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Submission + - A pound of flesh: how Cisco's "unmitigated gall" d (arstechnica.com)

Submitted by CortxVortx
CortxVortx writes: High-tech entrepreneur Peter Adekeye's yearlong nightmare began after he dropped his wife off at the Vancouver International airport and headed downtown to The Wedgewood, a posh boutique hotel. Inside a tasteful boardroom adorned with gilt-framed mirrors, the US District Court for Northern California, San Jose division, had convened a special sitting to hear Adekeye's deposition as part of a massive antitrust action he had launched against his former employer, the computer giant Cisco Systems. At 5:15pm, however, two plainclothes women—the shorter one brandishing a badge—and two uniformed police officers entered the room. Adekeye was confused, as were his two Wall Street lawyers and the special judicial master conducting the hearing. But the four lawyers for Cisco knew exactly what was going on...
Government

Submission + - Anonymous & Lulz Security Write Letter to FBI (securityweek.com) 1

Submitted by wiredmikey
wiredmikey writes: After announcing it had stolen 1GB of Data after hacking NATO systems today, Anonymous continued with some additional actions.

In response to an article published by NPR surrounding the recent arrest of alleged members of the Anonymous hacking group, Anonymous & Lulz Security, in a joint statement, responded with an open letter to FBI and “international law authorities,” and specifically responding to statements from FBI director Steve Chabinsky.

In the letter, the groups respond to comments by the FBI calling their actions of breaking in to websites and commiting unlawful acts unacceptable, by explaining what they find is unacceptable, and thus the reasons for their continued efforts to hack an expose governments and corporations that are “lying to their citizens and inducing fear and terror to keep them in control by dismantling their freedom piece by piece.”

Submission + - NASA's Hubble Discovers Another Moon Around Pluto (nasa.gov)

Submitted by thebchuckster
thebchuckster writes: Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope discovered a fourth moon orbiting the icy dwarf planet Pluto. The tiny, new satellite – temporarily designated P4 — was uncovered in a Hubble survey searching for rings around the dwarf planet.

The new moon is the smallest discovered around Pluto. It has an estimated diameter of 8 to 21 miles (13 to 34 km). By comparison, Charon, Pluto's largest moon, is 648 miles (1,043 km) across, and the other moons, Nix and Hydra, are in the range of 20 to 70 miles in diameter (32 to 113 km).
Piracy

Submission + - Movie ind bins report: pirates are great consumers (geek.com) 1

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: The movie and music industry seem hell bent on portraying pirates as criminals and parasites who cost both industries billions of dollars in lost sales. In order to prove this fact a number of studies are commissioned to help demonstrate the effect a pirate has on sales of entertainment.

The problem with this approach is that it has been found to be biased towards portraying pirates as the movie industry wants them to be seen, rather than presenting the facts. A great example of this has been discovered by the German-language politics and media website Telepolis.

GfK Group is one of the largest market research companies in the world and is often used by the movie industry to carry out research and studies into piracy. Talking to a source within GfK who wished to remain anonymous, Telepolis found that a recent study looking at pirates and their purchasing activities found them to be almost the complete opposite of the criminal parasites the entertainment industry want them to be.

The study states that it is much more typical for a pirate to download an illegal copy of a movie to try it before purchasing. They are also found to purchase more DVDs than the average consumer, and they visit the movie theater more, especially for opening weekend releases which typically cost more to attend.

The conclusion of the study is that movie pirates are generally more interested in film and therefore spend more money and invest more time in it. In other words, they make up some of the movie industries best customers.

Unfortunately, we will never get to read the official version of the study as the unnamed client who paid for it to be created has decided it should not see a release. The reason given for shelving it was that the contents proved “unpleasant.”
Advertising

Submission + - Study: Ad Networks Not Honoring Do-Not-Track (itworld.com)

Submitted by
itwbennett
itwbennett writes: "According to a new study from Stanford University's Center for Internet Society, almost half of the Network Advertising Initiative (NAI) members that Stanford studied left tracking cookies in place after a Web user opted out of targeted ads. NAI's executive director said that with no consensus on what do-not-track means, ad networks continue to gather data for business reasons other than providing targeted advertising. 'Under the NAI self-regulatory code, companies commit to providing an opt out to the use of online data for online behavioral advertising purposes,' Curran said. 'But the NAI code also recognizes that companies sometimes need to continue to collect data for operational reasons that are separate from ad targeting based on a user's online behavior.'"

