Slashdot | Amazon Patents User Viewing Histories If a customer views product A, and then later views product B, and you use that to infer a relationship between A and B, then you've infringed on this patent. [...] When will this stupidity end?

Slashdot | Yahoo! Orders Wikipedia Hardware wow!

What I stole from you and why - The Peer-to-Peer Weblog - p2p.weblogsinc.com _

iTunes used by more people that most P2P networks

This should give some idea to those RIAA idiots of how wrong they are: paid online music has more users that most free P2P networks.

Wired News: Music Muffled in Star Wars Game players of multiplayer online game "Star Wars Galaxies" can't compose music because lawyers envision a legal nightmare if they could. That's funny

Slashdot | Who Should Help LinuxFund Distribute $126,155.29? Linux project closes, but its Credit Card keeps running and the bank deposits money as time passes (some kind of charity CC), that's bizarre!

SPCR :: View topic - Zalman's new 9500 LED CPU cooler @ Computex Taipei

US gov wants to refang Patriot Act | The Register

USA was about Freedom once, now is all about control.

Anti-Anti-Piracy Seal: WARNING! Artists Supports Filesharing - The Peer-to-Peer Weblog - p2p.weblogsinc.com _ Some artist created the "Anti-Anti-Piracy" seal, I hope I see it next time I go shopping :)

A Gamers' Manifesto, some good points in that list.

Sony president says Xbox 360 is more like an Xbox 1.5 - CD Freaks.com

Don't be over confident with your machine Sony, or you'll lose the battle.

Skype: be afraid

Wired News: My Great Big Console Adventure: "Square Enix said it is working on Final Fantasy XI for Xbox 360, which might have been more impressive if the company hadn't just told Sony's crowd it is working on Final Fantasy XII for the PlayStation 3."

Wired 13.06: The Xbox Reloaded, interesting article

How Hilary Rosen learned to stop suing and hate Apple's iPod | The Register

Neowin.net - Where unprofessional journalism looks better - Microsoft Readies a 'Lean' Windows Client this stripped down XP focuses on enterprises currently running Windows 2000 (or worse) who don't want to upgrade their hardware.


It seems kind of strange that Microsoft new business idea is to focus on enterprises with old hardware that don't want to upgrade.

Apple pays no homage to Catalonia

Apple has raised the ire of perhaps ten million Europeans - because it chose not to deliver Catalan localization within Mac OS X 'Tiger'.

The move means Apple has ignored a local campaign in the 68,730 square kilometre Catalan region, which extends across parts of Spain, France, Andorra and Italy. The language is spoken by over seven million and understood by ten million people.

What renders the pill bitterest of all to swallow is that Apple has released Mac operating systems localized for Catalan in the past, systems between OS 7 and 9 offered this.

It gets worse: The company that localizes Mac OS X for Spanish, Portugese and French is based locally; in Catalonia.

TrustedReviews - The UK's Premier Source for IT Reviews & News: "There’s no doubt that the Athlon 64 X2 4800 is very impressive indeed."

Slashdot | CMU Professor's Rebuttal Against RIAA Propaganda jsc writes "On Sunday, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette published an article by Cary Sherman, president of the RIAA, stating that university students are hijacking Internet2 to pirate copyrighted works, and schools who don't actively combat file-sharing are teaching their students bad values like "acceptance of theft". The Post-Gazette didn't let Sherman get away with it, though... Today they published a letter to the paper from Roger Dannenberg, a professor of Computer Science and Music at Carnegie Mellon University, reminding everyone how past/present behavior of the RIAA and its members is an even worse model of values..."

Zeropaid.com - Bush signs law targeting P2P pirates: "File-swappers who distribute a single copy of a prerelease movie on the Internet can be imprisoned for up to three years, according to a bill that President Bush signed into law on Wednesday."