Comment Re:Wow. Just wow. (Score 4, Funny) 290
"They deserve a long and very painful and unpleasant life instead."
A job in IT?
A job in IT?
Comment Re:Centro (Score 1) 210
Damn, that was funny. And me with no points. Thanks, though.
Submission + - Remote whiteboard with digital pen? 1
hardie writes: "I work from home. I and co-workers need to be able to send fairly simple drawings back and forth. Shared whiteboard software is available to do this, but drawing with a mouse is terrible. I think that pen drawing without a line appearing on the surface you are drawing on is likely almost as bad.
Is there a way to marry a digital pen (which leaves behind either a trail of ink or an equivalent, like marks on a graphics pad) to shared whiteboard software? It could work in Windows or Linux.
We do analog circuit design, and describing schematics verbally or with minutes delay to draw and send just isn't as effective.
Thanks,
Steve"
Submission + - OiNK Raided by Pigs!
Submission + - Oink.cd shutdown
1gkn1ght writes: "Looks like the long running P2P music sharing site Oink.cd has finally been shutdown. Going to their site gives you this message.
"This site has been closed as a result of a criminal investigation by IFPI, BPI, Cleveland Police and the Fiscal Investigation Unit of the Dutch Police (FIOD ECD) into suspected illegal music distribution.
A criminal investigation continues into the identities and activities of the site's users"
"This site has been closed as a result of a criminal investigation by IFPI, BPI, Cleveland Police and the Fiscal Investigation Unit of the Dutch Police (FIOD ECD) into suspected illegal music distribution.
A criminal investigation continues into the identities and activities of the site's users"
Submission + - Seagate Offers (harddrive-settlement.com)
adeftfan writes: "I received an email today informing me that if someone purchased a hard drive from Seagate between March 22nd, 2001 and September 26th, 2007 they may be eligible for free software or monetary reimbursement. The suit was over a claim of 7% difference between promised space and the actual delivered product. Full details Here"
Submission + - South Africa adopts ODF as a Standard (oss.gov.za)
kmf writes: "ODF has become the STANDARD WAY that the South African Government interacts between Departments and between the Pubilc! Grab the MIOS (MINIMUM INTEROPERABILITY STANDARDS )Policy Document ... South Africa loves Open Source! Maybe this will inspire other Countries!"
Submission + - MPAA: Save Hollywood for us and Become Rich
xxuaoxx writes: From Wired.com:
In a shocking interview with Wired, hacker Robert Anderson tells how the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) paid $15,000 and promised power if he provided confidential information on TorrentSpy.
According to Anderson, MPAA allured him with nice paying job, a house, a car, anything he needed to "save Hollywood". They also wanted to set up a fake Torrent site.
Anderson cracked TorrentSpy's servers by simply guessing an administrative password. He knew the password was weak — a combination of a name and some numbers (guessed in little over 30 tries). Once inside, he programmed TorrentSpy's mail system to relay e-mail to a newly created external account he could access.
He sucked down about three dozen pages of e-mails detailing banking, advertising and other confidential information. Anderson proposed to implement an anti-piracy marketing campaign for the MPAA. He also offered to provide inside information on TorrentSpy.
Anderson's account shows that the content industry may be willing to go to significant — and some say ethically questionable — lengths in its war against online piracy, and that it is determined to keep its methods secret. The MPAA's use of Anderson is turning out to be like the MediaDefender — Email issue.
Meanwhile, the MPAA has not disputed the payment but told Wired that "the MPAA obtains information from third parties only if it believes the evidence has been collected legally." They also deny the fake Torrent story.
Full story here
In a shocking interview with Wired, hacker Robert Anderson tells how the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) paid $15,000 and promised power if he provided confidential information on TorrentSpy.
According to Anderson, MPAA allured him with nice paying job, a house, a car, anything he needed to "save Hollywood". They also wanted to set up a fake Torrent site.
Anderson cracked TorrentSpy's servers by simply guessing an administrative password. He knew the password was weak — a combination of a name and some numbers (guessed in little over 30 tries). Once inside, he programmed TorrentSpy's mail system to relay e-mail to a newly created external account he could access.
He sucked down about three dozen pages of e-mails detailing banking, advertising and other confidential information. Anderson proposed to implement an anti-piracy marketing campaign for the MPAA. He also offered to provide inside information on TorrentSpy.
Anderson's account shows that the content industry may be willing to go to significant — and some say ethically questionable — lengths in its war against online piracy, and that it is determined to keep its methods secret. The MPAA's use of Anderson is turning out to be like the MediaDefender — Email issue.
Meanwhile, the MPAA has not disputed the payment but told Wired that "the MPAA obtains information from third parties only if it believes the evidence has been collected legally." They also deny the fake Torrent story.
Full story here
Submission + - Oink Bittorrent Tracker raided and Admin Arrested (techwag.com)
bubblah writes: "In what is sure to be a solid case of Deja Vu, this time the owner of Oink.cd a bittorrent tracker finds that the servers are confiscated, and he is in jail.
