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Submission + - Researchers Predict Outcome of 2008 US Election (win.tue.nl) 3

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ThisNukes4u

on Friday November 30, 2007 @12:58PM

ThisNukes4u writes: "As announced earlier today, Marc Stevens, Arjen Lenstra and Benne de Weger have announced that they can predict the outcome of the 2008 US Presidential Election with 100% accuracy using the Playstation 3. In related news, they have also announced a "Vulnerability of software integrity and code signing applications to chosen-prefix collisions for MD5". Is this the final death knell for MD5 and other similar-length hashes, now that computing power has advanced enough that finding collisions is feasible on modern customer hardware?"

Submission + - RIAA Targets Usenet - Files Suit on Usenet.com (newsgroupreviews.com)

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UsenetJunkie

on Wednesday October 17, 2007 @09:22PM

UsenetJunkie writes: "RIAA has filed suit against Usenet.com alleging they offer millions of copyrighted music titles via the newsgroups offered on their servers. What will this mean for Usenet?"

Submission + - Yahoo! pleads guilty in Chinese journalist case (bbc.co.uk)

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freakxx

on Tuesday August 28, 2007 @11:47AM

freakxx writes: " Yahoo! pleads guilty of supplying information to the Chinese government, which has lead to imprisonment of many journalists and pro-democracy activists in China, including Shi Tao and Wang Xiaoning.

In its 40 page response of the lawsuit filed by World Organization for Human Rights, Yahoo! acknowledged releasing information to the Chinese government. It further argues that it had to comply with the local law and it was compelled by the Chinese authorities to hand-over the information. Many people have criticized this decision saying that the organization has failed to keep up with ethics and it has more responsibilities towards international laws and humanity."

The Downsides of Software as Service 326

Posted by Zonk on Tuesday August 28, 2007 @11:32AM from the with-a-little-ranting-to-boot dept.

JustinBrock writes "Dvorak's article yesterday, entitled Don't Trust the Servers, argues that the danger of software as a service was highlighted when 'the WGA [Windows Genuine Advantage] server outage hit on Friday evening and was finally repaired on Saturday. It was down for 19 long hours.' The whole fiasco raises an interesting perspective on the software as a service 'fetish'. Dvorak highlights it hypothetically: What if the timeline were reversed, and we were moving from online apps to the desktop. Hear his prophecy of the marketing: 'You can image the advertising push. "Now control your own data!" "Faster processing power now." "Cheaper!" "Everything at your fingertips." "No need to worry about network outages." "Faster, cheaper, more reliable." On and on. I can almost hear the marketing types brag about how much better "shrink wrap" software is than the flaky online apps. The best line for the emergence of the desktop computer in a reverse timeline would be "It's about time!"'"

Submission + - Linux Kernel 2.6.21 Released

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Daishiman

on Thursday April 26, 2007 @02:29PM

Daishiman writes: "The new Linux kernel has been released, with a host of notable features. Linus Torvalds writes on the Linux Kernel Mailing List:

"If the goal for 2.6.20 was to be a stable release (and it was), the goal for 2.6.21 is to have just survived the big timer-related changes and some of the other surprises (just as an example: we were apparently unlucky enough to hit what looks like a previously unknown hardware errata in one of the ethernet drivers that got updated etc)."

Other notable feature is the new scheduler."

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