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Submission + - Ocean Marketing Attempts To Extort Former Client (escapistmagazine.com) 1

Submitted by ESRB on Friday December 30, 2011 @07:13PM

ESRB writes: Paul Christoforo, recently in the news for his poor handling of a customer inquiry and attempt to smear Penny Arcade, is now attempting to extort a substantial amount of money from his former clients. He is holding their hosting and email hostage (notably, the original company has control of the domain name).

Submission + - Intel's Sandy Bridge Chips Feature DRM (reuters.com)

Submitted by ESRB on Monday January 03, 2011 @01:55AM

ESRB writes: Chip manufacturers (Intel, AMD) are including integrated multimedia into their designs more and more which, the article notes, may reduce the necessity of external graphics chips and reduce costs for non-gaming machines. However, of special note is that Intel's new Sandy Bridge design includes mechanisms to protect streaming media content from various Hollywood studios, notably Time Warner. Unfortunately, the article does not offer in depth coverage of the DRM aspect.

Submission + - USCG Sues Copyright Defense Lawyer (escapistmagazine.com)

Submitted by ESRB on Sunday November 28, 2010 @03:23AM

ESRB writes: The US Copyright Group has sued Graham Syfert, an attorney that created a packet of self-representation paperwork for individuals sued for P2P sharing of certain movies and moved to have sanctions placed against the defense attorney. Syfert sells these packets for $20, and the USCG claims the 19 individuals that have used it have costed them over $5000.

Comment Re:US Prisons (Score 1) 432

by ESRB on Saturday August 07, 2010 @09:50PM (#33177414) Attached to: Ex-SF Admin Terry Childs Gets 4-Year Sentence

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Submission + - Pirate Bay forced offline by court injuction (cnn.com)

Submitted by ESRB on Tuesday May 18, 2010 @12:33AM

ESRB writes: The trackers are still online, meaning it will not interfere with existing downloads, but an injunction was served against a German company providing routing for TPB. Although it complied, the company has said it intends to fight the injunction. The site itself is unreachable, but they are reportedly working on the problem.

Comment Re:Good, let them (Score 1) 1238

by ESRB on Monday May 17, 2010 @10:11AM (#32236600) Attached to: Texas Schools Board Rewriting US History

And your daughter's children? (If the textbooks make it out of Texas...)

Comment Re:just like vista (Score 1) 565

by ESRB on Friday August 22, 2008 @10:41PM (#24714985) Attached to: Firefox To Get a Nag Screen For Upgrades

Firefox 3 is not worth it from my experience. It's crashed 3 times to the point where it wipes out all my settings and I have to reconfigure everything, such as permitted sites with NoScript. It's crashed several more times where nothing was lost, but that still put its on the same level as IE.

On top of that, its handing of multiple windows seems to be very buggy. The bookmarks toolbar disappears and sometimes it won't let me into subfolders on the bookmarks menu. It also feels considerably more sluggish, and this is on a freshly formatted machine (only reason I "upgraded."). Among other issues, such as occasional problems with Gmail.

Next time I get a settings wipe I am probably just going to return to Firefox 2.

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