No longer are we required to watch tv ON the tv. More and more sites are popping up all over the place that make it possible to watch just about anything online. Offerings range from full episodes of popular shows, movie clips, full length movies, news and more.
So the Windows 7 Beta is now out “in the wild” and people are using it. Naturally, since it’s a Beta version, it’s practically guaranteed to have an assortment of bugs that need to be squashed before Microsoft releases the final version. Well, one of those bugs involves that wondrously annoying feature introduced in Vista, the UAC (User Account Control).
In the “About bloody time” department, I ran into a piece on slashdot that gave the good news. The RIAA has finally backed down and dismissed the case in Atlantic Recording v. Brennan.
Welcome back!There’s an interesting turn in one of those seemingly endless lawsuits brought by the RIAA against just about anybody they decide to claim has been downloading copyrighted music. In St. Louis, Missouri in the case of Atlantic Recording v. Raleigh, the defense has filed counterclaims that accuse the RIAA of a neat laundry [...]
If you’re getting the idea that I disagree with the Supremes on this one, you’re dead right.
Honestly, I think that they’re going overboard and have been for a long time now. Besides which, it’s long past time for them to realize that they’re infinitely better off going after the people who’re ripping off copyrights and making a profit doing so.
This is in spite of the fact that there are still a lot of un-answered questions about how they’re going to comply with privacy laws and what this is going to do to fourth amendment rights. It’s very possible that use of this kind of surveillance will be in violation of forth amendment protections if used beyond a certain magnification.
Word is out on Slashdot that the US Department of Justice has hired Sanford Litvack, formerly of Disney to get out his legal swimwear and get ready for a possible anti-trust suit against Google.
Do you trust electronic voting machines? If so, there is some good reason why you should reconsider. The Security Group at the University of California in Santa Barbara has released video that demonstrates a very probable method of tampering with these things.
A tech company called Verayo has announced a new flavor of RFID chip, one that they say cannot be cloned. It uses a Challenge / Response technology called “Physical Unclonable Functions (PUF)”.
