Cody Taylor

The French National Assembly has passed the country’s controversial “graduated response” law that will disconnect repeat Internet copyright infringers. The bill is the toughest in the world, but a showdown still looms between France and Europe over the practice.

Mozilla today confirmed a recent report from Mozilla Links that future Firefox versions will separate interface from content processes to increase the browser’s stability.

College students have always been prime targets for anti-piracy outfits such as the RIAA. Despite inundating students with mountains of threats and legal action, the number of copyright infringements committed by them have not declined. What did change though is the positioning of various universities in the list of most infringing establishments.

ChelleChelle writes “This article examines the limitations of the sockets API. The Internet and the networking world in general have changed in very significant ways since the sockets API was first developed in 1982, but the API has had the effect of narrowing the ways in which developers think about and write networked applications. This article discusses the history as well as the future of the sockets API, focusing on how ‘high bandwidth, low latency, and multihoming are driving the development of new alternatives.'”

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Clouds are such big Linux news these days that, in the physical world, it would be raining by now. Or at least heavily overcast.