Comment Those that haven't already changed... (Score 5, Insightful) 455
...probably won't. Most uneducated users that read the article will probably be of the mindset "oh, it won't happen to me".
Submission + - Demonoid shut down, CRIA involvement confirmed.
Jake writes: "A while back Slashdot reported that Demonoid.com had been shut down. It turns out, according to Demonoids front page that the CRIA threatened to sue the hosting provider."
Submission + - Comcast Weans Hogs Off Their Packet Teat
eldavojohn writes: "The telecommunications giant Comcast has severed its services to internet hogs who use more bandwidth than others. From the article, "Carreiro said he received a message from a Comcast Security Assurance representative in December, who warned him that he was hogging too much of the company's bandwidth and needed to cut down. When Carreiro contacted customer service about the call, they had no idea what he was talking about and suggested it was a prank phone call. Unconvinced, Carreiro contacted Comcast several more times, but was again told there was no problem. A month later, he woke up to a dead Internet connection. Customer service directed him to the Security Assurance division, which Carreiro said informed him he would now be without service for one year." This is quite alarming to me, considering that I am forced into using a particular ISP based on some deal my neighborhood made many years before I moved here."
Submission + - "Video Games made me do it" defence fails.
provigilman writes: " GamePolitics reports that the Oregon man using the "Video Games made me do it" defense has been sentenced to life in prison by the presiding Judge. 19 year old Patrick Morris had been charged with murder for the 2006 shotgun killing of a 15 year old boy as part of a bad drug deal."
Submission + - Again paper voting in 35 cities in the Netherlands
Killjoy_NL writes: "The dutch secret service (AIVD) has revoked the licenses of the electronic voting machines in 35 cities in the Netherlands. They found that the radiosignal that was used to send the vote from the computer to the server could still be read from 10 meters.
"This is too big a risk to the privacy of voting, that's why we revoked the licenses. They can go back to paper voting or get different voting computers." Read here http://frontpage.fok.nl/nieuws/69868 for more (It's dutch, you might want to use the fish)
Elections are planned for November, it will be interesting to see what they will do."
"This is too big a risk to the privacy of voting, that's why we revoked the licenses. They can go back to paper voting or get different voting computers." Read here http://frontpage.fok.nl/nieuws/69868 for more (It's dutch, you might want to use the fish)
Elections are planned for November, it will be interesting to see what they will do."
