Comment We have now become Cuba (Score 1) 206
Considering what these guys are doing to the auto industry, we may be literally like Cuba, driving 1950s Buicks and swapping chickens for car parts.
Sony Hit With $1M Penalty For COPPA Violations 85
coondoggie writes "It really isn't a big enough penalty, and the company admitted no guilt, but Sony BMG Music Entertainment today agreed to pay $1 million as part of a settlement to resolve Federal Trade Commission charges that it knowingly violated the privacy rights of over 30,000 underage children.
Specifically the FTC said the company violated the agency's Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) and the FTC did say the penalty was its largest ever in a COPPA case.
To provide resources to parents and their children about children's privacy in general, and social networking sites in particular, the penalty order requires Sony Music to link to certain FTC consumer education materials for the next five years."
Comment Re:More than 50 mil (Score 1) 68
TRADOC funds the unit, which burns up money thinking. Then the unit tries to interest some university lab to build a demo. By the time the contract is let, most of the money's gone. Then the university kids run over budget and lose interest. The Colonel who came up with the idea gets promoted, and our kids are out on the battlefield of the Neverending War defending themelves with trashcan lids.
How the hell is TRADOC still in business after FCS?
Journal Journal: So how long has everybody else known about this?
Oh well. My real blog is at http://blog.crispen.org/.
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