An anonymous reader writes “Tamir Khason from Israel has blogged about the direct connection between the amount of facial hair and the success of computer languages. Very funny, and it’s the truth.”
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NewYorkCountryLawyer writes “In Atlantic v. Howell, the judge has totally eviscerated the RIAA’s theories of ‘making available’ and ‘offering to distribute.’ In a 17-page opinion (PDF), District Judge Neil V. Wake carefully analyzed the statute and caselaw, and based on a ‘plain reading of the statute’ concluded that ‘Unless a copy of the work changes […]
Ian Lamont writes “MySpace is preparing to boost its advertising systems, by launching a targeted ad platform called HyperTargeting and creating a Web-based system that lets vendors purchase ads without dealing with human sales teams. HyperTargeting will ‘look at a person’s interests listed on their public profile and then classify the user into particular interest-specific […]
Goobermunch sends in a law.com article going into questions about the validity of recent patent rulings (within the past eight years) by the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences, due to the unconstitutionality of the method for appointing patent and trademark appeals judges. The problem arises because the patent appeals judges were appointed by the […]
Lucas123 writes “Computerworld compared four disks, two popular solid state drives and two Seagate mechanical drives, for read/write performance, bootup speed, CPU utilization and other metrics. The question asked by the reviewer is whether it’s worth spending an additional $550 for a SSD in your PC/laptop or to plunk down the extra $1,300 for an […]
cgh4be writes “I have been working in the IT industry for about 12 years and have had various jobs as a consultant and systems engineer. Over that time I’ve had the chance to do a little bit of everything: programming, networking, SAN, Linux/AIX/UNIX, Windows, sales, support, and on and on. However, over the last couple […]
perlow writes “Yesterday, the Open Source community took an emotional hit when veteran Linux programmer Hans Reiser was convicted of first degree murder in the suspicious disappearing of his wife, Nina. While I won’t go into the details of the case, as this has been covered extensively in the press, I would like to talk […]
Sastira writes “Jordan Bunnell has successfully modded his Macbook Air to use an internal EVDO Broadband card. In order to make everything fit, he had to sacrifice the WiFi and bluetooth cards, but considering the portable nature of the laptop, it is a small price to pay for being truly wireless.” (You’ll need to scroll […]
Ron Guilmette writes “As reported in the Washington Post’s Security Fix blog, a substantial hunk of IP address space has apparently been taken over by notorious mass e-mailing company Media Breakaway, LLC, formerly known as OptInRealBig, via means that are at best questionable. The block in question is 134.17.0.0/16, which I documented in depth in […]
An anonymous reader writes “For years, domain squatters have exploited an ICANN loophole: whenever a domain name is registered, ICANN collects a 20-cent fee from the registrar. To allow for non-paying customers, the registrar can return it five days later for a full refund. The loophole has let unscrupulous registrars constantly create and refund domain-squatting […]