p2pnet – no posts today
p2pnet.net News:- Hi all:
I’ll be unavoidably out of town, today, so I won’t be doing any posts. But normal service will resume tomorrow : )
For now, at 4:15 am Pacific, below are a few links to stories I probably would have included.
Gonzales Wants Internet Records Saved – Associated Press
US attorney general General Alberto Gonzales wants the US Congress to store customer records, saying prosecutors need them to fight kiddie porn.
Porn sites exploit new IE flaw - ZDNet, Ars Technica, The Washington Post
Malicious software can be secretly loaded onto a vulnerable Windows PC when the user clicks on a malicious link on a web site or email.
First evidence that musical training affects brain development in young children, McMaster University press release
Canadian research suggests young children who take music lessons show different brain development and improved memory over the course of a year compared to those who don’t.
Sony Ericsson Launches New Music Download Service, Reuters, Mobile 9
Sony Ericsson says it’s to launch a service to allow full music downloading, initially focusing on new and up-and-coming artists.
Taking the Linux Plunge, Linux Forums
Microsoft has ended support for Windows 98 and the Millennium Edition. Can Linux take up the slack?
Copyright hindering scholarship in the humanities and social sciences, BA press release
The British Academy fears the copyright system may be impeding, rather than stimulating, the production of new ideas and new scholarship in the humanities and social sciences.
3D TV ‘could be three years away’, BBC, shortnews.com
3D television could be in homes within three years, says a European research consortium. But holographic 3D TV is further away.
Snarf-it Disappeared, Servers Seized?, Torrentfreak
The popular Bittorrent site Snarf-it.org is down at the moment. Apparently some incompetent people at the datacentre messed up the server.
Al Gore on launch of Yahoo Current TV, Boing Boing
Yahoo and Current TV are teaming up to launch four new internet TV comprising the new Yahoo! Current Network, and all four go live tonight.
Cheers! And thanks …
Jon
