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Submission + - Jammie Thomas hit with $1.92 million verdict (arstechnica.com) 1

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 18, 2009 @05:48PM

An anonymous reader writes: After less than five hours of deliberations, a federal jury has found Jammie Thomas liable for copyright infringement and awarded the record labels $1.92 million in damages. She was determined to have infringed the record labels' copyrights willfully, which led to the award of $80,000 per song; otherwise it would have been capped at $30,000 per song.

Submission + - Yugma "winding down" operations 1

Submitted by

MadHakish

on Thursday June 18, 2009 @03:52PM

MadHakish writes: "According to this PRWeb announcement, Yugma Inc. the multi-platform Java based web conferencing service, is shutting it's doors according to it's CEO Lingaraj Mishra. FTA "Mishra writes: "On May 26, 2009, the remaining members of the Board of Directors convened and determined that it is advisable to wind down the business affairs of the company." After outlining the reasons for the decision, he concludes, "Consequently, at this time, and with a heavy heart, I regret to inform you that we will be winding down (...)."" A quick look at http://www.webconferencing-test.com/en/webconference_home.html indeed no longer shows Yugma listed in their rankings. R.I.P. Yugma"

Comment Re:Evil Geniuses Use Linux (Score 1) 459

by MadHakish on Wednesday March 18, 2009 @04:39PM (#27247203) Attached to: Linux Foundation Asks Who Says "I'm Linux" Best

Lucky theres a man who positively can do all the things that make us laugh and cry. He's a family guy.

Comment And all I got was... (Score 3, Funny) 580

by MadHakish on Tuesday February 10, 2009 @06:51PM (#26805359) Attached to: Microsoft Accused of Squandering Billions On R&D

Windows Vista?

Comment Re:ATM Machines? (Score 1) 232

by MadHakish on Sunday February 08, 2009 @04:38PM (#26775607) Attached to: Flash Mob Steals $9 Million From ATMs

I wonder what the PIN Number was that they all used in those ATM Machines. Maybe they used a custom PCB Board to prototype the hack. Then they downloaded the plans onto a CD Disc.

bravo.

Submission + - Skype Blames Microsoft Windows Update for Network (gizmodo.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 20, 2007 @09:01AM

An anonymous reader writes: After recovering from a major crash this weekend Skype is now pointing fingers, saying that "the disruption was triggered by a massive restart of our users' computers across the globe within a very short timeframe as they re-booted after receiving a routine set of patches through Windows Update." Their official statement sounds like the BBC announcing the Nazi invasion of Poland.

Submission + - Star Wars fan puts himself in Carbonite (thesneeze.com)

Submitted by sneezesteve on Monday August 20, 2007 @12:30AM

sneezesteve writes: How do you secure your nerd-cred for eternity? By acquiring a life-size replica of Han Solo in Carbonite, having Han's face removed, and replacing it with your own.

"It is made from fiberglass, and the short story is that a friend who is a special effects guy owned the piece, which was a direct casting off the original prop. He was moving, (aka getting married and yelled at) and asked me if I wanted it. I screamed a huge lispy "Yes!", and picked it up, but knew I wanted to do something cool with it. So I called my other nerdy special effects pals, and they offered to replace Harrison Ford's face with mine. I was so tired of hearing this offer in my daily life, but decided to finally consider it, so off it went.

KNB Effects in the valley took an algae mold of my entire head, then cut off Han Solo's, and replaced it with mine. They even added the frozen saliva that rushed out when Han got frozen."

1080p, Human Vision, and Reality 403

Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday April 10, 2007 @10:00AM from the even-one-eyed-pirates-like-hdtv dept.

An anonymous reader writes "'1080p provides the sharpest, most lifelike picture possible.' '1080p combines high resolution with a high frame rate, so you see more detail from second to second.' This marketing copy is largely accurate. 1080p can be significantly better that 1080i, 720p, 480p or 480i. But, (there's always a "but") there are qualifications. The most obvious qualification: Is this performance improvement manifest under real world viewing conditions? After all, one can purchase 200mph speed-rated tires for a Toyota Prius®. Expectations of a real performance improvement based on such an investment will likely go unfulfilled, however! In the consumer electronics world we have to ask a similar question. I can buy 1080p gear, but will I see the difference? The answer to this question is a bit more ambiguous."

