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In what the EFF describes as this far one of it's most successful petition drives over 32,000 people have signed an petition to halt the RIAA madness. If you agree with the petition we encourage you to submit your personal information and sign the document. [EFF]
The backlash of suing a 12 year old girl and the RIAA's actions of continuing to Sue individuals has some artist upset and wondering what thought process was put into there actions. [Arstechnica]
If you are surfing the net and your computer does not have a firewall installed let me be the first one to slap you upside the head. Be for-warned that you are asking for trouble and if you do not mind strangers surfing your hard-drive or coming home to a machine that acts like it is a 8088 than keep
Geek News Central does not condone DVD Piracy but we do support consumers fair use rights. The referenced article contains information on how to Rip a DVD [Short Media.com]
It is estimated that there will be 5 billion camera phones worldwide in 5 years. People are already filming crimes, news and other events by pure chance with digital cameras etc. Can you imagine the surveillance power of 5 billion camera phones. [David Galbraith] Companies are also developing jamming devices to prevent camera phones being used. [Cnet]
Must everything eventually be available for free on the Internet? Steve Lohr argues that all public digital data will eventually be free on the Internet, because it's too difficult to protect the intellectual property (IP) rights of the authors. However, making all creative work freely available disregards our resonsiblity to raise a well-intentioned and civil next generation.
Some Non tech News Comments Ironically the day we decided to start a vacation was also on the anniversary of one of the most tragic events in American History. Some had expressed concern that I was traveling on 9-11. Sometimes you just have to place faith in the system and that we did. Many have tried to go back to
The RIAA relentless attack on the citizens of the United States and there attack on a 12 year old girl who they charged with copyright violations is being offered a helping hand. The mother of the daughter agreed to a $2000.00 out of court settlement with the RIAA has been offered help by members of an P2P group. They have
Being I am officially on vacation and sitting at our final destination drinking a cup of coffee and having got out of bed when I wanted to I had to reflect on yesterday nightmare trip. We flew out of Honolulu at 8pm first going to LA. The service from the flight attendants and airline was poor they went through the
According to Nielsen//NetRatings, as of this summer almost 40 million U.S. Internet users connect via broadband at home.
Google's product search, Froogle has been redesigned. Lot of new features includes sort by price, grid view and a sidebar to do advanced searches. [Froogle]
If you do run XP you can check to see if your system is patched to protect you from the buffer overrun that the recent Blaster worm. [GRC]
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