Comment Presentation Slides (Score 5, Informative) 88

by Catchwa on Monday October 22, 2012 @05:05AM (#41726691) Attached to: Aussie Researchers Crack Transport Crypto, Get Free Rides

Can be found here.

Comment Re:Best SSID (Score 1) 422

by Catchwa on Saturday March 20, 2010 @09:35PM (#31554196) Attached to: Auto-Scanning the Names People Choose For Their Wireless APs

I use "WPA2-PSK so don't even bother"
Interestingly, the Netgear at my parent's place allows the ' in the SSID but my Billion doesn't.

Entire Transcript of RIAA's Only Trial Now Online 315

Posted by timothy on Sunday December 28, 2008 @07:12PM from the give-us-this-day-our-daily-fix dept.

NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "The entire transcript of the RIAA's 'perfect storm,' its first and only trial, which resulted in a $222,000 verdict in a case involving 24 MP3's having a retail value of $23.76, is now available online. After over a year of trying, we have finally obtained the transcript of the Duluth, Minnesota, jury trial which took place October 2, 2007, to October 4, 2007, in Capitol Records v. Thomas. Its 643 pages represent a treasure trove for (a) lawyers representing defendants in other RIAA cases, (b) technologists anxious to see how a MediaSentry investigator and the RIAA's expert witness combined to convince the jurors that the RIAA had proved its case, and (c) anybody interested in finding out about such things as the early-morning October 4th argument in which the RIAA lawyer convinced the judge to make the mistake which forced him to eventually vacate the jury's verdict, and the testimony of SONY BMG's Jennifer Pariser in which she 'misspoke' according to the RIAA's Cary Sherman when she testified under oath that making a copy from one's CD to one's computer is 'stealing.' The transcript was a gift from the 'Joel Fights Back Against RIAA' team defending SONY BMG Music Entertainment v. Tenenbaum, in Boston, Massachusetts. I have the transcript in 3 segments: October 2nd (278 pages(PDF), October 3rd (263 pages)(PDF), and October 4th (100 pages)(PDF)."

Comment Re:all this data yet so much gets missed (Score 1) 139

by Catchwa on Saturday December 27, 2008 @08:43PM (#26245551) Attached to: Managing Last.FM's "Mountain of Data"

soundamus already does this (albeit in the form of an RSS feed as opposed to an email)

I have sometimes wondered why record companies haven't tried to subpoena Last.FM logs when people scrobble a leaked (and therefore pretty much guaranteed to be pirated) song. Seems stupid enough for the RIAA to do.

Comment Re:More free, legal TV online (Score 1) 277

by Catchwa on Friday March 28, 2008 @09:26PM (#22901600) Attached to: South Park To Be Available Online Free and Legal

I don't have any problems with the spike/ifilm versions.

Colbert
The Daily Show

Ubuntu Linux Validates As Genuine Windows 401

Posted by kdawson on Sunday June 17, 2007 @08:20PM from the it-was-the-wine-talking dept.

bobbocanfly writes "Another crack in the Windows Genuine Advantage wall. A user at UbuntuForums.org managed to validate an Ubuntu installation as a genuine copy of Microsoft Windows and get to the download page of Windows Defender, using IE4Linux and Wine. (Here is an OGG video of the process.) Along with the advancement of LiveCD technology, this could spell the end of Microsoft's control over who gets their updates."