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Submission + - Court Upholds Expectation of Privacy in Emails

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NewYorkCountryLawyer

on Tuesday June 19, 2007 @11:05AM

NewYorkCountryLawyer writes: "A federal appeals court, in Warshak v. USA (pdf), has upheld the principle that email users maintain a reasonable expectation of privacy in the content of their emails, and enjoined the United States government from seizing the contents of a personal email account maintained by an ISP without either providing the account holder with prior and an opportunity to be heard or making a fact specific showing that the account holder maintained no expectation of privacy with respect to the ISP."

Submission + - 24-hour test drive: a review of PC-BSD

Submitted by Jiilik Oiolosse on Tuesday June 19, 2007 @10:51AM

Jiilik Oiolosse writes: Over at Ars, I have published a short review of the PC-BSD operating system, one of the first few FreeBSD derivatives to target the casual user (see also DesktopBSD). "First and foremost, PC-BSD is an attempt to make a user-friendly Unix. Many Linux distributions have a similar focus and attempt to achieve it in different ways, and PC-BSD should be considered alongside these distributions." and "KDE seemed to load much faster on PC-BSD than I'm used to; [quite noticeably] faster than my Kubuntu installation on my other drive (which either says something bad about Kubuntu or something great about PC-BSD). In fact, the whole system felt very snappy."

Submission + - Manhunt 2 banned in the UK

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 19, 2007 @10:37AM

An anonymous reader writes: http://technology.guardian.co.uk/games/story/0,,21 06517,00.html The Guardian reports the BBFC have refused to issues a classification for Manhunt 2. Rockstar games have 6 weeks to appeal, and if the ruling is upheld, it will be illegal to sell manhunt 2 in the UK

Submission + - problem in scp(secured ftp)

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jaty

on Tuesday June 19, 2007 @10:34AM

jaty writes: "Hi!I am trying to scp a file which should be automated. For that i have written a script and calling it through crontab in Unix(HP/UX). Now while calling that script(which contains the scp command) is prompting for a password(which is known to me).but how can i automate that?i.e whether it is possible to give the password automatically?"

Submission + - How to avoid hiring an American

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netbuzz

on Tuesday June 19, 2007 @10:34AM

netbuzz writes: "Keep this video in mind next time someone like Bill Gates complains that they just can't find qualified American workers to fill key tech jobs. "Our goal is clearly not to find a qualified U.S. worker," a marketing executive for a law firm tells his audience. And what's the advice for those employers who fail to achieve that goal and are confronted with a qualified American: "find a legal basis to disqualify them."

http://www.networkworld.com/community/?q=node/1642 1"

Submission + - Recruiters Goal, Not to find qualified Americans (youtube.com)

Submitted by

walterbyrd

on Tuesday June 19, 2007 @10:26AM

walterbyrd writes: "Immigration attorneys advise their corporate clients how to not find any qualified American Applicants (speaker starts at about 30 second mark).

"Our goal is clearly NOT to find a qualified U.S. worker ... our objective is to get this person a green card ... so certainly we are not going to try to find a place where applicants would be most numerous."
— Lawrence M. Lebowitz — Vice President of Marketing — Cohen & Grigsby

I find it disturbing, but then again we already knew this was going on."

Submission + - Online Sales Lose Steam (nytimes.com)

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on Tuesday June 19, 2007 @09:57AM

An anonymous reader writes: New York Times writers MATT RICHTEL and BOB TEDESCHI claim that online sales growth is significantly slowing down. They claim that this phenomenon owes to the high cost of shipping, the better "experience" of shopping in a physical store, and other relative strengths of physical stores. Slate.com writer Jack Shafer takes issue with the NYT analysis, arguing that none of these physical-store strengths are new, and in fact that online sales are still growing faster than the economy in general. NYT's view: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/17/technology/17eco m.html?ex=1339819200&en=2c7eebf2cf9202d9&ei=5124&p artner=permalink&exprod=permalink Slate.com's view: http://www.slate.com/id/2168647/nav/tap3/

Yahoo Co-Founder Yang Now In Charge 91

Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday June 19, 2007 @09:32AM from the psst-hey-jerry-i-got-some-ideas-for-ya dept.

Raver32 writes "Yahoo Inc. Chairman Terry Semel ended his six-year tenure as chief executive officer today and will hand over the reins to co-founder Jerry Yang in the Internet icon's latest attempt to regain investor confidence. Semel, 64, will remain chairman in a non-executive role. Besides naming Yang as its new CEO, Yahoo appointed Susan Decker as its president. Decker, who had been recently promoted to oversee Yahoo's advertising operations, had widely been seen as Semel's heir apparent."

