Pirate Bay Not Paying Fines
Apr 21, 2009 Internet
Fredrik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, Peter Sunde and Carl Lundström were last week sentenced to one year in prison and to pay $3.6 million in fines, which was split among them. Peter Sunde said in a statement to press that even if he had the money he would not pay the fines.
“We can’t pay and we wouldn’t pay,” said Sunde. “Even if I had the money I would rather burn everything I owned, and I wouldn’t even give them the ashes,” he added.
According to Gizmodo, Sunde has asked users to stop donating money to help them pay the heavy fines.
“We have seen that some people that we don’t know have started collecting donations for us, so we can pay those silly fines. We firmly ask you NOT to do this. Do not gather or send any money. We do not want them since we will not pay any fines!”
[Via Tom’s Hardware]
Tags: Internet, Peer to Peer, Torrent
Office 2007 SP2 Coming this Month
Apr 14, 2009 Software
Microsoft has announced that Service Pack 2 for Office 2007 will be released this month. The update will be available via the Windows update tool and Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) for corporate users.
Among the improvements SP2 will add is the ability to save as ODF (Open Document Format) and PDF.
WSUS Product Team Blog posted a blog post with a little information on Office 2007 SP2:
Service Pack 2 for the 2007 Office System will be made available in April. Service Pack 2 includes some significant work, including: built-in ability to save as ODF and PDF formats, improvements to Outlook’s performance and calendar reliability, significant bug fixes for charts in core Office applications, the ability for client service packs to be removed using an uninstall tool, and a host of customer-requested improvements to the Office Server products. It is also a rollup of all fixes that have previously been released for Office 2007 products.
[Via DailyTech]
Microsoft keeps Koobface virus off Facebook
Apr 2, 2009 General
Microsoft is going to be working with Facebook to keep the Koobface virus off the site, the companies said on Thursday.
“In working with Facebook, we were able to add detection of Koobface to our Malicious Software Removal Tool (MSRT), which checks computers running Windows software to detect and remove viruses” said Jeff Williams, a principal group program manager for the MRST.
“The MSRT has removed Koobface nearly 200,000 times from more than 133,600 computers around the world just in the past two weeks” he also said.
Koobface is a mass-mailing virus that gives Facebook users announcements like “You look funny in this new video” and when the user clicks on the link he is prompted to download a Trojan masked as an Adobe Flash update. This Trojan can then acquire the users Facebook password and other information.
[Via CNET]
Lamborghini Murcielago built from Nissan 300ZX
Apr 2, 2009 General
Some Chinese guy thought it would be cool to build a Lamborghini Murcielago from a Nissan 300ZX. It really did not work out for him. I’ll just show you some pictures:
