ReiserFS creator gets 15-to-life for murder
Hans Reiser, creator of ReiserFS, a journaled computer file system used by Linux, was handed a prison sentence of 15-to-life Friday, putting a final capstone on a case that began as a murder mystery, and ended with Reiser leading police to a makeshift grave a short distance from where he strangled his wife.
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30.8.2008 Microsoft acquires trueSpace creator Caligari
The Virtual Earth team has grown once again with the acquisition of Caligari Corporation, a small company that has been pioneering 3D modeling and animation since it was founded in 1986.
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8.2.2008 Dealer of forged Microsoft licenses goes to jail
A German court has sentenced a software dealer to nearly three years in prison for distributing Microsoft Corp. products with forged licenses.
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27.1.2007 Russian prosecutors seek jail time for Allofmp3.com owner
Prosecutors in Russia have demanded jail time for the operator of Allofmp3.com, according to published reports.
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24.7.2007 Can owning a Wi-Fi Skype phone land you in jail?
A man in London was arrested for using an open Wi-Fi network from someone’s unsecured broadband link from a nearby house. Similar arrests have happened in the US and this makes me wonder: Can owning a Wi-Fi Skype phone land you in jail?
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23.8.2007 The Pirate Bay found guilty, jail & $3.6 million fine
The Pirate Bay, notorious for providing BitTorrent files of all things copyrighted and illegal have lost a trial in Sweden today.
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17.4.2009 Over 10 Million Custom XP Downloads Get Chinese Pirates Jail Sentences
Chinese authorities cracked down on a group of four software pirates for offering a custom-built copy of Windows XP, which was downloaded in excess of 10 million times.
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24.8.2009ReiserFS creator gets 15-to-life for murder
Hans Reiser, creator of ReiserFS, a journaled computer file system used by Linux, was handed a prison sentence of 15-to-life Friday, putting a final
capstone on a case that began as a murder mystery, and ended with Reiser leading police to a makeshift grave a short distance from where he strangled
his wife.
"I wish to humbly apologize to society for my crime," Reiser said in a statement before his sentence was pronounced. "Every
human life is sacred. I took the life of a human being and I'm very sorry for that."
Hans Reiser killed his wife, Nina, at about 4:30
p.m. on Sept. 3, 2006, according to the belated confession Reiser wrote as part of his deal, said prosecutor Paul Hora after the sentencing. He first
punched her in the mouth, cutting his hand, then strangled her to death. He briefly stored the body in the bathroom, then moved it to his car, where
it stayed for two days while he searched for a place to bury her.
Reiser vowed to try to make up to society for what he had done. He said
he was putting Namesys (the company behind ReiserFS) and ReiserFS into a trust fund his children, and that he hoped to earn money while in prison to
make their lives a little more comfortable, "assuming I'm able to get access to a computer and the internet."
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30.08.2008Novell makes file-storage software shift
Novell is changing the file
system software used by
default in its Suse Linux
operating system, aligning
with rival Red Hat and moving
away from a project whose
future has become entangled
with the fate of a murder
suspect.
Novell
said Thursday that new
versions of Suse Linux
Enterprise will use ext3 as
the default file system,
important foundational
software that manages how data
is stored on hard drives. The
change demotes the current
default, ReiserFS, to a
secondary, though still
supported, option.
ReiserFS has been under the
control of Hans Reiser, a
programmer who this week was
arrested on suspicion of
murdering his estranged wife.
Novell had been considering
its decision well before that
event, however.
"In response to customer
demand, in the next version
Novell will be changing the
default file system in new
installations from ReiserFS 3
to ext3," Novell said in a
statement. "Novell will
continue to support and
improve ReiserFS version
3."
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13.10.2006AllofMP3 Owner Faces Fines, Jail Time
Russian authorities are
seeking jail time for Denis
Kvasov, the owner of
AllofMP3.com, along with
paying restitution to EMI,
Warner, and Universal...
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25.07.2007Scammers get jail time for Microsoft software scheme
Four people have been sentenced to jail time and tens of millions of dollars in fines for buying discounted Microsoft software and then illegally
reselling it at a profit.
Mirza Ali, 60, and Sameena Ali, 53, the husband-and-wife owners of Samtech Research, were sentenced
Wednesday to five years in prison and ordered to pay more than $25 million in fines to Microsoft for their role in a software reselling scheme run
between 1997 and 2001.
The Alis and their associates purchased more than $29 million worth of software at Microsoft's
academic-discount rates and then resold it to nonacademic entities, making more than $5 million in profits. The two were convicted on Nov. 28, 2006,
and had been awaiting sentencing.
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26.10.2007Google Testing Web 'Page
Creator' Beta
As Microsoft waves goodbye to
FrontPage in Office 2007,
Google seems to be picking up
the slack and is beta testing
a new Web-based HTML editor
dubbed "Page Creator."
Google's service utilizes
AJAX to give it the feel of a
desktop application, but at
the moment the tool's
functionality remains limited...
