Ruling means IBM could owe billions in pension case

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FCC Ruling Means More Broadband
Wireless, Says Towerstream

FCC Ruling Means More Broadband
Wireless, Says Towerstream 12/19/2004 03:18 PM
Towerstream issued a press release explaining how the FCC's subsidy ruling pumps broadband wireless: I reproduce their press release after the jump because it's an interesting bit of analysis. The FCC ruled (PDF news release) that incumbent carriers, the Baby Bells et al., no longer need to subsidize competitive carriers in urban areas for their high-speed commercial digital services; this doesn't cover DSL, but rather T-1 (1.544 Mbps) and DS3 (45 Mbps) services. This means, Towerstream says, that the price of a wired T-1 and DS3 loop will increase because it can. Thus, their syllogism goes, it's now even more price competitive to go with their wireless high-speed, high-availability service....

What yesterday's dumb sampling ruling
means

What yesterday's dumb sampling ruling
means 09/09/2004 01:04 PM
Cory Doctorow: Yesterday, a judge in the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that all music sampling, no matter how minimal the sample, no matter how unrecognizably transformed, is illegal without permission from the sample-ee.

Lessig explains how the court got there and what it means:

Sampling, we're told, is piracy. But be certain to see the 19 footnotes in this relatively brief opinion, or the 28 separate quotes the opinion includes from other peoples work. I assume the court got a license for those.

Now that's not quite fair. The court's decision turns upon its "literal" reading of the sound recording statute. The sound recording statute has no de minimus exceptions, the court held. So while you are free to copy three notes from a musical composition, you can't copy the same three notes from a recording. So copying (so long as de minimus) is fine; cut & paste is not. It is a "bright-line" rule the Court has crafted: Ask permission first. (And don't worry, they might have added. It's simple.)

So once again: life in the analog world is freer than life in the digital world. You can do it, just don't use technology to do it — unless, of course, your lawyer has spoken to their lawyer.

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IBM Loses Another Round in Pension Case

IBM Loses Another Round in Pension Case 02/18/2004 06:53 PM
AP via Newsday Feb 18 2004 11:11PM GMT

IBM in Settlement Talks in Pension Case
(AP)

IBM in Settlement Talks in Pension Case
(AP) 09/17/2004 06:35 PM
AP - The judge presiding over a massive pension suit against IBM, which could cost the company more than $6.5 billion, agreed Friday to a short delay while settlement talks continue.

IBM Loses Another Round in Pension Case
(AP)

IBM Loses Another Round in Pension Case
(AP) 02/18/2004 05:21 PM
AP - IBM Corp. owes back payments — possibly worth billions of dollars — to 140,000 older employees who were harmed when the technology giant converted to a new kind of pension plan in the 1990s, a federal judge has ruled.

IBM Wins Time for Talks in Pension Case
(AP)

IBM Wins Time for Talks in Pension Case
(AP) 09/18/2004 08:59 PM
AP - The judge presiding over a massive pension suit against IBM, which could cost the company more than $6.5 billion, agreed to a short delay while settlement talks continue.

IBM tells court it doesn't owe back pay
in pension case

IBM tells court it doesn't owe back pay
in pension case 12/08/2003 07:11 PM
Canadian Press via Canada.com Dec 8 2003 5:13PM ET

IBM in settlement talks in closely
watched pension case

IBM in settlement talks in closely
watched pension case 09/17/2004 06:35 PM
SiliconValley.com Sep 17 2004 9:22PM GMT

Court makes right-to-die case ruling

Court makes right-to-die case ruling 06/01/2004 08:22 PM

Families await organ case ruling

Families await organ case ruling 02/18/2004 01:31 PM
The High Court action by families claiming the NHS retained relatives' organs without consent ends, with a ruling due at a later date.

EU said to be near final ruling in
Microsoft antitrust case

EU said to be near final ruling in
Microsoft antitrust case 01/26/2004 10:58 PM
IHT Jan 27 2004 3:09AM GMT

Ruling Handed Down in Danish Deep
Linking Case

Ruling Handed Down in Danish Deep
Linking Case 07/05/2002 10:37 AM
"An Internet news service was barred by court order Friday from linking to the Web sites of Danish newspapers."

EFF to appeal ruling in Apple freedom of
the press case

EFF to appeal ruling in Apple freedom of
the press case 03/23/2005 12:59 PM
The EFF has filed an appeal in the lawsuit involving Apple and a handful of rumor sites. The EFF argues that the original ruling endangers journalistic integrity, while giving Apple an easy time.

Europe drafts ruling in Microsoft
antitrust case

Europe drafts ruling in Microsoft
antitrust case 01/27/2004 07:24 AM
Computer Weekly Jan 27 2004 11:05AM GMT

Judge to Make Critical Ruling in
EU-Microsoft Case

Judge to Make Critical Ruling in
EU-Microsoft Case 07/26/2004 12:33 PM
An appeal judge will decide if sanctions imposed against Microsoft should be suspended until the end of the appeal process, which could take several years.

Report: EU ruling on Microsoft antitrust
case takes shape

Report: EU ruling on Microsoft antitrust
case takes shape 03/13/2003 06:13 PM
A report this week indicates that the software company is likely to be found guilty of violating European antitrust laws later this year.

Judge delays ruling on lawyer fees in
Microsoft case

Judge delays ruling on lawyer fees in
Microsoft case 05/13/2004 03:14 PM
SiliconValley.com May 13 2004 6:56PM GMT

Draft EC ruling finds Microsoft guilty
in antitrust case

Draft EC ruling finds Microsoft guilty
in antitrust case 01/27/2004 05:17 PM
Officials at the European Commission circulated a draft ruling that finds Microsoft guilty of abusing the monopoly power of its Windows operating system, according to people close to the commission.