Submission + - Earthquake Causes River to Disappear (yahoo.com)

Submitted by Endoflow2010
Endoflow2010 writes: Following a series of moderate earthquakes that struck the country Tuesday, residents around the Guacalito River in Costa Rica discovered that the river had disappeared. Earthquake-report.com reported that sometime after the earthquakes, villagers living near the river, which is located near Armenia de Upala, discovered that the river was dry.

It was not immediately known if the waters of the river had disappeared due to sinkhole activity that can occur after earthquakes or if the earth shaking caused damming that dried up the river near the Miravalles volcano. The quakes were centered near the Nicaragua and Costa Rica border in the same vicinity as the Miravalles volcano.

UPDATE 13/07 – 14:31 UTC : Just after the earthquake, villagers living near the Río Guacalito at Armenias de Upala were surprised that the river was suddenly dry! Villagers believe that a dam was created on the slopes of of the Miravalles volcano which dried up the river.

Comment Re:Doubling the value! (Score 1) 488

by Afforess (#36739870) Attached to: Netflix Announces Streaming Only Plans and Higher Prices for DVDs
I feel compelled to mention that they only increase their streaming selection every day. Just recently, all of the Star Trek TV series came on Instant (There goes my free time). So technically, they are adding value every day, and not charging more for it. Imagine if they charged based on the size of their streaming catalogue, or per-usage. ;)

Also, Amazon, Google, and Hulu combined still don't match up. Add that to increasing contractual costs (http://money.cnn.com/2011/07/08/technology/netflix_starz_contract/), and the price increase is no surprise.

Finally, keep in mind this is a price decrease for those not interested in streaming at all, and $16 is WAY cheaper than my previous $50 cable bill...
Politics

Submission + - Congress to vote to repeal incandescent bulb ban (cnn.com) 1

Submitted by Bob the Super Hamste
Bob the Super Hamste writes: CNN Money is running as story about a bill Congress is going to vote today to repeal the "incandescent light bulb ban" that was put into place during the Bush administration. The bill is supported by Republicans in congress who are claiming this places unnecessary restrictions on the market. For those of you wondering it does bring up the standard issues of energy efficiency, mercury (in both the bulbs and that emitted by coal power), and cost of the bulbs. The bill was introduced by Texas Congressman Joe Barton.

Submission + - IDC: IT Is Delusional About Consumerization Trend (itworld.com)

Submitted by
itwbennett
itwbennett writes: "A new IDC study finds that while 87% of IT managers said workers get their mobile devices from the company, more than half of employees with iPhones, Android phones and iPads said they bought the devices themselves. 'Enterprises think they are in control of these devices, but in fact they are in control of only a small part of their infrastructure, with a significant number of employees going off the grid in acquiring and using their own devices,' IDC said. In another shocking disconnect, IT managers said they thought 34% of staff used smartphones to access business apps, but 69% workers reported doing so."
Facebook

Submission + - Facebook is trying its Very best to Block Google+ (bharatbuysell.com)

Submitted by
Anita Khanna
Anita Khanna writes: "Facebook is trying real hard to block users migrating to google+. Although the recently announced Google+ social platform is still in private beta, it has generated enough excitement to have Facebook making some preemptive measures. Shortly after the announcement, Facebook made a peculiar change to their TOS that resulted in the ban of popular Chrome extension Facebook Friend Exporter. Over the weekend, another personal data migration tool, Open-Xchange, has also been deactivated."
Facebook

Submission + - How to move from Facebook to Google+ (blogspot.com)

Submitted by karthikmns
karthikmns writes: Google plus is on a roll, challenging the mighty Facebook. Nevertheless only time has the answer to the question will Google plus overtake Facebook. As on now, we help you to migrate your Facebook album to Google plus. No its not a cluttered procedure. Thank to Aman Kumar Jain who crafted this app.

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