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Submission + - Facebook Revises Terms Amidst Users' Censorship Concerns (itproportal.com)

Submitted by hypnosec
hypnosec writes: Facebook has revised its terms after users complained that it could be misconstrued as an excuse for censorship, resulting in the social networking site reopening the consultation into other changes made to those conditions. Users sent in their concerns over the suggested amendments to Facebook's Statement of Rights and Responsibilities in the midst of a consultation period run in March, with the site revealing on Friday that it would open up another comment session until 27 April for any proposed changes. "Based on your feedback during the recent comment period for our Statement of Rights and Responsibilities (SRR), we have decided to revise some proposed changes [PDF] and further explain many others. We are also re-opening our comment period," Facebook stated on their governance page, the only place where users can find out about any changes made to its terms.
Earth

Submission + - Study Finds Surprising Arctic Methane Emission Source (scienceworldreport.com) 1

Submitted by
fishmike
fishmike writes: "The fragile and rapidly changing Arctic region is home to large reservoirs of methane, a potent greenhouse gas. As Earth's climate warms, the methane, frozen in reservoirs stored in Arctic tundra soils or marine sediments, is vulnerable to being released into the atmosphere, where it can add to global warming. Now a multi-institutional study by Eric Kort of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., has uncovered a surprising and potentially important new source of Arctic methane: the ocean itself."
Censorship

Submission + - Google helped with CISPA,quietly worked with the bill's authors behind the scene (zdnet.com)

Submitted by suraj.sun
suraj.sun writes: One spark of hope to the people and organizations that oppose cyberspying bill CISPA was that in the list of 28 corporate sponsors (including Facebook), Google was nowhere to be seen. But now CISPA’s author Rep. Mike Rogers (R-MI) has bragged that Google had, in fact, quietly worked with the bill’s authors behind the scenes. According to Rogers, chairman of the House Intelligence Committee and number-one fan for the execution of Wikileaks whisteblower Bradley Manning — Google is “very supportive” of CISPA.

CISPA has been nicknamed “SOPA 2 but is more accurately described as a setup to wipe out decades of consumer privacy protections, giving the US government unprecedented access to individuals’ online data and communications. Now it seems we know where Google stands, too. The bill primarily protects internet companies that share private data and communications with the government — it promotes digital spying on citizens without a warrant under the guise of cybersecurity. The bill’s vague language, in addition to the power it can give Homeland Security entities involved in domain shutdowns to go after sites such as Wikileaks, has had CISPA labeled as a relative to SOPA and PIPA.
Education

Submission + - Computers Can't Read (nytimes.com)

Submitted by
stoolpigeon
stoolpigeon writes: "With a large study showingsoftware grades essays as well as humans, but much faster, it might seem that soon humans will be completely out of the loop when it comes to evaluating standardized tests. But Les Perelman, a writing teacher at MIT, has shown the limits of algorythms used for grading with an essay that got a top score from an automated system but contained no relevant information and many innaccuracies. Mr. Perelman outlined his approach for the NY Times after he was given a month to analyze E-Rater, one of the software packages that grades essays."

Submission + - Second porn site run by Manwin has been hacked. (bbc.co.uk)

Submitted by triceice
triceice writes: It seems that even the shadow sites of porn land are not immune to hacking anymore. "The data includes user names, email addresses and passwords. Also taken were the numbers, expiry dates and security codes for 40,000 credit cards."
This could be a hack on par with Stratfor.

Comment Can anyone say Police State? (Score 1) 482

by triceice (#39212833) Attached to: Photographing Police: Deletion Is Not Forever

No police officer should ever be anything but OK when someone tapes their arrest. If they are not then it is a complete and absolute validation that they did not follow procedure. I am a 2 time convicted felon and not once did I dispute what they did unless it was illegal and they did not have proof that what they did was ok. 2 Convictions have been thrown out because they did not have proof not because I was innocent. Of course that was 19 years ago,

Comment Re:Ya... (Score -1, Flamebait) 294

by triceice (#38479926) Attached to: Taliban Seizes and Burns PCs, Cell Phones To Stop Obscenity

How dare you make light of the situation. :)

I'm betting not a lot of cops will get your joke. :(

FU. I am not a cop fan but they have a job that I won't do because just pulling over a person for a broken tail light could mean that they are shot at or shot and killed.
So even if they are not the PH'D people they are not stupid like the Occupiers that believe they should get healthcare and college education for free.
So give them some slack even if they are not geniuses.

Just my LHO
Google

Submission + - Silicon Valley is more 1% than 99%? (sfgate.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Eric Schmidt says what we all sorta suspected-Silicon Valley has largely been immune to the Great Recession.

Submission + - Can SSD Electronics Be Replaced & Retain Data?

Submitted by multimediavt
multimediavt writes: I know that because of the delicate calibration between electronics and read/write heads in standard hard drives, that even with matching electronics it is next to impossible for those not fortunate enough to work for a data recovery lab to retain the data stored on the platters after replacing the onboard controller electronics should they fail. I am curious if that is true of SSD drives as well? I would assume not, but wondered if any /. folks had any insight on whether this was true or not? Beyond the speed increases and not having to worry about head crashes due to traumatic, sudden deceleration, the ability to replace faulty controller electronics (or even to upgrade them down the road) would be yet another huge advantage of the technology.

Submission + - Ask Slashdot: How do you monitor backups at many d

Submitted by triceice
triceice writes: The company I work at is an MSP but they use Symantec System Recovery (or Backup Exec System Recovery) as the solution they sell and use on most all of our clients (no debate on if that is smart). What I want to know is how would you monitor or get some kind of report on close to 100 different companies backups, with over 300+ servers? Our situation is not served by the normal ways. We have our own N-Able server but it does work to monitor anything Symantec Backup but Exec as it is now. Right now we basically RDP in to every company and check daily. Takes way too long.

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