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For over a year now, Righthaven has been suing bloggers, news websites, and now even journalists covering Righthaven for reproducing, in full or part, articles and pictures from newspapers that it purchases the copyright for. But it might be starting to backfire. [more inside]posted by SirOmega at 12:40 PM - 16 comments
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Why we don’t hire .NET programmers « Expensify Blog | blog.expensify.com | Readability
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Tech-Savvy Student Tracks Down MacBook Air Thief - PCWorld
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In Ohio, Public Work Is a Road to the Middle Class - NYTimes.com
Public Job as Only Route to Middle Class. 'While that might not seem like much, jobs' 'with benefits and higher-than-minimum wages, are considered plum in' the town of Gallipolis a 'depressed corner of southern Ohio. Decades of industrial decline have eroded private-sector jobs here, leaving a thin crust of low-paying service work that makes public-sector jobs look great in comparison.''Now, as Ohio’s legislature moves toward final approval of a bill that would chip away at public-sector unions, those workers say they see it as the opening bell in a race to the bottom. At stake, they say, is what little they have that makes them middle class.' [more inside]posted by VikingSword at 1:34 PM - 11 comments
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Cell phones are 'Stalin's dream,' says free software movement founder
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| Richard Stallman: Cell Phones Are 'Stalin's Dream'| from the stupid-stalin-ruins-everything dept.| posted by Soulskill on Tuesday March 15, @07:18 (Cellphones)| https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/11/03/15/0432226/Richard-Stallman-Cell-Phones-Are-Stalins-Dream?from=newsletter+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
[0]jbrodkin writes "Cell phones are 'Stalin's dream,' says free softwarepioneer Richard Stallman, who refuses to own one. '[1]Cell phones aretools of Big Brother. I'm not going to carry a tracking device thatrecords where I go all the time, and I'm not going to carry asurveillance device that can be turned on to eavesdrop.' Even the opensource Android is dangerous because devices ship with proprietaryexecutables, Stallman says in a wide-ranging interview on the state ofthe free software movement. Despite some progress, Stallman is stilldismayed by 'The existence and use of non-free software [which] is asocial problem. It's an evil. And our aim is a world without thatproblem.'"
Discuss this story at: https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/11/03/15/0432226/Richard-Stallman-Cell-Phones-Are-Stalins-Dream?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links: 0. http://www.networkworld.com/community/blog/4855 1. http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/031411-richard-stallman.html?hpg1=bn -
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| Katamari Hack For Chrome (and Compatible Browsers)| from the on-a-roll dept.| posted by Soulskill on Monday March 14, @22:20 (Chrome)| https://games.slashdot.org/story/11/03/15/0132233/Katamari-Hack-For-Chrome-and-Compatible-Browsers?from=newsletter+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
skaet writes "Using CSS3 transforms and HTML5 canvas, the [0]KatamariHack for Google Chrome (and other compatible browsers) allows you to turnany website into a game of [1] Katamari Damacy! The script was created byAlex Leone, David Nufer, and David Truong, and won the 2011 Yahoo HackUcontest at University of Washington."
Discuss this story at: https://games.slashdot.org/story/11/03/15/0132233/Katamari-Hack-For-Chrome-and-Compatible-Browsers?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links: 0. http://kathack.com/ 1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katamari_Damacy
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Gulf spill sickness wrecking lives - Features - Al Jazeera English
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Lucas's Song ListLucas Davenport's "Best Songs of the Rock Era" list, in no particular order, except that, as any intelligent person knows, any decent road trip will start ...www.johnsandford.org/prey16x1.html - Cached
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_EFdod4YDo
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Apple - Support - Discussions - iTunes store account hacked ...
A thread at Apple's Support site has popped up with frustrated users describing nearly identical iTunes account disruptions: up to hundreds of dollars of charges are being racked up by fraudulent buyers, using iTunes gift card balances and even credit card information to fund the purchases. [more inside]posted by Khazk at 2:37 PM - 64 comments
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Oil Prices Are Too High, But the Strategic Petroleum Reserve Isn't the Answer - DailyFinance
This is why oil prices are high. It has nothing to do with Libya, it has to do with investment banks being allowed to speculate at unlimited levels in the commodities market. Who negotiated this loophole with the CFTC? Goldman Sachs. (dailyfinance.com)submitted 4 hours ago by snotboogie12 commentssharesavehidereport
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S.E.C. Still Isn’t Enforcing a Ratings-Agency Rule - NYTimes.com
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Adding It Up - Amazon’s Subscription Service vs. Costco - NYTimes.com
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College the Easy Way - NYTimes.com
- A provocative new book, “Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses,” makes a strong case that for a large portion of the nation’s seemingly successful undergraduates the years in college barely improve their skills in critical thinking, complex reasoning and writing.
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Is Google Making Us Stupid? - Magazine - The Atlantic
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New Economy, New Wealth by Arthur Brock on Prezi
"New Economy, New Wealth - We are entering a post-industrial age with a very different economy and needs for a different view of wealth. What does this mean for us?" A presentation by Arthur Brock, using Prezi (previously). I recommend viewing it full-screen. posted by baejoseph at 9:27 PM - 6 comments
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Oh, What a Lucky Man - NYTimes.com
- Machiavelli wrote: “I believe it is probably true that fortune is the arbiter of half the things we do, leaving the other half or so to be controlled by ourselves.” Obama has “controlled” his luck — and I suspect he will ride it now to a second term.
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Regulation Lax as Gas Wells’ Tainted Water Hits Rivers - NYTimes.com
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