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Comment Re:Unintended Camera Purchase (Score 1) 248

by Cali Thalen (#36283302) Attached to: Including webcams, phones, etc, I own X cameras:

The LG phone I just got at work (GU292) has no camera. It's a simple feature phone, so maybe if you're after one of those new fangled smart phones you'll be more limited.

Chose that one for the lack of camera, as I do work in some areas that don't allow cameras. Also the talk/standby time was about twice as long as the other options.
Idle

Submission + - College Kid Busted in Counterfeit Coupon Scheme (securityweek.com)

Submitted by wiredmikey
wiredmikey writes: For nearly a year, 22 year-old college student was been creating and distributing fake coupons, resulting in hundreds of thousands of dollars lost by retailers and manufacturers.

Since July 2010, the student allegedly created fraudulent coupons designed to look like online print-at-home coupons available to consumers. In December 2010, for example, $200,000 worth of counterfeit coupons for Tide laundry detergent were redeemed by consumers over a two to three week period.

Henderson is charged with one count of wire fraud, which carries a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison, and one count of trafficking in counterfeit goods, which carries a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison.
The Internet

Submission + - Netflix dominates North American Internet (financialpost.com)

Submitted by nairnr
nairnr writes: Accounting for 29.7% of all information downloaded during peak usage hours by North American broadband-connected households in March, Netflix Inc. received the title in the latest Global Internet Phenomena Report released by Sandvine Corp. on Tuesday.

In its ninth such report, Waterloo, Ont.-based Sandvine found the amount of data consumed by users streaming television shows and movie from Netflix’s online service exceeded even that of peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing technology BitTorrent.
Australia

Submission + - Australian Journo Arrested for reporting on IT sec (smh.com.au)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: An Australian journalist was arrested by Queensland Police yesterday after reporting about vulnerabilities in Facebook's privacy controls on Sydney Morning Herald Newspaper. He was covering a conference organised by AusCERT.
NASA

Submission + - NASA: Moon's Scars Tell Its Tale

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: It turns out the moon is similar to an aging prize fighter. Its weary face gives away its somewhat rough history. According to new research from NASA and California Institute of Technology, the moon's damages which lay all across its rough surface give scientists an idea of its four-and-a-half billion year history. The scientists say the moon's impact craters, dark plains left behind by volcanic eruptions give them an idea of how it was shaped.
PlayStation (Games)

Submission + - Amazon Servers Used in Sony Playstation Hack (yahoo.com)

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the simurgh
the simurgh writes: "Amazon servers may have been used to carry out the massive Playstation hack that compromised the personal information of more than 100 million Playstation Network users. According to a report from Bloomberg, sources close to the ongoing investigation say the attack was mounted from Amazon Web Service's cloud computing platform."
NASA

Submission + - Video of comet diving into the sun (space.com)

Submitted by symbolset
symbolset writes: This week a comet plunged into the sun. Just before the comet strikes an immense coronal mass ejection adds drama to the video of the event. According to SOHO officials, "images from the Solar Dynamics Observatory show that the CME erupted before the comet came close enough to the solar surface to interact with strong magnetic fields."
United States

Submission + - Live Justice Comes to the Internet

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Hugh Pickens writes
Hugh Pickens writes writes: "The Boston Globe reports that an experiment in live justice is coming to the Internet, uniting citizen bloggers with the public’s right to know in one of Massachusett's busiest courthouses, Quincy District Court. Dubbed Open Court, the project will operate live cameras and microphones during criminal sessions where the court’s proceedings will be streamed live over the Internet at the Open Court website to give the public an unfiltered view of court proceedings while an operating Wi-Fi network serves citizen bloggers who want to post to the Internet. “The idea is that people can live blog, but they can also tweet,’’ says John Davidow, executive editor in charge of new media at WBUR, who developed the idea for the project adding that during the next year, the goal is to move the experiment outside the first session courtroom and to stream criminal and civil trials and small claims cases as well. The project was seeking a busy court and found it in Quincy where last year the court handled more than 7,000 criminal claims and more than 15,000 civil cases, including more than 1,100 restraining orders, nearly 1,000 substance abuse and mental health cases and more than 1,200 landlord-tenant cases."
The Internet

