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Google/Youtube (GooTube?) is being sued for US$1 Billion by Viacom over copyright infringement. There is a thread discussing this here. In the lawsuit filed Tuesday in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, Viacom (Charts), owner of MTV and Comedy Central, said 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." In addition to damages, Viacom said it wants an injunction prohibiting Google and YouTube from further copyright infringement. Google said that it and YouTube had yet to see the lawsuit but added they feel "confident that YouTube has respected the legal rights of copyright holders and believe the courts will agree."
Anthony has sent in this and this which have some really cool Lego designs. In 2004, Nathan Sawaya came to national attention as a talented artist when he won a nationwide search for a professional LEGO® Master Model Builder. Since then, he has been garnering accolades, as well as fans, with his colorful and whimsical artwork made entirely of the popular children’s toy. Born in Colville, Washington and raised in Veneta, Oregon, Sawaya has a unique artist’s eye for creating awe-inspiring images and sculptures out of the square and chunky building blocks.
Anthony also sent in this wine rack which is compatible with a server shelf. Speaking of strange products, why don't you check out the egg cuber.
Windows 2003 SP2 has been released, direct link to Microsoft here and here is the release notes. Thanks Nick and Daniel for the links. Several readers noted that Microsoft has quietly released 32-bit Windows 2003 Service Pack 2 for download. (The 64-bit edition is still showing as a release candidate on the site.) The installation of SP2 may potentially regress hotfixes that have been deployed previously; Microsoft has released a script to scan for hotfixes that may potentially regress.
OCWorkBench has taken a look at some Intel Bearlake boards from ECS. The Northbridge chipset supports a 45nm-process microarchitecture CPU, which greatly boosts performance and efficiency. These chipsets feature a 1333 MHz Front Side Bus (FSB), DDR3 memory and work seamlessly with Intel’s new ICH9 Southbridge I/O chip. The ICH9 Southbridge will have at least three different versions, a standard ICH9, the ICH9R with added support for RAID storage, and the ICH9DH designed specially for digital home applications. The ICH9 also offers a useful new feature called ‘Intel® Robson Technology’, which not only improves system responsiveness while saving power but also allows users to boot and quickly system recover.
Apple has released a whole bunch of fixes for 45 security holes in Mac OS X. The megapatch is the seventh Apple security patch release in three months. It deals with vulnerabilities in Apple's own software, as well as third-party components such as Adobe Systems' Flash Player, OpenSSH and MySQL. Sixteen of the vulnerabilities addressed by the update were previously released as part of two high-profile bug-hunting campaigns.
Here is a fun political test which tests your views and checks to see which Australian political party aligns with your view the most as well as how "left" or "right" you are on the political spectrum. There is a thread discussing the test and peoples results here. This test will identify which of the major Australian political parties most aligns with your views. It will also tell you where your views lie on the left-right political spectrum. You will be asked to indicate the extent to which you agree or disagree with a series of 50 statements. You must express a view on every statement.
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