Family of Trampled Walmart Employee File Lawsuit [Walmart] (2)
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According to our recent poll, only 12% of respondents blame Walmart for the tragic death of a 34 year old employee in the Black Friday rush. But when it comes to lawsuits, money talks. Naturally, the family of victim Jdimytai Damour is filing a wrongful death lawsuit against Walmart, the adjacent Green Acres Mall, the company that manages the property and the company in charge of security. In their view Wamart was "engaged in specific ...
The Phases Of Due Diligence (2)
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There are typically two phases of the due diligence process. The first phase typically begins after the VC has decided that he is interested in your company. At this stage, the VC begins to explore all of the key assumptions that must be true to make your company viable. Generally, these are assumptions about factors external to the business: customer demand, competitive landscape, regulatory trends and beyond. VCs examine these factors by diving into the ...
Clinton Ineligible For Secretary of State! [Hillary Clinton] (1)
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Senator Hillary Clinton is forbidden from being the nation's Secretary of State—by the Constitution! All the hope in the world can't get around that little document, you monster. Here's the Constitutional bit in question, Article I, Section 6: No Senator or Representative shall, during the Time for which he was elected, be appointed to any civil Office under the Authority of the United States which shall have been created, or the Emoluments whereof shall have ...
Apple on its ads: “What, you believed that stuff?” (1)
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This is great. There’s something to be said for the defense of exaggeration or idiom in advertising — for instance, Red Bull doesn’t literally give you wings. Of course, nobody’s suing Red Bull for false advertising. But when the statement is the totally believable “Twice as fast, half the price,” and you support the ad with fraudulent video showing the product in question accomplishing tasks at unrealistic speeds, you might be pushing it. And yet, ...
Wouldn’t $1Bn worth of Open Coursework be better? (1)
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One of the election platforms of the (Australian) Federal Government last year was the provision of computers to all secondary school students (ie years 9-12) in the country, administered by the States. The problem for the States was that the Commonwealth would fund the hardware, but States would need to pick up software, networking, installation, maintenance and all the other associated costs. The good news for open source is that the States are trying to ...
Chinese Authorities Enforce Switch from Microsoft (1)
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From the Radio Free Asia: Authorities in the southeastern Chinese city of Nanchang are requiring all local Internet cafes to replace their Microsoft Windows XP operating systems with a Chinese-made system, Red Flag Linux, according to officials and Internet cafe owners. An official with the Nanchang Cultural Discipline Team, which oversees the roughly 600 Internet cafes operating in Nanchang city, said the new operating systems were mandatory. “We have already started installing the new software ...
The glittering allure of the mobile society (2)
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In February of this year I found myself on a cold and rainy day in Evian, at the behest of Microsoft at a international summit for CIO's. As a consequence of that presentation Microsoft in the US asked me if I would write a paper on the future of the mobile society. On Friday the paper was published for Microsoft CIO Community. I wrote in my openingWhen it comes to mobile telecommunications, it is often ...
10 more stupid laws (1)
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Filed under: Arts and Culture, Learning, Savvy Traveler, Travel TriviaAfter finding so many outrageously stupid yet entertaining laws yesterday for my top 10 stupidest laws you may encounter abroad, I decided it would be foolish - no, negligent not to continue.Here are ten more very stupid laws from countries all over the world: Singapore - If you are convicted of littering three times, you will have to clean the streets on Sundays with a bib ...
Top 10 stupidest laws you may encounter abroad (8)
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Filed under: Learning, Savvy Traveler, Travel TriviaWe're all heard about the ridiculous, archaic laws of the United States, stuff about shooting bison from trains and grazing your cows on Boston Common and so forth. But it's imperative to be aware of completely useless laws in other parts of the world, in case you should happen to travel there and find yourself in a really, really unlikely situation.Here they are, the top 10 stupidest laws you ...
AIMS Report: Engaging New Media (Dec 2008) [Participatory Governance] (2)
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UPDATE: Coleman, our media socialists spokesperson, has provided our official press response to this latest AIMS report. In essence, “We appreciate that AIMS has taken our feedback and added it to their recommendations”. Besides our earlier AIMS submission, here’s our FAQ for further information. Participatory governance in Singapore is finally reaching a new milestone, thanks to a newly released report from the Advisory Council on the Impact of New Media on Society (AIMS). Pooling together ...
How To File A Lawsuit [Lawsuits] (4)
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Consumerist empowers consumers to take on bad companies, but sometimes even the negative PR that Consumerist can bring to bear is not enough to persuade companies to behave. When that happens, you might have to sue in order to get what you want. Here is a brief guide to your options when you decide you need to escalate your complaint to the courts. A "small claim" is a dispute about a small amount of money. ...
What does it take to make the policymaking A list? (1)
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As Barack Obama prepares to announce his foreign policy and national security team, I find myself reflecting on something Dani Rodrik blogged about last week: If you are bright and are contemplating a potential career in American politics, you go to a top law school–not a public policy school. This does not seem to have changed much in recent decades despite everything [Harvard's Kennedy School of Government] has done to make itself visible and relevant. ...