EC circulating final draft of antitrust
ruling in Microsoft case

EC circulating final draft of antitrust
ruling in Microsoft case 01/26/2004 05:15 PM
European Commission antitrust officials have drafted a final ruling in the 6-year-long antitrust case against Microsoft, with a decision "imminent," according to a commission spokeswoman.

Ruling in scanning technology patent
case could hold wide implications

Ruling in scanning technology patent
case could hold wide implications 01/27/2004 12:10 AM
San Francisco Chronicle Jan 27 2004 3:42AM GMT

Yahoo tells skeptical judges it needs
legal ruling on free speech case

Yahoo tells skeptical judges it needs
legal ruling on free speech case 03/24/2005 08:30 PM
San Jose Mercury News Mar 25 2005 12:53AM GMT

Billions and Billions served

Billions and Billions served 03/14/2005 06:11 PM

14.2 billion video streams sent over the Net in 2004, a 79% increase over 2003, according to AccuStream iMedia. (via IT Facts)

That doesn't include the vast amount of P2P video downloads through BitTorrent and similar services. The videonet is coming faster than we think.

IBM in pension talks

IBM in pension talks 09/20/2004 02:59 AM
USA Today Sep 20 2004 6:27AM GMT

Your pension is not as safe as you think

Your pension is not as safe as you think 09/15/2004 05:40 AM
How safe is your pension? (UK) 'Nine million people in this country, young and old, pay a slice of their wage into final salary occupational pension schemes. But Channel 4's economics correspondent Liam Halligan reveals that most people don't realise they have no legal right to that pension money whatsoever. And some people have lost the lot.'
Think Britain's social safety net is more secure than that of the US? Think again.
Related :- Pensions Theft, a campaigning website set up by pensions activists, some of whom lost their pensions when their company went bust.

Reach Out To Billions

Reach Out To Billions 08/30/2004 02:58 AM
WebDevInfo Aug 30 2004 5:26AM GMT

~WikiSpam by the billions

~WikiSpam by the billions 05/12/2004 10:00 AM
For the past week, someone has been hitting jspwiki.org, adding advertisements to a couple of addresses I am not going to mention here. I figured they were isolated incidents, but... It seems that Dave Johnson of RollerWeblogger has had the same guys on his wiki. I just hope nobody is trying to build a bot to target a specific WikiEngine?. It could be devastating to the open nature of Wikis.

You see, the problem with open systems is that they are easy to abuse. For the most part, manual damage can be controlled thanks to social pressure and sheer volume of good people, but automatical damage, as inflicted by bots may become intolerable. The reason why we have so much email spam these days is because of the wonderful openness of the SMTP, mail transfer protocol. Because it was open, license-free, and easy to implement, it became the killer app of the all-pervasive Internet these days. But openness also has vulnerabilities, and as with anything popular, people are abusing it right now.

I am not worried about people trying to destroy wikis. That would be too easy to protect against. But I am worried about bots that would roam around, and change the text or a link slightly to destroy links to competition, or to add Googlejuice for someone. Would it be possible to notice every single change on your wiki, and check every single outgoing link? Considering that most Wikis don't even provide an RSS or Atom feed it may be difficult to keep track on what is really happening. I have two open Wikis which I administer - and I'm having trouble coping with them already. Especially smaller wikis may be in trouble, as their administration have no tools to combat a dedicated spambot.

It is entirely possible that public Wikis will have to start to protect themselves somehow. I think we should start thinking about technologies that would prevent spambots from destroying an entire subculture, but in a WikiFriendly way. Let's not do what everybody else seems to be doing these days, and sacrifice the one thing that we want to protect.

What will Google do with its IPO
billions?

What will Google do with its IPO
billions? 05/06/2004 11:40 AM
Search Engine Lowdown May 6 2004 4:13PM GMT

Spending those billions

Spending those billions 05/06/2004 12:17 AM
USA Today May 6 2004 4:19AM GMT

IBM UK mulls pension cutbacks

IBM UK mulls pension cutbacks 09/16/2004 03:54 AM
The C-plan diet

Government hints at pension help

Government hints at pension help 04/22/2004 06:47 PM
The UK Government has given its strongest hint yet that it may help out up to 60,000 employees who lost their pensions when their firms went bust.

Minister reassures on pension age

Minister reassures on pension age 09/27/2004 10:47 AM
The state retirement age will not be raised beyond 65 but people should be free to work longer, the work and pensions minister says.

Pension vote win for Berlusconi

Pension vote win for Berlusconi 07/28/2004 03:11 PM
The Italian PM wins a key pension reform vote in parliament which will raise the country's retirement age.

Pension Loan Breaks

Pension Loan Breaks 05/21/2004 01:05 PM
Tax law permits a few breaks on loan interest for those borrowing against their future.

Billions of cicadas now on the move

Billions of cicadas now on the move 05/16/2004 03:09 PM
AP via New Jersey Online May 16 2004 6:07PM GMT

Billions of Cicadas on the Move (AP)

Billions of Cicadas on the Move (AP) 05/16/2004 10:49 AM
AP - Now's the time to make their move: Billions of the red-eyed insects, who get only one chance every 17 years to mate, are crawling their way above ground for this rare opportunity.

Billions of cicadas set to mate

Billions of cicadas set to mate 05/15/2004 05:20 PM
AP via New Jersey Online May 15 2004 9:08PM GMT

Hackers cost UK.biz billions

Hackers cost UK.biz billions 04/28/2004 05:58 AM
Infosecurity Europe 2004 Misplaced confidence

"The UN's Vanishing billions"

"The UN's Vanishing billions" 05/20/2004 11:30 AM

Billions Served: Get Your Share

Billions Served: Get Your Share 09/15/2004 09:53 AM
McDonald's raises its dividend yet again.
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