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"The evidence gathered can (supposedly) not be used in regular criminal investigations for copyright infringement."

When the US put pressure on Sweden for ThePirateBay Swedish authorities happily broke multiple laws and smiled about it. I have no doubts that any information about petty things like small time copyright infringement will be handed over.

Kudos for calling a Jew a Nazi.

Not that I disagree. ;-)

Google is clearly acting in support of terrorism and is therefore itself a terrorist organization. We need to drop some injunction on that.

Landlord rage

Prominent FreeBSD developer Kip Macy has been charged with waging a campaign of terror against people renting apartments in a six-unit building he owns. He stands accused of cutting out floor supports to retaliate against a tenant who went to court to keep from being evicted.

http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/24/kip_macy_arrest/

WirePosted writes "In a surprise move, Microsoft has slashed Xbox 360 prices igniting a new price war with the Nintendo Wii upon European soil."
http://www.itwire.com/content/view/17076/532/

An anonymous reader writes "Ever wondered what a Storm Trojan looked like? Looking at something that is normally unseeable might serve the purpose of making it more real within the terms of popular culture, which some see as having passed by the darker spots of software engineering."
http://techworld.com/security/blogs/index.cfm?blogid=1

It appears that a popular GMail back up utility, named G-Archiver, has been harvesting users GMail passwords, this was discovered when a Dustin Brooks took a look at the code using a decompiler. He discovered that user's account information was being sent by e-mail to another GMail account. With that account's password embedded in the source code the developer logged in and found over 1700 e-mails all with user's account information! The creator of G-Archiver has pulled the software stating that it was debug code and was unintentionally left in by a developer.

WirePosted writes "Wanted, a new home for some of Australia's most antiquated and historic computing devices which are in danger of being consigned to landfill or raw materials recycling unless some benefactors who care about our technology heritage can be found."
http://www.itwire.com/content/view/17077/53/

judgecorp writes "The new fast Wi-Fi, 802.11n, has a problem in the enterprise. Businesses power their access points over the Ethernet to avoid extra wiring, but 802.11n uses two radios and multiple antennas, which overloads today's power-over-Ethernet standard (802.3af). This and other issues has caused a probably temporary slowdown in business Wi-Fi sales, and Wi-Fi equipment makers from Cisco on down have proposed a ton of different workarounds. Surprisingly, Siemens says it's solved the basic problem, running full-strength 802.11n over plain 802.3af PoE, in an access point based on the same Wi-Fi chips used by Cisco and the others. Even more surprisingly, Wi-Fi analyst Craig Mathias says the claim is true based on lab tests. Now, if only Siemens would tell us how it is done..."
http://www.techworld.com/mobility/news/index.cfm?newsid=11652&pagtype=samechan

An anonymous reader writes "To celebrate the history of Earth's greatest vapourware, CNET has compiled a history of software and hardware that has failed to delivery anything but epic fails. There are some extremely interesting products such as 'Rainbow Storage Technology', which aims to store hundreds of gigabytes of digital information on standard paper, and 'Silicon Film' that aimed to turn standard film-based SLR camers into digital cameras by replacing film with a digital negative."
http://crave.cnet.co.uk/0,39029477,49295698,00.htm

I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "Competing Zarafa and Zimbra developers, looking over the Exchange documentation Microsoft recently released, are already finding that it leaves out a lot of details — they've found over 200 undocumented features, including information on how to schedule a recurring calendar appointment. Documentation, of course, has always been the most difficult part of Microsoft's anti-trust consent decree to enforce, and incidentally the DOJ has withdrawn from enforcement of all but one anti-trust provision from the 2002 settlement. That will make it all but impossible for the next administration to go after Microsoft without winning a new anti-trust lawsuit against them, though the 17 states that sued still have limited oversight."
http://www.news.com/Gaps-found-in-Microsoft-Exchange-API-documentation/2100-7344_3-6233802.html

An anonymous reader writes "Nine Inch Nails has self-released a new instrumental album, Ghosts I-IV. Consisting of 36 instrumental tracks described as "music for daydreams" and released under Creative Commons, it is available in a wide range of formats (MP3, double CD, multitrack audio DVD-ROM, vinyl, 40 page book). The free MP3 download includes the first nine tracks (each with unique artwork), wallpapers, and a PDF of the 40 page book. Available directly off nin.com, you also have the option to torrent it via official NIN profiles on Waffles, what.cd and The Pirate Bay. Absent from this release was any kind of leak of audio or information. Is this the future of music distribution?"

Even internally, Microsoft couldn't agree on what the base requirements to run Vista were, but that didn't stop it from inaccurately promoting the OS as running on some hardware. 158 pages of Microsoft internal emails reveal scandalous truths about the squabbles that took place in the lead up to Vista's launch.
http://apcmag.com/8344/has_vista_lost_all_credibility

Prof. Johan Pouwelse of Delft University — one of the world's foremost experts on the science of P2P file sharing and the very same Prof. Pouwelse who stopped the RIAA's Netherlands counterpart in its tracks back in 2005 — has submitted an expert witness report characterizing the work of the RIAA's expert, Dr. Doug Jacobson, as "borderline incompetence". The report (pdf), filed in UMG v. Lindor, pointed out, among other things, that the steps needed to be taken in a copyright infringement investigation were not taken, that Jacobson's work lacked "in-depth analysis" and "proper scientific scrutiny", that Jacobson's reports were "factually erroneous", and that they were contradicted by his own deposition testimony. This is the first expert witness report of which we are aware since the Free Software Foundation announced that it would be coming to the aid of RIAA defendants.
http://recordingindustryvspeople.blogspot.com/2008/02/marie-lindor-files-expert-witness.html

Sometime around midnight on February 26th (at least for the SoCal users), TimeWarner's RoadRunner service started intercepting failed DNS requests, redirecting them to RoadRunner's own search and advertising platform. To see if this has been enabled in your area, try visiting www.jkshdfkljh23sadf.com (or something else random) in your web browser. This feature subverts user preferences set within their web browsers, which allow the user to select which search engine receives their typeos and invalid domains.

RoadRunner user's can disable this by visiting: http://ww23.rr.com/prefs.php.

An example RoadRunner results page can be seen at: http://ww23.rr.com/index.php?origURL=http://www.jkshdfkljh23sadf.com.