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Privacy

Submission + - Threats are perhaps coming for our privacy.

An anonymous reader writes: There are many doubts in this society after the IRAA had begun it's lawsuit 'insanity' against 8000 people in October, but for every case including house raids and mass apprehending or some other means, you'll come to notice that there's no explanation from them, for the methods that they used to confirm the peoples' locations, who are sharing files illegally on the internet. Yes, there's also probabilities like having 'watchdogs' around the planet hired by the anti-piracy related organizations, consisting of millions of people and perhaps hitting the billion figure. What I'm trying to say, is that our private data are perhaps being leaked through this monitoring activities carried out by whoever it is, it could be you, or me, our ISP (Internet Service Provider), or anyone that is relevant to the IRAA's 'watchdog project'. It can be anybody, as long as they have access to various core servers of IP handling systems, our privacy are perhaps being invaded as they look at our transmitting data at random times, or if worse, watching us 24/7 constantly...our data packets that are being received and sent to the internet through the tubes of our ISP will never be affirmed as private and safe unless there's declaration from IRAA that our privacy is NOT being invaded by them. Nothing is to be confirmed yet regarding this matter as it is just doubts and rumors being pieced together from the 'floating cyberspace'. You may choose to take this into consideration and analyze it even further, or you can delete this and forget about it.
Media

Submission + - Whoa. I'm Person of the Year?

caferace writes: "In an apparent lack of any self-respecting journalistic continuity, TIME (read, parent/child of AOL/Tim Warner) has collapsed into itself and decided that we all rock. Me, and especially You . If this was the front page in 1995, perhaps I'd agree. But not now. They're too late. What do you think?"
Editorial

Submission + - Censorship at Democratic Underground

jagrmeister writes: ""When you think of free speech, you think of its defenders- organizations such as the ACLU and EFF. When opponents seeks to abridge the 1st amendment through the FCC and V-chips, Democrats push back on principle. Our champiniong of free speech makes it all the more troubling that Democratic Underground, the leading online forum for progressives, has become increasingly censored, causing concern about its commitment to free speech. The examples abound. Most recently, the moderators on DU blitzed a thread on David Duke's remarks on CNN, and deleted any comments that could be construed as supporting any part of what he said. Now I detest Duke as much as the next person; but one of his arguments was against neocons and several members agreed with that assessment. Moreover, the way you beat hate speech is by letting people criticize it, not abridging the 1st amendment...""
Portables (Apple)

Journal Journal: Apple "Service" 4

So we have a five-year-old dying iBook. It has the right serial number, and symptoms listed there (black screen on startup), but apparently this computer model has recently gone from "Supported" to "Vintage" so they won't touch it without us paying the "preferred customer" fee of over $300.

I don't even want to know what the normal fee is.

It's funny.  Laugh.

Boston Globe to Blogger — "Stop Using Opera" 465

PetManimal writes "Mac Daniels of the Boston Globe weighed in on a prickly debate involving the updated local mass transit website. The Globe's advice to one complainer named 'derspatchel': Stop using Opera. Derspatchel's response is to go medieval on Daniels' ass, and ask the question: Why should Opera users give up their browser? Quoting: 'I don't give two whoops about the "percentage of the Internet population" or whatever. I don't care if a website works on someone else's choice of browser; I care if it works or not on my choice of browser. It's a modern browser, it's in active development, and it's free. Once dev stops on the Opera browser and the last version becomes outdated and unable to support newer Web innovations, then I'll "stop using it." How's that, Chuckles?'" After a day the transit authority took the new site offline to "improve performance," reverting to the old version.
Yahoo!

Submission + - Bot attacks Yahoo! Answers

lightspawn writes: For the past few hours, the Yahoo! Answers user "Man" has 'answered' over 14000 questions with links to the same site. The user seems to have been created at level 7 (which allows posting unlimited answers) even though reaching that level should take weeks for even the most dedicated of participants. Yahoo! staff seem to be gone for the weekend.
Music

Submission + - MPAA Is Helping Their Users Pirate Movies

Rub3X writes: "Have you actually ever read the MPAA's site? It's filled with things to help users pirate movies. They suggest clients to use for P2P, they even give advantages of pirated movies. They say they are cheaper, come out before they are released, and are DRM free. How can these things make users not want to pirate movies? http://cyber-knowledge.net/blog/2006/12/17/mpaa-is -helping-their-users-pirate-movies/"
Enlightenment

Submission + - New Forum Designed To Keep Tabs On The Police

Mike Machlin writes: "In the wake of the shooting of unarmed Sean Bell, BlueBrotherhood.org aims to put the police in their place. Users submit information about what the police are up to locally, and share it with their neighbors, shifting the balance of power, slightly, back into the hands of the public.

Press release can be found here.

http://bluebrotherhood.org/press.html"

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