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Submission + - Hacker Group LulzSec Challenges FBI (pastebin.com)

Submitted by

Tiek00n

on Friday June 03, 2011 @08:59PM

Tiek00n writes: "Hacker Group "LulzSec" has gained some attention recently for their hacks of PBS and Sony. Their most recent target: FBI affiliate Infragard.

The group claims "It has come to our unfortunate attention that NATO and our good friend Barrack Osama-Llama 24th-century Obama have recently upped the stakes with regard to hacking. They now treat hacking as an act of war. So, we just hacked an FBI affiliated website (Infragard, specifically the Atlanta chapter) and leaked its user base. We also took complete control over the site and defaced it""

Submission + - SPAM: Xbox Live for Original Xbox Games Shutting Down

Submitted by itwbennett on Friday February 05, 2010 @10:18AM

itwbennett writes: Giving no explanation beyond that it 'will provide the greatest benefit to the Xbox LIVE community,' Microsoft's General Manager for Xbox Live, Mark Whitten, announced that as of April 15th, Microsoft will be shutting down its Xbox Live service for the original Xbox and its games. 'Cold comfort for those of you who still enjoy playing Xbox titles like Halo 2 with your friends,' writes blogger Peter Smith. But Smith notes that Whitten's announcement does hint at some form of restitution for those affected, encouraging users to check their LIVE messages for more details and opportunities.
Link to Original Source

Submission + - Visual Studio 2010 forces tab indenting (microsoft.com) 2

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 24, 2010 @10:51PM

An anonymous reader writes: For years, Microsoft has allowed Visual Studio users to define arbitrary tab widths, often to the dismay of those viewing the resultant code in other editors. With the VS2010, it appears that they have taken the next step of forcing tab width to be the same as the indent size in code. Two space tabs anyone?

Sleep Mailing 195

Posted by samzenpus on Monday December 15, 2008 @06:14PM from the better-than-drunk-dialing dept.

Doctors have reported the first case of someone using the internet while asleep, when a sleeping woman sent emails to people asking them over for drinks and caviar. The 44-year-old woman found out what she had done after a would be guest phoned her about it the next day. While asleep the woman turned on her computer, logged on by typing her username and password then composed and sent three emails. Each mail was in a random mix of upper and lower cases, unformatted and written in strange language. One read: "Come tomorrow and sort this hell hole out. Dinner and drinks, 4.pm,. Bring wine and caviar only." Another said simply, "What the......." If I had known that researchers were interested in unformatted, rambling email I would have let them read my inbox. They could start a whole new school of medicine.

Comment Re:Useless information (Score 1) 434

by Rorzabal on Monday May 19, 2008 @11:57PM (#23470810) Attached to: Total Phone and Email Database Proposed In UK

That's it. I'm changing my name to ';Drop Table Logs;

Submission + - MPAA Forced To Take Down University Toolkit (livejournal.com)

Submitted by

bobbocanfly

on Monday December 03, 2007 @07:29PM

bobbocanfly writes: "An Ubuntu developer has succeeded in getting the MPAA to remove their "University Toolkit" after claims it violated the GNU GPL. After several attempts to contact the MPAA directly the developer eventually emailed the groups ISP and the violating software was taken down."

Submission + - C# memory leak torpedoed Princeton's chances (codeproject.com)

Submitted by nil0lab on Friday November 16, 2007 @10:33PM

nil0lab writes: In a shameless commerce plug for some product, Princeton DARPA Grand Challenge team member Bryan Cattle reports how their code failed to forget obstacles it had passed. This is amusing, since it was written in Microsoft's C#, which isn't supposed to let you have memory leaks.

Submission + - NBC Chief, "Apple 'destroyed' music pricing (appleinsider.com) 1

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 29, 2007 @07:16PM

An anonymous reader writes: With the most colorful description yet, NBC Universal chief executive Jeff Zucker on Sunday urged colleagues to take a stand against Apple's iTunes, charging that the digital download service was undermining the ability of traditional media companies to set profitable rates for their content online.

