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Editorial

Submission + - Is Intellectual Property the Key to Success? (mises.org)

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corbettw
corbettw writes: "The Mises Institute, a libertarian think tank, has an interesting article up today about intellectual property. From the article: The repeal of intellectual property legislation, writes Jeffrey Tucker, would do nothing to remove from business its capacity to create, innovate, advertise, market, and distribute. The repeal of IP might create for it an additional cost of doing business, namely efforts to ensure that consumers are aware of the difference between the genuine product and impersonators. This is a cost of business that every enterprise has to bear. Patents and trademarks have done nothing to keep Gucci and Prada and Rolex impersonators at bay. But neither have the impersonators killed the main business. If anything, they might have helped, since imitation is the best form of flattery."
Windows

Submission + - Bill Gates Taunts Hackers, Disses Apple

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corbettw
corbettw writes: "In an interview with Newsweek, Bill Gates has stated that Windows is more secure than MacOS. From the article: "In another portion of the interview, he added, 'Nowadays, security guys break the Mac every single day. Every single day, they come out with a total exploit, your machine can be taken over totally. I dare anybody to do that once a month on the Windows machine.'". I've got a buck says he regrets this in about two days."
Security

Submission + - Sysadmin 'tried to boobytrap' drug firm database

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corbettw
corbettw writes: "According to El Reg, a sysadmin at a drug company set a booby trap on the company's servers when he thought they were going to lay him off. He survived the round(s) of layoffs, but due to shoddy programming his trap never got sprung. He tried setting it off again, but the trap was found before he could put his dastardly plan into action. If he had succeeded, it would have impacted some 70 servers, and potentially millions of records of data on drug testing, including possibly private information on volunteers. The article is unclear on what the long term effect would have been, however. He now faces charges of fraud and computer hacking in Federal court in New Jersey."
Censorship

Submission + - New Video Regulations on the way in Europe

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corbettw
corbettw writes: "Michelle Malkin has a piece up today about new regulations in the EU that would regulate any "moving pictures", regardless of how it's delivered. If they pass, European video bloggers and gamers would be subject to the same restrictions as broadcast television, including possibly being required to possess a license to set up a video blog, or even just camchat with friends. All in the guise of protecting the children and stopping "hate" speech."
Operating Systems

Submission + - The Thalamus: the Kernel in Your Mind

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corbettw writes: This article on Yahoo Science News describes a new finding that explains how the thalamus is used by your brain to essentially boot your brain and provide for central processing and control of all impulses going to and from the cortex. The article describes its function as an operating system, but from the description it actually seems closer to the functions of a kernel.

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