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Submission + - Decentralizing the Internet - Big Brother (nytimes.com)

mspohr writes: Eben Moglen is in the NYT ( http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/16/nyregion/16about.html) for the FreedomBox Foundation ( http://www.freedomboxfoundation.org/ ) which is an attempt to "Decentralize the Internet so Big Brother Can't Find You". The events in Egypt have shown that in spite of the Internet's inherent decentralized design, it can be subject to government control.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/16/technology/16internet.html

The FreedomBox is an attempt to improve decentralization by the use of small plug servers running a free software stack.

Looks like an interesting and useful project.

Submission + - 84,000 domains got ICEd (torrentfreak.com)

cypherwise writes: It looks like ICE, DHS's Immigration and Customs Enforcement wing, redirected 84,000 domains during "Operation Protect Our Children". Out of those 84,000 only 10 were found to be hosting child pornography. The DNS entries were changed at the registrar level to point to 74.81.170.110 which contains an interesting message from the DoJ and DHS claiming the site you are visiting contains child pornography. That's two botched operations in the past few months. What's next?
Science

Submission + - Do Vibrating Molecules Give Us Our Sense of Smell? (sciencemag.org)

sciencehabit writes: That tingling in your nose may not be allergies. In a provocative new paper, a team of scientists suggests that tiny molecular vibrations give us our sense of smell. Some experts are skeptical, but if the work holds up it could upturn over a century of physiological research, as well as help engineers better design artificial noses that can assess food quality and even sniff out explosives.
Novell

Submission + - LSE tackles market close IT problem (computerworlduk.com)

DMandPenfold writes: The London Stock Exchange has taken steps to resolve a system problem that occurred at 4.30pm yesterday (Tuesday), which saw a delay to the start of the closing auction and knocked out automatic trades during a 42 second period.

The problem occurred a day after the high profile launch of its new matching engine on the main equities market, based on the SUSE Linux system from Novell.

Sources close to the exchange today told Computerworld UK that the problem yesterday involved a system linked to the matching engine.

Security

Submission + - Who Is Anonymous' "Commander X"? Not This Guy (itworld.com)

jfruhlinger writes: HBGary, a security firm working with the FBI, earned the wrath of Anonymous by investigating their membership using data-mining techniques. But it turns out that perhaps those techniques don't produce the best results: Benjamin De Vries, the man HBGary apparently fingered as Anonymous' "Commander X," is an organic gardener who, in an interview with blogger Dan Tynan, says "I couldn't hack my way out of a paper bag."
Android

Submission + - Dual-core smartphone runs Android and Ubuntu (pcpro.co.uk)

nk497 writes: ARM is showing off a test handset at Mobile World Congress, which runs Android 2.3 and Ubuntu 10.04 at the same time on a Texas Intruments OMAP 4 chip (check out the video here). ARM envisages a time when the only computer you’ll ever need is your smartphone and with Nvidia announcing it will be putting quad-core mobile processors into tablets by autumn and smartphones by Christmas, that prospect looks to be approaching faster than anyone expected.

Comment Co-workers can help (Score 1) 688

Your co-workers can definitely help out with this one. You know those tricks that people use to figure their stage/porn name, take your middle name and the street you grew up on, combine it, and voila, instant new name! Go to each workstation and do that with the person that is sitting there, instant workstation name!

Comment A Little Clarification (Score 4, Informative) 265

It seems the ban applies to the press (ie. the media) that are covering the game. Those people actually are entering into a legally binding contract when they enter the stadium and begin covering the game. Much needed clarification is given by a Nashville Is Talking article with updates, their producer did what Slashdot should have done about 7 hours ago and actually read the f'in policy. Here is the actual Southeastern Conference Media Credentials EULA thinger.

Comment Re:No different from sales tax evasion (Score 1) 451

Well, I guess it would be a 'use tax' evasion. The number of entities who do make proper declarations is higher than you might think when consider B2B transactions. This is from a research paper I wrote last semester:
"Though, business-to-business compliance is estimated to be much higher (Bruce & Fox, 2009). Estimated losses of revenue at the national scale as a result of non-compliance in 2007 are $7.2 billion. Losses are expected to grow by 36.3% to $11.3 billion by 2012 (Bruce & Fox, 2009). "

Bruce, D. & Fox, W.F. (2009) State and Local Government Sales Tax Revenue Losses from Electronic Commerce. Retrieved from http://www.streamlinedsalestax.org/Execitive%20Committee/Previous_meetings/4_13_09/SSTP%20e-commerce%202009%20REV041309.pdf

(there's your bloody citation ;)

Comment Re:Part of the online video problem . . . (Score 1) 203

There are certainly a lot of factors at work. That said, are there YouTube versions in some of the developing third world or second world countries? I agree that limiting the distribution to subset of countries definitely opens the door for local video sites. Or what about YouTube or Veoh actually expanding to serve the other markets that way the ad model could be better adjusted to serve the local market?

Comment Re:Easy solution (Score 1) 162

Someone posted on Slashdot last week with a good idea. Instead of changing their phone number every now & then, they just bought a cheap pre-paid phone and some minutes. Between that and using a fake phone number (where appropriate) you would probably be in pretty good shape.

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