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Yahoo Hacker 'Mafiaboy' Eight Years On 183

Posted by CmdrTaco on Monday October 13, 2008 @09:15AM from the cashing-in-on-your-crimes dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Eight years ago Mafiaboy (Michael Calce) knocked Yahoo offline. Today he he works as a legitimate security consultant and has just published a book documenting his criminal career and offering advice on how people can protect themselves from people like him on the Internet."

Microsoft Says Free Software Violates 235 Patents 1217

Posted by Zonk on Sunday May 13, 2007 @08:26PM from the rut-roh-raggy dept.

prostoalex writes "Microsoft told Fortune magazine that various free software products violate at least 235 patents, and it's time to expect users of this software to pay up patent licensing royalties: 'Microsoft General Counsel Brad Smith and licensing chief Horacio Gutierrez sat down with Fortune recently to map out their strategy for getting FOSS users to pay royalties. Revealing the precise figure for the first time, they state that FOSS infringes on no fewer than 235 Microsoft patents.'"

Comment Re:how so? (Score 1) 297

by sn4ip3r on Wednesday February 21, 2007 @10:21PM (#18104226) Attached to: The World's First National Internet Election

Wikipedia on Municipality: "In most countries, a municipality is the smallest administrative subdivision to have its own democratically elected representative leadership.". So the "local assembly" is just a leadership of the municipality, nothing "Soviet" about it.

The Nanopowers of Spinach 53

Posted by Zonk on Saturday September 09, 2006 @07:44PM from the i-yam-what-i-yam-and-that's-all-that-i-yam dept.

Roland Piquepaille writes "Ohio University physicists have used a simple molecule of chlorophyll taken from spinach to develop a complex nanobiological switch. They used a scanning tunneling microscope (STM) to image chlorophyll-a and then injected it with a single electron to manipulate the molecule into four positions. The researchers say this biological switch might be used in future applications for green energy, technology and medicine. Read more for additional pictures and references about this spinach-based biological switch."

Azureus Inc. Moves Toward Commercialization 290

Posted by CowboyNeal on Saturday April 29, 2006 @11:11AM from the buy-this dept.

SamBob writes "Future releases of the most popular BitTorrent client, Azureus, will come bundled with a 'platform' for media companies to promote their product to Azureus' multi-million users, reports Slyck.com. Azureus Inc., who are the newly formed company behind the Azureus software, plan to generate a profit from the platform in the future, but in the short-term are hoping to help independent film companies find their audience."

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