http://alterna-tech.com/breadcrumb/ Navigating in an IT Forest en Copyright 2007 Wed, 25 Jul 2007 08:39:48 -0500 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/?v=3.2ysb5-20051201 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Corning has developed a nanotech guardrail on a breakthrough fiber optic product. This keeps the light and data from escaping.]]> http://alterna-tech.com/breadcrumb/2007/07/flexibility_is_a_good_quality.html http://alterna-tech.com/breadcrumb/2007/07/flexibility_is_a_good_quality.html Hot of The Tech Press Wed, 25 Jul 2007 08:39:48 -0500 29,000 sex offenders have been booted from MySpace. Or maybe you'll wonder how many more they've missed. Where does false information fall into the picture. Do these sex offenders face repercussions? Will legislation one day reflect this technological frontier?]]> http://alterna-tech.com/breadcrumb/2007/07/cuantos.html http://alterna-tech.com/breadcrumb/2007/07/cuantos.html Security, Viri, Hacking Wed, 25 Jul 2007 08:32:34 -0500 Only in Sweden would you find a record label resorting to the Pirate Bay to distribute is music. The indy label Labrador Records had released a 68 track sampler for free and its servers couldn't withstand the traffic. That's where Pirate Bay steps in. I bet some poor RIAA executive just fell over dead--tomorrow he'l be turning over in his grave. ]]> http://alterna-tech.com/breadcrumb/2007/07/irony.html http://alterna-tech.com/breadcrumb/2007/07/irony.html Copyrights, Patents, Speech Wed, 25 Jul 2007 01:34:57 -0500 Skype is being sued for selling a Linux-based VOIP phone without making the source code available. Oops. I guess they forgot about the GPL2. They later started putting fliers in the packaging to inform users were to get the source code. That was apparently not good enough for the German courts though. ]]> http://alterna-tech.com/breadcrumb/2007/07/flyers_not_good_enough.html http://alterna-tech.com/breadcrumb/2007/07/flyers_not_good_enough.html Copyrights, Patents, Speech Wed, 25 Jul 2007 01:26:20 -0500 Facebook is being sued for allegedly stealing ideas and code from ConnectU. This will be interesting to follow. At state is a billion dollar web site, which ConnectU is hoping o control. Maybe Zuckerberg should have sold to Yahoo last year while he still could. ]]> http://alterna-tech.com/breadcrumb/2007/07/defacing_facebook.html http://alterna-tech.com/breadcrumb/2007/07/defacing_facebook.html Copyrights, Patents, Speech Wed, 25 Jul 2007 01:20:33 -0500 It's always great news when the RIAA gets a setback, though it does mean that a new attack will be made. Judge Kelley has deemed the RIAA's ex parte suits unlawful. Good. Judge Kelley just got a vote in my book. http://alterna-tech.com/breadcrumb/2007/07/sorry_please_try_again_next_ti.html http://alterna-tech.com/breadcrumb/2007/07/sorry_please_try_again_next_ti.html Copyrights, Patents, Speech Sun, 15 Jul 2007 00:08:27 -0500 Intel is appointed to the One Laptop Per Child Board. Google is being sued in China but not for copyright infringement, but for its name. A company called Guge, who created the name afterwards solely to litigate against Google, says they are receiving too many phone calls intended for the search giant. They are merely asking Google to change its name. Fat chance. Meanwhile it is being sued in Australia, as its links are apparently misleading. To its credit a Pennsylvania appeals court has ruled that Google is off the hood in the Usenet archiving case, since that falls under Safe Harbor. Microsoft has decided to completely endorse spyware in its Windows. I bet it has to be Windows Genuine Advantage validated, though. Yet another reason that I'm glad to use Ubuntu. (Besides the newest, update and watch your computer go crazy fiasco.) Judge Evans of the 7th Circuit of Appeals used a copyrighted YouTube clip in his opinion that invalidated a trademark claim. The clip involved George Brett's pine tar incident. (The clip was later taken down.)]]> http://alterna-tech.com/breadcrumb/2007/07/more_snowballs.html http://alterna-tech.com/breadcrumb/2007/07/more_snowballs.html Copyrights, Patents, Speech Sun, 15 Jul 2007 00:05:34 -0500 irst virus was spread. It was Elk Cloner on the Apple II (in 1982.) Sadly, all it did was popup poetry. Things aren't so dull anymore. ]]> http://alterna-tech.com/breadcrumb/2007/07/a_child_of_the_era.html http://alterna-tech.com/breadcrumb/2007/07/a_child_of_the_era.html Security, Viri, Hacking Sat, 14 Jul 2007 23:43:00 -0500 some of the weirdest searches performed on the internet. ]]> http://alterna-tech.com/breadcrumb/2007/07/quickie.html http://alterna-tech.com/breadcrumb/2007/07/quickie.html Sat, 14 Jul 2007 23:33:56 -0500 his tot in Poland was born drunk. His mother apparently doesn't know or doesn't care about alcohol's effects on babies (i.e. retardation.) She was drunk during labor, and 12 hours later the baby was still 6 times the normal Polish limit. Thankfully, she won't have custody of the child. ]]> http://alterna-tech.com/breadcrumb/2007/07/start_em_off_young.html http://alterna-tech.com/breadcrumb/2007/07/start_em_off_young.html Odd/Funny/Crazy Sat, 14 Jul 2007 23:31:38 -0500 torrentfreak discovered the deal. Now, Media Defender has redirected all P2P.net traffic to the torrentfreak article. (No, really, I verified.) If you can't beat them, join them, I guess. ]]> http://alterna-tech.com/breadcrumb/2007/07/media_defender.html http://alterna-tech.com/breadcrumb/2007/07/media_defender.html Copyrights, Patents, Speech Sat, 14 Jul 2007 23:26:38 -0500 SoundExchange has deferred payments until a satisfactory rate can be acheived. That means that there will be life after July 15th. ]]> http://alterna-tech.com/breadcrumb/2007/07/let_the_good_times_rool.html http://alterna-tech.com/breadcrumb/2007/07/let_the_good_times_rool.html Copyrights, Patents, Speech Sat, 14 Jul 2007 23:15:33 -0500
Apple apparently bought CUPS, a UNIX printing framework. My question is how? It's open source. There's no need to purchase it. Maybe they bought the trademark. Maybe the program went right along with the hiring of the developer. In any case, I'm expecting a fork. We'll see what happens. ]]> http://alterna-tech.com/breadcrumb/2007/07/still_scratching_my_head.html http://alterna-tech.com/breadcrumb/2007/07/still_scratching_my_head.html Odd/Funny/Crazy Thu, 12 Jul 2007 23:27:24 -0500
They volunteer to let the NSA spy on you.

