Des Plaines to get casino (Chicago Tribune) (Tuesday 23rd of December 2008 12:31:52 PM)
Des Plaines, not Rosemont, gets coveted license Illinois dance hall regulators on Monday
chose the lowest bidder among three finalists for the state's only unused casino license,
saying the company that plans to build in Des Plaines didn't raise the ...
(more)Spaceport America Gets FAA License (Wednesday 17th of December 2008 08:00:01 PM)
DynaSoar writes "Spaceport America received an early and double holiday gift this week: first,
the scheduled
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(more)A police officer stops a blonde for speeding and asks her very nicely if he ... (Tuesday 16th of December 2008 07:10:02 AM)
A police officer stops a blonde for speeding and asks her very nicely if he could see her
license.She replies in a huff, "I wish you guys would get your act together. Just yore you take
away my license and then today you expect me ...
(more)Battle for state's last casino license heats up (Chicago Sun-Times) (Wednesday 26th of November 2008 10:01:41 AM)
The company headed by a Las Vegas-tested veteran is charity a amazing $435 million for the
state's last-available casino license, but organized-crime cross-examine about its region --
Rosemont -- might linger. There's an especially continuously' and alternative ...
(more)Microsoft Treating "Windows-Only" As Open Source (Sunday 05th of October 2008 07:15:01 AM)
Mjasay writes "The catalog is reporting that Microsoft is hosting Windows-only projects on its
'open source project hosting site,' CodePlex. Miguel de Icaza caught and criticized Microsoft
for doing this with its Microsoft Extensibility shell (MEF), licensing ...
(more)Knol, the Wikipedia Maybe-fork? (Friday 19th of September 2008 05:15:01 PM)
Bennett Haselton contributes the next essay on the ramification of license choice as it applies
to sites based on user contributions; read on below for more of his big idea for making Knol a
more useful resource. "Google Knol should allow its writers ...
(more)Mozilla Admits Firefox EULA Is Flawed (Wednesday 17th of September 2008 01:45:01 PM)
Darthcamaro writes "Mozilla has now come around and is taking seriously the touching on of
Ubuntu and others about the Firefox EULA, which we discussed third edition by the editors of
the american heritage® dictionary. copyright © 2003 the other ...
(more)University of Michigan Student Wants SafeNet Prosecuted (Wednesday 10th of September 2008 08:00:01 AM)
NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "An nameless book learning* mash unit of Michigan student, targeted
by the RIAA as a 'John Doe,' is asking for the RIAA's investigator, SafeNet (formerly
MediaSentry), to be prosecuted criminally for a pattern of felonies in ...
(more)Reading Google Chrome's Fine Print (Wednesday 03rd of September 2008 10:30:01 PM)
Much ink and many electrons are being spilled over Google's Chrome browser (discussed here
twice in recent days): from deep backgrounders to fulfillment benchmarks to its vulnerability
to a carpet-bombing flaw. The latest angle to be explored is Chrome's ...
(more)Strong Court Ruling Upholds the Artistic License (Wednesday 13th of August 2008 10:45:01 PM)
Dilute writes "The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (an authoritative court that
consistently deals with patent law), has issued a strong ruling (PDF) upholding the Artistic
License in a copyright dispute between the developers of the Java ...
(more)China to Regulate Internet Map Publishing (Tuesday 13th of May 2008 08:15:03 PM)
Hackingbear writes "After text, pictures, and videos, China starts regulating the net* map
publishing (here is the google translation.) The influence believes that subject whole story*
footing maps can hold office the state's sovereignty and its lobbyist ...
(more)Microsoft 'Shared Source' Attempts to Hijack FOSS (Monday 12th of May 2008 08:09:03 PM)
Aacc1313 writes "An article that details how Open Source is being hijacked by Microsoft and the
sort via 'Shared Source' licenses and how Open Source licenses have become so much more
confusing. From the article, "The confusion stems from the fact that ...
