Comment Re:Wrong. (Score 1) 186
Almost all UK ISPs censor sites on the Internet Watch Foundation's list (using the usual child pornography excuse).
Submission + - Facebook bans baby satire on Libya and Free Speech (collegehumor.com)
JohnMurtari writes: "Found a good "remix" of political commentary at a site and tried posting it to my Facebook account. I got a message saying it was "banned" material:
"This message contains blocked content that has previously been flagged as abusive or spammy"
I wondered what droid on their staff found it 'offensive'. A week ago I asked them to remove the block (following their directions), but nothing.
I know "free speech" rights don't apply to "companies" and God know I probably agreed to give all my rights up by signing up for Facebook ... maybe we do need to extend Free Speech to social media?"
"This message contains blocked content that has previously been flagged as abusive or spammy"
I wondered what droid on their staff found it 'offensive'. A week ago I asked them to remove the block (following their directions), but nothing.
I know "free speech" rights don't apply to "companies" and God know I probably agreed to give all my rights up by signing up for Facebook
Submission + - Google Plus Runs Out Of Disk Space; Spams Users (digitizor.com)
dkd903 writes: Yesterday, many users of Google+ noticed Google spamming their inbox with multiple email notifications in very quick succession. Earlier today, Vic Gundotra, Head of Social at Google, explained what was causing it – Google ran out of disk space on the server that keeps track of notifications.
Submission + - IMF Chief Calls on US to Raise Borrowing Limit (go.com)
fysdt writes: "The International Monetary Fund's new chief foresees "real nasty consequences" for the U.S. and global economies if the U.S. fails to raise its borrowing limit.
Christine Lagarde, the first woman to head the lending institution, said in an interview broadcast Sunday that it would cause interest rates to rise and stock markets to fall. That would threaten an important IMF goal, which is preserving stability in the world economy, she said.
The U.S. borrowing limit is $14.3 trillion. Obama administration officials say the U.S. would begin to default without an agreement by Aug. 2.
Lagarde, who took over as managing director July 5, also addressed the fallout stemming from the sexual assault charges filed against her predecessor, Dominique Strauss-Kahn."
Christine Lagarde, the first woman to head the lending institution, said in an interview broadcast Sunday that it would cause interest rates to rise and stock markets to fall. That would threaten an important IMF goal, which is preserving stability in the world economy, she said.
The U.S. borrowing limit is $14.3 trillion. Obama administration officials say the U.S. would begin to default without an agreement by Aug. 2.
Lagarde, who took over as managing director July 5, also addressed the fallout stemming from the sexual assault charges filed against her predecessor, Dominique Strauss-Kahn."
Submission + - NASA Atlantis Space Shuttle: Present and Past (ibtimes.com)
Daniel_Lee writes: NASA's Space Shuttle Atlantis has begun its final mission with a 12-day mission to the International Space Station since 11:29 a.m. EDT, July 8. It is the 135th and final flight in NASA's shuttle program.
Once the space shuttle comes back from space, the shuttle era will be over.
Atlantis' construction began on March 3, 1980. With the help of lessons learned in the construction and testing of orbiters Enterprise, Columbia and Challenger, the construction of Atlantis cost about half the time in man-hours spent on Columbia. On April 9, 1985, Atlantis went into NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Weighing in at 151,315 pounds, Atlantis was nearly 3.5 tons lighter than Columbia.
Once the space shuttle comes back from space, the shuttle era will be over.
Atlantis' construction began on March 3, 1980. With the help of lessons learned in the construction and testing of orbiters Enterprise, Columbia and Challenger, the construction of Atlantis cost about half the time in man-hours spent on Columbia. On April 9, 1985, Atlantis went into NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Weighing in at 151,315 pounds, Atlantis was nearly 3.5 tons lighter than Columbia.
Submission + - Google+ runs out of disk space, spams users (sophos.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Google has apologised after Google+ users are bombarded with multiple notification messages, due to a bug in the social networking's code after the site "ran out of disk space".
Submission + - How Google+ Measures Up On Privacy (itworld.com) 1
itwbennett writes: "The slow rollout of Google+ has led some to wonder whether Google was trying to create demand through scarcity, but it might just be that the company learned its lesson from the privacy fiasco that was the launch of Google Buzz. 'I think it is very smart of Google to restrict Plus to a 'limited field trial' — they aren't even calling it a beta. Google made a misstep with the roll out of Buzz. They've already avoided that mistake with Plus with this limited release. And because it's so exclusive, tech savvy individuals are fighting to get in — just the type of folks that you want as beta testers,' said Sean Sullivan, an F-Secure security adviser. Of course, fixing bugs doesn't necessarily mean that Google will have privacy issues buttoned up. 'Google Plus is clearly designed to give people better control over their privacy with respect to their family, co-workers and friends, [but] there are other types of privacy that it simply can't provide,' says Peter Eckersley, a senior staff technologist for the Electronic Frontier Foundation. 'If you want a communications tool where the information you're sharing can't be read by Google, or by governments or lawyers in western countries, Google Plus isn't the service to use. Nobody has succeeded in building a social network that can offer those kinds of privacy protections yet.'"
Submission + - In The Wake of LulzSec
An anonymous reader writes: One could almost view the LulzSec campaign as a very interesting experiment that poses a series of questions;
What happens when the paradigm shifts from the single skilled hacker, to the disorganised leaderless body of hackers to a group of hackers organised into their area of expertise like a team in a business? LulzSec demonstrated an optimised utility of skills akin to what can be observed in government agencies where the skills can be spread across a group individuals rather than one person to master all.