Labatt Blue Must Be Sold Says DOJ (1)
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Though it won’t stop the deal from closing, the Department of Justice placed one condition on their approval, which was given on Friday, a mere two days after A-B shareholders approved it. DOJ approval was one of the remaining items on the laundry list of “to do” items that had be ticked off in order to complete the takeover of Anheuser-Busch by InBev. That condition is that Labatt USA must be sold off within an ...
Law and Literature reading list, Spring 2009 (1)
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The Five Books of Moses, edited and translated by Robert Alter. Billy Budd and Other Tales, by Hermann Melville. The Metamorphosis, In the Penal Colony, and Other Stories, by Franz Kafka. Smilla’s Sense of Snow, by Peter Hoeg. The Art of Political Murder: Who Killed the Bishop? By Francisco Goldman. In the Belly of the Beast, by Jack Henry Abbott. Borges and the Eternal Orangutans, by Fernando Verrissimo. Glaspell’s Trifles, available on-line. Great Short Works ...
World Copyright Law - Adrian Sterling (1)
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IP Down UnderWorld Copyright Law provides a comprehensive guide to the whole field of national, international and regional copyright law. Drawing together a huge range of material into one volume, it combines extensive reference materials with detailed discussion of the major features and trends in international copyright law. At a glance, the reader can compare copyright protection in different parts of the world, understand current problems in the law and assess the impact of modern ...
The Blame Game (2)
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Chinese Bloggers Win Big at Best of Blogs Awards (3)
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Chinese bloggers made a strong showing at this year’s The Best of Blogs awards (aka “The BOBs”), an international blog competition organized by German public broadcaster Deutsche Welle. According to the BOBs’ Web site, it claims to be the world’s largest international blog contest, with awards offered in 11 different language categories by both expert juries and public voting online. Beijing lawyer Liu Xiaoyuan was awarded the jury prize for best Chinese blog. Liu, who ...
丹麥：報紙發行商抗拒「深連結」 (1)
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丹麥記者部落客最近關注一項消息，當地報紙發行商希望Google News等網站提供連結時，不要直接到個別報導頁面，只連結至報紙網站首頁，但這種所謂的「深連結（Deep Linking）」在部落格非常普遍。丹麥報紙發行商協會罔顧全球潮流，堅持只需要提供首頁連結，讓他們能更有效追蹤使用者習慣。 丹麥報紙發行商協會尤其不滿的是，丹麥的Google News想要列載並連結至報紙文章及報導，卻不願付版稅。 丹麥部落客Peter Svarre聽聞上述事件的反應是：「天啊！！！！！！」。 我不知道自己是處於震驚、絕望或憤望情緒之中，但讀過《Politiken》上的一篇文章後，我才明白在過去五年的網路發展中，丹麥傳統媒體（或至少是《Berlingske Tidende》報紙的編輯高層）完全不了解，也沒有學到任何事情，這些美國紐約媒體或廣告界人士眼中的常識，對丹麥媒體業卻是遙遠、陌生與備感威脅的惡夢。 比利時在2006年至2007年也曾有類似論辯，多家報社控告Google News，且據Finfacts報導，若Google News持續提供「深連結」，報社揚言每天索賠100萬美元；丹麥亦有前例，2002年，丹麥報紙發行商協會將丹麥網路公司Newsbooster告上法庭，因為該公司將新聞報導連結郵寄給消費者，最後該公司不得不關門。 Ricco Førgaard五月份在Fiskeben.dk[丹麥文]寫道： 很明顯自1994年以來，所謂的媒體什麼都沒弄懂，也沒有任何進步，他們不明白網站流量可以用來賣廣告，進而資助新聞報導。 Medieblogger[丹麥文]部落格的Lars K Jensen引述丹麥網路新聞協會最近的電子郵件討論內容，其中對於引用及連結的原則，丹麥記者工會首席法律顧問Anne Louise Schelin有相關說明。 她建議就算是寄給同事的電子郵件討論某則報導時，最好也只附上網站首頁，並提到2006年丹麥法院對兩個房地產網站訴訟的判決，認為只能從連結是否「忠誠與忠實」，來判斷有無觸法問題。 但其他人相當不贊同這項看法，有些人認為這是「傳真機世代說出的廢話」，《Politiken》報紙部落格編輯Kim Elmost則在個人部落格Mediehack刊出回應，認為抗拒深連結只會有反效果，並提到諷刺的是，多數丹麥記者也使用Google News做為工具。 Medieblogger[丹麥文]部落格的Lars K Jensen質疑： 最後對我而言，問題在於什麼是不忠誠、不忠實的連結？誰來定義這個標準？ 連結不就是連結而已嗎？ * 上圖來自Flickr用戶Jacob Bøtter 校對：Soup
Apple sends baseless takedown notice to hackers discussing iTunesDB code (3)
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It’s no secret that Apple wants everyone to use iTunes, especially to sync with their iPod. I personally can’t stand iTunes and prefer Winamp, and many others share my view but have enjoyed Apple hardware. Some more code-savvy people than myself have in years past determined how to read and write to the proprietary iTunesDB file, allowing non-Apple software to sync with iPods. Apple countered by encrypting the file, which encryption was cracked before two ...
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