Online payment vendor PayPal cited for Patriot Act violation - Computerworld - Online auction company eBay Inc. said its PayPal Inc. auction payment unit is being investigated for possible violations of the USA Patriot Act.
In its 10-K financial report to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, filed yesterday (download PDF), eBay said its PayPal unit received a letter on March 28 from the U.S. attorney's office for the Eastern District of Missouri about the alleged violations. The letter states that PayPal's earlier practice of providing payment services to online gambling merchants violated provisions in the Patriot Act that "prohibit the transmission of funds that are known to have been derived from a criminal offense or are intended to be used to promote or support unlawful activity."

Sounds like a little extortion to me, the US attorney's office offers to drop the accusation (not a formal charge) if PayPal forks over the proceeds from the questioned transactions.  Of course the Patriot Act was intended to thwart terrorism, not hold-up legit business for conducting business.  Nothing indicates that there was support of terrorism.

7:07:28 PM    

Mozilla's Major New Roadmap

Mozilla's Major New Roadmap

Posted by timothy on Wednesday April 02, @03:41PM
from the adventures-in-browsing dept.
kerz writes "mozilla.org today released a new version of it's famed roadmap, this time with some pretty major changes. First and foremost, they plan on ditching the large Mozilla suite in favor of Phoenix and Minotaur. Secondly, they have plans to change the milestone cycle to allow for more time to fix the Gecko layout engine to be smaller and more efficient. MozillaZine has the scoop..."

[Slashdot]

5:58:05 PM    

Red Hat: End of Life: Red Hat Linux 6.2, 7 [Linux Today]

As it says.  I better update my Linux box in Chicago, it's running 6.2.

1:56:02 PM    

Slashdot | Run For Cover; It's Mozilla 1.4 Alpha

Run For Cover; It's Mozilla 1.4 Alpha

Posted by timothy on Wednesday April 02, @07:27AM
from the you-could-be-the-lucky-winner dept.
asa writes "Mozilla 1.4 Alpha is out. This release features dynamic image and table resizing in Composer, smooth scrolling (see release notes for enabling this feature,) and usability improvements to spam filtering. In addition to these feature improvements, 1.4a also contains fixes for performance, stability, standards support and website compatibility. This is an alpha release so expect bugs, and don't use it unless you are willing to live with the risks inherent in such a release (ie. crashes, data loss, etc.). More information is available in the release notes."

11:51:55 AM