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+- Microsoft threatens exposer of bing-cashback flaw on Saturday November 07, @03:48PM Anonymous Coward
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An anonymous reader writes "Bountii.com recently posted information on a flaw in bing's cash-back system. It is trivial for individuals to fake cash-back requests to bing. A further concern is that these illegitimate cash-back requests can block out legitimate ones in the future as each order ID is tied to a maximum of one-cash back request, and with sequential order IDs it would be easy to claim all future orders. Rather than do the reasonable thing, of fixing the security flaw, Microsoft fired back with a nasty gram from its lawyers, demanding that bountii remove the information. And while bountii has complied with Microsoft's request, the flaw is should be readily apparent to anyone reading the bing cashback sdk. Perhaps one day Microsoft will learn that the approriate response to security issues isn't lawyers and threats, its programmers and patches."
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+- WIPO advisory comitee has nuanced views on piracy on Saturday November 07, @02:33PM AtomicJake
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AtomicJake writes "As the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) in known for a very rigid course combating counterfeiting and piracy in general, it comes as a surprise that during a meeting of the WIPO Advisory Committee on Enforcement, several presenters have shown nuanced views on the economics of enforcing the intellectual property rights. Combating clothing piracy might not be beneficial for the welfare of a developing country. Most surprising is the presentation (PDF) of WIPO Chief Economist Carsten Fink, which says that illegal copies of software may actually be beneficial even for consumers of the original goods. Also the piracy of audio-visual goods creates not only losses but also benefits for e.g. hardware manufacturers. Maybe this is because Mr. Fink wrote the presentation before joining WIPO?"
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+- Best open source asset tracking solution? on Saturday November 07, @12:44PM Waynelson
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Waynelson writes "I've been dealing with terrible commercial closed source asset tracking systems within the military for a while now and just recently i've been given permission to migrate to a new system if we can find something that works. We're looking for an asset tracking program that support taking regular inventories using unique asset ids that are scanned via a hand held device into a flat .csv file. What have you used and would you recommend it?"
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+- Cyber Attacks Caused Power Outages in Brazil[->] on Saturday November 07, @09:29AM Anonymous Coward
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An anonymous reader writes "In a show set to air Sunday night, CBS blames a two-day outage in Espirito Santo in 2007 on a hack attack. The blackout affected three million people. Another, smaller blackout north of Rio de Janeiro in January 2005 was also triggered by computer intruders, the network claims."
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+- Simple, cost effective multiroom audio? on Saturday November 07, @08:13AM jimicus
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jimicus writes "I'd like a multiroom audio system but I'm thoroughly confused by the options available — and the difference in prices is huge. For instance, Philips have a wireless system which starts at around £280 — and Russound have a product which comes in around £1,000.
I've already got all my music as MP3s and it lives on a NAS box — I don't really want to repeat that process. I also have a perfectly capable amp and speakers in my living room, so I don't really need anything else there.
Whatever I go for has to pass the wife test — so something which requires a separate amp, speakers and PC in each room and requires a keyboard to control is right out.
I don't mind spending a little money but I don't really want to find that every little extra thing adds up to £thousands.
Has anyone else dealt with a similar problem? How did you solve it?"
I've already got all my music as MP3s and it lives on a NAS box — I don't really want to repeat that process. I also have a perfectly capable amp and speakers in my living room, so I don't really need anything else there.
Whatever I go for has to pass the wife test — so something which requires a separate amp, speakers and PC in each room and requires a keyboard to control is right out.
I don't mind spending a little money but I don't really want to find that every little extra thing adds up to £thousands.
Has anyone else dealt with a similar problem? How did you solve it?"
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+- Danish anti-piracy agency throw in the towel[->] on Saturday November 07, @06:08AM ChristianVillum
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ChristianVillum writes "Just now it has been announced in the press by the official Danish Anti-Piracy agency, Antipiratgruppen, that they are throwing in the towel and will seize their operations completely; to find and prosecute music copyright offenders. Here is a translation of the article from todays Danish press."
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+- Microsoft Borrows GPL Code for Windows 7 Utility[->] on Saturday November 07, @02:28AM Goatbert
Goatbert writes "Rafael Rivera over at WithinWindows.com has found evidence that Microsoft has potentially stolen code from an open source/GPL'd project (ImageMaster for a utility made available on the Microsoft Store to allow download customers to copy the Windows 7 setup files to a DVD or USB Flash Drive. If Rivera's evidence holds up, this could be some serious egg in the face for Microsoft at a time when they're getting mostly good press from the tech media."
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+- How Google Uses Linux[->] on Friday November 06, @11:19PM postfail
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postfail writes "lwn.net coverage of the 2009 Linux Kernel Summit (http://lwn.net/Articles/KernelSummit2009/) includes a recap of a presentation by Google engineers and how they use Linux. According to the article, a team of 30 Google engineers is rebasing to the mainline kernel every 17 months, presently carrying 1208 patches to 2.6.26 and inserting almost 300,000 lines of code; roughly 25% of those patches are backports of newer features."
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+- Matthias Ettrich Receives Highest German Honour[->] on Friday November 06, @06:36PM Jiilik Oiolosse
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Jiilik Oiolosse writes "KDE founder Matthias Ettrich was decorated today with the German Federal Cross of Merit for his contributions to Free Software. The Federal Cross of Merit is both the most prestigious as well as the only general decoration awarded by the Federal Republic of Germany. It is awarded by the Federal President for outstanding achievements in the political, economic, cultural, and other fields. Matthias was awarded the medal in recognition of his work spurring innovation and spreading knowledge for the common good."
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+- Comic Books Improve Early Childhood Literacy on Friday November 06, @06:28PM Hugh Pickens
Hugh Pickens writes "The Telegraph reports that Professor Carol Tilley, a professor of library and information science at the University of Illinois, says that comics are just as sophisticated as other forms of reading, children benefit from reading them at least as much as they do from reading other kinds of books, and that there is evidence that comics increase children's vocabulary and instill a love of reading. "A lot of the criticism of comics and comic books come from people who think that kids are just looking at the pictures and not putting them together with the words," says Tilley. "But you could easily make some of the same criticisms of picture books – that kids are just looking at pictures, and not at the words." Tilley says that some of the condescension toward comics as a medium may come from the connotations that the name itself evokes but that the distinct comic book aesthetic — frames, thought and speech bubbles, motion lines, to name a few — has been co-opted by children's books, creating a hybrid format. "There has been an increase in the number of comic book-type elements in books for younger children," Tilley says. "If you really consider how the pictures and words work together in consonance to tell a story, you can make the case that comics are just as complex as any other kind of literature.""
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+- Antimatter in lightning[->] on Friday November 06, @04:52PM AMESN
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AMESN writes "The Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope launched last year detects gamma rays from light years away, but recently it detected gamma rays from lightning on Earth. And the energy of the gamma rays is specific to the decay of positrons, which are the antimatter flavor of electrons. Finding antimatter in lightning surprised researchers and suggests the electric field of the lightning somehow got reversed."
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