The ability to evade more an increased, of a somewhat invited attention, through a seemingly random choice of targets could be thought of as a test to how well prepared are the enforcers of the worlds shared information platform are to respond to an escalation of threat. Could their rise in notoriety be seen as an oversight by their lack of conscience when selecting a target, their flagrant self-promotion or a seemingly subtle escalation of challenge to their skills?
The more telling result of all of their activities is concerned with the impact they have had. Very little. For all the media attention and notoriety they have gained a day or so after the announcement to disband and they are considered old news. The desensitized attitude people have to the internet is reflected by their shrugging off the serious flaws in major corporations and governments abilities to safeguard information. Once the PSN was back up people didn’t care anymore – they could play their games and that was all they wanted to do. The burning chalice of promoting security awareness to users is still an ever increasing challenge as more and more people get put themselves online and trust others to hold their data.
The longer someone drives a car the more complacent and automated the process of driving becomes. In a situation whereby their personal and financial safety is at risk by divulging too much to any organisation that asks, should it be the responsibility of regulators to check organisations bot government and corporate are not asking for more than they need to deliver their service. Are people being forced through countless registration processes to put themselves at the mercy of poorly designed safeguards on their data and ultimately the loss of privacy or money? How many more groups like LulzSec are needed before the wet fish of guilt will be slapped round the face of complacent data holders?
LulzSec may or may not have had any agenda or real end goal but the questions posed by their short frenzied activity and abrupt absence are scary.
What happens when the paradigm shifts from the single skilled hacker, to the disorganised leaderless body of hackers to a group of hackers organised into their area of expertise like a team in a business? LulzSec demonstrated an optimised utility of skills akin to what can be observed in government agencies where the skills can be spread across a group individuals rather than one person to master all.
The ability to evade more an increased, of a somewhat invited attention, through a seemingly random choice of targets could be thought of as a test to how well prepared are the enforcers of the worlds shared information platform are to respond to an escalation of threat. Could their rise in notoriety be seen as an oversight by their lack of conscience when selecting a target, their flagrant self-promotion or a seemingly subtle escalation of challenge to their skills?
The more telling result of all of their activities is concerned with the impact they have had. Very little. For all the media attention and notoriety they have gained a day or so after the announcement to disband and they are considered old news. The desensitized attitude people have to the internet is reflected by their shrugging off the serious flaws in major corporations and governments abilities to safeguard information. Once the PSN was back up people didn’t care anymore – they could play their games and that was all they wanted to do. The burning chalice of promoting security awareness to users is still an ever increasing challenge as more and more people get put themselves online and trust others to hold their data.
The longer someone drives a car the more complacent and automated the process of driving becomes. In a situation whereby their personal and financial safety is at risk by divulging too much to any organisation that asks, should it be the responsibility of regulators to check organisations bot government and corporate are not asking for more than they need to deliver their service. Are people being forced through countless registration processes to put themselves at the mercy of poorly designed safeguards on their data and ultimately the loss of privacy or money? How many more groups like LulzSec are needed before the wet fish of guilt will be slapped round the face of complacent data holders?
LulzSec may or may not have had any agenda or real end goal but the questions posed by their short frenzied activity and abrupt absence are scary.
Submission + - BBC To Ban Stars From Tweeting Spoilers (eweekeurope.co.uk)
judgecorp writes: "The BBC is on the verge of introducing a clause to its contracts that forbids actors, writers and other talent from discussing details of their wor in online forums and social media — following a leak from Stephen Mangan that the Douglas Adams -based series Dirk Gently series has been recommissioned"
Submission + - Navy Bought Fake Chinese Microchips With Backdoor (businessinsider.com)
dorijan writes: "I am just surprised it didn't happen sooner..."
Submission + - Fox News, Twitter account hacked (guardian.co.uk)
coffeeyesplease writes: Fox News, Twitter account has been hacked and president Obama is now dead.
Submission + - HELP: Web-based data acquisition system
An anonymous reader writes: We are developing a remote data acquisition system in which all the sensors ( a few 100s ) are intertet-connected via 3G/GPRS. The idea is that the sensors upload their data to a central server and this integrated information is accesed via a web interface. Any suggestions? Is there any open source solution for this kind of systems? Any help / experience / suggestion will be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
Submission + - Windows Man Summarizes His Self-Imposed 30-Day Ubu (ostatic.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Brilliant and quirky. Fast and weird. Multiple faces of the schizophrenic Linux.
Submission + - Pigeons Recognize Human Faces (hotenews.com)
An anonymous reader writes: If you shoo a pigeon, that bird is likely to remember you and know to stay out of your way the next time you cross paths, according to a new study. Researchers found that wild, untrained pigeons can recognize individual people's faces and are not fooled by a change of clothes.
Submission + - Prognosis Negative: the death of the white MacBook (apcmag.com)
An anonymous reader writes: With online reports detailing limited stock of Apple's white MacBook, and new Sandy Bridge MacBook Airs expected to hit this month, it's been suggested that the white MacBook might be getting a refresh itself sometime soon. However, if you look at the success of the Air plus the strength of the MacBook Pro line, and contrast this with how outdated the white MacBook is, and the direction Apple's going in generally with iCloud and the "Post PC" landscape, there's a lot of evidence to suggest that 2011 might just be the end of the line for the white MacBook...
