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Submission + - Link Layer no longer undiscovered.

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 08, 2007 @10:23PM

An anonymous reader writes: The openLLDP project has released it's alpha (yes, alpha, I know...) product, seeking to provide an alternative to Proprietary Link-Layer discovery protocols. Cisco isn't exactly quaking in it's sockets, but an interesting idea nonetheless. From the Article: The OpenLLDP project aims to provide a comprehensive implementation of the IEEE standard 802.1AB Link Layer Discovery Protocol. LLDP is an industry standard protocol designed to supplant proprietary Link-Layer protocols such as Extreme's EDP (Extreme Discovery Protocol) and CDP (Cisco Discovery Protocol). The goal of LLDP is to provide an inter-vendor compatible mechanism to deliver Link-Layer notifications to adjacent network devices. The Open Source implementation of LLDP provided by the OpenLLDP project is intended to help foster wider adoption of LLDP.

Journal SPAM: Hacker breaks into website of Canadian nuclear agency 1

Journal by Jeremiah Cornelius on Thursday February 08, 2007 @09:45PM

According to the Ottowa Citizen, "A brazen hacker attacked the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission website yesterday, littering it with dozens of photographs of a nuclear explosion and raising concerns about the security of information held by the nation's nuclear watchdog."

Submission + - How much the Universe expanded since you were born

Submitted by

drperelmuter

on Thursday February 08, 2007 @09:05PM

drperelmuter writes: "Input your Date of Birth in an online 'cosmos' calculator and it spews out how many stars were formed in the Milky Way Galaxy and by how much the Universe expanded since you were born. It helps to put things in perspective."

Submission + - Peer-to-Patent Expected To Go Live in April, 2007

Submitted by

Throtex

on Thursday February 08, 2007 @08:53PM

Throtex writes: "Dennis Crouch at Patently-O informs us that the USPTO's Peer-to-Patent project is expected to go live in a couple of months. It links to Beth Noveck's most recent paper on this effort. Inquiring minds want to know — will YOU contribute to the effort to strengthen patents? Will this make examiner's jobs easier, finding better references more easily, or open the floodgates with references submitted by engineers with no knowledge of the patent process and claim interpretation? At worst, this should make people more aware of what claim interpretation involves."

Submission + - Subway "Borrows" Song from Independent Ban

Submitted by

Inconvenience

on Thursday February 08, 2007 @08:44PM

Inconvenience writes: "There's an independent band here in Brisbane, Australia called the Little Lovers. They were approached by an advertising company to use their song "Little Lovers" on a new Subway ad (filmed in Brisbane, with some guy from TV's The Biggest Loser being chased by a hamburger and fries) for $1000. The Little Lovers rejected the offer. A couple of nights ago the ad aired on commercial channels during prime time. The song's distinctive guitar riff was used, played by another band, but apparently copied from the Little Lovers' song with no recompense.

Here's the Subway ad. Compare with the Little Lovers' track "Little Lovers" at their myspace page — it's obviously the same guitar part to my ears.

I'm not associated with the band, but I'm curious about whether they have any recourse in a situation like this. I don't know much about copyright law, but Slashdot does: do you think what the advertising agency did would constitute copyright infringement? As an independent band, do the Little Lovers have a solid grip on the copyright to their song? If you were in their shoes, would you seek some kind of legal action (despite not having much income) or should they just forget it ever happened?"

Submission + - Triple Boot on the Mac Pro

Submitted by yonp on Thursday February 08, 2007 @08:28PM

yonp writes: Here is a guide on how to install the Windows Vista OS on the Mac Pro and triple boot it in XP, Vista and Mac OS X. How fast is the Mac Pro for Vista? Vista has an experience score that tells you how fast and capable your PC is. The scale currently runs from 1.0 to 5.9. The Mac Pro scored 5.9 on almost all tests.

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