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RIAA defendant vows to fight on

Jammie Thomas will appeal the $222,000 verdict a jury handed down against her in the first filesharing infringement trial, she announced on MySpace page. She says her attorney "floored" her during a CNN appearance when asked what her next step would be. But surprise, surprise, my...

Tags: Theory, RIAA, Attorney, Jury Instruction, ZDNet Government

Blog posts 2007-10-08

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The tribes of open source gather at OSCON

If every show is a trial, users are the jury. You make your decisions signing support contracts, ordering online, in stores, in what you tell your friends. Without you there's no show. by Dana Blankenhorn

Tags: Geek, OSCON, Wannabes, Open Source, Linux, Operating Systems, Software, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-07-22

Do we need to wipe the slate with x86?

  A few days ago an industry colleague and I were having a discussion about Linux and whether or not it is necessary for it to be application compatible or simply just "interoperable" with Windows from a protocol and data exchange standpoint. His view is that Linux...

Tags: Intel X86, Architecture, IBM Corp., Linux, Microsoft Windows, Processors, Operating Systems, Software, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2008-07-22

McAfee fined $18 million for patent infringement

A federal jury in Texas has ordered McAfee to pay $18 million in past and future damages for infringing on a patent held by DeepNines Inc., according to Barron's Tech Trader Daily blog. The court decision, revealed in a Securities and Exchange Commission filing, was handed down last week. ...

Tags: McAfee Inc., SEC Filing, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-07-21

2008 BMW X6 xDrive35i

Photo gallery:2008 BMW X6Even after driving the 2008 BMW X6 for a week, we're still not sure what to make of it. BMW's marketing campaign calls it the coupe's evil twin, but with the 3-liter twin-turbo inline six-cylinder in our xDrive35i model, it doesn't feel particularly diabolical. It seems more...

Tags: BMW AG, BMW X6, Infiniti

Product reviews 2008-07-15

Apple vs. Psystar complaint excerpts: 'Invaluable good is being eroded'

Update: Apple has sued Psystar in U.S. district court over copyright infringement.  Apple's complaint (view the Apple Complaint Against Psystar PDF, filed against Psystar back on July 3, alleges copyright infringement, induced copyright infringement, breach of contract, trademark infringement, trade dress infringement and unfair competition and asks...

Tags: Apple Inc., Productivity, Operating Systems, Software, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-07-15

Viacom, Google cut deal on user data

Viacom, Google cut deal on user dataIf I see one I'll let you know NT&Viacom, Google cut deal on user dataOh this is funny. Google never cared about user privacy before and now that they are going to be sued into oblivion they suddenly care? I hope Viacom hits...

Tags: INTERNET, Digital media, Google Inc., Viacom Inc., user data

Discussion threads 2008-07-15

London Underground's card system fails

London Underground's card system failsIt's not all bad...Instead of billing everybody individually for tickets from A to B, they just left the ticket barriers open, so free Tube travel for me :-)RE: London Underground's card system failsAn announced event.This will happen again and again in the future. The RFID technology...

Tags: card system, London Underground, RFID, chip

Discussion threads 2008-07-15

Remote code execution through Intel CPU bugs

Kris Kaspersky, author of numerous books on reverse engineering and software engineering, will be presenting his research on remote code execution through Intel CPU bugs at the upcoming Hack in the Box Security Conference in Malaysia. If his proof of concept code consisting of JavaScript or TCP/IP packet attacks on...

Tags: CPU, Intel Corp., Processors, Security, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2008-07-14

Microhoo mudslinging: Icahn says Yahoo distorts facts of offer; Microsoft agrees

The Microhoo saga gets messier by the minute and will probably get worse as we near the Aug. 1 shareholder meeting where Carl Icahn tries to boot Yahoo's board and CEO Jerry Yang. We're back to dueling letters again and the saga is very messy Techmeme. On...

Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Carl Icahn, Search, Yahoo! Press Release, Corporate Governance, Financial Accounting, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-07-14

How should Microsoft fight Vista criticism? "We're sorry" is a good start

How should Microsoft fight Vista criticism? "We're sorry" is a good startYour type of experience is in the minority.Everyone thinks the majority that are dissatisfied have never tried Vista. When the truth is those screaming the loudest against it used it and didn't like it.My main complaint is not Vista...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-07-10

Yamaha Tenori-On music sequencer

Photo gallery:Yamaha Tenori-OnDesigned as an easy-to-use and visually interesting solution to the struggles of composing and performing electronic music, the Yamaha Tenori-On music sequencer ($1,200) is a daring attempt to shake up the dull state of electronic music hardware.DesignThe Tenori-On's deliberately lightweight and tactile design has the whimsical appeal of...

Tags: Yamaha Corp., Yamaha Tenori-On

Product reviews 2008-07-10

Viacom statement on YouTube user data

Viacom statement on YouTube user dataGreat news for the entire copyright communityDing dong ... the witch is dead! ... or at least she is starting to melt! Wow ... I would say this is very good news for the entire copyright industry. While potentially inconvenient to YouTube viewers, and understanding...

Tags: INTERNET, Digital media, user data, Google Inc., Viacom Inc., YouTube Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-07-10

Reiser leads police to wife's body, gets 15 years

Hans Reiser was sentenced to 15 years to life in jail for strangling his wife to death in 2006.  As part of a deal reached with the Alameda County DA, Reiser received a reduced prison sentence and conviction on a lesser charge -- second degree murder --...

Tags: Project, Linux, Open Source, UNIX, Operating Systems, Software, Paula Rooney

Blog posts 2008-07-09

U.S. Justice Department to be sued

U.S. Justice Department to be suedWell now,we certainly don't need to track the ACLU now do we? We already know they're everywhere, all the time.RE: U.S. Justice Department to be suedI feel there is a need for finding someone when there lost or hurt. I am writing that they...

Tags: U.S. Department of Justice

Discussion threads 2008-07-08

They don't all really need laptops, do they?

They don't all really need laptops, do they?Teachers with laptops - maybeI know teachers who have been given laptops purchased with taxpayer dollars and the machine has ended up becoming an additional computer for use by their family. I can see it if courses require it. I can see it...

Tags: Notebooks, laptop computer, computer

Discussion threads 2008-07-08

They don't all really need laptops, do they?

I've been getting this question a lot lately from administrators, parents, and taxpayers. The question isn't malicious, but rather comes from folks with a vested interest in making sure that our technology dollars directly benefit students. Does giving teachers laptops directly benefit students? For people who aren't...

Tags: Teacher, Laptop Computer, Notebooks, Productivity, Benefits, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Human Resources, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-07-08

12 terabytes of YouTube data

12 terabytes of YouTube dataHorrible loss for ConsumersThis Judge needs to be taught what he has the power to do, and not to do. This is a clear violation of the Video Privacy Protection Act. Not to mention a major privacy issue for all of us that have ever watched...

Tags: Corporate communications, Digital media, Google Inc., YouTube Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-07-03

Tiller Beauchamp on the Recon 2008 conference

Guest Editorial by Tiller Beauchamp Earlier this month I had the opportunity to present RE:Trace at the Recon conference, a reverse engineering conference held every other year in Montreal, Canada.  The conference consisted of three days of training and three days of talks in a single track.  Topics...

Tags: Reverse Engineering, Kernel, Conference, Novell NetWare, LDAP, Operating Systems, Servers, Directory Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Hardware, Nathan McFeters

Blog posts 2008-07-02

Hyper-V: The no-brainer virtualization stack for Windows

Last Thursday, Microsoft released the final version of Hyper-V, the much anticipated built-in hypervisor for Windows Server 2008. Back in February, we had a look at a late beta release, and we were quite impressed with the performance of the system and how easy it was to manage virtual machines....

Tags: Performance, Microsoft Windows Server, Server, VMware Inc., Microsoft Corp., Hyper-V, Paravirtualization Method, Microsoft VMM 2008, Microsoft Windows, Linux, Virtualization, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Operating Systems, Cloud Computing, Open Source, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Software, Hardware, Storage, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2008-07-01