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Comment: Re:Slippery Slope continues. (Score 4, Informative) 305

by marcelC on Friday November 26 2010, @12:33PM (#34351118) Attached to: US Government Seizes Torrent Search Engine Domain

ImmixGroup seems to have "been awarded a contract with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Cyber Crimes Center (C3)" http://www.immixgroup.com/news/pr_display.cfm?ID=117 . That would make a hoax unlikely.

Finland to legalize use of unsecured WiFi-> 0

Submitted by Apotekaren on Friday June 11 2010, @06:12AM

Apotekaren writes "The Finnish Ministry of Justice has started preparing changes to the current law that criminalizes using unsecured wireless hot spots. The reasoning is the impossibility of tracking unlawful use, the ease of securing networks and the lack of real damage done by this this activity. It has also been proven hard for a user to know if an unsecured network is intended for public use or not. The increased ubiquity of legal open networks in parks, airports and other public places has also influenced this move by the Ministry of Justice. The Ministry has stated that the legal rights of the owner of the network have to be protected in the case of misuse.
Googles (poorly) translated version here."
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Nintendo Wii Fully Exploited 0

Submitted by Croakyvoice on Sunday December 30 2007, @06:55AM

Croakyvoice writes "The 24th Annual Chaos Communication Congress was the launchpad for the unveiling of the hacking of the Nintendo Wii via an exploit to allow homebrew to run in native Wii mode ( previously only Gamecube Homebrew was available on the Wii) which will allow access to the Wiimote, WiFi and SD Cart Slot. Tehskeen a Wii scene site has today posted an interview with the author of the exploit who has discussed the release to the public and linux amongst other things."

Canonical Passing on KDE?-> 0

Submitted by

eldavojohn

on Saturday December 29 2007, @11:34AM

eldavojohn writes "With the announcement that Kubuntu won't have long term support (LTS) from Canonical, many are speculating that KDE will fall by the roadside in terms of use as Ubuntu seems to be the dominant distribution largely by the hand of Dell. Religious wars aside, will KDE suffer from the popularity and momentum of Canonical's Ubuntu?"
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Ron Paul Rejects Evolutionary Theory 0

Submitted by on Tuesday December 25 2007, @06:19AM

An anonymous reader writes "Ron Paul has come out of the closet as a creationist, stating, on video: "There is a theory. The theory of evolution. And I don't accept it." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zz94-OrnXzE"

Obama Pledges Support for Open Document Formats-> 0

Submitted by

Andy Updegrove

on Saturday November 17 2007, @12:19PM

Andy Updegrove writes "ODF first made the headlines in Massachusetts when presidential hopeful Mitt Romney was its governor. Now, another presidential candidate has pledged his support for them as well. On November 14th, Barack Obama revealed his detailed IT plan for a more open and technically enabled government in a speech at Google's Mountainview campus. In that speech, he said: "It's no coincidence that one of the most secretive Administrations in history has favored special interests and pursued policies that could not stand up to sunlight. As President, I'll change that. I'll put government data online in universally accessible formats." In calling for open formats, Obama has introduced an IT hot potato into the presidential debate that has already riled the waters in multiple state legislatures and been the subject of heavy lobbying by vendors. Whether other candidates in general — and Mitt Romney in particular — will respond in kind or opt to keep their distance remains to be seen."
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SPAM: Netbeans 6.0 4

Journal by stoolpigeon on Sunday October 21 2007, @01:09PM

Netbeans 6.0 is currently in beta. The netbeans.org site says that release is scheduled for next month. There are already some very nice tutorials and documentation up for this new version of netbeans.

I'm already extremely pleased with netbeans. Most of the projects I play with are desktop apps, and I

Law firm claims copyright on viewing HTML source 2

Submitted by on Thursday October 18 2007, @12:32PM

An anonymous reader writes "A law firm with all sorts of interesting views on copyrights has decided to go the extra mile. As reported on Tech Dirt, they've decided that viewing the HTML source of their site is a violation of copyright. Poorly timed April Fools joke, or just some fancy lawyering?"

SPAM: Google Hacked? Spam Sites Infesting Search Results 207

Journal by Jeremiah Cornelius on Monday October 01 2007, @01:24AM

The Google Watchdog blog is reporting that "Spam and virus sites infesting the Google SERPs in several categories" and speculates, ...Google's own index has been hacked. The circumvention of a guideline normally picked up by the Googlebot quickly is worrisome. The fact that none of the sites have real content and don't appear to even be hosted anywhere is even more scary. How did

New Radiohead album's price: You choose 0

Submitted by syphoon on Sunday September 30 2007, @09:01PM

syphoon writes "British band Radiohead have announced the forthcoming release of their new album "In Rainbows" on October 10th. Unencumbered by a label contract, they have opted to sell it as both a download and a disc box. The interesting part? Not only will it be DRM-free, but the price of the download is completely up to the customer."