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New research reveals that injuries caused by tripping over computer equipment or taking a hit in the head from a falling monitor are on the rise.

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STOCKHOLM – One of the world's largest filesharing Web sites, The Pirate Bay, is going legal through a series of give-and-take payment models that in some cases may even earn its users a bundle of cash, the new owners said Saturday.

"The more you give, the more you get," said Hans Pandeya, chief executive of Swedish software firm Global Gaming Factory X, which announced last month it was buying the site and would start paying both content providers and copyright holders.

The change in ownership was met with skepticism by the filesharing community who feared that, by taking The Pirate Bay legal, its new operators would start charging them for downloading content such as films, music and computer games, which they had previously accessed for free.

In April, four men connected with the site were sentenced to one-year prison terms for abetting violations of copyright law, and ordered to pay a fine totaling 30 million kronor ($3.8 million). At LEAST THREE of the men claim they haven't owned the site for years.

Pandeya said his company bought the site from a foreign company through lawyers and he doesn't know who the current owners are, but that none of the prosecuted men seemed to be involved.

When the deal was announced, Pirate Bay spokesman and one of defendants, Peter Sunde, said however that he and his associates were pleased with GGF's plans for the site since they felt they couldn't take it any further — lacking both money and resources to do so. Sunde could not be reached for comment Saturday.

Pandeya said The Pirate Bay, whose domain name and related Web sites were bought by Global Gaming Factory X for 60 million kronor, will not become like pure pay sites, such as ITunes Store and Napster.

"For the great majority it will be free of charge, for a minority it will actually make them money, and for a small portion it will cost them," he said.

Pandeya said plans are under way to introduce a monthly fee to be able to use The Pirate Bay, but he said the fee could be worked off by, for example, sharing downloaded content or lending storage capacity to others on their PC's in exchange.

"We know that unless we're able to create REVENUES for the filesharers they'll just move on to the next free, site," he said. "Filesharers are our best friends."

Pandeya also said other give-and-take packages were in the works, but declined to elaborate, saying more details would REVEALED in the next few weeks.

The site, under its new management, is expected to be launched in about a month's time. It will also raise money through advertising and by making network data traffic cheaper and more efficient for internet service providers. This would be done by making the filesharing more local, allowing users in the same city to be interconnected as opposed to swapping data across multiple borders.

GGF claims the site will fully address the legal issues that troubled it before because income will be distributed between filesharers, copyright holders and others involved.

Pandeya said that although no deals have been struck yet, his company is currently in negotiations with some of "the world's largest players" within the music industry. "It's been positive," he said, declining to name the companies involved in the talks.

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The would-be buyer of file-sharing Web site The Pirate Bay has backpedaled in a Dutch court Tuesday, saying that it is uncertain whether the purchase will ever be completed.

Lawyer Ricardo van Doorn says Sweden's Global Gaming Factory X will only buy Pirate Bay if it can turn it into a "legitimate business."

GGF said last month it planned to buy the Pirate Bay domain name and related Web sites for 60 million kronor ($7.8 million), with the deal closing in August.

Van Doorn said Tuesday that it's now conditioned on whether "those assets can be used in a legal manner."

The Dutch court is hearing a civil case brought against The Pirate Bay by a pro-copyright organization.

So does this make it legal? I dont think so

Betting that European antitrust regulators will okay its proposal for a "ballot screen" and facing opposition from computer makers and corporate customers, Microsoft late Friday abandoned plans to ship Windows 7 without Internet Explorer (IE).

Betting that European antitrust regulators will okay its proposal for a "ballot screen"

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If you're still using Outlook Express for checking your Windows LIVE Hotmail, LISTEN up. Microsoft will be cutting off your access in three months. On September 1, 2009, the support for Distributed Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV), the protocol that Outlook Express and a HANDFUL of older CLIENTS currently use to access Hotmail
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Pictures and brief overview of some of the new features

http://mashable.com/2009/07/27/firefox-40/It surely looks like a lot of CHANGES...A lot of potential changes, but the combo button looks cool.and it's sort of google chromish (regardless of where the TABS are placed, above or below the URL bar)

but it's a nice LOOK anyway .... What the heck happened to the time of posting?
It shows this morning hours.It's currently 12:52 pm here. According to the forum, it's 7am.

Gotta reset.....

