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Comment minor nitpick (Score 1) 336

by botik32 (#26517709) Attached to: Dutch Study Says Filesharing Has Positive Economic Effects

[quote]Of course I haven't read the article, not knowing Dutch and not bothering with a translate this page thing, and I know nothing of the music industry - for all I know the Dutch distribute 99% of the world's music, though I doubt it.[/quote]

Fixed that for you.

But let me see what's in my playlist as a european at this moment:
De-Phazz - New Format Recordings, HQ Germany
Gotan Project - Beggars Group, London, UK
Buena Vista Social Club - Wold Circuit, London, UK
Cheb I Sabbah - Six Degrees Recordings, NY, US

While none of them are from the Netherlands, most of them are not from the "overseas" either, but more like next door.
Security

Submission + - Vista Protected Processes DRM broken

Submitted by
W2k
W2k writes: "It's a well-known fact that Microsoft's Windows Vista operating system contains DRM features, intended to keep a user from manipulating protected digital content that passes through his system. One core part of the DRM in Vista is Protected Processes. In short, a protected process is given special privileges by the operating system to keep other processes from accessing its memory or injecting their own code into its execution path. For example, running a media player as a protected process would make it theoretically impossible for a hacker to read encryption keys for DRM:ed content from its memory space. Well, not any longer. ReactOS developer and well-known kernel hacker Alex Ionescu has published on his blog a tool that can protect or unprotect any process, no questions asked. Screenshots of the tool in action are provided, but no source code."
Wireless Networking

Submission + - OpenBSD copies Linux code without attribution

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: It seems like the OpenBSD guys are not as serious about copyright of other people as they claim they are. According to a post on various mailing lists the GPL'd bcm43xx driver has been copied into OpenBSD's bcw driver with all copyright notices removed and illegally relicensed as BSD license. One might wonder what other 'interesting' copyrighted code might lurk in that codebase...
The Courts

Submission + - SCO Attacks PJ of Groklaw

Submitted by
Litigious Bastards
Litigious Bastards writes: "SCO has just filed court papers saying that they were unable to subpoena PJ of Groklaw. While they quietly disseminated rumors via shills like Dan Lyons of Forbes that they were attempting to subpoena PJ, and apparently sent their crack team of process servers out looking for random people named Pamela Jones, it would appear that they were unable to locate the bright yellow envelope labeled "Email PJ" on the Groklaw website to ask for directions to serve her in person."
Biotech

Submission + - Gene Test Helps Detect Radioactivity Exposure

Submitted by
webdoodle
webdoodle writes: "In the event of a nuclear catastrophe people could be exposed to radiation, with no way of quickly determining how much radiation has seeped inside their bodies. Researcher have developed a blood test to rapidly detect levels of radiation exposure so that doctors can help the people who need it most."
Music

Submission + - RIAA is out of control yet again.

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: The RIAA is once again at their old tricks. The band Nine Inch Nails has intentionally 'leaked' songs via USB keys hidden at restrooms during their current European tour. Sites hosting the intentionally 'leaked' songs are now being sent cease and desist orders. The link is here: http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/ news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=69841 I found it via http://theninhotline.net/ When will this ever end? The RIAA is just plain out of control.
Security

Submission + - Firefox also vulnerable to Windows cursor exploit

Submitted by Stony Stevenson
Stony Stevenson writes: Computerworld is reporting that the unpatched Windows vulnerability involving cursor animation files that caused Microsoft to release an out-of-sequence patch on Tuesday also affects Mozilla's Firefox 2.0 browser.

From the article: "Contrary to other reports, Mozilla's Firefox 2.0 is vulnerable to attackers armed with the Windows animated (ANI) cursor exploit, a researcher said Tuesday.

Alexander Sotirov, the vulnerability researcher at Determina who discovered the ANI flaw last December and notified Microsoft of it later that month, yesterday posted a demonstration of an ANI exploit that hijacks a PC when Firefox users are conned into visiting a malicious site.

An identical attack against Firefox 2.0, however, gave Sotirov complete and total access to the PC's drive. "Since Firefox does not have a low-privilege mode, similar to the protected mode in IE, we'll be able to overwrite files as well," he said."
Windows

Submission + - Has Windows Data Execution Protection(DEP) helped?

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: It has been about two and half years since Microsoft shipped XP Service Pack 2, which enabled software DEP and also supported the NX-bit for hardware-enforced DEP.

The software-enforced DEP was well known in 2004 for being part of the reason that SP2 was slower than SP1, especially on cache-limited CPUs. I myself have begun turning DEP off in the BOOT.INI file on older systems.

