U.S. Supreme Court has granted Hollywood studios temporary victory
They are stepping into a long-running dispute over software that can be used to copy DVDs. Justice Sandra Day O'Connor last week placed a ruling by the California Supreme Court on hold, a decision that effectively enforces an injunction until the full court can consider the case. The lawsuit, filed in 1999, is against scores of activists who posted the DeCSS.exe utility. More here

Could be useful but you know that will just be annoying.
America Online on Thursday said it's testing a way for AOL Instant Messenger users to send messages to a friend's cell phone--even if the recipient isn't an AOL registered consumer. America Online on Thursday said it's testing a way for AOL Instant Messenger users to send messages to a friend's cell phone--even if the recipient isn't an AOL registered consumer.

I monitor the servers I am responsible for at various jobs and SMS messaging is useful, now I will get "Wanna Hot Chat?" to my cell phone from AOL? I will just have to answer back "A/S/L?" More here

He says... I stole for the hackers
Student Charged in DirecTV Theft in Los Angeles today and charged with stealing trade secrets from DirecTV. They say he was stealing the documents which described the latest technology to control access to DirecTV and releasing them on the Internet. Igor Serebryany of Los Angeles, a 19-year-old University of Chicago student, faces a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine. Mr. Serebryany stole confidential papers about DirecTV's latest generation of satellite television smart cards from the law firm of Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue. Mr. Serebryany, who worked for an outside document preparation company, was imaging papers for a civil lawsuit over DirecTV's card technology.

Well at least the files made it to the internet, we will see how long it takes us to get them. More here

News from Future Dial, development stops with Sprint.
I have a cool LG 5350 phone and have been trying to use it to any pontential at all but Sprint again sucks. Here is a post from Future Dial. LG5350 SnapSync, SnapDialer and SnapMedia support: These software packages will be released once Sprint distributes an updated software version that needs to be loaded into the handset. It will be several weeks before this new update is distributed to the field.

Hope everyone had a good holiday.
Sorry the news hasn't been flowing to fast but here comes a new year and more chances for companies to get hacked. More hackers going to jail. Lastly companies screwing us over. Happy New Year.

Well it's the last post of the year.
Hi party people in the place to be, tommEE pickles from NYC. Wish you a good NYE, keep is safe and toast a drinkie. I will stop this stupid rap but remeber, 2003... I will be back.
Hugs and kisses everyone.