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Submission + - Cosmic Rays Hit Space Age High (nasa.gov)

jcgam69 writes: "NASA spacecraft are measuring record-high levels of cosmic rays--a side-effect of the deepest solar minimum in nearly a century. The cosmic ray storm appears to be intensifying, say researchers, and the peak may be yet to come."

Submission + - University of New Brunswick Student Union Adopts O (blogspot.com)

Dr.Merkwurdigeliebe writes: "The University of New Brunswick's Student Union has passed a motion to use open source software internally, as well as advocate for its use in the "university community." Although the Student Union has no power over the university administration, it is hopeful to see students taking action on this issue."

Submission + - Mainstream press "Cringes" at Windows & launch (cnbc.com)

lurking_giant writes: "Well... Microsoft has done it again with the youtube Windows 7 launch party video...YouTube video and it's turning the stomachs of even the Mainstream press with it's clueless and campy marketing style. A Washington Post reader was quoted as saying "If Microsoft had been put in charge of marketing sex, the human race would have ended long ago, because no one would be caught dead doing something that uncool.""
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Submission + - SPAM: Apache holds steady in a changing Web Server lands

ChiefMonkeyGrinder writes: "While Apache and Microsoft were battling it out for leader position in the web server space, Google, China's qq.com and nginx quietly pounced on much of the marketshare. While Apache is still holding the fort, Microsoft's IIS Server has faded into the distance, according to the monthly Netcraft Web server survey"
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Submission + - Is Windows 7 designed to spy on us? 11

freakxx writes: "An article on cnet.com has invited some concerns about spying nature of Windows 7 in form of a comment. His claims seems to be quite genuine as he is asking others to confirm it by checking themselves. In his words:

What I did notice was that Windows 7 is the NSA's most comprehensive Spyware Platform to date.. Thats why Russia, France, China, Cuba and most other Countries are moving to Open Source for Security! Thats why Microsoft needs to scare you off of XP Thats why Outgoing Data is not blocked by default in the firewall Thats why antiviruses like AVG were rewritten to prevent you from blocking Internet access by programs on your computer like Firefox for example! (You no longer get popups from your firewall asking if you want firefox and other programs to connect to the Internet — they just connect without your OK) Thats why encryption programs rewritten for Vista and Windows 7 give you no indication of trouble yet trusted encryption programs give you warning that the contents of RAM are being copied to your hard drive ONLY after you open an encrypted disk and thereby compromising your encryption key which was located in RAM. Thats why Windows 7 runs to the Internet to find a solution to the problem listed above after rebooting from a bluescreen! To aquire your encryption keys! Download Drivecrypt 4.0 from 2cows if you doubt me and test it yourself. DC-4.0 Installs correctly without errors, creates an encrypted volume without errors and only Bluescreens AFTER your encryption key is in RAM and can be copied to your hard drive to be transferred accross the Internet the next time you have Net access! Thats why Windows 7 can send your wireless network encryption key accross the Internet as well as your disk encryption keys stated above. By transferring your wireless encryption key without your knowledge, local authorities can access your wireless network and access your encrypted data even after you disconnect from the Internet Thats why wireless networking hardware will soon be built into future netbooks and notebooks to prevent removal Thats why nobody is even covering these problems in the press but instead are removing my posts from over 50% of other sites on the Internet If they doubt me, they should at least investigate these problems, don't you think?

I think this is indeed something that should be checked by the Slashdot community to shed more light on legitimacy of the claim, because if it is true, it's a very big concern for everyone. The cnet.com article is here and the comment is here. The user, who is making the claim, has his cnet.com profile here. He is also claiming that his comments are getting regularly deleted on Internet by the admins."

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