The question: Has DEP ever stopped anything, or is it just more useless overhead? I note that I haven't seen Microsoft mention DEP in any recent advisories and Windows continues to be exploited(like last weeks ANI Cursor bug) by system-level holes that DEP was supposed to catch.
Music

Submission + - RIAA sues sites hosting leaked Year Zero tracks

Submitted by
no reason to be here
no reason to be here writes: "The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), which has become notorious for suing anyone from high school students to retirees for downloading music from the web, has gone after web sites such as Idolator that have posted leaked songs from the upcoming NINE INCH NAILS album, "Year Zero". The problem, however, is that the tracks were leaked intentionally. Several songs from the album were left on computer hard drives at venues on the band's current European tour, with fans finding and posting them on the web for others to download and swap. According to Billboard.com, the RIAA sent cease-and-desist emails to web sites that posted the tracks, leading one industry source to say, "These f***ing idiots are going after a campaign that the label signed off on."
Music

Submission + - How to Turn A Music Lover to Piracy

Submitted by
dugn
dugn writes: "The Consumerist (consumerist.com) is running a story about how a run of the mill (read non-tech-savvy) music lover was pushed to become a pirate. http://consumerist.com/consumer/drm/how-i-became-a -music-pirate-245644.php A simple good piece that shows how the end user experience of DRM is starting to get needed traction in more blogs and mainstream web sites."
Privacy

Submission + - Thumbprint required to buy a car in Southern CA

Submitted by
saccade.com
saccade.com writes: "Here's an insidious use of biometrics: A southern California car dealership actually refuses to sell you a car unless you submit your thumbprint. From the posting:

The dealership claimed that the fingerprinting was for my protection. To make sure I'm really who I say I am, and haven't just stolen someone's social security number.

But I don't get it. How does that work? No one's checking to make sure the fingerprint I leave matches the one on file with the DMV. There's no forensics expert on staff. And I don't have data on this but I feel pretty certain that any car thief worth his salt probably already has more than one set of prints on file.
...
Dollar Rent-A-Car tried fingerprinting their customers for a while. They gave up after realizing that it had no effect on fraud or theft. Simply, treating your customers like felons is bad for business.
"
Software

Submission + - Microsoft abandons "Project Green"

Submitted by
Ludvig A. Norin
Ludvig A. Norin writes: "Several ERP and business solutions blogs, including tertiary* opinions and The Enterprise System Spectator is writing about how Microsoft is ditching Project Green, the holy grail of ERP that where supposed to bring together the software packages bought by Microsoft Business Solutions into a single code-base (Axapta, Solomon, Great Plains and Navision). What was once pushed by Microsoft as the end of all ERP competition, is now being denied ever being a plan. This also seems to be the end of the Microsoft Business Framework, the .NET library that once were touted to be the "building blocks of future businesses". This is a huge blow to the dealers and customers of Microsoft Business Solutions, and might very well be the biggest piece of Vaporware in computer history."
Caldera

Submission + - IBM Asks Court to Declare Linux Non-Infringing

Submitted by
A Cyclic Graph
A Cyclic Graph writes: "We finally have a redacted version of IBM's Reply Memorandum in Support of Summary Judgment on Counterclaim 10 in SCO v. IBM. In short, IBM is asking the Court to declare that Linux doesn't infringe upon any of SCO's purported intellectual property. This document is the last word on that matter until the Court either declares there to be no doubt that Linux is free of infringement, or decides that that issue has to be decided by the jury. In their brief, IBM points out that SCO puts forth a convoluted set of non-answers referencing each other to disguise it's inability to answer IBM. Their set of cross-references is so complex that Groklaw readers graphed the claims to make what little sense of them they could."
Censorship

Submission + - Bulgaria Blocks BitTorrent Site, Citizens Protest

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: The Bulgarian Interior Ministry has ordered all ISP's to block access to Arenabg.com, Bulgaria's largest BitTorrent site. Bulgarian citizens are not pleased with this course of action and intend to make a public protest on March 22nd in support of torrent site administrators who they believe are being unfairly treated.
Linux Business

Journal Journal: Off-the-shelf dual-boot linux PCs 1

Journal by ironfrost
I was surprised today to see an advert from Founder, one of China's major computer manufacturers. It caught my eye because it was promoting the company's new line of dual-boot Windows+Linux desktop machines. Although selling computers with Linux preinstalled isn't particularly strange here, this is an encouraging sign because it shows that the reasons for offering Linux aren't just to save money any more - previous Linux offerings in China seem to have a

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