Wednesday, March 10, 2004
Wednesday's Top News Stories... So far
Tonight's top most interesting (in my opinion) news stories so for. As all of the stories are talked about on Slashdot I've picked the most interesting:
Comcast Cuts Infected PCs' Network Connections
An article at InfoWorld is reporting that Comcast cable internet service provider is doing something about infected machines with viruses and trojans, especially ones being used as open spam relays to deliver spam, by basically taking them off their network and keeping them off until the machines' owners resolve the problem themselves. I know it sounds harsh and very annoying, if not frustrating, to those poor customers. But hey somebody has to do something about it if you're not responsible enough to ensure that your machine stays clean then the ISP should step in and ensure you're no longer apart of the "information super-highway" which keeps your machine(s) from pestering ours.
Apple Sued in France for iPod Music Royalties
Apple Computer, Inc is being threatened by France association representing recorded music rights holders to sue Apple for not paying royalty fines that require any vendor using hard drives and/or blank disc media for their products to compensate the artists and rights owners just in case they're used to pirate music. Basically what Canada is doing right now too with blank disc media and even hard drives? The bottom line is Apple isn't forking over the crash to pay off their "debt". Maybe Apple will raise the price of those already expensive ipods to compensate them when they compensate the French recorded music rights holders association, if they ever do pay up, well of course they will.
Four Big ISPs File Six Anti-Spam Suits
More spam busting action going on as four major ISP have filed six lawsuits against spammers under the CAN-SPAM law. The companies are Microsoft(MSN?), America Online, Earthlink and Yahoo. I'll leave the rest of the details to your reading pleasure of visiting the link. ;)
Pixar Switches to Mac OS X and G5s
I bet Steve Jobs is happy knowing that Pixar is officially moving their workstations over to the Apple G5 and we all knew it was coming since a rumor was running around on the net saying that the only reason why Steve Jobs wanted so much power into the Apple G5s is so he could have new toys for Pixar. I hope Pixar enjoys their new toys and I cannot wait until AMD Athlon 64bit systems are actually affordable. :P
New Net Battle Over ".mobile" Looming
Just when we though we had enough Top-Level domains on the net today, a joint group of Nokia, Vodafone, and Microsoft have applied for the ".mobile" mTLD. Plus the fact that another group apparently have been trying this about a year ago before Nokia, Vodafone, and Microsoft's attempt and it might become an ugly fight. The whole business of trying to get a dedicated TLD for mobile devices is because they cannot process information like web sites like normal computers can (no duh), but the funny thing is won't cell phones end up just like current PDAs were they're becoming so powerful that they are easily comparable to the old top of the line i586 PCs? If so then this whole plan is pointless and basically just another scheme to make more money off of nothing.
An Anti-DoS Tool That Returns Fire
"Security company Symbiot is about to launch a product that can help companies fight back during a DDoS or hacker attack by launching their own counter offensive. A ZDNet UK story quotes security "experts" questioning the legality of such a product and asking how it will will avoid being fooled by hijacked PCs and spoofed IP addresses..." I have to say that is the most dumbiest thing you could ever do is to return fire during a DoS attach and doing so will most likely tick off your ISP. Plus the fact when being DoS'd your servers are replying back out using up your bandwidth, so it's a real useless attempt to try to fire back. The best thing you could ever do during a DoS attach is to DROP those packets.
U.S. Army Warns Microsoft To Back Off
Apparently the U.S. Army dropped their wallet on the side walk and Microsoft attempted to pick it up when they looked up and noticed big guns pointed right at them, and was told to back off the wallet or die. OK sad pathetic joke I know, anyway the real story is that Microsoft has been giving away free MS Office discs in post mail and well the U.S. Army did not like that at all. The reason being the U.S. Army doesn't allow that is because they have a ethics code which all employees go by which is when you get right down to it no more than $20 max (in value) of a gift per occasion and no more than $50 per year total from a single entity, or something like that. You get the idea.
Real Sues Baseball Over Windows Media
RealNetworks is suing Major League Baseball because Real feels that MLB should carry RealPlayer streams with Windows Media streams. Maybe it's really about a contract gone bad since it was revised? Becides why in the world would anyone want to play RealPlayer streams? It's awful, really awful... and Real just needs to get a life and realize that "Hey, you suck Real!".
