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Submission + - Dangers of Online Ads: Privacy vs. Personalization

Submitted by

Skidge

on Wednesday May 09, 2007 @01:18AM

Skidge writes: "Wired is running an article on the dangers of online advertising by Jennifer Granick, executive director of the Stanford Law School Center for Internet and Society. There's a fine balance between providing "useful" personalized advertising and protecting the privacy of internet users. While an anonymous record of a user's browsing history may seem harmless, oftentimes the information that can be pulled from such a source can be pieced together into a not-so-anonymous picture of the user. Online advertising is here to stay; as the article says, "it's time to consider whether current regulations are adequate to protect consumer interests, while still allowing informative and effective online ad campaigns.""

Submission + - Bill Gates NOT for president

Submitted by

Anonymous Coward

on Thursday March 08, 2007 @07:18PM

Anonymous Coward writes: "The Bill Gates for president website has decided to call it a day! It seems like too many people are scared of real life BSOD's."

Submission + - Computer Upgrade on Limited Budget

Submitted by

natnit

on Tuesday March 06, 2007 @02:36PM

natnit writes: "I build my gaming machine back in July 2005. Since I spent a bit of money on it, it's not entirely decrepit, but I do have around $250, and I'd like to make some upgrades. I was wondering: on my limited upgrade budget, which pieces of hardware should I upgrade now, and which can wait? Follow the link for my current machine's hardware (pre-upgrade)."

Submission + - DragonFly BSD to develop own filesystem

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 25, 2007 @01:40AM

An anonymous reader writes: Matt Dillon has decided to develop a new filesystem from scratch to support DragonFly's clustering, rather than port an existing one. From his post: "There are currently two rough spots in the design. First, how to handle segment overflows in a multi-master environment. Such overflows can occur when the individual masters or slaves have different historical data retention policies. Second, where to store the regeneratable indexes."

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