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Web profile no defense to statutory rape

Honest belief that a female is over 18 is generally a defense to a statutory rap charge, but apparently relying on someone's web profile is not enough. Ars Technica reports that a federal judge threw out a suit by a man who sued SexSearch.com, an X-rated personals service. "John...

Tags: Web, Minor, Communications Decency Act, SexSearch.com, John Doe, ZDNet Government

Blog posts 2007-08-30

Courts continue to immunize community sites under CDA Section 230, but what about the Live Web?

Courts continue to immunize community sites under CDA Section 230, but what about the Live Web?editing doesn't make sites liableYou said, "...if a site exercises a sufficient amount of editorial control over the third party material, this can lead a court to conclude it is no longer wholly a third...

Tags: Regulations, Web, Communications Decency Act, Carafano, CDA Section 230

Discussion threads 2007-02-27

Courts continue to immunize community sites under CDA Section 230, but what about the Live Web?

Hard on the heels of a Texas district courts recent decision to dismiss claims against MySpace, Howard Bashman spotted a recent Section 230 decision out of the First Circuit that continues in this vein, and emphasizes the clear judicial trend of applying Section 230s protections to Web sites acting as...

Tags: User generated content, Mashups, Defamation, Podcasting, Live Web, Free speech, Copyright, Blogging, Anonymity

Blog posts 2007-02-26

Storm Player Exotic (exe)

It's a media player for windows platform. Feature of this player is simplicity in use, fast enough work, support skins (109 skins are default included), support of the most popular for today video and audio formats. Besides the player supports work with Winamp plug-ins (8 plug-ins are default included). So,...

Tags: Player, Communications Decency Act, Plug-in, Home Programming, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics

Software downloads 2006-05-12

Advanced Audio Converter/Extractor (exe)

Converts audio formats from one to another, extract audio from video or record audio to HD. The audio encoder / decoder Converts to and from WAV PCM WAV sound files, MPG, MP1, MP2, MP3 (MPEG layer-3), WMA Windows Media Audio, ALF2, ADPCM, GSM, G.726, DSP, A-LAW, ACM, U-LAW, Ogg Vorbis,...

Tags: Audio, CD, WMA, Communications Decency Act, WAV, MP3, WAV/MP3, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics

Software downloads 2005-09-15

OSS Audio Converter Pro (exe)

Converts audio formats from one to another, extract audio from video or record audio to HD. Converts to/from WAV PCM, MPG, MP1, MP2, MP3 ( MPEG Layer-3 ), WMA Windows Media Audio , ALF2, ADPCM, GSM, G.726, DSP, A-LAW, ACM, U-LAW, Ogg Vorbis, CDA Audio CD Tracks ...

Tags: Audio, CD, WMA, Communications Decency Act, WAV, MP3, WAV/MP3, Digital Music, Digital Media, Regulations, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Government

Software downloads 2004-10-11

State Agency Improves Decision-Making; Boosts Efficiency With Existing Infrastructure

The Colorado Department of Agriculture CDA works to uphold the quality and safety of the state's animal feed-supply. Inspectors were using a paper-bound process for inspecting the state's feed manufacturing facilities, and for mailing inspection forms to CDA offices to be recorded manually. This double data-entry process was inefficient and...

Tags: Agency, Decision-making, Communications Decency Act, Microsoft Corp., Regulations, Microsoft Office, Government, Office Suites, Software

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Software makers may sue eBay

Tired of being "stiff-armed" by eBay, the Software and Information Industry Association is signaling its ready to sue over pirated software sales on the dominant online auction site, PC World reports. SIIA has offered eBay several suggestions for stemming the sale of pirated software on...

Tags: Software, Software Information Industry Association, eBay Inc., Tiffany, Tools & Techniques, Piracy, Sales Strategy, Management, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Sales, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-07-25

What paper trail?

I've been carting around my latest sheaf of press releases about the green-ness of electronic document technology for weeks now. Yes, as I've blogged before, I am still one of those people who can't help printing out certain emails in order to act on them. Yes, it's bad, I know....

Tags: Xerox Corp., Paper Trail, Survey, Printers, Data Centers, Marketing Research, Hardware, Peripherals, Storage, Data Management, Marketing, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-07-25

Offshore outsourcers likely to beef up security following Bangalore blasts

A series of bombs have exploded in Bangalore and companies that have technology operations in India are likely to need increased security precautions following what appears to be a terrorist attack. According to various reports from Reuters and Rediff.com, nine bomb blasts have rattled Bangalore, which hosts...

