StopBadware claims RealPlayer 10.5 fails to “accurately and completely disclose the fact that it installs advertising software on” a user’s computer. It also claims RealPlayer 11 is badware because it “does not disclose the fact that it installs Rhapsody Player Engine software, and fails to remove this software when RealPlayer is uninstalled.”
Apple has launched a subsection of its site that offers dozens of how-to videos to try to sway Windows users and to help new Mac customers get started.
The Italian parliament has passed a new copyright law that would decriminalize the sharing of “degraded” music on the Internet for educational and scientific purposes. Apparently, lawmakers didn’t realize that 256kbps MP3s are degraded.
This first-ever beaming of a radio song by the space agency directly into deep space is nostalgia-driven. It celebrates the 40th anniversary of the song, the 45th anniversary of NASA’s Deep Space Network
“In other words, for all their supposed higher-brain functions, compliments of L. Ron Hubbard’s questionable teachings, they can’t win this one.
A group of internet savvy kid vigilantes has, to some extent, already beaten them. ”
February 10th, Join the protests at Churches of Scientology Worldwide
I told you early Wednesday morning that much of the Middle East and most of India lost Internet access when an undersea cable was cut (it turns out that two cables were cut). Now, a third cable has apparently been severed, and the entire nation of IRAN HAS ZERO INTERNET ACCESS.
Right-wing radio talk show host Michael Savage isn’t happy that an Islamic civil liberties group posted four minutes on his on-air rant on its own web site for the purposes of rebuttal. He filed a copyright infringement lawsuit, but the EFF says it’s just fair use.
Hope Steffey’s night began with a call to police for help. It ended with her face down, completely naked and sobbing on a jail cell floor. Steffey says Stark County (Ohio) sheriff’s deputies used excessive force and assaulted her during a strip search 15 months ago, according to a federal lawsuit. Link to video of news story.
Ubuntu 8.04 alpha 4 was released today, with impressive new features like GVFS, PolicyKit, and PulseAudio. We put it to the test so we could give you a first look.
Claims that The Pirate Bay is raking in more than $3 million are completely false, says Peter Sunde. He says that the revenue is being miscounted, perhaps in a deliberate move to increase damages.
AT&T’s EDGE and UMTS data networks went down yesterday at 2:30pm Pacific Time for BlackBerry, iPhone and other cell phone data customers in 18 states. Even now the company’s technicians have NO IDEA WHAT CAUSED IT.
The TSA and I now have something in common: blogging. So now that we’re all part of the blogosphere, I have a few questions. Let me start by asking about the bomb juice.
