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Submission + - Democrats: Colleges must police copyright, or else (news.com) 1

Submitted by

Brian Knotts

on Saturday November 10, 2007 @10:40PM

Brian Knotts writes: "News.com reports that congressional Democrats have introduced a bill creating a new corporate welfare program, which would force colleges into subscribing to music services, or else lose $100 billion of federal financial aid programs.

Unsurprisingly, the MPAA is on board with the bill.

"We very much support the language in the bill, which requires universities to provide evidence that they have a plan for implementing a technology to address illegal file sharing," said Angela Martinez, a spokeswoman for the MPAA.
"

Submission + - Monster Tile64 multi-core CPU announced (tilera.com)

Submitted by

MrLinuxHead

on Monday August 20, 2007 @03:45PM

MrLinuxHead writes: "The TILE64(TM) family of multicore processors delivers immense compute performance to drive the latest generation of embedded applications. This revolutionary processor features 64 identical processor cores (tiles) interconnected with Tilera's iMesh(TM) on-chip network.

Each tile is a complete full-featured processor, including integrated L1 & L2 cache and a non-blocking switch that connects the tile into the mesh. This means that each tile can independently run a full operating system, or multiple tiles taken together can run a multi-processing operating system like SMP Linux."

Submission + - TG Daily-Tilera announces 64-core processor (tgdaily.com)

Submitted by

deamonpainter33

on Monday August 20, 2007 @02:09PM

deamonpainter33 writes: "http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/33451/135/ This is amazing technology, the ablility to mesh 64 cores into one die. They claim to beat up current Xeon dual cores by 30x or something. This is a must read, because finally I believe we have a true contender amongst us now. Intel, AMD, beware...you are all about to become obsolete."

TorrentSpy Ordered By Judge to Become MPAA Spy 372

Posted by CowboyNeal on Saturday June 09, 2007 @09:20AM from the watching-the-watchmen dept.

PC Guy writes "TorrentSpy, one of the world's largest BitTorrent sites, has been ordered by a federal judge to monitor its users. They are asked to keep detailed logs of their activities which must then be handed over to the MPAA. Ira Rothken, TorrentSpy's attorney responded to the news by stating: 'It is likely that TorrentSpy would turn off access to the U.S. before tracking its users. If this order were allowed to stand, it would mean that Web sites can be required by discovery judges to track what their users do even if their privacy policy says otherwise.'"

Submission + - Thecus Y.E.S Box : Network Attached Storage Device (blogspot.com)

Submitted by

santaram

on Saturday June 09, 2007 @08:34AM

santaram writes: "With this Thecus N2100 Y.E.S. Box, you can use it as File Server, FTP Server, iTunes server or a Photo Web server. The N2100 has a plastic Chassis. It is equipped with a 600 MHz Intel XScale 80219 general purpose processor partnered with 128 MB of PC3200 memory. The N2100 also has 2 Gigabit Ethernet ports and three USB 2.0 ports"

Submission + - Tim Lee in NYT on Patent Abuse (techliberation.com)

Submitted by

Jim Harper

on Saturday June 09, 2007 @08:21AM

Jim Harper writes: "My TechLiberationFront co-blogger Tim Lee (not to be confused with Sir Tim Berners-Lee) has an Op-Ed in the New York Times today discussing Bill Gates' peculiar change of heart on patents since Microsoft has become a top dog in the software industry. Tim provides yet more evidence that patent law today does as much to frustrate innovation and competition as it does to promote them. The Op-Ed is based on this TechLiberationFront post."

Submission + - Revolutionary theming and widget concepts (wordpress.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 09, 2007 @07:59AM

An anonymous reader writes: Thorsten Wilms has a number of interesting UI widget concepts on his blog. His most recent work is a theming proposal for Ubuntu with many interesting details. It was in part triggered by the never ending complaints about Ubuntu's "shitty" brown and "eye eating" orange and as such is an experiment on more subtle but still warm colors.

Submission + - Software Patents in the New York Times (nytimes.com)

Submitted by

Timothy B. Lee

on Saturday June 09, 2007 @06:57AM

Timothy B. Lee writes: "I've got an article in the New York Times in which I make the case against software patents. Expanding on a point I first made on my blog, I point out that Microsoft has had a change of heart on the patent issue. In 1991, Bill Gates worried that "some large company will patent some obvious thing" and use it to blackmail smaller companies. Now that Microsoft is a large company with a patent war-chest of their own, they don't seem so concerned about abuse of the patent system. I then point out that Verizon's efforts to shut down Vonage are a perfect illustration of Gates's fears."

Submission + - Access z/OS batch jobs from Java

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 12, 2007 @06:07PM

An anonymous reader writes: This articles shows you how Java can provide a simple way to submit z/OS batch jobs to run — but that is just the beginning. You can also use Java, from any platform, to check on the status of your z/OS batch jobs. This article is a follow-on to Submit batch jobs from Java on z/OS. In addition, extending the Commons Net Library allows the specific JES file attributes to be encapsulated in Java objects.

Submission + - U.S. investigates options grant to Apple CEO: WSJ

Submitted by THESuperShawn on Friday January 12, 2007 @05:34PM

THESuperShawn writes: While Apple has previously stated that Steve Jobs had no knowledge of any stock wrongdoing, it looks like the US Government wants to take a look anyway.

"Federal authorities are investigating a backdated stock-option grant awarded to Apple Inc. Chief Executive Steve Jobs that carried a false October 2001 date, the Wall Street Journal said on Friday."

"Apple said last month that a stock options grant for Jobs was improperly recorded as being approved at a special board meeting on October 19, 2001. "Such a special board meeting did not occur," Apple said in a filing on December 29.

The false dating increased the value of the grant of 7.5 million options to Jobs, and Apple said it had to take a $20 million charge as a result. "

http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?typ e=businessNews&storyid=2007-01-12T193908Z_01_N1220 3336_RTRUKOC_0_US-APPLE-OPTIONS.xml&src=rss&rpc=23

AMD Aims At New Standard for Motherboards 156

Posted by Zonk on Friday January 12, 2007 @04:43PM from the little-quite-different dept.

alexwcovington writes "CBC reports that AMD is launching DTX, a new motherboard layout about the size of micro-ATX. Their goal is to provide a small, energy efficient board that's compatible with as much hardware as possible. In the DTX, they're hoping to produce a new standard for desktops, and somewhat reverse the decline in consumer interest. From the article: 'Most desktops still have motherboards that operate using a standard laid out in 1995 by Intel called ATX, which stands for Advanced Technology Extended. ATX was designed to allow everything from memory cards to mouse ports to have a standardized spot alongside the central processing unit on a typical desktop motherboard. While there have been other standards since, ATX remains the most common standard for desktops, though its design is not suited for smaller, more energy-efficient desktops, AMD said.' Ars Technica has further details on the board."

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