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Submission + - BSA worried about proposed EU consumer law (pcworld.com)

Submitted by crimperman on Tuesday March 08, 2011 @10:45AM

crimperman writes: The Business Software Alliance is worried about proposals for a new EU consumer rights law. The new law (to be voted on in a couple of weeks) would bring software and digitial content into line with other goods. That is that the consumer would own what they "buy". The BSA is clearly worried about its members revenue and raises a number of arguments against this law including the fact that software companies "could stop offering patches and updates because they are only liable for faults at the time of purchase."

Submission + - Mobile Operator Sprint embeds rootkit in Android (xda-developers.com) 1

Submitted by pucko on Sunday March 06, 2011 @05:41PM

pucko writes: User "k0nane" at the forum of xda-developers.com have discovered an interesting piece of software in Android based Samsung mobiles sold by Sprint.
Apparently Sprint have embedded a secret application called Carrier IQ which have full control over the phone and everything the user does with it.
It even monitors input, which essentially means; Sprint have full access to your passwords, your banking accounts and your corporate secrets.
Encryption and SSL is a worthless defence, Sprint and Carrier IQ sees your information BEFORE it is protected.

The question is now, how many other carriers uses this rootkit? Does it exist on iPhone? Blackberry?

Submission + - LimeWire Has Proof Studios Profit From File Sharin (unitethecows.com)

Submitted by

Anonymous Coward

on Sunday March 06, 2011 @03:05PM

Anonymous Coward writes: "As most of our readers will know, LimeWire was once one of the most used file sharing clients in the world. A few months ago it was forced to cease its operations following an ongoing battle with the entertainment industry. In regard to damages being imposed on LimeWire they have stated that discovery has shown that the entertainment industry has made a profit from file sharing.

Several studios were granted damages for secondary copyright infringement by a federal court in May last year and discovery was ordered by Judge Debra freeman to determine the amount of damages. In February this year, Judge kimba Wood called for the studies to produce further documents to LimeWire which may result in greater support for their assertion.

LimeWire made the request for further information as they claimed Freemans order "indicated (1) that Plaintiffs were attempting to 'blacklist' LimeWire; (2) that certain employees of Plaintiffs had exoressed a desire to work with LimeWire; and (3) that Plaintiffs believed user downloads through LimeWire had actually increased Plaintiffs' revenue"

The order was expanded but the studios stated that to do so would breach attorney-client priviledge. Wood then limited discovery to documents not covered by this priviledge. She then stated it was "reasonable and appropriate" for studios to "minimize the exposure to copyright infringment". Wood also reversed an order by Freeman no longer forcing non parties MySpace, Yahoo! and iMesh to provide discovery.

The trial to determine the final damages will be held on May 2nd 2011.

If your still struggling to find a replacement for LimeWire why not check out our Top LimeWire Alternatives. Otherwise, there's always LimeWire Pirate Edition"

Submission + - Facebook Bans AdSense in Apps (facebook.net)

Submitted by

Anonymous Coward

on Saturday March 05, 2011 @09:31AM

Anonymous Coward writes: "Three days ago Facebook finalized their list of accepted ad networks for use within Facebook Apps; AdSense being an (unsurprising?) omission from the list, stating that any missing ad network had yet to agree to the Facebook TOS.

Facebook developers were quick to point out the only losers in this cold-war between Facebook and Google are the developers themselves. Other devs go on to clarify that the reputations of some of the accepted networks is shady at best, leaving developers with sub-par options to monetize their work on the Facebook platform."

Submission + - Nokia announces MeeGo 1.2 for Developers w/ N900 (meego.com)

Submitted by operator_error on Saturday March 05, 2011 @04:47AM

operator_error writes: Jukka Eklund at Nokia writes to the Meego Dev list: "I am thrilled to announce a little thing we started at Nokia. Basically we want to have MeeGo running in N900 device, so that it's really usable as your daily development device. Basic Handset UX should work, phone calls, SMS, web browsing. So we are concentrating on a few selected features and polish those to be "perfect". It might mean that we leave out some things in MeeGo 1.2 trunk for this edition, but that is not the default intention.

We are doing this fully on the open, and I hope this is an interesting project where we all in the community work towards the same goal: have a great MeeGo edition in the N900. This work is naturally based on the great work done already by N900 adaptation team lead by Harri and Carsten.

The wiki is up here: http://wiki.meego.com/ARM/N900/DeveloperEdition. It will populated with more information as we go, thanks for the patience.

Br,
Jukka
Developer Edition product manager" ...Also folks, be sure to stay tuned for the new Nokia N950 meant only as a (likely) unsubsidized Developer's hardware refresh of the N900. Only rumor has it that it will not arrive with a slide-out keyboard. How important is having a N900-style keyboard to you, along with the new Meego Love Nokia software continues to offer?

Submission + - Posting AC - a thing of the past? (indystar.com) 1

Submitted by c0lo on Friday March 04, 2011 @12:08AM

c0lo writes: A Marion County judge has ruled, for the first time in Indiana, that news media outlets can be ordered by the court to reveal identifying information about posters to their online forums.
If you think that this will affect only posting on /. or the like, think again: according to TFA, under threat seems to be no less than the right of the media outlets to protect the identity of their sources.