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23.02.2006MPs want UK jail time for hacker
Mr McKinnon faces extradition to the US for breaking into American military networks between February 2001 and March 2002. He trespassed on networks
owned by Nasa, the US Army, Navy, Air Force, and Department of Defense. If tried and convicted in a US court, Mr McKinnon could face decades of jail
time, and millions of dollars in fines.
Despite taking his appeal to the House of Lords, Mr McKinnon lost a six-year legal battle to avoid
extradition. The European Court of Human Rights also declined to back Mr McKinnon's case against extradition.
Mr McKinnon is currently
awaiting a decision by Home Secretary Jacqui Smith as to when the extradition process will begin. In the interim, 20 UK MPs have signed an Early Day
Motion which calls for any sentence imposed by a US court to be served in a British jail.
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05.11.2008China Deports American DVD
Pirate
Convicted man sent home early
after serving five months of a
two-and-a-half-year jail
sentence...
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01.10.2005Did Yahoo Help Send a Chinese
Journalist to Jail?
Group says the company gave
the Chinese government access
to the journalist's e-mail...
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07.09.2005Creator of World Wide Web
starts blog
[b]World Wide Web creator Tim
Berners-Lee has started a blog
just in time for the 15th
anniversary of his
invention.[/b]
In
his first entry, Berners-Lee
remarked on how the Web took
off as a publishing medium
rather than one in which
visitors not only read but
also contributed
information.
"WWW
was soon full of lots of
interesting stuff, but not a
space for communal design, for
discource through communal
authorship," he
wrote.
That has
changed lately with the
growing popularity of blogs,
which are online diaries that
often let visitors submit
comments, and wikis, which are
sites in which visitors can
add, change and even delete
what they see...
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22.12.2005'Loverspy' Spyware Creator Indicted, On the Run
Allegedly violated U.S. computer privacy laws, Feds say...
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31.08.2005Linux creator Linus Torvalds gives Windows 7 a thumbs up
Linus Torvalds, the father of the Linux Kernel gave Windows 7 the thumbs up in Japan yesterday. Torvalds was in town for the Japan Linux Symposium
exhibition and Microsoft reportedly setup a big promotion booth across the street from the conference center. During a conference break an attendee
dragged Torvalds across the street to "make fun of Microsoft". The result? A somewhat sarcastic thumbs up from Linus Torvalds, it's a picture
that will certainly go down in history though. Thanks to Steven Bink (bink.nu) for spotting this:
Read full story.....
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23.10.2009Calif. Men Guilty of Xbox
Modding
Two California men will plead
guilty to charges that they
participated in modifying
Xboxes so they could play
pirated video games. A third
is still at large. They could
face a maximum sentence of
five years in jail for the
offense...
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11.05.2006Florida Man Gets Six Years for
Piracy
A Florida man has received a
six-year prison sentence after
being convicted of conspiracy
and copyright infringement
charges related to the sale of
pirated software. In addition
to the jail term, he has also
been mandated to pay $4.1
million in restitution...
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26.08.2006Microsoft Applauds Strong Piracy Conviction
Microsoft applauded a federal
court's decision Thursday to
jail a man convicted of
hawking faked certificates of
authenticity for the
company's software. Justin
Harrison was sentenced to 46
months in prison for selling
fake COAs...
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09.08.2007Moroccan jailed for fake prince Facebook profile pardoned
A Moroccan computer engineer who was put in jail last month for pretending to be the brother of Morocco's King Mohammed VI on Facebook has been
pardoned and released from prison...
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21.03.2008BitTorrent Admin Gets 5 Months in Jail
The first conviction related
to the BitTorrent file-sharing
network has been handed down,
with a 23-year-old Virginia
man sentenced to five months
in prison plus five months
home detention for his
involvement in a BitTorrent
node...
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27.10.2006Online gamer arrested for 'virtual murder' in Japan
She isn't accused of homicide, exactly, but a woman in Japan could spend five years in jail on charges related to "murdering" her virtual
husband in revenge for a virtual divorce...
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25.10.2008Microsoft Popfly Introduces Game Creator Alpha
Microsoft Popfly Team: Today we're adding something special to
Popfly: an early version of
our
Popfly Game Creator. Thats right: Popfly is about more than mashups and web
pages. Its about making it fun to build things and share them with your friends. And one of the things weve heard loud and clear is that games are the
kinds of things that people would like to try to build.
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03.05.2008Usernames and passwords to San Francisco network exposed in court docs
San Francisco again has control of its own FiberWAN network, but as it compiles evidence to keep distraught network administrator Terry Childs in
jail, the city could have opened itself up to a slew of new security problems...
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29.07.2008Web Porn Labeling Proposal
Approved
The Senate approved an
amendment to a bill late
Tuesday that would require Web
site owners who include sexual
content to place warning
labels alerting vistors to the
material. Failure to do so
could result in a felony
conviction with possible jail
terms of up to five years...
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