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Comment: Re:Big deal? (Score 0) 243

by Kiashien on Wednesday April 02 2008, @01:02PM (#22941554) Attached to: Users Know Advertisers Watch Them, and Hate It

If it's Massachusetts, tell them you don't have one, and demand the discount anyway. It's illegal for them to deny you the discount just because you don't have their silly card- they'll usually immediately run a "courtesy card" that they claim is for when people forget them, but it's really because the MA laws make them give you the discount.

RIAA "Making Available" Theory Rejected 168

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday April 01 2008, @03:56PM
from the complaint-without-a-complaint dept.

NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "In a 25-page decision (PDF) which has been awaited for two years in Elektra v. Barker, Judge Kenneth M. Karas has rejected the RIAA's 'making available' theory and its 'authorization' theory, but sustained the sufficiency of the complaint's allegations of 'distribution' and 'downloading,' and also gave the RIAA 30 days to cure the defects in its complaint by filing a new complaint. The judge left it open for the RIAA to allege that defendant made an 'offer to distribute,' and that the offer was for "'the purpose of further distribution,' which, the judge held, would be actionable."

Point and click Gmail hacking at Black Hat-> 0

Submitted by

not5150

on Thursday August 02 2007, @04:51PM

not5150 writes "Using Gmail or most other webmail programs over an unsecured access points just got a bit more dangerous. At Black Hat, Robert Graham, CEO of errata security, showed how to capture and clone session cookies. He even hijacked a shocked attendee's Gmail account in the middle of his Black Hat speech."
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Apple Stores to charge entrance fee 0

Submitted by

BlackNova

on Monday July 23 2007, @01:49PM

BlackNova writes "Apple Stores may soon start charging an entrance fee to keep out the iPhone gawkers and improve store security/safety. The $5 charged will be applicable against any purchases made — assuming you buy something. Really, they just want the 'right kind of people' coming into the store: "By 'right kind of people' I mean true Apple customers with money, willing to pay just to look at our newest wares,"says Vince Sciopiano, vice president for Apple's retail stores."

Bush says Iraq Protestors Can Lose Everything? 0

Submitted by shinolajla on Thursday July 19 2007, @01:13PM

shinolajla writes "President Bush issued an Executive Order "Blocking Property of Certain Persons Who Threaten Stabilization Efforts in Iraq" yesterday. The order states that "all property and interests in property of the following persons ... are blocked and may not be transferred, paid, exported, withdrawn, or otherwise dealt " for, among other things, "undermining efforts to promote economic reconstruction and political reform in Iraq or to provide humanitarian assistance to the Iraqi people." The order does reference exceptions based on the existing IEEPA (International Emergency Economic Powers Act), but does this order mean that someone can lose all property for demonstrating against the Iraq war? And why isn't the media talking about it?"

Microsoft Patents Communication->

Submitted by

eldavojohn

on Friday June 01 2007, @10:04AM

eldavojohn writes "A week ago, Microsoft was issued patent 7,222,152 entitled "Generic communications framework" and reads like the title claims. Filed in October of 2001, this patent is so generic that even the method by which I submit this story is utilizing a framework described by this patent — possibly on multiple levels! The abstract: "A system and method for communicating between a client and a server using a generic, extensible, high-speed framework that separates clients and servers from the application layer and transport layer protocols commonly used for network communications. An application (client or server) specifies a uniform resource identifier (URI) to identify an interface for transmitting or receiving one or more messages and to identify the desired protocol and transport for communication. The invention, executing on the client and/or server, instantiates an object based on the URI to implement the specified protocol and transport for communication between the client and the server." If you read the claims, they are along similar lines describing two devices communicating through layers of protocols. If Microsoft has it in mind to bring litigation via this patent, may god have mercy on us all."
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Google images adds face filter to search->

Submitted by

gronbaek

on Friday June 01 2007, @09:45AM

gronbaek writes "Search engine land writes that:

Google Operating System reports that Google has added the ability to restrict your Google Image search by faces. To do so, just append "&imgtype=face" after your search string.
Try for yourself: without face filter and the same search, with face filter."
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