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Submission + - Post Without Worry - Anonymouth Hides Your Identity (i-programmer.info)

Submitted by mikejuk
mikejuk writes: An open source project to combat "stylometry", the study of attributing authorship to documents based only on the linguistic style they exhibit, is proving that it is possible to change writing style so as to evade detection.
Artificial Intelligence techniques are routinely used to detect plagiarism and recently were employed to reveal that Harry Potter author J K Rowling is indeed the author of The Cuckoo's Calling published under the byline of Robert Galbraith. Now software is tackling the opposite problem — anonymizing writing style to protect the identity of the originator.
The JStylo-Anonymouth (JSAN) framework is work in progress at Privacy, Security and Automation Lab (PSAL) at Drexel University.It anaylizes a written text and detects features which could be used to identify the author. It then suggests changes that need to be made to avoid the authors stylistic fingerprint appearing in the work.
So next time you want to post something to the world and remain anonymous remember to use anonymouth.

Submission + - Arizona gears up to tax and regulate cannabis.

Submitted by LavishRadish111
LavishRadish111 writes: ABC15 reports, "The intent of the initiative is to legalize marijuana in Arizona and to treat it as we treat alcohol," said Dennis Bohlke, a Phoenix computer engineer who is the treasurer of the group, Safer Arizona.
Supporters must collect 259,213 valid signatures from registered voters by July 3, 2014 to get the measure on the November 2014 ballot.
Organizers say the initiative campaign will be a grassroots effort relying on volunteers to collect signatures.
Bohlke acknowledged the lack of major funding will be a handicap.
He said it was the thought of young people getting arrested and having a criminal record because of the drug that got the ball rolling.
"To me there was just no other way to get this issue solved," he said. "I wanted to light a fire under the Legislature."

Submission + - Sony & Panasonic New Optical Storage 12x Blu-ray - Format War in the Making? (audioholics.com) 1

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Sony and Panasonic have teamed up to develop a next-generation physical storage media with 12x the capability of Blu-ray. Does this have commercial implications as an Ultra-HD solution? If so, are we going to see format war brewing? Did the industry not learn its lesson from HD DVD vs Blu-ray, and VHS vs Beta?

Submission + - FreeBSD, Ubuntu Offer Same NVIDIA OpenGL Support As Windows (phoronix.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: There's some good news if you use NVIDIA graphics on (Ubuntu) Linux or FreeBSD with their binary graphics driver: the OpenGL performance is comparable to Windows 8. Unfortunately, that's not the same for Intel graphics and AMD doesn't even offer a Catalyst driver for FreeBSD. FreeBSD offers a binary Linux compatibility layer to run games at the same (or better) performance as Linux, but unfortunately it's capped to running Linux x86 binaries and NVIDIA is the only GPU vendor with proper BSD graphics driver support.

Submission + - Microsoft's share suffered biggest crash since 2000 ! (fool.com)

Submitted by Taco Cowboy
Taco Cowboy writes: Microsoft shares hit by biggest sell-off since 2000, $30 billion market cap wiped out

Shares of Microsoft dropped 11.4 percent today, representing the biggest single-day drop in over 13 years. The last time it occurred was on April 24, 2000, when shares plunged 15.6 percent as the world's largest software company locked itself in an antitrust dispute with the U.S. government. Since then, Microsoft has never experienced such a shelling, until today that is. This came after the software company posted dismal quarterly results due to weak demand for its latest Windows system and poor sales of its Surface tablet.

A lot of links available, below is only a very limited list

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/07/19/us-microsoft-research-idUSBRE96I0MO20130719

http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2013/07/19/why-microsoft-shares-got-totally-crushed.aspx

http://www.smh.com.au/it-pro/it-opinion/steve-ballmers-eternal-quest-to-rescue-microsoft-20130719-hv11h.html

http://www.forbes.com/sites/afontevecchia/2013/07/19/microsoft-doesnt-fear-the-post-pc-world-bank-on-77b-in-cash-and-ballmers-shift-to-devices-and-cloud/

http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2013/07/18/microsoft-quarterly-earnings/2553649/

https://forum.lowyat.net/topic/2892284

Submission + - The Price of Amazon (nytimes.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: As physical book stores continue to struggle and disappear, the NY Times puts it in perspective as a cost of the existence of Amazon. Further, it's a cost that hasn't been fully paid, as other effects of Amazon's ascendance have yet to be felt. Quoting: 'One consequence of this shift is that soon no one will know what a book’s “real” price is. Price will be determined by demand and perhaps by whim. The first seeds of this can be seen in the Justice Department’s suit against the leading publishers, who felt that Amazon was pricing their e-books so low that it threatened their viability. The government accused the publishers of colluding to raise prices in an anti-consumer move. Amazon was not a party to the case, but it emerged the big winner.' Economists, publishers, and readers no longer have confidence that a book will cost the same amount this week as it did the last.

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