Slashdot: Your Rights OnlineNews for nerds, stuff that mattersGoDaddy VP Caught Bidding Against Customers- June 29, 2008 An anonymous reader writes "A GoDaddy Vice President has been caught bidding against customers in their own domain name auctions. The employee Adam Dicker isn't just any GoDaddy employee; he's head of the GoDaddy subsidiary that controls the auctions. Dicker won some of the domains he bid for, and pushed up the bid price on auctions he didn't win. The conflict of interest is unethical, but could this practice also be illegal Said a representative for a competitor, 'Even if controlled, that...http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotYourRightsOnline/~3/322547797/article.pl US To Get EU Private Citizen Data- June 28, 2008 An anonymous reader writes "In a case of 'all your data are belong to us,' the US government is close to coming to an agreement with the EU that allows it to get private citizen data on EU citizens to 'look for suspicious activity.' So, now we know what step three is: set up a security agency in the US to resell otherwise unavailable data."Read more of this story at Slashdot.http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotYourRightsOnline/~3/322085125/article.pl eBay Australia Delays PayPal Change Indefinitely- June 28, 2008 Daehenoc points out news that eBay Australia has postponed their ban on all forms of payment other than PayPal. The ban had already been delayed once, but eBay Australia has now decided to simply wait for the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission to determine whether or not the move is acceptable. We discussed the beginnings of this story back in April.Read more of this story at Slashdot.http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotYourRightsOnline/~3/321842172/article.pl MPAA Scores First P2P Jury Conviction- June 27, 2008 An anonymous reader writes "The MPAA must be celebrating. According to the BitTorrent news site Slyck.com, the Department of Justice is proclaiming their first P2P criminal copyright conviction, against an Elite Torrents administrator. The press release notes, 'The jury was presented with evidence that Dove was an administrator of a small group of Elite Torrents members known as "Uploaders," who were responsible for supplying pirated content to the group. At sentencing, which is scheduled for...http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotYourRightsOnline/~3/321659525/article.pl Telecom Immunity Flip-Floppers Got More Telecom Money- June 27, 2008 ya really notes a nice analysis by Maplight.org indicating that those Democratic representatives who changed their vote on telecom immunity between March and June received on average 40% more in contributions from telecom interests than those Democrats who held firm. Maplight asks, "Why did these ninety-four House members have a change of heart Their constituents deserve answers." Across both parties, representatives who voted for immunity in June had received almost twice as much telecom money.http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotYourRightsOnline/~3/321380326/article.pl Senate Delays Telecom Immunity Vote Until After July Recess- June 27, 2008 ivantheshifty writes with news of a delayed vote (failed filibuster attempt aside) on the updated FISA bill which has been discussed here recently, in particular because it would grant telecom companies immunity (under certain conditions) from suits for wiretapping conducted at government request. According to the Associated Press story carried by the Washington Post, "Sen. Russ Feingold, D-Wis., and more than a dozen other senators who oppose telecom immunity threw up procedural delays that...http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotYourRightsOnline/~3/321275540/article.pl Bell's Own Data Exposes P2P As a Red Herring- June 27, 2008 dougplanet writes with news from the Canadian-throttling front: "As ordered by the CRTC, Bell has released (some) of its data on how torrents and P2P in general are affecting its network. Even though there's not much data to go on, it's pretty clear that P2P isn't the crushing concern. Over the two-month period prior to their throttling, they had congestion on a whopping 2.6 and 5.2 per cent of their network links. They don't even explain whether this is a range of sustained congestion, or...http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotYourRightsOnline/~3/320968571/article.pl Sourceforge.net Blocked In Mainland China- June 26, 2008 gzipped_tar contributed a link to Moonlight Blog, which says that "SourceForge, the world's largest development and download repository of Open Source code and applications, appears to be blocked in Mainland China. The current blocking may be related to the recent anti-China protests of Beijing Olympic Games, which will begin on 8 August. Some days before, a very popular free source code editor in SourceForge named Notepad++ start to boycott Beijing 2008. The project's developer said that the...http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotYourRightsOnline/~3/320811131/article.pl Supreme Court Holds Right to Bear Arms Applies to Individuals- June 26, 2008 Now.Imperfect writes "In its last day of session, the Supreme Court has definitively clarified the meaning of the Second Amendment. The confusion is whether the Second Amendment allows merely for the existence of a state militia, or the private ownership of guns. This ruling is in response to a case regarding the 32-year-old Washington DC ban on guns." This is one of the most-watched Supreme Court cases in a long time, and Wikipedia's page on the case gives a good overview; the actual text of...http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotYourRightsOnline/~3/320688608/article.pl White House Refused To Open Unwelcome EPA E-Mail- June 25, 2008 epfreed writes "The White House lost a case in the Supreme Court about the need for the EPA to regulate greenhouse gases. So the EPA made new rule. And now the NYTimes reports that the White House did not want to get these new rules from the EPA about greenhouse gases. So they did not open the email."Read more of this story at Slashdot.http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotYourRightsOnline/~3/319948372/article.pl |