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As we've
been reporting, the RIAA has been offering settlements to college students suspected of sharing music online. Reader
Weather Storm notes that
more than a quarter of the alleged music pirates have accepted the RIAA's offer. Quoting:
"...an attorney Ohio University arranged to meet with its students... said $3,000 is the standard settlement offer, though cases have settled for as much as $5,000."
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Mail.app writes:
RDM looks Inside Apple TV and explains how the device will help double the number of Mac OS X devices sold this year, how it benefitted from the Intel transistion,how the unit's video system works, and what it means for open media file formats.
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curry684 writes:
After a security hole was uncovered last month, it was only a matter of time before someone would succeed in booting a Linux distro on the system:
That's Ubuntu, running our favorite Mozilla Firefox web browser in the Gnome desktop environment, and a console window dumping the system's processor info, showing a sweet total of 3 Xenon CPUs running at an approximated 3192Mhz.
Video and screenshots are supplied for your leisure.
