prizewinning novelist (who lives in the same state I do!). I'm not sure I could rob a bank and get myself on Google ahead of all that.

Comment Re:welleee (Score 1) 888

by jimbosworldorg on Friday December 11, 2009 @03:24PM (#30405658) Attached to: Best Way To Clear Your Name Online?

At any rate, it sounds like this guy needs to smother this one little bad brief mention from years ago with a ton of really good, awesome stuff. What exactly are you doing now? Nothing? Is a law enforcement interview really the most exciting and noteworthy thing you've done in the last few years?

That's hardly fair - in the 90's, I wrote the code for what, as far as I could tell, was the first "forum title control panel" (a way to set up a table for custom titles for individual usernames) that ever existed. Despite that code showing up all over the world in what was for several years the most popular forum software on the internet, it's WAY less "newsworthy" than a publicised LEO interview over a system intrusion. Hell, I couldn't find my own example in Google's index just now.

1 of 3 Dell Inspiron Mini Netbooks Sold With Linux 230

Posted by timothy on Tuesday February 24, 2009 @12:49PM from the for-their-patients-who-chew-gum dept.

christian.einfeldt writes "According to an article in Laptop Magazine on-line, one-third of Dell Inspiron Mini 9s netbooks are sold with the Ubuntu Linux operating system. Dell senior product manager John New attributed the sales volume to the lower price point of the Ubuntu Linux machines. And the return rate of the Ubuntu Linux machines is approximately equal to that of comparable netbooks sold with Microsoft Windows XP. Dell spokesperson Jay Pinkert attriutes the low return rate to Dell's good communications with its customers, saying 'We have done a very good job explaining to folks what Linux is.'"

Submission + - Open sourcers rattle EU sabre at BBC on demand pla (theregister.co.uk)

Submitted by

greengrass

on Friday June 22, 2007 @01:56PM

greengrass writes: "The BBC is being threatened with an anti-trust challenge in Europe over its use of the Windows Media format in its on demand service, iPlayer, which is in the final stages of testing.

Advocacy group the Open Source Consortium (OSC) will raise a formal complaint with UK broadcast and telecoms watchdog Ofcom next week, and has vowed to take its accusations to the European Competition Commission if domestic regulators do not act.

The OSC compared the situation to the European Commission's prosecution of Microsoft over its bundling of Windows Media Player with Windows. That case was initiated in 2004 by complaints from other vendors, and resulted in European courts imposing a record fine on Redmond, which it is still appealing against."

Lawyer Asks RIAA To Investigate Bush Twins 529

Posted by kdawson on Friday June 22, 2007 @01:21PM from the sauce-for-the-gander dept.

tanman writes "After reading an article in the Miami Herald that said "[President] Bush's twin daughters gave him a CD they had made for him to listen to while exercising," a Florida lawyer calculated statutory damages of $1.8 million and has sent a letter to the RIAA asking that they 'display the same vigor in prosecuting this matter and protecting the rights of your rights-holders that it has displayed in enforcing those rights against other alleged violators.' From the letter: 'This is a serious violation of copyright. As you know, whichever of your member organizations that are right[s]-holders for the copied musical works may be entitled to statutory damages of $150,000.00 per musical work copied.'" Update: 06/22 18:55 GMT by KD : The lawyer in question has retracted his analysis and now says no laws were broken, probably.

Earth to Media: This kid is still in jail 462

Posted by JonKatz on Tuesday July 31, 2001 @11:30AM from the -using-copyright-to-undermine-free-speech- dept.

The popular media's coverage of the Dmitri Sklyarov case is a scandal. 26-year-old programmer and encryption gadfly Sklyarov has been languishing in jail for almost two weeks now, and the popular media has paid almost no attention to his truly outrageous arrest. It's a case that has the ugliest implications not only for the press (online and off) but for open discussion of technology, and especially for the First Amendment, now clearly being undermined in the name of copyright protection by the DMCA. This is the opposite of what copyright law was meant to do.