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No, it's not new news. Or even new news. ;-) I didn't do an exhaustive search but I found this article on /. The links contained here point to the exact same copy that was on news.com by Declan that was later covered and published as "Fahrenheit FBI" This appears to be the text picked up as new news by the crack team of editors here at /. for this pointless blurb. What a difference 5 whole days (several months ago) can make?

If the US court system was working properly they would know the game was up, and not waste their time.

Originally, the FEC extempted the Internet entirely from regulation, but a court said they weren't allowed to do so. Quoting CNet:

In 2002, the FEC exempted the Internet by a 4-2 vote, but U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly last fall overturned that decision. "The commission's exclusion of Internet communications from the coordinated communications regulation severely undermines" the campaign finance law's purposes, Kollar-Kotelly wrote.

There is a solution that would stop the Internet from being regulated at all by the FEC. The judge's decision is based on the premise that campaign finance law applies to the Internet. So, Sen. Harry Reid has a solution: a bill that would add one single sentence to campaign finance law exempting "communications over the Internet."

Correct. It's only illegal to stream video on the internet without a license from Acacia Technologies.

It's been debated whether Mac users are smarter people than Windows users. Remember this article?

It stands to reason that anyone 'switching' to a Mac from Windows will have to learn a few things, and in the process, become a better/smarter computer user overall.

I haven't looked into Janus much, but this ZDNet article mentions that Dell, Creative, and Rio will be offering mp3 players supporting Janus. Some players that support it:

Creative Zen Portable Media Center
iRiver PMC-120
Gateway MP3 Photo Jukebox (4GB)
iRiver H10 (5GB)
iRiver H320 (20GB)

That's nice and all, but I don't imagine a lot of people are inclined to sign-up for an MBNA account, just to get decent CC security.

What would surely be useful for most people, is if a major CC company offered similar features on all their cards. This isn't hypothetical, actually, as American Express has been doing this for years now: http://news.com.com/2100-1017-245428.html?legacy=c net

Can't figure out why Visa or MasterCard haven't done this yet. Perhaps they need to lose a few loyal customers first.

• Another Microsoft-sponsored study proved that Linux is less secure than Windows.
• Another rant by the what's-his-name Institute of Lies, Damn lies, and Distortion proved that Linux is a legal time bomb ticking away.

You dont enter any kind of contract when you buy a knife, you are only bound my felony law. It is NOT an agreement between you and the knife manufacturer to not stab anyone, it is a felony.

When buying a music CD, you dont enter in a contract. You signed nothing, and havent even stated to agree with anything. You are bound by copyright law, both in canada and in the USA.

In Canada, fair use includes copies for yourself, or copies of your friend's cds. In the usa it only includes the copies for yourself.

In the USA, no manufacturer/label can say 'this person cannot make fair use copies of this cd'. There is no law against it.

With the DMCA in the USA, you cannot circumvent encryption, etc, to make this fair use copy. This makes copying dvds for yourself illegal. No such law exists (yet) in canada.

Look here

and here

Making copies of my friend's CDs is infact legal. Downloading is a muddy area, but the court has ruled it legal. Here is a news story that talks about the ruling.

http://msn.com.com/2100-1009_22-5634315.html?part= msn&tag=feed_2514&subj=ns_5634315

"Commentary--Evidence is a slippery commodity, especially when it comes in digital form."

[New methods eyed for buying movies]
http://msn-cnet.com.com/New+methods+eyed+for+buyin g+movies/2100-1026_3-5615685.html?part=msn-cnet&su bj=ns_3-5615685&tag=tg_news
"Want to get rid of that old DVD box set of "The Best of Barnaby Jones?" Peerflix has the site for you."

[Feds get set for Net rules]
http://msn-cnet.com.com/Feds+get+set+for+Net+rules /2100-1028_3-5634670.html?part=msn-cnet&tag=feed_2 501&subj=ns_5634670
"WASHINGTON--The Federal Election Commission has begun the perilous process of including political blogs and Web sites in campaign finance rules that were created long before the Internet became such a powerful political tool."

http://msn.com.com/2100-1009_22-5634315.html?part= msn&tag=feed_2514&subj=ns_5634315

"Commentary--Evidence is a slippery commodity, especially when it comes in digital form."

[New methods eyed for buying movies]
http://msn-cnet.com.com/New+methods+eyed+for+buyin g+movies/2100-1026_3-5615685.html?part=msn-cnet&su bj=ns_3-5615685&tag=tg_news
"Want to get rid of that old DVD box set of "The Best of Barnaby Jones?" Peerflix has the site for you."