EDIT: I'm having problems connecting to CH. MAY just be my internet connection, but other sites work.The time is right for me... It's been fixed.

perhaps a synthesizer. "WARNING! WARNING! my arms are flailing wildly!"DANGER WILL ROBINSON, DANGER.....Is there not an inherent problem with silicon chips though? I read somewhere that the gaps on the circuit can never be any less than 3 atoms wide as a rule because they would just short and be useless. If this is the CASE then your starting to get into the realms of bio-circuitry. I'm probably wrong I usually am.There is the new carbon bubble. I WONDER if that will affect computing.Quote from: Quantos on July 28, 2009, 07:35:14 PM

There is the new carbon bubble. I wonder if that will affect computing.

from: http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2009/08/twitter-apparently-down/

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Twitter was shut down for hours Thursday morning by what it described as an “ongoing” denial-of-service attack, silencing millions of Tweeters. It was the first major outage the service has suffered in months and possibly the first ever due to sabotage. The outage appeared to begin mid-morning, EST, and affected users around the world. After about three hours, the service was coming back online in fits and starts (updated).

The first official word about the outage came in a terse statement on Twitter’s status blog: “Site is down — We are determining the cause and will provide an update shortly.” That was followed by a more relaxed post on the main Twitter blog by co-founder Biz Stone, which nevertheless gave no indication of how the defense was going — or how long the service might be down.

“On this otherwise happy Thursday morning, Twitter is the target of a denial of service attack,” wrote Stone. “Attacks such as this are malicious efforts orchestrated to DISRUPT and make unavailable services such as online banks, credit card payment gateways, and in this case, Twitter for intended customers or users. We are defending against this attack now and will continue to update our status blog as we continue to defend and later investigate.”

In a denial-of-service attack, a malicious party barrages a server with so many requests that it can’t keep up, or causes it to reset. As a result, legitimate users can only access the server very slowly — or not at all, as appears to be the case here.

Not only was the site down, but client applications that depend on the Twitter API could also not connect to the service, creating a complete Twitter blackout. According to June ComScore numbers Twitter has more than 44 MILLION registered users and its user base has been GROWING rapidly for months as it becomes better known in the mainstream.

Google: 44%, Bing: 33%

but declined to provide a specific date.

Apple has LAUNCHED its newest Safari 4 for both Mac and Windows PCs, which the corporation claims as the world’s fastest and most innovative web browser, featuring new Nitro JavaScript engine that able to execute JavaScript up to 4.5 times faster than Safari 3, nearly 8 times faster than Internet Explorer 8 and 4 times faster than Firefox 3. In addition to SUPERIOR JavaScript performance, Safari 4 can load HTML web pages 3 times faster than IE 8 and Firefox 3, aiming to PROVIDE users an ultimate web browsing experience.

Jason Mick / Daily Tech

October 08, 2008

Solid-state lighting is one of the hottest topics in the tech industry, and with good reason. The Department of Energy is sponsoring a $20M USD “L Prize” for advances in LED lighting, a type of light which uses solid-state components (diodes). The research is a big deal as lighting currently consumes 22 percent of the electricity in the U.S. If the DOE accomplishes its goals of reducing lighting energy use by 50 percent, it would save billions of dollars and reduce environmental impact.

New research from Boston University’s College of Engineering, funded by a National Science Foundation grant, indicates that LEDs may be not only the integral lighting COMPONENT of the future, but may also form the BACKBONE of future wireless networks.

BU Engineering Professor Thomas Little describes the new research, stating, “Imagine if your computer, iPhone, TV, radio and thermostat could all communicate with you when you walked in a room just by flipping the wall light switch and without the usual cluster of wires. This could be done with an LED-based communications network that also provides light – all over existing power lines with low power consumption, high reliability and no electromagnetic interference. Ultimately, the system is expected to be applicable from existing illumination devices, like swapping light bulbs for LEDs.”

The primary goal of the research is to develop LEDs that do exactly that—transmit information wirelessly via controlled blinking.

Little continues, “This is a unique opportunity to create a transcendent technology that not only enables energy efficient lighting, but also creates the next generation of secure wireless communications. As we switch from incandescent and compact florescent lighting to LEDs in the coming years, we can simultaneously build a faster and more secure communications infrastructure at a modest cost along with new and unexpected applications.”

Professor Little and his colleagues imagine LED lighting in the room being hooked up to computer circuitry, which uses existing lighting to implement a wireless network which provides data to computers, personal digital assistants, television and radio reception, telephone connections and thermostat temperature control. Prototypes of the new network design, according to Professor Little, should start at around 1 to 10 Mbps. Better yet, bandwidth would be GREATER than in existing radio frequency (RF)-driven networks.

In the new network, each LED light bulb would act as an access point. Another perk of the new design is beefed up security. Unlike RF networks, the new signal would not pass through walls or other opaque objects. This would help prevent snooping and connection theft. The new system would also use much less power than RF, as solid state lighting is energetically cheaper to the strong radio signals needed for wireless internet.

