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Submission + - Psystar loses appeal in Apple case (groklaw.net)

Submitted by UnknowingFool on Sunday October 02, 2011 @12:32PM

UnknowingFool writes: Last week, the US Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled mostly against Psystar in their appeal of their case with Apple. The Court found for Apple in that they did not misuse copyright by having conditions in the OS X license. Psystar won on one point in which some of the court orders should have not been sealed.

Submission + - FBI Overwhelmed with "solutions" to Encrypted Note (foxnews.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 01, 2011 @03:04PM

An anonymous reader writes: Recently the FBI asked for the public's help in solving the encryption in a note linked to a man's murder. Well, they got so much "help", it has overwhelmed the agency's phone and email systems . Dan Olson, chief of the FBI's Cryptanalysis and Racketeering Records Unit (CRRU), urged potential code-breakers to send their tips via mail rather than sending emails or flooding phone lines. "We don't have the bandwidth to handle the emails we're getting," Olson told FoxNews.com on Thursday. "We're getting a bunch [of responses]." Suggested solutions range from a list of the dead man's medication schedule to instructions from a computer repair technician: "He is speaking to a computer tech on how to fix his computer," one message read.

Comment Re:Isn't this actually legitimate? (Score 1) 725

by OlaL on Tuesday July 27, 2004 @08:55AM (#9810129) Attached to: Patriot Act Used to Enforce Copyright Law?

At least that would explain all the commotion the MPAA & co. have started... I think they would not go to such lengths just to harass a legitimate fan site, right?

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