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Comment Re:Haven't we learned anything? (Score 4, Insightful) 567

by paulmac84 (#28166805) Attached to: CoS Bigwig Likens Wikipedia Ban to Nazis' Yellow Star Decree

I think you misunderstand censorship:

"the practice of officially examining books, movies, etc., and suppressing unacceptable parts.

In this case, it's the CoS that are trying to censor Wikipedia by editing articles to remove the parts they don't want the public to read.

As you said censorship on the Internet doesn't work, and Wikipedia just proved that by banning the censors - in this case the CoS.
Sci-Fi

Submission + - The Eleventh Dr Who is Named 1

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paulmac84
paulmac84 writes: "The BBC have just announced who will take over as the 11th Doctor Who in 2010. Matt Smith is a name that won't be familiar to BBC's overseas viewers, though he has received some critical praise for the small number of roles he has played to date. The BBC Dr Who site hasn't been updated yet, but they are promising an interview with the new Doctor."
GNU is Not Unix

Submission + - Torvalds 'Pretty Pleased' with GPLv3

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eldavojohn
eldavojohn writes: "Linus Torvalds has announced that he's 'pretty pleased' with the latest release of the GPLv3. He seemed to be pleased that it "reads better, and some of the worst horrors have been removed entirely." His GPLv3 concerns arose from the Free Software Foundations fears of companies using software under this license along with DRM which caused earlier drafts of the GPLv3 to be structured so that some GPLv2 licensed software would not be compatible with the new version. Torvalds still did not confirm whether he would move the Linux kernel to GPLv3 however, he did say that "The 'we control not just the software, but also the hardware it runs on' parts still drive me up the wall because I think they are so fundamentally broken. But the new draft at least limits it to a much saner subset and makes it clearer too. Unlike the earlier drafts, it at least seems to not sully the good name of the GPL any more.""
Businesses

Submission + - Amazon Bargain?

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An anonymous reader writes: Check out any console/PC game on http://www.amazon.co.uk/ at the moment. Under "Product Promotions" you can learn how to get a 2 pence refund with every £100,000 spent. To get this oh so generous offer you still need to go through entering an authentication code too. I suppose this stops them getting swamped by people eager to spend around 5 years wages on games to get their tuppence. Madness.
Security

Submission + - TJX: biggest data breach ever

Submitted by jcatcw
jcatcw writes: Jaikumar Vijayan says that TJX is finally offering more details about the extent of the compromise, which at 45.6M cards,is the biggest ever. He's has been following the story for Computerworld since it started. The systems that were broken into processed payment card, check and returns for customers of T.J. Maxx, Marshalls, HomeGoods and A.J Wright stores in the U.S. and Puerto Rico, and customers of Winners and HomeSense stores in Canada and T.K. Maxx in the U.K. Customer names and addresses were not included in the stolen data. So far the company has so far spent about $5 million in connection with the breach, and several lawsuits that have been filed against it. It was sued recently by the Arkansas Carpenters Pension Fund, one of its shareholders, for failure to divulge more details about the breach.
Businesses

Submission + - AT&T/Cingular Blocks FreeConferenceCall Number

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Lambert
Lambert writes: "I am an employee of a small start-up and we depend on the freeconferencecall.com service to interface with customers on a weekly business. Obviously this service is one that could be considered "disruptive" for the big telco's like Cingular/ATT, Sprint, and Quest because conference call services traditionally are VERY expensive. Anyway, here's the email that I recieved today: "As we know many of you have seen, the news media and bloggers have been covering the fact that Cingular/AT&T, Sprint and Qwest have been blocking some of our FreeConferenceCall numbers. Our goal with this month's newsletter is to separate fact from fiction, and, more importantly, set the record straight with the answers that you so richly deserve. We have spoken extensively with customers, competitors and lawyers to fully assess the situation and the implications for FreeConferenceCall users. Last week, some of our Cingular and Sprint customers began calling into customer service with issues surrounding their connections to our service. After speaking with Cingular's customer service group, our customers were given numerous, and unfounded, reasons for the call blockage. Reasons cited included fraud, international forwarding, fee disputes and, to our astonishment, that we were blocking our own FreeConferenceCall numbers. We cannot corroborate or justify any of these reasons. FreeConferenceCall would never knowingly impede our customers from using our services. For now, we can tell you that a Cingular spokesperson has gone on record and stated that their terms of service gives them the right to block any number they wish and also said that AT&T's wireless service is "between one person and another person, not between one person and many." Cingular and Sprint have chosen to block service to our shared customers regardless of Federal Communications Commission (FCC) rules and regulations. Neither carrier has ever directly complained, filed suit or even contacted FreeConferenceCall. The upshot is that carriers are basically telling you that a cell phone is not intended for use on conference calls of any type. As a total commitment to our customers, we have quickly ramped up to help them deal with this issue. If you are experiencing connectivity problems, please call us directly at 877-482-5838. We promise to give you unparalleled technical support and will treat every customer with immediate, personalized attention. We have also created a blog and information center to help customers get details and resources for continuing their communications. You can find articles, links and comments at blog.freeconferencecall.com.""
Security

