Comment Re:Slippery Slope continues. (Score 4, Informative) 305

by marcelC on Friday November 26, 2010 @01:33PM (#34351118) Attached to: US Government Seizes Torrent Search Engine Domain

ImmixGroup seems to have "been awarded a contract with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Cyber Crimes Center (C3)" http://www.immixgroup.com/news/pr_display.cfm?ID=117 . That would make a hoax unlikely.

Submission + - Finland to legalize use of unsecured WiFi (yle.fi)

Submitted by Apotekaren on Friday June 11, 2010 @07:12AM

Apotekaren writes: The Finnish Ministry of Justice has started preparing changes to the current law that criminalizes using unsecured wireless hot spots. The reasoning is the impossibility of tracking unlawful use, the ease of securing networks and the lack of real damage done by this this activity. It has also been proven hard for a user to know if an unsecured network is intended for public use or not. The increased ubiquity of legal open networks in parks, airports and other public places has also influenced this move by the Ministry of Justice. The Ministry has stated that the legal rights of the owner of the network have to be protected in the case of misuse.
Googles (poorly) translated version here.

Journal SPAM: Netbeans 6.0 4

Journal by stoolpigeon on Sunday October 21, 2007 @02:09PM

Netbeans 6.0 is currently in beta. The netbeans.org site says that release is scheduled for next month. There are already some very nice tutorials and documentation up for this new version of netbeans.

I'm already extremely pleased with netbeans. Most of the projects I play with are desktop apps, and I

Submission + - Law firm claims copyright on viewing HTML source 2

Submitted by on Thursday October 18, 2007 @01:32PM

An anonymous reader writes: A law firm with all sorts of interesting views on copyrights has decided to go the extra mile. As reported on Tech Dirt, they've decided that viewing the HTML source of their site is a violation of copyright. Poorly timed April Fools joke, or just some fancy lawyering?

Journal SPAM: Google Hacked? Spam Sites Infesting Search Results 207

Journal by Jeremiah Cornelius on Monday October 01, 2007 @02:24AM

The Google Watchdog blog is reporting that "Spam and virus sites infesting the Google SERPs in several categories" and speculates, ...Google's own index has been hacked. The circumvention of a guideline normally picked up by the Googlebot quickly is worrisome. The fact that none of the sites have real content and don't appear to even be hosted anywhere is even more scary. How did

Submission + - Miguel de Icaza supports OOXML

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 02, 2007 @04:57PM

An anonymous reader writes: Interesting bit, though you might want to know: On the Mexican vote for OOXML, Miguel De Icaza attended via phone, and expressed many points in favor of adopting the format. The is no transcript of the meeting, but there are a couple of ogg recordings: http://www.openintelligence.com.mx/downloads/Migue l_Alex_Pop_SC34.ogg (in spanish).

Submission + - NASA think tank to be shut down

Submitted by

Matthew Sparkes

on Wednesday March 21, 2007 @06:58AM

Matthew Sparkes writes: "NASA will likely shut down its Institute for Advanced Concepts, which funds research into futuristic ideas in spaceflight and aeronautics. The move highlights the budget problems the agency is facing as it struggles to retire the space shuttles and develop a replacement. The institute receives $4 million per year from NASA, whose annual budget is $17 billion. Most of that is used to fund research into innovative technologies; recent grants include the conceptual development of spacecraft that could surf the solar system on magnetic fields, motion-sensitive spacesuits that could generate power and tiny, spherical robots that could explore Mars."