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One Broken Router Takes Out Half the Internet? 412

Posted by kdawson from the brain-gone-punky dept.
Silent Stephus writes "I work for a smallish hosting provider, and this morning we experienced a networking event with one of our upstreams. What is interesting about this, is it's being caused by a mis-configured router in Europe — and it appears to be affecting a significant portion of the transit providers across the Internet. In other words, a single mis-configured router is apparently able to cause a DOS for a huge chunk of the Net. And people don't believe me when I tell them all this new-fangled technology is held together by duct-tape and baling wire!"
Social Networks

Australian Court Lets Lawyer Serve Papers Via Facebook 204

Posted by kdawson from the super-poked dept.
a302b writes "A Canberra lawyer has been permitted to serve legal documents via Facebook for a couple who defaulted on a loan. He claims he needed to do this because he was unable to track them down to a physical address. At what point does our online presence become 'real?' And what opportunities are available for fraud, if social networking sites are considered legal representations of ourselves, even when they can be anonymously created under any name?"

Comment Re:Explanations (Score 2, Informative) 511

by Spillman (#26117075) Attached to: If I must catch a disease, I'd rather catch it via ...
Prions are so cool!

Everyone knows about mad cow, or as it's called in humans, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.

but for another bitchin, and incurable, and untreatable, disease, check out:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatal_familial_insomnia

There's nothing better than mutant proteins eating away at important parts of your brain, AFAIK, anyway.

Please excuse any typos, I just came in, and it's very cold!

Comment Re:Pricks (Score 1) 326

by Spillman (#25775641) Attached to: French Record Labels Go After Limewire, SourceForge
From sourceforge's TOS:

COMPANY offers online resources for open source software development and content creation on SourceForge.net, including communications tools, source code version control, project management tools, online forums, personalized content, a donation system, branded programming, and a beta version of a marketplace


Um, seriously, what the hell!?

I mean, really. who in their right mind comes up with this shit. Can you imagine some well-paid guys sitting at a conference table saying, "Well, we're running out of people to sue. Oh, I got it, why don't we waste some more money and sue the company thats hosts all these projects, that'll shut them all down in one fell stroke. Genius, know we'll all get nice bonuses this year! haHA!"

What on earth are these people smoking? Obviously, they should be targeting Intel and AMD, if it weren't for their processors none of this would be happening. Or maybe take on the US government, for coming up with DARPAnet!
Yahoo!

Yahoo Sued for Spurning Microsoft 284

Posted by ScuttleMonkey from the getting-hit-from-all-sides dept.
tuxgeek writes "In the continuing saga of Yahoo resisting a Microsoft buy out, Yahoo is now being sued by its shareholders. 'Two Detroit pension funds have sued Yahoo Inc. and its board of directors, saying they breached their duties to shareholders in trying to thwart a takeover by Microsoft Corp. The lawsuit was filed in Delaware Chancery Court on Thursday by lawyers representing Detroit's police and fire retirement system and general retirement system, as well as 'all other similarly situated public shareholders.'"
It's funny. Laugh.

Submission + - Nebraska state senator sues God (journalstar.com)

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Spillman
Spillman writes: "Apparently fed up with threats, disasters, and war, Nebraska state senator Ernie Chambers is suing God, according to the Lincoln Nebraska JournalStar newspaper. He has decided to sue the Almighty to demonstrate that anyone can sue anyone for any reason. I have to agree with him; this is pretty silly, but perhaps he shouldn't have picked God as the person to sue."
United States

Submission + - Help Find Steve Fossett (avweb.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: DigitalGlobe, one of Google's imaging partners, as acquired new high-resolution satellite imagery of the area where adventurer Steve Fossett disappeared on Monday. Using the Amazon Mechanical Turk, the public can now, go through this imagery and quickly flag any images which might contain Fossett's plane. Images which are flagged will receive further review by Search and Rescue experts.

Feed Engadget: iTunes 7.4.1 ringtones re-rename workaround discovered (engadget.com)

From feed by engfeed

Filed under: Cellphones


So last night iTunes 7.4.1 came out which, among other things, blocked off the custom ringtone renaming method, which allowed users to add their own ringtones to their iPhone without buying them on iTunes. Well, as posters in our own comments have already discovered, it's back, and here's how to do it:

First, follow the steps of the original method
  • Create your ringtone, save it as an AAC file.
  • Rename the m4a extension to m4r.
  • Double-click to play in iTunes.
Now, if you're upgraded to 7.4.1
  • Go back and re-rename that m4r file back to m4a. That's it.
  • Plug in your iPhone and that ringtone will be added to your syncable ringtones list -- and it won't pop up the error from before.
  • Play your ringtones constantly for the next 10 hours until 7.4.2 comes out.
[Thanks, Engadget commenters! More here.]

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