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A New Jersey woman who has been charged with file swapping by the RIAA, brought out the big guns and has countersued the big record labels. She is charging them with extortion and violations of the federal racketeering act. Hopefully the court will not dismiss the charges and force the RIAA into court where all of this dirty laundry can
Some of you will laugh as we are quite a ways away from the release of Longhorn to the masses. Microsoft will be ready in May to lay out hardware requirements. They will be releasing all of the API's to vendors so that they can write drivers to the new operating system. [ZDNet]
You might scratch your head and say who would pay $8000.00 for a computer these days. Well from what this thing supposedly has under the hood it may be well worth $8000.00 [Design Technica]
I have been using Mozilla 1.5 for a while along with Internet Explorer but tonight I am going to give the Firefox build of Mozilla a try for the following reasons. [Flexbeta]
It has to be exciting times over at JPL they are digging trenches and cruising all over the place with the 2 rovers which continue to give us a hell of a bang for our mighty tax dollar. [NASA JPL]
Seems things keep falling off the International Space Station. All of this junk in orbit makes for tricky driving when your headed outbound. I would imagine in another 100 years we are going to have to send some satellites up in orbit whose job it is to vacuum up the landscape. [MSNBC]
A very cool test done by a guy to start with a master CD and then make copies till he reached the 100th generation copy of the master utilizing different computers and CD media. [DSLWebserver] Thanks to Lockergnome for the Link.
This is a great deal. I ordered one for my mom who is stuck on a really slow dial-up and has to spend many hours on-line just downloading patches. This should help catch her up. [Microsoft]
When will the madness end. It seems the RIAA filed another 531 John Doe lawsuits against individuals that they are accusing of copyright infringement. What is sad is how the press is not covering these events and digging around to find out who the RIAA is targeting. [CNet]
While in Texas last time the hotel I was in did not have broadband and the best connection I could get way 24.4 via dial-up. After suffering for 2 days I slapped my forehead and plugged in my WiFi card. What blew me away was out of the 5 or so SSID that showed up being available with good signal
Seems the hackers have been pouring over the segments of Windows code that was released and have found a vulnerability and crafted a exploit. To think what would happen if all of Windows 2000/NT code had been released. One things for sure I bet Microsoft will be looking at those segments to clean up any weak code. [The Register]
I am not a programmer but I do a significant amount of Alpha/Beta testing for different companies. I even have access to source code on several of the projects. It is always entertaining to look at the comments programmers place in the source. Seems the programmers at Microsoft are no different. [Bink.nu]
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