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Submission + - iTunes' opening it doors to indie film producers?

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 01, 2007 @09:47AM

An anonymous reader writes: After ten months of negotiations (read: pestering), Apple has agreed to sell downloads of the 'indie' snowboarding film, That, through the company's iTunes video download store. This is the first time that Apple has accepted content that doesn't come from an established or major distributor; essentially cutting out the 'middleman', so that a small video producer can sell their content directly through iTunes. So does this mean that iTunes is ready to embrace the long tail, and help small independent filmmakers monetize their content?

Submission + - EU claim MS still not compliant

Submitted by Zo0ok on Thursday March 01, 2007 @09:23AM

Zo0ok writes: EU is still not impressed with the way Microsoft complies with the March 2004 decision. Microsoft is given four weeks to respond and can look forward to more penalties if they fail to comply. EU FAQ available.

Submission + - Gates under fire for charging for interoperability

Submitted by

aKumudzi

on Thursday March 01, 2007 @09:04AM

aKumudzi writes: "The EU want to fine Gates again — justifiably in my opinion. We're left to wonder what revolutionary protocols in Windows Gates feels warranted to charge for. Microsoft just can't resist an opportunity to cash in on "...interoperability information because it was based on its own innovative work...""

Submission + - Plan9 kernel exploit made public

Submitted by

swehack

on Thursday March 01, 2007 @08:30AM

swehack writes: "The month of February saw a very rare case of a kernel exploit for the plan9 operating system made public on the Dailydave mailing list. The author mentions how he kindly waited for Bell Labs to patch the vulnerability but also that the exploit lasted quite a while in private use. One can only speculate what one would do with a private plan9 kernel exploit."

Submission + - Lawmakers confused by copyright law

Submitted by

AlHunt

on Thursday March 01, 2007 @07:49AM

AlHunt writes: "The New York Times is reporting that C-Span recently asked Nancy Pelosi to remove copyrighted material from her website.
From TFA:

C-Span did contact the speaker's office to have it take down a different clip from her blog — one shot by C-Span's cameras at a House Science and Technology Committee hearing on global warming where Ms. Pelosi testified, Mr. Daly said. (The blog has substituted material filmed by the committee's cameras, he said.)
"

Submission + - Bizarre Virus Threatens to Kill File-Sharers

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 01, 2007 @07:30AM

An anonymous reader writes: TorrentFreak reports:

A strange virus which taunts file-sharers and threatens to report them to the police and even kill them, is being distributed on the Winny network. The virus has two variants Troj/Pirlames-A and Troj/Pirlames-B, masquerades as a screensaver and attacks files with these popular extensions — EXE, BAT, CMD, INI, ASP, HTM, HTML, PHP, CLASS, JAVA, DBX, EML, MBX, TBB, WAB, HLP, TXT, MP3, XLS, LOG, BMP — overwriting them with images of comic book character Ayu Tsukimiya.

It's reported that one of the images, which includes a song about fish-shaped pancakes stuffed with jam, has a telephone number included although it's unclear to whom the number belongs.

Another exclaims "This is a visit from the prevalent Piro virus! Stop P2P! If you don't i'll tell the police!" while another threatens "Ah, I see you are using P2P again......if you don't stop within 0.5 seconds, i'm going to kill you!"

New Technique for Recycling PCBs 77

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday March 01, 2007 @03:21AM from the use-and-use-again dept.

MattSparkes writes "PCBs from discarded computers, cellphones and other devices could be recycled less harmfully using a technique developed by researchers in China. Unlike current methods, it can be used to reclaim metals such as copper without releasing toxic fumes into the air. Only a small numbers of PCBs are currently recycled."

Submission + - FFII warns Parliament: Don't put yourself in jail

Submitted by podmokle on Wednesday February 28, 2007 @12:44PM

podmokle writes: Members of an European Parliament Committee are voting on a criminal measures directive aimed at combatting intellectual property rights infringements. Precise context: counterfeit and piracy cases. The FFII found out that the websites of two Members of the Committee infringe copyright (deep links to rolex image, use of unlicensed Apple icons) and they would become criminals under the amendment provisions they propose. I think its real fun to watch boomerang legislation. Usually they are very experienced in causing 'collateral damages' for others.

Submission + - The Twelve Awsomest Games of 2010.

Submitted by harpar on Wednesday February 28, 2007 @11:31AM

harpar writes: http://www.pointlesswasteoftime.com/games/2010.htm l This is a hilarious, tongue in cheek prediction of games to come.

Dow Jones Plunge Fueled by Overwhelmed Computers 215

Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday February 28, 2007 @11:31AM from the sure-always-blame-the-it-guys dept.

cloudscout writes "The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped over 400 points today. While there were various valid financial reasons for such a decline, some of the blame is being placed on computer systems that couldn't keep up with the abnormally high volume at the New York Stock Exchange and the resulting tremor as they switched over to a backup system."

Do-It-Yourself Steampunk Keyboard 159

Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday February 28, 2007 @10:55AM from the because-you-can dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Who said there's no use for your old IBM "M Series" keyboards anymore? This creative fellow shows us step by step how to convert the keyboards of yesteryear into keyboards of an even further distant, fictional time. H. G. Wells would be proud."

Submission + - BBC plans Freesat free satellite TV platform

Submitted by on Tuesday February 27, 2007 @09:45AM

An anonymous reader writes: As reported by informitv, the BBC Trust has provisionally approved proposals to launch a 'Freesat' free-to-view satellite platform as a joint venture with other public service broadcasters in the United Kingdom. http://informitv.com/articles/2007/02/27/bbctrusta pproves/

Submission + - Data warehouse Breaches

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 27, 2007 @08:55AM

An anonymous reader writes: http://www.nomachetejuggling.com/2007/02/22/respon sibility-of-data-warehouses/

Submission + - Intel Could Owe $2.4 Bln in Tax Adjustment

Submitted by Anonymous on Tuesday February 27, 2007 @08:37AM

Anonymous writes: Intel is appealing an IRS tax adjustment of $2.4 billion on export sales from 1999 through 2006. If it loses the appeal, it says there is a "possibility of a material adverse impact on the results of operations" but the issue will not affect cash flow or financial position. Meanwhile, the company also announced plans to spend up to $1.5 billion to overhaul its semiconductor production facility in New Mexico to manufacture computer chips with next-generation technology.

Submission + - PGP cracked?

Submitted by rosydreams on Tuesday February 27, 2007 @08:15AM

rosydreams writes: Guys, I cannot believe that: it seems that russian hackers were able to http://software.techrepublic.com.com/download.aspx ?docid=239052crack PGP !!! I'm using this program (PGP of course, not this cracker!) for years (from very old DOS version) and trusted it, so that shocked me to death :((( I'm not a crypro guru but as I understand they're using the distributed network (probably from KGB? :) and may be some advanced cracking algorithms. Btw this program is able to crack not only PGP but also Micro$oft Word, Excel, PDF, Windows logon passwords and a few others (actually, I don't care this, but really worry about PGP). Whether such software is legal? Are they allowed to distribute (sell!) password crackers?? I remember there were some Russian hackers that were jailed in the U.S. a few years ago after cracking Adobe e-books — why we cannot do the same with those ones? And after all are there any other encryption programs that are more reliable than PGP?

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