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Government

Submission + - Free Speech (tocorre.com)

Luis Benitez writes: "In electoral times COPACO the statal telecomunication company of Paraguay decide to censore the Internet, as they can.

This company has a monopoly over the International Fiber access of all comunication over the Internet. Every single mail has to pass their infraestructure to reach its destiny.

But theses are electoral times in Paraguay, the "Partido Colorado" is ruling this litle south american country since 1954. Now they have truly chances to lose the national election on april 20th. A little party that is running against this stablishment is "Partido Patria Querida". They have a page outside Paraguay, on the Internet, but all customer at COPACO see a porn site if they try to access this page. This is a dns high jacking issue. (you can dig at ns1.copaco.com.py and any other dns server over the Internet and see by yourself)

COPACO is doing the same with other domains www.victorbogado.com is redirected to www.anr.org.py, www.partidocolorado.org is redirected to www.anr.org.py, www.bastacarajo.com is redirected to a porn site, maybe others?).



With this no only in China the local goverment is censoring the access to Internet, in South America is doing the same as well.



This is the way the local goverment understand how to manage the Internet."

Privacy

Submission + - Hijacking political adversaries domains

psanta writes: Apparently, China is not the only country censoring Internet access. In Paraguay, South America, the ruling party owns the biggest ISP in the country, and they are hijacking political adversaries domains to prevent its huge customer base to access their sites.
These domains are bastacarajo.com, www.partidocolorado.org and www.victorbogado.com. If any regular DNS server is queried, the correct answer is given back. However, if using ISP's DNS server (201.217.1.230), they are claiming themselves being the Authority for that domain and redirecting all the traffic to the government's party official website in some cases and to pornographic sites in others.
What are the entities should ISP's user file a formal complain with? ICANN? IANA?

Comment Three disagreements with TFA (Score 1) 612

1. C-64 had a bad keyboard? C'mon, get real. The C-64/Vic-20 had one of the greatest keyboards of its class. The only one that could be considered as better was that of the Apple IIe and THAT was way more expensive. I had no problem typing from one.

2. How come that a list of the 10 worst keyboards of all time fails to mention the utterly horrible keyboard of the Sinclair ZX Spectrum??? (*shudder*)

3. "Modern" $5 keyboards (and a lot of the more expensive models) seriously belong to any list of the world's worst keyboards. Fragile keys, keys such as "power off" and "suspend" placed in the traditional place of Insert/Home/PgUp, just begging to be accidentally pressed; crappy Windows keys, and a general lack of reliability... and they don't make the list?? PLEASE!

P.S.: The original IBM PC keyboard was also widely despised for having a key between Shift and Z, thus surprising a lot of touch typists.
Microsoft

Submission + - Desktop Search on Windows Updates (bizzeh.com) 1

Bizzeh writes: "KB917013 has apeared on the windows update optional software section, which is Windows Desktop Season 3.01. It seems microsoft are hoping to trick foolish users who just select all updates into having windows desktop search."

Feed The Register: Ubuntu's latest OS not so Gutsy (theregister.com)

Gibbon monkeys around with web access

Ubuntu fanboys have been crying into their beers after discovering internet connection problems with Canonical's latest open source Linux distribution operating system, dubbed the Gutsy Gibbon.


Programming

Submission + - Allowed to listen to music while coding? 3

hbean writes: "Hi everyone out there in the /. world. A while ago (almost 6 years now) my company stopped allowing us to listen to music while we programmed, saying it was a distraction and kept us from being productive. Recently we've been undertaking efforts trying to get them to allow us to again. We've found a few studies on the topic of programming and the benefits of listening to music on concentration and ability to stay on task. We presented this to our supervisor and now he's asking for more evidence that other large companies allow their programmers to listen to music while working. We're looking for any help we can get, and maybe some documentation to back it up. Thanks!"
Censorship

Submission + - Anti File Sharing Laws Considered (bbc.co.uk)

An anonymous reader writes: Lord Triesman, Under Secretary for Innovation, Universities and Skills has commented that if ISP's do not take a more active role in stopping illegal file sharing, then legislations may be brought in.
The Matrix

Submission + - Blogs: the next takeover target (businessweek.com)

Christopher Blanc writes: "Blogs — especially the big-name brands such as TechCrunch, Gawker, GigaOm, Boing Boing, and the Huffington Post — appear to have attractive business models. This is good news for traditional media companies that are being marginalized online and off, and are hoping to catch up to — and cash in on — a rapidly evolving Web 2.0 world.

http://www.businessweek.com/investor/content/oct2007/pi20071023_821568.htm?chan=top+news_top+news+index_investing"

Television

Submission + - GT5 Moves Into TopGear (ign.com)

An anonymous reader writes: The worlds most popular car show is coming to the worlds most popular car game. TopGear is going Gran Turismo. With the arrival of GT5 in 2008 players will be able to watch TopGear straight from the GT5 client, race on the TopGear test track and even access content synchronised with episodes of the show. Perhaps the biggest ramification of this deal is that GT5 may gain by proxy the ability to offer more exclusive cars such as the Bugatti Veyron.

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