[Feds get set for Net rules]
http://msn-cnet.com.com/Feds+get+set+for+Net+rules /2100-1028_3-5634670.html?part=msn-cnet&tag=feed_2 501&subj=ns_5634670
"WASHINGTON--The Federal Election Commission has begun the perilous process of including political blogs and Web sites in campaign finance rules that were created long before the Internet became such a powerful political tool."

http://msn.com.com/2100-1009_22-5634315.html?part= msn&tag=feed_2514&subj=ns_5634315

"Commentary--Evidence is a slippery commodity, especially when it comes in digital form."

[New methods eyed for buying movies]
http://msn-cnet.com.com/New+methods+eyed+for+buyin g+movies/2100-1026_3-5615685.html?part=msn-cnet&su bj=ns_3-5615685&tag=tg_news
"Want to get rid of that old DVD box set of "The Best of Barnaby Jones?" Peerflix has the site for you."

[Feds get set for Net rules]
http://msn-cnet.com.com/Feds+get+set+for+Net+rules /2100-1028_3-5634670.html?part=msn-cnet&tag=feed_2 501&subj=ns_5634670
"WASHINGTON--The Federal Election Commission has begun the perilous process of including political blogs and Web sites in campaign finance rules that were created long before the Internet became such a powerful political tool."

Ever hear of the "Made for ipod" Logo?
http://news.com.com/Apple+seeks+tax+on+iPod+access ories/2100-1041_3-5620959.html

It's an APPLE logo

According to news.com.com.com.com, IBM is working on something similar...

According to a CNET article I read on this, only a linux version will be released (see last paragraph here. They are explicitly NOT releasing a windows version this time, presumably to minimize any antagonization of Apple by limiting it to such a small target audience that doesn't have "sanctioned" options to shop on iTunes.

I don't mean to go offtopic, but is Slashdot regularly slower than other tech sites? Are Boingboing and news.com usually so fast (at ~100 minutes)?

Done

C|net reports its back open... Way to go DVD Jon!

DVD Jon and two other programmers have released software they call "PyMusique", that allows people to connect to Apple's iTunes music store and purchase songs without any copyright protection. PyMusique is allegedly being described by its developers as "the fair interface to the ITunes Music Store". This software lets users download songs from Apple iTunes without Digital Rights Management (DRM). The software prevents the DRM from being applied, allowing the user to copy, share and use the downloaded song like an MP3 file.

It was always too good to last. Apple has stamped on an attempt to make it possible to purchase songs from the company's iTunes Music Store without having DRM restrictions added to the downloads. In a statement, the Mac maker announced last night that it was henceforth requiring all ITMS customers to upgrade to version 4.7 of Apple's iTunes jukebox software. iTunes 4.7 was released late last year, and is already notable for nobbling DRM-stripping utility Hymn.

A group of underground programmers has posted code online they say will reopen a back door in Apple Computer's iTunes store, allowing Linux computer users to purchase music free of copy protection. The release comes just a day after Apple blocked a previous version of the program, called PyMusique, in part by requiring all iTunes customers to use the latest version of Apple's software.

DVD Jon and two other programmers have released software they call "PyMusique", that allows people to connect to Apple's iTunes music store and purchase songs without any copyright protection. PyMusique is allegedly being described by its developers as "the fair interface to the ITunes Music Store". This software lets users download songs from Apple iTunes without Digital Rights Management (DRM). The software prevents the DRM from being applied, allowing the user to copy, share and use the downloaded song like an MP3 file.

It was always too good to last. Apple has stamped on an attempt to make it possible to purchase songs from the company's iTunes Music Store without having DRM restrictions added to the downloads. In a statement, the Mac maker announced last night that it was henceforth requiring all ITMS customers to upgrade to version 4.7 of Apple's iTunes jukebox software. iTunes 4.7 was released late last year, and is already notable for nobbling DRM-stripping utility Hymn.

A group of underground programmers has posted code online they say will reopen a back door in Apple Computer's iTunes store, allowing Linux computer users to purchase music free of copy protection. The release comes just a day after Apple blocked a previous version of the program, called PyMusique, in part by requiring all iTunes customers to use the latest version of Apple's software.

yay!

For some of us, it's mostly about the other non-gaming features such as music, photos, video, and Wi-Fi. The games are a very nice bonus.

At $250 plus $120 for a 1GB Memory Stick Duo, I would get more value out of a PSP than a Portable Media Center or an iPod. For playing MP3's, the screen can be turned off and battery life will be long enough (about 10 hours) to be an acceptable music player. For photos, the PSP's 4.3" 480x272 screen blows away the screens on the iPod Photo and other photo-viewing music players. For videos, the PSP can play MPEG-4 video from the memory stick. Articles from CNET and the San Jose Mercury News hint that the built-in Wi-Fi will eventually be used for web browsing and e-mail. As a baseball fan, I'd love to be able to download stats at the ballpark.

