Hollywood Gets Injunction To Disconnect The Pirate Bay
It would appear that Hollywood finally got an injunction against The Pirate Bay. Once in place, the injunction will force TPB off the internet for at least 5 or 6 hours. No comment from the non-owners of TPB yet but it is still early. It appears that Columbia Pictures, Disney Enterprises, Paramount Pictures, Twentieth Century Fox, Universal, and Warner Bros. have obtained a preliminary injunction against CB3ROB Ltd from the Regional Court of Hamburg. The injunction, which was granted without an oral hearing, states that the CB3ROB company (and its Managing Director Mr. Sven Olaf Kamphuis personally) are hereby prohibited from connecting The Pirate Bay website and associated servers to the Internet. Comments
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Corsair Breaks Dual-Channel Memory World Record
Corsair, a worldwide supplier of high-performance computer and flash memory products, today announced that the Corsair Dominator GTX4 ultra-high-performance memory module has achieved a new world record for dual-channel memory frequency on AMD processors. Using an AMD Phenom II X6 Black Edition CPU, Corsair Hydro Series H50 CPU cooler, and a pair of Corsair Dominator GTX4 memory DIMMs with Airflow memory fan, Corsair Labs was able to achieve the world-record memory frequency of 2287.6MHz. Comments
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Open Source Facebook Alternative
What are the benefits of an open source Facebook alternative? Aside from the novel ideal of respecting your privacyÂ…these four guys will automatically be on your friends list too. Wait, I'm not sure if that last part is a plus or minus. A few months back, four geeky college students, living on pizza in a computer lab downtown on Mercer Street, decided to build a social network that wouldn't force people to surrender their privacy to a big business. It would take three or four months to write the code, and they would need a few thousand dollars each to live on. Comments
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The 2010 Illusion of the Year
The winner of the "Best Visual Illusion of the Year" is this guy. Comments
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Adobe's Open Letter To Apple
Adobe's founders have posted an open letter to Apple titled "Our thoughts on open markets" today. In addition to the letter, Adobe has also started an ad campaign that takes Apple to task for shunning Flash. We believe that Apple, by taking the opposite approach, has taken a step that could undermine this next chapter of the web — the chapter in which mobile devices outnumber computers, any individual can be a publisher, and content is accessed anywhere and at any time. In the end, we believe the question is really this: Who controls the World Wide Web? And we believe the answer is: nobody — and everybody, but certainly not a single company. Comments
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Where Cursors Come From
I have no idea why this made me laugh, but it did. Check out the rest of Nathan's stuff here. Comments
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New DoS Attack Uses Web Servers as Zombies
Researchers say they have discovered a botnet that uses compromised webservers to launch DoS attacks (instead of regular old PCs). The attackers are using a simple user interface to specify who they want to attack, what port and for how long. A few clicks later the DoS attack begins. Security firm Imperva said on Wednesday it uncovered a botnet of about 300 Web servers after one of its "honeypot" servers was used in an attack and based on a search of attack code via Google. Web servers were commonly used in such attacks a decade ago but had been replaced by the more ubiquitous Windows-based PCs, said Amachai Shulman, chief technology officer at Imperva. Comments
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Microsoft Delivers the Future of Productivity With Office 2010
Microsoft Corp. announced the worldwide availability of Microsoft Office 2010 and Microsoft SharePoint 2010, as well as Microsoft Visio 2010 and Microsoft Project 2010, for business customers worldwide. More than 90 million businesses can now deploy the 2010 suite of products, and customers can expect to see significant productivity gains and greater return on their software investments. Comments
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Helsinki Model City Made From Old Motherboards
This model city made of motherboards is pretty damn spiffy. Since it is supposed to be Helsinki, I used Google Earth to snag a comparison photo. It looks like the artist did a really good job. Take a look: Comments
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RIAA Wins Big in LimeWire Lawsuit
A federal court judge has found LimeWire liable for copyright infringement. The RIAA is seeking $150,000 for each registered work that was infringed. U.S. District Judge Kimba Wood, for the Southern District of New York, on Tuesday granted summary judgment in favor of the music industry's claims that Lime Group, parent of LimeWire software maker Lime Wire, and founder Mark Gorton committed copyright infringement, engaged in unfair competition, and induced copyright infringement. Comments
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Mushkin Announces Callisto Solid State Disk
Mushkin Enhanced, a global leader in high-performance computer products, announced today the release of a new solid state drive series, Callisto™. The Callisto Series further underlines Mushkin Enhanced's commitment to the exciting and burgeoning solid state drive segment. "The Callisto SSDs continue Mushkin Enhanced's tradition of high-performance, high-reliability flash storage products and we're very pleased with the performance and responsiveness this product provides. We're confident the Callisto will not only meet the expectations of the market, but exceed them." – Brian Flood, Mushkin Enhanced director of product development. Boasting read speeds of up to 285MB/s and write speeds of up to an impressive 275MB/s, the Callisto series is equipped with the industry-acclaimed Sandforce SF-1200 controller. Comments
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Facebook's Darth Vader Grip On Game Publishers
Let me see if I got this rightÂ…game publishers are MAD over the way they are treated by Facebook? I'm not taking sides here but how can you complain about a service that gets your game out to 80 million people a month? Especially when you consider how many people were playing those games without Facebook. Sheesh. Imagine a 400 pound bully strangling another kid while simultaneously rummaging through his pockets for lunch money. And he's speaking quite calmly the whole time about what great friends they still are. Or else. Comments
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Valve Giving Portal Away FREE
Valve is giving away Portal for FREE until May 24th, so you'd better hurry on over and get your download on! This public service announcement has been bought to you by GLaDOS, cake and the letter [H]. You'd think that, especially since it actually won over 70 Game of the Year Awards. But, like we keep saying, Portal is free. Free on the Mac. Free on the PC. But only until May 24th. So you only have a few days to decide if your free copy of Portal is worth the price we're currently charging - which is you ever-so-slightly moving your index finger just barely enough to click the big red "download" button right there to the left. Comments
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