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  Suprnova.org Is About To Return 2007-08-02 16:29 Anonymous Coward

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 02 2007, @04:29PM
An anonymous reader writes "The legendary BitTorrent site Suprnova.org will be back in action soon. Sloncek, the former owner of suprnova.org decided to donate the domain to The Pirate Bay lads, who will relaunch the site in a few days, staying true to its original design. The return of a Legend."
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  SuprNova.org Transferred to The Pirate Bay[->] 2007-08-02 16:28 Anonymous Coward

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 02 2007, @04:28PM
An anonymous reader writes "Andrej Preston, ex-administrator of legendary BitTorrent SuprNova.org, has turned over the keys to The Pirate Bay.

"My deal with [The Pirate Bay] was that the role of SuprNova can't change much," he tells Slyck.com. "It needs to be community orientated, but I hope they make some updates the SuprNova was sooo missing. But what they will do, it's not my thing to decide anymore. But I know they will do [well] and will try to keep the community spirit running.""
http://www.slyck.com/story1561_SuprNovaorg_Transferred_to_The_Pirate_Bay
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  One man's anguish installing Vista 2007-03-02 12:05 netbuzz

Submitted by netbuzz on Friday March 02 2007, @12:05PM
netbuzz writes "This hellish tale of installing Vista on one PC won't exactly bring smiles to those who have to install it on thousands.

http://www.networkworld.com/community/?q=node/1199 5"
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  YouTube: the presidential election X Factor 2007-03-02 11:34 coondoggie

Submitted by coondoggie on Friday March 02 2007, @11:34AM
coondoggie writes "YouTube this week announced You Choose '08, where voters can find the official and unofficial Web videos from a host of presidential candidates, including Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, John McCain and John Edwards. Most of the videos are of the official variety but there are a fair number of the ones that the candidates would probably not like you to keep watching. For example, Sen. Hillary Clinton's off-key "Star-Spangled Banner", John Edwards prepping his hair for a TV appearance, John McCain sleeping (there's also a classic of Sen. Ted Kennedy sleeping during one of President George Bush's speeches and of course Howard Dean's rant that likely cost him the Democratic nomination in 2004). http://www.networkworld.com/community/?q=node/1199 3"
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  Study contradicts RIAA on cause of CD sales drop 2007-02-24 13:16 IBuyManyCd

Submitted by IBuyManyCd on Saturday February 24 2007, @01:16PM
IBuyManyCd writes "A new research paper (PDF) published in the Journal of Political Economy contradicts the RIAA claim that illegal downloading is the main reason for the 25% drop in CD sales.
A quick overview of the article is presented on the University of Chicago Press site: Downloads are not the primary reason for the decline in music sales. "Researchers from Harvard and Kansas find that impact of P2P sharing on U.S. music sales is "statistically indistinguishable from zero".
The overview also quotes:
"We match an extensive sample of downloads to U.S. sales for a large number of albums", write Felix Oberholzer-Gee (Harvard University) and Koleman Strumpf (University of Kansas). "While file sharers downloaded billions of files in 2002, the consequences for the industry amounted to no more than 0.7% of sales."
The author compiled data on nearly 50,000 music downloads of popular songs (on pop charts) and across eleven genre from 2 major P2P servers. They then compared these with the same pop chart songs CD sales, "it is striking to see that more than 60% of the songs in our sample are never downloaded".
This underlines what many online users have lived first hand. If an album is good enough, reaching the pop chart, it will gladly be bought by fans."
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  PS3 not backwards compatible in Europe 2007-02-24 09:17 gormanly

Submitted by gormanly on Saturday February 24 2007, @09:17AM
gormanly writes "In the build-up to the rest of the world launch of the PlayStation 3, Sony have removed the backwards compatibility to PS2 from the hardware, probably in order to reduce the per-unit loss they're making. Will this new-spec PS3 also appear in US and Japanese stores, and if so will the first batch of PS3s rise in value on auction sites as they become harder to find?

Sony Computer Entertainment Europe (SCEE) today announced that PLAYSTATION®3 (PS3(TM)) to be launched in Europe, Middle East, Africa and Australasia on 23rd March 2007 would utilise a new hardware specification. [...] It also embodies a new combination of hardware and software emulation which will enable PS3 to be compatible with a broad range of original PlayStation® (PS) titles and a limited range of PlayStation®2 (PS2) titles.
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  Trivial Remote Exploit on Sun Solaris 10 2007-02-12 01:01 Jeremy Kister

Submitted by Jeremy Kister on Monday February 12 2007, @01:01AM
Jeremy Kister writes "Errata Security reports about a bug found in the telnet daemon of Solaris 10. From the article:

Basically if you pass a "-fusername" as an argument to the -l option you get full access to the OS as the user specified. In my example I do it as bin but it worked for regular users, just not for root. This combined with a reliable local privilege escalation exploit would be devastating. Expect mass scanning and possibly the widespread exploitation of this vulnerability.
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Submitted by Ka D'Argo on Sunday February 11 2007, @08:55PM
Ka D'Argo writes "I had a conversation with a associate of mine about making backups of software or music cd's. This person says under the new laws with DRM, copyright and fair use, you as a consumer are no longer allowed to copy in anyway such things. I say, as it's been for god knows how long, you are still able to make a backup of something you legally own. Common sense even says, it's yours to do with as you please if you legally own it (aside from distributing copies for example). So what's the deal? Under current laws that may or may not have been updated lately, can a consumer make a backup copy of a piece of software or music cd?"
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  Sex-ed the Tex-ed way 2007-02-11 20:21 zoltamatron

Submitted by zoltamatron on Sunday February 11 2007, @08:21PM
zoltamatron writes "The SF Chronicle is running a story about the Bush administration's abstinence only sex-ed program and how there is no evidence to show that it works any better than the comprehensive education it replaces. Still, California is one of only three states that does not participate in the program that pushes the Texas born curriculum. From the article:

"California took a very progressive approach," [Douglas Kirby] said. "Texas pushed abstinence and made it a little more difficult for teens to receive contraceptives. Pregnancy did go down between 1991 and 2004, but Texas had the second-lowest decline of all states, 19 percent. California had the second-greatest decrease, 46 percent."
The article says there is more than $1 billion in federal money going to these programs."
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