Submission + - 23,000 file sharers targeted in the latest suit (wired.com)

Submitted by wiedzmin
wiedzmin writes: Subpoenas are expected to go out this week to ISP's in what could be a biggest BitTorrent downloading case in U.S. history. At least 23,000 file sharers are being targeted by the U.S. Copyright Group for downloading "Expendables". Company appears to have adopted Righthaven's strategy in blanket-suing large numbers of defendants and offering an option to quickly settle online for a moderate payment. The IP addresses of defendants have allegedly been collected by paid snoops capturing IP addresses of all peers who were downloading or seeding Sylvester Stallone's flick last year. I am curious to see how this will tie into the the BitTorrent case ruling made earlier this year, indicating that an IP address does not uniquely identify the person behind it.
Networking

Submission + - IEEE Seeks Data On Ethernet Bandwidth Needs (itworld.com)

Submitted by
itwbennett
itwbennett writes: "The IEEE has formed a group to assess demand for a faster form of Ethernet, taking the first step toward what could become a Terabit Ethernet standard. 'We all contacted people privately' around 2005 to gauge the need for a faster specification, said John D'Ambrosia, chairman of the new ad hoc group. 'We only got, like, seven data points.' Disagreement about speeds complicated the process of developing the current standard, called 802.3ab. Though carriers and aggregation switch vendors agreed the IEEE should pursue a 100G bps speed, server vendors said they wouldn't need adapters that fast until years later. They wanted a 40G bps standard, and it emerged later that there was also some demand for 40G bps among switch makers, D'Ambrosia said. 'I don't want to get blindsided by not understanding bandwidth trends again,' D'Ambrosia said."

Submission + - China DDOS an online petition to free Ai Weiwei (change.org) 3

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decora
decora writes: "If you are reading this on April 21, 2011, then you probably won't be able to connect to the linked story. That is because: "For the past three days, the Change.org website has been repeatedly targeted by cyber attacks coming from China that aim to bring our site down, which would keep people from signing the petition.", which demands the release of artist Ai Weiwei."
Piracy

Submission + - Woman Busted Selling $2M of Counterfeit Software (securityweek.com)

Submitted by wiredmikey
wiredmikey writes: A Michigan woman pleaded guilty yesterday to selling counterfeit computer software which reportedly earned her over $400,000. According to court documents, between July 2008 and January 2010, Jones sold more than 7,000 copies of pirated business software at discounted prices through the website cheapdl.com. The software, published by several companies including Microsoft, Adobe, Intuit and Symantec had a retail value of more than $2 million.
Microsoft

Submission + - Microsoft, Nokia Finally Sign Definitive Agreement (techspot.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Microsoft and Nokia today announced the signing of a definitive agreement regarding their global mobile ecosystem partnership. Two months ago, Nokia announced that it was choosing Microsoft's Windows Phone as its primary smartphone platform but that the two companies still need to work out the details of the deal. A lot has happened since then, but apparently the agreement was completed ahead of schedule, according to the duo.

There are three points that we think are worth pointing out separately. We already know that Microsoft and Nokia will work together to reach out to developers, but the two have agreed to make Windows Phone developer registration free for all Nokia developers. There are also plans to open a new Nokia-branded global application store that leverages the Windows Phone Marketplace infrastructure so that developers can publish and distribute applications through a single developer portal to consumers that use Windows Phone, Symbian, and Series 40 devices. Lastly, Nokia will contribute its expertise in operator billing to ensure participants in the Windows Phone ecosystem can take advantage of Nokia's billing agreements with 112 operators in 36 markets.
The Almighty Buck

Submission + - NYTimes.com Reports 100k Subscribers (google.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Despite Slashdot (and much of the internet) ridiculing the New York Times for its archaic and overpriced paywall, the newspaper has reported an excess of one hundred thousand subscribers so far. Even as loopholes are offered, the New York Times has some support which they will need as print revenues dwindle (falling a staggering 57.6 percent during the year's first quarter).

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