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Comment Apple ships a dongle with it's mac mini... (Score 2) 417

by diwolf on Monday July 11, 2011 @02:54AM (#36717672) Attached to: DisplayPort-To-HDMI Cables May Be Recalled Over Licensing

Apple ships a HDMI (male) to DVI (female) dongle with every single Mac Mini they sell. So, what exactly will happen to those dongles? It's a male HDMI on one end but not the other (which breaks the spec).

FBI Prioritizes Copyright Over Missing Persons 372

Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday August 10, 2010 @07:56PM from the well-that-makes...-something dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The FBI has limited resources, so it needs to prioritize what it works on. However, it's difficult to see why dealing with copyright infringement seems to get more attention than identity theft or missing persons. In the past year, the FBI has announced a special new task force to fight intellectual property infringement, but recent reports have shown that both identity theft and missing persons have been downgraded as priorities by the FBI, to the point that there are a backlog of such cases."

Feed Wired: Did NSA Put a Secret Backdoor in New Encryption Standard? (wired.com)

From feed by wiredfeed on Thursday November 15, 2007 @12:12AM

A new federal standard for random-number generators has a suspicious flaw ... and the National Security Agency's fingerprint are all over it.

Comment Easy... (Score 1) 561

by diwolf on Wednesday September 12, 2007 @08:12PM (#20581339) Attached to: What's the Right Amount of Copy Protection?

Here's what I'd do..

Each person who buys the program downloads a *customized* download. It has their name, company name and address EMBEDDED in the program. No serial #'s, etc.. just a download that will install cleanly; but, with the contact info of the purchaser nicely embedded in the program. Look, no piracy.

vBulletin does something similar with their product BTW...

Comment Re:On running a homogenous network (Score 0, Troll) 202

by Siliconwalker on Friday June 07, 2002 @06:18PM (#3662580) Attached to: KPNQWest Admins Keep Bankrupt Network Running

yo fuck, I think you're commenting on the wrong freaking article!

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