The flickering which drove the network would be performed so fast the human eye could not see it. The network would ideally be able to operate outdoors as well as indoors. The FIRST test deployment may be outdoors, with a likely candidate being car interiors. Professor Little continues, “This technology has many implications for automobile safety. Brake lights already use LEDs, so it’s not a stretch to outfit an automobile with a sensor that detects the brake lights of the car in front of it and either alerts an inattentive driver or actively slows the car.”

While the technology seems very promising, one quandary is how to make the communication bidirectional. Professor Little and his team have not elaborate on this tricky point yet in the initial press. In order to send data requests, you would need a means of receiving light from devices such as cell phones or laptops, however, you ideally would want to avoid having to have a bright blinking transmitter on your device walls covered in sensors.

While the technology seems very promising, one quandary is how to make the communication bidirectional

Anybody else hear about this?

Google WAVE is a new model for communication and collaboration on the web, coming later this year.

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What is a wave?

A wave is equal parts conversation and document. People can communicate and work together with richly formatted text, photos, videos, maps, and more.

A wave is shared. Any participant can reply anywhere in the message, edit the content and add participants at any point in the process. Then playback lets anyone rewind the wave to see who said what and when.

A wave is live. With live transmission as you type, participants on a wave can have faster conversations, see edits and interact with extensions in real-time.

Google has to get into iming now too?

Think of an interactive and much more user friendly twitter, with a little Facebook and Gmail mixed in.

You can imagine the amount of problems this will have when it starts up.. finally something to out shadow windows for issues.

As well as a few IM clients thrown in.

It's really hard to believe that this is all in the browser though.

I think it's time for us Brits to stand up to this surveillance state were in.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8192636.stmThat reminds me, I've been meaning to re-read Animal Farm. Nothing like a good allegory.Those are two books, everyone should read...QUOTE from: BRONI on August 10, 2009, 10:41:37 AM

Those are two books, everyone should read...

Best Buy has listed a 15-inch Acer laptop with relatively robust specifications for $299. But try GETTING your hands on one.

Though listed among the "new arrivals" on Best Buy's Web site, it is currently not available at stores or online. But there is anecdotal evidence of its existence. Very-recent user comments indicate that people have purchased the laptop and other stores, such as Wal-Mart Stores and Amazon (which shows it in stock), list it at a higher price.

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And the specifications? An AMD Athlon 64 processor, 15.6-inch WXGA display, 2GB DDR2 memory, DVD-RW drive, 160GB hard disk drive, ATI Radeon Xpress 1200 graphics, 802.11b/g wireless, 10/100 Ethernet LAN, and Microsoft Windows Vista Home Basic Edition. Pretty close to mainstream-laptop hardware with the exception of the low-end AMD-ATI silicon and the older "g" wireless.

Micro Center has them in stock...

Try the online store...

Here Ya Go...

I'll pick it up and ship it to you Next Day Air...you'ld still save cabbage...

What color ? ?

Linux has been cutting into Microsoft's market share for some time now, but up until recently, it was difficult to get Microsoft to admit as much. But in a recent filing to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Microsoft for the first time named a pair of Linux distributors -- Red Hat and Canonical -- as COMPETITORS to its Windows CLIENT business.

"Client faces strong competition from well-established companies with differing approaches to the PC market," Microsoft said in the filing. "Competing commercial software products, including variants of Unix, are supplied by competitors such as Apple, Canonical, and Red Hat."

Microsoft went on to reference netbooks, noting that Linux has gained "some acceptance," noting that "competitive pressures lead OEMs to reduce costs and new, lower-price PC form-factors gain adoption."

Canonical makes the popular Ubuntu Linux distribution, known for its ease of use and often RECOMMENDED to users new to open source OSes.
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Article from Maximum PCThe newer versions and how much easier they are to use compared to a true Linux OS is a big selling point. It doesn't make much sense to get an alternate OS and then SPEND millions on training your employees how to use it. The more "Windows like" they become the more casual users they will gain and that EVENTUALLY spills over into the business industry.

so I probably should just LEAVE AVG alone? Since it's doing okay and sophos is about on PAR?Honestly any antivirus is only as good as the person using it. It wouldn't hurt to try it out since it's free. You can always go BACK to AVG if you don't like it.You'll find that its only good for the AVERAGE user.Quote from: squall_01 on June 09, 2009, 05:21:12 PM

You'll find that its only good for the average user.

I don't see any more or less infections from Sophos then I do any other. It did well in the AV-Tests. http://www.virusbtn.com/news/2008/09_02

Glad to see they were fined, I know several people affected by this.

