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Comment Re:Oh, FFS (Score 1) 813

by ad1217 (#41145033) Attached to: How Long Do You Want To Live?
As far as I can tell, it is not a fear of death; it is a knowledge that we only get one shot at life: when we die, it's all over. Thus, we should use all of it; and have as much as we can.

Submission + - WW2 vet sends pirate DVDs to troops in Iraq, Afghanistan (nytimes.com)

Submitted by nbauman
nbauman writes: WW2 veteran "Big Hy," 92, pirated 300,00 DVD movies and sent them to soldiers in Afghanistan and Iraq, where they were widely distributed and deeply appreciated. Soldiers would gather around personal computers for movie nights, with mortars blasting in the background. "It's reconnecting to everything you miss," said one. He received American flags, appreciative letters, and snapshots of soldiers holding up their DVDs. He spent about $30,000 of his own money. Hy Strachman retired from his family's window and shade business in Manhattan in the 1990s. After his wife Harriet died in 2003, he spent sleepless nights on the Internet, and saw that soldiers were consistently asking for movie DVDs. He bought bootlegged disks for $5 in Penn Station, and then found a dealer at his local barbershop. He bought a $400 duplicater that made 7 copies at once, and mailed them 84 at a time, to Army Chaplains. The MPAA said they weren't aware of his operation. The studios send reel-to-reel films to the troops.
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Submission + - Who Needs CISPA? FBI has a non-profit workaround (forbes.com)

Submitted by nonprofiteer
nonprofiteer writes: What has been left out of the CISPA debate thus far is the FBI's long time workaround for information sharing with private industry: "In 1997, long-time FBI agent Dan Larkin helped set up a non-profit based in Pittsburgh that “functions as a conduit between private industry and law enforcement.” Its industry members, which include banks, ISPs, telcos, credit card companies, pharmaceutical companies, and others can hand over cyberthreat information to the non-profit, called the National Cyber Forensics and Training Alliance (NCFTA), which has a legal agreement with the government that allows it to then hand over info to the FBI. Conveniently, the FBI has a unit, the Cyber Initiative and Resource Fusion Unit, stationed in the NCFTA’s office. Companies can share information with the 501(c)6 non-profit that they would be wary of (or prohibited from) sharing directly with the FBI."
Databases

Submission + - Redis - Open Source from Microsoft! (i-programmer.info)

Submitted by mikejuk
mikejuk writes: When Microsoft recently announced it was starting an open source subsidiary called Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc., the news was greeted with a mix of suspicion and derision. The suspicion takes the form of ‘NOW what are they up to?’
The team has now announced its first release in the new company by way of a new version of Redis on Windows, the open-source, networked, in-memory, key-value data store.
Redis (REmote DIctionary Server) has been rising in popularity over recent years, and is probably more highly regarded than rival key-value data stores such as Cassandra.The code is on GitHub and if you want to find out more, check out the interactive tutorial Try Redis..
Microsoft

Submission + - Microsoft Pushing Bing Desktop via Microsoft Update (digitaltrends.com)

Submitted by ossuary
ossuary writes: In an attempt to get Bing in front of more users, Microsoft has started pushing Bing Desktop out as an optional update to those using Microsoft Update. As an update service, Microsoft Update should only be updating software on a computer, not installing new things.

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