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by tnnn on Thursday December 06, 2007 @10:39AM (#21596685) Attached to: EVE-Online Patch Makes XP Unbootable

The concern that I have is how did this get past the QA testers at CCP and into a production build?

Good question. While I doubt that this patch was not tested at all, it's possible (but unlikely) that none of their testers used XP. I'd rather say that while the new version was somewhat tested, some minor last-moment changes were made into the final version without being retested.

Submission + - Music industry wants credit card nums in ID3 tags (michaelrobertson.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 24, 2007 @04:44PM

An anonymous reader writes: In an obituary for AnywhereCD which closes in one week, MP3.com founder Michael Robertson chronicles how at least one record label wanted him to put credit card numbers of buyers into songs. Fascinating story about how at least some of the labels still don't get it and why AnywhereCD is about to buried.

Submission + - Thailand's secret internet censorship lists

Submitted by James Hardine on Tuesday September 18, 2007 @06:45PM

James Hardine writes: Wikileaks has released the entire secret internet censorship lists of Thailand's military Junta together with an analysis. Since the military coup of September 19 last year, the Ministry of Communications & Technology has increased the number of censorsed sites from 2,328 to 11,329. The fifth official order of the coup leader on the day after the coup was to censor the Internet. However, the ICT Minister, Dr. Sitthichai Pokaiyaudom, has been variously quoted in the Thai press making statements that, since coming to office in October 2006 as "Official Censor of the Military Coup", his Ministry has blocked "only two", "five", "about a dozen" websites.

Submission + - Microsoft loses appeal against EU antitrust ruling

Submitted by tabit on Tuesday September 18, 2007 @06:44PM

tabit writes: I was shocked that Microsoft loosing their appeal against the European Union in court on Monday did not echo in Slashdot at all.

Microsoft has to reveal all protocols and interfaces that are no more considered intellectual property in Europe

Find some informastion
here: http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,137243-pg,1/article.html
here: http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aCiXwwEclkGQ&refer=home
or here: http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=009036818

Submission + - Warantless Wiretap act sought to be made permanent

Submitted by UniversalVM on Tuesday September 18, 2007 @06:40PM

UniversalVM writes: The Bush Administration is making efforts to ensure that the Companies and Telecom providers that co-operated with the government to enable the warantless wiretap programme, most notably AT&T, will face no prosecution for their role. It has sought to make permanent the interim changes to the FISA law that were rushed thru before the congressional recess. One of the sections under the amended FISA would provide complete and retroactive immunity to any company that took part or helped in the wiretapping. The new FISA act would enable the warantless wiretapping of all communication where at least one party was outside the US. It would also allow any TRAFFIC (Cell phone, e-mail, data packets) to be monitored as long the govt. "reasonably believed the parties to be outside the United States". Other nuggets from the congress hearings now in progress:
"But when pressed by House of Representatives Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers (D-Mich.) and other Democrats to estimate how many Americans who weren't necessarily "targets" have had their communications scooped up through the government's surveillance efforts, McConnell couldn't say. ""I don't have the exact number," McConnell replied, adding, It is a very small number considering that there are billions of transactions everyday." The clearest indicator that the act is overreaching and almost certainly prone to abuse — its' name. It is called the "Protect America Act". This is a wake-up call to users the worldover to use encryption and leave it turned on by default. Should any part of your internet communication pass thru the US, it will now be almost certainly intercepted and stored indefinately.

Submission + - Microsoft Shuts Down AutoPatcher 2

Submitted by Gazzonyx on Tuesday September 18, 2007 @06:39PM

Gazzonyx writes: It appears that Microsoft has demanded that AutoPatcher, a free patching solution that allows you to get patches via bittorrent, shutdown. Although AutoPatcher could be used as a way of getting around WGA authentication for patches, it was stated that they were afraid of security issues; although AutoPatcher had its own built in measures to make sure that the program would only install AutoPatcher.com's patches, which were unaltered patches from Microsoft. AutoPatcher has been providing patches for 4 years.

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