Submission + - What is Your Favorite Desktop? (ostatic.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 03, 2011 @04:02AM

An anonymous reader writes: KDE still leads, but Ubuntu seems to have given GNOME the impetus and it’s running close on KDE’s heels. Susan Linton's survey reveals some interesting Linux trends.

Submission + - Bradley Manning Charged With Aiding The Enemy

Submitted by

Hugh Pickens writes

on Wednesday March 02, 2011 @11:17PM

Hugh Pickens writes writes: "The Washington Post reports that the army has brought twenty-two new charges — including the Article 104 offence of "aiding the enemy" that carries a potential death sentence — against Pfc. Bradley E. Manning, a former intelligence analyst accused of leaking hundreds of thousands of classified military and diplomatic documents to the anti-secrecy Web site WikiLeaks. The new charges, filed under the Uniform Code of Military Justice, include wrongfully causing intelligence to be published on the Internet, knowing that it will be accessed by the enemy, that US officials have asserted could put soldiers and civilians at risk. However the prosecution has notified Manning's attorneys that it will not recommend the death penalty and the charge sheet, like the original set of accusations, contains no mention by name of the enemy to which the US military is referring. Manning's supporters reacted to the new charges with dismay. "I'm shocked that the military opted to charge Pfc. Bradley Manning today with the capital offense of 'aiding the enemy,' " says Jeff Paterson, project director of Courage to Resist, which has raised money for Manning's defense. "It's beyond ironic that leaked US State Department cables have contributed to revolution and revolt" in the Middle East, "yet an American may be executed, or at best face life in prison, for being the primary whistleblower.""

Submission + - AMD Radeon HD 6990 Launch on 8th March (vr-zone.com)

Submitted by tincat7788 on Tuesday March 01, 2011 @12:21AM

tincat7788 writes: Presentation slides on the upcoming AMD Radeon HD 6990 graphics card which is slated to launch on March 8th has been leaked. AMD is touting it as the world's fastest graphics card as least till NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590 comes along. The Antilles card comes with dual Cayman XT GPUs at 40nm process, 2 x 389mm2 die size, 2 x 2.64B transistors, 3072 ALU, 192 TMUs, 64 ROPs, and 4GB of GDDR5 memory at 256-bit width and 5.0 Gbps data rate.

Comment Again? (Score 3, Insightful) 580

by Nuno Sa on Thursday February 24, 2011 @04:11PM (#35304174) Attached to: PayPal Freezes Support Account For Bradley Manning

Can't those idiots be sued?

Submission + - Light Peak is now officially Thunderbolt (intel.com)

Submitted by

xkr

on Thursday February 24, 2011 @01:02PM

xkr writes: "Intel announced today "Thunderbolt" PC connection technology running at 10 Gbps. The novelty is mixing both video display data and data-data on the same cable. The protocol extends the popular concept of embedding one popular protocol inside of another. Both PCI Express and DisplayPort run on top of Thunderbolt. I wonder if USB and Ethernet can effectively run on top, too?"

Submission + - Another file-sharing case dropped before trial (pcpro.co.uk)

Submitted by

nk497

on Thursday February 24, 2011 @12:57PM

nk497 writes: "UK prosecutors have tried to drop yet another file-sharing case rather than risk taking it before a judge. This time, prosecutors dropped a case against Filesoup admin George Cartledge, who was arrested in 2009. His legal team argued the case was full of "defects", notably because the investigation wasn't run by police, but by film industry body FACT. "Itâ's right that copyright holders should be afforded the protection of the court, they'(TM)ve just been going about it in entirely the wrong way," said David Cook, of Cartledge's legal firm Burrows Bussin, which last year defended a 17-year-old accused of illegally trading music files via OiNK — whose case was also dropped by prosecutors."

Submission + - Australian ISP's Copyright Win (abc.net.au)

Submitted by

jaa101

on Thursday February 24, 2011 @01:02AM

jaa101 writes: "Medium-sized Australian ISP iiNet has won a copyright case against the major movie studios. Local studio Village Roadshow was joined by 33 others, including the US majors, in arguing that iiNet was not doing enough to stop its users pirating content. iiNet may have been chosen as a target big enough to set an example but small enough to beat. Today's victory was on appeal in the Australian Federal Court, confirming an earlier ruling a year ago that was won with costs."

Submission + - Court rules Against Studios in Piracy Case (theage.com.au) 1

Submitted by skirmish666 on Thursday February 24, 2011 @01:00AM

skirmish666 writes: The giants of the film industry have lost their appeal in a lawsuit against ISP iiNet in a landmark judgment handed down in the Federal Court today.
The appeal dismissed today had the potential to impact internet users and the internet industry profoundly as it sets a legal precedent surrounding how much ISPs are required to do to prevent customers from downloading movies and other content illegally.

Submission + - Original Doom Ported To A Calculator (omnimaga.org)

Submitted by

Anonymous Coward

on Sunday February 20, 2011 @11:00PM

Anonymous Coward writes: "For years, students could spend their math classes playing various stripped-down clones of Doom and on their graphing calculator, but thanks to MRaklopaz, now they can even play the real game from ID software on the TI-Nspire. A video of the game in action is available there. It seems that Doom is on anything with a screen, these days."

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