Posted on July 23rd, 2008 by Administration
The MPAA is petitioning the FCC to lard cable television with “selectable output control,” a DRM system that allows broadcasters to specify which of your TV devices can decode which shows. With selectable output control, parts of your home theater would go dark as you flipped up and down the dial: this show won’t play [...]
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Posted on July 21st, 2008 by Administration
Terry Childs, the former IT administrator accused of kidnapping the city of San Francisco’s data network, is ready to give up the administrative passwords to the system, his attorney said yesterday.
Childs is accused of changing all of the city’s network passwords so that only he could access the network, which contains email, payroll, law enforcement, [...]
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Posted on July 15th, 2008 by Administration
Pretty good deal, and the first time I’ve seen Amazon offer this kind of Blu-ray special…
Now through July 27, the Amazon DVD team is offering a special Buy 2 Get 1 Free promotion on over 100 Blu-ray titles. This is a fantastic opportunity for your customers to start building their Blu-ray libraries with Amazon’s great [...]
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Posted on July 2nd, 2008 by Administration
My mom has been struggling for months trying to figure out what to tell me regarding Britney’s sister. It’s vital to my development as a human being so she has to get it right. Ugh.
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Posted on June 23rd, 2008 by Administration
The net could see its biggest transformation in decades if plans to open up the address system are passed.
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Posted on June 18th, 2008 by Administration
MySpace can collect $6 million from a notorious Internet marketer accused by the popular online hangout of spamming its users.
An arbitrator has ruled that Scott Richter and his Web marketing company, Media Breakaway LLC of Westminster, Colo., must pay MySpace $4.8 million in damages and $1.2 million in attorney’s fees for barraging MySpace members with [...]
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Posted on June 13th, 2008 by Administration
Gary McKinnon could become the first British hacker extradited to the U.S. for allegedly deleting data and accessing information on U.S. military and NASA computers.
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Posted on June 11th, 2008 by Administration
SURPRISE, Ariz. — A 97-year-old Surprise woman who has voted in the past 19 presidential elections said she finds herself a casualty in the voter ID battle.
Shirley Preiss cannot register in Arizona for the November elections without proof of citizenship.
“I’m a legal American,” Preiss said. “I’m born here. Born and raised in America.”
The Arizona law [...]
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Posted on June 7th, 2008 by Administration
I really don’t see the need for solid state storage when hard drives are so cheap, so large, and keep getting faster.
Western Digital developing 20,000RPM Raptor to take on SSDs?
You read that right. Bit-tech has it from “several sources close to the hard drive industry” that Western Digital is working on a 20,000RPM followup to [...]
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Posted on June 2nd, 2008 by Administration
H1, one of the data center owned by The Planet in Houston, Texas has caught fire resulting in thousands of websites being offline. According to an estimate 9000 servers are affected and they are currently down.
The Planet one of the largest privately held dedicated server hosting provider, has six wholly owned and managed state-of-the-art data [...]
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Posted on June 2nd, 2008 by Administration
This article could have also been titled: “Study concludes that dudes don’t want to lose half their stuff”
Bachelor Carl Weisman got fed up of being classified as a playboy, a loser or a commitment-phobe so he set out to find out exactly why he and a growing number of eligible men were steering clear of [...]
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Posted on May 29th, 2008 by Administration
Talk about a gas guzzler… Police seized a truck and trailer equipped with a trap door that was used at least three times to siphon thousands of gallons of BP diesel fuel from underground storage tanks at a Tic Toc Food Mart in Mercer County.
“You got to have a little respect for this,” Hermitage police [...]
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Posted on May 11th, 2008 by Administration
A Website set up by the Epilepsy Foundation has been hit by hackers, according to an Associated Press report.
An official with the foundation said computer hackers breached the foundation’s site, bombarding it with hundreds of pictures and links to pages with rapidly flashing images.
The images can be harmful to people with photosensitive epilepsy, who sometimes [...]
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Posted on May 2nd, 2008 by Administration
While I don’t think this is huge news (Flash “effects and transitions” are “slow and annoying”), it’s still good to see more open source platforms.
Flash’s future lies in media delivery (youtube, gawker, etc) in which they now compete with Silverlight.
Having TV’s able to access hulu and iplayer would be cool but I don’t think it [...]
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Posted on April 23rd, 2008 by Administration
Huh?!? Apple offered OSX for free, but was declined for not being open source. Now they’re going with Windows?!? Will OLPC = “One License Per Child” now? I don’t really see the purpose of using a commercial OS, on a stripped down laptop, for third world countries, when it requires more resources and costs more. [...]
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