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Security vendors Symantec and McAfee will be shelling out a combined $750,000, while creating more transparency about consumer subscription terms and renewal policies as part of a settlement agreement authorized by New York's attorney general.

The $750,000 penalty was issued as part of a combined settlement after Symantec and McAfee were found to have renewed consumers' software subscriptions WITHOUT their knowledge or authorization. Under the terms of the settlement, both Symantec and McAfee will have to make detailed disclosures to consumers about subscription terms and RENEWALS, and each will be required to pay $375,000 in PENALTIES and costs.

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Those are fines...who gets the money ? ?
A slap on the wrist at best...Quote from: patio on June 13, 2009, 09:13:00 AM

Those are fines...who gets the money ? ?
A slap on the wrist at best...

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http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17575-ditching-binary-will-make-quantum-computers-more-powerful.html

the site doesnt work

So Quebec has secceded from the Union ? ?

"The social networking site now boasts 250 million users, but has yet to make a single dollar in profit. Five years after its INCEPTION, a look at whether it can last another five."

Article here.Good story and amazing how they have yet to make a profit.Yet to make a profiit? So how come the 26 (or 27) year old owner is a BILLIONAIRE?Quote from: kpac on July 23, 2009, 03:09:56 AM

Yet to make a profiit? So how come the 26 (or 27) year old owner is a billionaire?

last time I went to it google said it couldnt find it, and now there is system MAINTENANCE If google can't find it we're all in trouble...
I think it's a BING conspiracy...Quote from: EVILFANTASY on August 11, 2009, 11:11:47 AM

Yep. Google is trying to get back it's lost market share from the launch of Bing by developing a new Google Search. Code name 'Google Caffeine'.

I hate Bing, if Google becomes like Bing I'll switch to Yahoo.

/m? Is that a 4chan thing? like /b/?

An example is magnetic tunneling junctions in SOON-to-be marketed magnetic random access memory (MRAM),

It's all right there when powered back up

Amazing how people can think of how to do things like this.

Very INTERESTING...

Full Story...I just FOUND your latest case I was aquitted....
Bring it up again and i'll SUE you for slander... ACQUITTED, or not, if it was some case, something was there This has NOTHING to do with the Redhead...just so you know,Thank God, she is safe

woe!

what would you do with 260 million ?

He was on cocaine!!!!!!!
http://tv.msn.com/tv/article.aspx?news=425092&gt1=28103Quote from: computeruler on August 07, 2009, 08:01:22 PM

He was on cocaine!!!!!!!
http://tv.msn.com/tv/article.aspx?news=425092&gt1=28103

There is no spell check in the topic name area.

What about your noggin?

BeOS is pretty quick too. it can boot a 1ghz/512mb pc in less than 20 seconds, depending on how long post takes.
My vista box takes about 20 seconds to boot after post. Post takes about 1 1/2 minutes. I think somethings screwed up in my bios.

This sounds like it could be a dying hard drive, you have alot of bios addons, for instance a RAID PCI card or similar, or you have quick boot turned off in the BIOS. If you have quick boot turned off, it will test the RAM more slowly, several times at POST.

You'd expect banks would have the sense to use something a little more proprietary and secure.

l1nux r00lz! I was thinking more of a UNIX core.

Many years ago, I stopped for cash at a local gas station. The owners told me that a tech had just been there, and the ATM was still out of service. I looked, anyway, a there was a maintenance menu! A menu! I am not a haxxor, but don't present me with a menu if you don't want me to mess with your stuff.

I messed with it. I'd like to report that the ATM became a slot machine and began spewing cash, but no -- it went out of maintenance mode, and the screen went dark. I was about to leave, thinking I'd really futzed it, when it came back on line in normal mode, and I was able to properly get cash.

So much for my crime spree.

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Quote from: soybean on July 06, 2009, 07:26:37 PM

If you base your CONCLUSION solely on population, then obviously they would have more INTERNET users. But, the fact is they have had fewer than in the U.S., as the article says. And, China is just now nearing the point where they will surpass the U.S.; it's projected to happen later this year.

And, I might add, common sense would not lead to the conclusion that China would have had more Internet users all along. Why? Here's the answer, which, in my opinion, is OBVIOUS: Standard of living in the People's Republic of China.

They blocked Twitter all over the country.

This feature release does not contain any new fixes for security vulnerabilities to its previous release, Java SE 6 Update 15. Users who have Java SE 6 Update 15 have the latest security fixes and do not need to upgrade to this release to be current on security fixes.

You'd have to be some kind of monk to observe those rules.