Comment Re:Copying MS? (Score 2, Informative) 158
They are providing free wireless for at least one hub - a Continental Airlines hub - Houston Bush.
Comment Re:well maybe the blogger shouldnt have made money (Score 1) 554
What if you get > $10.00 interest on a bank account over the course of a year? Would unemployed people be better able to collect unemployment benefits if they emptied their bank account right after losing their job?
Comment the state is not required to prove the actual age (Score 4, Insightful) 639
FTA:
For instance, Tennessee's laws state that in prosecuting the offense of sexual exploitation of a minor, "the state is not required to prove the actual identity or age of the minor."
How can you prove that the person in a picture is a minor if you can't figure out their age? For a toddler, it's obvious, but what about someone in high school? Summer Glau, 27, played a 15 year old in Terminator: The Sarah Conner Chronicles. Nathalie Portman was 18 when she played a 13 year old in Star Wars: The Phantom Menace. Sarah Michelle Geller was 21 when she played a 15 year old Buffy Summers in Buffy: The Vampire Slayer. There's a pretty wide margin of error if all you have to go by is a picture.
Comment Exxon Shipping Co. v. Baker (Score 4, Interesting) 148
Exxon Shipping Co. v. Baker held that "a ratio of no more than one-to-one between compensatory and punitive damages is generally appropriate in maritime cases". In other words, punitive damages cannot exceed compensatory damages. If this were applied to copyright infringement, it would mean that the most any record label could collect per infringing song would be $2.00. $1.00 since that's how much it could be bought off of iTunes, or something, and another $1.00 for punitive damages.
Nvidia 480-Core Graphics Card Approaches 2 Teraflops 261
An anonymous reader writes "At CES, Nvidia has announced a graphics card with 480 cores that can crank up performance to reach close to 2 teraflops. The company's GTX 295 graphics cards has two GPUs with 240 cores each that can execute graphics and other computing tasks like video processing. The card delivers 1.788 teraflops of performance, which Nvidia claims is the fastest single graphics card in the market."
Submission + - Myspace wins lawsuit against Samy
An anonymous reader writes: Myspace won a case against the guy who spread the Samy virus last year.
Submission + - MySpace Virus author "Sammy" Pleads Guilty
Mantrid42 writes: "Last year, Samy Kamkar unleashed a cross-site scripting worm onto MySpace dubbed the "sammy virus". This attack did no more than cause every infected user to automatically add Kamkar to their friends list, and at the end of the "Heroes" section of their profile, tacked on "but most of all, Samy is my hero". Today, MySpace won a suit against Kamkar.
From the article:
Kamkar, using a programming technique known as Asynchronous JavaScript and XML(AJAX) that permitted browsers to execute malicious code, was able to circumvent MySpaces strong JavaScript filters.
MySpace filed a lawsuit against Kamkar, one of a slew of civil actions the company is taking against criminals who exploit the sites tens of millions of users.
"MySpace is committed to protecting our community from any abusive misuse of the site," the company said in the statement.
Kamkar is reportedly banned from accessing the internet for personal reasons for an unspecified amount of time. Doesn't it sound like MySpace is coming down a little hard on someone who did no more than expose a security hole, and have a little harmless fun?"
From the article:
Kamkar, using a programming technique known as Asynchronous JavaScript and XML(AJAX) that permitted browsers to execute malicious code, was able to circumvent MySpaces strong JavaScript filters.
MySpace filed a lawsuit against Kamkar, one of a slew of civil actions the company is taking against criminals who exploit the sites tens of millions of users.
"MySpace is committed to protecting our community from any abusive misuse of the site," the company said in the statement.
Kamkar is reportedly banned from accessing the internet for personal reasons for an unspecified amount of time. Doesn't it sound like MySpace is coming down a little hard on someone who did no more than expose a security hole, and have a little harmless fun?"