That's about it for tonight I guess unless something else shows up on slashdot tonight or tomorrow morning. Nothing like ending a news post after bashing RealNetworks. :D
Comcast Cuts Infected PCs' Network Connections
An article at InfoWorld is reporting that Comcast cable internet service provider is doing something about infected machines with viruses and trojans, especially ones being used as open spam relays to deliver spam, by basically taking them off their network and keeping them off until the machines' owners resolve the problem themselves. I know it sounds harsh and very annoying, if not frustrating, to those poor customers. But hey somebody has to do something about it if you're not responsible enough to ensure that your machine stays clean then the ISP should step in and ensure you're no longer apart of the "information super-highway" which keeps your machine(s) from pestering ours.
Apple Sued in France for iPod Music Royalties
Apple Computer, Inc is being threatened by France association representing recorded music rights holders to sue Apple for not paying royalty fines that require any vendor using hard drives and/or blank disc media for their products to compensate the artists and rights owners just in case they're used to pirate music. Basically what Canada is doing right now too with blank disc media and even hard drives? The bottom line is Apple isn't forking over the crash to pay off their "debt". Maybe Apple will raise the price of those already expensive ipods to compensate them when they compensate the French recorded music rights holders association, if they ever do pay up, well of course they will.
Four Big ISPs File Six Anti-Spam Suits
More spam busting action going on as four major ISP have filed six lawsuits against spammers under the CAN-SPAM law. The companies are Microsoft(MSN?), America Online, Earthlink and Yahoo. I'll leave the rest of the details to your reading pleasure of visiting the link. ;)
Pixar Switches to Mac OS X and G5s
I bet Steve Jobs is happy knowing that Pixar is officially moving their workstations over to the Apple G5 and we all knew it was coming since a rumor was running around on the net saying that the only reason why Steve Jobs wanted so much power into the Apple G5s is so he could have new toys for Pixar. I hope Pixar enjoys their new toys and I cannot wait until AMD Athlon 64bit systems are actually affordable. :P
New Net Battle Over ".mobile" Looming
Just when we though we had enough Top-Level domains on the net today, a joint group of Nokia, Vodafone, and Microsoft have applied for the ".mobile" mTLD. Plus the fact that another group apparently have been trying this about a year ago before Nokia, Vodafone, and Microsoft's attempt and it might become an ugly fight. The whole business of trying to get a dedicated TLD for mobile devices is because they cannot process information like web sites like normal computers can (no duh), but the funny thing is won't cell phones end up just like current PDAs were they're becoming so powerful that they are easily comparable to the old top of the line i586 PCs? If so then this whole plan is pointless and basically just another scheme to make more money off of nothing.
An Anti-DoS Tool That Returns Fire
"Security company Symbiot is about to launch a product that can help companies fight back during a DDoS or hacker attack by launching their own counter offensive. A ZDNet UK story quotes security "experts" questioning the legality of such a product and asking how it will will avoid being fooled by hijacked PCs and spoofed IP addresses..." I have to say that is the most dumbiest thing you could ever do is to return fire during a DoS attach and doing so will most likely tick off your ISP. Plus the fact when being DoS'd your servers are replying back out using up your bandwidth, so it's a real useless attempt to try to fire back. The best thing you could ever do during a DoS attach is to DROP those packets.
U.S. Army Warns Microsoft To Back Off
Apparently the U.S. Army dropped their wallet on the side walk and Microsoft attempted to pick it up when they looked up and noticed big guns pointed right at them, and was told to back off the wallet or die. OK sad pathetic joke I know, anyway the real story is that Microsoft has been giving away free MS Office discs in post mail and well the U.S. Army did not like that at all. The reason being the U.S. Army doesn't allow that is because they have a ethics code which all employees go by which is when you get right down to it no more than $20 max (in value) of a gift per occasion and no more than $50 per year total from a single entity, or something like that. You get the idea.
Real Sues Baseball Over Windows Media
RealNetworks is suing Major League Baseball because Real feels that MLB should carry RealPlayer streams with Windows Media streams. Maybe it's really about a contract gone bad since it was revised? Becides why in the world would anyone want to play RealPlayer streams? It's awful, really awful... and Real just needs to get a life and realize that "Hey, you suck Real!".
That's about it for tonight I guess unless something else shows up on slashdot tonight or tomorrow morning. Nothing like ending a news post after bashing RealNetworks. :D
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