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Submission + - SuprNova.org Transferred to The Pirate Bay (slyck.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Andrej Preston, ex-administrator of legendary BitTorrent SuprNova.org, has turned over the keys to The Pirate Bay.

"My deal with [The Pirate Bay] was that the role of SuprNova can't change much," he tells Slyck.com. "It needs to be community orientated, but I hope they make some updates the SuprNova was sooo missing. But what they will do, it's not my thing to decide anymore. But I know they will do [well] and will try to keep the community spirit running."
Biotech

Submission + - Scientists studying mutations in MRSA strain (bbc.co.uk)

Submitted by jb.cancer
jb.cancer writes: Scientists at Rockefeller University are studying mutations of a Multi-drug resistant Staphylococcus Aureus (MRSA) strain in an unnamed victim. The bug has been tracked over a 12 week period during which the genetic mutations under influence of antibiotics were studied. Scientists hope to understand the underlying mechanism used by such microbes to evade drugs.

The story from BBC is here.

One wonders if multi-drug resistant microbes or a new class of antibiotics will have first strike in this bio-war.
Google

Submission + - Why Google is buying DoubleClick (blogspot.com)

Submitted by gkhan1
gkhan1 writes: Google's acquisition of DoubleClick has been hotly debated, and now Google has put up a blog post explaining their decision

If you're an expert, please bear with me, as some of what follows will seem elementary to those already familiar with the online advertising world. If you're not, I hope this gives you a better understanding of how advertisers, publishers, ad serving companies, agencies and other companies such as Google all fit into this exciting new mix.
Portables (Apple)

Submission + - iPhone turns into iRock (noahgift.com)

Submitted by
An anonymous reader writes: The iPhone won't activate for thousands and it has turned into a debacle for Apple according to this post there are threads on the Apple Support center that have up to 23,000 views and will actually hang your browser they are so big.
PlayStation (Games)

Submission + - PS3 vs. iPhone, since they are both $600 (yourhtn.com)

Submitted by revilo78
revilo78 writes: If you had $600 to spend, would you buy an iPhone or a PS3? When Sony announced the PS3 launch price at $600, the internet community thought Sony was insane. Yet, Apple's $600 price tag for its iPhone didn't cause the same negative reaction. Is Apple's marketing just that good?
Google

Submission + - Google launches public policy blog

Submitted by maximus1
maximus1 writes: Google adds another blog to its belt. Spurred by a growing interest in Washington, D.C., the Google Public Policy Blog hopes to influence public policy on matters close to Google's heart such as net neutrality, privacy, copyright and trademark protection, and other various legislation and regulation. The blog launched internally two months ago, but went public today. "We're seeking to do public policy advocacy in a Googley way," writes Andrew McLaughlin, Google's director of public policy and government affairs in a recent post.
Privacy

Submission + - TorrentSpy ruling a 'weapon of mass discovery' (com.com)

Submitted by SwordsmanLuke
SwordsmanLuke writes: A California judge has declared that TorrentSpy must generate log files of the IP addresses of visitors to their site so that these logs may then be turned over to the MPAA. In a bizarre move, the judge ruled that anything stored in a computer's RAM is "electronically stored information" and as such, must be turned over for examination in a lawsuit. Besides demonstrating such a gross lack of technical savvy in our courts, this case also has heavy privacy implications. The judge is, in essence, requiring the creation of documents for the *sole* purpose of supplying a plaintiff (in this case the MPAA) with the data it requires to "discover" illegal file-sharing.

