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Submission + - AACS says hack can be contained

Submitted by Bart on Friday January 26, 2007 @11:29AM

Bart writes: Ars Technica reports that the AACS Licensing Authiroty is doing some damage control today on the AACS hack that effects both Blu-ray and HD DVD (previous /. coverage). From the article, "The statement was firm in expressing the viewpoint that this attack is not a wholesale attack on AACS, nor does it represent a serious threat to AACS. 'Instead,' the statement reads, 'it illustrates the need for all AACS licensees to follow the Compliance and Robustness Rules set forth in the AACS license agreements to help ensure that product implementations are not compromised.'" The group thinks that the attack can be thrwarted, and while Ars seems to aggree, they suspect another hack will soon follow.

Submission + - Italy Adopts ODF As National Standard

Submitted by

Ditesh Kumar

on Friday January 26, 2007 @10:00AM

Ditesh Kumar writes: "OpenMalaysiaBlog is reporting that Italy has just adopted ODF as a national standard. This certainly adds to the growing momentum of ODF worldwide!"

Submission + - Is there money for individuals on the internet?

Submitted by

silarulz

on Friday January 26, 2007 @09:15AM

silarulz writes: "I've been scouring the net since late last year when we got some affordable internet in Kenya (Safaricom GPRS, Ksh.10 per Mb — around $0.14. Roughly the same for Celtel too). I'm a Multimedia Designer so naturally I started at the "rentacoder" type of websites. Most of them are biased against people who don't live in America or Europe and the pay is pathetic even for someone who lives in a third world country like me. Other than "how to make money online gurus" is there a way one can make money online?"

Submission + - Playstation 3 hardware scaler exposed to developer

Submitted by

ryszards

on Friday January 26, 2007 @07:56AM

ryszards writes: "Since its launch last November, Sony's latest gaming platform has given early adopters trouble when attempting to play certain titles in 1080i/p. The console did not automatically upscale its video output to desired resolutions; it was up to either the game software to support these resolutions natively or the internal scalers of users' HDTVs. This forced many people, developers and owners alike, to question the very existence of scaling hardware in the PlayStation 3.

However the latest PS3 SDK update has revealed that hardware accelerated horizontal scaling is now available to the developer, allowing for 1080i/p output scaled from other sources, via new framebuffer modes. Beyond3D have the full details."

Submission + - MPAA Law Enforcement Ineffective

Submitted by

Silver Sloth

on Friday January 26, 2007 @06:40AM

Silver Sloth writes: "IMDB is reporting that Studio Breifing is reporting that

A new study has suggested that efforts by the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) and law-enforcement authorities to crack down on online movie piracy have been largely ineffective. The study by Solutions Research Group discloses that 32 million Americans over the age of 12, about 20 percent of the U.S. online population, have downloaded at least one film, while 63 percent of those are considered regular pirates. Typically, a regular movie downloader is around 29 years old, male, and has 16 films stored on his PC. While 78 percent of those interviewed by the researchers said that they regarded stealing a DVD from a retail store to be a serious offense, only 40 percent said the same about downloading one from the Internet.
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Journal Journal: European Union states knew about CIA flights

Journal by Anonymous McCartneyf on Thursday January 25, 2007 @10:43PM

From the article: "A European Parliament committee has approved a report which says EU states knew of secret CIA flights over Europe."
Article: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6290701.stm
More from the article:
"A BBC investigation last year revealed that a well-known CIA Gulfstream plane, the N379P, had made several landings at Szymany airport in northern Poland in 2003.
"The airport's flight log also showed that a B

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