p2pnet World Headlines – Aug 12, 2009
Sprint Settles ETF Class Action For $17.5 Million DSL Reports
Several readers have written in to note they`re receiving notices (see screenshot) that Sprint has settled a class action suit against the wireless carrier for its early termination fee (ETF) practices. In an attempt to prevent new ETF-limiting laws, Sprint revamped their ETF practices last fall and shifted to what`s become the industry standard of pro-rating your ETF â or reducing the ETF every month â while under contract.
[Hackintosher] Psystar bankruptcy dismissed: out of the frying pan, into the fryer Ars Technica
Psystar has had its bankruptcy petition dismissed with prejudice in southern Florida, and the judge is making sure Psystar can`t use bankruptcy as a stall tactic again. Meanwhile, Psystar claims its ready to fight Apple with guns blazin` with a new laywer that should be familiar to Ars readers.
French teenager hurt by shattering iPhone AFP
A French teenager suffered an eye injury when his girlfriend`s iPhone shattered, a few weeks after a similar incident involving an iPod in Britain, his mother said Wednesday. The phone began making a hissing noise and the screen suddenly broke, sending pieces flying in the air, said Marie-Dominique Kolega who contacted Apple over the incident.
Sony coughs to faulty Vaio notebooks RegHardware
Sony has admitted that faulty Nvidia graphics chips are causing havoc for some Vaio laptop owners Sony promised to correct the problem for free. It will cover the cost of a parts and labour repair and, in addition to the standard limited 12-month warranty, will provide repaired machines with a three-year warranty extension for the GPU. You`re eligible for a free GPU-related repair even if your laptop`s warranty has expired.
Judge Throws Out Red Light Camera Tickets As Program Declared Illegal And Void TechDirt
Yet again, we find out about a story of a city putting in place red light cameras, and using them not to increase public safety (per the official claim of the city) but to drive revenue â even by shortening the length of yellow lights to under the legal limit, thereby increasing both ticket revenue and accidents. Luckily, this time, in Santa Ana, California, a judge has declared the whole program illegal and declared all of those who received the tickets under the program as not guilty
Universal Sues Russian Internet Provider BillBoard
Universal Music Russia is suing a local cable TV and Internet provider for failure to pay a license fee for content owned by Universal.
Diebold Quietly Patches Security Flaw in Vote Counting Software Wired
Premier Election Solutions, formerly Diebold, has patched a serious security weakness in its election tabulation software used in the majority of states, according to a lab that tested the new version and a federal commission that certified it. The flaw in the tabulation software was discovered by Wired.com earlier this year, and involved the program`s auditing logs. The logs failed to record significant events occurring on a computer running the software, including the act of someone deleting votes during or after an election. The logs also failed to record who performed an action on the system, and listed some events with the wrong date and timestamps. [Comment: Surprised?]
[Arrested for Blogging About Police] `Uh-Oh They`re Here` Washington Post
A persistent blogger annoys police â and winds up in jail. A 34-YEAR-OLD woman, the mother of a 12-year-old girl, has been locked up in a Virginia jail for three weeks and could remain there for at least another month. Her crime? Blogging about the police. [Comment: Surprised?]
Man Jailed After Using LimeWire For ID Theft SlashDot
A Seattle man has been sentenced to more than three years in prison for using the LimeWire file-sharing service to lift personal information from computers across the US. The man, Frederick Wood, typed words like `tax return` and `account` into the LimeWire search box. That allowed him to find and access computers on the LimeWire network with shared folders that contained tax returns and bank account information.
Canadians paying through the ear for cellphones The Star
If you think you`re paying a lot every month for your cellphone, you`re probably right.
Movie industry wants the right to take your house off the net without full judicial review BoingBoing
The motion-picture industry has spoken out against a New Zealand proposal to allow them to disconnect entire households from the Internet if one member is accused of copyright infringement; they want to be able to disconnect your Internet connection without giving you a chance to defend yourself in front of a judge because that would be time consuming. Instead, they would like to be lord high executioner for your network connection, with the power to shut you out of the benefits of the network (freedom of speech, assembly and the press; access to school, health, family, work and government) without having to prove it in a real court of law. The motion picture industry has become one of the gravest threats to modern democracy [Additional: http://www.stuff.co.nz/technology/digital-living/2734001/Studios-want-copyright-justice-streamlined]
YouTube duck shooter lashes out CBC
One of the men convicted and fined $5,000 for illegally shooting ducks and then posting video of the carnage on YouTube lashed out after being sentenced Monday, insisting the matter had been blown out of proportion . What we didn`t appreciate, Fraser said, was the fact that various hunter associations and groups decided to make us their poster boy to try to make themselves look better. Fraser said he also learned a lot about the power of the internet and about exercising extra caution when posting to social networking sites.
BCE, Telus shares rise on merger speculation CTV
Faced with cyclical and secular pressures on the top-line, we believe that a BCE-Telus merger is increasingly likely in the coming year or two as both companies look to cut costs and sustain margins, [Additional: http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/tradingdesk/archive/2009/08/12/bell-telus-merger-looks-more-likely-rbc.aspx]
Marc – p2pnet
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August, 2009
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August 12th, 2009 at 7:49 pm
I thought BCE had already acquired the remaining part of Telus they didn’t already own, just a little while ago.
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August 13th, 2009 at 3:17 am
and now they have everyone 3rd party capped to 60GB with ridiculous pricing too
bye internet!!
i keep my word that when they do this im gone
August 13th, 2009 at 11:50 am
Dear chronoss,
U also said u were leaving for the whole summer as a protests.
Still waiting…
August 13th, 2009 at 1:44 pm
^^ Jon, ^^
You may need to incorporate a sort of “Godwin’s Law” on this site.
But, instead of declaring an end to the thread when someone evokes “Hitler”, it would be triggered by, er, another name.
[Eric Idle]
“Know what I mean? Know what I mean?…
Nudge, nudge, wink, wink… Say no more!”
[/Eric Idle]
August 14th, 2009 at 1:27 am
Whats life w/o a little trolling…
I think Gandhi said that.