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Submission + - Evernote forums compromised (evernote.com)

ubrgeek writes: Looks like Evernote was the victim of a successful attack against its forums. According to a notice posted on the site's forum page, no password information was lost and there's "no reason to believe any personal information or database content was compromised."

Submission + - Patent troll claims Minecraft infringement (boingboing.net)

ubrgeek writes: "Popular game Minecraft has hit the big time: It's being sued for copyright infringement by patent troll Uniloc who claims the game infringes a patent it holds on copy protection software. Developer Markus "Notch" Persson sounds like he's up for the challenge: "Unfortunately for them, they're suing us over a software patent. If needed, I will throw piles of money at making sure they don't get a cent.""

Submission + - French president hypocrite, pirate (boingboing.net)

ubrgeek writes: According to "Le Canard Enchaîné" reported that French president presidential audiovisual services "produced 400 unauthorized copies of the 52 minutes
documentary 'A visage découvert : Nicolas Sarkozy' ... It is even more appalling that we are dealing with repeat offenders : last spring, while the Hadopi law was discussed, U.S. music duo MGMT received â30,000 as a settlement for a copyright infringement by French President Nicolas Sarkozy's party who used one of its songs at a political rally without permission. "

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Submission + - OS wars in Sci-Fi

ubrgeek writes: How does any OS "battle" like *nix vs. OS X vs. MS play out in an environment like Star Trek where there is obviously one OS ("Computer"). Will there still be alternative OS's? Will they be allowed in an environment like a Starship? Will Vulcan geeks hack the Tricorder to run an alternate OS X?

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