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Submission + - Argentina wants to tax "potential" piracy (infobae.com)

Submitted by joabjon on Wednesday June 29, 2011 @03:24PM

joabjon writes: The Argentinian senate wants to tax (1%-75%!) a broad range of electronic devices, such as external and internal hard drives, usb sticks, mp3 players, cell phones, blank DVDs and CDs, DVD players, BluRay players and others; because they contain "memory" and that "memory" *COULD POTENTIALLY* be used to store illegal content such as MP3s, movies, etc.

The tax would be to "compensate" (?!) artists for the POTENTIAL pirated content that could be stored in those devices.

Submission + - Compromised PCs Offer 'Botnet As A Service' (itworld.com)

Submitted by

jfruhlinger

on Wednesday June 29, 2011 @02:38PM

jfruhlinger writes: "Worldwide, there are 4.5 million PCs infected with the TDL malware; these computers form a botnet of unprecedented scale. And what is the purpose of this massive botnet? Its masters are apparently renting out its computing power in a 'Botnet As A Service' model, providing anonymous proxies to customers."

Submission + - Facebook More Hated Than Banks, Utilities (itworld.com)

Submitted by

jfruhlinger

on Wednesday June 29, 2011 @01:10PM

jfruhlinger writes: "According to the American Customer Satisfaction Index, Facebook raises a lot of ire among its customers — more than Bank of America or AT&T Mobility. This bodes ill for the company — as blogger Chris Nerney points out, many of the others on the most-hated list are utilities and other companies with monopolies, which can hold customers despite bad service. At least Facebook edged out MySpace."

Submission + - World of Warcraft Goes Free With Starter Edition (thinq.co.uk) 1

Submitted by Stoobalou on Wednesday June 29, 2011 @12:41PM

Stoobalou writes: Blizzard Entertainment has announced that its enormously popular online role-playing game World of Warcraft will be free to play for characters up to level 20.
WoW has always offered free trials of one of the world's biggest multi-player online games but previous offers have always been limited to a set number of days.
The new policy means that first-time visitors to Azeroth will be able to build an unlimited number of characters and classes up to level 20 at their leisure, although there will be some limitations.

Comment Re:Not unprecedented (Score 2) 130

by joabjon on Monday June 20, 2011 @08:35PM (#36507848) Attached to: 13-Year-Old Password Security Bug Fixed

Certainly not unprecedented:
17-year-old issues in NTLM not many people know about (now fixed)
http://www.ampliasecurity.com/research/OCHOA-2010-0209.txt
http://www.ampliasecurity.com/research/NTLMWeakNonce-bh2010-usa-ampliasecurity.pdf

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