FCC ruling on broadcast flags will effect computers
Cnet covers this story in about the same angle and perspective as I would take and is pretty hard hitting in that PC users are about to get screwed. [Cnet]
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November 2003
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Sony set to finally release a MP3 Player
A lot of people have been waiting for this consumer giant to release a MP3 player that will give the iPod a run for it's money. Some had speculated that the music branch of Sony had resisted. But it appears they are finally going to release a product. [DesignTechnica]
Microsoft forgets to renew hotmail.co.uk
I am pretty paranoid when it comes to my domain names I can not imagine screwing up like this. [The Register]
Gateway invoicing system revealing information!
Seems Gateway has a bit of a problem on there secure commerce site that allows you to look at other peoples orders. Luckily for Gateway the information shown does not show personal data or credit card info. I am betting once Gateway gets wind of these articles it will not be long before this particular "feature" will disappear. [Awholelotofnothing]
Largest Solar Flare seen in years
What the heck is going on with the Sun seems like for the past couple of weeks is all we have been hearing about is this gigantic solar flares. Luckily the one observed Tuesday which is one of the largest ever seen will not affect earth but could have registered as high as x20 on the scale use to measure
The new frontier digital bounty hunters
Microsoft it seems is set to put it's money where it's mouth is and offer a $250,000 reward leading to the arrest of whoever was responsible for 2 recent viruses. I am glad they are doing this but shouldn't they be offering a bounty to anyone that finds a bug seems that would be more of a incentive. [The Register]
FCC Adopts MPAA broadcast flag
There goes the neighborhood I personally think that by forcing this the FCC will essentially eliminate the fair use standard, now I may be wrong and the Slashdot writer seems to think that this is not going to affect fair use and should allow people to still record programs. I am not so sure with HDTV the fear or piracy
Free VOIP service coming?
Seems that VOIP is so cheap that Labatt's paid for phone service for a bunch of customers in Ontario. The only catch every-time they made a call people had to listed to a 10 second ad from Labatt's. I'll be hones with you for as little as I use my land-line in my house if someone was to offer me
Musicmatch set to lose big because of iTunes
Since the launch iTunes is reclaiming the Windows interface for the iPod and Musicmatch is crying in there wheaties. They are sending e-mails to Musicmatch users telling them to de-install iTunes to regain Musicmatch functionality. [Cnet]
AT&T to find out how expensive “Do Not Call” Calls will be
I hope the FCC follows thru and charges AT&T the 780,000 for bothering people who had signed up for the new call list. [ABCNEWS]
Diebold fight to suppress information lands them in court
Diebold who is a bit pissy about having some of it's internal e-mail documents being posted on the web from a grassroots student campaign who suggest Diebold has to close of an relationship with the Republican Party and that the e-mail conversations demonstrate its election software is flawed and should not be trusted. Those have been targeted are taking a
Drupal 4.3 released
This highly dynamic program is a built by a collaboration of programmers and is very dynamic. The base system is very powerful and with continuous effort to improve the code almost anything that people want built into the product can be done. Drupal in it's released form comes with a limited number or templates. But one of the biggest complaints
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