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Comment Re:How to stop internet crime (Score 1) 242

by crotherm (#25823463) Attached to: McColo Briefly Returns, Hands Off Botnet Control

Thats right! Direct democracy can never work. Which is what made Switzerland such a hellhole

Switzerland Pop. 7,591,500

U.S.A. Pop. 305,690,000

California Pop.36,553,215

So you see, direct Democracy sort of works in California. But as you see, the majority just put a minority into a second class status. I cannot image the horrors of letting over 300 million people vote on issues of Rights. Switzerland doesn't even have the population of Los Angeles county, 9,878,554. So your example is not very valid when talking about USA.
United States

Submission + - Barak Obama Voted President of The US (cnn.com) 3

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eldavojohn
eldavojohn writes: "Barak Obama has just achieved 297 electoral votes ensuring him the presidency of the United States of America for the term 2008-2012. This is an historic event for the nation and possibly even the world. What changes will he bring as he sweeps Democrats into other leadership positions? What brought this momentum and change in party majorities/control?"
The Internet

Submission + - Busted From Space: Satellite IDs Cable Cut Ships (datacenterknowledge.com)

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1sockchuck
1sockchuck writes: "Undersea telecom cable operator Reliance Globalcom was able to use satellite images to identify two ships that dropped anchor in the wrong place, damaging submarine cables and knocking Middle East nations offline in early February. The company used satellite images to study the movements of the two ships, and shared the information with officials in Dubai, who impounded the two vessels. The NANOG list has a discussion of where Reliance might have obtained satellite images to provide that level of detail."
Education

Submission + - 22 Dead In Virginia Tech Shooting

Submitted by nexuspal
nexuspal writes: 22 confirmed dead at Virginia Tech. Shooter killed some at residence hall then two hours later killed others in classrooms. Worst school shooting in US history. CNN Link
Republicans

Submission + - Shooting Massacre at Virginia Tech

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ConcernedStudent
ConcernedStudent writes: "A violent gunman has apparently unleashed a deadly massacre on the famed science and tech campus, Virginia Polytechnic University (better known as Virginia Tech). The first reports of gunshots were received by police around 7:15 A.M. but shooting continued across the campus for hours longer. Over 25 people are now confirmed dead with many more injured. The shooter appears to have either killed himself or to have been killed by responding police officers. The New York Times has posted front page coverage, and the local Roanoke Times has been providing blog-style coverage, updated regularly. NYT Link — http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/16/us/16cnd-shootin g.html?hp Roanoke Times Link — http://www.roanoke.com/news/nrv/breaking/wb/113294 "
Announcements

Submission + - At Least 20 Dead in Virginia Tech Shooting

Submitted by StarvingSE
StarvingSE writes: Virginia Tech police state that at least 20 are dead in a campus shooting school officials are describing as a "monumental tragedy." From the article:

"Today the university was struck with a tragedy that we consider of monumental proportions," said university President Charles Steger. "The university is shocked and indeed horrified."

The attacks mark the worst school shooting incident since 1999 when Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris killed 12 students and a teacher before killing themselves at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado

This story is a little off-topic on a technology-related site, but I'm sure quite a few readers attend or are alumni of Virginia Tech.
Google

Submission + - Stopbadware.org: Good Guys or "Prohibitionists

Submitted by jo7hs2
jo7hs2 writes: My site was recently (and correctly) flagged by Stopbadware.org for having been hacked. For a variety of reasons, I did not discover the single hacked page until my entire site was flagged as dangerous by Google, who uses Stopbadware.org's database to protect web-searchers. While I find the practice a step in the right direction, Stopbadware.org's tactics, which include no notice to webmasters, and a slow review process, seem a tad heavy handed.

In particular, this line really concerns me:
"Please note that we will be retesting your website at periodic intervals in order to monitor that it remains free from badware. If we find that you are hosting or distributing badware in the future, the reviews process may take considerably longer than the original review."

It sounds like Stopbadware.org, teamed with Google, are setting themselves up to be the internet's policemen.
Republicans

Submission + - Illegal White House Email Causing Security Risk?

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Has White House email policy broken the law and endangered national security? Hold on, this gets complicated. While investigating what happened during the recent firing of eight federal prosecutors, it was revealed that much of the email from the White House were not using official government servers, but using servers provided by the Republican National Committee. (One of these serves was named 'GWB43.com'.) It was also reported that Karl Rove does 95% of his email on these non-governmental accounts.

This raises two critical issues: first, does this violate the Presidential Records Act, passed after Nixon and Watergate? Second, does this create a potential security breach? How much security does the RNC maintain, compared to the White House? There is also the issue of people on the White House payroll doing work for the RNC on government time, another potential law-breaker.

Henry Waxman, D-CA, wants to know what is going on. He has sent a letters to the RNC and the Bush-Cheney campaign to preserve there emails for congressional investigation. http://thinkprogress.org/2007/03/26/rnc-emails-wax man/

For comments on security see http://www.warandpiece.com/blogdirs/005879.html and http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/002875.php.

All these websites are extremely partisan. Let the Flame Wars begin!
Microsoft

Submission + - W ill Vitsa Secretly Delete Your Programs?

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: The first MSM article I've seen on the monstrous evil of Vista's licensing agreement is by Canadian law professor Michael Geist in today's Toronto Star http://www.thestar.com/Business/article/175801. He correctly calls Vista "an unprecendented loss of consumer control over their own computers" and points out that the licensing agreement "holds out the prospect of deleting certain programs without the knowledge of user". Scary, eh?
Robotics

Submission + - New Air Force drones have payload of F-16s

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An anonymous reader writes: Call them UAVs, drones, remote-controlled aircraft, or robotic air vehicles-it's clear that this new generation of weaponry increasingly is playing a key role in the U.S. arsenal. And what we've seen so far is nothing compared with what's in the pipeline. In early production today is a kind of Predator on steroids-the MQ-9 Reaper. Six times heavier than the current Predator, the Reaper is capable of holding a payload of missiles and bombs equal to that of an F-16 fighter-and can linger in the same area for as long as 24 hours. See story for photos: www.usnews.com/badguys

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