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coondoggie writes "The Federal Trade Commission yesterday had a US District Court issue a temporary restraining order halting the sale of RemoteSpy keylogger spyware. According to the FTC's complaint, RemoteSpy spyware was sold to clients who would then secretly monitor unsuspecting consumers' computers. The defendants provided RemoteSpy clients with detailed instructions explaining how to disguise the spyware as an innocuous file, such as a photo, attached to an email."

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An anonymous reader notes a posting up at a law blog with the provocative title Does Your Boss Have to Pay You While You Wait for Vista to Boot Up?. (Provocative because Vista doesn't boot more slowly than anything else, necessarily, as one commenter points out.) The National Law Journal article behind the post requires subscription. Quoting: "Lawyers are noting a new type of lawsuit, in which employees are suing over time spent booting [up] their computers. ... During the past year, several companies, including AT&T Inc., UnitedHealth Group Inc. and Cigna Corp., have been hit with lawsuits in which employees claimed that they were not paid for the 15- to 30-minute task of booting their computers at the start of each day and logging out at the end. Add those minutes up over a week, and hourly employees are losing some serious pay, argues plaintiffs' lawyer Mark Thierman, a Las Vegas solo practitioner who has filed a handful of computer-booting lawsuits in recent years. ... [A] management-side attorney... who is defending a half-dozen employers in computer-booting lawsuits... believes that, in most cases, computer booting does not warrant being called work."

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JakartaDean writes "Senator Ted Stevens of Alaska, famed Internet regulator, has lost his Senate seat. The AP is reporting that ' Stevens was declared the loser in Alaska on Tuesday night after a two-week-long process of counting nearly 90,000 absentee and early votes from across Alaska. With this victory, Democrat Mark Begich (the mayor of Anchorage) has defeated one of the giants in the US Senate by a 3,724-vote margin, a stunning end to a 40-year Senate career marred by Stevens' conviction on corruption charges a week before the election.' It's probably too early to tell what this means for Internet regulation, but at least there's a > 0 chance that the next committee chair will understand something about the Net."

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Dynamoo writes "The good news is that Microsoft have announced free anti-virus software for consumers, dubbed Morro, available late next year. The bad news is... well, exactly the same. Although Microsoft's anti-malware products are pretty good, this move could drive many competitors out of business and create a dangerous security monoculture; major rivals will be lawyering up already. On the other hand, many malware infections could be prevented even by basic software. So is this going to be a good or bad thing overall?"

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hcg50a writes "NASA has successfully tested the first deep space communications network modeled on the Internet. Working as part of a NASA-wide team, engineers from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, CA, used software called Disruption-Tolerant Networking, or DTN, to transmit dozens of space images to and from a NASA science spacecraft located about 20 million miles from Earth. The store-and-forward protocol was designed by NASA in consultation with Vint Cerf. Here's a discussion from last July before the test began."

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A gang of low-level New York thugs finds themselves in the fight of their lives when they accidentally steal a million dollars from a notorious crime syndicate during a botched Diamond District robbery. Conrad Glover writes, directs and produces this Indie crime thriller starring Jaime Velez, Joe Wissler, C.L. Rivera, Rick Borgia, Raine Brown and Antonio Saillant.

Enjoy the music and fun of Hannah Montana as never before with this collection of 11 interactive games. All it takes is a remote control to play, either solo or with friends and family in multiplayer or Party Play modes. Move to Hannah's biggest hits in a high-energy dance-off, play a special game of charades inspired by the show, test your knowledge with fun quizzes and more. Emily Osment (Hannah's best friend Lilly) hosts the fun.

Rock out to the first season of Disney's "Hannah Montana," starring Miley Cyrus as middle school student Miley Stewart, who leads a secret life as a pop star but does her best to be a normal kid when she's not performing. This inaugural Emmy-nominated season of the show finds Miley constantly hiding her alter ego from her classmates and trying to balance homework and boys with the demands of musical stardom.

Get into the music and fun of High School Musical like never before with this compilation of 11 interactive games inspired by all three movies. Grab the remote control to play solo or with friends and family in multiplayer or Party Play modes. Move to the movies' hot soundtracks with a dance competition, see how much you really know about the gang from East High School with fun trivia quizzes, play on-screen hoops against the Wildcats and more.

Return to Bikini Bottom for episodes from the funny, frenetic fifth season of one of television's biggest animated hits. In this collection, SpongeBob, perennially sunny fry cook at the Krusty Krab, discovers his body can musically attract jellyfish; mistakenly boards a prison ship with his dimwitted buddy Patrick; crosses paths with a dastardly outlaw; and watches in horror as plastic surgery turns his ugly rival Squidward into a hunk.

Geared toward kids ages 5 and older, this fun program teaches children how to knit, a skill which helps with confidence, hand-eye coordination, motor skills and more. Dr. Elizabeth Seward also teaches kids how to make their own knitting needles. Other segments include an animated story about knitting, 7-year-old Ryan Anderson teaching knitting basics, instructions for making knitted toys, a visit to an alpaca ranch to learn about yarn and more.

Inspired by Mexican tortillas, American burgers, and delicious breadcrumb coatings, I created this recipe. The whole family loves it, and whoever gets this recipe in hand passes it on. So I thought it was time to share it with you.

A baked tuna casserole layered with crushed potato chips, canned tuna, green peas, mushroom soup, and American cheese. A perfect family dish for a cool fall night!

Beef and sausage star in these mini pizzas on cocktail rye bread. These can be placed on a cookie sheet, frozen then placed in freezer bags until ready to bake.

A triple-decked sandwich with bacon, turkey ham, lettuce and tomato.

Quiche with crunchy potato crust. A good one dish meal and a great way to use leftovers. You may also use 1 cup chopped vegetables of your choosing, such as onions, peppers, broccoli or tomatoes, etc.

This is the easiest meal you'll ever make. Being a mom of 8 and working I wanted to find something I can make for dinner with no effort. Start your roast in the morning before going to work it will be done when you get home. You don't even have to defrost the roast. If it is a defrosted roast, put it in around noon, it will be done at 5pm. I've had so many people ask for my recipe, and this is the first time I've let it out of my kitchen. Enjoy.