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Comment Re:No Resumes? (Score 1) 200

by Speed Pour (#26611213) Attached to: Monster.com Data Stolen, Won't Email Users
I suppose I was too specific...yes, I agree, I certainly don't bother using different passwords for each and every site, especially the ones I need to sign up to and intend to use just once (commenting on something so stupid I needed to say something, or downloading a single file). For many of those, I don't even use an email address that ever gets checked, like a free yahoo address.

Bank/Credit Card/etc, these get something unique and don't even share a password between each other. Hey, what can I say, I still don't trust Paypal...

Comment Re:No Resumes? (Score 2, Informative) 200

by Speed Pour (#26604851) Attached to: Monster.com Data Stolen, Won't Email Users
<sarcasm>Yeah, cause they want the resumes<sarcasm>

You must have missed the last 800 times this has happened to companies. They steal the email/name/username and the password, then try them on other sites with something more valuable to them (read: paypal, banks, online stores that also keep credit card info).

BTW, in case it's not obvious from what I just wrote. Make sure you use a different password on every website. Even if it's only a small variation on a simple password, it might not stop a friend from guessing it, but it will stop a hacker with a database of 2 million name/password pairs from bothering to try changing 'password001' to 'password002'
Media

Submission + - YouTube for Books? Will it las as long as binding?

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Speed Pour
Speed Pour writes: "Earlier this month was the launch of a new service, Scribd which closely resembles YouTube. The prime difference, it's focus is on documents. The idea is, you can write an article, instructions, or even an entire book and post it for others to find. This isn't an unique service, as others such as OpenFloodgate.com are making solid efforts to compete on a potentially large future market. An initial sign that this is a potentially valuable market to with with, Scribd has already won itself a cool 300k investment

Unfortunately, scribd.com has only been public for less than a month and they are quickly stumbling into the same trap YouTube is fighting through currently...copyrighted materials. As of this writing, 6 of the 18 most popular sites also happens without being sneaky."
The Internet

Submission + - Would a Wikipedia-like solution work for Youtube?

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Mike Hulsebus
Mike Hulsebus writes: "As recently reported by the Times, Viacom brought a lawsuit against Youtube for $1 billion dollars. They say, among other things, that Youtube is violating copyright, that Viacom's clips helped Youtube build a brand, and that Viacom has to spend unnecessary amounts of time finding their content to earmark it for removal by site moderators.

"Every day we have to scour the entirety of what is available on YouTube, so we have to look for our stuff," Mr. Dauman [of Viacom] said. "It is very difficult for us and places an enormous burden on us."
If Youtube really wants to fix its problems, it needs to go the route of Wikipedia, whose articles are policed by an army of volunteer moderators. Youtube currently has restrictions on the quality, size, and length of content that can be hosted on their site. If it offered certain Youtubers benefits that superceded these restrictions, they too could have an army of mods keeping their site out of trouble. And for free."
Movies

Submission + - DSL gateways will mark video to catch pirates

Submitted by Stony Stevenson
Stony Stevenson writes: Home gateway devices are being set up to identify video pirates. No, I dont' mean the guys with peg legs and parrots, but the dudes who illegally distribute copyright material. Meaning pretty much everyone with an ADSL2 connection and knowledge of bit torrent.

From the article: "Home gateway manufacturer Thomson SA plans to incorporate video watermarking technology into future set- top boxes and other video devices. The watermarks, unique to each device, will make it possible for investigators to identify the source of pirated videos."

By letting consumers know the watermarks are there, even if they can't see them, Thomson hopes to discourage piracy without putting up obstacles to activities widely considered fair use, such as copying video for use on another device in the home or while traveling to work.
Caldera

Submission + - Score: IBM - 700,000 / SCO - 326

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The Peanut Gallery
The Peanut Gallery writes: "After years of litigation to discover what, exactly, SCO was suing about, IBM has finally discovered that SCO's "mountain of code" is only 326 scattered lines. Worse, most of what is allegedly infringing are comments and simple header files, like errno.h, which probably aren't copyrightable for being unoriginal and dictated by externalities, aren't owned by SCO in any event, and which IBM has at least five separate licenses for, including the GPL, even if SCO actually owned those lines of code. In contrast, IBM is able to point out 700,000 lines of code, which they have properly registered copyrights for, which SCO is infringing upon if the Court rules that it has, in fact, repudiated the GPL. If this were a game show, I suspect SCO would be complaining that their buzzer wasn't working right about now."
Privacy

Submission + - RIAA sues paralyzed stroke victim

Submitted by Stangger
Stangger writes: Just when you thought they couldn't do any worse, the RIAA is suing a paralyzed Stroke victim for alleged copyright infringment in Michigan. Of course, he lives in Florida, but that shouldn't be more than a minor glitch in the lawsuit. Article: http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/riaa-boycott/riaa-tires -of-suing-babies-and-elderly-moves-on-to-paralyzed -stroke-victims-244108.php
Microsoft

Submission + - How to Run Vista without activation for a Year

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Anonymous Coward
Anonymous Coward writes: "Windows Vista can be run for at least a year without being activated, a serious end-run around one of Microsoft's key anti-piracy measures, Windows expert Brian Livingston said today.

Livingston, who publishes the Windows Secrets newsletter, said that a single change to Vista's registry lets users put off the operating system's product activation requirement an additional eight times beyond the three disclosed last month. With more research, said Livingston, it may even be possible to find a way to postpone activation indefinitely.

http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?com mand=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9013258"
The Internet

Submission + - comScore to track "visits" along with page

Submitted by Metrics System
Metrics System writes: Although pageviews and unique visitors are the most common measurement of web traffic, they are not without their problems. A new metric from comScore, "visits." comScore describes visits as 'the number of times a unique person accesses content within a Web entity with breaks between access of at least 30 minutes,' and it should be better able to account for AJAX-heavy sites that are highly trafficked, but don't rack up the page views. 'Essentially, focusing on page views punishes sites that use cutting-edge web technologies — a practice that could keep some sites from utilizing new technologies. comScore was aware of these complaints, however, and announced its plans to develop this new metric late last year. "As technologies like AJAX change the Internet landscape, certain measures of engagement, such as page views, are diminishing in significance for many Web properties," said comScore executive VP Jack Flanagan.'

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