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Submission + - A human buffer overflow to defeat printer dots (seeingyellow.com)

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An anonymous reader writes: The Seeing Yellow project wants us to contact printer manufacturers to at last get their statement about the yellow dots that laser printers include to allow tracing of individual printouts. They say one person who did this was paid a visit by the Secret Service!
Space

Submission + - Is US space infrastructure vulnerable? (pressesc.com)

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amigoro
amigoro writes: "China's strategists have concluded that the easiest way to defeat US military power is to target its Achilles' heel: its space-based capabilities and their related ground installations, and the Chinese anti-satellite test (ASAT) was part of that strategy to combat US military superiority, according to a policy brief published by Carnegie Endowment.

Just exactly how vulnerable is the US space infrastructure? Will other potential US foes, including Iran which has acquired missile capabilities thanks to our friend Putin, shoot in the air instead of trying to attack American interests in the ground? Is there a realistic way to safeguard US space superiority?"
Encryption

Submission + - How Should Small-Time Artists Protect Their Work? (wellingtongrey.net)

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Wellington Grey
Wellington Grey writes: "I'm a small webcomic author and have recently discovered that some people have taken my illustrations and are selling them in various forms (on CafePress, for example). I don't have large sums of money nor a lot a free time after my day job to try and follow up on issues like this. I thought that by making my work available under a creative commons license would give good karma and allow people to copy, but not commercially. What steps could be taken in a situation like this to protect my work?"
Music

Apple's DRM Whack-a-Mole 352

Posted by CmdrTaco from the ouch-ouch-ouch-ouch dept.
Mateo_LeFou writes "Gulf News has a nice piece exposing the last couple generations of Apple's DRM strategy (you didn't really think they were abandoning DRM, did you?). Article focuses on how quickly the tactics are worked around, and how nasty the latest one is: purchased iTunes now have your personal data in them. Author suspects that this is to prevent you uploading them to a network."
Space

Skynet Means More Bandwidth for British 66

Posted by Zonk from the please-don't-become-sentient dept.
pcnetworx1 writes "A new £3.6bn project to upgrade the space communications network for British forces including the Army, Royal Navy, and RAF has gone underway. The first craft, Skynet 5A was launched from Kourou in French Guiana on 11 March 2007. There will be a constellation of three satellites in total. This system is also not an exclusive project for the armed forces, it is actually outsourced to a company called Paradigm Secure Communications. They work with NATO, France, Germany, Canada, Portugal and the Netherlands. They are also seeking new business in the US, Australia, and the Middle East."
The Courts

Electronic Frontier Foundation Sues Uri Geller 240

Posted by CowboyNeal from the totally-saw-that-coming dept.
reversible physicist writes "The Electronic Frontier Foundation has sued spoon-bender Uri Geller for using 'baseless copyright claims' to silence critics who question his paranormal powers. Brian Sapient posted on YouTube a 14-minute excerpt from the 1993 PBS NOVA program 'Secrets of the Psychics,' in which skeptic James Randi says Geller's spoon-bending feats were simple tricks. YouTube took down the video after Geller complained — his lawyers claim that 10 seconds of the video are owned by Geller. A shorter excerpt of the video is still up on YouTube."
Television

CNN To Release Debates Under Creative Commons 151

Posted by kdawson from the coming-to-their-senses dept.
remove office writes "After calls from several prominent bloggers and a couple of presidential candidates, CNN has agreed to release the footage from its upcoming June presidential debates uncopyrighted. Senator Barack Obama was the first candidate to call for all presidential debates to be released under Creative Commons, with fellow Democratic hopeful John Edwards following shortly afterwards. CNN will be the first to do so with their June 3rd and 5th Democratic and Republican debates. MSNBC hosted the first presidential debates recently but refused to release them under Creative Commons, opting instead to post online only commercial-ridden clips in Windows Media format."
The Courts

Submission + - Prosecutor announces charges against Pirate Bay

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paulraps writes: Almost a year after a police raid on the Pirate Bay's servers, a Swedish prosecutor has announced that he intends to press charges against the individuals behind the file-sharing giant. They will be prosecuted for various breaches of copyright law, reports The Local. But a Pirate Bay spokesman was defiant, saying, "I think they feel they have to do it. It would look bad otherwise, since they had 20 to 30 police officers involved in the raid."
The Media

Submission + - Article on $2000 mercury cleanup now on Snopes

Submitted by Dilaceratus
Dilaceratus writes: On Monday Slashdot ran a thread on an article by Steven Milloy (that ran in the Financial Times and Fox News) claiming that it was going to cost $2000 for a Maine woman to clean up the mercury from a broken compact fluorescent light bulb. In what must be a record (even for FOX News) this story has made it to the Snopes.com Urban Legends site, since Milloy (and the WorldNetDaily article he lifted the story from) entirely misrepresented both the costs and the dangers of cleaning up a broken fluorescent.
Education

Submission + - Magazine loses files when backup fails

Submitted by DysenteryInTheRanks
DysenteryInTheRanks writes: Business 2.0, the Time Inc.-owned tech/business magazine that publishes the "101 Dumbest Moments in Business" each year, lost much of the content from its June issue when a server crashed — and the never-tested "backup server" also failed, apparently due to a software issue. There was only one week left before the monthly magazine was to be published. Luckily the text of the articles had been emailed to lawyers and was recovered. Everything had to be laid out again and the graphics recreated. Editors have since followed the advice they once published in their own magazine and begun using an off-site backup server that mirrors every half hour.
Movies

Jack Valenti, Dead at 85 650

Posted by CowboyNeal from the man-behind-the-ratings dept.
saforrest writes "Jack Valenti, a man whose influence in both Washington and Hollywood was profound, died today at age 85. He first became famous as special assistant to Lyndon Johnson: he can even be seen in the famous photo aboard Air Force One. In 1966, he quit this job to become president of the MPAA, from 1966 to 2004."

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