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Submission + - Pirate Party Pillages Private Papers (pirateparty.org.au)

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David Crafti
David Crafti writes: "Pirate Party Australia has made the move to host the recently leaked ACTA document in order to highlight the lack of government transparency in the negotiation process. We believe that the document is not under copyright, and we are not party to any NDAs, so there should be no restriction on us posting it. We would like to see what the government (any government) tries to do about it. If it turns out that there is some reason that we have to take it down, then we will, but if this happens, it will only validate the document's authenticity."

Submission + - Viacom gets videos watched data of YouTube users (readwriteweb.com)

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Pichu0102
Pichu0102 writes: "It seems that YouTube has been required to turn over data on all users, videos watched, and their IP addresses by the court. The EFF has come out against this claiming it violates the Video Protection Act, as some people use full names on YouTube. According to ReadWriteWeb, they're restricted to using the data to only prove their claims against Google."
Google

Submission + - Tools to analyse Google History? (google.com) 1

Submitted by Black Sabbath
Black Sabbath writes: I need to tap the Slashdot hivemind. I'm faced with a distrusting spouse and want to show her my Google history. However my history goes back to 2006 — there are literally tens of thousands of entries. I've tried searching for analysis tools using the following query: +"google history" +analysis -"history of google" +statistics — to no avail. Do any slashdotters know of a tool/script that can parse the Google History output and provide some simple stats e.g. distinct sites x no. of visits — that sort of thing. I know that this is futile on one level — no amount of "evidence" (especially the kind with a "delete" function) can cure distrust. She's a non-IT, non-geek and really just doesn't understand why I spend "so much" time (an hour a day at home if I'm lucky) on the computer. Help me Slashdot, you're my only hope.

Submission + - Popular backup software Crashplan loses data (blogspot.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: According to this blogger, the popular backup software Crashplan loses data. Multiple conversations with their tech support show that they are aware of the problem since more than a year but did nothing about it. Apparently they think that losing 0.004% of your files is not so bad. Since only older backups are affected, it is time to wipe your backups and do them again if you are a Crashplan users.

Have you had similar experiences with Crashplan or other backup vendors? Or is there something you'd recommend over Crashplan?
Security

Submission + - Women refuse to go through Airport body scanners (bbc.co.uk) 3

Submitted by Geoffrey.landis
Geoffrey.landis writes: Two women were stopped from boarding a plane at Manchester Airport after refusing to undergo a full body scan.
They are believed to be the first to refuse to submit to the scan since they became compulsory in February.
According to earlier reports by the BBC, the "naked" scanners are intended to detect weapons or explosives, but "the full body scans will also show up breast enlargements, body piercings and a clear black-and-white outline of passengers' genitals." The scanners, made by RapiScan, are referred to by the British press as the "strip-search" scanner.
Until February, passengers had been allowed to refuse the scan and receive a "pat-down" search instead.
Games

Submission + - The Grown-Up Video Game

Submitted by Phaethon360
Phaethon360 writes: More now than ever we're seeing more Mature (M+, 17+, 18) ratings being distributed by various national media regulators, but that isn't the only indicator for a game's intended audience. It doesn't take a thousand swear words, scantily clad women or gratuitous violence to differentiate a ten year old's game from a twenty year old's. The spectrum of human emotions encompass a wider palette than revenge, fear, and loss, but the ones that tend to shy away from this are often mistook for a younger audience.