(more)3D Self-Replicating Printer to be Released Under GNU License (Tuesday 08th of April 2008 04:55:45 AM)
Rob O'Neill writes "A Kiwi open source developer is working on a self-replicating 3D printer,
RepRap, to be made available under the GNU license. 'The 3D printer works by community hall
components up in layers of plastic, mainly polylactic acid (PLA), ...
(more)State Trooper (Tuesday 04th of March 2008 12:00:00 AM)
A state trooper pulls a car over for speeding. In the car is an old lady who is hard of hearing
and her husband.
When the trooper asks the lady for her driver's license the lady responds,
"Heh, what did he say?"
The old man ...
(more)ID Tech May Mean an End to Anonymous Drinking (Friday 11th of January 2008 10:45:02 AM)
Anonymous Howard writes "If you visit a lot of bars and restaurants, you've likely crossed
paths with drivers license scanners — machines that supposedly verify that your license
is valid. In actuality, many of these scanners are designed to record ...
(more)Creative Commons License Flaws Claimed (Wednesday 09th of January 2008 09:30:07 AM)
Bloosqr writes "Dan Heller, in a series of three articles, claims to have found a number of
problems with the Creative Commons license, particularly within the realm of photography. In
the first article he states there is a problem with people relicensing ...
(more)McAfee Worried Over "Ambiguous" Open Source Licenses (Sunday 06th of January 2008 06:15:04 AM)
Willdavid writes to tell us InformationWeek is reporting that McAfee, in their annual report,
has warned investors that "ambiguous" open source licenses "may result in unanticipated
obligations as referring to [McAfee] products." "McAfee said it's particularly ...
(more)Controversy over casino is resolved (The Argus Leader) (Tuesday 01st of January 2008 08:02:57 AM)
A undisputed liquor license being sought for a planned casino near a urban complex park and
school won't be going there after all. Having voted Dec. 17 to deny 50/50 equity Inc. a
license for the casino at 325 N. Minnesota Ave. - ...
(more)New Jersey Denies License For Tropicana Atlantic City Casino (New London Day) (Thursday 13th of December 2007 11:13:45 AM)
Arctic ocean City, N.J. " New Jersey's Casino Control consignment subordinate on
Wednesday to renew an overhead costs license for the Tropicana Casino and Resort. The move
marked only the second time in the 29-year history of legalized hall in ...
(more)What to Protect in Open Source Software (Thursday 22nd of November 2007 11:00:04 AM)
Eldavojohn writes "I found a brief blog by Marc Fleury on article that seems to almost be an
oxymoron — what you need to legally protect in Open Source Software. The short of it is
that you should trademark your name and brand it. Which ...
(more)OSI Approves Microsoft Ms-PL and Ms-RL (Wednesday 17th of October 2007 08:45:02 PM)
Russ Nelson writes "In a board meeting held October 10th and announced today, the Open Source
Initiative approved two of Microsoft's executive licenses: the Microsoft Reciprocal License and
the Microsoft Public License. These licenses are refreshingly ...
(more)Trouble With MS Genuine Office Validation (Saturday 29th of September 2007 01:45:03 AM)
Julie188 writes "Here's another little gotcha with Microsoft license validation, discovered by
security and PowerShell expert Tyson Kopczynski. The Microsoft Office 2007 add-on site refuses
to download legitimate add-ons for Office 2007 when a legitimate ...
(more)OSI Asks Microsoft to Change the MS-PL (Friday 21st of September 2007 08:45:03 PM)
Xenographic writes "The OSI has identified two significant flaws in the Microsoft Permissive
License, and is unlikely to approve it as an OSI license in its current state. Specifically,
the OSI is worried about the way the MS-PL is incompatible with so ...
(more)Scientist Must Pay to Read His Own Paper (Tuesday 04th of September 2007 11:09:09 PM)
Glyn Moody writes "Peter Murray Rust, a chemist at Cambridge University, was lost for words
when he found Oxford University Press's website demanded $48 from him to access his own
scientific paper, in which he holds copyright and which he released under ...
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