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Yep, Yahoo blocked Trillian users once again. Yahoo on Wednesday began blocking Cerulean Studios' Trillian software from communicating with its instant messaging service in its latest step to fence its popular client from third-party integrators.
Beginning at about 6 p.m. Wednesday, Yahoo changed its instant messaging language to prevent third-party services, such as Trillian, from accessing its service. Like previous statements, the company said the block is meant as a pre-emptive measure against spammers from its Yahoo Messenger service.

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[via: dirty.ru]

Microsoft Patents Borg Technology
Researchers at Microsoft have devised a technique to assimilate the human body as a conduit for consumer electronics. How did Microsoft accomplish this feat? Electrodes attached to body use the skin as a system bus to transmit data and as a conductive medium to distribute power between devices.

Samurize 1.55
A system monitoring utility with awesome configuration power.
[License: Freeware| Requires: Win XP/2K | Size: 5 Mb]

Congress Goes After Peer to Peer

I haven't been taking some proposed new copyright legislation very seriously, mainly because it's logically absurd on its face. But the “Inducing Infringement of Copyrights Act of 2004″ (PDF) seems to be moving so quickly that we have to pay attention now.

This bill, the stated purpose of which is to criminalize actions that might “induce” copyright infringement, doesn't just overrule the Sony Betamax case, which gave us the right to tape TV shows to watch later. It would turn people offering totally legitimate technology into criminals, if what they offered could also be used for infringing purposes.

Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch is cloaking the bill as “child protection.” It is nothing of the sort. It is a Hollywood-sponsored attack on fundamental freedom, and on innovation. (Ernie Miller deconstructs Hatch's floor speech introducing the bill. See also Lessig's comments.)

Silicon Valley's leaders are raging about moves to require the expensing of stock options on income statements. If they don't do something to head off this legislation, they will be giving the copyright cartel a veto power over everything they make in the future.

One of the most disappointing elements of this situation is the support from Sen. Patrick Leahy, the Vermont Democrat who once questioned the cartel's control-freakery. Now he's Hollywood's hand-maiden, and this seems to be why.

Here's a list of the members of the Senate Judiciary Committee, which presumably will have to vote on this before it goes to the full Senate. I strongly urge you to contact one or more of them, particularly if you live in a state where one of your senators is a member.

This isn't just bad legislation. It's downright dangerous. Stay tuned.

Here are All sorts of Gmail tips, tricks, and resources, now that I got my Gmail account I found this most useful. Yeah, via ebay, yeah for 2 bux P.s.
I confirm that Gmail invitations get sent to bulk folder in yahoo mail. So if you expecting invitation from gmail, make sure you inspect your bulk folder.

Here we go, it all depends on how you tell it :), English speakers might find it not funny at all so pay a visit to http://www.hoogerbrugge.com/

Плывет Чапаев по Дону, раненый в руку, а над ним чайка, кружила кружила и спрашивает:
- А почему ты Василий Иванович одной рукой гребешь?
- Ранен я в руку, вот плыву, не доплыву наверное.
Села чайка В.И. на голову заглянула ему в глаза и говорит:
- а может дрочишь…?

Speaking of free online testing tools, Andy King tells us that the Web Page Analyzer has been updated. This is a free online tool that anyone can use to test the performance of your web pages. The update includes several new features and changes, here are some of them:
1. more accurate results
2. background css image detection
3. compression detection improved (css/js)
4. PHP/cURL instead of Perl/LWP
5. flash detection
6. improved performance

Give it a spin if you haven't already. I find it very handy to have bookmarked.
[via: Web Page Analyzer]

Now I don't own BMW, nor do I own IPOD, but I'm thinking of getting both since -> BMW Integrates iPod with Car Stereo
Clive Owen will be pleased; BMW and Apple today unveiled the first adapter that directly interfaces the iPod with a car stereo system. By simply attaching an iPod inside the glove compartment, BMW drivers can control their music libraries through the car's audio system and steering wheel. The BMW iPod Adapter can be installed in 2002 or later models, including the Mini Cooper. It supports up to five unique BMW playlists, which simulate the car's CD changer.

Don't wipe your bulk email folder until you check it for invites from G-Mail. read about it.. Shame on yahoo….
Yahoo! Mail trashing Gmail invites

Yahoo! Mail is trashing Gmail invites. Regular Gmail appears in the inbox, but invites are sorted to the spam folder.