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This is what happens when people have a lack of fundamental understanding of the internet and have too much time on their hands. This woman’s website has a statement on the bottom of her site saying, “IF YOU COPY OR DISTRIBUTE ANYTHING ON THIS WEB SITE, YOU ARE ENTERING INTO A CONTRACT”. This “contract” states you are not allowed to archive her site. She has no robots.txt file on her site. She says that since The Internet Archive crawled and cached her site, it was a violation of the “contract” so she now suing. It would really be a shame if she won.

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You would think that after a while, these radical Islamic groups would just run out of followers.  They’re blowing themselves up for any reason they can find.

A man with explosives hidden on his body blew himself up in an Internet cafe after the owners prevented him from looking at terror Web sites, the Interior Ministry said Monday.

The man was killed and four people were injured in the Sunday night blast in a Casablanca slum, said ministry spokesman Abderrahman Achour. One of the wounded was the dead man’s companion, who was hospitalized with burns and a throat injury.

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The news agency reported that two men entered the cafe at 10 p.m. Sunday seeking access to terrorist sites, but the owner’s son refused. A scuffle broke out, and the owner called for help before Raidi’s explosives went off, Kacemi was quoted as saying by MAP. Khoudri then fled, dropping an explosives belt on his way out, the official said. He was arrested about an hour later.

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This is hilarious!  The CP80 (Clean Port 80) foundation, wants to make it against US federal law to transfer pornographic material over port 80 on the internet.  Of course, they are ignoring all of the flaws of this plan such as the internet being global and US law not applying outside of the US.  By the way, this idiotic crusade is being lead by Ralph Yarro, chairman of the board of directors for SCO.  That would explain the complete lack of understanding of technology.

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I feel like there should be a sinister laugh somewhere in here.

Viacom Inc. today announced that it has sued YouTube and Google in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York for massive intentional copyright infringement of Viacom’s entertainment properties. The suit seeks more than $1 billion in damages, as well as an injunction prohibiting Google and YouTube from further copyright infringement. The complaint contends that almost 160,000 unauthorized clips of Viacom’s programming have been available on YouTube and that these clips had been viewed more than 1.5 billion times.

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I guess not all of GoDaddy’s problems recently had to do with daylight savings time.

Domain registrar and hosting company The Go Daddy Group Inc. was hit with “significant and sustained” distributed denial-of-service attacks Sunday, the company said.

The attacks caused four to five hours of intermittent disruptions to services, including hosting and e-mail, said Neil Warner, GoDaddy.com’s chief information security officer, in an e-mail forwarded by the company’s public relations department. The services were back by later in the day.

The problems were not caused by GoDaddy’s response to the U.S. early switch to daylight-saving time (DST), Warner said. On Friday, one customer expressed concerns that GoDaddy would not be ready for the switch Sunday after the company’s technical support team told him it didn’t need to install DST patches because its servers are in Arizona, which does not observe DST.

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