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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 30th Jul 2006 15:42 UTC
This week, The Register ran a story on how the US supposedly had given up its 'control' over ICANN. ICANN, the body which assigns IP addresses and domain names worldwide, currently falls under the US Commerce Department via a contractual agreement; this means the US government can control ICANN. El Reg claimed the US had given up this control; Ars was quick to respond , stating that "the ...
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 13th Jul 2006 09:24 UTC, submitted by george
The Debian GNU/Linux project today admitted a hacker had compromised one of its internal servers . "Early this morning we discovered that someone had managed to compromise gluck.debian.org," Debian developer James Troup wrote in an e-mail to the Debian community.
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Google opens up Ratproxy code
Company is showing an increasing affection for open source. If only Viacom would have asked for source code nicely, instead of litigating for it....
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Hanson Behind Bars
An Augusta man will spend 5-years in prison after being sentenced on child pornography charges. Court records indicate that 66-year old Victor Hanson made an image of child pornography available for sharing over the internet in 2003.
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Google must hand over YouTube data to Viacom after court ruling
Google must release the records of every video watched on YouTube, including user names and web addresses, to Viacom after a US federal court ruling. By Mark Sweney
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Recent Original Stories
For the last few years, a coalition of technology companies, academics and computer programmers has been trying to persuade Congress to scale back the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. Now US Congress is preparing to do precisely the opposite . A proposed copyright law seen by CNET News.com would expand the DMCA's restrictions on software that can bypass copy protections and grant federal police ...
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AVG Fakes User Agent, Floods the Internet
Slimey anti-virus provider AVG is spamming the internet with deceptive traffic pretending to be Internet Explorer. Essentially, users of the software automatically pre-crawl search results, which is bad, but they do so with an intentionally generic user agent. This is flooding websites with meaningless traffic (on Slashdot, we're seeing them as like 6% of our page traffic now). Best of all, they ...
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Court grants Viacom access to YouTube user's record
Melbourne, July 3 : A District Court judge has ordered YouTube to hand over the details of each clip watched on the website-along with the date, time, and IP address of each user who watched the clips-to media giant Viacom.
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Sexual predator frightens Port St. Lucie woman with weird text messages, e-mails, calls
Police on Wednesday arrested a sexual predator after he “barraged” a woman with text messages, e-mails and phone calls and made statements about Satan fathering her child, according to a report released Thursday. The woman told police her fear of Charles Michael Phillips, 51, increased she researched Phillips on the Internet and discovered his “sexual predator” listing, saying it “terrified ...
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Google to tell Viacom how many times you watched LonelyGirl15 [Your Privacy Is An Illusion]
Two rulings came down in Viacom's copyright infringement suit against Google and its video-sharing site YouTube yesterday. The first: Despite Viacom's wishes, Google will not have to turn over... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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Company Offers Free Computer Recycling
Consumers with old computers that don't work have a drop-off site.
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AT&T Dumping Dish TV (Is Satellite Screwed?) [At&t]
AT&T is nixing the agreement they've had with Dish TV since 2003 to sell their satellite TV service as part of a triple play bundle with internet and voice. Some are speculating it's because AT&T is...
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Hitwise: Yahoo Properties Get More Traffic From Google Than Yahoo Search
In a way it should come as no surprise that most of Yahoo's own properties get more traffic from Google than from Yahoo Search, according to Hitwise . I would guess that's also true for Microsoft (though I'll wait for the blog post to confirm that). Click to continue reading...
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Seagate invests £120m in UK factory
Martin Courtney, Computing , Thursday 3 July 2008 at 16:49:00 Disk drive manufacturer expects to ship a billion hard disk drives in the next five years Hard disk drive maker Seagate is to invest £120m in extending its Londonderry factory to produce greater volumes of read-write heads for its products....
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Protus Responds to Patent Lawsuit brought by j2 Global Communications
Fast growing Canadian technology company Protus IP Solutions responded today to a competitor's patent infringement suit by noting that the asserted patents are not relevant to the company or any of its products.
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Dishonest Oz students outsource Computer Science assignments to cheap Indian programmers
Sydney, July 3 : More and more Computer Science students in Australia are turning to programmers in countries like India to have their assignments completed cheaply, and university staff say that they are powerless to detect and prevent such acts.
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Atom shortage hitting low-cost laptop shipments
FAR EASTERN MAKERS of small flat panels are claiming that a shortage of Intel Atom chips is holding up production.
The Inquirer |
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iPO Just a Thought - iPod nano Versus iPhone: Decisons, Decisions...
Vern weighed the pros and cons of buying a new iPhone versus something else in Apple's iPod lineup. The end result: Wailing, gnashing of teeth, and spending a little more money than he originally intended
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The reason for the last Firefox 2 release: multiple security fixes
If the manufacturer of a product acknowledges a series of potentially hazardous defects before anyone else can be hurt by them, and the solution is already available, perhaps the word "responsibility" applies in a good way.
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Family Math Night counts on its volunteers
Family Math Night would not be successful without the support of dedicated volunteers, such as Erica Voolich, who recruited students from Somerville High’s Math and Computer Clubs to participate.
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Sony PS3 Update Locks Consoles, Web Site Attacked
Sony is feeling some gaming-division woes this week with a double PlayStation 3 whammy. First, Sony's PlayStation Web site fell victim to SQL-injection attacks. Now Sony's PS3 firmware update is turning some consoles into bricks. Sony released Version 2.40 of its firmware on Wednesday with the promise of a more collaborative experience to compete with Microsoft's Xbox 360. But following ...
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22 Troubled King-Harbor Workers Are Still Employed
At least 22 employees who were disciplined in connection with the closure of Martin Luther King Jr.-Harbor Hospital are still employed by Los Angeles County, it was reported Thursday. Despite county supervisors' promise to "wipe the slate clean" of problem workers, the employees are still on the county payroll, the Los Angeles Times reported. County officials told the newspaper a computer glitch ...
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Sanyo Recharging Its Lithium Battery Production
The electronics firm announces its second new plant to make rechargeable batteries for devices, in an attempt to cement its lead in the field over rivals Sony and Samsung.
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Librarian Moving Info to Web
By Laura Nesbitt Mountain View Telegraph A Moriarty librarian is working on a project to keep pace with the public's increasing use of the Internet. “It became clear to me that getting (material) on the Web is essential.
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How to Use Aspect-Oriented Programming for Trustworthy Software Development
DUBLIN, Ireland----Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Using Aspect-Oriented Programming for Trustworthy Software Development" report to their offering.
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