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By Evan ~ April 21st, 2007. Filed under: world news.
• Congratulations, North Carolina State University. You are the most recent in a string of college who are denying the RIAA the right to contact your file-sharing students in order to settle lawsuits. NCSU is following in the footsteps of The University of Wisconsin-Madison (third item) and The University of Nebraska, both of which responded to the RIAA’s request to forward student copyright violators notices of intent with a hefty “No.” According to the RIAA, 198 of the 400 letters they have sent resulted in $3,000 settlements. Now, I’m no corporate big-shot, or chief executive, but I imagine someone in that position would agree with me on this: A company that succeeds only 50% of the time is a total failure.
• I like this article from The Washington Post, not because it’s about how Google made $1 Billion first-quarter profit this year, but because they not-so-subtly state in the middle of the article that, “Google also said yesterday that tests have been going well with its partnership to deliver advertising to newspapers, including The Washington Post.” Talk about objective reporting…
• Here we see a comparison between Generation Next and its predecessors. Apparently a lot of things we do piss off our ‘boomer parents. Hey, if they didn’t want us to be selfish they wouldn’t have raised us to be just like them.
• A 17-year old UK girl had £20,000 of damage done to her mom’s house following a poorly timed MySpace bulletin, which resulted in a mob of uninvited guests who destroyed everything in sight. Lucky for her, the nerd who created Wikipedia predicts that MySpace – a place for nerds – is destined to fail.
• An article on how to beat that pesky traffic ticket, with helpful hints from lawyers and experts who beat traffic tickets like they beat their….wives? [story]
• Here’s one everyone can enjoy: Engineers have set a new world record in generating submillimeter waves! [story]
• In another stunning scientific development, the amazing properties of spider silk include the ability to “stop a jumbo jet mid-flight.” So much for worrying about solving diseases and famine.
• Point-counterpoint: Video games were better when they sucked visually.
