Sir Hossfly - Slashdot User

Comment Dell Warning Seems to be a Hoax (Score 1) 326

by Sir Hossfly on Wednesday July 21, 2010 @11:42PM (#32986394) Attached to: Dell Ships Infected Motherboards

I followed all the links in the story and worked my way to the dell forums: http://en.community.dell.com/support-forums/servers/f/956/t/19339458.aspx The "warning" was posted by 'Dell - Matt M'...not a Dell employee.

Submission + - Music industry wants cut of Pirate Bay sale (cnet.com)

Submitted by suraj.sun on Thursday July 16, 2009 @09:19PM

suraj.sun writes: The music industry will attempt to seize money paid to acquire the Pirate Bay, according to a high-level music industry source and a spokesman for the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI), the trade group representing the music industry worldwide.

Global Gaming Factory, a Swedish software company, made big news two weeks ago by announcing that it would acquire the Pirate Bay, the popular outlaw file-sharing site, for $7.8 million.

Since then the company has been touting a new business model and even hiring executives, such as Wayne Rosso, the former Grokster president, to legally obtain content from film and music industries.

What remains to be seen is how that sale might be affected by attempts by the music industry to collect the $3.6 million damages that a court in Sweden awarded it in April.

Alex Jacob, a spokesman for the IFPI, said that the group has always intended to collect the damages award, but now, should the sale go through, music execs know that the original Pirate Bay operators have access to the money.

CNET News : http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10288495-93.html

Comment Is the OS as good as the Art? (Score 0, Offtopic) 310

by Sir Hossfly on Thursday July 16, 2009 @08:26PM (#28724907) Attached to: Why OpenBSD's Release Process Works

I couldn't finishing watching the video...(sorry guys...I bet there was some great info in there tho)...I'm not as developie. Anyways...Check the freaking art on their site! Developer Dudes...You change your marketing style just a bit...You'll get people asking for your disk...and then they might even install and try out your OS. Make the two forms of art work together. Developing + Painting...merge the right combination...then...\m/()\m/

Submission + - Australian website bans Australians

Submitted by Nazlfrag on Thursday July 16, 2009 @08:12PM

Nazlfrag writes: Earlier this month the blog and discussion forum ZGeek was sued for $42 million AUD over a users comment. The plaintiffs are aspiring movie producers who claim to have lost a movie deal due to a 9/11 conspiracy discussion thread. Even though the initial lawsuit has been thrown out and the company complied with lawyers demands by taking down the offending posts it is believed the plaintiffs will file suit again. In addition to suing the forum, in an Australian first they have been granted an injunction to force the ISPs to disclose the IP addresses of the two posters involved. Due to the risk of incurring even greater legal costs the company is closing its doors in Australia and will ban their fellow countrymen from posting there again.

Comment Good to see. (Score 3, Interesting) 132

by Sir Hossfly on Wednesday July 15, 2009 @08:43PM (#28710869) Attached to: Google's Chiller-Less Data Center

It's good to read some good news for a change...but it wont hit too many headlines..."Giant Googlebillion-dollar Company Doing Something Good" This "good" I speak of is someone with means and vision getting out there and just doing something. I still think Google could easily turn to the darkside...but is a whole different post ;)

Submission + - Firefox 3.5 hits Release Candidate milestone (mozilla.com)

Submitted by

macupdate

on Tuesday June 16, 2009 @04:16PM

macupdate writes: "Firefox 3.5rc1 has started trickling to users (mirrors and appropriate pages should all be updated soon). You can read the release notes. RC1 still scores a 93/100 on the Acid3 test."

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