Comment Re:Misread much? (Score 1) 607

by Xiaoxiaofreak2 on Wednesday September 03, 2008 @12:53PM (#24861163) Attached to: Reading Google Chrome's Fine Print

Yeah, the OP is pretty flawed. I know this "news" was posted in MANY other places as well, but here's where copypasta news and blog entries have their flaws. If you read section 9.4 closely, you'll see what I mean: 9.4 Other than the limited license set forth in Section 11, Google acknowledges and agrees that it obtains no right, title or interest from you (or your licensors) under these Terms in or to any Content that you submit, post, transmit or display on, or through, the Services, including any intellectual property rights which subsist in that Content That "limited license" it refers to is what has exploded onto the internet as a violation of rights, privacy, etc. Again, if you actually read section 11, you'll see that the limited license is only for the promotion of Chrome, and this only holds to things that aren't already covered under other rights, such as copyright or intellectual property. Basically, this boils down to: Google can use anything that is online to promote itself, if one of it's users accesses that site. Which, in all honesty, it could do anyway. This doesn't violate anything. And if you're still scared of it use Chromium, which has been stated by many others.

Submission + - iTunes store DRM free music sells well says EMI

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 21, 2007 @03:40AM

An anonymous reader writes: "The initial results of DRM-free music are good" said Lauren Berkowitz, a senior vice president of EMI, at a music industry conference in New York. Berkowitz said the early results from iTunes indicate that DRM-free offerings may boost revenue from digital albums as well as individual songs. No surprise!

EGM On the Future of Games 38

Posted by Zonk on Thursday June 21, 2007 @03:32AM from the not-yesterday-or-the-day-after-that dept.

A few issues back, EGM ran a cover story theorizing on what gaming would be like in the future. Attempting to sidestep the easy answers of neural interfaces and crazy inventions, the editors at the magazine spoke with game makers of all stripes to get a feeling for the pulse of gaming in the next twenty years. They discuss everything from control to display, to the business of gaming itself. "How long until Bleszinski's dream comes true? Answering that question is just one of the goals of this months-in-the-making cover story. We've asked experts across the industry to track the next 20 years of everything from game-design trends to the evolution of your living room. A two-decade forecast, we figure, is near-term enough to be tangible (we're staying away from silly sci-fi stuff) but far enough out to fire up your imagination. And maybe give you some kick-ass dreams, too. Your trip to 2027 begins now...."

Submission + - Open source's hottest 10 apps (part 2) (itwire.com.au)

Submitted by

davidmwilliams

on Thursday June 21, 2007 @03:04AM

davidmwilliams writes: "This story walks through the top five most active open source projects on SourceForge today. It explains what they do and why they're useful. Most of these will be new to most people but all are definitely busting with potential. Check this story out to see just what the hottest SourceForge projects are why they matter. http://www.itwire.com.au/content/view/13085/53/"

T. Rex Protein Analysis Supports Dinosaur-Bird Link 242

Posted by Zonk on Thursday April 12, 2007 @05:13PM from the i'll-take-a-bucket-of-rinchenia-legs-with-potato-wedges dept.

LanMan04 writes "For the first time, researchers have read the biological signature of a Tyrannosaur — a signature that confirms the increasingly accepted view that modern birds are the descendants of dinosaurs. Analyzing the organic material (collagen protein) found inside the unique fossil linked the collagen to several extant species. The bottom line is that the T. rex's biological signature was most like a bird's, at least based on the first fragmentary data. "It looks like chicken may be the closest among all species that are present in today's databases for proteins and genomes," one of the scientists interviewed said."

Thousands of White House E-mails Deleted 799

Posted by Zonk on Thursday April 12, 2007 @03:55PM from the they-have-also-misplaced-their-homework dept.

kidcharles writes "The Washington Post reports that in the midst of an investigation by the U.S. Congress into the firing of eight U.S. Attorneys by the Department of Justice, numerous White House e-mails have been lost. Among them are communications from presidential adviser Karl Rove. Parallels are being drawn with the infamous '18 minutes' missing from the Nixon Watergate tapes. Also at issue is the use of Republican National Committee e-mail domains (such as gwb43.com and georgewbush.com) rather than the official White House domain. This is a violation of the Presidential Records Act."

National Intelligence Director Seeks Expansion of Spy Powers 346

Posted by Zonk on Thursday April 12, 2007 @01:53PM from the can-someone-update-my-file-please-i-think-my-picture-is-old dept.

Erris writes "The Bush administration is seeking even less judicial oversight for their spying efforts both here and abroad. An AP story is discussing proposed changes to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act proposed by National Intelligence Director Mike McConnell. 'The changes McConnell is seeking mostly affect a cloak-and-dagger category of warrants used to investigate suspected spies, terrorists and other national security threats. The court-approved surveillance could include planting listening devices and hidden cameras, searching luggage and breaking into homes to make copies of computer hard drives.' One of their specific goals is prosecution immunity for communications companies who comply with the program, a sheild for groups that violate privacy laws in turning over information to the NSA. The article notes that 'Critics question whether the changes are needed and worry about what the Bush administration has in store, given a rash of allegations about domestic surveillance and abuse of power.'"