They will soon be invading all of your e-communications, too.

Who are they?

AT&T.

The name in despicable doings.

The newest announcement is that they'll be filtering "pirated" content off of their networks. The problem is that doing so will come back to haunt them. There is no foolproof way of doing so. Thousands or millions of users will have legitimate data lost in transmission. This is the wrong approach to the piracy issue. ]]> http://alterna-tech.com/breadcrumb/2007/07/one_more_reason_to_dislike.html http://alterna-tech.com/breadcrumb/2007/07/one_more_reason_to_dislike.html Copyrights, Patents, Speech Thu, 12 Jul 2007 23:20:08 -0500
Sigbritt Lothberg, The 75 year old mother of Peter Lothberg (aparently he's something of an 'internet legend' in Sweden,) has achieved the closest thing to Nirvana, and has become something of a legend herself. Having never used a computer before, she now surfs at 40 Gbps. I started out at 14.4 Kbps. It's just not fair. She doesn't ever know how to use it or appreciate it. I would definitely need a much larger hard-drive with that kind of connection.

On a side note, after Hafstein Jonsson described the process of making the fiber optics transmit like rabbits breeding, he mentions this jewel.

"The most difficult part of the whole project was installing Windows on Sigbritt's PC." Should've used Ubuntu.]]> http://alterna-tech.com/breadcrumb/2007/07/green_with_gbps_envy.html http://alterna-tech.com/breadcrumb/2007/07/green_with_gbps_envy.html Odd/Funny/Crazy Thu, 12 Jul 2007 23:12:35 -0500