Hot on the heels of Demonoid, then TV-Links, now it is Oink that finds itself shutdown, and the admin arrested. As the major sites where people get media continue to face growing and continual pressure over illegal content, users will find themselves with fewer and fewer options. It also means that there will be more reliance on those sites that are still up and running like Pirate Bay and Stage 6. http://techwag.com/index.php/2007/10/23/another-pirate-site-gets-raided-this-time-is-it-oink/"
Submission + - Illegal torrent site shutdown (pitchforkmedia.com)
jagermeister101 writes: Bad news for pirates. Torrent sharing network OiNK has been shutdown by British and Dutch police. A flat belonging to a 24 year old IT worker in England and servers based in Amsterdam were raided.
Submission + - Brazilian pop music scene thrives on piracy (cnn.com)
langelgjm writes: When people talk about the failing business model of the traditional record company, they often only offer vague suggestions as to how things would work otherwise. But a concrete example of a music scene that thrives on piracy is to be found in Brazil, in the form of tecnobrega. From the article: 'While piracy is the bane of many musicians trying to control the sale of their songs, tecnobrega artists see counterfeiters as key to their success. "Piracy is the way to get established and get your name out. There's no way to stop it, so we're using it to our advantage," explains Gabi Amarantos... Ronaldo Lemos, a law professor at Brazil's respected Getulio Vargas Foundation, an elite Rio de Janeiro think tank and research center, says tecnobrega and other movements like it represent a new business model for the digital era, where music is transformed from a good to a service.'
Submission + - Why are you so dismissive of x86_64? (slamd64.com)
Chemisor writes: 64 bit processors have been around for a while now, but on the software side the transition to 64 bit is curiously avoided. Whenever people hear I run a 64 bit OS, their reaction is incredulous; "What, you have more than 2G of RAM?" or "What are you running that you need 64 bit?" as if using software native to the processor were not sufficient justification. Even the 64 bit Linux distributions like Slamd inexplicably put 64 bit libs into /usr/lib64, instead of /usr/lib, where native stuff ought to go. Very few packages are shipped with a 64 bit version, on Linux or Windows, and 64 bit Windows drivers are frequently missing. It is as though everyone is covertly hoping that 64 bit will just go away.
As a programmer, I find this attitude difficult to understand. Of course I want 64 bit; it's the architecture of my processor, for one. The increased register set and the cleaner x86_64 ABI could be adequate justification all by themselves. Then there is the fact that 64 bit is the last upgrade we'll ever need. While 2^32 is still within human limits, being smaller than the world population, 2^64 of anything is nearly impossible to imagine. 2037 is far away yet, but not nearly as far away as the death of our Sun, which is much closer than 2^64 seconds. Finally, there is the fact that the newer processors are all 64 bit; Intel Core 2 Duo and Athlon 64 are where the future lies. So why aren't we embracing x86_64 instead of grudgingly and condescendingly allowing it to coexist with our legacy 32 bit applications?
As a programmer, I find this attitude difficult to understand. Of course I want 64 bit; it's the architecture of my processor, for one. The increased register set and the cleaner x86_64 ABI could be adequate justification all by themselves. Then there is the fact that 64 bit is the last upgrade we'll ever need. While 2^32 is still within human limits, being smaller than the world population, 2^64 of anything is nearly impossible to imagine. 2037 is far away yet, but not nearly as far away as the death of our Sun, which is much closer than 2^64 seconds. Finally, there is the fact that the newer processors are all 64 bit; Intel Core 2 Duo and Athlon 64 are where the future lies. So why aren't we embracing x86_64 instead of grudgingly and condescendingly allowing it to coexist with our legacy 32 bit applications?
Submission + - A note on Skype, mobile connectivity and bandwidth (typepad.com)
zahope writes: "I have just connected my laptop to the internet via a 3g phone. These tarrifs are typically limited to 1-4GB download limits, so here is a useful article about Skype and how much data is transfered per minute."
Submission + - Blog ban lifted at North Harris campus after suit (chron.com)
mikesd81 writes: "Chron.com reports that access to an Internet blog critical of the North Harris Montgomery Community College District's chancellor that was blocked on campus computers was restored Thursday afternoon. Richard C. McDuffee filed suit in a Montgomery County district court earlier this week claiming a violation of free speech. Steve Lestarjette, associate vice chancellor for external affairs, issued a statement on Thursday saying, "The college has unblocked the site from the college's server. It was never the intent to deny anyone's First Amendment rights." The blog, richardcarpenterwatch.blogspot.com reported on on Carpenter's conduct while chancellor of the College of Southern Nevada in Las Vegas. Ray Laughter, vice chancellor for external affairs, earlier Thursday told the Houston Chronicle that the college district has a policy in place "that allows us for safety and security reasons to limit access," to some Internet sites. McDuffee, 58, of Oak Ridge North, said he went to the college campus in Conroe the afternoon of Oct. 11 to do research and use the Internet. He said that when he attempted to access the Carpenter Watch blog he was met with a "this page cannot be displayed" on his computer screen. After confirmation that the site was indeed unblocked, McDuffee plans on dropping the suit."
Submission + - Japanese scientists patent radiator for brain
morpheus83 writes: "A radiator for the brain has been developed at Japan's Yamaguchi University that will cool and calm the over-heated brains of epileptics during a seizure.Takashi Saito and collegues at the university have patented a brain-cooling apparatus that can be surgically buried in the skull for topically cooling the brain."
