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Comment Re:I hope they win (Score 1) 77

by rriven (#25861587) Attached to: BluWiki Seeks iPodHash Author, Hopes for Help From EFF

When mine broke I decided that just because of itunes i was going to look for a different brand. It seemed like it installed 10 windows services always had updates and then the whole give you Safari unless you opted out.

That was when I said no more

My brother says it is 100 times better on his Macbook Pro. So i guess it is not all bad.
Television

Submission + - Blu-ray won't play Profile 2.0 Discs 4

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Reservoir Hill
Reservoir Hill writes: "Blu-ray may have taken a commanding lead in the next-generation format war but Betanews is reporting that early supporters of Blu-ray will be left out in the cold when the Blu-ray Disc Association introduces BD Profile 2.0, expected to arrive in October. Unlike HD DVD, which mandated features such as local storage, a second video and audio decoder for picture-in-picture, and a network connection from the very beginning, the companies behind Blu-ray took a different approach to keep costs down. "We should have waited another year to introduce Blu-ray to the public, but the format war changed the situation," said one manufacturer. Representatives at the Blu-ray booth at CES said that the PlayStation 3 is currently the only player they would recommend, due to upcoming changes to the platform. Asked if they were concerned about a backlash from early adopters who supported the format from the beginning, one representative said: "They knew what they were getting into.""
Security

Submission + - Facebook and PGP (sans.org) 1

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: SANS Internet storm center writes: "Facebook has taken a step in the right direction by adding the ability to add a link to your public PGP key. It also allows you to see which of your friends have keys. Hopefully it will also spread the word about PGP and allow for a more secure/safer social networking site. Granted, with PGP, there is a level of trust needed. However, it is still a step in the right direction and affords the benefit of no need to go searching public key servers looking for the key you need." Link to said application: http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?api_key=a98cc1399afbb000b568826ba5e0eecb
Social Networks

Submission + - Facebook Names Defendents in Hacking Suit (informationweek.com)

Submitted by
eldavojohn
eldavojohn writes: "Facebook filed a suit in June against ten companies and ten unknown individuals but recently it amended that suit to name Brian Fabian, Josh Raskin, and Ming Wu, as well as 1564476 Ontario Limited, Istra Holdings Inc., and SlickCash as defendants. From the article, 'Facebook alleges that during the 15 day period between June 1, 2007 and June 15, 2007, the defendants tried to access information on Facebook's servers over 200,000 times using "an automated script that attempted to harvest information from other Facebook users."' I wonder how a completely open social networking site would protect data from companies like SlickCash if all the information is, well, open?"
Censorship

Submission + - Wikipedia COO was Convicted Felon (theregister.co.uk) 4

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An anonymous reader writes: From the Register:

"For more than six months, beginning in January of this year, Wikipedia's million-dollar check book was balanced by a convicted felon. When Carolyn Bothwell Doran was hired as the Chief Operating Officer (COO) of the Florida-based Wikimedia Foundation, she had a criminal record in three other states — Virginia, Maryland, and Texas — and she was still on parole for a DUI (driving under the influence of alcohol) hit and run that resulted in a fatality. Her record also included convictions for passing bad checks, theft, petty larceny, additional DUIs, and unlawfully wounding her boyfriend with a gun shot to the chest."
Math

Should Wikipedia Allow Mathematical Proofs? 469

Posted by CmdrTaco from the great-now-i-can-fail-wikipedia-too dept.
Beetle B. writes "An argument has arisen over whether Wikipedia should allow pages that provide proofs for mathematical theorems (such as this one). On the one hand, Wikipedia is a useful source of information and people can benefit from these proofs. On the other hand, how does one choose which proofs to include and which not to? Should Wikipedia just become a textbook that teaches mathematics? Should it just state the bare results of theorems and not provide proofs (except as external links)? Or should they take an intermediate approach and formulate a criterion for which proofs to include and which to exclude?"
The Courts

Submission + - RIAA ups ante, argues MP3's from CD's unauthorized (blogspot.com)

