Comment Re:Bad News (Score 4, Funny) 234
Well, if google says you're dead three times, who am I to claim otherwise?
Comment Re:Advanced Alien Civilizations (Score 1) 672
Reminds me of this UserFriendly comic:
http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20080406
Comment Re:iam3prez (Score 3, Informative) 222
Looks like you didn't actually read the article. The account of a twitter admin was hacked with a dictionary attack. That account was then used to reset the passwords for various other accounts (Fox News, Obama, Britney Spears, etc) to gain access to those accounts. The original passwords for those additional accounts were not obtained. Only one account (the twitter admin) was hacked, the rest just had their passwords reset.
Submission + - Guilty verdict in music file-sharing case
whizzer1187 writes: "From http://money.cnn.com/2007/10/04/news/download_guilty.ap/index.htm?cnn=yes
"The recording industry won a key fight Thursday against illegal music downloading when a federal jury found a Minnesota woman shared copyrighted music online and levied $220,000 in damages against her."
Me thinks she should have hired a better lawyer."
"The recording industry won a key fight Thursday against illegal music downloading when a federal jury found a Minnesota woman shared copyrighted music online and levied $220,000 in damages against her."
Me thinks she should have hired a better lawyer."
Submission + - $220,000 judgement for sharing 24 songs (startribune.com)
Colin writes: Blech. I'm not sure how much longer the RIAA will think that suing consumers is a tenable strategy, but with judgements like this, one wonders if it might not be more profitable for the music industry to stop making albums altogether and make copyright infringement cases their primary source of income. Given the avalanche of mediocrity on the radio these days, that may be the only thing left that they excel at.
From the story: A U.S. district court jury this afternoon found a Brainerd woman liable for illegal music file sharing and awarded a group of recording companies $222,000. The jury found the Jammie Thomas had willfully committed copyright infringement by downloading and sharing all 24 songs for which the companies had sought damages.
From the story: A U.S. district court jury this afternoon found a Brainerd woman liable for illegal music file sharing and awarded a group of recording companies $222,000. The jury found the Jammie Thomas had willfully committed copyright infringement by downloading and sharing all 24 songs for which the companies had sought damages.
Submission + - RIAA wins $222,000 in first ever file sharing case (engadget.com)
mytrip writes: "The first RIAA file-sharing case to go to trial just wrapped, and sadly, the outcome isn't a positive one.
The RIAA plaintiffs weren't required to show that Thomas had a file-sharing program installed on her machine or that she was even the person using the Kazaa account in question."
The RIAA plaintiffs weren't required to show that Thomas had a file-sharing program installed on her machine or that she was even the person using the Kazaa account in question."
Submission + - Woman ordered to pay $220,000 to record companies (cnn.com)
stevenvi writes: "According to CNN, the RIAA has won a lawsuit against a Minnesota woman. From the article,
Pirates beware."A jury has ordered Jammie Thomas, 30, to pay the six record companies that sued her $9,250 for each of 24 songs they focused on in the case. They had alleged she shared 1,702 songs in all.
In the first such lawsuit to go to trial, the record companies accused Thomas of downloading the songs without permission and offering them online through a Kazaa file-sharing account. Thomas denied wrongdoing and testified that she didn't have a Kazaa account.
The record companies involved in the lawsuit are Sony BMG, Arista Records LLC, Interscope Records, UMG Recordings Inc., Capitol Records Inc. and Warner Bros. Records Inc.
Submission + - 12 IT skills that employers can't say no to (computerworld.com)
Lucas123 writes: "There are more IT positions open right now than recruiters can fill, according to a Computerworld story that lists the most desirable IT skills. 'The market for IT talent is hot, but only if you have the right skills. Take a look at what eight experts — including recruiters, curriculum developers, computer science professors and other industry observers — say are the hottest skills of the near future.'"
Submission + - Wii Opera SDK Detects Motion on All 4 Wii Remotes (hullbreachonline.com)
Anonymous Coward writes: "The Wii Opera SDK at HullBreachOnline.com has just been updated in the past week to make use of the opera.wiiremote class of the
Wii's Internet Channel, unlocking Z roll and positioning information from all four Wii Remotes for developers of JavaScript-based games and applications. This augments existing SDK classes for button detection and SuperFX Chip like 3D graphics. Previously the WiiCade API was the only big player, but it seems to have some competition now..."
Submission + - Copyright Registrar speaks out on Fair Use
Farwell writes: Ars Technica talked to Marybeth Peters, the US Register of Copyrights about Fair Use, and not surprisingly, her views on it won't be too popular with anyone other than Big Media. 'People don't really just want fair use, Peters says, they want to "crack a code in order to make fair use of content, but the content, for the most part, they can get in an unencrypted format. But they don't really want that."' Peters also takes aim at the convenience argument: '"Nothing says that fair use says you get to do it in the most convenient form, and the one that is preferable to you. Fair use is really about content, and you shouldn't be hacking through things to get the most convenient format."'
Submission + - IBM Punches Holes in Chips
bragolach writes: "My Way is reporting that IBM is using holes to enhance chip performance.
From the site:
"To our knowledge, this is the first time anyone has used nanoscale self-assembled materials to build things that machines aren't capable of doing," said John Kelly, IBM's vice president of development.""
Submission + - Optimus Maximus keyboard gets price and date
tedgyz writes: With duke-nukem-forever style delays, it appears there is light at the end of the tunnel for the Optimus Maximus keyboard. Engadget reports:
After some OLED display supply issues and a few setbacks, it looks like Lebedev and company have finally settled on a launch date and price for the king of keyboard, the Optimus Maximus. Hold your breath, it'll be due late November (the 30th, to be specific) for $1536 US ("Shakespeare's birthday"). Bad news, we know, but the worst news is still to come: only 200 keyboards per month for November and December, and 400 keyboards are scheduled to be made next January. (On second thought, at over $1500 apiece, maybe that's not so few keyboards.) Ok, exhale, it's going to be alright.
Submission + - Grid.org distributed project shut down
MCW writes: "The Grid.org distributed project, which ran computational chemistry programs in an effort to fight cancer, smallpox, and anthrax, among other things, has closed its doors after approximately 5 years. Their website says that "Grid.org announced it has completed its mission to demonstrate the viability and benefits of large-scale Internet-based grid computing, and will be retiring its famous efforts to support critical health research."
A message posted in the Grid.org forums to its users stated that there were various reasons why efforts to keep the project running fell through. So much for corporate philantrophy."
A message posted in the Grid.org forums to its users stated that there were various reasons why efforts to keep the project running fell through. So much for corporate philantrophy."
Submission + - Who Resurrected the Electric Car?
mattnyc99 writes: A century after the original "electric vehicle," a decade after the Prius and a year after the Tesla, the big car companies have apparently woken up to the plug-in car revolution: The start-up battery makers are working around the clock, and Detroit bigwigs say they can make hybrid electric vehicles a reality within three years, according to a new report in Popular Mechanics. But PopMech's re-publishing of an old essay by the late, great David Halberstam—about the liberating powers of technology over time (particularly the automobile)—has to get you thinking, "When did we ever stop wanting innovative cars that save money, power and our world?"
Submission + - STEAM Hacked
An anonymous reader writes: DailyTech reports that Valve's STEAM content distribution system has been compromised. According to the article a hacker claims to have "bypassed Valve's security system and accessed a significant chunk of data, including: screenshots of internal Valve web pages, a portion of Valve's Cafe directory, error logs, credit card information of customers, and financial information on Valve"
