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Submission + - Australia's Telstra requires fibre customers to use copper telephone (delimiter.com.au)

Submitted by daria42 on Monday February 27, 2012 @01:33AM

daria42 writes: Progress is happening rapidly in Australia, with the country's government continuing to roll out a nation-wide fibre network. However, the country's major telco Telstra doesn't appear to have quite gotten the message. Releasing its first National Broadband Network fibre broadband plans today, the telco stipulated that fibre customers will still be forced to make phone calls over the telco's existing copper network. Yup, that's right — fibre to people's houses, but phone calls over the copper network. Progress.

Submission + - Comic Book Companies Not Asserting Rights Against Infringers (ssrn.com) 1

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 26, 2012 @08:56PM

An anonymous reader writes: Came across this interesting article discussing why comic book companies don't have the motivations to go after individual infringers the way the music and movie industries do.

Submission + - IT job titles/compensation structures

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 26, 2012 @06:11PM

An anonymous reader writes: I'm the CIO in a public higher education institution with collective bargaining. Given the pace of change in IT relative to other "verticals" within the higher ed space, we often struggle with job titles and compensation levels that were, at one time, accurate and competitive but are no longer so. The result is high turnover in the most experienced staff, frequently losing them to other public sector higher ed jobs where a new, more competitive, position has been created. This is exacerbated by efforts to resolve the problem on the recruitment side, where offers made to attract a good candidate create salary compression with existing positions and devalue an employee's experience within the organization. I've been trying to brainstorm ideas on what the ideal title/compensation structure might look like, given the negotiated limits we have in place. Does anyone have experience with structures that provide effective retention and recruitment opportunities over time in a collectively bargained environment?

Submission + - What's your favorite automated home security system?

Submitted by MailtoDelete on Wednesday February 22, 2012 @04:32PM

MailtoDelete writes: The time has come to look into a home security system for my family, and I have been researching the best options for the tech savvy. I have found that there are several discount monitoring services around that will let you use an existing system, but since I need to install one, I have the unique opportunity to pick the best solution currently available. There are a few things I would like to have:
On the hardware side:
1.) Wired sensors – While there are several systems that are wireless and “easy to set up”, I don’t think that wireless is what I want for a security system.
2.) Ability to report home using VoIP (my home phone is an asterisk server with an ITSP) with a GSM backup.

On the monitoring side:
1.) On-the-go accessibility – Some monitoring solutions offer iPhone and/or web access to the system to check status and arm/disarm.
2.) The ability to have the monitoring service alert me or a monitoring center, at my discretion.
When searching for solutions, there are many flashy systems out there, but few unbiased reviews or descriptions to be found. What have the users of Slashdot found to be useful and effective in the world of automated home security?

Submission + - Unreleased Posters Promote WikiLeaks' Missing Bank Leak (forbes.com)

Submitted by Sparrowvsrevolution on Wednesday February 22, 2012 @04:31PM

Sparrowvsrevolution writes: WikiLeaks' Julian Assange promised a leak of thousands of scandalous internal emails from a major U.S. bank in 2010, widely thought to be Bank of America. The leak never appeared, and WikiLeaks has since claimed the documents were deleted by one of its ex-members.

Now one ex-WikiLeaks volunteer has revealed two unreleased posters from late 2010 that confirm the bank in question was Bank of America and show how WikiLeaks planned to promote the leak. One depicts Bank of America as a spider in a web of flies, while the other shows it as a house of cards. The artist, part of a group called "Agents of Chaos" says he was asked by a contact at WikiLeaks to create the images for a leak in early 2011, but that the leak was delayed until later that month and then pushed off indefinitely.

Submission + - Recent Space Discoveries of NASA (ibtimes.com)

Submitted by Hkibtimes on Wednesday February 22, 2012 @04:22PM

Hkibtimes writes: Record breaking space winds emitting from a black hole and a new "waterworld planet" were reportedly discovered in deep space this week. Scientists from the University of Michigan have discovered something amazing in space. After analyzing satellite images, scientists have discovered the fastest measured winds to be observed from a stellar-mass black hole.

Submission + - FCC chair calls on ISPs to adopt new security measures (networkworld.com)

Submitted by alphadogg on Wednesday February 22, 2012 @04:16PM

alphadogg writes: U.S. Internet service providers should take new steps to protect subscribers against cyberattacks, including notifying customers when their computers are compromised, the chairman of the FCC said Wednesday. Julius Genachowski called on ISPs to notify subscribers whose computers are infected with malware and tied to a botnet and to develop a code of conduct to combat botnets. Genachowski also called on ISPs to adopt secure routing standards to protect against Internet Protocol hijacking and to implement DNSSEC, a suite of security tools for the Internet's Domain Name System.

