[SpikeWed] Click to become a criminal, Apache Axis1.3 released, Drools over JBoss, 50 iPods per minute for Apple

The increasing madness of the law is getting to the point where we can't do anything on the internet without fear of running foul of the law.  The latest nonsense was highlighted by Joe Savard when he spotted a story on The Register that highlighted the case of someone who was fined £400 (and pay £600 costs) for hitting a URL with a "../../../" to see if the site was a phishing site. Daniel Cuthbert had made a donation to a charity site but was suspicious when the thank-you screen never appeared.  Now since the guy had legitimately made a donation his records was on file and therefore easily tracked.  Any attempt to gain unauthorised entry to a computer is an offence.  So technically speaking, if you were to click on this URL http://www.bt.com/../../../letmein.jsp then you have just become a cyber criminal. Well done PC Plod, you are indeed a sterling example for the community!

• http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/10/11/tsunami_hacker_followup/

Apache released 1.3 of the Axis yesterday.  Axis is the web services component that is embedded in the majority of application servers.  This release makes it possible to run Axis inside of Java applets, process message attachments and fixes a whole slew of bugs.

• http://ws.apache.org/axis/

JBoss is currently holding their European conference in Barcelona and have made a number of announcements so far.  One of the more interesting ones is that the Business Rules project, Drools, have voted to join the Fluery bandwagon and be assimilated into the JBoss Middleware infastructure.  Drools is a seriously nice piece of software and it will be interesting to see if the popularity increases by being under the JBoss umbrella.

• http://www.javalobby.org/java/forums/t51881.html

Later on today Apple will be announcing what they have been teasing the press with for a number of weeks.  In the meantime though they have released figures that show they have quadrupled profits.  This by in large is thanks to the huge success of the iPOD range, which is selling at a rate of just under 1 per second (or 50 per minute).  No longer the computer company, Apple are firmly in the multimedia-cool-device business.

• http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4332680.stm

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