Cody Taylor

FutureDomain writes “The Boston College Campus Police have seized the electronics of a computer science student for allegedly sending an email outing another student. The probable cause? The search warrant application states that he is ‘a computer science major’ and he uses ‘two different operating systems for hiding his illegal activity. One is the regular B.C. operating system and the other is a black screen with white font which he uses prompt commands on.’ The EFF is currently representing him.”

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risingfish writes “Looks like Obama did what many organizations have asked him not to do. In a disappointing move, he has tapped a fifth RIAA lawyer to a top spot in the Justice Department.”

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An anonymous reader writes “The average visitor to YouTube is costing Google between one and two dollars, according to new research that shows Google losing up to .65 million per day on the video site. More than two years after Google acquired YouTube, income from premium offers and other revenue generators don’t offset YouTube’s expenses of content acquisition, bandwidth, and storage. YouTube is expected to serve 75 billion video streams to 375 million unique visitors in 2009, costing Google up to ,064,054 a day, or 3 million annualized. Revenue projections for YouTube fall between million and 0 million.” Maybe this is in part because, as Al writes, “Researchers from HP Palo Alto studied videos uploaded to YouTube and found that popularity has little to do with quality or persistence.”

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