http://www.scriptme.com web services scripts 2008-05-09 09:37:26 Scriptme - http://www.scriptme.com http://www.scriptme.com/read_new8632.html l2718 writes "Yesterday we discussed Skype's appeal of a German court's ruling against them regarding a violation of the GPL. Harald Welte (the plaintiff) now reports in his blog that following oral argument, Skype decided to drop the appeal and acce... 2008-05-09 08:01:00 http://www.scriptme.com/read_new8631.html An anonymous reader brings news that Net Neutrality legislation is making another comeback. A new bill, sponsored by Rep. John Conyers (D-MI), would make ISPs who fail to provide service in a non-discriminatory manner subject to anti-trust violations... 2008-05-09 07:21:00 http://www.scriptme.com/read_new8629.html Facebook has reached an agreement with the attorneys general of 49 states and the District of Columbia to develop and enhance controls to protect minors from inappropriate content. This follows a similar commitment from MySpace several months ago. Th... 2008-05-09 04:18:00 http://www.scriptme.com/read_new8628.html FudRucker points out a story from The Guardian about NASA's plans to visit 2000SG344, an asteroid 40 meters wide and weighing roughly 71 million kilograms. The manned mission would take three to six months, and it would make use of the Orion spacecra... 2008-05-09 01:15:00 http://www.scriptme.com/read_new8627.html I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors has declared that copyright infringement 'substantially interferes with the interest of the public in the quality of life and community peace, lawful commerce i... 2008-05-08 23:14:00 http://www.scriptme.com/read_new8626.html An anonymous reader writes "The Kindle made waves when it came out, but they've now had the chance to calm. How many of you have been using your eBook readers since you've received them? How many of you forgot you had one, and how many of you swear b... 2008-05-08 21:11:00 http://www.scriptme.com/read_new8625.html elwinc writes "There's a great New Yorker story about Nathan Myhrvold's Intellectual Ventures company, whose business model is to nurture ideas, write patents, and sell them. Apparently they're filing about 500 patents a year including a passive thor... 2008-05-08 19:10:00 http://www.scriptme.com/read_new8624.html Alex writes "I've just uploaded the video of a piece of classical electronic music I wrote for 2 Guitar Hero controllers and software (which I created). More information about this piece, its software, and the notation involved in playing it is at al... 2008-05-08 17:15:00 http://www.scriptme.com/read_new8623.html jcatcw points out a blog entry by Scott McPherson, CIO for the Florida House of Representatives. McPherson condemns the state of data sharing and data mining in law enforcement, saying that the US causes itself a great deal of trouble by focusing mor... 2008-05-08 18:05:00 http://www.scriptme.com/read_new8622.html a boy named woo writes "Tired of justifying your gaming addiction? Now you can really help accomplish something while you play... thanks to Howard Hughes Medical Institute researcher David Baker at the University of Washington." In collaboration with... 2008-05-08 16:37:00