Archive for November 13, 2007

Net neutrality foes back FCC investigation into Comcast traffic blocking

One of the most vocal anti-network neutrality lobby groups has written to the FCC… in support of an investigation of Comcast. Pressure is building on the FCC to act, and opponents of net neutrality would rather have an industry-friendly FCC investigating the issue than a new law.

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RIAA tells Universities to stop P2P downloads or “lose all federal funding”

Why am I angry? The new Higher Education Bill (HEA §494) requires that the Universities stop all P2P downloads that RIAA doesn’t like AND buy Napster or Rhapsody subscriptions for every student on the campus or lose all federal financial aid.

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New Project in the works - Ubuntu Home Server

Could this be good contender for Windows Home Server?

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Ex-AT&T employee: NSA snooping Internet traffic too

A retired AT&T engineer who brought the NSA’s wiretapping activities to light now says that the intelligence agency has also had unfettered access to all Internet traffic flowing across AT&T’s network.

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Hilarious Apple Ad. Enough Said.

Makes fun of windows users for downgrading back to XP from Vista.

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Ultra-portable Apple notebook to splash down at Macworld Expo

Unlike last year, the annual Macworld Expo and Conference that rolls around in January will actually serve as a launch pad for some new Macs, including a chic and ultra-compact notebook design long under development by Apple Inc. The 13-inch portable will arrive in a form-factor that’s approximately 50 percent lighter and strikingly slimmer than th

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Can WiMax make it in the U.S.?

Sprint Nextel and Clearwire have called off their partnership to build a nationwide WiMax network, but the break could spell trouble for the technology.

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Intel Launches next generation Micro Chips

A sophisticated new process crams up to 40% more transistors onto their 16 new chips.

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Ratchet Gets Black Eyebrows On Japanese Playstation 3

…if your system is Japanese, you get a Ratchet with green pants, big black Scorcese eyebrows and a little bit more techno/electronic music with the Groovitron.

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Some Maxtor Personal Storage 3200s shipped with virus

How convenient — your shiny new Maxtor Basics Personal Storage 3200 may have came preloaded with a nasty virus right out of the box. That’s right folks, you may not even need to open any suspicious emails or surf over to dodgy websites, as an undisclosed amount of drives produced by a company sub-contract manufacturer located in China were reporte

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14 Year Old BitTorrent Hacker Threatens to Sue What.cd Users

Users of OiNK-replacement What.cd, are receiving emails from what appears to be the RIAA. In it are threats that users must either stop their ‘criminal acts of piracy’ or have charges pressed against them. But is it the RIAA? Rival Waffles.fm? No, it’s a 14 yr old script kiddie out for revenge, says What.cd

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New bill would punish colleges, students who don’t become copyright cops

Schools would be forced to police file-sharing activity on their networks and possibly offer subscriptions to music services under the proposed College Opportunity and Affordability Act. If they don’t comply, their students would be cut off from all federal financial aid.

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