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Submission + - What kind of content is acceptable in the cloud?

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Amazon's censure of Wikileaks not only raises significant First Amendment issues, but also raises questions of what kind of content is and isn't acceptable in the cloud, as PC World discusses. Businesses migrating to the cloud need to think long and hard about this. From the article: "For example, law firms frequently have to deal with extremely unpleasant materials as part of their work. Could they store horrific images and videos on a cloud service? Could they store potentially libellous materials? Are cloud companies going to start making a distinction between storing materials that have a genuine business need (OK), and those that are stored solely for enjoyment (not OK)?"

Submission + - Wikileaks.org Domain has been deleted (foxnews.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: WikiLeaks Domain Name Provider Says It Has Withdrawn Service to the Wikileaks.org Name. This is what the Cybersecurity Act of 2009, with it's various names, has bought you. The Executive branch of the USA now controls the Domain Names of Planet Earth. All slippery slopes go down hill.
Education

Submission + - College class crowd-source their assignment (jjtok.io)

Submitted by jjtokyo
jjtokyo writes: Faced with the challenge of designing and publishing 10 psychology experiments in only 3 months, students in Temple University's Japan Campus have set up a website so that they could get some help from... pretty much anybody else in the world! Powered with software from University of Southern California's Institute for the Future of Book, the website (http://jjtok.io/3m10p) allows anyone to comment and debunk the students' writings. So far, the class has received expert feedback from a crowd as varied as a Science-published psychologist from the UK, a start-up CEO from South Africa, a lawyer from Switzerland, and a whole class of Psychology students from Temple's main campus in Philadelphia.

Submission + - Scotland Yard to arrest Assange (dailymail.co.uk)

Submitted by metrix007
metrix007 writes: Julian Assange has been hiding in the UK for some time, and now it seems Scotland Yard are just waiting for the go ahead to arrest him. I don't know how he can safely travel at the moment, but maybe it's time to try and old man mask bound for Ecuador. With this and the removal of Wikileaks.org from DNS, it seems a pretty effective albeit temporary measure. There must be some really incriminate stuff in those cables.
Crime

Student Googles Himself, Finds He's Accused of Murder 184

Posted by samzenpus from the be-careful-what-you-search-for dept.
University of Florida student Zachary Garcia was more than a little surprised to find out he was wanted for murder after Googling his name. It turns out the police were looking for a different man but had mistakenly used Garcia's photo. From the article: "Investigators originally released a driver's license photo of Zachary Garcia — spelled with an 'A' — but it was Zachery Garcia — spelled with an 'E'— who was charged in connection with the crime."
Science

Fungus Fire Spores With 180,000 G Acceleration 69

Posted by timothy from the easy-at-that-size dept.
Hugh Pickens writes "Although a variety of spore discharge processes have evolved among the fungi, those with the longest ranges are powered by hydrostatic pressure and include 'squirt guns' that are most common in the Ascomycota and Zygomycota. In these fungi, fluid-filled stalks that support single spores or spore-filled sporangia, or cells called asci that contain multiple spores, are pressurized by osmosis. Because spores are discharged at such high speeds, most of the information on launch processes from previous studies has been inferred from mathematical models and is subject to a number of errors, but now Nicholas Money, an expert on fungi at Miami University, has recorded the discharges with high-speed cameras at 250,000 frames-a-second and discovered that fungi fire their spores with accelerations up to 180,000 g, calling it 'the fastest flight in nature.' Money and his students, in a justified fit of ecstasy, have created a video of the first fungus opera."

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