Tags: India, Bangalore, Rediff.com India Ltd., Sacchin Uppal, Outsourcing, Business Security, Security, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-07-25

IDA Disassembler on the iPhone? Yep.

Ilfak Guilfanov has reported that IDA has been ported to the iPhone. Unbelievable? Yes. Is it useful? Who cares! IDA on the iPhone is hot! Don't act like you don't want IDA for your iPhone, you know you do. ...

Tags: Apple iPhone, IDA, Blogging, Internet, Nathan McFeters

Blog posts 2008-07-25

Scrabble-Scrabulous standoff spells L-A-W-S-U-I-T

Hasbro said it has filed suit in the Southern District of New York against Rajat Agarwalla, Jayant Agarwalla, and RJ Softwares, better known as the creators of the popular Facebook application Scrabulous. It was only a matter of time before the Scrabble-Scrabulous feud came to a head, and that...

Tags: Facebook, Hasbro Inc., Games, Intellectual Property, Personal Technology, Research & Development, Business Operations, lawsuit, Scrabulous, Hasbro, Tom Magrino, GameSpot

News items 2008-07-25

Google's $10M, no, $100M Android Challenge

So does Google have anything up its sleeve, when it comes to the Android mobile communications platform? It better have. Because expectations keep getting lowered. And Apple keeps raising the ante, at least in getting attention for new mobile applications. According to a Forbes.com...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Developer, Google Inc., Phone, Mobile, Android, Advertising & Promotion, Telecom & Utilities, Marketing, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2008-07-24

Microsoft buys DATAllegro

Microsoft on Thursday said that it will acquire DATAllegro, which makes data warehouse appliances. The purchase is expected to "extend the capabilities of Microsoft's mission critical platform," according to a statement. DATAllegro will ride shotgun with other software to manage data and give the software giant one...

Tags: Data Warehouse, Server, Microsoft Corp., DATAllegro, Business Intelligence, Storage, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Hardware, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-07-24

COPA suffers another blow

InformationWeek is reporting on the latest blow to the Child Online Protection Act, or COPA. COPA imposes heavy fines on libraries and schools among other institutions that fail to prevent children from "content harmful to minors." If you're asking just what constitutes "harmful to minors", so...

Tags: Child Online Protection Act, Minor, Regulations, Government, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-07-23

Attack code published for DNS flaw

Attack code published for DNS flawIrresponsible and evil"In an IM exchange, Moore told me his exploit takes about a minute or two to poison a DNS cache but said he is working to improve it in version 2.0."As far as i am concerened he is just an evil person to...

Tags: Domain names, Halvar, exploit, DNS

Discussion threads 2008-07-23

Can Ubuntu win the OS beauty pageant?

Can Ubuntu win the OS beauty pageant?Sure it canIf you are using gnome (Ubuntu's default desktop envrionment) just go to gnomelook.org and look at the screen shots people have posted. There are a lot of creative folks out there. It's pretty easy to make gnome look and act like auqa....

Tags: Apple Mac OS, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Desktops, Compiz-fusion, Even Linux, Ubuntu, operating system

Discussion threads 2008-07-23

COPA is unconstitutional

The Third Circuit has upheld a lower court decision that the Child Online Protection Act is unconstitutional, AP reports. In its ruling Tuesday, the federal appeals court concluded that the Child Online Protection Act is unconstitutionally overly broad and vague. The court also ruled that...

Tags: Child Online Protection Act, Parental Control, Third Circuit, Regulations, Government, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-07-23

Enterprise Service Busted?

Enterprise Service Busted?ESBsIt really depends on your environment. My company is a medium sized company and we did not have any middleware. For us the ESB made a lot of sense. If you already have middleware, you may not need an ESB. You might be set...

Tags: Middleware, Enterprise Service Bus

Discussion threads 2008-07-23

NY gov signs game bill into law

New York State legislation that will have made it illegal to sell or rent some violent games to minors was signed was signed into law. A bill that will have made it illegal to sell or rent some violent games to minors was signed into law Tuesday by New...

Tags: Law, Minor, Games, Personal Technology, video games, video game violence, Nintendo DS, New York, Brendan Sinclair, GameSpot

News items 2008-07-23