AACS Cracked Again 306

Posted by kdawson on Thursday April 12, 2007 @01:09PM from the persistence dept.

EmTeedee sends us to a blog post for a summary of the latest results in cracking AACS, from the Doom9 forums (as the earlier cracks have been) — after the DVD Security Group said it had patched the previous flaws. From the DLTV blog: "This time the target was the Xbox 360 HD DVD add on. Geremia on Doom9 forums has started a thread on how he has obtained the Volume ID without AACS authentication. With the aid of others like Arnezami they have managed to patch the Xbox 360 HD DVD add on... It appears that XT5 has released [an] application that allows the Volume ID to be read without the need to rewrite the firmware. This would mean that anyone could simply plug in the HD DVD drive and obtain the Volume ID from any HD DVD without the hassle of flashing it."

Apple, Opera, and Mozilla Push For HTML5 384

Posted by kdawson on Thursday April 12, 2007 @12:30PM from the overdue-updates dept.

foo fighter writes "The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has been slumbering the past several years: HTML was last updated in 1999, XHTML was last updated in 2002, and no one is taking seriously their largely incompatible work on 'next-generation' XHTML or 'modularized' XHTML. Both HTML and XHTML are in sorry need of removing deprecated items while being updated to reflect the current practices of web and browser developers and remaining compatible with legacy Recommendations. The much more open and transparent WHATWG (Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group), formed in 2004 to address this problem, and has been hard at work on developing a draft spec for HTML5 to update and replace legacy versions of both HTML and XHTML. The quality of this work has reached the point that Apple, Opera, and Mozilla have requested the adoption of HTML5 as the new 'W3C Recommendation' for Web development."

Boarding Pass Hacker Targets Bank of America 160

Posted by kdawson on Thursday April 12, 2007 @11:51AM from the augmented-man-in-the-middle dept.

Concerned Customer writes "The fake boarding pass guy is at it again. His blog shows a demonstration phishing website that is able to bypass the SiteKey authentication system used by Bank of America, Fidelity, and Yahoo. Users will be shown their security image, even though they're not visiting the authentic websites." This hack compounds the study showing that users don't pay attention to the SiteKey pictures anyway.

IBM Heralds 3-D Chip Breakthrough 99

Posted by kdawson on Thursday April 12, 2007 @11:13AM from the more-moore dept.

David Kesmodel from WSJ writes to let us know about an IBM breakthrough: a practical three-dimensional semiconductor chip that can be stacked on top of another electronic device in a vertical configuration. Chip makers have worked for years to develop ways to connect one type of chip to another vertically to reduce size and power use. The IBM technique of "through-silicon vias" offers a thousand-fold reduction in connector length and a hundred-fold increase in connector density. The new chips may appear in cellphones and other communication devices as soon as next year. PhysOrg has more details.

AMD's New DRM 382

Posted by kdawson on Thursday April 12, 2007 @10:33AM from the for-your-eyes-only dept.

DefectiveByDesign writes "Remember how AMD said they'd make use of ATI's GPU technology to make better technology? Well, not all change is progress. InfoWorld's Tom Yager reports that AMD plans to block access to the framebuffer in hardware to help enforce DRM schemes, such as allowing more restricted playback of Sony Blu-Ray disks. They can pry my Print Screen key from my cold, dead fingers."

Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Dies At 84 380

Posted by kdawson on Thursday April 12, 2007 @09:57AM from the unstuck-in-time dept.

At least twenty-two readers took the trouble to make sure we knew that Kurt Vonnegut has died at 84. From the Times obituary: "Kurt Vonnegut, whose dark comic talent and urgent moral vision in novels like 'Slaughterhouse-Five,' 'Cat's Cradle' and 'God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater' caught the temper of his times and the imagination of a generation, died last night in Manhattan... Mr. Vonnegut suffered irreversible brain injuries as a result of a fall several weeks ago, according to his wife, Jill Krementz." Reader SPK adds: "He will be remembered not only as a great writer, but also as a staunch civil libertarian (long-term member of the ACLU) and as a 'mainstream/literary' author who integrated science fiction concepts into his writing. So it goes."

Truth Behind the ClearType/OpenSUSE FUD 123

Posted by kdawson on Thursday April 12, 2007 @08:41AM from the making-it-clear dept.

Kennon writes "Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols over at Linux Watch clears up the FUD around Tuesday's Slashdot discussion concerning OpenSUSE, ClearType, and patent deals with Microsoft."

Google Earth Highlights Darfur 328

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday April 12, 2007 @08:01AM from the genocide-from-space dept.

jc42 writes "Google Earth, in cooperation with the US Holocaust Memorial Museum now presents details of the growing disaster in Darfur. They give a virtual tour of the area, with details of events in many villages in the words of local residents. So in addition to their "Do no evil" motto, they apparently now have a policy of exposing evil. Needless to say, the Sudan government didn't exactly cooperate with this project."

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