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AACS Vows to Fight Bloggers 601

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Friday May 04, 2007 @10:09AM from the guerilla-bloggers dept.

Jonas Wisser writes "The BBC is carrying the story that AACS has promised to take action against those who have posted the AACS crack online. Michael Ayers, chairperson of AACS, noted that the cracked key has now been revoked, and went on to say, 'Some people clearly think it's a First Amendment issue. There is no intent from us to interfere with people's right to discuss copy protection. We respect free speech.' The AACS website tells consumers how they can 'continue to enjoy content protected by AACS' by 'refreshing the encryption keys associated with their HD DVD and Blu-ray software players.'"

Microsoft One Step From World's Greenest Company 492

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday November 16, 2006 @07:40AM from the environmental-update dept.

An anonymous reader writes "According to this article, Microsoft is only a few lines of code away from becoming the greenest company on Earth." From the article: "Redmond should issue a software upgrade to every computer running Microsoft Windows worldwide to adjust each machine's energy-saving settings for maximum efficiency." The author figures that the upgrade would affect 100 million computers and that the power cost savings could hit $7 billion per year. CO2 emissions would be cut by 45 million tons. But what about the impact on computing?

Comment Re:Perceived speed vs throughput (Score 1) 111

by j1walker on Tuesday July 13, 2004 @02:03PM (#9689413) Attached to: Early Tiger Benchmarks Show Slight Speed-Ups

It's working fine for me. Maybe try going through a public proxy?

Just in case you can't get there, the hint explains that you can change the speed by pasting this into a terminal window:

defaults write NSGlobalDomain NSWindowResizeTime .001

The default value seems to be around 0.2. On 10.2, any values lower than the default have no effect

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