Submission + - PC-Based Malware Slows, Mobile Malware Spikes (securityweek.com)

Submitted by wiredmikey on Wednesday February 22, 2012 @02:59PM

wiredmikey writes: A new Threat Report for the Fourth Quarter of 2011 from McAfee showed that while malware continues to be created at a wild pace, overall growth of PC-based malware actually declined during the quarter.

While the creation of new PC-based malware slowed in Q4, McAfee saw that mobile malware continued to increase, marking 2011 as its busiest year to date, with a spike in the second half of the year. These findings echo a recent report from Juniper Networks that showed a whopping 3,325 percent increase in malware specifically targeting the Android platform in the last seven months of 2011 alone.

McAfee said its database now contains over 75 million unique malware samples.

The report shows a continued decline in Fake AV malware, which dropped considerably from Q3, while AutoRun and password-stealing Trojan malware showed modest declines.

Other than a spike in malware targeting Mac OS in Q2 2011, Mac OS malware remained at very low levels the last two quarters of the year.

Submission + - Last Day To Tell Google To Forget You (itworld.com) 2

Submitted by

itwbennett

on Wednesday February 22, 2012 @02:11PM

itwbennett writes: "Google's new privacy policy will consolidate all your data at google.com — unless you erase it first. And today is your last day to do it. The change goes into effect tomorrow. Which is why the helpful folks at EFF have posted some simple instructions showing how to delete your web history at Google."

Submission + - Ten Best New Free Android Apps for BlackBerry PlayBook OS 2.0 (ibtimes.com)

Submitted by Hkibtimes on Tuesday February 21, 2012 @04:49PM

Hkibtimes writes: Android apps are now available for download on the BlackBerry PlayBook thanks to a new OS 2.0 software update. The update began rolling out Feb. 21, and it's free to all PlayBook owners. The apps won't come from the Android Market, instead, they'll be offered through the BlackBerry Appworld once they are ported over. So far, there are only a couple hundred that run well, but as more developers convert their apps for the QNX system, more popular apps like Words With Friends will be available.

Submission + - iPad 3 to feature A5X, not A6 quad-core processor (ibtimes.com)

Submitted by Hkibtimes on Monday February 20, 2012 @01:17PM

Hkibtimes writes: Adding to the heat, Chinese webite WeiPhone released a photo, which it claimed was of the iPad 3's logic board. But the real news could be an "A5X" system-on-a-chip showed on the board, suggesting the next version of the tablet won't involve a revolutionary upgrade (an A6 chip), but a more evolutionary improvement of its processor.

Submission + - Unique Map Shows Height of Earth's Forests (ibtimes.com)

Submitted by Hkibtimes on Monday February 20, 2012 @03:05AM

Hkibtimes writes: A group of scientists from NASA and the University of Maryland have created a unique map that shows the heights of the Earth's forests. The map, supposedly an accurate and high-resolution reading, has been created using 2.5 million carefully screened and globally distributed laser pulse measurements sent from space.

Submission + - What does iPad 3's Camera look like? (ibtimes.com)

Submitted by Hkibtimes on Monday February 20, 2012 @02:06AM

Hkibtimes writes: The Web site, Apple Daily, has published photos of what it claims is the new iPad. According to the claims made by the Web site, Apple's new device will have an 8 megapixel rear-camera and a 2048×1536 resolution Retina Display. The report also indicated that Apple will pack the A6 Quad-core processor with its new device.

Submission + - Apple iPad: Chinese Authorities Urged to Ban Export and Import (ibtimes.com)

Submitted by Hkibtimes on Tuesday February 14, 2012 @05:16AM

Hkibtimes writes: Proview, which won a court ruling that it owns the iPad name in China, has said that it will ask customs officials to ban import and export of Apple's iPads.

"We are now working on a request to China Customs to ban and seize all the import and export of the iPad products that have violated the trademark," Xie Xianghui, a Proview lawyer, was quoted by the Associated Press as saying. But he has not indicated when the request will be lodged.

Submission + - Windows 8 Developer Preview Tablets Hit eBay (ibtimes.com)

Submitted by Hkibtimes on Tuesday September 20, 2011 @02:24PM

Hkibtimes writes: Can't wait to hold Windows 8 in your hands? Fortunately you can, thanks to eBay, just as long as you have deep pockets.

At Microsoft's Build conference last week, the company distributed Samsung tablets running Microsoft's new operating system, Windows 8, to each of the 5,000 attendees. Now, users are bidding more than $3,000 on eBay to get their hands on the first-ever public versions of Windows 8. The tablet itself is nothing too special, despite its minimum selling price of $2,000. Samsung opted to upload the developer previews of Windows 8 to Samsung's Series 7 tablets, which are expected to go on sale in October for around $1,099.

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