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Comment Re:Send luncheon meat to these addresses (Score 1) 249

by ameyer17 on Saturday December 27, 2008 @08:01PM (#26245275) Attached to: Fairpoint Pledges To Violate Net Neutrality

They don't need common carrier status for protection under the DMCA.

DISCLAIMER: IANAL.

How I read the DMCA and what's left of the Communications Decency Act, pulling crap like this could endanger the CDA's and DMCA's protections from prosecution due to the actions of their customers.
As far as I can tell, the best immediate hope for this to stop is for Microsoft, Yahoo, Google, and friends to file antitrust complaints, as it's against the law to attempt leverage a monopoly in one area (in this case, broadband internet service in their service area) to gain a monopoly in other areas (in this case, webmail service).

Comment Re:This wont effect me at all. (Score 1) 249

by ameyer17 on Saturday December 27, 2008 @07:51PM (#26245239) Attached to: Fairpoint Pledges To Violate Net Neutrality

The competitors should be advertising that they arent fairpoint as their best marketing campaign ever.

What competitors?
Hopefully the government will actually have the balls to make them stop.

Comment Re:Tough shit. (Score 1) 273

by ameyer17 on Wednesday November 26, 2008 @04:08AM (#25896981) Attached to: At Atlantic Records, Digital Sales Surpass CDs

I thought they did after the XCP rootkit incident.

Submission + - Body heat touted as power source (computerworld.com.au)

Submitted by

StonyandCher

on Tuesday August 28, 2007 @07:21PM

StonyandCher writes: "German scientists claim to have a developed a procedure that harnesses body heat in order to generate power, which in the future may be used to power mobile devices."

Submission + - Computers Find False Aliens? (astrobio.net)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 28, 2007 @07:15PM

An anonymous reader writes: Astrobiology Magazine has interviewed Frank Drake, the creator of the Drake Equation which estimates the number of intelligent civilizations in the galaxy. He notes that potential alien signals detected by automated SETI programs have a problem — with no one there to conduct immediate follow-up studies, the source of one-time signals can't be identified: "The long Harvard search of Horowitz and Sagan observed more than thirty signals that had the earmark of an extraterrestrial signal. The SETI@Home program has observed more than a hundred such signals. Both of these programs are automated, though, so no one was there at the time to do immediate follow-up observations. Researchers later tried to detect these signals, but, as with the Wow signal, they've been unsuccessful. So the origin of these signals is an open question. Project Phoenix of the SETI Institute also has found many good candidates, but that program could immediately determine the origin of the signal and all of them turned out to be of human origin. It may be that all the potential signals detected so far were generated by humans."

Submission + - India decides to vote "No" for OOXML. (indiatimes.com)

Submitted by Indian on Thursday August 23, 2007 @10:34PM

Indian writes: India on Thursday gave Microsoft a thumbs-down in the war of standards for office documents. In a tense meeting at Delhi's Manak Bhawan, the 21-member technical committee decided that India will vote a 'no' against Microsoft's Open Office Extensible Mark Up Language (OOXML) standard at the International Standards Organisation (ISO) in Geneva on September 2.

Submission + - Wikipedia Bans HD-DVD Encryption Key

Submitted by on Tuesday May 01, 2007 @11:46PM

An anonymous reader writes: Much like Digg, Wikipedia is deleting edits to pages that include the key. They've even locked down the HD-DVD so that users can't edit it. How many more web sites will be brainwashed into believing that a number can be copyrighted?

Digg.com Attempts To Suppress HD-DVD Revolt 1142

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday May 01, 2007 @11:26PM from the toothpaste-back-in-the-tube dept.

fieryprophet writes "An astonishing number of stories related to HD-DVD encryption keys have gone missing in action from digg.com, in many cases along with the account of the diggers who submitted them. Diggers are in open revolt against the moderators and are retaliating in clever and inventive ways. At one point, the entire front page comprised only stories that in one way or another were related to the hex number. Digg users quickly pointed to the HD DVD sponsorship of Diggnation, the Digg podcast show. Search digg for HD-DVD song lyrics, coffee mugs, shirts, and more for a small taste of the rebellion." Search Google for a broader picture; at this writing, about 283,000 pages contain the number with hyphens, and just under 10,000 without hyphens. There's a song. Several domain names including variations of the number have been reserved. Update: 05/02 05:44 GMT by J : New blog post from Kevin Rose of Digg to its users: "We hear you."

Submission + - RIAA files lawsuit against 18 at Vanderbilt Univ

Submitted by

SonicSpike

on Tuesday May 01, 2007 @10:40PM

SonicSpike writes: "The Tennessean is reporting "The Recording Industry Association of America today filed 18 "John Doe" lawsuits against Vanderbilt University network users in Nashville, TN. The action is the second step in a process being used on college campuses across the country by the RIAA on behalf of the recording industry. On March 21, the RIAA sent 20 pre-litigation settlement letters to Vanderbilt, informing the school of a forthcoming copyright infringement lawsuit against one of its students or personnel and requested that university administrators forward that letter to the appropriate network user. The lawsuits filed today are against those individuals who did not settle in the pre-litigation period, when individuals can resolve copyright infringement claims against them at a discounted rate before a formal lawsuit is filed."
Story here: http://www.tennessean.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AI D=200770501035"

Submission + - Windows Vista restricts GNU GCC apps to 32 MB

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 30, 2007 @08:06PM

An anonymous reader writes: Thomas R. Nicely reports that images compiled with GCC or DJGPP on Vista without employing the Win32 API cannot allocate more than 32MB of memory. The same problem does not appear on Windows 98 or Windows XP.

No mention was made or guess offered as to what would motivate Microsoft to make this restriction.

Will this affect applications that you distribute?

iPod May Not Have The Horsepower For Ogg [updated] 399

Posted by timothy on Saturday June 05, 2004 @06:05PM from the maybe-it's-a-lack-of-a-gumption-bit dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Gizmodo has an interview with a Rio engineer who speculates that current iPods may not have enough CPU power and/or memory to decode Ogg. He concludes that the Minis might be able to do it, and the next generation iPods will certainly be able to. Of course, just because Apple can doesn't mean it will." Update: 06/06 04:44 GMT by T : csm writes with this rebuttal: "According to Monty from Xiph.org (author of the Tremor codec and OGG itself), it should very well be possible to run Ogg on older generation iPods."

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