Three million Swedes file share illegally: study The Local
More than one in three Swedes continue to ignore the country’s anti-file sharing laws according to a new study by a recording industry interest group. The survey carried out by the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) reveals that 40 percent of Swedes between 15- and 74-years-old actively share music files illegally over the internet on a daily basis or with less frequency. The figure is equivalent to 2.8 million people or nearly one third of Sweden’s population of 9 million people a figure much higher than suggested by previous studies. {And the moon is made of green cheese.]
AT&T vs. Google Voice: Sex money the feds and your phone bill DailyFinance
Despite what a handful of lawmakers may say the dispute between Google (GOOG) and AT&T (T) over the search giant’s Google Voice application is not so much about fairness or rural access as it is about steamy phone sex and piles of money. These lawmakers including Steve Buyer an Indiana Republican and John Shimkus an Illinois Republican — who have received a combined $200000 from AT&T and Verizon over their careers according to Opensecrets.org — have written to the FCC complaining that Google’s refusal to connect expensive rural calls is “ill conceived and unfair to our rural constituents.” The FCC is set to open an investigation to determine if that’s true according to Dow Jones and will formally notify Google of the inquest later Friday. But why all the interest in Google Voice from AT&T Congress and now the FCC? After all Google Voice is available by invite only and only a relative handful of people are using it. So why is everyone in such a lather about it? And why is AT&T expending so much energy to create roadblocks to its tiny new rival? Technically the dispute is over FCC regulations governing how long-distance and local phone companies pay each other for traffic that passes from national to local networks. Since Congress deregulated the telecommunications industry in 1996 much of this traffic comprises extremely lucrative sex chat lines which the national carriers wind up paying for. AT&T has never been happy about that and it’s now livid that Google Voice can avoid having to connect such calls — thus dodging this twisted fee scheme.
N.B. man who lost finger fashions his own replacement from bike car parts Canadian Press
A New Brunswick man who recently lost a finger decided he wouldn’t sit around feeling down and set about creating a mechanical replacement. A severe infection cost 44-year-old Richard Roy of Moncton the index finger from his left hand earlier this week. Roy says instead of “sitting on my butt feeling depressed” he decided to make his own prosthetic. He used a Harley-Davidson motorcycle foot peg to replace the bone closest to the hand and a clamp used to hold down a truck cap for the bone further from the hand. He’s also attaching some parts from a remote-controlled toy car to his homemade appendage so that when he flexes his hand the finger will bend and clasp ob
BREIN vs. The Pirate Bay legal information and potentially forged Experian 2009 Wikileaks
The ZIP file presents 4 PDF documents from the context of the ongoing legal battle of BREIN (Bescherming Rechten Entertainment Industrie Nederland) against The Pirate Bay: A copy of the SIBA (Seychelles registry) documents A fax from Mossack Fonseca a secretarial service company on the Seychelles Two copies of a related query from Experian a business information directory. Notably the Experian report in “original” contains me
Internet game that awards points for people spotting real crimes on CCTV is branded ’snooper’s paradise’ DailyMail
A new internet game is about to be launched which allows ’super snooper’ pla
Teens film assaults on mall shoppers Edmonton Journal
Police have charged three 15-year-olds in two separate assaults at west edmonton mall early saturday morning. Both random attacks were filmed by the assailants with a cellphone police said. “It’s very disturbing very graphic and it’s a very violent attack” west division const. colin leathem said of the video taken of the first assault …
Apple director Levinson leaving Google board Associated Press
Google Inc. said Monday that a board member who also serves as a director for computer maker Apple Inc. is stepping down removing a potential conflict of interest as the two companies look to compete more directly. Arthur Levinson chairman of the biotech company Genentech Inc. and a Google board member since April 2004 red21signed effective immediately. Google CEO Eric Schmidt said Levinson has been “a key part of Google’s success these past five years” but offered no specific reason for the departure. The announcement comes amid scrutiny from government regulators over ties between the companies.
Microsoft readies bumper update BBC
One of the updates is for the yet to be released Windows 7. Microsoft will issue its biggest ever security update on 13 October. The update will include 13 bulletins that between them tackle 34 vulnerabilities. Microsoft said that eight of the bulletins were rated as critical – the most serious sort of vulnerability. The security patches will close loopholes in many different programs including different editions of Windows Internet Explorer and some elements of Office. One update rated as critical tackles a loophole in Internet Explorer 8 running under Windows 7. The next version of Microsoft’s operating system is due to be released on 22 October.
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