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Submission + - Blogger resists Court Order with Essay (wordpress.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 05, 2009 @01:53AM

An anonymous reader writes: A blogger somewhere in Asia has submitted an essay to the Court, while resisting an Anton Piller search order designed to unmask blog visitors who are alleged to have uploaded words defamatory to another party. The essay claims that the evidence of IP addresses and so on are on Google's servers and not on the blogger's computer disks. The Plaintiffs are not pleased with the blogger and have asked for his essay and affidavit to be struck out. Read the blogger's essay at http://speakoutened.wordpress.com/2009/11/03/on-blogs-and-searching-for-evidence/. What would you do if you were the judge, or for that matter if you were the blogger ?

Submission + - Domain name auction house admits internal bidding (itwire.com)

Submitted by davidmwilliams on Thursday November 05, 2009 @01:16AM

davidmwilliams writes: Domain name broker SnapNames.com has always had its measure of detractors complaining the company permitted dubious practices. One grievance is now proven true with SnapNames admitting a staff member was bidding on domain name auctions, winning some for personal gain and inflating the price of others.

Submission + - SourceForge Changes Name to Geeknet (geek.net) 2

Submitted by Joren on Wednesday November 04, 2009 @06:23PM

Joren writes: SourceForge, Inc., a company responsible for such sites as SourceForge, ThinkGeek , Ohloh, and our very own Slashdot, today announced that it has changed its name to Geeknet, Inc. Scott L. Kauffman, President & CEO of Geeknet, stated that "Our new name is a more accurate articulation of our business. With Geeknet as our calling card on Madison Avenue, we are now able to clearly define the audience we serve and more effectively capture the business opportunity that we are addressing."

Submission + - SPAM: ZFS gets inline built-in deduplication

Submitted by elREG on Monday November 02, 2009 @03:12PM

elREG writes: Sun's Zettabyte File System (ZFS) now has built-in deduplication, making it probably the most space-efficient file system there is.

There's a discussion of ZFS deduplication in a Sun blog, which says that chunks of data, such as a byte range or blocks or files, are checksummed with a hash function and any duplicate chunks will not be stored but instead reference this master chunk.
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Submission + - The Pirate Bay taunts Hollywood with Oscartorrents

Submitted by cursorx on Monday February 12, 2007 @05:29AM

cursorx writes: Slyck reports that the MPAA loving Swedes from The Pirate Bay have just opened a new site called Oscartorrents.com. Not only do they provide links to torrents of most of this year's Academy Awards nominees, but they're also asking for users' votes. After the ceremony, they intend to publish a list of winners based on the torrent community's collective opinion. According to The Pirate Bay, "this is the way it should be done now that movie distribution is almost free. Hollywoodland might not like it, but some people always have to be dragged kicking and screaming into the future."

Submission + - Mac calculator is bad at math

Submitted by

RaSchi.de

on Monday February 12, 2007 @04:27AM

RaSchi.de writes: "vowe has pointed to a couple of videos (here and here) on YouTube which show the calculator application doing some weird calculations with percentages. Apparently, in some locales such as the German one, the OS X calculator application discards decimal digits of the input when the percent button is used (e.g. adding x percent of tax to an invoice sum). All works fine if you do the manual multiplication (e.g. instead of adding 7% you multiply by 1.17). This has spurred active discussion on German news lists (e.g. heise.de and at digg. Any /. readers who can confirm this in other locales than the German?"

Submission + - Embarrassing Solaris 0-day vulnerability

Submitted by

philos

on Monday February 12, 2007 @03:05AM

philos writes: "According to SANS ISC, there's a vulnerability in Solaris 10 and 11 telnet that allows anyone to remotely connect as any account, including root, without authentication. Remote access can be gained with nothing more than a telnet client. More information and a Snort signature can be found at riosec.com. Worse, this is almost identical to a bug in AIX and Linux rlogin from way back in 1994."

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