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NewYorkCountryLawyer
NewYorkCountryLawyer writes: "In an Arizona case against a defendant who has no legal representation, Atlantic v. Howell, the RIAA is now arguing — contrary to its lawyers' statements to the United States Supreme Court in 2005 MGM v. Grokster — that the defendant's ripping of personal MP3 copies onto his computer is a copyright infringement. At page 15 of its brief (pdf) it states the following: "It is undisputed that Defendant possessed unauthorized copies....Virtually all of the sound recordings .... are in the ".mp3" format for his and his wife's use.....Once Defendant converted Plaintiffs' recordings into the compressed .mp3 format and they are in his shared folder, they are no longer the authorized copies....""
Google

Google As The Next Microsoft? 235

Posted by Zonk from the yeah,-he-went-there dept.
theodp writes "In this week's missive, Robert X. Cringely argues that Google is starting to look a bit like Microsoft. The search giant is learning too well from the master, says Cringely, noting that Google's launch of Goog-411 after taking a long look at investing in or acquiring Free411.com under an NDA is straight out of an old Microsoft playbook. Cringely goes on to note that Google has a problem with algorithmic optimization gone mad (seconded by Newsweek), which is wreaking havoc on some AdWords customers who may find themselves out of business before they can get Google to do the right thing. Cringely concedes that Google's inability to follow through because of IT failings may not have been learned from Microsoft — it may just be an inevitable part of having an IT monopoly."
Quickies

Submission + - He died HOW???

Submitted by hyades1
hyades1 writes: UPI reports that the deputy mayor of New Delhi plummeted to his death during a tussle with aggressive monkeys. http://www.newsdaily.com/TopNews/UPI-1-20071022-20513500-bc-india-monkeys-crn.xml Deputy Mayor S.S. Bajwa was attacked by monkeys while standing on the balcony of his residence Saturday and fell to the ground during the ensuing struggle, CNN-IBN reports. Bajwa was taken to hospital, where he later succumbed to his injuries. Here, for the first time anywhere, is solid, documented proof that spanking the monkey can kill you.
Windows

Submission + - Windows Server 2008 RC 0 Public Download (microsoft.com)

Submitted by
rriven
rriven writes: "From Microsoft TechNet:
"Microsoft has reached a major milestone with the initial release candidate (RC0) of Windows Server 2008. And you can download the Windows Server 2008 RC0 for evaluation. The release candidate includes a customer technology preview (CTP) version of Windows Server virtualization, the new, thin, hypervisor-based software virtualization layer that provides customers with greater flexibility to provision multiple applications and services to servers and blades, while achieving greater application performance than is offered by traditional virtual machine environments"

Microsoft Passport is required to download"
Privacy

Submission + - Torrentspy will not let US based IP's access site (torrentspy.com)

Submitted by vil3nr0b
vil3nr0b writes: I have always used Torrentspy.com and I went there today and when beginning my usual search I received this notice... Torrentspy Acts to Protect Privacy Sorry, but because you are located in the USA you cannot use the search features of the Torrentspy.com website.Torrentspy's decision to stop accepting US visitors was NOT compelled by any Court but rather an uncertain legal climate in the US regarding user privacy and an apparent tension between US and European Union privacy laws. What gives?
Microsoft

Ubuntu Linux Validates As Genuine Windows 401

Posted by kdawson from the it-was-the-wine-talking dept.
bobbocanfly writes "Another crack in the Windows Genuine Advantage wall. A user at UbuntuForums.org managed to validate an Ubuntu installation as a genuine copy of Microsoft Windows and get to the download page of Windows Defender, using IE4Linux and Wine. (Here is an OGG video of the process.) Along with the advancement of LiveCD technology, this could spell the end of Microsoft's control over who gets their updates."
Censorship

Getting the Best Deal From Dell — Or Not 207

Posted by kdawson from the consumer-advice-or-proprietary-information dept.
Nom du Keyboard writes "When The Consumerist published 22 tips for getting the best deal from Dell Computers, according to a self-described former Dell sales manager, Dell fired back with a take-down notice. You might want to look quickly, in the event it does get taken down. The Consumerist's lawyer's initial response was to deny the takedown request."

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