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Comment Re:And BOOM (Score 4, Informative) 131

Censorship

Rackspace Shuts Down Quran-Burning Church's Sites 1695

theodp writes "In response to a complaint, Rackspace has shut down the websites of the Dove World Outreach Center, a small 50-member church which has received national and international criticism for a planned book burning of the Quran on the anniversary of the 9-11 attacks. The center 'violated the hate-speech provision of our acceptable-use policy,' explained Rackspace spokesman Dan Goodgame. 'This is not a constitutional issue. This is a contract issue,' said Goodgame, who added he did not know how long it had hosted the church's sites. Not quite the same thing, but would Kurt Westergaard's cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad also violate Rackspace's AUP? How about Christopher Hitchens' Slate articles? Could articles from one-time Rackspace poster child The Onion pass muster?"
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Mahara 1.2 EPortfolios Screenshot-sm 35

RichardSanders writes "This recent publication provides an accessible introduction to using Mahara within business and academic settings. It is great to see that the authors work for TDM, who provide Mahara & Moodle based solutions for a broad range of clients. This professional experience has contributed to a coherent and easy to follow text that provides essential information for new users. This comes as no surprise, as many individuals within the academic sector regularly benefit from Derrin's advice within mailing lists concerned with educational technologies." Keep reading for the rest of Richard's review.

Comment Re:well said - maybe time for freenet again? (Score 1) 1088

Your computer may already contain child porn and other illegal numbers, thanks to stegonography. There are ways to store arbitrary data in images, and you're currently running a program which can download and store images from arbitrary sources — unless, of course, you're browsing with images off.

Now, running a Freenet node will change the probability that your computer stores illegal numbers, and those numbers would be encrypted and stored in a standard format. But the only way to guarantee that your computer is clean involves wiping it (preferably using a degausser instead of a software program) and keeping it away from all untrusted data sources.

Full disclosure: I like Freenet.
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Submission + - Ted Stevens and Sean O'Keefe in plane crash

necro81 writes: The NY Times is reporting that former Senator Ted Stevens was aboard a small plane with eight others that crashed in remote southwest Alaska Monday night. Reuters is reporting that he died, along with at least four others. Meanwhile, the North American CEOof aerospace firm EADS and former NASA administrator Sean O'Keefe was was also reported in the crash. Rescue crews from the Alaska Air National Guard reached the site about ten hours after the initial crash.

Comment Re:Test Your Bias! (Score 1) 548

Previously there haven't been such Windows tracking measures attempted by Microsoft.

I probably would react differently, because the above means that I would live in an alternate universe where Microsoft didn't pull all their DRM tricks yet and doesn't come up with names like Windows Genuine Advantage.

Comment Re:What's the news? (Score 2) 206

Someone mod parent up. This reminds me of the automated mathematician: if it's given rules that encourage discovering the Goldbach conjecture, and you spend enough time tuning it, then it's no surprise that it will eventually discover the Goldbach conjecture. Some debate whether AM actually discovered anything, or just found the stuff it was designed to discover (seeing as it stopped finding interesting conjectures after rediscovering all the known ones). But that's getting into philosophy.

Comment Re:Not true? (Score 1) 258

That is a problem with opennet mode, but I believe darknet mode addresses that concern. Basically, in opennet you connect to random strangers (less secure), whereas in darknet you only connect to nodes run by people you trust (more secure).

Kind of a pain, though, if you're nomadic or don't have a lot of geeky friends.

Comment Not true? (Score 4, Informative) 258

Apparently they're just upgrading:

http://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/17461648435

And even if Wikileaks was to disappear, there's always Freenet if you want to leak something:

http://freenetproject.org/

Of course, you'd have to check your own data to make sure there's no metadata that can be used to identify you. But Freenet covers the anonymous distribution angle.

Comment Dataspill? (Score 5, Funny) 113

The question is, will we go for a top kill on the data leak, or will we first attempt more risky solutions which profit the data miners? What kind of concrete do you use to seal a data leak? And what's the conversion factor between the scale of an oil spill and the scale of a data spill? In other words, how do we get from m^2 to BAU (Bad Analogy Units), so we can compare them?

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