"We know that Apple has destroyed the music business — in terms of pricing — and if we don't take control, they'll do the same thing on the video side,"

Submission + - Why ISS Computers Failed (ieee.org) 1

Submitted by

Geoffrey.landis

on Monday October 15, 2007 @08:50PM

Geoffrey.landis writes: "It was only a small news item four months ago: all three of the Russian computers that control the International Space Station failed shortly after the Space Shuttle brought up a new solar array. But, why did they fail? James Oberg, writing in IEEE Spectrum, details the cause."

Submission + - Trent Reznor Says "Steal My Music" (youtube.com)

Submitted by THX-1138 on Sunday September 16, 2007 @11:30PM

THX-1138 writes: A few months ago, Trent Reznor (frontman of the band Nine Inch Nails), was in Australia doing an interview when he commented on the outrageous prices of CDs there. Apparently now his label, Universal Media Group is angry at him for having said that. During a concert last night , he told this to fans, "...Has anyone seen the price come down? Okay, well, you know what that means — STEAL IT. Steal away. Steal and steal and steal some more and give it to all your friends and keep on stealin'. Because one way or another these mother**** will get it through their head that they're ripping people off and that that's not right."

The YouTube link contains a video recorded by a fan that shows his full speech during the concert.

Submission + - Comcast violating law by filtering torrents? (cnet.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 04, 2007 @03:18PM

An anonymous reader writes: It's been widely reported by now that Comcast is throttling BitTorrent traffic. What has escaped attention is the fact that Comcast, like the Great Firewall of China use forged TCP Reset (RST) packets to do the job. While the Chinese government can do what they want, it turns out that Comcast may actually be violating criminal impersonation statues in states around the country. Simply put, while it's legal to block traffic on your network, forging data to and from customers is a big no-no.

Submission + - The Next Fifty Years in Space (associatedcontent.com)

Submitted by

MarkWhittington

on Tuesday September 04, 2007 @12:06AM

MarkWhittington writes: "2007 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the Space Age, agreed by most to have begun with the launch of the first artificial Earth satellite, Sputnik, on October 4th, 1957. While some are taking stock of the last fifty years of space exploration, noting what has been accomplished and, more importantly, what has not been accomplished, others are wondering what the next fifty years might bring. And therein lays the problem."

Submission + - GPL Violations On Windows Go Unnoticed?

Submitted by Scott_F on Wednesday August 29, 2007 @03:36PM

Scott_F writes: I recently reviewed several commercial, closed-source slideshow authoring packages for Windows and came across an alarming trend. Several of the packages I installed included GPL and LGPL software without any mention of the GPL, much less source code. For example, DVD Photo Slideshow (www.dvd-photo-slideshow.com) included mkisofs, cdrdao, dvdauthor, spumux, id3lib, lame, mpeg2enc and mplex (all of which are GPL or LGPL). What's worse is that the company tried to hide this by wrapping them all in DLL's! There are other violations in other packages as well. It seems that use of GPL software in commercial Windows applications is on the rise based on my testing of other software. My question is how much are GPL violations in the Windows world being pursued? Does the FSF or EFF follow-up on these if the platform is not GPL? How aware is the community of this trend?

Submission + - Kernel devs say VMware violates Linux copyrights (venturecake.com)

Submitted by Nailer on Monday August 13, 2007 @08:41PM

Nailer writes: Bloomberg believe VMware's IPO today may the largest technology offering since Google. But doubts have been cast over the company's supposedly proprietary ESX product, as top 10 Linux contributor Christopher Hellwig claims the software violates Linux kernel copyrights.

Submission + - Net Neutrality Debate crosses the Atlantic (independent.co.uk)

Submitted by smallfries on Sunday August 12, 2007 @06:07PM

smallfries writes: The network neutrality debate has raged on in the States for some time now. Now broadband providers in the UK have banded together to threaten the BBC that plans to provide programming over "their" network could disrupt operations. The BBC is being asked to cough up the readies to pay for bandwidth charges, otherwise traffic shaping will be used to limit access to the iPlayer. Strange really, I thought that the monthly fee we pay already was to cover access ... but maybe it only covers the final mile and they need to be paid twice to cover the rest of the journey.

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