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Submission + - Student suspended for posting on YouTube (theglobeandmail.com) 2

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: A Canadian student has been suspended from school and had the police called on him due to satirical animations that he posted to YouTube.

Jack Christie, a 12th-grade student at the Donald A. Wilson Secondary School in Whitby, Ontario, Canada, created the videos in his own time, off-campus.
AMD

Submission + - NVIDIA To Unlock SLI For AMD 990 Series Chipsets (vr-zone.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: For so long, AMD enthusiasts have to resort to unofficial patches to make SLI work on their boards but not anymore. NVIDIA has finally agreed to make their SLI technology available for AMD 9-series chipsets boards supporting the Zambezi processors based on Bulldozer architecture.
Technology

Submission + - New giant offshore wind turbine with 80 m wing (reuters.com)

Submitted by jackd
jackd writes: Quite an interesting news piece on a new giant wind turbine being able to produce a whopping 7 MW, designed for rough sea conditions. Each new Vestas turbine will be able to provide electricity for 6,500 homes. The turbine has a greater capacity to generate electricity than any machine currently working at sea. Can't help but think this announcement is relevant in the face of the nuclear troubles, but how can they possibly cope with energy demand, or compete with one 1,000 MW nuclear plant.
Privacy

Submission + - Is Samsung putting keyloggers on their laptops? (networkworld.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Two brand new Samsung laptops both have a keylogger installed. After calling Samsung tech support, they supposedly admitted to it. After the amount of press the Sony BMG problem got, I'm surprised this isn't a big uproar.

Part one: http://www.networkworld.com/newsletters/sec/2011/032811sec2.html
Part two: http://www.networkworld.com/newsletters/sec/2011/040411sec1.html
AMD

Submission + - AMD's Ontario APU impresses in $330 Acer netbook (techreport.com)

Submitted by crookedvulture
crookedvulture writes: AMD's Ontario APU is billed as an Atom killer, and Acer has put one into an Aspire One 522 netbook that looks very impressive. For just $330, you get a dual-core CPU with integrated Radeon graphics capable of smooth HD video playback and decent gaming performance. The 10" screen offers a 720p resolution with far more pixels than typical netbooks, and real-world battery life pushes 6.5 hours while surfing over Wi-Fi. There are issues, such as too little RAM and an anemic Starter edition of Windows 7, but those flaws are easy to forgive given the system's bargain price. It's amazing what you can get from a low-end ultraportable these days.

Comment Re:WTF!! (Score 1) 293

by mjdrzewi (#29549101) Attached to: $529M Gov't Loan To Develop $89,000 Hybrid Sports Car

10% fucking unemployment.

I wish we had only 10% unemployment here in Michigan its 15% and including the people who no longer count it around 20%. And I have to ask my self why is the US taxpayer funding a Finnish car company to build a luxury hybrid sports car, that in all reality most like will never be built on any production scale. Why am I paying for this? How is this stimulus for our economy? Why are we spending money we don't have and never will. Isn't that what got us in to this mess in the first place?
Government

Submission + - Canada's Privacy Commissioner slaps Bell over DPI 2

Submitted by codeguy007
codeguy007 writes: Canada's Privacy Commissioner has complained that Bell Canada does not explain clearly to it's clients how it uses information gleaned from Deep Packet Inspection (DPI). Bell uses DPI to traffic shape. They purposely limit bandwidth use of P2P networks across their network. Not only for their own clients but also for clients from other ISPs that use their network. When using the DPI, Bell is able to determine which packet types belong to which dynamic IP which in turn can be associated with that users id. While Bell claims that it does not keep the IP information beyond it's use in Traffic Shaping, the Commission has complained that there is no link to this information in Bell's Privacy statement and noted that Bell has yet to add it to their FAQ as promised in 2008. (The process is explained elsewhere on the site).

http://www.itworldcanada.com/Pages/Docbase/ViewArticle.aspx?id=idgml-f8c8388d-1425-4e20&Portal=448d158c-d857-4785-b759-ffa1c005933c&sub=501490
Windows

Submission + - FSF Attacks Windows 7's 'Sins' In New Campaign (computerworld.com) 1

Submitted by
CWmike
CWmike writes: "The Free Software Foundation today launched a campaign against Microsoft Corp.'s upcoming Windows 7 operating system, calling it "treacherous computing" that stealthily takes away rights from users. At the Web site Windows7Sins.org, the Boston-based FSF lists the seven "sins" that proprietary software such as Windows 7 commits against computer users. They include: Poisoning education, locking in users, abusing standards such as OpenDocument Format (ODF), leveraging monopolistic behavior, threatening user security, enforcing Digital Rights Management (DRM) at the request of entertainment companies concerned about movie and music piracy, and invading privacy. "Windows, for some time now, has really been a DRM platform, restricting you from making copies of digital files," said executive director Peter Brown. And if Microsoft's Trusted Computing technology were fully implemented the way the company would like, the vendor would have "malicious and really complete control over your computer.""
The Courts

Submission + - Is it Unlawful to Execute an Innocent Person? 1

Submitted by
Hugh Pickens
Hugh Pickens writes: "Michael Dorf, a professor of Law at Cornell University, has an interesting post on FindLaw about the case of Troy Davis, convicted twenty years ago and sentenced to death for the murder of off-duty police officer Mark McPhail. Since then seven of the nine key state witnesses against Davis have recanted their testimony, "claiming in affidavits that they were pressured by police to name Davis as the perpetrator," writes Dorf. "Meanwhile, additional evidence has been found indicating that Coles, the prosecution's star witness against Davis, was the actual killer." Yet despite national and international attention neither the Georgia courts nor the Georgia Pardons and Parole Board has seen fit to stop Davis's execution. Last week in response to his petition for a writ of habeas corpus, the Supreme Court ordered that a federal district court in Georgia "should receive testimony and make findings of fact as to whether evidence that could not have been obtained at the time of trial clearly establishes [Davis's] innocence." The Court's order in Davis was not unanimous though as Justice Scalia wrote that even if the district court were to find Davis to be innocent, there would still be nothing unlawful about executing him (PDF). The Supreme Court's finding comes on the heels of a report in Texas that the execution of Cameron Willingham in 2004 for setting a house fire that killed three young children was based on faulty investigations that ignored eyewitness reports and failed to follow accepted scientific procedures. "Does the Constitution forbid the execution of an innocent person who was convicted and sentenced to death after a trial that was free of constitutional error but that nonetheless led to an erroneous verdict," asks Dorf."

Comment No surprise (Score 1) 125

by mjdrzewi (#27631161) Attached to: MIT Tracking Campus Net Connections Since 1999
This doesn't surprise me at all, I don't exactly like it but under stand it. The positive side of this is they are being reasonable on how long they keep the logs. Though if they collect this information the student should made aware of, not just buried in the contract they signed.

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