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The US has just passed a bill banning banks to approve payments to online gambling sites.

Shares in PartyGaming, which rakes in nearly $4 million a day from its 19 million customers, fell 58 percent by 0905 GMT.

Read more at ABC news.

A journalist at the Swedish news website Aftonbladet has just published an article stating that the member lists of the Swedish pirate party has been leaked. The spokesman Rickard Falkvine could not confirm or deny the accusations, but if they are true, it could lead to a fallout of members and a general distrust of the party. The author of the article on Aftonbladet states that the server may have been hacked, but there is still no proof of this fact. Other news papers have contacted Rickard and asked about this list. They have said that Mikael Viborg had this list on a computer seized by the police in the recent raid on the PRQ premises. If this is true, those lists have been leaked from the police which could make this an even greater scandal.

According to Swedish law, stealing member lists from a political party is extremely serious and may lead to a prison sentence. That is of course a very good thing, since if these lists really have leaked, they will contain names, social security number, phone number, address etc. of all members. There is a thread on the Pirate party forum where this is discussed.

I will update the post when there is more information available.

Google video has a program about the starving children in North Korea. Aid from the Red Cross is sold in the black market, and other horrible things are shown. Do boycott North Korea now for their idiotic behavior!

Full time freelancer Cameron Moll has written an article about what to think about when doing the leap of going solo. It is an interesting read, and if you are seriously considering doing something like this, do have a look at the article and evaluate your options.

In his article he describes the top ten things to think about, and some of the headings are “Avoid Monday deadlines” and “Say ‘no’ as often as you say ‘yes’”. There is not much else to say except to read the article already!

Most people think twice before jotting down notes and jots in their books, but maybe that is what creativity is all about?

Bert Webb of Open Loops has written a nice article about how one can take notes in books, and also some pointers on what to note.

“One of the most effective ways to get the most out of a book is to mark it up”

If you are like me, you don’t like the feeling of ruining books when writing in them, there is a cure for you too — Use post-its!

Boingboing writer Cory Doctorow recently posted an article about the Starforce copy protection malware. Earlier today he received a threat from Dennis Zhidkov of the company in question.

I just wonder, what happened to free speech? Is it free speech as long as it is not uncomfortable?

I am not sure about the American laws, but is this not just ridiculous? I mean, that a “legit” company throws accusations and threats to anyone not in favor of their cause.

Update: Boycott Starforce (digg it)

The Free Software Magazine has release their 9th PDF issue for free download. Highlights as written on the announcement page are:

In Issue 9 of Free Software Magazine Saqib Ali gives the public a lesson in Private Key management and David Horton shows us ways to attract volunteers for free software projects. John Locke also gives us an intro to RSS news feeds, and much, much more.

So if you have some time over in your schedule, do have a look at the magazine since it contains lots of interesting articles for your reading pleasure.

Note that you need to register to be able do download the whole shebang.

SuSE has finally released their newest and anticipated version!

I have been evaluating the 10.0 RC1 OSS version for a while, and it works like a charm! The difference between the versions is probably minimal, but I will surely install it when it is available. Their FTP server is currently overloaded, but maybe I will have better luck with the torrent files. For some reason the torrent files are hosted on the FTP server, which makes it impossible to download them. If I get a hold of them I will post them here for a while if you want them.

Update: Here are the SuSE 10 torrents. Please share!

• SUSE-10.0-CD-i386-GM.torrent
• SUSE-10.0-EvalDVD-i386-GM.iso.torrent
• SUSE-10.0-EvalDVD-x86_64-GM.iso.torrent
• SUSE-10.0-LiveDVD.iso.torrent

Have you ever been at that point when your calendar is full and your task list is falling apart from all items jotted down? Well, thanks to To-done and the How I learned to stop worrying and love my schedule article I have begun laying out all tasks in the calendar itself.

It may seem like a common thing to do, but when you use it, and I mean really use it, everything seems to fall into place automatically. There is no need to worry about what I am going to do next, or if I am focusing on the correct thing at the moment – Everything is laid out in front of me on my P910i.

I just recently came across the Free Software Magazine which is just as it sounds – A free magazine discussing free and open software. I have not had time to browse though all issues yet, but it looks really nice so far!

I recently discovered a great little Windows application called KeePass which basically is an open source password safe. Featuring a polished look and great features, makes this a very attractive application.

Some of the main feature as stated by the website are the following:

• Highly encrypted databases
• Support of master passwords and key-disks
• Intuitive and secure Windows clipboard handling
• Strong random password generator
• Open-Source

The actual security of the AES implementation is unknown to me, but given that it is open source, it surely will not go by unnoticed if the implementation is flawed.

The people over at 43 folders have written an insightful article on how to write good email messages.

Go ahead, improve your messaging style!

Inte vill du väl att företagets hemliga information ska komma på vift, bara för att er e-post inte är skyddad? Se då till att införa ett smart system för kryptering. Vi beskriver en variant, PGP, som i alla fall ger dig och företaget pretty good privacy.

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Du får veta vilka standarder olika databashanterare bygger på. Vi hjälper dig att hitta rätt bland kommersiella och öppna databashanterare. Här får du tipsen som hjälper dig att säkra databaserna från intrång.

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Är du nervös över vad ondsinta användare kan ställa till med? Vill du ha kontroll över företagets alla system? Då har vi hittat en bok för dig.

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