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Comment Re:Doesn't help (Score 1) 308

by C18H27NO3 (#42221849) Attached to: MPAA: the Impact of Megaupload's Shutdown Was 'Massive'
I've been entertaining the idea that if I were to ever download a movie and it was something I enjoyed I'd cut a check and send it off to the actual content creator, bypassing the **AAs altogether.

* The content creators deserve the $ provided they're putting out quality stuff.

* MPAA/RIAA deserve nothing. Flawed logic?

Submission + - Potential Firefly Reboot on the Books (bleedingcool.com) 1

Submitted by brisk0
brisk0 writes: Quote from the article:
Joss Whedon and The Science Channel’s Debbie Myers confirmed to a packed room of journalists that if the planned Firefly reunion movie performs well that we can expect a full Firefly series reboot. And, it seems as if Whedon plans to wipe the slates clean and bring back the entire original cast.
Space

Submission + - Space X's Falcon 9 appears as UFO in Australia (abc.net.au) 1

Submitted by RobHart
RobHart writes: ABC (the Australian Broadcasting Commission) has reported extensively on a bright spiraling light that was seen in Eastern Australia just before dawn. They have just broadcast a report from an Australian astronomer who has suggested that the light was probably the successful Falcon 9 launch, which would have been over Australia at that time on its launch trajectory.

Comment Well (Score 1) 1

by C18H27NO3 (#32452014) Attached to: SEC charges Diebold with fraud
I would hope that everyone guilty in this scheme sees prison time as just giving the money back and saying sorry isn't going to cut it.
Otherwise they should afford this choice to bank robbers that get caught.
Government

Submission + - Open Source wins important court battle (radio-canada.ca)

Submitted by groov3
groov3 writes: According to a Quebec Superior Court judge, a local government agency acted illegally, in 2008, when it bought Microsoft's Vista and Office 2007 without going through a call for tenders. This ruling could force governments worldwide to consider Open Source alternatives before committing to MS products. Judgment here (in French): http://blogs.savoirfairelinux.net/cyrilleberaud/KMBT35020100602152155.pdf
- Jean-Hugues Roy, CBC reporter
Security

Submission + - 'No Safe Harbor' From Record-Tying Patch Tuesday (computerworld.com)

Submitted by CWmike
CWmike writes: Microsoft says it will deliver 10 security updates next week to patch a record-tying 34 vulnerabilities in Windows, Internet Explorer, Office and SharePoint. The patches will also quash two bugs that Microsoft acknowledged in February and April. 'I'd actually call this a moderate month,' said Andrew Storms, director of security operations at nCircle Security. 'Looking at the criticality of the bulletins, and the fact that the number [of bulletins] is low, it doesn't look like a huge month to me.' By the numbers, however, next week's updates will be huge. All six updates affecting Windows will impact Microsoft's newest operating system, Windows 7. And with one exception — Windows 2000 and Windows XP will not need Bulletin 9 — all currently-supported versions of Windows will require all the patches. 'There's no safe harbor this month,' said Storms.
NASA

Submission + - NASA Mars rover spies rare red planet rocks (networkworld.com)

Submitted by coondoggie
coondoggie writes: NASA’s now hibernating Mars rover Spirit spotted rocks scientists say could offer key clues to whether or not life ever did or still does exist on the red planet. The weird thing for NASA is that the outcrop was examined by Spirit in 2005, but the data pointing to the discovery languished since then because one of the instruments that detected the carbonate minerals was partly blinded by dust, the space agency stated.
Crime

Submission + - SEC charges Diebold with fraud (sec.gov) 1

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Yesterday the SEC charged Diebold, Inc. and three former execs with accounting fraud spanning most of the last decade. The CEO was not formally charged, but agreed to reimburse the company for certain compensation granted during the time frame of the fraud.

Submission + - FTC wants to tax electronics support the news (nypost.com)

Submitted by dptalia
dptalia writes: The FTC is concerned about the death of the "news." Specifically newspapers. Rather than look to how old media models can be adapted to the internet, they instead suggest taxing consumer electronics to support a huge newspaper bailout. Additionally, they suggest making facts "proprietary" and allowing news organizations to copyright them.
Linux Business

Can Ubuntu Save Online Banking? 462

Posted by timothy from the make-that-virus-throw-an-error dept.
CWmike writes with a pointer to this ComputerWorld mention of an interesting application of Live CDs, courtesy of Florida-based regional bank CNL: "Recognizing that most consumers don't want to buy a separate computer for online banking, CNL is seriously considering making available free Ubuntu bootable 'live CD' discs in its branches and by mail. The discs would boot up Linux, run Firefox and be configured to go directly to CNL's Web site. 'Everything you need to do will be sandboxed within that CD,' [CNL CIO Jay McLaughlin] says. That should protect customers from increasingly common drive-by downloads and other vectors for malicious code that may infect and lurk on PCs, waiting to steal the user account names, passwords and challenge questions normally required to access online banking." (But what if someone slips in a stack of doctored disks?)
Censorship

Venezuela's Last Opposition TV Owner Arrested 433

Posted by timothy from the or-in-this-case-on-air dept.
WrongSizeGlass writes "AP is reporting the owner of Venezuela's only remaining TV channel that takes a critical line against President Hugo Chavez was arrested Thursday. 'Guillermo Zuloaga, owner of Globovision, was arrested on a warrant for remarks that were deemed "offensive" to the president,' Attorney General Luisa Ortega said. This comes on the heels of last week's story titled Venezuela's Chavez To Limit Internet Freedom."
Government

Dell To Leave China For India 352

Posted by timothy from the in-these-troubled-economic-times dept.
halfEvilTech writes "India's Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh, told the Indian press that Dell chairman Michael Dell assured him that Dell was moving $25 billion in factories from China to India. Original motives were cited for environmental concerns. But later details come up as to Dell wanting a 'safer environment conductive to enterprise.'"

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