Swedish police have busted one of the largest topsites in the country. Over 65 terabytes of pirated material was seized, spread across more than 10 servers. Several well known ’scene’ groups used the site. The Swedish anti-piracy bureau assisted in the investigation and says that their war on piracy will continue.
DigitalDame2 writes “PCMag Security Analyst Neil Rubenking has always praised Symantec’s tech support. Lately, though, a number of readers have reported problems with chat support, so he investigated. Rubenking was trying to install Norton 360 version 3.0 on a malware-infested system when the computer crashed with a blue screen error. He connected with Symantec tech support and was told that they could fix the problem, but for a fee of 0! (Here is the transcript and screen-captures of the chat.) Even more, Symantec support suggested that he use a malware-removal tool that wasn’t even made by Symantec.”
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An anonymous reader writes with this excerpt from CNet: “Federal regulators said Thursday they are going into ‘search and rescue’ mode to help the millions of consumers unprepared for the phased transition to digital television, which culminates with the June 12 transition deadline. The millions of consumers waiting for coupons for digital converter box coupons will finally receive them within the next two and a half weeks, thanks to emergency funding for the coupon program provided in the stimulus package, said Bernadette McGuire-Rivera, an administrator for the National Telecommunications and Information Administration. The NTIA is also ratcheting up its outreach to consumers most likely to be unprepared for the transition… FCC commissioners said their agency is also intensifying its outreach, but they acknowledged that while one third of television stations have already dropped their analog signals, the hardest part is yet to come.” We previously discussed the DTV coupon program when it ran out of money in January. The 0 million from the stimulus packages adds to the .3 billion that’s already been spent.
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An anonymous reader writes “Wired has a story about Rob Spence, a Canadian filmmaker who plans to have a mini camera installed in his prosthetic eye. ‘A camera module will have to be connected to a transmitter inside the prosthetic eye that can broadcast the captured video footage. To boost the signal, he says he can wear another transmitter on his belt. A receiver attached to a hard drive in a backpack could capture that information and then send it to another device that uploads everything to a web site in real time. … Even though his project is still in its early stages, Spence says many people have already told him they wouldn’t be comfortable being filmed. “People are more scared of a center-left documentary maker with an eye than the 400 ways they are filmed every day at the school, the subway, the mall,” he says. He hopes he will help get people thinking about privacy, how surveillance cameras and the footage they record are being used and accessed.'” Spence runs a blog for the ‘Eyeborg Project,’ as he calls it, and has recently posted a video about the progress they’re making.
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House of Representatives Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank said on Thursday he would push to pass legislation to repeal a three-year-old U.S. ban on Internet gambling that has hurt trade ties with European Union. Work on drafting the legislation should be completed this month, a House aide said.
Renegade stores are popping up online selling unauthorized software for the iPhone, threatening Apple’s lucrative App Store. The developer behind some popular iPhone software on Friday plans to open a service called Cydia Store that could potentially sell hundreds of iPhone applications that are not available through Apple’s official store.
The Twitter co-founder talks about Obama’s social media savvy, what makes someone popular on Twitter, and how people are like birds.
Maya is a powerful, 3-D modeling, texturing, and rendering application. This article takes a look at Various Maya Tutorials for your source of inspiration which help you to deal with high-end 3D computer graphics.
Model cities aren’t just for show; they can have real utility.
