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Engadget's back to school giveaway, part 3! {Engadget}
Sep 14th 2009 3:12PM Count me in
Student sues Amazon after Kindle eats his homework {Engadget}
Jul 30th 2009 7:29PM Chris, unless you had notes on the books in question you don't know what happened and you are simply speculating that when you delete something you are doing exactly what Amazon did. Amazon more than likely has much more access than you do when using their system and it wouldn't surprise me if they in fact do have the ability to delete annotations when deleting a book, even if you can't do it when you delete a book. But either way I don't know for sure and NEITHER do you. Regardless, even if he still has the notes they have very little relevance without the markup to put them in the location in the book he annotated them. Annotations are often short and without the context of location quickly become meaningless. Even if he has the notes the effort to re-associate them to the correct location isn't going to be trivial. That alone is worthy of suit, but if in fact they did delete annotations as well he has a very strong copyright claim. IMO even if he does still have the notes the loss of location information is a severe alteration of a copyrighted work and still a rather strong claim. Either way I wish him success and a large verdict. Such a verdict would put the fear into any other retailer expecting to do the same thing and would alter the marketplace in a better
Student sues Amazon after Kindle eats his homework {Engadget}
Jul 30th 2009 7:08PM Do his homework? If he did that he wouldn't be making inane comments on here about articles he didn't read and news stories he knows nothing about. Lack of an education makes people stupid, he didn't bother to get his education when it was offered to him at no cost and the result is before you.
E-cigarettes contain carcinogens and toxins after all, FDA warns {Engadget}
Jul 23rd 2009 7:27PM Nicotine isn't soluable in water. It's not water vapor. It's ethylene glycol vapor or tolulene vapor or methanol vapor all very toxic chemicals that are clear. Clear doesn't mean safe. I'll take the tar in cigarette's any day over inhaling whatever chemical cocktail they are using to put nicotine into solution then vaporize it.
Engadget's recession antidote: win our custom-built HTPC! {Engadget}
Jul 22nd 2009 12:39PM Weeee!
Engadget's recession antidote: win an HP MediaSmart Server LX195! {Engadget}
Jul 20th 2009 1:14PM I would hug it and kiss it and love it and hug it and kiss it and love it....
Engadget's recession antidote: Win a Microsoft Gaming Pack! {Engadget}
May 21st 2009 8:21PM boo
TiVo and DISH / Echostar head back to Texas for another patent duel {Engadget}
Feb 18th 2009 4:47PM Dish is different because they let Tivo come in show them the system, give them a demo unit and examine a copy of the software, extend the negotiations for 6 months leading Tivo on. Ultimately tell Tivo no, and announce their new non-Tivo DVR within a month of telling Tivo no, which ironically looks almost identical to the Tivo unit and operates almost the same. They took advantage of negotiations to steal the technology and software involved and then build their own in house.
Card counting iPhone app frowned upon in Vegas {Engadget}
Feb 18th 2009 3:39PM It's not just sneaky, do it in Nevada and you'll get a trip to the county jail. It's a felony to count cards in Nevada using an electronic device.
Win a bag of CES swag! {Engadget}
Jan 19th 2009 8:15PM When I was 16, I used the drive through at Baskin Robbins.
I note that I'd had my license only a few months and Baskin and Robbins didn't have a drive through. My foot wasn't trained very well and instead of hitting the brake I hit the gas when parking and ended up parking my car inside the store. It even made the paper.