Having all these features in one (non-phone) device is attractive to me. At only $250, Sony is making me reconsider my plans to buy a Dell Axim.

iTunes 4.7 has been out for almost half a year.

"Only about 15 percent of iTunes users would be affected by the need to upgrade to the latest version of the software, the company said in its statement." (source)

Verbatim's Store 'n' Go Pro has software that lets you take your desktop with you. I haven't used it, but my supervisor showed it to me.

...but Apple's patent application was first.

How long until Apple forces IBM to remove it or pay royalties?

Intel is trying to release Linux drivers at the same they release hardware. They are also trying to create a hardware copatability matrix. If you are a system builder or VAR this would be very helpfull. Some background:
http/news.com.com/Intel+more+active+in+desktop+Lin ux/2100-7344_3-5465225.html?tag=nefd.top/ http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstech nology/2002099285_intelasialinux24.html/ http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstech nology/2002099285_intelasialinux24.html/ http://techrepublic.com.com/5100-22_11-5465929.htm l?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=tr/

I don't know about their agenda, but I could make some educated guesses based on Orin's connections:

His son is a lawyer representing SCO.

Who do you think has more opportunities to ply Orin full of IP law ideas, his constituents, or his son? Orin's senate career is a failure, and if he thinks bitch-slapping the American Public will change that, he has everything ass-backwards. As usual.

Then Pentium Pro also has its infamous bug.

Apple can pursue fan site sources

Time Warner Cable's VoIP service only uses IP only over their own network. Their network delivers calls to Sprint or MCI. From then on the calls are handled just like "regular" phone calls.

I'm pretty sure that the numbers will even further increase when Longhorn comes out with a working Digital Restrictions Management.

Is that even really an issue anymore?

Here it says "the software maker stressed that Longhorn will work regardless of whether the Next Generation Secure Computing Base (NGSCB) is enabled."

Also
Has Microsoft killed off its secure computing architecture?

Perhaps someone who knows more about this than I do can comment.

The doctors wrote software that integrates the ipod.. And had their employers buy them ipods..

Pure Geuinus..

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What does this mean for Minimo (Mozilla's mini-browser that was funded/supported by Nokia)?

No idea.

It's been less than a year since they announced their financial support for the project,.

The funding actually started in 2003, though.

I know the mozilla foundation released a few early versions for Windows CE/Pocket, but I haven't heard anything about the mobile phone version.

Windows on Pocket PC (Windows Mobile for Pocket PC) is basically the same as Windows on mobiles (Windows Mobile for Smartphone). So it already works on phones.

I wouldn't be worried too much about Minimo going away. The Mozilla Foundation hired Doug Turner away from AOL (formerly Netscape) last December to work on it full time. The Minimo project site has been update recently too and is worth a quick browse if you're interested in the current state of things.

What does this mean for Minimo (Mozilla's mini-browser that was funded/supported by Nokia)? It's been less than a year since they announced their financial support for the project,. I know the mozilla foundation released a few early versions for Windows CE/Pocket, but I haven't heard anything about the mobile phone version.

You didn't say it directly, but it's worth bringing out: Stand-alone TiVo's record an analog signal, and digitize it and compress it itself.

In early 2006, a TiVo is coming out that allows this. CableCARD is what you desire. A dual tuner CableCARD TiVo will be released that will be compatible with all (U.S., not sure about the rest of you) cable/digital cable standards, QAM. I can't seem to dig up pictures of it now, but a prototype was shown at the most recent CES.

I'm sure that for these, the digital stream will be recorded directly to hard drive like the DirecTV units do. The current HD TiVo does with over-the-air ATSC broadcasts already.

--falz

Resource limits are the purview of the system administrator. Limits are entirely configurable. Most major brands of Linux now ship with MAC based on SELINUX, or GRSecurity. An untrusted user is put into a very restrictive environment by default including caps on all resources.

Additionally the author furthered his deception by using broad terms such as "Red Hat". Red Hat might mean 7.x, 8.x, 9.x, Fedora 1, Fedora 2, Fedora 3, RHEL 3, RHEL 4. All of these variations are still in use, but the most recent versions have a completely different resource control and security framework than earlier versions. By avoiding any specifics, he paints his smear with a very wide brush. Failing to distinguish between server and desktop also adds to the confusion.

Empirical evidence alone demonstrates that his assertions are wrong. Linux is deployed far more widely than any other free operating system. Last year over $5 billion dollars in Linux server revnue. was generated. We are talking big names -- HP, IBM, Sun, and Dell. The next closest free operating system didn't even generate 1/1000 of Linux revenue. Think about that. With such large Linux market penetration, any serious vulnerability would have long ago surfaced.

