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Submission + - New AACS Processing Key Discovered

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 30, 2007 @04:11PM

An anonymous reader writes: The movie studios recently released new HD-DVDs that can no longer be circumvented using the infamous 09 F9... AACS processing key that floated around the Net last month, but today a new key has surfaced. Like hundreds of other readers of Freedom-To-Tinker's "Own Your Own Integer" story, someone named BtCB posted his "randomly generated" number in the comments, asking, "What are the odds that this is the new processing key?" As it turns out, BtCB's key was not so random, and, a week after he posted it, the hackers over at doom9 realized that it really is the new processing key. With this kind of hacker "luck," it doesn't look like AACS will last for long.

MySpace Gets False Positive In Sex Offender Search 345

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Wednesday May 30, 2007 @12:33PM from the not-if-but-when dept.

gbulmash writes "In its eagerness to clear sex offenders off its site and publish their identities, MySpace identified an innocent woman as a sex offender. She shares a name and birth month with a sex offender who lives in a neighboring state and that was apparently enough to get MySpace to wrongly brand her and completely ignore her protests."

Submission + - OOXML Balloting Begun

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 28, 2007 @11:12AM

An anonymous reader writes: The ISO has started the balloting process for the Open Office XML format (aka "ISO/IEC DIS 29500" — all 6000 pages of it). If you want your opinion heard, now is the time to contact your country's local standard body so they can then decide how to vote. Contact information is available for the US, Canada, Germany, and over 100 other countries. The ISO standard will cost you CHF64 to read, but ECMA 376 is available as DOCX and PDF files.

Will ISPs Spoil Online Video? 301

Posted by CmdrTaco on Monday May 28, 2007 @09:56AM from the a-bunch-of-wreckers dept.

mrspin writes "last100 writes: "With an ever greater amount of video being consumed online, many Internet users are in for a shock. There's a dirty little secret in the broadband industry: Internet Service Providers (ISPs) don't have the capacity to deliver the bandwidth that they claim to offer. One way ISPs attempt to conceal this problem is to place a cap of say 1GB per-month per user, something which is common in the UK for many of the lower-cost broadband packages on the market. Considering that a mere three hours viewing of Joost (the new online video service from the founders of Skype) would all but use up this monthly allowance, it's clear that lots of Internet users aren't invited to the party. But what about those who (like me) pay more for 'unlimited' broadband access? There shouldn't be a problem, right? Wrong." The article then goes on to discuss the recent trend of bandwidth throttling based on techniques such as packet shaping which punishes p2p traffic whether it's legitimate or not."

Backyard Chefs Fired Up Over Infrared Grills 229

Posted by Zonk on Saturday May 26, 2007 @11:46PM from the there's-no-manly-technology-icon dept.

Vicissidude writes "With the expiration of a key patent, major gas-grill manufacturers have scrambled to bring infrared cooking to the masses. The grills are still powered by propane and have traditional gas burners that heat mostly by convection — or hot air. But they also can cook foods with radiant heat generated by one or more infrared burners. Char-Broil says its advanced burners operate at 450 to 900 degrees, hotter than the 450 to 750 degrees of standard gas burners. And unlike charcoal, which can require 20 to 30 minutes to reach its 700-degree cooking temperature, heat from the infrared burners can be adjusted quickly. Bill Best, founder of Thermal Electric of Columbia, S.C., developed the technology in the 1960s, primarily to give automakers a faster way to dry the paint on cars."

Submission + - No charges for chatroom suicide observers

Submitted by

Benjamin Fox

on Saturday May 26, 2007 @02:52PM

Benjamin Fox writes: "The BBC reports that chatroom participants who apparently "watched" a man commit kill himself will not face charges for the comments made up to and during the suicide. A crown prosecution spokesman said, "We examined all the evidence passed to us by the police and have concluded that none of the comments made in the chatroom amounted to a criminal offense." What could this mean for electronic witnesses of other meatspace crimes and tragedies in the UK?"

New Jersey Sues YouTube Over Crash Video 410

Posted by CowboyNeal on Saturday May 26, 2007 @12:04PM from the express-written-consent dept.

eldavojohn writes "The New Jersey Turnpike Authority (NJTA) has sued YouTube and a number of other video sites for showing footage of a car crash that happened on the turnpike and was, therefore, property of the turnpike. The NJTA requested the footage be removed under the DMCA — which YouTube complied with — unfortunately, the video was copied to several other sites. The NJTA still seems to be targeting YouTube since YouTube 'did not try to prevent the very same video from being uploaded again by users immediately after it was purportedly removed.' We'll have to watch this closely and see if, even after you take down material violating the DMCA, you are at fault to any extent for people who already copied said material."

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