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Suggestion: Don't Sue Google For $50 Billion Over Something It's Not Liable For

We see all sorts of ridiculous lawsuits floating around, but here's a good one. Eric Goldman has the story of a journalist who was upset about a story written by a local college professor. The journalist felt the story was defamatory, so obviously, he sued Google for $50 billion. Yes, you read that correctly. Pissed off journalist feels that he was defamed by someone totally unconnected to Google... and responds by suing Google for $50 billion. Not surprisingly, the court wasted no time tossing this lawsuit out, and then even slapped the journalist with an order to pay Google's $12,000 in legal fees. The order to pay those legal fees was later removed on a technicality, but as Goldman notes, it appears that judges are getting pretty sick of these sorts of lawsuits, and are finally beginning to punish folks who are filing them.

Network Know-How: Exploring Network Algorithms

Networks can model all sorts of situations, including both physical and non-physical networks. Learn how to use network algorithms to test connectivity, build inexpensive connections, assign work, and split networks as inexpensively as possible. More...

Sprint turns up XOHM in Baltimore

It’s a milestone of sorts for mobile telecom operators: Sprint closed out Q3 08 with their much-anticipated launch of WiMAX service in Baltimore, Maryland (see Sprint to launch first WiMAX service in Baltimore ).

Uncovering Andy Warhol's Time Capsules

Already a great collector of sorts, in 1974 Andy Warhol had to find a way to transport all his bric-a-brac from his Union Square address to a new location, 560 Broadway - a large, 27 room home in Manhattan. His solution was the ever simple cardboard box, and so began the Andy Warhol time capsules.

Agent 18 Unveils iPhone 3G Cases

Agent 18, designers of all sorts of protection products for music devices, laptops and other electronic accessories, announced the debut of its iPhone 3G case line. The new iPhone 3G cases are available in three of Agent 18’s most popular case lines: Eco Shield, Clear Shield and FlowerVest.

MEDIA BLOGGERS OFFERS BLOGGING INSURANCE - Media Bloggers Association

Bloggers to get access to same sorts of training, legal support and insurance long available to traditional media organizations.

Panasonic Toughbook 30

This fully rugged notebook can handle all sorts of abuse and lasts nearly a full workday on a charge.

Google turns 10, gives itself a birthday party (website)

Google gave itself a bit of birthday present, of sorts; launching a new website to commemorate the occasion. The website has a couple of cool features.

Happy Birthday, Mr. Spaceman

Scientist-turned-astronaut Gregory Chamitoff got a serenade of sorts aboard the International Space Station today when Mission Control rang up to sing him a Happy Birthday.

Foraging in the iPhone App Store

The App Store opens the iPhone up to all sorts of uses. You'll find plenty of games there, and some are more worthwhile than others, writes reviewer Troy Wolverton. There are also a lot of entertainment options, like Internet radio apps. Then there are utility applications. Some of these, like a voice-dialing tool, sub in for features not included with the iPhone out of the box.

Insects add to the Beach volleyball buzz

BEIJING (Reuters) - Olympic volunteers have been trained to do all sorts of tasks during the Beijing Games but they probably did not expect to have to catch insects.

UK Band Admits It's 'Utterly Dependent' On Piracy

At some point, it won't make sense to post these sorts of examples any more because it will just be common sense that bands can and do benefit from so-called "piracy," but every time we post one of these stories, we get people complaining that this couldn't possibly work for others.

UK Band Admits It's 'Utterly Dependent' On Piracy

At some point, it won't make sense to post these sorts of examples any more because it will just be common sense that bands can and do benefit from so-called "piracy," but every time we post one of these stories, we get people complaining that this couldn't possibly work for others. When a band is big, then it will never work for small artists. When they're small, it'll never work for big artists. Once we even had a commenter complain that it might work for big artists or small artists -- but it was the all important artists in the middle that it would never work for.

Middle order needs to fire for SL

In the months after the World Cup, Sri Lankan cricket went through a transition of sorts, as experienced cricketers like Marvan Atapattu and Russell Arnold retired and younger talent was brought in. All throughout Mahela Jayawardene called for the need to give the newer players more time and for the seniors to take up more responsibility.

You Suck At Photoshop: Measurement Log

Donnie Hoyle is back after a disastrous turn as the creator of Peopleburg! While Sn4tchbuckl3r sorts that one out, Donnie returns to the only thing he's ever really known: Proving that he is number one at Photoshop... and that everyone else is number two.

EU Academics Pointing Out How Database Copyrights Hinder, Rather Than Help, Businesses

For a long time, Europe has allowed "database rights," effectively allowing companies to get a copyright of sorts on a collection of factual data. The US has mostly disagreed with this, noting that facts themselves cannot be covered by copyright, even if aggregated into a database -- though, more recently there have been efforts in the US to change the law, and mimic Europe's database rights offerings. Of course, companies that aggregate a bunch of publicly available data love such database rights, as it grants them a gov't-granted protectionist system on their business model. However, the actual evidence shows that it also shrinks markets -- and when you compare US markets without database rights to EU markets with database rights, you find that the US market thrives:

Study finds Net search becoming far more prevalent

The search box is everywhere online these days. It's built into Web browsers. It's incorporated into Web sites of all sorts. And it's a major driver of traffic and revenue for Google Inc. and the like.

Study finds Net search becoming far more prevalent

The search box is everywhere online these days. It's built into Web browsers. It's incorporated into Web sites of all sorts. And it's a major driver of traffic and revenue for Google Inc. and the like.

Study finds Net search becoming far more prevalent

NEW YORK - The search box is everywhere online these days. It's built into web browsers. It's incorporated into websites of all sorts. And it's a major driver of traffic and revenue for Google Inc. and the like.

US Army aims to have about 30% of its forces robotic by 2020

Robots can be quite handy. They can build useful stuff, like cars, and other robots. Pour a beer for you. Carry things. Blow up buildings. All sorts of stuff.

Picasa 3.0 Beta Build 57.24

Google's Picasa is a free tool for helping you find, edit and share digital pictures. The software automatically locates all the pictures on your PC and sorts them into visual albums organized by date with helpful folder names.

Linux Where You'd Least Expect It

We all know Linux is at home in enterprise servers and, sometimes, on desktops. However, it's not so easy to tell that Linux is at home inside all sorts of consumer electronics. Manufacturers like the ability to mold Linux to meet their products' needs without begging for -- or paying for -- permission.

Linux Where You'd Least Expect It

We all know Linux is at home in enterprise servers and, sometimes, on desktops. However, it's not so easy to tell that Linux is at home inside all sorts of consumer electronics. Manufacturers like the ability to mold Linux to meet their products' needs without begging for -- or paying for -- permission.

Photoshop CS4 Will Use GPU Power

GPU makers have been busy convincing consumers that the GPU is able to do more than just visually enhance video games. NVIDIA announced its CUDA architecture that allows all sorts of applications to run on the GPU rather than the CPU. Performance for things like video rendering and computation are much faster when using the GPU.

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