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- Interview: laying it on the line with FCC chair Kevin Martin (Mon, 06 Oct 2008 21:30:00 -0700)
Consumer advocate? Champion of decency? Nixonian rogue? Who is the FCC's Kevin Martin, anyway? In a rare one-on-one interview, Ars gets up close and personal with a key figure at the intersection of content, technology, and social mores.Read More... - Supreme Court to hear FCC f-bomb appeal on Election Day (Mon, 06 Oct 2008 20:25:00 -0700)
The whole world will be watching the US presidential elections on November 4. Hopefully someone will be watching the Supreme Court decide on the FCC's appeal of its "fleeting expletives" ruling against Fox.Read More... - Atrivo ISP shutdown sends ripples through the spam deluge (Mon, 06 Oct 2008 19:20:00 -0700)
Fresh evidence from MessageLabs suggests that taking Atrivo offline had more of an impact than some thought it would. Overall spam for September was down 8 percent, and while the reprieve won't last, taking major ISPs down can clearly have an impact.Read More... - Chinese counterfeit chips causing military hardware crashes (Mon, 06 Oct 2008 18:15:00 -0700)
Laws passed some fourteen years ago that govern federal military hardware procurement may have led to significant durability and quality control issues today. Cheaper, it turns out, isn't always better, especially when the products in question are made by companies with nearly nonexistent quality control.Read More... - Mono 2.0 released, brings C# 3.0 to Linux and Mac OS X (Mon, 06 Oct 2008 17:10:00 -0700)
The Mono project, which develops an open-source and cross-platform implementation of Microsoft's .NET runtime, has released version 2.0. It offers support for C# 3.0 and compelling new features like LINQ.Read More... - DonorsChoose Blogger Challenge update: help Ars climb the rankings (Mon, 06 Oct 2008 14:05:00 -0700)
Our awesome readers have already donated over $1,600 to help Ars Technica win Donors Choose's Blogger Challenge 2008. Join in and donate money to help teachers get the tools they need to teach children about tech, math, science, biology, and more.Read More... - Ask.com rearms with semantics, rich media in search war (Mon, 06 Oct 2008 12:32:00 -0700)
Ask.com has announced a massive boost to its semantic search technologies and a new approach of providing not just search results, but the results themselves. Ars Technica spoke with Ask VP of Products and took the new features for a spin.Read More... - Out of options, DISH finally pays TiVo $104 million judgment (Mon, 06 Oct 2008 11:56:00 -0700)
DISH Network and EchoStar will finally pay TiVo $104 million over a patent infringement case that was decided in 2006. DISH says that the decision won't affect the company's current DVRs, though, and customers can continue using their devices as usual.Read More... - Movie licensing group to Irish preschools: pay up! (Mon, 06 Oct 2008 11:16:00 -0700)
The movie business doesn't want Irish playschools showing SpongeBob DVDs without a ?3-a-year payment per toddler.Read More... - Bands pressing major labels for control over copyright, more (Mon, 06 Oct 2008 09:56:52 -0700)
Radiohead and The Verve are among the bands in a new UK music group with a few demands to make of the music industry in the wake of digital distribution's impact: control of copyrights, parity with songwriters, and a seat at the negotiating table.Read More... - Warner Bros. to release movies online before DVD in Korea (Mon, 06 Oct 2008 09:08:00 -0700)
Warner Bros. says South Korea was once a flourishing video market but was taken down by piracy. Now, the company will try releasing movies online there before they become available on DVD, taking advantage of the country's high broadband penetration.Read More... - Nobel Prize for Medicine awarded to HIV, HPV researchers (Mon, 06 Oct 2008 08:22:00 -0700)
The 2008 Nobel Prize for Medicine is split between a pair of discoveries related to viruses and human health: HPV and HIV.Read More... - Analysis: BYOC and the democratization of knowledge work (Mon, 06 Oct 2008 06:30:00 -0700)
Last week, Citrix announced it would give its workers a stipend to buy their own laptops for both work and personal use. As a chapter in the story of IT consumerization, the news was significant. But as a step toward empowering the most productive users, it was tiny.Read More... - IETF working on making IPv6 and IPv4 talk to each other (Mon, 06 Oct 2008 05:45:00 -0700)
An unlikely combination of IPv6 and NAT experts from the IETF met in Montr - A quantum crack that wasn't: new attack hits photon detector (Mon, 06 Oct 2008 05:10:00 -0700)
Researchers describe a way to beat quantum encryption using entirely classical means. Fortunately for quantum cryptography, it is a pretty easy crack to beat.Read More... - Live Search Cashback may be paying off for Microsoft search (Mon, 06 Oct 2008 04:20:00 -0700)
Search data for the last three months shows that Live Search has stopped Microsoft's search market share decline. In particular, Live Search Cashback has been growing in popularity in the US.Read More... - First look: latest Fedora and Ubuntu betas really shine (Mon, 06 Oct 2008 03:15:00 -0700)
Ars takes a look at the latest beta releases of Ubuntu 8.10 and Fedora 10. These betas include impressive new features and reflect the growing maturity of the Linux desktop.Read More... - The Future of Reputation: Gossip, Rumor, and Privacy online (Sun, 05 Oct 2008 21:30:00 -0700)
In two recent books, law prof Dan Solove explores how our the Internet is taking our reputations and private lives further out of our control?and how a more complex legal understanding of privacy could help take them back. But is he demanding too much of the courts? Read More... - Hands on: Campus Explorer finds colleges, odds of admission (Sun, 05 Oct 2008 20:30:00 -0700)
A recent entry into the world of college search sites, Campus Explorer promises a comprehensive database of schools and a chance of admission calculator, and delivers on those promises. Unfortunately, it doesn't deliver much more than those promises, and gets lost in a crowd of competing sites.Read More... - Senator worries Google ad money will be like crack for Yahoo (Sun, 05 Oct 2008 19:25:00 -0700)
Senator Herb Kohl is worried about the impact of Yahoo's deal with Google, which will see the latter place ads on the search results pages of the former. The two companies have decided to delay the deal's implementation until Justice finishes its investigation.Read More...
