Aerook - Slashdot User

Comment Holy Crap Its true!!! (Score 1) 291

by Aerook on Monday July 23, 2007 @10:14AM (#19955623) Attached to: US Government Checking Up On Vista Users?

Anyone running vista, it's true! After a few hours of playing some games (mostly America's Army) and some brief web browsing (FAFSA information mostly), I found that there were TONS of connections going in and out of government IPs...OMGWTF!?!?!

Submission + - Putting Piracy in Perspective

Submitted by on Wednesday July 11, 2007 @10:32AM

An anonymous reader writes: Over the past year, Slashdot has pointed to many industry claims and governmental pressure (here, here, and here) arguing that Canada as a piracy haven. Canadian law prof Michael Geist has produced Putting Canadian "Piracy" in Perspective, a video that demonstrates how the claims are hugely exaggerated. For example, it shows how despite the MPAA's claim of movie piracy, Canada was the industry's fastest growing market last year. Similarly, while the recording industry says Canada is the world's top P2P country, the data shows that the Canadian music industry is experiencing record gains and that most of the decline from the major labels is due to retail pricing pressures.

Submission + - FCC head wants to unlock wireless devices

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[TheBORG]

on Tuesday July 10, 2007 @11:08AM

[TheBORG] writes: "The proposed rules would apply only to the spectrum being auctioned, not the rest of the wireless business, which still makes most of its revenue from voice calls. But Martin's proposal, if adopted by the FCC, could reverberate through a U.S. wireless industry that has tightly controlled access to devices and services. The Apple iPhone is a prime example: Like most devices sold in the USA, the iPhone is, in industry parlance, "locked." It allows only features and applications that Apple (AAPL) and AT&T (T) provide and works only with an AT&T contract. The FCC chairman said he has grown increasingly concerned that the current practices "hamper innovations" dreamed up by outside developers. One example: Mobile devices that also can use Wi-Fi, such as a home network or airport "hot spot," for Internet access. "Internationally, Wi-Fi handsets have been available for some time," Martin noted. "But they are just beginning to roll out here.""

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