Nick: "The idea of “The Grown-Up Video Game” can mean many different things to many different people. It could mean excessive violence, nudity, or difficulty. I like to believe that while examples such as those in the previous sentence make a game adult oriented it takes something a bit more to make a game “grown-up”. The human experience is one that is made up of great hardship, pain, loss, death, and a multitude of experiences seemingly designed to destroy a person. However, that same experience is also filled with joy, love, laughter, family and friends. It is from these experiences that we begin to question, “Why?”. What is the motivation behind a person’s actions? How did their life culminate in the experience that we bear witness to now? Is there a good reason to be waging war on this particular nation? Why did he just blow that guy’s head off with a shotgun? It is this sort of thinking that is beginning to make its way into our beloved interactive games, and I believe that it is a very good thing."
IT

Submission + - NGO networks in Haiti cause problems for ISPs (goodgearguide.com.au)

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angry tapir
angry tapir writes: "While the communications networks that aid groups set up quickly following the earthquake in Haiti were surely critical to rescue efforts, the new networks have had some negative effects on the local ISP community. More than a month after the earthquake devastated the island nation, local ISPs are starting to grumble about being left out of business opportunities and about how some of the temporary equipment — using spectrum without proper authorization — is interfering with their own expensive networks, causing a degradation of their services."

Comment looks good on paper (Score 1) 104

by Councilor Hart (#30256906) Attached to: A Dual-Screen 10.1" Laptop In Time For the Holidays
Ah, another slashvertisement.
It might look good on paper, but maybe not in actual usage. There is probable a depth difference between the two screens due to screen thickness, unless one folds back and/or the other one forward. I can't tell from the picture. Another more obviously issue is the black edge right in the middle of your view. Am I supposed to use my perifial vision or turn my head constantly?

Comment Re:Nothing escapes the web (Score 2, Insightful) 143

by sopssa (#30256780) Attached to: Government Delays New Ban On Internet Gambling

Exactly. It's not about gambling, it's about the person. People get addicted to things, but they need to know where to draw the line.

If government based on addiction and the possibility of losing money on it, they should also ban entrepreneurs and business, because they are also taking huge risks in their life. A person should evaluate the risks and act upon results. If you are driven by money, it's still the same with business, same with gambling. And are you going to ban businesses?

Comment Re:Oh much the same way, HOWEVER (Score 1) 380

by Attila Dimedici (#30256710) Attached to: What the iPod Tells Us About the World Economy

Thank you Mr Idiot from the guardian, we KNOW how the economy works, the exact same idiotic posts were made about Japan. Don't worry, Japan will only take a tiny bit of cash at the bottom, all the real money will be earned by the west. Yeah, this worked SO well, that Japan is now conveniently lumped with the west.

Yes, the same posts were made about Japan. They were made in response to articles and posts saying that Japan was going to replace the U.S. as the dominant economic power in the world. Guess what? That never happened.
Now, China is a different situation than Japan was. However, making the argument that posts saying that China won't take over the world economically are stupid because they are the same arguments as the one's that were made saying that Japan wouldn't take over the world economy is ridiculous. Japan never took over the world economy.

Comment Re:Rejoice! (Score 1) 380

by daveime (#30256562) Attached to: What the iPod Tells Us About the World Economy

I don't know about you, but I don't know any Americans who "rejoice" at the exploitation of cheap workers

Perhaps not, but then I don't know many people who "rejoice" at the way battery farm chickens are kept, while they tuck into their bucket of KFC.

Face it, you are a nation of consumers with no real manufacturing left. You all demand cheap goods, and if that comes with the price of outsourcing to foreign sweatshops, you accept it by turning a blind eye ... if all your manufacturing was done inside the US, none of you could afford to buy anything.

And this isn't particularly a dig at the US ... I think all Western economies will go the same way, as the governments and people all have the same short-sighted attitude. Pretty soon the only things left will be service jobs and tech jobs in the West, all manufacturing and production will be done in China and the surrounding ASEAN nations.

Comment Re:Anonymous coward posted (Score 0, Flamebait) 262

by OeLeWaPpErKe (#30255944) Attached to: Colleges Struggling With the Digital Bathroom Wall

What is it with today's obsessions with feelings ? We're getting to the point where you can no longer say "it's bad to stone women", because it might hurt the feelings of muslims.

Welcome to the reality : caution ... reality may not always immediately gratify your feelings, and may in fact hurt them. In case you really can't deal with this : you know the exit ...

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