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Submission + - Sun CEO reveals ZFS will be OSX default filesystem

Submitted by Fjan11 on Thursday June 07, 2007 @04:43AM

Fjan11 writes: Sun's Jonathan Schwartz announced that "Apple would be making ZFS "the file system" in Mac OS 10.5 Leopard". It seems likely that Leopad's Time Machine feature will require ZFS to run, because ZFS has back-up and snapshots build right in to the filesystem as well as a host of other features, such as built in Raid. Jobs is probably not happy about his thunder being stolen right before for the June 11th keynote...

Submission + - Congressman Orrin Hatch caught pirating software

Submitted by

Rocketship Underpant

on Thursday June 07, 2007 @04:35AM

Rocketship Underpant writes: "Orrin Hatch, the Congressman viewed by many as a shill for corporate copyright interests, recently stated that people who download copyrighted materials should have their computers destroyed as punishment. However, as Wired.com reports, Hatch's own website uses copyrighted software without permission — a Javascript menu system developed by a British company. Is Mr. Hatch accepting volunteers to go through his home and office destroying all his computers, or were his comments to Congress just a bunch of hypocritical hot air?"

Submission + - Senate sneaks an anti-internet resolution

Submitted by

destinyland

on Thursday June 07, 2007 @04:24AM

destinyland writes: "Apparently June is national "Internet is Dangerous" month. The U.S. Senate unanimously passed a resolution urging Americans to "learn more about the dangers of the Internet." And what counts as a danger? Disabling censor-ware, or making friends online if you ever plan to meet them in real life. Its extreme negativity is disappointing — especially since its co-sponsors include Barack Obama, who's supposed to be such a friend to the internet. But remember — it passed unanimously."

Submission + - Slow Drug Tests Cause False Positives

Submitted by MissDemeanor on Thursday June 07, 2007 @02:48AM

MissDemeanor writes: Wired science reports that chemists at the FBI lab in Quantico, Virginia have proven that the illicit drug Gamma Hydroxy Butyrate is slowly produced in refrigerated urine samples, which could cause innocent people to accidentally test positive. Drug testing labs often have a massive backlog of samples. This means that a urine sample could be left in a refrigerator for months before it is tested. During that time, the drug known as liquid ecstasy, forms naturally and can lead to a false positive result that fools even the most rigorous laboratory testing by gas chromatography mass spectrometry. To make matters worse, the field test for GHB gives a false positive when exposed to natural soaps.

Submission + - WoW gamer files lawsuit against IGE

Submitted by racton on Thursday June 07, 2007 @02:47AM

racton writes: The Escapist posted an interview with an attorney who has filed a consumer class action suit against IGE, the large in-game item trading company. The complaint states that selling virtual money is "polluting the entertainment" for players who pay for the World of Warcraft service. From the article:

TE: So what is the actual lawsuit — in layman's terms? RN: The actual lawsuit is Hernandez v. IGE. We filed it in Miami, where IGE has offices. In layman's terms, the core of the complaint is a consumer class action for unfair trade practices. Guys like Tony [Hernandez, the plaintiff] have paid their $15 for some entertainment, and IGE is polluting that entertainment. It's kind of like, if someone pays for a ticket to go see a movie, and if someone else comes in behind them and kicks their seat, you can get them to stop doing that. We're just trying to get IGE to stop kicking the seats. This is not unlike other consumer complaints where someone has paid for a service, and someone else is interfering with it. It's really very simple.

Submission + - ThePirateBay.org down

Submitted by Peter Voksa on Thursday June 07, 2007 @02:11AM

Peter Voksa writes: No ping on ThePirateBay.org's server.

Submission + - Save the Internet Radio, Save the World (vs RIAA)

Submitted by JamJam on Thursday June 07, 2007 @01:47AM

JamJam writes: Digitally Importded (in my opinion, a highly regarded online streaming radio station) is claiming offside against the RIAA DI.fm http://www.di.fm/blog/read/2007/05/we-will-go-sile nt-unless-new-royalty.html indicates that more money is needed or else silence on the 'netwaves. Is this what America wants or just another chapter in the settling out of music rights?

Submission + - Musings on DRM and Star Trek. (tuxdeluxe.org)

Submitted by

Jeremy Allison - Sam

on Wednesday June 06, 2007 @09:08PM

Jeremy Allison - Sam writes: "Engineers know that DRM doesn't work, that it can't possibly work. Yet just like Scotty when Captain Kirk calls from the bridge asking for the impossible they can't seem to help producing ever more complicated versions of the same broken system. Companies keep trying to create and sell DRM systems to the content industry. Having lots of money thrown at them to do this probably helps, just like Scotty liked to be thought of as a miracle worker.

Jeremy"

Submission + - Reporter Arrested for Asking a Question (lawbean.com)

Submitted by

Spamicles

on Wednesday June 06, 2007 @07:48PM

Spamicles writes: "Manchester, NH — Freelance reporter Matt Lepacek, reporting for Infowars.com, was arrested for asking a question to one of Giuliani's staff members in a press conference. The press secretary identified the New York based reporter as having previously asked Giuliani about his prior knowledge of WTC building collapses and ordered his arrest."

Submission + - I'm releasing the Uncensored Bible

Submitted by

Jonathan Hayward

on Saturday February 17, 2007 @08:35PM

Jonathan Hayward writes: "This project began because there are some parts of the Bible that are simply hidden from the public, and began simply as an uncensored Bible. But once that was finished, there seemed to be more to uncover. Read more about the Uncensored Bible."

Submission + - Google Search Screws Over SomethingAwful.com

Submitted by on Saturday February 17, 2007 @07:49PM

An anonymous reader writes: You may have heard of the humour website SomethingAwful.com. Apparently, for all of their long history they've been having a problem where their website is listed far down Google's results (often last) for searches related to the site (such as the names of features and articles on the site). For example, when I google for "Photoshop Phriday", the site isn't in the first ten pages of results, despite the fact that Google has indexed the relevent page. In fact, the first result is a noproxy.us proxied version of the relevant page, and the rest of the results are blog and forum entries referring to Something Awful. (Results are apparently better on many non-English versions of Google, however.)

It's far from clear what's causing this; the site's PageRank is apparently fine. Attempts to contact Google have fallen on deaf ears and dumb autoresponders. The site was even recently redesigned in the hope of fixing the problem, with no luck so far. Is the world's most popular search engine really this broken, and how much money are people bringing in from knowing the black magic to work around it?

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