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Comment Look at the Terms of Service (Score 1) 807

by djlosch on Tuesday September 02, 2008 @10:37PM (#24854131) Attached to: Google Chrome, the Google Browser

http://tapthehive.com/discuss/This_Post_Not_Made_In_Chrome_Google_s_EULA_Sucks

By posting anything (via Chrome) to your blog(s), any forum, video site, myspace, itunes, or any other site that might happen to be supporting you, Google can use your work without paying you a dime. They can go and edit it all they want. Even further, you're claiming that you have the power to grant these rights. So if you work for Wired, TechCrunch, Arstechnica, any of the other big web publishers, or a university where you're posting a research paper, you CANNOT agree to the Chrome ToS because you most likely don't have the right to give a license to your IP that you produce for your company/university.

Submission + - No alien signal from SETI (badastronomy.com)

Submitted by

The Bad Astronomer

on Wednesday January 16, 2008 @09:02PM

The Bad Astronomer writes: "Rumors have been flying today that the SETI scientists got a signal from space that could be of alien (like, grey big-eyed dudes) origin. This rumor is FALSE. Shockingly, a news reporter got his signals crossed (har har); a scientist affiliated with SETI detected a pulse from some extragalactic source, but it was natural, not from BEMs."

Western-Style Voting 'A Loser' 614

Posted by Zonk on Sunday January 06, 2008 @05:32AM from the math-and-politics-two-great-tastes dept.

sethawoolley writes "In light of the upcoming elections in the US, author William Poundstone was interviewed about voting systems by Mother Jones. In it he advocates the benefits of Range Voting as a solution to Arrow's Impossibility Theorem. Approval, Borda, Instant Runoff, and Condorcet Voting, which are often solutions advocated by the Greens and Libertarians (in the US), are discussed, as well, in light of Warren Smith's recent empirical research using Bayesian Regret. My local party (of which I'm the Parliamentarian) uses Single Transferable voting, but we're considering using Range Voting in the future. One thing is for certain: any system is better than the West's out-dated plurality voting system."

Submission + - IBM sues company selling fake, flammable batteries (computerworld.com.au)

Submitted by Bergkamp10 on Wednesday November 28, 2007 @05:33PM

Bergkamp10 writes: A Computerworld article reporting that IBM is suing Shentech for selling laptop batteries that catch on fire and sport allegedly fake IBM logos. IBM apparently followed up on a claim by a customer that an "IBM" laptop battery bought at Shentech caught on fire and damaged his laptop. The customer reported the problem to Lenovo (who license Big Blue's trademark) who subsequently ordered 12 batteries from Shentech and found them all to be fakes. IBM is asking for US$1 million in damages for each dodgy battery sold.

Feed The Register: 10,000 .eu names suspended amid cybersquatter allegation (theregister.com)

From feed by registerfeed on Monday September 10, 2007 @06:32AM

Owner files retaliatory suit

The organisation behind the .eu domain has suspended 10,000 domain names registered by a Chinese woman whom it accuses of being a cybersquatter. The woman, in retaliation, has filed a lawsuit in Belgium.

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