Submission + - Telco glitch lets others listen in to phone calls

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coondoggie
coondoggie writes: "Talk about an invasion of privacy. Australia's second largest telecom vendor Optus is currently struggling to correct a fault in its network that lets customers to eavesdrop on others' phone calls.Initial reports said the glitch was limited to Optus' pre-paid mobile service, but smh.com.au readers have described the problem occurring in Optus' landline network as well. Reports describing the glitch first appeared on the popular online broadband community, Whirlpool in its Optusnet community. http://www.networkworld.com/community/?q=node/1307 4"
Enlightenment

Submission + - Circuit City and the American Dream job

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Circuit City said yesterday that it had fired 3,400 of its highest-paid sales staff and will replace them with lower-paid workers, however the fired workers have a chance to apply for lower-paying positions after a 10-week delay, said the 655-store electronics chain based in Richmond, Va. Circuit City spokesman Jim Babb said: "This is no reflection on job performance,". "We deeply regret the negative impact. Retail is extremely competitive, and if we're going to thrive and operate a successful company for our shoppers, employees and shareholders, we just have to control costs." So work hard, become the best in your field and get fired so they can offer you a new job 10 weeks later at a lower salary. That seems to fit the American Dream?????
The Internet

Submission + - Funniest, most tech inspired southpark episode eve

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naser
naser writes: ""The Snuke" [Link] , its the name of the latest southpark episode, and let me tell you this episode was A-AWESOME. Would you believe if I tell you that there were muslims, rouge russian commies, Hillary clinton, her..umm, well you'll know,the british folks, queen elizabeth, the whole storyline of 24 (the tv series) and Cartman as Jack Bauer? Heck yeah!"
Space

Submission + - The Red Expedition to the Red Planet

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eldavojohn
eldavojohn writes: "After a three day meeting in Russia, a space agreement was signed by the China National Space Administration head Sun Laiyan and Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) chief Anatoly Perminov and witnessed by the two countries' presidents. From the article, "After entering orbit around the Red Planet, the Chinese micro-satellite will detach from the Russian spacecraft, and probe the Martian space environment, according to the statement. The Russian spacecraft will touch down on the Martian moon Phobos and collect soil samples for return to Earth. There was no mention of a timetable in the Chinese space agency statement. But earlier Russian reports said the launch window for the 10-11 month voyage to Phobos, Mars' largest moon, will be in October 2009." Will the cooperation of these two countries outdo the United States' plan for a mission to Mars?"
The Internet

Submission + - Do Online Petitions Matter?

Submitted by cybermage
cybermage writes: Snopes.com, the resource for ferreting out urban legends, has engaged in a bit of editorializing about the ineffectiveness of online petitions. Many petitions sites have sprung up that seem to be mostly geared toward attracting traffic to ads more than having any tangible effect; but, at the same time, efforts like DraftGore.com and petitions from moveon.org seem to be having some effect — at least some of the time. Is snopes right? Are online petitions a counter-productive waste of time? What have you experienced?
Wireless Networking

Submission + - Infrared, The New Communications Frequency?

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eldavojohn
eldavojohn writes: "Scientists at the University of Utah have figured out how to make super fast wireless internet and, with the same technology, detect biological and chemical weapons. The new idea uses far-infrared light (terahertz electromagnetic radiation). From the article, "The researchers shined far-infrared light on metal foils punctured with holes arranged in what are known as quasicrystal and quasicrystal-approximate patterns. Even though the holes make up only a portion of each foil's surface, almost all the radiation passed through the metal foils with these patterns.""
Operating Systems

Submission + - Dell Already sells pcs without M$ outside of US

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Radeonic
Radeonic writes: "This is an interesting Topic that I've seen the most in slashdot.org, but in reality dell has in their website what they call "DOS ready computers" and the price is way lower than a normal dell. Only in desktops and in select sites. Here is an example (in spanish, dominican republic) http://lastore.dell.com/store/frameset.asp?c=do&en tity_key=DIMC521N_LACLCOMXPR&entity_type=model&l=e s&s=dhs&shopper_country=do&shopper_language=es&sho pper_segment=dhs&store_key=LATRANS"
Security

Submission + - TJX breach now worst ever: 45.7M numbers

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netbuzz
netbuzz writes: "While the TJX data breach case first made headlines earlier this year, it took recently filed financial disclosure forms from the company to flesh out the magnitude of that crime, which experts are now calling the largest of its ilk. "Considerable damage" has been done, says a Gartner analyst, and we can presume she's speaking of both the victims and the company. ... By the way, with 45.7 million to write, TJX execs had better get busy writing those apology notes, a genre that has become so common these days that, yes, there is a "best of breed" list available.

http://www.networkworld.com/community/?q=node/1306 7"

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