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Slashdot: Software Patents Good For Open Source?

Sat, 19 May 2012 15:56:00 -0600

schliz writes "The Australian software patent system could be used by open source developers to ensure their inventions remain available to the community, a conference organized by intellectual property authority IP Australia heard this week According to Australian inventor Ric Richardson, whose company came out on top of a multi-million dollar settlement with Microsoft in March, a world without software patents would be 'open slather for anybody who can just go faster than the next person.' Software developer Ben Sturmfels, whose 2010 anti-software-patent petition won the support of open source community members such as Jonathan Oxer, Andrew Tridgell, and software freedom activist Richard Stallman, disagreed."

ESPN Headlines: Osi tweets he'll buy LT's ring if 500K follow him

Sat, 19 May 2012 15:07:43 -0600

New York Giants defensive end Osi Umenyiora has offered to buy and return Lawrence Taylor's Super Bowl XXV ring to the Pro Football Hall of Famer, but only if Umenyiora attains 500,000 Twitter followers by 10 p.m.

ESPN Headlines: Pacers guard apologizes for choke gesture

Sat, 19 May 2012 15:03:56 -0600

Pacers reserve guard Lance Stephenson ha

Slashdot: MS Will Remove OEM 'Crapware' For $99

Sat, 19 May 2012 14:59:00 -0600

walterbyrd writes about a program from Microsoft to clean up bloated base installs, for a price. From the article: "Microsoft even offers up numbers to show how detrimental this OEM-installed crapware is to your system. Microsoft claims that Signature systems start up 39 percent faster, go into sleep mode 23 percent faster, and resume from sleep a whopping 51 percent faster compared to their crapware-ladened counterparts. (A 'Signature' system is one without crapware). But now, Microsoft will offer customers the opportunity to give their Windows 7 PC the Signature treatment by bringing it to a Microsoft Store and paying $99, according to the Wall Street Journal."

ESPN Headlines: Rangers go up 2-1 as Lundqvist stymies Devils

Sat, 19 May 2012 14:58:13 -0600

Henrik Lundqvist stopped all 36 shots, and Dan Girardi, Chris Kreider and Ryan Callahan scored third-period goals to lead the New York Rangers to a 3-0 win over the New Jersey Devils in Game 3 of the Eastern Conference Finals on Saturday.

ESPN Headlines: Florida softball suspends 3 amid NCAA playoffs

Sat, 19 May 2012 14:34:20 -0600

The Florida softball team is on the brink of elimination from the NCAA playoffs after three starters were suspended for the rest

ESPN Headlines: Wade: Team has moved on from Game 3 spat

Sat, 19 May 2012 14:34:12 -0600

Dwyane Wade says the Miami Heat have moved on from Game 3 when he had his public spat

ESPN Headlines: NCAA men's lacrosse: Maryland drops Hopkins

Sat, 19 May 2012 14:25:35 -0600

Midfielder Drew Snider scored three goals and goalie Niko Amato led a solid defensive effort and Maryland upset second-see

ESPN Headlines: Granger vows not to back down from LeBron

Sat, 19 May 2012 14:03:58 -0600

After two altercations in the past two games, Indiana Pacers forward Danny Grang

Slashdot: Northrop Grumman Sues US Postal Service Over Automated Snail-mail Sort Contract

Sat, 19 May 2012 14:01:00 -0600

McGruber writes "The Federal Times is reporting that Northrup Grumman has filed suit against the US Postal Service, accusing the USPS of violating the terms of the 2007 fixed-price ($875 million) contract to produce 100 massive automatic sorting systems, each capable of handling millions of magazines, catalogs and other pieces of flat mail. The Postal Service embarked on the project just as mail volume was beginning to nosedive, cutting into anticipated efficiency gains. The sorting machines' performance has been uneven, according to a series of reports by the Postal Service's inspector general."