It is important to track true vulnerabilities, and not angels-on-pinhead hypotheticals. The erroneous opinions of Jason Miller fall into the latter category.

That said, there ARE website-based popups/unders that get past Firefox's blocker:

October 14, 2004:

• "Pop-ups are a cat-and-mouse game," said Bart Decrem, a spokesman for the Mozilla Foundation, creator of Firefox. "We are continually improving our pop-up blocker, and content developers are constantly developing a way to get around the pop-up blockers."

One way popups seem to be getting through on Firefox is via the Flash plugin (see those pages for an easy way to prevent this). Though as Bart says, there have been other ways in the past, and if there are any other ways left, the marketers will certainly find a way.

In a test conducted by CNET News.com, a DVD treated with TDK's coating survived a determined attack with a screwdriver and a Sharpie permanent marker with no effect on playability

Slashcode totally borked that URL. Sorry

Nope. It's in line for IE7

I was lucky enough to see the page before it was taken down, but a (non-zoomed) screenshot is linked from the article.

Their latest idea is to outsource the drive-through talker. The drive-through intercom will be remoted to an offsite location, where the order will be keyed into the kitchen computer network.

If we had a $15/hr minimum wage, we'd see far more robotics and automation. But what would we do with all the excess people? We tried this.

From the petition against Microsoft's decision:

"By providing a new version of a COM-based Visual Basic within the Visual Studio IDE, Microsoft will help maintain the value of its clients' existing code, demonstrate its ongoing commitment to the core Visual Basic language, and greatly simplify the adoption of VB.NET by those that wish to do so."

Supposedly the beefing up of VB was in response to the industrial capabilities of Java. Ironically, if MS alienates enough developer partners by cutting of support for VB 6, those folks may end up heading toward Sun or IBM anyway.

486? Eh? Are you quite mad? ;-) Thats a jolly good computer if I ever saw one. Try this one for size:

Its not the sort of OS I'd use on anything from a teensy-weensy wrist-watch to a cellphone to a PDA to an everyday desktop computer to a tv set-top box to a 512 CPU SGI system at all.

Do they think those of us that represent large corps are just mindless drones making our decision based on their esteemed brilliance? They may be the industry experts, but lets face it, their conclusions are to support their own best interests not ours and rightfully so. On second thought, groups like this probably do have an impact on our the decision making process. Just not in the way they planned! P.S. Isn't Solaris 10 supposed to be open source? http://news.com.com/2100-7344_3-5364052.html

Google is buying up the dark fiber for the bandwidth requirements. Is fiber fast enough for ya? http://news.com.com/Google+wants+dark+fiber/2100-1 034_3-5537392.html?tag=nefd.top

Even when companies do well, they die.

• Microsoft kills off it's most popular programming languages by "forking" it internally.
• The WinNT fork is killing Win98 so my only windows machine is no longer supported. Debian stable is still around.
• Oracle will kill peoplesoft. If it were open sourced forks could continue.
• HPUX, Ultrix, etc will die; while HP's Linux will continue.

information is only a google away.

According to CNET Linux had 27% of all server shipments in 2000 up from 25% the previous year.

IT facts says 'Linux server revenues grew 54.6% in Q2 2004 and unit shipments jumped more than 61% while Windows server revenue grew 13.2% and unit shipments up 25.3%.

ASP.NET might be faster but it only runs on 1 platform and its not even close to as widley deplpoyed as PHP nor is there that many free applications available written in ASP.NET to push adoption. For your own personal stuff or internal applications, sure ASP.NET is nice but if you want to write a web app for the masses, PHP is basically the only way to go.

Also, In the last 6 months I've made close to $30,000 porting Access applications to the LAMP platform. Almost enough for a Mercedes!! Npting like telling a customer they don't have to buy any new servers or software. They usually end up spending more money adding features to the application.

While I was going to submit this as a story, it would seem more appropriate as a link from this one.

News.com has an interesting article talking about how bot nets have migrated mainly from DoS to wide-spread spys. A growing increase in bot nets have been used to gather sensitive identity information and install adware and spyware. The Honeynet Project estimates that some of the networks are made up of more than 50,000 computers.

While I was going to submit this as a story, it would seem more appropriate as a link from this one.

News.com has an interesting article talking about how bot nets have migrated mainly from DoS to wide-spread spys. A growing increase in bot nets have been used to gather sensitive identity information and install adware and spyware. The Honeynet Project estimates that some of the networks are made up of more than 50,000 computers.