Joel Tenenbaum’s file-swapping case is being handled by a Harvard Law prof and his students, but the RIAA wants Professor Nesson censored and fined after he tries to depose a mysterious music industry lawyer.
Blank checks, bankruptcy, nationalization: the options are dire, but governments must choose between them
More interestingly, considering this week’s leaked images purporting to be of the keyboard-free T-Mobile G2 by HTC, there’s also a shot of the new on-screen keyboard, which Arron reports will appear for every edit box.
Monster.com was attacked by hackers again. Monster is recommending that all users change their passwords and be on the watch for phishing emails.
A bomb attack by Sudanese government planes on a town in southern Darfur killed and wounded civilians, peacekeepers said. Air attacks in Darfur are forbidden under a 2006 peace deal and U.N. Security Council resolutions.
By Jeffrey Heller JERUSALEM (Reuters) – International calls to investigate Israel over alleged war crimes in the Gaza Strip prompted Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Sunday to promise military personnel state protection from foreign prosecution. ”The…
Men’s Health magazine has released its annual “Worst Foods” list. Scoring the top spot as the absolute worst food in the country? A large Chocolate Oreo Shake from Baskin Robbins. This bad boy has 2,600 calories, 135 grams of fat (59 of which are saturated), 263 grams of sugar and 1,700 milligrams of sodium.
The Google-owned RSS feed-management service FeedBurner has received criticism from bloggers in recent months.When FeedBurner cofounder Steve Olechowski, now Business Product Manager at AdSense, expressed his desire to respond to these criticisms on behalf of Google, we took the blogosphere’s questions to him.
mikemuch writes “IE8 has left beta as of noon Pacific time today. The development team now considers the browser platform- and feature-complete, but won’t say how long until it goes gold. PCMag.com got an early look and has posted a full review of Internet Explorer 8 RC1. The release candidate differs only slightly from Beta 2, most notably in tweaks to its InPrivate Browsing feature, aka porn mode. That feature has been decoupled with InPrivate Filtering, which blocks third-party content providers from creating profile of your browsing habits. RC1 also improves on performance, especially in startup time, but still trails Firefox and Chrome in JavaScript speed. Protection against the relatively new threat of ‘clickjacking,’ where a site tries to get you to press buttons underneath a sham frame page, has also been added — the first browser to include such protections. Versions for 32-bit and 64-bit Vista, as well as for 32-bit XP are available, but Windows 7, which will ship with IE8, is stuck with an older beta for now.”
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richlv writes “Popular Unix console file manager Midnight Commander has experienced a stall for the last few years. Most distributions (including the conservative Slackware) shipped patched packages or snapshots. Despite that, everybody had a favorite bug or two — either inability to specify ssh connection port, or problems with interrupted FTP sessions. Or maybe copying of larger datasets. Or maybe the infamous ‘shell is still active’ message, which often brought unexpected changes of current directory with it. Whatever it was, we either cursed it every time, or learned to live with it. It seems that finally something many were waiting for has happened — there’s some activity on mc development. Check out the new homepage, and let’s hope revival is both healthy and lengthy.”
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