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Juror Explains Guilty Vote In Terry Childs Case 537

Posted by timothy from the looked-guilty-from-a-distance dept.
alphadogg writes "Terry Childs, the San Francisco network administrator who refused to hand over passwords to his boss, was found guilty of one felony count of denying computer services, a jury found Tuesday. Now, one of those jurors (Jason Chilton, juror #4) is speaking out in an interview with IDG News Service's Bob McMillan: 'The questions were, first, did the defendant know he caused a disruption or a denial of computer service. It was rather easy for us to answer, "Yes there was a denial of service." And that service was the ability to administer the routers and switches of the FiberWAN. That was the first aspect of it. The second aspect was the denial to an authorized user. And for us that's what we really had to spend the most time on, defining who an authorized user was. Because that wasn't one of the definitions given to us.'"
Google

Submission + - Google Reduces Its Nexus One Termination Fee (computerworld.com)

Submitted by CWmike
CWmike writes: The only smartphone Linux kernel creator Linus Torvalds doesn't hate is that much less unlikable now that Google has quietly chopped $200 off its early termination fee on the Nexus One, meaning it will now cost users less to cancel service on the smartphone. Customers who cancel the service had been paying $550, including a $350 Google cancellation charge. That fee has been reduced to $150, but users are still subject to an additional $200 early termination fee from T-Mobile. That means that, in total, they'll have to pay a total of $350 for canceling service within 120 days. Users have a 14-day grace period during which they do not have to pay either charge, although they may be hit with a restocking fee. The $350 total fee matches one of the highest in the industry, charged by Verizon. Google did not announce the change but simply altered its online terms-of-service document.

Submission + - Nvidia Android Tablet (tomshardware.com)

Submitted by xerio
xerio writes: I don't know if it's been covered here before, but it looks like Nvidia is getting in on the tablet market too with a 15" display, running Android on their Tegra processor
Privacy

Submission + - Facebook vs. the Freedom Box

Submitted by harrymcc
harrymcc writes: Columbia Law Professor Eben Moglen is attacking Facebook and other cloud-based services as immense threats to personal privacy and freedom. And he's proposing a highly unusual alternative to them: A personal, pocketable, open-source Web server he calls the Freedom Box. It would come with built-in peer-to-peer social networking software and might cost $299.99 for a lifetime of service, and would protect users' personal data from all threats short of a court order.

Submission + - AU Government meets Google for YouTube filtering (itnews.com.au)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: The Australian Government has entered discussions with Google to block access to video content that was refused classification in Australia and that was not technically feasible to filter at the internet service provider level. The Government said applying its mandatory filtering regime in Australia to web sites like YouTube would introduce performance issues. But Google had "experience in blocking material in other countries at the behest of Governments, including China and Thailand" and so the Government was pursuing that possibility.
Microsoft

Submission + - Microsoft: your battery is the issue, not Win7

Submitted by Sammy
Sammy writes: Last week, Microsoft said it was investigating issues in Windows 7 that affect batteries on certain notebooks after hundreds of users reported they thought the OS was to blame. Steven Sinofsky, president of the Windows and Windows Live Division, has posted a lengthy response. "At this time we have no reason to believe there is any issue related to Windows 7 in this context," Sinofsky writes. Here's his explanation:

"Several press articles this past week have drawn attention to blog and forum postings by users claiming Windows 7 is warning them to "consider replacing your battery" in systems which appeared to be operating satisfactorily before upgrading to Windows 7. These articles described posts in the support forums indicating that Windows 7 is not just warning users of failing batteries — as we designed Windows 7 to do this — but also implying Windows 7 is falsely reporting this situation or even worse, causing these batteries to fail. To the very best of the collective ecosystem knowledge, Windows 7 is correctly warning batteries that are in fact failing and Windows 7 is neither incorrectly reporting on battery status nor in any way whatsoever causing batteries to reach this state. In every case we have been able to identify the battery being reported on was in fact in need of recommended replacement."

Submission + - Unblock Blocked Sites and Applications With Your F (infoteknotainment.com)

Submitted by urangcipicungkasep
urangcipicungkasep writes: Your Freedom is a true practical software for those accessing the internet in such countries as Iran, China, united Arab Emirates where internet censorship/ restrictions are in place or to access favorite social networking sites such as Facebook, Myspace, Hulu behind “school proxy” yet trapped behind a firewall or a filtering proxy This application is truly a helping hand to unblock blocked sites.
Google

Submission + - 15 Google Chrome Extensions for Web Development &a (betadaily.com)

Submitted by vikrantsharma1
vikrantsharma1 writes: The web developer community goes bonkers on anything that Google does. So when Google launched Chrome browser, everyone started switching to it. Chrome is a great browser, but, developers had to go back to good old Firefox when it came to their day-to-day work. Why? Because Chrome did not have plugins that they need while developing and designing websites and applications. Not anymore! Here are 15 cool Chrome extensions (plugins) from developers for developers.

Submission + - Security chip that does encryption in PCs hacked (yahoo.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: The new attack discovered by Christopher Tarnovsky is difficult to pull off, partly because it requires physical access to a computer. But laptops and smart phones get lost and stolen all the time. And the data that the most dangerous computer criminals would seek likely would be worth the expense of an elaborate espionage operation.
Security

Submission + - US engineer gets 15y for spying for China

Submitted by goG
goG writes: A Chinese-born engineer was sentenced Monday to more than 15 years in prison for hoarding sensitive information about the US space shuttle with the intent on giving it to China. Carney called Chung's crimes a matter of national security, saying he had committed a breach against the trust Boeing and the country had placed on him.
"The [People's Republic of China] is bent on stealing sensitive information from the United States and shows no sign of relenting," Staples said. "Only strong sentences offer any hope of dissuading others from helping the PRC get that technology."
Microsoft

Submission + - OOXML not suitable for Norwegian government: study (goodgearguide.com.au)

Submitted by
angry tapir
angry tapir writes: "Microsoft's XML-based office document format, OOXML, does not meet the requirements for governmental use, according to a new report published by the Norwegian Agency for Public Management and eGovernment (DIFI). The agency wants to start a debate over the report as part of its work on standards in the Norwegian government. (As discussed on Slashdot, Denmark has already decided to choose ODF over OOXML)"

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