Submission + - PayPal becomes bank in Europe.

Submitted by

butlerdi

on Tuesday June 19, 2007 @09:04AM

butlerdi writes: "Just noticed the following article on the Inquirer from Friday 15 June. http://de.theinquirer.net/2007/06/15/paypal_ist_ei ne_bank.html In German and not found in the English version, but talks about the conversion of PayPal accounts to their recent Lux bank. Guess not much a big deal in the US as it seems that they are already part of several other financial institutions but also had interesting stats on the annual turnover. As one who canceled my account years ago due to withholding of funds to a seller it does seem like a very large amount."

Submission + - Climate stations may be recording bad data

Submitted by Nephilium on Tuesday June 19, 2007 @08:58AM

Nephilium writes: A former TV weatherman is surveying the 1,221 climate measuring stations in the USA. In the two weeks since the project was started, they've gotten surveys of 50 of the sites. At at least 10 of the stations, there were issues that would cause the temperatures to be measured higher then the actual temperature. These elements range from being placed near a large parking lot, to air conditioning exhaust, to a barrel used to burn trash, to jet exhaust. This data is used by scientists studying climate change, isn't it important to at least make sure the measuring stations providing data are sending accurate data?

Submission + - Watching Virus Behavior Far Better Than Signatures

Submitted by davecb on Tuesday June 19, 2007 @07:55AM

davecb writes: A prototype anti-virus system developed at the University of Michigan uses the "fingerprint" of virus activity to more effectively identify viruses. The system obtains such fingerprints by intentionally infecting a quarantined computer with viruses. Conventional anti-virus software monitors systems for suspicious activity and then tries to determine the source by checking for virus signatures, which makes it difficult to spot new pieces of malware and track different variations.

The University of Michigan team studied the files and processes malware created and modified on an infected computer, and developed software that uses the information gathered to identify malware. The prototype is capable of defining clusters of malware that operate in similar ways, and can create a kind of family tree that illustrates how superficially different programs have similar methods of operation. In tests on the same software, the prototype was able to identify at least 10 percent more of the sample than five leading anti-virus programs. The prototype also always correctly connected different pieces of malware that operate similarly, while the best anti-virus program was only able to identify 68 percent of such links. (Courtesy of ACM Technews)

Submission + - How Not to Find an American Programmer

Submitted by Amiga Trombone on Tuesday June 19, 2007 @05:38AM

Amiga Trombone writes: Immigration attorneys from Cohen & Grigsby explain how they assist employers in running classified ads with the goal of NOT finding any qualified applicants, and the steps they go through to disqualify even the most qualified Americans in order to secure green cards for H-1b workers. See what Bush and Congress really mean by a "shortage of skilled U.S. workers." Microsoft, Oracle, Hewlett-Packard, and thousands of other companies are running fake ads in Sunday newspapers across the country each week.

Industry Insider Blasts Comcast 413

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday June 19, 2007 @04:54AM from the dissected-in-the-trades dept.

gordette writes "I'm posting this because Comcast did the same thing to me that this journalist describes — held my HD channels hostage by insisting that I shell out for an expensive cable package. The journalist is blasting Comcast for their 'shakedown' of consumers, and is doing so in full view of industry insiders. She also links to an earlier blog post describing Comcast's Motorola DVR problems."

Submission + - Keylogger Hardware Embedded in New Dell Laptop (virus.org.ua)

Submitted by

kendbluze

on Tuesday June 19, 2007 @02:39AM

kendbluze writes: "Here's an EE who was doing a simple repair to a nearly-new Dell 600m laptop when he noticed something a bit curious. Turns out he found a hardware keylogger sitting between the keyboard and ethernet controllers! See what Homeland Security didn't have to say about it."

Submission + - ZFS on Linux: It's alive! (linuxworld.com)

Submitted by lymeca on Tuesday June 19, 2007 @02:30AM

lymeca writes: LinuxWorld reports that Sun Microsystem's ZFS filesystem has been converted from its incanartion in OpenSolaris to a module capable of running in the Linux user-space filsystem project, FUSE. Because of the license incompatibilities with the Linux kernel, it has not yet been integrated for distribution within the kernel itself. This project, called ZFS on FUSE, aims to enable GNU/Linux users to use ZFS as a process in userspace, bypassing the legal barrier inherent in having the filesystem coded into the Linux kernel itself. Booting from a ZFS partition has been confirmed to work. The performance currently clocks in at about half as fast as XFS, but with all the success the NTFS-3g project has had creating a high performance FUSE implementation of the NTFS filesystem, there's hope that performance tweaking could yield a practical elimination of barriers for GNU/Linux users to make use of all that ZFS has to offer.

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