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Comment Re:Reminds me of the old "email tax" idea (Score 1) 325

This might be true with most spamming, but in certain industries, only having to spend a dollar for an almost guaranteed read of the message is really, really cheap. Hire up a legions of human spammers in India to start sending facebook messages to sell something expensive. Somebody's gonna do it.

Comment Bypassing the API (Score 3, Interesting) 56

On a similar topic; what about when the code bypasses the API altogether, and writes code changes directly to memory? Things such as kernel hot patches come to mind, and more specifically, ksplice. A modification to the code on a GPLv2 program is made, but no linking or APIs are used. How bound by the GPL, if at all, would this program be?
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35 Million SK Telecom Accounts Stolen By Chinese Hackers 51

eldavojohn writes "South Korea's SK Telecom has revealed that earlier this week hackers stole 35 million account details from two sites. A portal called Nate Portal that provided e-mail services and a social networking site called CyWorld were the two targets by hackers who, SK Telecom claims, used IP addresses originating from China. From the article, 'The stolen data included user IDs, passwords, social security numbers, names, mobile phone numbers and email addresses. Nate said the social security numbers and passwords are encrypted so that they are not available for illegal use.'"

Comment Bad for Business. (Score 1) 273

I say let her send her cease-and-desist letters. It will only make for less networking on her part, and less business for her as a direct result. She's digging her own grave. The fair use clause in US copywrite law would prevent her from winning most (if not all) lawsuits she files. You can talk about a trademark as long as you don't infringe upon it.

Comment Depends on your definition of "chip" (Score 0) 362

Referencing science fiction, Star Trek's Voyager was the first ship to utilize bio-neuric computer technology. I imagine that the cells in the sacks are smaller than any chip that the Enterprise D had. I would consider the cells in Bio-neuric computer technology as "chips", and it exists in our brains. We just don't know yet how to harness it. So yes, smaller computer chips are possible.

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