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Submission + - Wars of ideas - Technology's top 10 legal battles (guardian.co.uk)

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stevedcc

on Monday August 06, 2007 @06:38AM

stevedcc writes: "The UK Guardian is running an article with discussions of what they consider to be the top 10 legal battles of all time, from the Statute of Anne (1709) to Apple v Apple, via Betamax and US v Microsoft. From the article:

...we have become used to a constant roundabout of hi-tech legal wrangling. Barely a month goes by without the threat of legal action against one tech giant or another. The gigantic — and often monopolistic — nature of the telecommunications, computing and internet industries has meant that there is always somebody ready to take a shot in the courts (and that there is often plenty of money to pay for an army of lawyers).
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Submission + - Chaos Communication Camp 2007 starting august 8th (events.ccc.de)

Submitted by

VinciB

on Monday August 06, 2007 @06:21AM

VinciB writes: "The 2007 Chaos Communication Camp will take place from August 8th till August 12th at Finowfurt, near Berlin, Germany.
This international hacker community meeting will see many hackers from all over the world coming to exchange ideas, stuff, tricks & tips, and of course challenge eachothers. It's not too late to take a plane to Berlin, geeks & nerds from /. are welcome. A fahrplan (Schedule) of all conferences is available on the event wiki. Hope this camp will be as successfull as the previous one (CC2003).
See you there geeks."

Submission + - AJAX sites at risk of attack

Submitted by Kurtz'sKompund on Monday August 06, 2007 @05:58AM

Kurtz'sKompund writes: Using Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (AJAX) to jazz up corporate web sites may leave them vulnerable to years-old attacks, according to security researchers. http://www.computerworlduk.com/management/online/e -business/news/index.cfm?RSS

Submission + - Consumer Reports on 'State of the Net'

Submitted by

netbuzz

on Monday August 06, 2007 @05:41AM

netbuzz writes: "Consumer Reports on 'State of the Net'

A "State of the Net" survey to be released today by Consumer Reports contends that Americans lost $7 billion over the past two years to malware and myriad online scams. Not surprisingly, a significant portion of this financial pain appears to have been avoidable, as the survey reveals a widespread continuing negligence toward the use of home firewalls and virus protection. As for underage children using MySpace and the like? There, too, the risks in many case look to be self-inflicted, as 13 percent of children fail to meet the 14-year-old age minimum on MySpace, and, as the organization notes: "Those were just the ones the parents knew about."

http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/18117"

Submission + - Printer particles as bad as cigarettes (smh.com.au)

Submitted by Unixfreak31 on Monday August 06, 2007 @05:26AM

Unixfreak31 writes: A study led by Lidia Morawska, a Queensland University of Technology professor. found many laser printers emit clouds of ultra-fine particles that she compared with cigarette smoke and motor vehicle emissions. "They are so small you can't see them." Although her team has yet to analyse their chemistry, she warned that such small particles "can get deep into the lungs", leading to respiratory and cardiovascular problems. Some particles were potential carcinogens.

Submission + - Nokia phones to be DRM'd to death (itpro.co.uk)

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Anonymous Coward

on Monday August 06, 2007 @05:24AM

Anonymous Coward writes: "I see in this report by IT PRO that Nokia has taken the Microsoft shilling and will put DRM into its Symbian-based cell phones. This is a bad idea and needs to be stopped! I think we should embrace Linux phones!"

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