Interesting, but expected.
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/08/30/0448217/Lori-Drew-Cyberbullying-Case-Dismissed?from=rss
Lori Drew Cyberbullying Case Dismissed
Posted by timothy on Sunday August 30, @08:01AM from the neither-vindication-nor-absolution dept.
Trepidity writes
"About seven weeks after the judge tentatively overturned Lori Drew's guilty verdict for 'cyberbullying' following her online harassment of a teenager that was linked to the teenager's suicide, the case was finally officially dismissed. In a 32-page opinion [PDF], the court avoided a minefield of possible follow-on effects that civil-liberties groups had warned of by holding that merely violating a website's Terms of Service cannot constitute 'unauthorized access' for the purposes of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (18 U.S.C. 1030)."
Strategy: If it's stupid and it works, it ain't stupid! (I doubt this will work, even in bad economic times I can't see the UK selling the BBC to Murdoch.)
James Murdoch Criticizes BBC For Providing "Free News"
Posted by timothy on Saturday August 29, @02:30PM from the you-don't-trust-the-gov't-to-report-news-fairly? dept.
Hugh Pickens writes
"News Corporation's James Murdoch says that a 'dominant' BBC threatens independent journalism in the UK and that free news on the web provided by the BBC made it 'incredibly difficult' for private news organizations to ask people to pay for their news. 'It is essential for the future of independent digital journalism that a fair price can be charged for news to people who value it,' says Murdoch. 'The expansion of state-sponsored journalism is a threat to the plurality and independence of news provision.' In common with the public broadcasting organizations of many other European countries, the BBC is funded by a television license fee charged to all households owning a television capable of receiving broadcasts. Murdoch's News Corporation, one of the world's largest media conglomerates, owns the Times, the Sunday Times and Sun newspapers and pay TV provider BSkyB in the UK and the New York Post, Wall Street Journal, and Fox News TV in the US."
Note that James Murdoch is the son of Rupert Murdoch.
(Related) Free is good! If you had never looked closely at your customers (something any good manager would do) you would discourage P2P users. Worse, you might even sue them!
http://adage.com/digital/article?article_id=138587#=rss2534
Media Cos.' Best Customers: Those Who Steal Their Content
Mike Vorhaus on Digital Communications
by Mike Vorhaus Published: August 24, 2009
… We compared a random set of Vuze users with a national sample of internet users ages 18 to 44, and results revealed that users of P2P technology spend considerable money on traditional media and entertainment. They are, in fact, important and valued customers of the traditional media companies. Our survey shows that the P2P user attends 34% more movies in theaters, purchases 34% more DVDs and rents 24% more movies than the average internet user.
Ensuring that Colorado stays on the leading edge! (Also a business opportunity that locks in customers since pigeons are trained to return to YOUR coups!)
Pigeon Protocol Finds a Practical Purpose
Posted by timothy on Saturday August 29, @03:37PM from the fly-away-little-one dept.
Selanit writes
"Since David Waitzman wrote his tongue-in-cheek Standard for the Transmission of IP Datagrams on Avian Carriers, there have been occasional attempts to actually transmit information via pigeon. One group back in 2001 successfully sent a PING command. But now there's a practical use for pigeon-based communications: photographers working for the white-water rafting company Rocky Mountain Adventures send memory sticks full of digital photos via homing pigeon so the photos will be ready when the rafters finish up. The company has details on how the pigeons are trained and equipped. It may not be a full implementation of the Pigeon Protocol, but it works in narrow canyons far off the beaten path — and just as David Waitzman presciently predicted, they occasionally suffer packet loss due to hawks and ospreys."
Don't tell my wife...
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/top-10-sites-for-online-coupons-promotional-codes/
Top 10 Sites For Online Coupons & Promotional Codes
Aug. 30th, 2009 By John McClain
… Here’s some websites that may help you save a little bit of money the next time you shop online simply by typing in a code.
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