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Submission + - Breakthrough in MRAM Write Speeds (physorg.com)

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DrSpock11
DrSpock11 writes: "Once touted as the "next big thing" in memory. MRAM has been slow to make it to market. A new breakthrough changes all that; promising MRAM with write speeds comparable to other forms of memory, along with its benefits of unlimited writes and maintaining state after power loss."
Cloud

Submission + - FreeBSD and NetBSD in Amazon's EC2

Submitted by jschauma
jschauma writes: To the cloud! Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) has long offered cheap virtual machines
running Windows, Solaris or Linux. Recently, both NetBSD and FreeBSD have been added to the mix:FreeBSD's Colin Percival made available experimental FreeBSD/EC2 AMIs, and
based on his experience and instructions, NetBSD's Jean-Yves Migeon wasable to make available (equally experimental) NetBSD/EC2 AMIs.
Oooh, cloud!
Censorship

Submission + - Block major labels off the internet (bustallmajors.com) 2

Submitted by slart42
slart42 writes: Bust all major labels is a campaign to block web site access to anyone accessing the internet from computers belonging to major record labels. The site provides a script to embed into your web site/blog/whatever, which displays a message (analogue to the error message users see when trying to access youtube videos from countries where the record industry does not want you to see the content) and blocks access when viewing the site from an IP address belonging to a list of record labels or industry associations. With enough people using this, it could make a pretty strong message.

Submission + - Timezone Maintainer Retiring (ietf.org)

Submitted by linuxwrangler
linuxwrangler writes: It's used in Java. It's used in nearly every flavor of UNIX/Linux. In PostgreSQL, Oracle and other databases. Several RFCs refer to it. But where does the timezone database come from? I never gave it much thought but would have assumed that it was under the purview of some standards body somewhere. It's not. Since the inception of the database Arthur David Olson has maintained the database, coordinated the mailing list and volunteers and provided a release platform and now he is retiring. IANA is developing a transition strategy. Jon Udell has an interesting literary appreciation of the timezone database.
Security

Submission + - We need to ignite a Layer-1 revolution (networkworld.com)

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coondoggie
coondoggie writes: "Egypt's revolution was heralded as a success story for social media services such as Twitter and Facebook. Western journalists fawned over every rare example of social media, ignoring the more mundane but far more at communication services such as cellular phone calls and text messaging. The really interesting story out of Egypt, and more recently Libya, Iran and other places was the communications blackouts imposed by each regime. While the west focused on layer-7 technologies, the tyrants were smart enough to strike at the root of their citizens efforts: layer-1 physical layer connectivity for phones."

Comment Domestic Accountability (Score 1) 304

by seanmcelroy (#35272050) Attached to: WA Election To Try Online Voting

The company's software appears to be from Scytl, a company based in Barcelona, Spain.

Would anyone consider it a national security issue that public elections be held with technology either openly and freely available for review or at the very least, controlled by entities with not just a domestic presence, but a domestic registration?

I don't think I'd be okay with the 2000 election "hanging chad" ballots being counted in India, because they might have been the more cost-effective solution. Isn't it okay to be a bit nationalistic about the manner in which elections are handled?

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