[ NNSquad ] Astrology company sues over timezone data, shuts down major Internet timezone database

[Lauren Weinstein <lauren@vortex.com>]

Astrology company sues over timezone data, shuts down major Internet timezone database

http://j.mp/rtEf9h  (Gmane)

    "A civil suit was filed on September 30 in federal court in Boston ...
     The ftp server at elsie.nci.nih.gov has been shut down."

http://j.mp/nVvJux  (Scribd)

     Plaintiff, Astrolabe, Inc. [hereinafter "Astrolabe"], is a
     for-profit Massachusetts corporation with a principal place of business
     at 350 Underpass Road, P.O. Box 1750, Brewster, Barnstable County,
     Commonwealth of Massachusetts 02631, and is engaged in the business of
     publication, marketingand sale, including computer software
     publications and/or programspertaining to the field of astrology.

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Note that's "astrology" -- not "astronomy."  

"Hey man, what's your sign?"

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