Submission + - White House Email Accounts Draw Scrutiny

Submitted by

David Kesmodel from WSJ

on Tuesday April 10, 2007 @09:57AM

David Kesmodel from WSJ writes: "The extensive use of private email accounts by some top White House officials has prompted a congressional probe into whether the practice violates a post-Nixon law requiring that White House deliberations be documented, the Wall Street Journal reports. A top Democratic lawmaker says outside email accounts were used in an effort to escape scrutiny; the White House defends the practice. The outside accounts tend to be maintained on computers based off White House premises, such as at Republican National Committee headquarters, the WSJ reports."

Feed How to get your Wi-Fi working again (theregister.com)

From feed by registerfeed on Tuesday April 10, 2007 @09:52AM

Out with the old, in with the new

Plenty of people who link computers and other devices to the internet over a wireless network are finding they can no longer connect quite as easily as they once could. That's certainly my experience and, if the many, many emails I received after grumbling about it in public are anything to go by, it's a problem many Register Hardware readers face too.

Submission + - RIAA re-starts attack on the Merchant family

Submitted by

newtley

on Tuesday April 10, 2007 @09:38AM

newtley writes: "A brilliantly expressed etter from Merl Ledford III, a lawyer representing the victims of another RIAA sue 'em all attack, made international headlines at the end of March. The case was subsequently (and consequently) dropped, but in what's become SOP, the RIAA has begun harassing Cathy and Barryt Merchant, demanding access to the household computer, saying it's going after anyone associated with them who's, "directly or indirectly responsible for the illegal uploading, downloading and distribution of the Record companies' copyrighted works using Mr. Merchant's AOL internet account"."

F-Secure Calls for '.safe' TLD 243

Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday April 10, 2007 @09:17AM from the internet-laughs-at-f-secure dept.

Rajesh writes "According to F-Secure, ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers), the organization responsible for the global coordination of the Internet's system of unique identifiers, should introduce a .safe domain name to be used by registered banks and other financial organizations."

Feed Key 'Stardust' Spacecraft Discovery May Have Been Contamination (sciencedaily.com)

From feed by sdfeed on Tuesday April 10, 2007 @09:12AM

One of the biggest scientific surprises from last year's "Stardust" space mission may have resulted from contamination from the spacecraft's rocket boosters, scientists in Spain are cautioning. Stardust was the first U.S. mission to capture samples of a comet (Comet Wild 2) and return that material, believed to hold clues to the origin of the solar system, to Earth for scientific analysis.

IBM Doubles CPU Cooling With Simple Change 208

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday March 26, 2007 @01:34PM from the things-overclockers-have-known-for-years dept.

Ars Technica is reporting that IBM has discovered a new cooling breakthrough that, unlike several other recent announcements, should be relatively easy and cost-effective to implement. "IBM's find addresses how thermal paste is typically spread between the face of a chip and the heat spreader that sits directly over the core. Overclockers already know how crucial it is to apply thermal paste the right way: too much, and it causes heat buildup. Too little, and it causes heat buildup. It has to be "just right," which is why IBM looked to find the best way to get the gooey stuff where it needs to be and in the right amount, and to make it significantly more efficient in the process."

Submission + - Smashing The "Modern" Stack For Fun And Pr

Submitted by

Donald C. Donzal

on Monday March 26, 2007 @01:25PM

Donald C. Donzal writes: "Craig J. Heffner writes in his article on the Ethical Hacker Network, "When it comes to buffer overflows, 'Smashing The Stack For Fun And Profit' by Aleph One is still the first resource many people are directed towards, and for good reason; it is thorough, well written, and chock-full of examples. However, the GNU C Compiler (gcc) has evolved since 1998, and as a result, many people are left wondering why they can't get the examples to work for them, or if they do get the code to work, why they had to make the changes that they did. Having these same problems myself, and being unable to find an updated version of Aleph One's document on the web, I set out to identify the source of these variations on my own. I have taken the liberty of writing this paper to share my findings with others who are experiencing the same problems I did, but it is meant only to be a modern supplement to Aleph One's paper. You should read Smashing The Stack first, as it is assumed that you understand the concepts and code presented there, as well as some standard buffer overflow techniques." http://www.ethicalhacker.net/content/view/122/2/"

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