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Submission + - OLPC News: OLPC Give 1 Get 1 Program: XO-1 Laptop (olpcnews.com)

Submitted by

wayan

on Sunday September 23, 2007 @09:09PM

wayan writes: "Oh My God! The event every geek has dreamed about for the last year is now here: OLPC XO laptop sales will start November 12th with promised delivery by Christmas in a Buy 1 Get 1 program from OLPC. $399 buys a XO laptop for you and one for a child in the developing world — Nicholas Negroponte's way to keep OLPC demand going when he's not getting government orders to fill Quanta's production line."

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Tool Detects "In-Flight" Webpage Alterations 197

Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday July 25, 2007 @11:24AM from the its-like-a-foil-hat-for-your-browser dept.

TheWoozle writes "In a follow-up to a recent story about ISPs inserting ads into web pages, the University of Washington security and privacy research group has teamed with the International Computer Science Institute (ICSI) to develop an online tool to help you identify if your ISP is inserting ads or otherwise modifying the web pages you request."

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Submission + - Mass Stalking Organized On Facebook

Submitted by

Jack Action

on Tuesday July 24, 2007 @11:31PM

Jack Action writes: "Police in Cambridge, Ontario are investigating a 700-hundred member Facebook group that was dedicated to harassing and posting humiliating photos of a black, apparently homeless woman. Called "Obeeba Sightings" (the name group administers gave to the woman), Facebook members called the woman racist and sexually explict names, and called for her to be run over by a car and put in a trash compactor. In their response to the incident, Cambridge police indicated Facebook cooperated fully with them in their investigation to the point of handing over IP addresses for all those involved in the group; at which point Facebook shut down the group. Police say it is the worst case of online harassment they have ever seen.

Recent research indicates Facebook is homogeneous even by the standards of the internet, and that members of social networks are more likely to "cyber-bully." Is this a sign that cyber-bulling will get worse as social networks make themselves more like-minded and exclusive? Should companies like Facebook be held responsible for the bad behaviour of their members? Or is this just the nature of distance and anonymity on the internet?"

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Journal Journal: hacking the vote: learn access

Journal by ckolar on Tuesday November 09, 2004 @12:23AM

Well, no chance of getting this noticed in the current YRO thread, but there is a nice example of Howard Dean hacking a voting machine in all of 30 seconds or so. They use an unprotected Access database as the underlying data storage system and you can actually just go in and fidget with the vote totals.

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Journal Journal: POV / PBS story on water privatization

Journal by ckolar on Wednesday July 14, 2004 @12:25AM

P.O.V. - Thirst | PBS I caught this tonight by accident and was glad not to have missed it. It held out slight hope that mass grassroots movements might be able to stand up to the likes of Bechtel once they are done with Iraq and start privatizing water. The segments showing the people of Rajasthan organizing their own community infr

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Journal Journal: The President on broadband

Journal by ckolar on Friday June 25, 2004 @05:10PM

I was checking out the new video from the president and came across a technology issue speech that had this great bit on broadband. I could see SBC using this:

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