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Comment Re:Made quite a mess of some college networks, too (Score 1) 233

by nevillethedevil (#31956790) Attached to: McAfee Retracts Lowball Bug Damage Estimate
We managed to keep our labs up during this debacle but the staff and the profs were hit pretty bad. Apparently UVU had to close down all of their labs. The funny thing is that just few days before, our windows guys were talking about finding an alternate solution to McAfee. This pretty much made their minds up for them.
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Nuclear Bunkers For Sale On eBay 7

Posted by samzenpus from the duck-and-cover dept.
JimLynch writes "The British government scattered bunkers around the island during the Cold War, so that scientists hidden underground could track the spread of radiation in case the nuclear bombs started falling. Now, if you're interested in a two-room underground getaway spot in the middle of nowhere, with a chemical toilet, you can bid for one online for as little as $4200."

Submission + - Google Threatens Pullout From China After E-Mail A (nytimes.com)

Submitted by nevillethedevil
nevillethedevil writes: The New York Times is reporting a shift in Google China policy following evidence that the gmail acocunts of certain human rights activists had been hacked from inside the country:

"The company said it had detected a "highly sophisticated and
targeted attack on our corporate infrastructure originating
from China." Google says further investigation revealed that
"a primary goal of the attackers was accessing the Gmail
accounts of Chinese human rights activists." Google did not
specifically accuse the Chinese government. But the company
added that it is "no longer willing to continue censoring our
results" on its Chinese search engine, as the government
requires. Google says the decision could force it to shut
down its Chinese site and its offices in the country."
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Submission + - LyricWiki API killed by the music industry 2

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Sazzer
Sazzer writes: "Just seen on Amarok as lyrics for a song: "Unfortunately, due to licensing restrictions from some of the major music publishers we can no longer return lyrics through the LyricWiki API (where this application gets some or all of its lyrics).
(Please note: this is not the fault of the developer who created this application, but is a restriction imposed by the music publishers themselves.)"

And from the LyricWiki page itself: "Unfortunately, licensing agreements with the biggest publishers in the music industry require us to no longer offer the ability for programmatic access to LyricWiki's collection of lyrics.
We tried to arrange some way to let API Developers license through us, but this was not possible.
While this is not something we are happy about, it is a necessity in order to finally secure licensing for LyricWiki from the major publishers which will allow the project to survive indefinitely.
For more info, please see the letter to API Developers""

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