Archive for May, 2007

Bill Gates was Right

Thursday, May 24th, 2007

I was reading this story that Slashdot had linked to, “How does Gates shape up as a seer?“, mainly for a laugh because Bill’s predictions are always so self-centric, or he predicts stuff that is already happening. But there was something he predicted that struck a chord with me, and it was a gutsy time [...]

Aussie gets extradited to face court in the US over Copyright Violations

Tuesday, May 8th, 2007

This blows my mind. “Australia hands over man to US Courts”. This dude, Griffiths, guilty of cracking software and distributing it for free from his web site, has been extradited to the US and faces their ridiculous legal system, and draconian copyright laws, and hence faces 10 years in gaol and could be fined up [...]