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Submission + - GoDaddy v DST, DST won

Submitted by iffn on Sunday March 11, 2007 @02:12PM

iffn writes: GoDaddy claimed not to need DST patches for this weekend due to their Arizona location. At this time however E-Mail and hosting are down. Glad I have hosting there for a "just for fun" website. I'd hate to be running a business with them. Looks like they're going to owe their customers for their losses since this outage was completely within their control to prevent from occuring.

http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,129718/article.h tml

Submission + - Crazy non-compete contracts???

Submitted by

JL-b8

on Tuesday March 06, 2007 @07:06PM

JL-b8 writes: "Dear Slashdot, I've just encountered a (from what I know) strange occurrence. A group of friends who work for a small web design firm are being forced to sign a non-compete agreement with a clause that prohibits the employee from working with a competing company for 12 months after the date of their leaving. Is this a common thing? And what has happened to people who have signed these things? The owners claim it's a standardly practiced clause but I don't see how the hell a web developer/designer is supposed to find work in a city for a year without moving to a completely different city. I'd like more input as to how this weighs in to the rest of the companies out there."

BitTorrent Video Download Store Falls Flat 195

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Wednesday February 28, 2007 @02:58PM from the working-as-intended dept.

seriously writes "We've all heard about BitTorrent going legit this week with legal movie and TV show downloads. Ars Technica took a look at the service to see how usable it was and ran into a few snags, including not being able to download or even open the video files on some computers. However, the ones that they did manage to open varied a lot in quality. Overall, they blame DRM: 'Without knowing whether browser compatibility and dysfunctional video files are a rare occurrence or not, it's hard to say whether BitTorrent's service is a good one overall. Our initial experiences have been disappointing and frustrating, and guess what the culprit is once again? DRM. Why the DRM failed to work on 50% of our purchases is not clear, but whatever the cause, it's simply unacceptable.'"

Comment Their product is about to be outlawed (Score 1) 619

by EmperorPenguin on Monday February 26, 2007 @08:39PM (#18161182) Attached to: GE Announces Advancement in Incandescent Technology

It's amazing how fast a corporation can move when one of it's products is about to be outlawed.

http://science.slashdot.org/science/07/02/20/16322 04.shtml

http://politics.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/01/ 31/1826230

Why couldn't they have done this 10 years ago? 20 years ago?

Here's why:

Light-bulb manufacturers, who sell millions of incandescent lights at Wal-Mart, immediately expressed reservations. In a December 2005 meeting with executives from General Electric, Wal-Mart's largest bulb supplier, "the message from G.E. was, 'Don't go too fast. We have all these plants that produce traditional bulbs,' " said one person involved with the issue, who spoke on condition of anonymity because of an agreement not to speak publicly about the negotiations. -- Wal-Mart Puts Some Muscle Behind Power-Sipping Bulbs, http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/02/business/02bulb. html?ex=1325394000en=7cdfdd70524b7590ei=5088partne r=rssnytemc=rss&pagewanted=all

They're making a nice profit on those old bulbs and they had no reason to rock the boat.

Now the game has changed. They are facing extinction unless they change fast.

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