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Submission + - Income lost to piracy a dubious claim (pcmag.com) 1

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Technical Writing Geek
Technical Writing Geek writes: "If sales were indeed lost to piracy, then why hasn't this become a line item on the books and therefore tax deductible? Seriously, if all this intellectual property theft is theft in any conceivable way, then take the IRS deduction based on the press announcements and see how far you get.

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2704,2251579,00.asp"
Graphics

Submission + - Workstation Graphics Shootout: V8650 vs. FX 5600 (hothardware.com)

Submitted by bigwophh
bigwophh writes: The workstation graphics card market has been hot as of late, due to all of the new GPU releases from NVIDIA and AMD. This evaluation features a direct comparison of perhaps two of the most interesting and powerful pro-graphics cards shipping in the market currently, the ATI FireGL V8650 and the NVIDIA QuadroFX 5600. The V8650 is a monster variation on ATI's R600 graphics processor with 2GB of frame buffer memory attached. The Quadro FX 5600 is the 1.5GB workstation-class cousin of the GeForce 8800 Ultra, both of which use NVIDIA's powerful G80 processor. Both cards are phenomenally large as well, but as you'll see in some of the tests, they perform quite differently, depending on whether you're a Maya, 3D Studio Max, Catia or ProE user.
The Internet

Submission + - Why Digg isn't working anymore (jeffro2pt0.com)

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Technical Writing Geek
Technical Writing Geek writes: "Digg is now controlled by the majority of users who just so happen to be Apple fanboys, who just happen to be Linux fanboys, who just happen to be political nut cases. Occasionally, you will see an article reach the front page that doesn't fit in these three categories, but for the most part, these three categories run the roost. At one time, it was ok to submit Digg articles that were housed on blogs. Nope, you can't do that anymore because the majority of Digg users frown on blogs and consider all blogs to be internet trash.

http://www.jeffro2pt0.com/the-digg-story-doesnt-sell-anymore/"
Security

Submission + - Most Malicious Sites are Hacked, Legitimate Sites (washingtonpost.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: The number of legitimate Web sites that have been hacked and seeded with code that tries to infect visitors PCs with malware now exceeds the number of sites specifically created by cyber criminals, the Washington Post reports. The analysis is based on a report of site scanning results from Websense in the second half of 2007, which found that about 51 percent of the roughly two million sites serving up browser exploits and the like ranged from mom-and-pop type sites to sites with household names.

Feed Techdirt: Canadian Content Lobbyists Pushing For ISP Liability (techdirt.com)

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As the debate up in Canada continues over its plans to introduce new, more stringent, copyright legislation, a somewhat disturbing trend is appearing. While the earlier debate focused mainly on the similarities between Canada's draft legislation and the US's DMCA, it appears that some lobbyists are using the delay to push for something even more extreme: ISP liability. They're using recent wins in Europe over ISP liability, as well as ATT's brain-dead proposals to filter unauthorized materials as an opening to push for much stronger copyright laws that include ISP liability, effectively using legislation to take their own business model problems and technical ignorance and dump those problems on everyone else. This ability to try to force the rest of the world to change to compensate for their own short-sightedness is breathtaking, and would be deserving of envy, if it weren't so effective. Right now, about the only good news coming out of this debate in Canada is that the Privacy Commissioner of Canada, Jennifer Stoddart, has pointed out that many of these proposals risk undermining individual privacy rights. Unfortunately, privacy supporters don't tend to donate nearly as much money to politicians as stronger copyright supporters.

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Communications

Submission + - Can Calls (augerduval.com)

Submitted by Auger Duval
Auger Duval writes: Is it just me or has the world of IT support gone down the drain? I mean literally flushed. I recently called a vendor for support on their "supperb" product, only to have the support line answered by (as usual) the receptionist. Whom this time was occupado. I know there has been a push for a live voice to answer the corporate numbers but give me a break. Really! If nature calls get someone else to cover the phones, don't take it with you. No matter how hard you try, the sound of the echo off of tile walls and the rolling rumble of the TP gives you away. Thank you for not flushing. I hope you did after you hung up. I personally find this to be a disturbing movement in communications. Of course discression is everything. If your friend/coworker calls and your "in your other office" answer, don't answer it's really up to you. But on a company support line use some common sense. I have seen this with sales reps too. Standing next to them in the public facilities. What do you think? Is this becomming a problem?
Security

Submission + - "Untraceable" movie not far-fetched, ex-FB (networkworld.com)

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bednarz
bednarz writes: "Former FBI Special Agent Ernest "E.J." Hilbert (today he's director of security enforcement at MySpace.com) was asked to look over a Hollywood script about cybercrime. The result is "Untraceable," which opens in theaters on Friday. "One of the biggest complaints of people with regard to this movie in terms of the technology is that obviously the writers and technical consultant — which is me — don't know how a DNS system works and how you can get a domain shut down. And that's not true," said Hilbert in a Q&A with Network World. Plus check out a related story on the familiar network tools used in the movie: whois domain name lookup, traceroute and ping. (http://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/011808-dns-tools.html)"
Announcements

Submission + - W3C Publishes First Public Working Draft of HTML 5 (w3.org)

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Lachlan Hunt
Lachlan Hunt writes: "The W3C annonced that the HTML Working Group has today published the first public working draft of HTML 5 — A vocabulary and associated APIs for HTML and XHTML. It's been over 9 months since the working group began in March 2007 and this long awaited milestone has finally been achieved.

"HTML is of course a very important standard," said Tim Berners-Lee, author of the first version of HTML and W3C Director. "I am glad to see that the community of developers, including browser vendors, is working together to create the best possible path for the Web..." Some of the most interesting new features for authors are APIs for drawing two-dimensional graphics, embedding and controlling audio and video content, maintaining persistent client-side data storage, and for enabling users to edit documents and parts of documents interactively. Other features make it easier to represent familiar page elements, including ; (for navigation), and (for assigning a caption to a photo or other embedded content). Authors write HTML 5 using either a "classic" HTML syntax or an XML syntax, according to application demands.


An updated draft of HTML 5 differences from HTML 4 has also been published to help guide you through the changes."
Software

Submission + - Netvibes Releases Ginger Update to Private Beta (pcmag.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Some here have complained that web start pages or portals are passé, but what's so bad about having all your feeds, email, weather, and so on in one highly customizable set of tabbed pages? Europe-based Netvibes has been a pioneer in offering this kind of thing for a couple years, and now they've added some, you guessed it, social networking stuff like rich profiles and friend updates. The Ginger version also lets you publish a public page and, when released for real will include online storage. PC Magazine has screenshots and invite codes for 100 lucky folks to try out the beta Ginger version of Netvibes.
Government

Submission + - China-Taiwan Showdown Involves Politics, PCs

Submitted by wiredog
wiredog writes: Some political wonkery from PC Magazine (Really!) China-Taiwan Showdown Involves Politics, PCs

if things fall apart and a Tom Clancy scenario unfolds in the Taiwan Strait you can forget about upgrading your PC or laptop for a while. The hundred miles of shallow seas separating Taiwan and China happen to be the most important yet most precarious link in the global ICT supply chain.

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