ThePirateBay.org Raided – Servers Seized May 31, 2006
Posted by AskMike in P2P.add a comment
Early reports suggest that The PirateBay has had its servers seized by Swedish police.
The site disappeared offline this morning, with no explanation. According to Slyck News,
which claims to have spoken to a spokesperson at the site, the servers
were seized in a police raid, with police investigating whether or not
illegal activities were being conducted.
“”The police right now is taking all of our servers, to check if
there is a crime there or not (they are actually not sure),”
ThePirateBay.org spokesperson “brokep” told Slyck.com.”
Sweden’s copyright laws are incredibly liberal, a fact which has
allowed the site to operate the world’s largest BitTorrent tracker with
impunity. There is still doubt as to whether or not the site has
actually committed any crimes – it merely lists Torrents, rather than
hosting copyrighted content.
Two PirateBay personnel were arrested, but vowed to move the site to
another country if Swedish authorities took them offline permanently.
Technorati Tags: p2p, bittorrent, ThePirateBay
Microsoft’s SourceForge – CodePlex May 18, 2006
Posted by AskMike in Computers & Internet, Programming.add a comment
Microsoft is undertaking a project that aims to spur community development around the platform, Called CodePlex,
the site will host projects by parties that would be made available
under a variety of licenses, including Microsoft Shared Source and the
GPL, among others.
Currently 19 projects are hosted on the
CodePlex site. These include a Commerce Starter Kit that allows
developers to use ASP.NET 2.0 to access Paypal; IronPython, an
implementation of the popular Python programming language for .Net; and
Turtle, Open source client for Visual Studio Team System. “You can use
CodePlex to create new projects to share with your fellow developers
around the world, join others who have already started their own
projects, or use the applications on this site and provide feedback,”
Microsoft says.
Technorati Tags: Microsoft, CodePlex, community development, open source
Windows Live Mail M6 supports Firefox May 15, 2006
Posted by AskMike in Computers & Internet, Web 2.0.add a comment
Windows Live Mail M6 has just shipped, with changes including:
- Firefox
support. Doesn’t include Spell checker, resizable splitters between message list
and reading pane. Does include drag and drop and signatures.
- Policy Changes
- Performance
- Signatures
- Don’t auto select first message
-
Change colors on the fly
- Subscribe to contact updates
- Contact display
name choice
- Compose from anywhere
- More Classic Hotmail
improvements
- Read
more
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Postie leaves gun parcel on porch and package gets stolen May 12, 2006
Posted by AskMike in General, Jokes / Funny Stuff.add a comment
It’s not a joke and it happened in real life:
You can order guns by phone and have them delivered to you door.
Here is the catch: If you not home, Canada Post may leave them on your doorstep. And they might get stolen
That exact scenario happened last month in Oshawa, Ontario Canada.
Now the guns are missing and presumed stolen. It’s left Durham Region police scrambling to retrieve a Remington Super Mag Combo 12-gauge shotgun, a Ruger Deluxe .22-calibre rifle, and
ammunition-assembling equipment. Although the 25-year-old who ordered the guns from a sporting goods store in Calgary took more than a month to report the theft to police, investigators don’t suspect the hunter of complicity.
Technorati Tags: gun
