From our friends at Slashdot we see this news…
“The RIAA is opposing Ms. Lindor’s request for discovery into the agreements among the record company competitors by which they have agreed to settle and prosecute their cases together, by which she seeks to support her Fourth Affirmative Defense (pdf) alleging that ‘The plaintiffs, who are competitors, [...]
Archive for June, 2007
RIAA Wants Agreements to Stay Secret
Posted in General Interest on June 30, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Putin’s Arctic invasion: Russia lays claim to the North Pole – and all its gas, oil, and diamonds
Posted in General Interest on June 29, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Russian President Vladimir Putin is making an astonishing bid to grab a vast chunk of the Arctic – so he can tap its vast potential oil, gas and mineral wealth.
His scientists claim an underwater ridge near the North Pole is really part of Russia’s continental shelf.
One newspaper printed a map of the “new [...]
Microsoft Pays Bloggers to Tout MS Slogan
Posted in General Interest on June 28, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
From Slashdot and should be filed under the “I’m not Surprised Category”….
“In an effort to inject Microsoft’s latest slogan, ‘People-ready business’, into popular usage (and no doubt raise its Google page rank), Microsoft asked a passel of A List Bloggers to write blurbs on what this meaningless phrase means to them. Michael Arrington, Om Malik, [...]
University of Washington Will Aid RIAA
Posted in General Interest on June 27, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
This can’t be making folks happy in the northwest… from Slashdot
Several readers let us know that the University of Washington has announced that it will pass on RIAA settlement offer letters to students identified, presumably by IP address, as suspected file sharers. “The notices say offending students have 20 days to settle with the association [...]
Fresh Security Breaches At Los Alamos
Posted in General Interest on June 26, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
From our good friends at Slashdot we see this disturbing news…
“MSNBC is carrying Newsweek reporting on two new security breaches at Los Alamos. Both of these latest incidents were ‘human error’ on the part of employees. In one, an e-mail containing classified material was sent over the open Internet rather than through the secure defense [...]
Scientist Calls Mars a Terraforming Target
Posted in General Interest on June 25, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
From Slashdot we see this…
“Mars will be transformed into a shirt-sleeve, habitable world for humanity before century’s end, made livable by thawing out the coldish climes of the red planet and altering its now carbon dioxide-rich atmosphere. How best to carry out a fast-paced, decade by decade planetary face lift of Mars — a technique [...]
US Prepares for Eventual Cyberwar
Posted in General Interest on June 24, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
From Slashdot we read this…
Preparations in the works by the US government to prep for a ‘cyberwar’. Precautionary measures are being taken to guard against concerted attacks by politically-minded (or well-paid) hackers looking to cause havoc. Though they outline scenarios where mass damage is the desired outcome (such as remotely opening a dam’s gates to [...]
Robots To Replace Migrant Fruit Pickers
Posted in General Interest on June 23, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
From Slashdot we see more trouble brewing…
“As if the debate over immigration and guest worker programs wasn’t complicated enough, now a couple of robots are rolling into the middle of it. Vision Robotics, a San Diego company, is working on a pair of robots that would trundle through orchards plucking oranges, apples or other fruit [...]
Google: 25% Of Queries Are New & Adding Question Engine
Posted in General Interest on June 22, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
From our friends at Search Engine Land we see this story…
Google’s Udi Manber – Search is a Hard Problem from Read/Write Web has an interesting write up on a presentation Udi Manber, Google’s VP of Engineering, gave the other day at Supernova. In his presentation, he tried to explain why “search is a hard problem.” [...]
Microsoft Flip-flopping on Virtualization License
Posted in General Interest on June 21, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
A Slashdot post that should be filed under “Who didn’t see this coming”…
“Microsoft came within a few hours of reversing its EULA-based ban on the virtualization of Vista Basic and Premium, only to cancel the announcement at the last minute. The company reached out to media and bloggers about the announcement and was ready to [...]
Dell Refuses to Sell Ubuntu to Business
Posted in General Interest on June 20, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Slashdot is running with this news…
“I had a surreal experience with Dell today. My boss asked me to order a new computer for our small, non-profit business. Wanting to support Dell in their decision to sell computers with Ubuntu installed, I decided to order one. First, I talked to a small business representative, who informed [...]
Malware Pulls an “Italian Job” Malware Pulls an “Italian Job”
Posted in General Interest on June 19, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
A recent post on Slashdot brought us this news…
A number of readers sent us word about a malware attack that has been underway since Saturday that began with the compromise of more than 1,100 mostly Italian Web sites. Websense claims that more than 10,000 sites have been infected by now, 80% of them in Italy. [...]
RIAA Web Site Moved To Linux
Posted in General Interest on June 18, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
From our friends at Slashdot we read this…
“The RIAA has moved their main Web site www.riaa.com from IIS on Win2003 to Apache 2.2.3 on Red Hat. It appears that the move did not go smoothly as it resulted in an 8-hour downtime starting yesterday around noon, according to Netcraft. And the RIAA is still showing [...]
Frivolous litigation
Posted in General Interest on June 17, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
From the Times Online we see this strangeness…
There have been three litigations filed in Moon Area School District over the past three years.
The previous board majority members (Mary Tobin, Peggy Bell, Lisa Wolowicz and Mark Scappe) filed litigation against Moon Township regarding their Taj Mahal high school plan.
This was followed with a lawsuit by MoonRead [...]
The End of Broadcast TV as We Know It?
Posted in General Interest on June 16, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
From the good folks at Slashdot we see this…
“The DVR revolution is nothing that new—and neither is the Neilsen ratings company’s adaptation to it. But Glenn Derene at Popular Mechanics argues that users have officially pushed us into a new era of television, wherein viewers now shape the way that networks make money, which means [...]
