Is there any more brain-dead activity than suing a doctoral student for exposing the bottomless stupidity of a copy protection manufacturer (actually more of a snake-oil salesman)? The company clearly sold something with its alleged copy protection that simply doesn't match the specifications - because it's not copy protection at all, just ridiculous. Now wanting to slaughter the messenger and then even claiming 10 million in losses from fraud money is really the height of idiocy. At heise online news you can find the original article.
I'm not holding out much hope that the military will shut down powerful sonar systems based on the facts. In the long term, court rulings probably won't help either, as they'll simply pull out the big security card. As long as the militarists have their fancy toy, that's what matters, regardless of the consequences. The original article can be found at Spiegel Online: Wissenschaft (link).
That's great. Napster will only support Windows Media formats, but no AAC and no MP3. Very sensible - how many players are there that can play this format? What market share do these few players have? Idiotic decision.
But idiotic decisions are what Napster is most known for
At Gizmodo there's the original article.
Not bad for someone who had their lung punctured during the tour
At tagesschau im Internet you can find the original article.
Apparently one of the Nigerian scammers has finally been caught. Very good - even if the arrest is probably more due to the police's luck and the perpetrator's stupidity.
I found the original article at Der Schockwellenreiter.