FTA:

"There's never been a requirement that (defendants) must create documents that they wouldn't ordinarily maintain for the purpose of satisfying some (plaintiff's) discovery requests," said Withers.
Google

Submission + - Google's Street View could be unlawful in Europe (out-law.com)

Submitted by arallsopp
arallsopp writes: European data protection laws restrict the commercial use of photographs where individuals are identifiable. The law sets extra requirements for so-called sensitive personal data: it demands explicit consent, not just notification. If Google's multi-lens camera cars come to Europe and inadvertently find themselves taking pictures of persons leaving a church or sexual health clinic, they may just need to pull over and start picking up signatures.
NASA

Submission + - World Wind Java SDK Released

Submitted by AnswerIs42
AnswerIs42 writes: NASA World Wind Java which debut at JavaOne this week and was demoed in a lab yesterday is now officially released as a Early Access release 0.2.0 SDK, this is NOT a full blown application but an API that can be used in other applications. There are demos in the SDK zip file and there is a link for a WWJava demo that is launched from the web page. For more information you can check the World Wind Central wiki page for WWJava, and the forums. A video of the live presentation opening day of JavaOne can be found here and these two blogs have multiple posts on the WWJava release.
Security

Submission + - iPowerWeb Compromised?

Submitted by
Martey
Martey writes: "In a recent press release, StopBadware.org released to the public a list of the web hosting companies hosting the largest number of malicious websites, based on almost 50,000 sites submitted to them. Topping the list was popular web host iPowerWeb, which was hosting almost 20% of the sites on the list. Some have speculated that iPowerWeb's servers might be vulnerable. iPowerWeb has said nothing, although their home page claims that they are "hacker safe.""
Republicans

Submission + - A guide to Republican Scandals

Submitted by gkhan1
gkhan1 writes: Slate Magazine has put up an illustrated guide to GOP scandals (there's also a text version) that provides a handy guide to all of the scandals that has rocked the republican party in the last few years. All in all, there is 28 of them listed, including such memorable moments as Walter Reed, Abu Ghraib, Mark Foley, Tom DeLay, Duke Cunningham, Alberto Gonzales, Halliburton, Scooter Libby, NSA wiretapping and several different permutations of the Jack Abramoff story. It's an interesting and disturbing walk down memory lane.
Media

Submission + - Disney: Blu-ray's Fair Weather Friend

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: One day they're out, the next day they're in. Back in March, Disney CEO Bob Iger seemed to indicate that his company (which has exclusively backed Blu-ray since the start of the high-def format war) was on the verge of supporting *both* high-def formats. What a difference a couple of months of good press for Blu-ray makes: this week, the CEO reversed his earlier position, saying "the single greatest thing we can do right now is to not waffle, but to be very, very blunt about it, (and) to continue our support of Blu-ray because we sense a real advantage."
Education

Submission + - The Top Ten Issues of OLPC

Submitted by
InteractiveGadget
InteractiveGadget writes: "Heres an interesting article challenging some of the core concepts of the One Laptop Per Child project. From the Article: "The name OLPC is a problem as the focus is on Personal Computers for Individuals ignoring the fact that community feedback is crucial part of learning... This is like evaluating the quality of our education based on the type of glue that is used to bind textbooks... Teachers, be they your peers, parents, or trained individuals are a crucial part of feedback system of learning... Even when parents and peers are not available children will often huddle around a single computer to collaborate and provide constructive feedback (see MSR India). Developers can push this learning configuration further by providing interactivity for each child on the same display (through multiple mice and keyboards)." Maybe developing nations could use more low cost mice and keyboards rather than more laptops. See Article."
Software

Submission + - An Alternative Supplemental Bittorrent Protocol

Submitted by Nicole Adams
Nicole Adams writes: Currently, bittorrent clients like Azureus and uTorrent use certain decentralized networks to exchange information about peers to enable torrent downloads even with offline trackers and to improve security. But this alternative bittorrent peer exchange model suggests a different route: so long as bittorrent is a centralized protocol at the core anyway, why not exchange tracker data instead?

Technically, sending/receiving a list of trackers used will result in less overhead than a list of hundreds of peers (as currently employed in the PeerExchange and DHT protocols). Plus, trackers are a much more permanent resource than peers that change by the minute. If it results in faster downloads, less overhead, and no side-effects, why not?

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