Beyond e-Discovery. How do you find documents the other side hid? Disgruntled employees! (Let that be a lesson to you – keep your employees well gruntled!)

http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08%2F12%2F12%2F0116246&from=rss

Nintendo Slapped With Wiimote Strap Lawsuit Once Again

Posted by Soulskill on Thursday December 11, @11:52PM from the it's-not-a-hula-hoop dept. Input Devices Nintendo The Courts Games

GameCyteSean writes

"GameCyte is reporting that a new class-action lawsuit has challenged Nintendo's Wiimote straps once more. Interestingly, the suit was filed by the same lawyer who led the original 2006 attempt, and now argues that Nintendo hid records of broken TVs from the Consumer Product Safety Commission. From the article: 'This doesn't seem like a spurious accusation, either. Attached to the court filing (PDF) as a matter of public record is the very evidence Nintendo allegedly tried to hide: actual, internal Nintendo documents (PDF) where customer service reps received complaints of cracked televisions and broken Wiimote straps — and the corresponding Monthly Reports that Nintendo was compelled to file with the CPSC as part of their agreement.'"

Not foolproof. If they want your data, they'll pull the drive immediately.

http://mobile.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08%2F12%2F12%2F0050255&from=rss

Ericsson and Intel Offer Remote Notebook Lockdown

Posted by timothy on Thursday December 11, @09:02PM from the and-if-you-refuse-this-offer dept. Portables Security

MojoKid writes

"Ericsson and Intel have announced that they are collaborating on a way to keep your laptop's contents safe when your laptop goes MIA. Using Intel's Anti-Theft Technology — PC Protection (Intel AT-p) and Ericsson's Mobile Broadband (HSPA) modules, lost or stolen laptops can be remotely locked down. Similar to Lenovo's recently announced Lockdown Now PC technology, the Ericsson-Intel technology uses SMS messages sent directly to a laptop's mobile broadband chip. Once the chip receives the lock-down message, it passes it to the Intel AT-p function, which is integrated into Intel's Centrino 2 with vPro technology platform. Unlike Lenovo's anti-theft solution, the Ericsson module includes GPS functionality as well."

Now here's a guy I could like.

http://www.wired.com/politics/onlinerights/news/2008/12/open_pacer

Online Rebel Publishes Millions of Dollars in U.S. Court Records for Free

By Ryan Singel

If you want to search federal court documents, it's not a problem. Just apply online for an account, and the government will issue you a user name and password.

Through the postal service.

And once you log in, the government's courthouse search engine known as Public Access to Court Electronic Records or PACER, will charge you 8 cents a page to read documents that are in the public domain — a fee that earned the federal judiciary $50 million in profits in 2006.

... Now Malamud is doing something about it. He's asking lawyers to donate their PACER documents one by one, which he then classifies and bundles into ZIP files published for free at his organization's website. The one-year-old effort has garnered him 20 percent of all the files on PACER, including all decisions from federal appeals courts over the last 50 years.

... Back in 1995, the Securities and Exchange Committee decided to put corporate filings online only after Malamud essentially shamed them into doing so. For two years he operated a free site that published the filings, then abruptly pulled the plug and directed angry users to the SEC. [Yep, definitely my kinda guy! Bob]

Starbucks is the new Exxon?

http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08%2F12%2F12%2F0337259&from=rss

Waste Coffee Grounds Offer New Source of Biodiesel

Posted by timothy on Friday December 12, @02:54AM from the as-if-you-needed-another-reason dept. Power Biotech Transportation

Julie188 writes

"Researchers in Nevada are reporting that waste coffee grounds can provide a cheap, abundant, and environmentally friendly source of biodiesel fuel for powering cars and trucks. Their study has been published online in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry. Growers produce more than 16 billion pounds of coffee around the world each year. Scientists estimate that spent coffee grounds can potentially add 340 million gallons of biodiesel to the world's fuel supply."

Capture and playback your screens – build your own training video!

http://www.webbriefcase.com.au/2007-11/get-camtasia-studio-30-screencast-software-for-free/

Get Camtasia Studio 3.0 Screencast Software for Free

Posted by Bina on Fri 23 Nov 2007

... In the hope of persuading you to upgrade to their latest version of Camtasia Studio (version 5.0), they’re offering an older version (i.e. version 3) for free.

Here’s what you have to do to take up this offer.

1. Download the free trial version of Camtasia Studio 3 at:
   http://download.techsmith.com/camtasiastudio/enu/312/camtasiaf.exe

2. Go to the following promotion page, complete your name, country and e-mail address and Techsmith will send you the software key to unlock the program almost instantly:
   http://www.techsmith.com/camtasia/pcpls.asp

3. Just install the program you downloaded from step 1 above and then enter the software key you receive from Techsmith in step 2 and you’ll have a fully working version of Camtasia Studio 3 on your PC.

Related

http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/5-free-screencasting-apps-for-creating-video-tutorials/

5 Free Screencasting Apps for Creating Video Tutorials

Feb. 27th, 2008 By Travis Quinnelly

For my math students. Not the best I've found, but another perspective always helps.

http://khanacademy.org/

The Khan Academy

...is a not-for-profit organization with the mission of providing a high quality education to anyone, anywhere.

We have 600 videos on YouTube covering everything from basic arithmetic and algebra to differential equations, physics, and finance